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GSM
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It is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. The key advantage of GSM systems to consumers has been higher digital voice quality and low cost alternatives to making calls,
GSM is a cellular network, which means that mobile phones connect to it by searching for cells in the immediate vicinity.
GSM networks operate in four different frequency range 900 MHz or 1800 MHz bands. 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands 935960 MHz 890915 MHz,
MSC BSC
NSS, is the component of a GSM system that carries out switching functions and manages the communications between mobile phones and the PSTN. The NSS, also referred to as the GSM core network.
MSC is a sophisticated telephone exchange which provides circuit-switched calling, mobility management, and GSM services to the mobile phones roaming within the area that it serves.
The 'Home Location Register' (HLR) is a central database that contains details of each mobile phone subscriber that is authorized to use the GSM core network. The 'Authentication Centre' ( AUC) is a function to authenticate each SIM card that attempts to connect to the GSM core network.
The EIR (Equipment Identity Register) keeps a list of mobile phones (identified by their IMEI) which are to be banned from the network or monitored.
About GPRS
GPRS is a Mobile Data Service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It is an expansion of GSM and a main step to 3G 2G cellular systems combined with GPRS is often described as "2.5G
GPRS is packet-switched, which means that multiple users share the same transmission channel, only transmitting when they have data to send
Contd
The multiple access methods used in GSM with GPRS are based on frequency division duplex (FDD) and FDMA. During a session, a user is assigned to one pair of up-link and down-link frequency channels. This is combined with packet mode communication, which makes it possible for several users to share the same frequency channel.
About EDGE
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS) It is a digital mobile phone technology that allows it to increase data transmission rate and improve data transmission reliability.
Although technically a 3G network technology it is generally classified as the unofficial standard 2.75G, due to its slower network speed. EDGE has been introduced into GSM networks around the world since 2003, initially in North America.
It can be used both packet-switched and circuit-switched voice and data services. High-speed data applications such as video services and other multimedia benefit from EGPRS' increased data capacity.
About EDGE
EDGE is an expansion of the GSM/GPRS protocol to support higher data rates. EDGE is add-on to GPRS This is accomplished by utilizing 8-PSK (8-Phase Shift Keying) modulation technique and modulation coding schemes at the physical layer. Offer data rates of 384kbps, theoretically up to 473.6kbps Uses Link adaptation algorithm for packet based radio system. Modulation Bit rate 810kbps Radio data rate per time slot 69.2kbps User data rate per time slot 59.2kbps User data rate (8 time slots) 473.6kbps
Easy to offer global service to subscribers 82% of world market is GSM which is already equipped for easy roaming and billing
Higher data rates and system capacity Broadband-like speeds achievable Much less expensive mobiles
Services
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BSC
BSC
MSC
BTS -Base Transceiver Station BSC - Base Station Controller SGSN - Serving GPRS Support Node GGSN - Gateway GPRS Support Node MSC - Mobile Switching Center
New mobile terminal hardware and software is also required to decode/encode the new modulation and coding schemes and carry the higher user data
Phase-shift keying
It is a digital modulation scheme that transmit data by changing, or modulating. Any digital modulation scheme uses a finite number of distinct signals to represent digital data. PSK uses a finite number of phases, each assigned a unique pattern of binary bits. Usually, each phase encodes an equal number of bits. Each pattern of bits forms the symbol that is represented by the particular phase. The demodulator, which is designed specifically for the symbol-set used by the modulator, determines the phase of the received signal and maps it back to the symbol it represents, thus recovering the original data.
Comparison
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EDGE is a subsystem within the GSM standard, GPRS has introduced packet-switched data into GSM networks.
Basically, EDGE only introduces a new modulation technique and new channel coding that can be used to transmit both packet-switched and circuit-switched voice and data services.
EDGE is an add-on to GPRS and cannot work alone. And is therefore much easier to introduce than GPRS. GPRS has a greater impact on the GSM system than EDGE has.
EDGE offers significantly higher throughput and capacity. This decreases the number of radio resources required to support the same traffic, thus freeing up capacity for more data or voice services.
EDGE can transmit three times as many bits as GPRS during the same period of time. This is the main reason for the higher EDGE bit rates.
GPRS and EDGE have different protocols and different behavior on the base station system side.
On the core network side, GPRS and EDGE share the same packet-handling protocols and, therefore, behave in the same way. GPRS and EDGE share the same symbol rate, the modulation bit rate differs.
EDGE Advantages
Time to market
Designed for existing spectrum: 800/900/1800/1900 MHz Low risk technology evolution from GSM/GPRS
Chipsets, handsets, infrastructure and applications Lower capital investment, better vendor selection Global roaming
G US+Canada: EDGE roll-outs on the way E roll-outs on the way and EDGE Latin America: Will eventually follow US. eventually follow US.
Europe: WCDMA technology commitment. Strong need for delaying UMTS rollouts Growing interest towards EDGE, but no public commitments yet.
Market follows global trends. Ongoing technology standard war. Also public commitments to EDGE
China: Political commitmen ts to every technology. No rush to 3G. No public EDGE commitmen ts yet
Conclusion
EDGE transmit both packet-switched and circuitswitched voice and data services. High speed Data rates EDGE Evolution continues in Release 7 of the 3GPP standard providing doubled performance e.g. to complement High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA). Voice over IP is planned for EDGE R2000 standards
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