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2/12/2016
IT 2404 Mobile Communication
By
Dr T Gnanasekaran

Cellular Network Organization
 Use multiple low-power transmitters (100 W or less)
 Areas divided into cells
 Each served by its own antenna
 Served by base station consisting of transmitter, receiver,
and control unit
 Band of frequencies allocated
 Cells set up such that antennas of all neighbors are
equidistant (hexagonal pattern)

GSM – GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE
COMMUNICATION

DISCUSSION TOPICS
 History
 Building Blocks
 System Architecture
 Features (Basic and Advanced)
 Advantages of GSM
 Future – what’s next

HISTORY
 Early 80’s Europe was experiencing rapid growth in the
analog cellular telephone systems
 1982 Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs
(CEPT) GSM (Groupe Special Mobile) group was
formed to study and develop a pan-European public
land mobile system
 GSM mandate was to develop a standard to be
common for the countries that created it – provide
service to the entire European continent

HISTORY
contd.
 GSM criteria –
 Good subjective speech quality
 Low terminal and service cost
 Support for international roaming – one system for all of
Europe
 Ability to support handheld terminals
 Support for range of new services and facilities
 Enhanced Features
 ISDN compatibility
 Enhance privacy
 Security against fraud

HISTORY
contd.
 Late 1980’s GSM work was transferred to the European
Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) and
SGM (Special Mobile Group) was created
 Document the functionality and interaction of every
aspect of the GSM network
 1987 ETSI oversees the creation of GSM MoU
(Memorandum of Understanding) Association

HISTORY
contd.
 Formal objective of the GSM MoU Association is the
promotion and evolution of the GSM systems and GSM
platforms
 Concepts of a published international standard and a
constantly evolving common standard are unique to
GSM
 Work groups throughout the world specifically designed
to allow interested parties to meet and work on finding
solutions to systems enhancements that will fit into
existing programs of GSM operators

HISTORY
contd.
 Phase I of GSM specifications was published in 1990
 International demand was so great that the system name was
changed from Groupe Special Mobile to Global Systems for
Mobile Communications (still GSM)
 Commercial service started in mid-1991
 1992 first paying customers were signed up for service
 By 1993 there were 36 GSM networks in 22 countries
 Early 1994 there were 1.3 million subscribers worldwide
 By 1996 there were more than 25 million subscribers worldwide
 The total base of GSM subscribers has now crossed the 250
million-mark and stands at 257.85 million as on Dec 31, in India.

Building Blocks
 AMPS – Advanced Mobile Phone System
 TACS – Total Access Communication System
 NMT – Nordic Mobile Telephone System

Building Blocks
contd.
AMPS – Advanced Mobile Phone System
 analog technology
 used in North and South America and approximately
35 other countries
 operates in the 800 MHz band using FDMA
technology

Building Blocks
contd.
TACS – Total Access Communication System
 variant of AMPS
 deployed in a number of countries
 primarily in the UK

Building Blocks
contd.
NMT – Nordic Mobile Telephone System
 analog technology
 deployed in the Benelux countries and Russia
 operates in the 450 and 900 MHz band
 first technology to offer international roaming – only
within the Nordic countries

System Architecture
 Mobile Station (MS)
Mobile Equipment (ME)
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
 Base Station Subsystem (BBS)
Base Transceiver Station (BTS)
Base Station Controller (BSC)
 Network Subsystem
Mobile Switching Center (MSC)
Home Location Register (HLR)
Visitor Location Register (VLR)
Authentication Center (AUC)
Equipment Identity Register (EIR)

System Architecture
Mobile Station (MS)
The Mobile Station is made up of two entities:
1. Mobile Equipment (ME)
2. Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)

System Architecture
Mobile Station (MS) contd.
Mobile Equipment
 Produced by many different manufacturers
 Must obtain approval from the standardization body
 Uniquely identified by an IMEI (International
Mobile Equipment Identity)

System Architecture
Mobile Station (MS) contd.
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
 Smart card containing the International Mobile
Subscriber Identity (IMSI)
 Allows user to send and receive calls and receive other
subscribed services
 Encoded network identification details
 Protected by a password or PIN
 Can be moved from phone to phone – contains key
information to activate the phone

System Architecture
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Base Station Subsystem is composed of two parts that
communicate across the standardized Abis interface
allowing operation between components made by
different suppliers
1. Base Transceiver Station (BTS)
2. Base Station Controller (BSC)

System Architecture
Base Station Subsystem (BSS) contd.
Base Transceiver Station (BTS)
 Houses the radio transceivers that define a cell
 Handles radio-link protocols with the Mobile Station
 Speech and data transmissions from the MS are
recoded
 Requirements for BTS:
ruggedness
reliability
portability
minimum costs

System Architecture
Base Station Subsystem (BSS) contd.
Base Station Controller (BSC)
 Manages Resources for BTS
 Handles call set up
 Location update
 Handover for each MS

System Architecture
Network Subsystem
 Switch speech and data connections between:
Base Station Controllers
Mobile Switching Centers
GSM-networks
Other external networks
 Heart of the network
 Three main jobs:
1) connects calls from sender to receiver
2) collects details of the calls made and received
3) supervises operation of the rest of the network components

System Architecture
Network Subsystem contd.
 Home Location Registers (HLR)
- contains administrative information of each subscriber
- current location of the mobile
 Visitor Location Registers (VLR)
- contains selected administrative information from the HLR
- authenticates the user
- tracks which customers have the phone on and ready to receive a
call
- periodically updates the database on which phones are turned on
and ready to receive calls

System Architecture
Network Subsystem contd.
 Authentication Center (AUC)
- mainly used for security
- data storage location and functional part of the network
- Ki is the primary element
 Equipment Identity Register (EIR)
- Database that is used to track handsets using the IMEI
(International Mobile Equipment Identity)
- Made up of three sub-classes: The White List, The Black List and
the Gray List
- Optional database

Basic Features Provided by GSM
 Call Waiting
- Notification of an incoming call while on the handset
 Call Hold
- Put a caller on hold to take another call
 Call Barring
- All calls, outgoing calls, or incoming calls
 Call Forwarding
- Calls can be sent to various numbers defined by the user
 Multi Party Call Conferencing
- Link multiple calls together

Advanced Features Provided by GSM
 Calling Line ID
- incoming telephone number displayed
 Alternate Line Service
- one for personal calls
- one for business calls
 Closed User Group
- call by dialing last for numbers
 Advice of Charge
- tally of actual costs of phone calls
 Fax & Data
- Virtual Office / Professional Office
 Roaming
- services and features can follow customer from market to market

Future -- UMTS (Universal Mobile Telephone
System
 Reasons for innovations
- new service requirements
- availability of new radio bands
 User demands
- seamless Internet-Intranet access
- wide range of available services
- compact, lightweight and affordable terminals
- simple terminal operation
- open, understandable pricing structures for the whole spectrum of
available services

Advantages of GSM
 Crisper, cleaner quieter calls
 Security against fraud and eavesdropping
 International roaming capability in over 100 countries
 Improved battery life
 Efficient network design for less expensive system expansion
 Efficient use of spectrum
 Advanced features such as short messaging and caller ID
 A wide variety of handsets and accessories
 High stability mobile fax and data at up to 9600 baud
 Ease of use with over the air activation, and all account
information is held in a smart card which can be moved from
handset to handset

Frequency Reuse
 Adjacent cells assigned different frequencies to avoid
interference or crosstalk
 Objective is to reuse frequency in nearby cells
 10 to 50 frequencies assigned to each cell
 Transmission power controlled to limit power at that
frequency escaping to adjacent cells
 The issue is to determine how many cells must intervene
between two cells using the same frequency

Approaches to Cope with
Increasing Capacity
 Adding new channels
 Frequency borrowing – frequencies are taken from
adjacent cells by congested cells
 Cell splitting – cells in areas of high usage can be split
into smaller cells
 Cell sectoring – cells are divided into a number of
wedge-shaped sectors, each with their own set of
channels
 Microcells – antennas move to buildings, hills, and
lamp posts

Cellular Systems Terms
 Base Station (BS) – includes an antenna, a controller,
and a number of receivers
 Mobile telecommunications switching office (MTSO)
– connects calls between mobile units
 Two types of channels available between mobile unit
and BS
 Control channels – used to exchange information having to
do with setting up and maintaining calls
 Traffic channels – carry voice or data connection between
users

Steps in an MTSO Controlled Call
between Mobile Users
 Mobile unit initialization
 Mobile-originated call
 Paging
 Call accepted
 Ongoing call
 Handoff

Additional Functions in an MTSO
Controlled Call
 Call blocking
 Call termination
 Call drop
 Calls to/from fixed and remote mobile subscriber

Mobile Radio Propagation Effects
 Signal strength
 Must be strong enough between base station and mobile unit
to maintain signal quality at the receiver
 Must not be so strong as to create too much cochannel
interference with channels in another cell using the same
frequency band
 Fading
 Signal propagation effects may disrupt the signal and cause
errors

Handoff Performance Metrics
 Cell blocking probability – probability of a new call
being blocked
 Call dropping probability – probability that a call is
terminated due to a handoff
 Call completion probability – probability that an
admitted call is not dropped before it terminates
 Probability of unsuccessful handoff – probability that
a handoff is executed while the reception conditions
are inadequate

Handoff Performance Metrics
 Handoff blocking probability – probability that a
handoff cannot be successfully completed
 Handoff probability – probability that a handoff occurs
before call termination
 Rate of handoff – number of handoffs per unit time
 Interruption duration – duration of time during a
handoff in which a mobile is not connected to either
base station
 Handoff delay – distance the mobile moves from the
point at which the handoff should occur to the point at
which it does occur

Handoff Strategies Used to
Determine Instant of Handoff
 Relative signal strength
 Relative signal strength with threshold
 Relative signal strength with hysteresis
 Relative signal strength with hysteresis and threshold
 Prediction techniques

Power Control
 Design issues making it desirable to include dynamic
power control in a cellular system
 Received power must be sufficiently above the background
noise for effective communication
 Desirable to minimize power in the transmitted signal from
the mobile
 Reduce cochannel interference, alleviate health concerns, save battery
power
 In SS systems using CDMA, it’s desirable to equalize the
received power level from all mobile units at the BS

Types of Power Control
 Open-loop power control
 Depends solely on mobile unit
 No feedback from BS
 Not as accurate as closed-loop, but can react quicker to
fluctuations in signal strength
 Closed-loop power control
 Adjusts signal strength in reverse channel based on metric
of performance
 BS makes power adjustment decision and communicates to
mobile on control channel

Traffic Engineering
 Ideally, available channels would equal number of
subscribers active at one time
 In practice, not feasible to have capacity handle all
possible load
 For N simultaneous user capacity and L subscribers
 L < N – nonblocking system
 L > N – blocking system

Blocking System Performance
Questions
 Probability that call request is blocked?
 What capacity is needed to achieve a certain upper bound
on probability of blocking?
 What is the average delay?
 What capacity is needed to achieve a certain average
delay?

Traffic Intensity
 Load presented to a system:
  = mean rate of calls attempted per unit time
 h = mean holding time per successful call
 A = average number of calls arriving during average holding
period, for normalized 
hA 

Factors that Determine the Nature
of the Traffic Model
 Manner in which blocked calls are handled
 Lost calls delayed (LCD) – blocked calls put in a queue
awaiting a free channel
 Blocked calls rejected and dropped
 Lost calls cleared (LCC) – user waits before another attempt
 Lost calls held (LCH) – user repeatedly attempts calling
 Number of traffic sources
 Whether number of users is assumed to be finite or infinite

First-Generation Analog
 Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
 In North America, two 25-MHz bands allocated to AMPS
 One for transmission from base to mobile unit
 One for transmission from mobile unit to base
 Each band split in two to encourage competition
 Frequency reuse exploited

AMPS Operation
 Subscriber initiates call by keying in phone number
and presses send key
 MTSO verifies number and authorizes user
 MTSO issues message to user’s cell phone indicating
send and receive traffic channels
 MTSO sends ringing signal to called party
 Party answers; MTSO establishes circuit and initiates
billing information
 Either party hangs up; MTSO releases circuit, frees
channels, completes billing

Differences Between First and
Second Generation Systems
 Digital traffic channels – first-generation systems are
almost purely analog; second-generation systems are
digital
 Encryption – all second generation systems provide
encryption to prevent eavesdropping
 Error detection and correction – second-generation
digital traffic allows for detection and correction,
giving clear voice reception
 Channel access – second-generation systems allow
channels to be dynamically shared by a number of
users

Mobile Wireless TDMA Design
Considerations
 Number of logical channels (number of time slots in
TDMA frame): 8
 Maximum cell radius (R): 35 km
 Frequency: region around 900 MHz
 Maximum vehicle speed (Vm):250 km/hr
 Maximum coding delay: approx. 20 ms
 Maximum delay spread (m): 10 s
 Bandwidth: Not to exceed 200 kHz (25 kHz per
channel)

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Mobile Station
 Mobile station communicates across Um interface (air
interface) with base station transceiver in same cell as
mobile unit
 Mobile equipment (ME) – physical terminal, such as a
telephone or PCS
 ME includes radio transceiver, digital signal processors and
subscriber identity module (SIM)
 GSM subscriber units are generic until SIM is inserted
 SIMs roam, not necessarily the subscriber devices

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
 BSS consists of base station controller and one or more
base transceiver stations (BTS)
 Each BTS defines a single cell
 Includes radio antenna, radio transceiver and a link to a base
station controller (BSC)
 BSC reserves radio frequencies, manages handoff of
mobile unit from one cell to another within BSS, and
controls paging

Network Subsystem (NS)
 NS provides link between cellular network and public
switched telecommunications networks
 Controls handoffs between cells in different BSSs
 Authenticates users and validates accounts
 Enables worldwide roaming of mobile users
 Central element of NS is the mobile switching center
(MSC)

Databases
 Home location register (HLR) database – stores
information about each subscriber that belongs to it
 Visitor location register (VLR) database –
maintains information about subscribers currently
physically in the region
 Authentication center database (AuC) – used for
authentication activities, holds encryption keys
 Equipment identity register database (EIR) – keeps
track of the type of equipment that exists at the
mobile station

TDMA Format – Time Slot Fields
 Trail bits – allow synchronization of transmissions
from mobile units
 Encrypted bits – encrypted data
 Stealing bit - indicates whether block contains data or
is "stolen"
 Training sequence – used to adapt parameters of
receiver to the current path propagation characteristics
 Strongest signal selected in case of multipath propagation
 Guard bits – used to avoid overlapping with other
bursts

GSM Signaling Protocol
Architecture

Functions Provided by Protocols
 Protocols above the link layer of the GSM signaling
protocol architecture provide specific functions:
 Radio resource management
 Mobility management
 Connection management
 Mobile application part (MAP)
 BTS management

Advantages of CDMA Cellular
 Frequency diversity – frequency-dependent
transmission impairments have less effect on signal
 Multipath resistance – chipping codes used for CDMA
exhibit low cross correlation and low autocorrelation
 Privacy – privacy is inherent since spread spectrum is
obtained by use of noise-like signals
 Graceful degradation – system only gradually
degrades as more users access the system

Drawbacks of CDMA Cellular
 Self-jamming – arriving transmissions from multiple
users not aligned on chip boundaries unless users are
perfectly synchronized
 Near-far problem – signals closer to the receiver are
received with less attenuation than signals farther
away
 Soft handoff – requires that the mobile acquires the
new cell before it relinquishes the old; this is more
complex than hard handoff used in FDMA and TDMA
schemes

Mobile Wireless CDMA Design
Considerations
 RAKE receiver – when multiple versions of a signal
arrive more than one chip interval apart, RAKE
receiver attempts to recover signals from multiple
paths and combine them
 This method achieves better performance than simply
recovering dominant signal and treating remaining signals
as noise
 Soft Handoff – mobile station temporarily connected
to more than one base station simultaneously

Types of Channels Supported by
Forward Link
 Pilot (channel 0) - allows the mobile unit to acquire
timing information, provides phase reference and
provides means for signal strength comparison
 Synchronization (channel 32) - used by mobile station
to obtain identification information about cellular
system
 Paging (channels 1 to 7) - contain messages for one or
more mobile stations
 Traffic (channels 8 to 31 and 33 to 63) – the forward
channel supports 55 traffic channels

Forward Traffic Channel
Processing Steps
 Speech is encoded at a rate of 8550 bps
 Additional bits added for error detection
 Data transmitted in 2-ms blocks with forward error
correction provided by a convolutional encoder
 Data interleaved in blocks to reduce effects of errors
 Data bits are scrambled, serving as a privacy mask

Forward Traffic Channel
Processing Steps (cont.)
 Power control information inserted into traffic channel
 DS-SS function spreads the 19.2 kbps to a rate of
1.2288 Mbps using one row of 64 x 64 Walsh matrix
 Digital bit stream modulated onto the carrier using
QPSK modulation scheme

ITU’s View of Third-Generation
Capabilities
 Voice quality comparable to the public switched
telephone network
 144 kbps data rate available to users in high-speed
motor vehicles over large areas
 384 kbps available to pedestrians standing or moving
slowly over small areas
 Support for 2.048 Mbps for office use
 Symmetrical / asymmetrical data transmission rates
 Support for both packet switched and circuit switched
data services

ITU’s View of Third-Generation
Capabilities
 An adaptive interface to the Internet to reflect
efficiently the common asymmetry between inbound
and outbound traffic
 More efficient use of the available spectrum in general
 Support for a wide variety of mobile equipment
 Flexibility to allow the introduction of new services
and technologies

CDMA Design Considerations
 Bandwidth – limit channel usage to 5 MHz
 Chip rate – depends on desired data rate, need for
error control, and bandwidth limitations; 3 Mcps or
more is reasonable
 Multirate – advantage is that the system can flexibly
support multiple simultaneous applications from a
given user and can efficiently use available capacity
by only providing the capacity required for each
service

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Traditional SMS Architecture
GMSC : Gateway Mobile [service] Switching Center
HLR : Home Location Register
MSC : Mobile Service Switching Center
SMS : Short Messaging Service
SMSC : Short Messaging Service Center

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GPRS

GSM Network
Element
Modification or Upgrade Required for GPRS.
Mobile Station
(MS)
New Mobile Station is required to access GPRS services. These
new terminals will be backward compatible with GSM for voice
calls.
BTS A software upgrade is required in the existing base transceiver
site.
BSC The base station controller (BSC) requires a software upgrade
and the installation of new hardware called the packet control
unit (PCU). The PCU directs the data traffic to the GPRS
network and can be a separate hardware element associated
with the BSC.
GPRS Support
Nodes (GSNs)
The deployment of GPRS requires the installation of new core
network elements called the serving GPRS support node
(SGSN) and gateway GPRS support node (GGSN).
Databases (HLR,
VLR, etc.)
All the databases involved in the network will require software
upgrades to handle the new call models and functions
introduced by GPRS.

THANK YOU
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