Price: $1,699.00

Course Number: 561
Length: 2 Days
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GPRS Training

GPRS Training provides you with a comprehensive business and technical foundation in GPRS network, services and applications development.

GPRS Definitions by 3GPP

GSM™ is a circuit-switched network; ideal for the delivery of voice but with limitations for sending data. The standard for GSM was designed to evolve. In 2000 the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) added packet-switched functionality and ‘kick started’ the delivery of the Internet on mobile handsets.

GPRS adds packet-switched functionality to GSM networks. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet-data technology that allows GSM operators to launch wireless data services, such as e-mail and Internet access. As a result, GPRS provides operators with the ability to use data to drive additional revenue. GPRS is often called a 2.5G technology because it is a GSM operator’s first step toward third generation (3G) and a first step in wireless data services.

Based on specifications in Release 97, GPRS typically reached speeds of 40Kbps in the downlink and 14Kbps in the uplink by aggregating GSM time slots into one bearer. Enhancements in Releases R’98 and R’99 meant that GPRS could theoretically reach downlink speeds of up to 171Kbps.
The next advance in GSM radio access technology was EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) or Enhanced GRPS.
With a new modulation technique yielding a three-fold increase in bit rate (8PSK replacing GMSK) and new channel coding for spectral efficiency, EDGE was successfully introduced without disrupting the frequency re-use plans of existing GSM deployments.

GPRS Training provides the attendees with an understanding of the GPRS architecture, protocols, air interface and functions involved in signaling and data transfer.

Upon attending GPRS training, you will gain an understanding of GPRS services, functionality of a GPRS network, e.g. the functions of GGSN and SGSN, the procedures of GPRS Attach, PDP-context activation, Border Gateway (BG), and GPRS QoS.

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Who Should Attend

This course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network professionals, system testers, marketing and sales professional, IT professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with GSM, EDGE, GPRS, 3G and other wireless networks, applications and services.

Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the functionality of a GPRS network
  • Understand GSM system evolution to GPRS
  • Explain the basics of GPRS network planning
  • Explore project planning process of GPRS networks
  • Understand the engineering tools and procedures required for GPRS engineering and planning
  • Understand existing and emerging standards for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS
  • Review successful GPRS deployments
  • Discuss successful and unsuccessful GSM/GPRS deployments
  • Step through a practical process for managing a GSM/GPRS project
  • Explore advanced features in GSM and GPRS networks
  • Explain GPRS architecture and services
  • Understand GPRS protocols and their functions
  • Describe functions of SGSN, GGSN, BG, and CG
  • Describe IP network architecture and functions
  • Discuss obstacles of Packet-Switched Mobile Networks
  • Review GPRS Network Architecture and Protocols
  • Discuss GPRS architecture and services
  • Understand the functionality of a GPRS network
  • Explore GPRS Attach/Detach and PDP Context Activation/Deactivation procedures
  • Explain the basics of GPRS security
  • Explore GPRS troubleshooting
  • Understand the GPRS flows and traffic cases in data transfer and signaling
  • Explore EDGE and E-GPRS

Outline

Introducing of GPRS to the GSM World

  • Executive overview of GSM and GRS
  • Key network features of GPRS
  • IP and Packet switching
  • GPRS packet based Air Interface
  • New Infrastructure nodes
  • Software upgrade to some existing network elements.
  • Spectrum efficiency
  • GSM & GPRS nodes and interfaces
  • GPRS areas
  • GPRS procedures
  • Mobility Management (MM)
  • Session Management (SM)
  • Radio Resource Management (RR)
  • GSM/GPRS combined procedures

GPRS network architecture

  • GPRS nodes and interfaces
  • GPRS air interface
  • Base Station Subsystem
  • GPRS Logical Channels
  • Role of SGSN, GGSN, and HLR
  • GPRS procedures

GPRS Air Interface

  • Channel coding, CS1-CS4
  • Uplink and Downlink frequency bands
  • TDMA-frames and multiframes
  • Radio resource sharing
  • GPRS logical channels
  • Air interface protocols
  • SNDCP
  • LLC
  • RLC/MAC

SGSN Protocol Stack

  • GPRS - GMM
  • SNDCP, LLC
  • Network Service (NS)
  • GTP
  • SS7 - MAP

GGSN Protocol Stack

  • GPRS - GTP

BSS Protocol Stack

  • GPRS - LLC Relay
  • BSSGP
  • Network Service
  • SS7 - SCCP

HLR Protocol Stack

  • GPRS - BSSAP+
  • SS7 - MAP (GSM Phase II+)
  • TCAP
  • SCCP
  • ISUP
  • MTP Level 3
  • MTP Level 2 and MTP Level 1

GPRS MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION

  • Session Management
  • Non-anonymous and anonymous PDP contexts
  • The no-anonymous PDP context means that
  • Routing (Data Transmission)
  • Mobility management
  • Troubleshooting cases

EGPRS (EDGE)

  • What is EDGE?
  • 8PSK modulation
  • EDGE channel coding, MCS1-MCS9
  • Changes to the RLC/MAC
  • Link Adaptation
  • Incremental Redundancy
  • GERAN Iu-mode
  • GERAN Iur-g

GPRS Network Planning

  • GPRS planning
  • Radio Access Network Planning
  • IP Planning
  • Project planning process of GPRS networks
  • Engineering tools and procedures required for GPRS engineering and planning
  • Review successful GPRS deployments
  • Successful and unsuccessful GSM/GPRS deployments
  • Step through a practical process for managing a GSM/GPRS project
  • IP network architecture and functions
  • Private and public IP-address allocation
  • GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP)
  • Connection to an external network
  • IP-Address Allocation
  • Public and private addresses
  • Access Point Name (APN) resolution and usage
  • DNS, DHCP and RADIUS
  • Roaming in GPRS
  • Data Transfer and Charging
  • HLR and the User Profile
  • Current SGSN Address GPRS Roaming
  • Inter-PLMN backbone and GRX´s
  • GRX-networks and QoS

GPRS Traffic Cases

  • GPRS Call Flow
  • Basic Call and Data Scenarios
  • GPRS Attach and Detach
  • PDP Addresses for Each GPRS User in the PLMN
  • Data connection establishment
  • Cell change to a new SGSN area
  • GPRS backbone protocols
  • GRX-networks and QoS
  • Data Transfer and Charging
  • Data transfer with relevant header contents
  • GSNs CDRs

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