Course Description :

UMTS Technology

• History of mobile communications
• Mobile communication evolution
• GSM to UMTS evolution
• UMTS objectives
• UMTS characteristics
• General cellular concepts
• UMTS spectrum
• Standard bodies

UMTS Architecture

• UMTS reference model
• User Equipment
• Access Network UTRAN
• Core Network

UMTS Interfaces

• Transmission methods
• Multiple access techniques
• Principles of CDMA
• Protocols in the UMTS Network
• ATM in the UMTS Network
• Air Interface

Mobility Management

• Location data
• Mobile Station ISDN numbers
• Subscriber data
• Location registration
• Location update procedures
• Authentication and Ciphering
• Update HLR/VLR

Call Management

• Mobile-to-land call stages/messages
• Land-to-mobile call stages/messages
• Mobile-to-mobile call stages/messages
• Packet Data Protocol context activation
• Routing Information

Radio Resource Management

• Open and Closed Loop Power Control
• Handover controls
• Soft/Hard Handover Flows

UMTS Services

• UMTS services concept
• Comparing UMTS to GSM
• Virtual Home Environment
• Open Services Architecture
• Phased UMTS service evolution
• Circuit-switched and packet-switched bearer capabilities
• Teleservices
• Supplementary and multimedia services
• Supplementary services inherited from GSM

UMTS GSM Interwoking

• Circuit switched handover and roaming principles
• Packet switched handover and roaming
• principles
• nterworking from UMTS - GSM - UMTS
• GSM to UMTS handover

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