Internal OMA000001 GSM Fundamentals ISSUE 4.0 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. www.huawei.com All rights reserved Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: Grasp basic idea of GSM system such as frequency spectrum, frequency reuse etc. Grasp the structure of the GSM system and the protocol used. Grasp certain numbers that refer to BSS Grasp the 4 kinds of channel combination and understand the idea of multi-frame. Know some radio techniques Get the idea of EDGE HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 2 References BSS Feature Description BSS Signaling Analysis Manual BSC Technical Manual HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 3 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 4 GSM system overview The GSM system is a frequency- and time-division cellular system, each physical channel is characterized by a carrier frequency and a time slot number Cellular systems are designed to operate with groups of low-power radios spread out over the geographical service area. Each group of radios serve MSs presently located near them. The area served by each group of radios is called a CELL Uplink and downlink signals for one user are assigned different frequencies, this kind of technique is called Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) Data for different users is conveyed in time intervals called slots , several slots make up a frame. This kind of technique is called Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 5 GSM Development 1989 Standard Protocol for GSM take effect 1991 GSM system began to provide service in Europe(2G) 1992 System was named as Global System for Mobile Communication 1994 Provide services for the whole world 1996 Micro Cell Technique is used in GSM system HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 6 Cell Technique Macro Cell and Micro Cell A certain radio coverage area formed by a set of transceivers that connected to a set of antennas is called a CELL. Macro Cell In the beginning , High-Power BTSs are adopted to provide services. The BTS covers a wider area , but its frequency utilization is not efficient. So , it can only provide a few channels for subscribers. Micro Cell Later the Low-Power BTS joins the system for getting a better service area with high capacity . At the same time it adopts the frequency reuse technique to improve the efficiency of the frequency utilization and also the whole capacity of the network. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 7 Multiple Access Technique Multiple Access Technique allows many subscribers to use the same communication medium. There are three kinds of basic Multiple Access Technique : FDMA , TDMA and CDMA. GSM system adopt FDD-TDMA (FDMA and TDMA together). HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 8 FDMA FDMA uses different frequency channels to accomplish communication. Frequency The whole frequency spectrum available is divided into many individual channels (for transmitting and receiving),every channel can support the traffic for one subscriber or some control information. Time HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 9 TDMA TDMA accomplishes the communication in different timeslot. Frequency A carrier is divided into Time HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. channels based on time. Different signals occupy different timeslots in certain sequence , that is , many signals are transmitted on the same frequency in different time. All rights reserved Page 10 CDMA CDMA accomplishes the communication in different code sequences. Frequency Special coding is adopted Time HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. before transmission, then different information will lose nothing after being mixed and transmitted together on the same frequency and at the same time. All rights reserved Page 11 The Frequency Spectrum GSM 900 Uplink 890 Downlink 915 935 Duplex Separation: Channel Bandwidth: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved 960MHz 45MHz 200KHz Page 12 The Frequency Spectrum DCS 1800 Base Station Receive 1710 Base Station Transmit 1785 1805 Duplex Separation: Channel Bandwidth: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved 1880MHz 95MHz 200KHz Page 13 The Frequency Spectrum Frequency Point Available Frequency Spectrum Range (MHz) GSM 450 450.4~457.6 460.4~467.6 Fu(n)=450.6+0.2(n-259) 259<=n<=293 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+10 GSM 480 478.8~486 488.8~496 Fu(n)=479+0.2(n-306) 306<=n<=340 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+10 GSM 850 824~849 869~894 Fu(n)=824.2+0.2(n-128) 128<=n<=251 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+45 E-GSM 900 880~915 925~960 Fu(n)=890+0.2n Fu(n)=890+0.2(n-1024) 0<=n<=124 975<=n<=1023 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+45 R-GSM 900 876~915 921~960 Fu(n)=890+0.2n Fu(n)=890+0.2(n-1024) 0<=n<=124 955<=n<=1023 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+45 PCS 1900 1850~1910 1930~1990 Fu(n)=1850.2+0.2(n-512) 512<=n<=810 Fd(n)=Fu(n)+80 Uplink Frequency HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 14 Downlink Frequency Frequency Reuse The frequency resource of mobile system is very limited. The different Subscribers can use the same frequency in different places. The quality of communication must be ensured. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 15 Frequency Reuse 7(Site)X 1(Cell) reuse 2 7 23 1 6 4 5 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 16 Frequency Reuse 1 5 3 7 11 9 8 6 2 10 4 12 R 4 site X 3 cells reuse HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 17 Cell Types Omni Omni-directional Cell 1 1 120 degree 120 Degree Cell 3 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 18 2 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 19 GSM-GPRS Network Component MSC/VLR PSTN ISDN GMSC GSM /GPRS BSS BSC MS HLR/AUC BTS PCU SS7 BSC SMS system MS BTS Internet, Intranet GPRS Backbone SGSN GGSN OMC CG BG Other PLMN HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 20 Interface Between Different Entities MSC/VLR PSTN ISDN GMSC GSM /GPRS BSS Abis MS A BSC HLR/AUC BTS C/D/Gs PCU SS7 Gb BSC MS Um SMS system Gr/Gs/Gd/Ge Gc BTS GPRS backbone SGSN Gi GGSN Ga OMC CG BG Gp HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Internet, Intranet Page 21 Other PLMN Mobile Station—MS MS=ME+SIM International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) – Mobile Equipment International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) – Subscriber Identity Module HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 22 Subscriber Identity Module – SIM International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) SIM Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) Location Area Identity (LAI) Subscriber Authentication Key (Ki) HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 23 Base Station Subsystem – BSS MSC The Base Station Controller – BSC BSS The Base Transceiver Station – BTS The Trans-coder – TC and Sub multiplexer (SM) TC/SM BSC BTS HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 24 Packet Control Unit-----PCU MSC Packet data switching Bridge between SGSN and BSC Provide Pb and BSS TC/SM GPRS Backbone Gb interface BSC PCU BTS HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 25 SGSN The Network Switching System AUC HLR EIR NSS OMC EC MSC/VLR Mobile-service Switching Center Home Location Register Visitor Location Register Equipment Identity Register Authentication Center Echo Cancellor HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. – MSC – HLR – VLR – EIR – AUC – EC All rights reserved BSS Page 26 PSTN Mobile-service Switching Center – MSC Call Processing Operations and Maintenance Support Interface management Inter-network & Inter-working Billing HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 27 Home Location Register – HLR Subscriber ID (IMSI and MSISDN) Current subscriber VLR (current location) Supplementary service information Subscriber status (registered/deregistered) Authentication key and AuC functionality HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 28 Visitor Location Register – VLR Mobile Status (IMSI attached / detached / busy / idle etc.) Location Area Identity(LAI) Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity(TMSI) Allocating the Roaming Number HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 29 Equipment Identity Register – EIR White List Black List IMEI is Checked In White List Grey List If NOT found EIR focus on the equipment , not the subscriber!! HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. IMEI is Checked in Black/Grey List All rights reserved Page 30 OMC Functional Architecture Security Management Event/Alarm Management MMI OS DB Fault Management Configuration Management Performance Management HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 31 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 32 Service Area Service Area PLMN PLMN service service area area MSC service area... PLMN service area MSC service area... Location area... Location area... cell cell HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 33 ...... LAI MCC MNC LAC Location Area Identification The LAI is the international code for a location area. MCC: Mobile Country Code,It consists of 3 digits . For example: The MCC of China is "460" MNC: Mobile Network Code,It consists of 2 digits . For example: The MNC of China Mobile is "00" LAC: Location Area Code,It is a two bytes hex code. The value 0000 and FFFF is invalid. For example: 460-00-0011 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 34 CGI CGI: Cell Global Identification The CGI is a unique international identification for a cell The format is LAI+CI LAI: Location Area Identification CI: Cell Identity. This code uses two bytes hex code to identify the cells within an LAI. For example : 460-00-0011-0001 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 35 BSIC BSIC(Base Station Identification Color Code) NCC BCC BSIC NCC: PLMN network color code. It comprises 3 bit. It allows various neighboring PLMNs to be distinguished. BCC: BTS color code. It comprises 3 bit, used to distinguish different cells assigned the same frequency! HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 36 MSISDN CC NDC SN National (significant) Mobile number Mobile station international ISDN number CC: Country Code. For example: The CC of China is "86". NDC: National Destination Code. For example: The NDC of China Telecom is 139, 138, 137, 136, 135. SN: Subscriber Number. Format:H0 H1 H2 H3 ABCD Example: 86-139-0666-1234 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 37 IMSI Not more than 15 digits 3 digits 2 digits MCC MNC MSIN NMSI IMSI MCC: Mobile Country Code,It consists of 3 digits . For example: The MCC of China is "460"。 MNC: Mobile Network Code,It consists of 2 digits . For example: The MNC of China Telecom is "00"。 MSIN: Mobile Subscriber Identification Number. H1H2H3 S ABCDEF For example: 666-9777001 NMSI: National Mobile Subscriber Identification,MNC and MSIN form it together. For Example of IMSI : 460-00-666-9777001 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 38 TMSI TMSI: Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identification) The TMSI is assigned only after successful subscriber authentication. The VLR controls the allocation of new TMSI numbers and notifies them to the HLR. TMSI is used to ensure that the identity of the mobile subscriber on the air interface is kept secret. The TMSI consists of 4 bytes( 8 HEX numbers) and determined by the operator. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 39 IMEI IMEI: International Mobile Station Equipment Identification TAC FAC SNR SP IMEI TAC: Type approval code, 6 bit, determined by the type approval center FAC: Final assembly code, 2 bit, It is determined by the manufacturer. SNR: Serial number, 6 bits, It is issued by the manufacturer of the MS. SP: 1 bit , Not used. Check the IMEI in your MS : *#06# HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 40 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 41 Physical Channel and Logical Channel The physical channel is the medium over which the information is carried: 200KHz and 0.577ms The logical channel consists of the information carried over the physical channels 0 1 2 Timeslot 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 The information carried in one time slot is called a “burst” TDMA FRAME HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved TDMA FRAME Page 42 Two types of Logical Channel Traffic Channel (TCH) : Transmits traffic information, include data and speech. Control Channel (CCH) : Or Signaling Channel, transmits all kinds of control information. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 43 Traffic Channel (TCH) TCH Traffic Channels Speech TCH/FS TCH/HS Data TCH/9.6 TCH Traffic Channel TCH/FS Full rate Speech Channel TCH/HS Half rate Speech Channel TCH/9.6 Data Channel 9.6kb/s TCH/4.8 Data Channel 4.8kb/s TCH/2.4 Data Channel 2.4Kb/s HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. TCH/2.4 TCH/4.8 All rights reserved Page 44 Control Channel (CCH) CCH (Control Channels) DCCH SDCCH FACCH BCH ACCH BCCH SACCH HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. CCCH SCH Broadcast Control Channel – BCCH Common Control Channel – CCCH Dedicated Control Channel – DCCH Associated Control Channel – ACCH Synch. CH. RACH CBCH PCH/AGCH All rights reserved Page 45 FCCH Broadcast Control Channel – BCCH CCH The information carried on the BCCH is monitored by the MS BCH periodically when it is in idle mode BCCH: Broadcast Control Channel FCCH: Frequency Correction Channel BCCH Synch. Channels SCH FCCH SCH: Synchronization Channel HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 46 Common Control Channel – CCCH CCH The CCCH is responsible for transferring control information between all mobiles and the network. CCCH RACH: Random Access Channel PCH: Paging Channel AGCH: Access Granted Channel CBCH: Cell Broadcast Channel RACH uplink CBCH downlink PCH/AGCH downlink HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 47 Dedicated Control Channel – DCCH CCH DCCH is assigned to a single wireless connection for measurement and handover purpose. SDCCH: Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel ACCH: Associated Control Channel SACCH: Slow Associated Control Channel FACCH: Fast Associated Control Channel DCCH SDCCH FACCH HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 48 ACCH SACCH Uplink Logical channel CCH RACH CCCH SDCCH SACCH DCCH DCH FACCH TCH/F TCH/H HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved TCH Page 49 Downlink Logical channel FCCH CCH BCCH SCH BCCH CCCH PCH AGCH SDCCH DCH DCCH SACCH FACCH TCH TCH/F TCH/H HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 50 How to use these channels? Power-off Search for frequency correction burst FCCH SCH BCCH Search for synchronous burst Extract system information Idle mode Monitor paging message PCH RACH AGCH SDCCH SDCCH TCH FACCH Send access burst Allocate signaling channel Dedicated mode Set up the call Allocate voice channel Conversation Idle mode HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Release the call All rights reserved Page 51 Packet logic channel TCH Packet data channel (PDCH) Comprising packet service channel and packet control channel TCH Packet service channel (PDTCH) Combined into the single-directional service channel BCCH CCCH Packet control channel SACCH Broadcast control channel: PBCCH Public control channel: PPCH, PRACH, PAGCH Private control channel: PACCH, PTCCH HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 52 GSM Logical Channel Combination Main BCCH combination – FCCH + SCH + BCCH + CCCH SDCCH combination – SDCCH/8 + SACCH/8 Combined BCCH – BCCH + CCCH +SDCCH/4 + SACCH/4 TCH/FR combination – TCH/F + FACCH/F + SACCH/F TCH/HR combination – TCH/H + FACCH/H + SACCH/H HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 53 Combination of packet logic channel Packet logic channels (PDCH) can be combined via the following three modes Mode 1: PBCCH+PCCCH+PDTCH+PACCH+PTCCH; Mode 2: PCCCH+PDTCH+PACCH+PTCCH; Mode 3: PDTCH+PACCH+PTCCH In case of small GPRS traffic, GPRS and circuit services use the same BCCH and CCCH in the cell. In this case, only combination mode 3 is needed in the cell With the increase of traffic, the packet public channel should be configured in the cell. Channel combination mode 1 and mode 2 should be adopted HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 54 GSM Multi-frames TDMA Frames 0 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 46 47 48 49 50 51 – Frame Multi-frames CONTROL CHANNELS HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 55 GSM Multi-frames TDMA Frames 0 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 21 22 23 24 25 26 – Frame Multi-frames TRAFFIC CHANNELS HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 56 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 57 Power Control Both Uplink and Downlink power settings can be controlled independently and individually. 5W 0.8W Saves battery power Reduces co-channel and adjacent channel interference 8W BCCH ------Does not attend Power control HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 58 DTX and VAD Discontinuous Transmission – DTX Voice Activity Detection – VAD Battery Saving Interference reduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 59 Timing Advance (TA) The mobile phone should send the signal in advance! TA Transmission delay t Transmission delay t HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 60 Multi-path Fading Diversity Frequency Hopping Time Dispersion HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 61 Diversity – What’s Diversity? Receive diversity provides an effective technique for both overcoming the impact of fading across the radio channel and increasing the received signal to interference ratio. The former is achieved by ensuring “uncorrelated” (i.e. low enough correlated) fading between antenna branches i.e. not all antennas experience fades at the same time. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 62 Kinds of Diversity t Time diversity Coding, interleaving Frequency diversity f Frequency hopping Space diversity Multiple antennas Polarization diversity Dual-polarized antennas Multi-path diversity Equalizer HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 63 Frequency Hopping Frequency f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 Frame Time HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 64 Chapter 1 GSM System Overview Chapter 2 GSM Network Structure Chapter 3 Service Area and Number Planning Chapter 4 Channels on the Wireless Interface Chapter 5 Radio Techniques Chapter 6 GPRS & EDGE Introduction HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 65 GSM Development Evolution 3G 2.5G 115 kbps 2G 57.6 kbps 9.6 kbps 2Mbps 384kbps IMT-2000 EDGE GPRS HSCSD GSM HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 66 Data rate of EDGE and GPRS Kbps 59.2 60.0 54.4 GPRS EGPRS 50.0 40.0 44.8 29.6 30.0 22.4 21.4 20.0 13.4 10.0 17.6 15.6 14.8 9.0 8.8 11.2 0.0 CS-1 CS-2 CS-3 CS-4 MCS-1 MCS-2 MCS-3 MCS-4 MCS-5 MCS-6 MCS-7 MCS-8 MCS-9 8PSK GMSK HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 67 Huawei EDGE Test Result Downlink, 4 TS, MCS-9: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 68 The basic idea of GSM Summary The frequency spectrum used in GSM The structure of GSM Certain service area and numbers Some radio techniques used in GSM Evolution of GSM HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 69 Thank You www.huawei.com