Course Name:

GSM System Engineering Training

Deployment Options:

Onsite - Instructor-Led Training

Course Duration:

2-3 days depending on audience background and options

Related Courses

GSM System Overview GSM Air Interface GSM Cell Planning GSM Network Architecture, Operation, and Design GSM Optimization

Who Should Attend:

Engineers, technicians, and technical managers with technical backgrounds but limited wireless experience.

Prerequisites:

Basic technical mathematics

Course Description:

This two-day seminar provides a solid grounding in principles of basic GSM system design and RF engineering. Propagation, antenna systems, and traffic engineering principles are thoroughly introduced. Finally, GSM system design, growth, and performance considerations are explored eac student receiving example files on disk.

Course Outline:

Signal Principles Modulation Bandwidth Interference Performance Frequency and Wavelength The Physics of Propagation: Free Space, Reflection, Diffraction Local Variability: Rayleigh fading and multipath cancellation Area Propagation Models: Okumura, HATA, Cost 231 Point-to-Point Models: techniques and commercial software Analyzing measured data to produce models Reliability of Service: using statistics to design for reliability Macro-cell Indoor Penetration Considerations and reliability Micro-cellular systems and techniques GSM Air Interface Basics and Signal RF Characteristics How it all works: decoding GSM signals Capacity Implications of the Air Interface

Radio Propagation Basics for GSM

GSM Air Interface Overview

CM, MM, RR (Layer 3 messages) LAPDm (Layer 2) Radio channel (Layer 1) Logical and Physical Channels Handover Basic Antennas: Isotropic and Dipole radiators Concept of Antenna Gain and gain references Effective Radiated Power Antenna Patterns and Pattern Features How Antennas achieve Gain Reflector techniques, array techniques Families of Antennas used in Wireless: architecture, characteristics Collinear vertical antennas Horizontal arrays: yagis, log-periodics, etc. Implications of propagation driving antenna selection Multipath scattering in mobile clutter environment Beamwidth and tilt considerations for base station antennas Terms and Basic Concepts Traffic Units (Erlangs, CCS, Minutes) Trunks, Circuits, Voice Paths Offered Traffic vs. Carried Traffic Blocking Probability, Grade of Service Basic Operational Concepts Using Traffic Tables Principle of Trunking Efficiency Link Budget basics and application principles Traffic Considerations Determining Number of Cells Required

Antennas for GSM

Basic Principles of Traffic Engineering for GSM

GSM Link Budgets and High-Level System Design

Optional Background Material for GSM Calculating levels in decibels Receiver Basics Superheterodyne architecture, frequency conversion, images Sensitivity: noise basics Dynamic range and intermodulation considerations Transmitter Basics Linear vs. non-linear amplifier