GSM PLMN Organisation

Network Switching
Subsystem
• Switching
Air A • Mobility
Management
• Connection
Management
• Charging

MS BSS NSS
O&M
Base Station
Subsystem
• Radio Resource
Management
NMS Network Management
System
• Fault Management
• Radio Link • Configuration
Management Management
• Performance
Management
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 Network Management
Subsystem
MSC Mobile services Switching Centr
GMSCGateway MSC
VLR Visitor Location Register
AC HLR Home Location Register
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EIR HLR AC Authentication Centre

HLR

VLR

GMSC MSC

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 Mobile services Switching
Centre (MSC)

MSC GMSC
• Call control • Call control
• Mobility management • Interrogation of HLR
• Initiation of paging • Collection of changing information
• Collection of changing information • often used for interworking with
• often associated with VLR external networks

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 Registers in the NSS

VLR HLR
• Identification numbers of subscribers
• Subscriber Profile
• Security information • Routing Information
• Services that the subscriber can use

EIR AC
• Lists for Mobile Equipment (ME) Data for
checks • authentication (SIM) and
• ciphering

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 Base Station Subsystem
BSC
TC

BTS BSC

TC
BTS

BTS
Elements:
• Base Station Controller (BSC), Base Transceiver Station (BTS),
and
Transcoder and Rate Adaptation Unit (TRAU, TC)
Functions:
• Radio path control, BTS and TC control, synchronisation with
MSC
• Air and A interface signalling, connection establishment MS-
NSS
• Mobility management, speech transcoding
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• Collection
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of statistical data
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 Base Station Controller (BSC)
BSC

• Connection establishment between the MS and the NSS

• Mobility management
• Statistical raw data collection
• Air- and A-interface signalling support
• BTS and TRAU Control

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 Base Transceiver Station (BTS)

• Air interface signalling

• Ciphering
• Speech processing (channel coding, interleaving, and
burst formatting)
• Generation of alarms and statistics
• Baseband/Radio frequency transformation

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 Speech Flow in BSS
Speech,
64 kbps 13kbit/s
compression Channel
Coding
MSC TRAU TRAU BTS = redundancy

22.8kbit/s

Interleaving
and ciphering

22.8kbit/s
Air
Interface 33.8kbit/s
GMSK TDMA burst
modulation formatting

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 Interfaces
VLR
G
BSS NSS D
VLR HLR AC
EIR

B F C
Um
BSC
Abis
TC
BT Ater A
S

BT
S (G)MSC E

(G)MSC

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 Generic GSM architecture

BSS - Base Station

Subsystem
OMC
VLR
BTS BSC MSC HLR
IWF
BTS
EIR AC

BTS BSC NSS - Network

Subsystem
BTS PSTN
ISDN
PSPDN NMS - Network
BTS Management
SC
MS System
Air Abis A Transcoder

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