GPRS Operations - 4 days

PUBLIC COURSES 2003 11-14 FEB, 26-29 MARCH,14-17APRIL,12-15 MAY Day 1 -

GPRS Overview

1. Why GPRS? – a mass market? Limitations of Stage 1.Comparison of packet and HSCD
data over the air interface. Data rates for stage 1encodings – onward to CS3-4? EDGE and
GPRS – EGPRS, encoding & possible data throughputs per physical channel. The effect
upon network capital expenditure. Adaptive data rates.
2. Sub-network, backbone network and Internet. The limitations of current IP.
3. Non–portable IP and portable IP
4. Static and dynamic IP addressing – getting Internet packets to the GPRS subscriber.
5. Roaming for dynamic addresses and static addresses. The ETSI proposal and its
limitations.
6. E-mail – getting this to the GPRS subscriber - establishing and maintaining a PDP
context. Interfacing e-mail to the SMS service centre.
7. GPRS Network Components
SGSN, GGGSN, RA, interfaces
8. The GSM/GPRS Air Interface.
The radio channels, bandwidth, bit rate, physical channel information rate, physical
channel data rate with CS1 FEC and block encoding, burst period, frame period.
9. Air Interface frames
The basic frame, the BCCH 51 frame multiframe, the GPRS 52 frame multiframe
10. Logical Channels. The BCCH and CS logical channels and their function. The PBCCH
and GPRS logical channels and their function. GPRS working with and without the
PBCCH. The advantages to a network operator of the PBCCH in comparison to GPRS
operations using the BCCH alone.
11. GPRS Operations Overview
GPRS Attach, UL TBF, DL TBF. Diagrams illustrating these and the role of PCCCH, PRACH,
PDTCH and PACCH in establishing and controlling TBF. Dynamic and static UL allocation
and the role of USF, TFI, TLLI.
12. GPRS Protocol Layers Overview
Establishing communication – the role of SM, MM, LLC, RLC/MAC, RR and SNDCP layers
13. Layer Interfaces & Primitives
GMMREG-SAP, SMREG-SAP, SN-SAP, SNSM-SAP, QoS-SAP, GMMSM-SAP, LLGMM-SAP,
GMMRR-SAP, GRR-SAP.
14. GPRS Arrow Diagrams (with inter-layer PDU’s, inter-layer parameter transfer, details of
TBF)
Attach, UL PDP Context Activation TBF, DL PDP Context Activation TBF, PDP Context
deactivation, PDP Context modification, Cell update, RA update.
15. GPRS Identities
IMSI, PTMSI, PTMSI Signature, TLLI, DCLI, TFI, USF, TQI, NSAPI, PDP Address
16. GPRS ME & Subscriber Profiles
MS Types, Subscriber subscription profiles, ME multislot capabilities and constraints.
17. An examination of Packet System information parameters.

Day 2

A. The RR & Physical layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)

1. PLMN Selection
2. Cell selection, C1 criterion
3. CS Cell re-selection, C2 criterion
4. GPRS Cell re-selection
GMM Attach pre-condition, pre-conditions for activation of GPRS cell re-selection, GPRS
cell re-selection criteria C1, C31, C32. How network Operators may adjust the newly
available GPRS parameters to distribute access attempts and traffic.
5. GPRS DRX & Paging
Determining the PCCCH_Group, Determining the PAGING_GROUP, Split Paging, Selection
of Paging group, Paging procedures, DRX and non-DRX
6. Neighbour cell measurements
Measurements for cell re-selection, Extended measurements, Interference measurements,
measurement reports NC and EM.
7. MS transmit power control

Day 3

RR/Physical Layer continued.

8. PRACH Control – ‘S’, TX_INTEGER, the Radio priority/Persistence pair and how the
Network Operator can use these for congestion control giving precedence to customers
with the higher QoS. How the network may treat Packet Channel requests, which include
the Radio priority.
Types of PRACH message and determination of one-phase, two phase, short access and
single block requests.
9. Contention resolution for one and two phase access and why they differ.
10. Channel encoding, CS1-4, encoding and interleaving for CS1-4, maximum octets and
bit rates.
11. Frequency Hopping

The RR & RLC/MAC Layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)

1. Segmenting and concatenating LLC-PDU’s into RLC data blocks
2. RLC/MAC block headers and parameters in action – RLC/MAC arrow diagrams
Acknowledged UL TBF, RLC data block parameters, RLC control block parameters.
Acknowledged DL TBF, RLC data block parameters, RLC control block parameters
RLC unacknowledged mode.
3. RLC/MAC Full and half duplex operation
4. RLC block sizing, calculations and determination of PRACH type.
5. RLC/MAC timers and counters and their effect upon operations.

Day 4

A. LLC Layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)

1. Functions of the LLC layer
2. LLC Frames and block sizes
3. LLC parameters
4. LLC data link flow – ABM establishment, ADM establishment
5. IS frames and ARQ
6. Encryption.

B. GMM Layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)

1. GMM States
2. Detailed Attach procedures
Attach Request, Attach Accept, Attach Complete
3. Constructing the TLLI
4. Detailed RA Updating
5. Detailed Paging procedures
6. Detailed Authentication and encryption procedures
7. Detailed Identification
8. Detailed Detach
9. SM messages.
C. SM Layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)
1. Detailed PDP context activation by the MS
2. Detailed PDP context activation by the network
3. Detailed PDP context deactivation
4. Detailed PDP context modification
5. AA – anonymous access
6. Negotiating QoS, Radio Priority

D. SNDCP Layer (includes detailed diagrams of the procedures)

1. Acknowledged data transfer maximum block sizes for SN-PDU’s
2. Unacknowledged LLC data transfer – determinants for the LLC layer (and the RLC and
GTP layers) to use acknowledged or unacknowledged operations
3. Segmentation - from N-PDU to SN-PDU
4. Compression
5. Negotiating compression parameters.

E. GMSK and 8PSK modulation and coding systems

An examination of the MCS for EDGE and the physical channel bit rates and effect upon
cell diameter