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- The 2.5G and 2.75G spread
- Some history - the evolution of data transfer over GSM.
- Spreading of the GPRS and EDGE N/W and service provider migration issues.
- The physical channel
- The frame hierarchy in GPRS (frame, multi frame, super frame, hyper frame)
- Modulation (GMSK, 8PSK in general)
- Burst Basics for burst and channel coding basics (NB,SB,AB,FB, Coding Scheme and
CS detection by Staling Flags and MCS’s for the various channels)
- Logical channels
- Common & broadcast control channels dedicated for GPRS.
- Common & broadcast control channels for GPRS combined with GSM.
- Dedicated channels for GPRS and EDGE.
- Half and full rate channels.
- Channels combinations.
- MS types
- MS class (class A, class B, class C and class A-DTM)
- MS multislot concept and multislots classes in GPRS and EDGE.
- RR layer states (PTM, IDLE, Dedicated, DTM).
- Definition of states and transition conditions.
- General view of the protocol stack.
- MAC – and shared resources arbitration UL TBF
- The RACH & PRACH for GPRS and EGDE (arbitration of the PRACH).
- The TBF concept and identification (TFI).
- The one phase and two phase procedures (TLLI contention resolution).
- The Multi Block procedure for EDGE.
- The UL allocation message.
- Allocation methods (fixed, dynamic, Extended dynamic, Exclusive and
granularity).
- DL control channels during UL TBF.
- Release of an UL TBF (the countdown procedure).
- DL TBF
- GPRS\EGPRS paging on CCCH and PCCCH
- Paging procedures
- PCCCH group and PPCH group. Split paging and DRX.
- UL control channel during DL TBF.
- Polling for Packet control ACK/NACK for GPRS and EDGE.
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- Miscellaneous PTM related issues
- Concurrent TBF issues (EGPRS mode , GPRS mode)
- Request for further resources.
- Resource reallocation.
- Open ended and close ended TBF (count down procedure).
- MAC header for GPRS (EGPRS headers is in IR).
- Timing advance for PTM
- Continuous TA procedure (PTCCH/U , PTCCH/D)
- TA via control ACK.
- EDGE advancements over GPRS
- channel coding windowing retransmission and Incremental Redundancy
- MCS families in details (MCS headers).
- Setting and chaining window size.
- Incremental Redundancy (network side, MS side).
- MCS decoding (according to header and puncturing).
- Retransmission for EGPRS (using MCS families).
- The physical channel\Radio link control in PTM (details)
- Multiplexing of GPRS MS’s and EGPRS MS’s on a same PDTCH.
- Modulation issues (blind detection).
- USF decoding.
- Power control modes (mode A mode B) and power control in GPRS and EGPRS (on RACH
on PRACH modulation etc).
- Measurements in GPRS and EGPRS (BL_VAR, BER CV_VAL,QBEP,CV_BEP etc’).
- Facing the UMTS and WB technology
- How does GPRS and EDGE hold up to the 3G.
- Spread of EDGE vs. UMTS N/W.
- The standard
- Main topics by series (05,04,03 etc’).
- Advanced issues (backup if required for specific courses)
- PBCCH and BCCH
- SI and PSI mapping on BCCH and PBCCH (High Rate Low Rate PSI1, TC)
- PBCCH monitoring during PTM and TBF suspension.
- Neighbor cells BCCH monitoring.
- Network Mode of Operation 1 ,2 ,3 and its reflection on PTM , IDLE and DTM and
effected monitoring of PPCH by MS.
- Measurement for reselection.
- CSD and ECSD (Edge CS Data).
- MM and GRR states.
- Rel 4 & 5 new issues (Press To Talk ,MTBF ,N/W control cell reselection).
- Conclusion
- Glossary
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- R&D workers in telecommunication
- System integrator and support engineers
- IT managers who want to be informed about the expected influence of the 2.5 and
3G on the marketplace
- IT managers who want to be informed about the expected influence of the 2.5 and
3G on the marketplace
- Network operators, integrators and service providers who want to estimate risk
and chances
- Enterprise users.
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Familiarity with GSM Air I/F basic aspects:
- Logical and physical channels concepts (frame and multi frame, TDMA, FDMA and freq. hopping concepts)
- Basic Control and traffic channels structure (BCCH, CCCH, and Paging)
- Burst concepts and types (NB,SB,FB,AB, Training sequences concept)
GSM core networks:
- Basic structure of the GSM core network (cell concept, BTS ,BSC ,MSC ,GMSC)
- Concepts of initial synchronization in GSM and registration to the network (TMSI\IMSI , Sync on BCCH)
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