Introduction:

GSM is a mature technology rich in features, capabilities, and options intended to solve a host of specific problems. This course, third in our series of courses on GSM, examines these advanced features and offers practical strategies for exploiting them to optimize GSM networks.

Audience:

Experienced GSM engineers who wish to study the advanced functionality of GSM. 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 engineering.

Customize it:

This 2-day GSM Optimization course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Enowireless 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 Enowireless, 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.

Course Aim:

While the ‘standard features’ of GSM are indeed quite powerful, a superb technology, such as GSM, offers options and capabilities that go beyond the “surface” of initial implementations. Having completed this course, you will be able to identify performance problems in a GSM network, existing or potential, and use GSM’s advanced functionality to help resolve them. Armed with the knowledge of GSM’s ‘power features’, you will be able to achieve more optimum network operation including better voice quality and greater capacity.

Course Outline

GSM Framing Structure Review and Key Observations The 26-frame multiframe The 51-frame multiframe Combining the SDCCH with the CCCH Pros and cons of alternative structures on the 51-frame multiframe Paging channel capacity, paging channel subchannelization, and extended paging channel capabilities RACH capacity, stability, and capacity enhancement mechanisms CCCH optimization mechanisms Parameters and Algorithms Controlling the GSM Radio Subsystem Cell selection Cell reselection Location area updates and registrations Handover execution Network-wide performance optimization considerations and tradeoffs Measurement Processing and Handover Considerations Measurements: How, when, and where Measurement processing Information Elements (IE) and their functionality Measurement processing rules and options available to vendors, operators, and network designers Optimization of neighbor lists Network synchronization issues, options, and corresponding performance issues and optimization Optimization Using Phase 2+ Capabilities AMR Frequency hopping issues and parameters Smart antennas Dual band operational and optimization-related issues Course Recap and Conclusion Please call or e-mail to schedule a no-obligation conference call to help us understand your audience background and training objectives.