GSM-GPRS Operation
GSM Air Interface
Module 2
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Outline
 Introduction & Review
 GSM Frequency Band
 GSM Channel Numbering
 Physical Channel
 Logical Channel
 Mapping Logical Channel on to Physical
Channel
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Air Interface = Um Interface
 Major problems at air interface  In GSM
network, it is about Um interface
Air interface
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Arsitektur Jaringan GSM
Mobile
terminal device
BSS
Base Station
Subsystem
NSS
Network Switching
Subsystem
control/switching of
mobile services
BSS
Base Station
Subsystem
BSS
Base Station
Subsystem
PLMN
Public Land Mobile Network
PSTN
Public Switched
Telephone Network
ISDN
Integrated Services
Digital Network
PDN
Public Data
Network
MS
Mobile
Station
Mobile
components
Fixed network
components
Um
Air Interface
Fixed
network
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GSM 900 MHz Frequency Band
200 kHz
CH 1 CH 2
CH 124
200 kHz
CH 1 CH 2
CH 124
890 915 MHz
Uplink
MS Transmit Band
25 MHz
935 960 MHz
Downlink
MS Transmit Band
25 MHz
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Penomoran Kanal GSM
 GSM900
FU(n) = 890 + 0.2×n (MHz)
FD(n) = Fu(n) + 45 (MHz) 1 ≤ n ≤ 124
 E-GSM900
FU(n) = 890 + 0.2×(n-1024) (MHz) 974 ≤ n ≤ 1023
FD(n) = Fu(n) + 45 (MHz)
 GSM1800
Fu(n) = 1710.2 + 0.2×(n-512) (MHz)
FD(n) = FU(n) + 95 (MHz) 512 ≤ n ≤ 885
374 channels
n disebut Absolutely Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN)
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GSM Frequency Allocation In Indonesia
SATELINDO(INDOSAT) : 890 – 900 MHz (10 MHz)
TELKOMSEL : 900 – 907 MHz (7.5 MHz)
EXCELKOMINDO : 907.5 – 915 MHz (7.5 MHz)
GSM : [890+nx0.2] MHz up to 915MHz
DCS 1800 : [1710+nx0.2] MHz up to 1785MHz
890 915
Tx
Indosat Telkomsel Excelcomindo
900
Operators share
bandwidth
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Frequency Allocation Per-Cell
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1710 1732
f
Selanjutnya...bandwidth
displit di dalam sel-sel
1
1
2
3
2
4
5
6
7
3
4
5
6
7
1
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Spesifikasi RF
F1 F2 F1' F2'
Frequency
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
45 MHz
BS Transmission
Band : 935 – 960 MHZ
MS Transmission
Band : 890 – 915 MHZ
Year Introduced 1990
Access method TDMA
Channel Bandwidth 200 kHz
Number of duplex
channels
125
Users per channel 8
Speech coding bit
rate
13 kbps
Data coding bit rate 12 kbps
Frame size 4.6 ms
GSM-GPRS Operation
Kanal Fisik
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TDMA
frame
4.615
ms
time
TS4
TS5
TS6
TS7
TS0
TS1
TS2
TS3
Frequency [MHz]
••• •••
Duplex distance: 45 MHz
200 kHz
Example:
GSM900
890 915 935 960
UL DL
TS
577
µs
Physical channel (Um)Physical channel (Um)
Radio Interface (Layer 1)
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Struktur Sinyal GSM
 GSM carrier selebar 200 kHz.
 Pada arah downlink BTS,
timeslot berbeda digunakan
untuk masing-masing MS – MS
mendengar hanya pada TS yg
dialokasikan untuknya
 Pada TS yg tidak digunakan,
MS dapat menggunakannya
utk pengukuran sinyal 
berguna utk Handover
 Pada arah uplink, MS transmit
hanya pada timeslot yg
dialokasikan untuknya
 Transmit MS terjadi berbeda 3
TS dari TS transmit BTS 
untuk mencegah transmit-
terima simultan pada MS
(membutuhkan duplekser)
3 timeslot
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Adaptive frame alignment:
Mencegah pengiriman/penerimaan
secara bersamaan/simultan
UL/DL di delay 3 TS
76543210
76543210 DL
UL
Timing Advance TA:
Kompensasi delay propagasi
BTS memerintahkan MS mengirim lebih lambat:
2 x waktu propagasi MS - BTS
Adaptive Frame Alignment / Timing Advance (TA)
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TDMA
frame
Frames
RFC
3
RFC
2
RFC
1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
0
1
2
3
4
5
20
21
22
23
24
25
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Time
RFC
124
Frequency
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Time
FDMA
User
Traffic
Signaling
cyclical repetition
of certain contents
cyclical repetition
of certain contents
• TDMA-
• Multi-
• Super-
• Hyper-
Multi-
Frames
Konsep Frame
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1 Signalling Multiframe =
51 TDMA frames ≈ 235,4 ms
1 TCH Multiframe =
26 TDMA frames = 120 ms
Time
Structure
Hyperframe =
2048 Superframes ≈ 3h 29 min
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 1 2 3 24 25••• 0 1 2 3 49 50•••
0 1 2 3 ••• 4950
0 1 2 3 24 25
1 Superframe =
51 x 26
TDMA frames
≈ 6.12 ms
Numbering Period
e.g. repetition of
• frequency hopping
• ciphering
Channel organisation
scheme
Repetition scheme
for TCH / Signalling
BURST = TS content
1 TDMA frame
= 8 TS = 4,615 ms
1 Burst = 156,25 bit = 576,88 us
(1 bit = 3,6923 us)
GSM-GPRS Operation
Kanal Logik
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Logical Channel
GSM-GPRS Operation
Mapping Kanal Logik ke Kanal
Fisik
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Kanal logik GSM harus dipetakan ke kanal fisik, artinya : informasi pada
kanal logik harus ditempatkan pada kanal fisik dengan format burst
tertentu untuk ditransmisikan
Analogi pemetaan kanal logika pada kanal fisik...
Tipe burst pada kanal fisik dapat dianalogikan sebagai ‘tipe gerbong’ pada
rangkaian kereta api. Orang makan malam berada pada gerbong restorasi.
Demikian pula pada kanal logik, penempatan kanal logika pada ‘gerbong’ burst
tergantung dari fungsi kanal logik tersebut beserta sifat-sifat fisisnya.
FCCH Burst
SCH Burst
Synchronization
Channel
Frequency
Correction
ChannelDedicated
Control
Channels
Traffic
Channel
Normal Burst
Mapping
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FCCH Burst
SCH Burst
Synchronization
Channel
Frequency
Correction
ChannelDedicated
Control
Channels
Traffic
Channel
Normal Burst
Kanal RF selebar 200 kHz  Rel kereta
Kanal logik  Isi gerbong kereta
Kanal fisik (timeslot)  Gerbong kereta
Burst  Tipe/jenis gerbong
Kasus analogi di GSM
Mapping
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512 513 514 808 809 810
299 200kHz Radio Channels
FDMA
FDD
0 1 2 5 6 7
8 0.57ms Time Slots
3 4TDMA {
Burst - Transmission Quantum in GSM
1 Frame
Burst Burst Burst
BurstBurstBurst Burst Burst
Frame Train on
Frequency Track…an analogy
For GSM 1900...
U D
60 MHz 60 MHz
ARFCN
Numbers
Multiplexing
Membutuhkan sinkronisasi yg sangat tepat!!
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TB
3
Information
57
S
1
Training Seq.
26
S
1
TB
3
GP
8.25
Information
57
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
RFC
1
RFC
2
RFC
3
RFC
i
RFC
123
RFC
124
••• •••
UL: 890 MHz 915 MHz
FDMA
GMSK
Modulation
200 kHz
270.833
kbit/s
TDMA
1 TDMA Frame: 4.615 ms / 1250 bit
1 TS: 33.85 kbit/s
1 Normal Burst: 576.9 µs / 156.25 bit
1 Bit = 3.6923 µs
24.7 kbit/s = 22.8 kbit/s TCH data (incl. redundancy)
+ 0.95 kbit/s SACCH + 0.95 kbit/s “Idle”
Physical Channel / GSM Data Rates
GSM-GPRS Operation
End of Section 2
GSM Air Interface

Modul 2 gsm air interface

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    GSM-GPRS Operation GSM AirInterface Module 2
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 2 Outline  Introduction& Review  GSM Frequency Band  GSM Channel Numbering  Physical Channel  Logical Channel  Mapping Logical Channel on to Physical Channel
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 3 Air Interface= Um Interface  Major problems at air interface  In GSM network, it is about Um interface Air interface
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 4 Arsitektur JaringanGSM Mobile terminal device BSS Base Station Subsystem NSS Network Switching Subsystem control/switching of mobile services BSS Base Station Subsystem BSS Base Station Subsystem PLMN Public Land Mobile Network PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network PDN Public Data Network MS Mobile Station Mobile components Fixed network components Um Air Interface Fixed network
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 5 GSM 900MHz Frequency Band 200 kHz CH 1 CH 2 CH 124 200 kHz CH 1 CH 2 CH 124 890 915 MHz Uplink MS Transmit Band 25 MHz 935 960 MHz Downlink MS Transmit Band 25 MHz
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 6 Penomoran KanalGSM  GSM900 FU(n) = 890 + 0.2×n (MHz) FD(n) = Fu(n) + 45 (MHz) 1 ≤ n ≤ 124  E-GSM900 FU(n) = 890 + 0.2×(n-1024) (MHz) 974 ≤ n ≤ 1023 FD(n) = Fu(n) + 45 (MHz)  GSM1800 Fu(n) = 1710.2 + 0.2×(n-512) (MHz) FD(n) = FU(n) + 95 (MHz) 512 ≤ n ≤ 885 374 channels n disebut Absolutely Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN)
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 7 GSM FrequencyAllocation In Indonesia SATELINDO(INDOSAT) : 890 – 900 MHz (10 MHz) TELKOMSEL : 900 – 907 MHz (7.5 MHz) EXCELKOMINDO : 907.5 – 915 MHz (7.5 MHz) GSM : [890+nx0.2] MHz up to 915MHz DCS 1800 : [1710+nx0.2] MHz up to 1785MHz 890 915 Tx Indosat Telkomsel Excelcomindo 900 Operators share bandwidth
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 8 Frequency AllocationPer-Cell 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1710 1732 f Selanjutnya...bandwidth displit di dalam sel-sel 1 1 2 3 2 4 5 6 7 3 4 5 6 7 1
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 9 Spesifikasi RF F1F2 F1' F2' Frequency 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 45 MHz BS Transmission Band : 935 – 960 MHZ MS Transmission Band : 890 – 915 MHZ Year Introduced 1990 Access method TDMA Channel Bandwidth 200 kHz Number of duplex channels 125 Users per channel 8 Speech coding bit rate 13 kbps Data coding bit rate 12 kbps Frame size 4.6 ms
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 11 TDMA frame 4.615 ms time TS4 TS5 TS6 TS7 TS0 TS1 TS2 TS3 Frequency [MHz] •••••• Duplex distance: 45 MHz 200 kHz Example: GSM900 890 915 935 960 UL DL TS 577 µs Physical channel (Um)Physical channel (Um) Radio Interface (Layer 1)
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 12 Struktur SinyalGSM  GSM carrier selebar 200 kHz.  Pada arah downlink BTS, timeslot berbeda digunakan untuk masing-masing MS – MS mendengar hanya pada TS yg dialokasikan untuknya  Pada TS yg tidak digunakan, MS dapat menggunakannya utk pengukuran sinyal  berguna utk Handover  Pada arah uplink, MS transmit hanya pada timeslot yg dialokasikan untuknya  Transmit MS terjadi berbeda 3 TS dari TS transmit BTS  untuk mencegah transmit- terima simultan pada MS (membutuhkan duplekser) 3 timeslot
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 13 Adaptive framealignment: Mencegah pengiriman/penerimaan secara bersamaan/simultan UL/DL di delay 3 TS 76543210 76543210 DL UL Timing Advance TA: Kompensasi delay propagasi BTS memerintahkan MS mengirim lebih lambat: 2 x waktu propagasi MS - BTS Adaptive Frame Alignment / Timing Advance (TA)
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 15 1 SignallingMultiframe = 51 TDMA frames ≈ 235,4 ms 1 TCH Multiframe = 26 TDMA frames = 120 ms Time Structure Hyperframe = 2048 Superframes ≈ 3h 29 min 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 24 25••• 0 1 2 3 49 50••• 0 1 2 3 ••• 4950 0 1 2 3 24 25 1 Superframe = 51 x 26 TDMA frames ≈ 6.12 ms Numbering Period e.g. repetition of • frequency hopping • ciphering Channel organisation scheme Repetition scheme for TCH / Signalling BURST = TS content 1 TDMA frame = 8 TS = 4,615 ms 1 Burst = 156,25 bit = 576,88 us (1 bit = 3,6923 us)
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 19 Kanal logikGSM harus dipetakan ke kanal fisik, artinya : informasi pada kanal logik harus ditempatkan pada kanal fisik dengan format burst tertentu untuk ditransmisikan Analogi pemetaan kanal logika pada kanal fisik... Tipe burst pada kanal fisik dapat dianalogikan sebagai ‘tipe gerbong’ pada rangkaian kereta api. Orang makan malam berada pada gerbong restorasi. Demikian pula pada kanal logik, penempatan kanal logika pada ‘gerbong’ burst tergantung dari fungsi kanal logik tersebut beserta sifat-sifat fisisnya. FCCH Burst SCH Burst Synchronization Channel Frequency Correction ChannelDedicated Control Channels Traffic Channel Normal Burst Mapping
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 20 FCCH Burst SCHBurst Synchronization Channel Frequency Correction ChannelDedicated Control Channels Traffic Channel Normal Burst Kanal RF selebar 200 kHz  Rel kereta Kanal logik  Isi gerbong kereta Kanal fisik (timeslot)  Gerbong kereta Burst  Tipe/jenis gerbong Kasus analogi di GSM Mapping
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 21 512 513514 808 809 810 299 200kHz Radio Channels FDMA FDD 0 1 2 5 6 7 8 0.57ms Time Slots 3 4TDMA { Burst - Transmission Quantum in GSM 1 Frame Burst Burst Burst BurstBurstBurst Burst Burst Frame Train on Frequency Track…an analogy For GSM 1900... U D 60 MHz 60 MHz ARFCN Numbers Multiplexing Membutuhkan sinkronisasi yg sangat tepat!!
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    kris.sujatmoko@gmail.com 22 TB 3 Information 57 S 1 Training Seq. 26 S 1 TB 3 GP 8.25 Information 57 01 2 3 4 5 6 7 RFC 1 RFC 2 RFC 3 RFC i RFC 123 RFC 124 ••• ••• UL: 890 MHz 915 MHz FDMA GMSK Modulation 200 kHz 270.833 kbit/s TDMA 1 TDMA Frame: 4.615 ms / 1250 bit 1 TS: 33.85 kbit/s 1 Normal Burst: 576.9 µs / 156.25 bit 1 Bit = 3.6923 µs 24.7 kbit/s = 22.8 kbit/s TCH data (incl. redundancy) + 0.95 kbit/s SACCH + 0.95 kbit/s “Idle” Physical Channel / GSM Data Rates
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    GSM-GPRS Operation End ofSection 2 GSM Air Interface