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GSM Networks: Protocols, Terminology, and Implementation

( Presented by Henrik Kaare Poulsen as a selected GSM reading )

GSM Books

Interfaces between GSM elements

This book gives a brief overview of GSM, followed by an easy-to-understand treatment of the individual GSM network elements, and the interfaces between them. A practical handbook, that also contains an extensive glossary. This book will serve as your reference on GSM interfaces.

Facts about the book
Title: GSM Networks: Protocols, Terminology, and Implementation
Author: Gunnar Heine
Publisher: Artech House Mobile Communications Library
Year: 1999
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Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Mobile Radio
  • Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)
  • What Is Signaling?
  • The Mobile Station (MS)
  • The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
  • The SIMa Database
  • The Advantage for the Customer
  • The Mobile Station
  • The Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
  • The Base Transceiver Station (BTS)
  • The Base Station Controller (BSC)
  • The Transcoding Rate and Adaptation Unit (TRAU)
  • The Network Switching Subsystem (NSS)
  • Home Location Register (HLR) and Authentication Center (AuC)
  • The Visitor Location Register (VLR)
  • The Mobile-Services Switching Center (MSC)
  • The Equipment Identity Register (EIR)
  • The OSI Reference Model
  • Reasons for Standardization
  • The Transformation into the OSI Reference Model
  • Data Types of the OSI Reference Model
  • Information Processing in the OSI Reference Model
  • The Benefit from the OSI Reference Model
  • The Seven Layers of the OSI Reference Model
  • The Abis-Interface
  • Channel Configuration
  • Options for Connecting a BTS to a BSC
  • Signaling on the Abis-Interface
  • Bringing the Abis-Interface into Operation
  • The Air Interface in GSM
  • The Structure of the A-Interface
  • Physical vs. Logical Channels
  • Logical Channels
  • Interleaving
  • Signaling on the Air-Interface
  • The Signaling System Number 7 (SS7)
  • The SS7 Network
  • The Message Transfer Part (MTP)
  • The Message Types of SS7
  • Addressing and Routing of Messages
  • Error Detection and Error Correction
  • SS7 Network Management and Test
  • The SCCP (Signaling Connection Control Part)
  • The Tasks of the SCCP
  • The SCCP Message Format
  • The SCCP Messages
  • The Basics of an SCCP Connection
  • The A Interface
  • Dimensioning
  • Signaling on the A-Interface
  • TCAP (Transaction Capabilities Application Part)
  • MAP (Mobile Application Part)
  • Scenarios
  • Location Update
  • Equipment Check
  • The Mobile Originating Call (MOC)
  • The Mobile Terminating Call (MTC)
  • Handover
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Test Equipment
  • Signaling Analysis in GSM
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Where To Find What Parameter in the Trace File
  • Error Analysis on the Abis and A-Interface
  • Glossary

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