Colegio de Dagupan

Arellano St., Dagupan City

Project
in
Communication Systems
Design
(GSM Network)

Submitted by:
BS ECE-IV Block 1

Submitted to:
Engr. Romulo Roel U. Pinlac
Instructor
 INTRODUCTION
GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) is
a digital mobile telephony system that is widely used in Europe
and other parts of the world. GSM uses a variation of time division
multiple access (TDMA) and is the most widely used of the three
digital wireless telephony technologies (TDMA, GSM, and CDMA). GSM
digitizes and compresses data, then sends it down a channel with
two other streams of user data, each in its own time slot. It
operates at either the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz frequency band.

The GSM network architecture consists of different elements

that all interact together to form the overall GSM system. These
include elements like the base-station, controller, MSC, AuC, HLR,
VLR, etc. It is now well established and with the other later
cellular systems now being deployed, the basic GSM network
architecture has been updated to interface to the network elements
required by these systems.

The GSM network architecture as defined in the GSM

specifications can be grouped into four main areas: Mobile station
(MS), Base-Station Subsystem (BSS), Network and Switching
Subsystem (NSS) and Operation and Support Subsystem (OSS). The
different elements of the GSM network operate together and the
user is not aware of the different entities within the system.

A basic diagram of the overall GSM system architecture with these

four major elements is shown below:
 OBJECTIVES

This project aims to create a simple model of the GSM network

using microcontrollers where users can understand easily what GSM
Architecture is and how it works.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

MATLAB GUI
 METHODOLOGY

Mobile System
This consists of the smart phone and the matrix keypad for sending
and receiving messages.
Base Station Subsystem
The Base Station Subsystem (BSS) consists of Arduino Uno, matrix
keypad and NRF24L01 module. The keypad is used to create the
message. Once the buttons of the keypad are pressed, the message
will be transmitted to the Arduino. This microcontroller,
connected to the computer using the NRF24L01 module, then sends
the data to MATLAB to indicate the beginning of the work of NSS.
Network Subsystem
A Graphic User Interface (GUI) in MATLAB will be made to act as
the Network Subsystem (NSS) of the GSM Network. Here, an animation
will be viewed to explain what processes happen inside the NSS.
Afterwards, the HC05 Bluetooth module will start to send the data
to the smartphone (receiver) via Bluetooth.

The overall process is summarized below:

Flow Chart
MS BSS

Message is Arduino sends

Keypad is
transmitted to data to MATLAB
pressed
Arduino using NRF24L01

Phone receives
message MATLAB sends
message to Start animation
phone via in MATLAB
bluetooth NSS