CAMEL System Overview:

Customized Application for the Mobile network Enhanced Logic, or CAMEL for short, is an important standard for intelligent mobile communications networks. Now under deployment worldwide, CAMEL enables mobile network operators to offer value-added services quickly and efficiently. In this course, you will undertake a comprehensive study of this key technology. You will begin by understanding what intelligent networks are and how they evolved. You will learn the essential concepts and principles that underlie this technology. You will also study, in depth, all of the pertinent standards and specifications. You will learn not only how CAMEL works but also why it works the way it does. Throughout the course, you will receive practical guidance on how to design and deploy CAMEL networks. We will conclude with a discussion of the future of this technology. Whether you are a wireless or network design engineer, “service network” planner, or software/device designer, this course will help you master the powerful features of today’s advanced intelligent networks that are made possible by CAMEL.

Audience:

The standard presentation of this course assumes a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related subject along with an appropriate background in communications.

Prerequisites:

Since CAMEL builds on GSM, GPRS, and UMTS, a good knowledge of those technologies, which may be gained by taking the above courses or through equivalent experience, is required.

Customize it:

This 2-3-day CAMEL course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization’s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren’t too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our “standard”, one size fits all, class.

Objectives:

Describe what intelligent networks are and how they evolved. Explain the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of CAMEL. Understand the key components of CAMEL as they relate to intelligent networks and how they fit together. Describe the various phases and feature of CAMEL. Identify and implement the applications of CAMEL based networks. Design service logic using the CAMEL functionality.

Course Outline

Introduction to GSM Networks Signaling in GSM GSM Mobility and Mobile Station Identifiers in the GSM Network International Mobile Subscriber Identity Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network Number (MSISDN) International Mobile Equipment Identifier Mobile Station Roaming Number Basic Services Supplementary Services Introduction to Intelligent Networks History of Intelligent Networks Principles of Intelligent Networks Service Switching Function Service Control Function Basic Call State Model Evolution of the CAMEL Standard Third-generation Partnership Project (3GPP) CAMEL Standards and Specifications Principles of CAMEL Location Update Procedure CAMEL Application Part Signaling for CAMEL Message Transfer Part Signaling Connection Control Part Transaction Capabilities Dynamic Load Sharing Using Signaling Point Code for Addressing in HPLMN CAMEL Phase 1 Architecture for CAMEL Phase 1 Functional Entities and Information Flows Feature Description (MO, MT, MF calls) Subscription Data (O-CSI and T-CSI) Basic Call State Model CAMEL Application Part Service Examples ---Virtual Private Networks ---Prepaid Route ---Short Number Dialing with CLI CAMEL Phase 2 Introduction Architecture for CAMEL Phase 2 Functional Entities and Information Flows Feature Description ---Online Charging Control ---Notifications ---Call Control ---Conditional Triggering ---USSD Subscription Data (O-CSI, T-CSI and USSD-CSI etc) Basic Call State Model CAMEL Phase 2 Relationship Interaction with GSM Supplementary Services: ---Call Forwarding ---Explicit Call Transfer ---Call Waiting ---Call Hold ---Completion of Calls to Busy Subscribers ---Multiparty ---Closed User Group ---Call Barring ---Basic Optimal Routing ---Immediate Service Termination ---Operator-determined Barring ---High-speed Circuit-switched Data ---Multiple Subscriber Profile, etc. CAMEL Phase 3 General Third-generation Networks UMTS Network Architecture 2G Cell Planning vs 3G Cell Planning CAMEL Phase 3 Features Call Control CAMEL Control of GPRS CAMEL Control of MO-SMS Mobility Management Active Location Retrieval Subscription Data Control Enhancement to USSD Pre-paging CAMEL Phase 4 General Introduction Call Control GPRS Control SMS Control Mobility Management Any-time Interrogation Subscription Data Control Mobile Number Portability Control of IP Multimedia Calls Charging and Accounting Architecture Call Detail Records (CDR’ s) Transfer Account Procedure Files (TAP) Inter-operator Accounting of CAMEL Calls Correlation of Call Detail Records Global Call Reference Call Party Handling CDR’ s A Look Ahead: 3GPP and Beyond General Introduction Enhancements to 3GPP Release-6 Enhancements to 3GPP Release-7 Wrap-up Course Recap Q/A Evaluations