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Overview of the Global System for Mobile Communications: GSM

(Known in America as PCS)

 

by John Scourias

 

jscouria@www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca

 

(Reprinting rights and assistance

kindly provided by John Scourias)

 

Tom Farley comments in maroon.

(Extended quotes by others in blue)

 

Click on a link and start reading. It's not that difficult. Tom

----Table of Contents ---

1. History of GSM 2. Services provided by GSM 3. Architecture of the GSM network 3.1. Mobile Station 3.2. Base Station Subsystem 3.3. Network Subsystem 4. Radio link aspects 4.1. Multiple access and channel structure 4.1.1. Traffic channels 4.1.2. Control channels 4.1.3. Burst structure 4.2. Speech coding 4.3. Channel coding and modulation 4.4. Multipath equalization 4.5. Frequency hopping 4.6. Discontinuous transmission 4.7. Discontinuous reception

4.8. Power control 5. Network aspects 5.1. Radio resources management 5.1.1. Handover 5.2. Mobility management 5.2.1. Location updating 5.2.2. Authentication and security 5.3. Communication management 5.3.1. Call routing 6. Conclusion and comments 7. Bibliography and references 8. Original article is here

  

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