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UMTS ARCHITECTURE

ECE 2526 – MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS Monday, 16 March 2020

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REVIEW - BLOCK DIAGRAM OF GSM MOBILE STATION

USER EQUIPMENT (UE)

• 1. Transmitter/Receiver
• 2. Baseband processing
• 3. USIM

RADIO NETWORK SUBSYSTEM (RNS) OR UMTS RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (UTRAN)

1.Radio Network Controller 2.Node B CORE NETWORK (CN) 1.HLR 2.VLR 3.EIR 4.MSC 5.AuC 6.GMSC 7.SGSN 8.GGSN

Uu Interface Iu Interface

UMTS ARCHITECTURE

USER EQUIPMENT (UE)

The User Equipment (UE) Consists of the following elements: 1. UE RF circuitry: Handles all elements receiver and transmitter signals. One of the major challenges for the RF power amplifier was to reduce the power consumption. The form of modulation used for W-CDMA requires the use of a linear amplifier. These inherently take more current than non linear amplifiers which can be used for the form of modulation used on

• GSM. Accordingly to maintain battery life, measures were introduced into

many of the designs to ensure the optimum efficiency. 2. Baseband processing: The base-band signal processing is mainly of digital processor-based. The circuitry is optimised to reduce the current consumption. 3. Battery: Lithium Ion (Li-ion) battery which are small and relatively light while still retaining or even improving the overall life between charges. 4. Universal Subscriber Identity Module, USIM: Plays the same function as the SIM in GSM network.

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USER EQUIPMENT (UE)

The User Equipment (UE) is the name given to what was previous termed the Mobile Station(MS), or cell phone. The new name was chosen because the considerably greater functionality that the UE could have. It could also be anything between a mobile phone used for talking to a data terminal attached to a computer with no voice capability.

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INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD IDENTIFIER (ICC-ID)

• Each SIM is internationally identified by its ICC-ID.
• ICC-IDs are stored in the ROM and are also engraved or printed on the

SIM card.

• ICC-ID is defined by the ITU-T recommendation E.118.
• ICC-ID is 19 or 20 digits long having the following fields:
• 1. Use of Sim, e.g 89 for telecommunications
• 2. Country code
• 3. Mobile Network code
• 4. Vendor
• 5. Serial Number
• 6. Check digit calculated using the Luhn algorithm.

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EXAMPLE OF ICC-ID

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89 - 254 - 03 - 1132 - 10528309 - 8

Telecommunication Use Country Code-Kenya Mobile Network Code Vendor Serial Number Checksum

ICC-ID for AirTel SIM Card is shown below:

FEATURES OF USIM

Some of the features of the next generation SIM cards are:

• 1. Support for advanced Applications e.g. address book, calendar

back-up, messaging, teleconferencing, file transfers, banking and access control

• 2. Support for Mobile Near Field Communication (NFC)
• 3. Smart Card Web Server Web apps running right on SIM Cards
• 4. High-capacity with more memory/capacity

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3G UMTS CORE NETWORK

The UMTS core network may be split into two different areas:

• 1. Circuit switched elements: These elements are primarily based on

the GSM network entities and carry data in a circuit switched manner, i.e. a permanent channel for the duration of the call.

• 2. Packet switched elements: These network entities are designed to

carry packet data. This enables much higher network usage as the capacity can be shared and data is carried as packets which are routed according to their destination.

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CIRCUIT SWITCHED ELEMENTS

Mobile switching centre (MSC): This is essentially the same as that within GSM, and it manages the circuit switched calls under way. Gateway MSC (GMSC): This is effectively the interface to the external networks.

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PACKET SWITCHED ELEMENTS

SERVING GPRS SUPPORT NODE (SGSN) The SGSN provides the following functions within the UMTS network architecture. 1. Mobility management 2. Session management 3. Interaction with other areas of the network 4. Billing GATEWAY GPRS SUPPORT NODE (GGSN) The Gateway Support Node performs the following functions: 1. Handles inter-working between the UMTS packet switched network and external packet switched networks. 2. When the GGSN receives data addressed to a specific user, it checks if the user is active and then forwards the data to the SGSN serving the particular user.

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SHARED ELEMENTS

• 1. Home location register (HLR):

A database which contains all the administrative information about each subscriber along with their last known location. Using HLR, the UMTS network is able to route calls to the relevant RNC and Node B.

• 2. Equipment identity register

(EIR): The EIR is the entity that decides whether a given UE equipment may be allowed onto the network.

• 3. Authentication centre (AuC) :

The AuC is a protected database that contains the secret key also contained in the user's USIM card. AUC generates the triplets authentication and encryption triplets.

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UMTS TERRESTRIAL RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (UTRAN)

Physical layer within UMTS is totally different to that employed by GSM. 1. It employs a spread spectrum transmission in the form of CDMA rather than the TDMA transmissions used for GSM. 2. It uses different frequencies to those allocated for GSM- 2100 MHz in Kenya. 3. The network, or UMTS Radio Access Network is known as the UTRAN. 4. Sometimes the UTRAN may also be known as the Radio Network Subsystem, or RNS.

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UMTS RADIO ACCESS NETWORK(1)

The UMTS Radio Access Network, UTRAN, or Radio Network Subsystem, RNS comprises two main components, i.e Radio Network Controller and Node B.

• 1. Radio Network Controller, RNC: This element of the UTRAN / radio

network subsystem controls the Node Bs that are connected to it, i.e. the radio resources in its domain. Functions: a) The RNC undertakes the radio resource management b) Mobility management functions. c) Data encryption / decryption is performed to protect the user data from eavesdropping.

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UMTS RADIO ACCESS NETWORK(2)

• 2. Node B: Node B is the term used within UMTS to denote the base

station transceiver.

• 3. Node B: contains the transmitter and receiver to communicate with

the UEs within the cell. It participates with the RNC in the resource management. Node B is the 3GPP term for base station, and often the terms are used interchangeably

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RADIO NETWORK SUBSYSTEM

• 1. Radio Network Subsystem (RNS): Also known as the UMTS Radio

Access Network (UTRAN), provides and manages the air interface for the overall network.

• 2. RNS is the equivalent of the previous Base Station Subsystem or BSS

in GSM.

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IU INTERFACE

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The Iu interface is specified at the boundary between the Core Network and UTRAN.

CS Domain Circuit-Switched domain. Mainly used for voice. PS Domain Packet-Switched domain. Mainly used for data/video services BC Domain Broadcast domain used for broadcast services. Further Reading 3GGP Iu Interface Specification

UMTS ARCHITECTURE - REVISITED

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Baseband Processing RF Circuitry CS Domain Circuit Switched PS Domain Packet switched

GSM SPEECH PROCESSING

ETI 2511 Monday, 15 May 2017

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BASIC SPEECH PROCESSING FUNDAMENTALS (1)

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Basic GSM Band 890 + n*0.2 Basic GSM Band 890 + n*0.2 +45

• 1. A GSM frame is

4.61msec long.

• 2. Each time slot is

therefore 4.61/8 = 577µsec

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GSM SPEECH PROCESSING FUNDAMENTALS -REVISITED

SPEECH PROCESSING IN GSM

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Adaptive Filter Data Burst at 12 Kbps Removes redundant Parts in each data stream sample

QPSK MODULATION USED IN GSM

1. Each byte of data is split into four pairs of bits.

• 2. Each pair of bits is assigned a

particular phase for I(t) and Q(t).

• 3. The modulated signal is the sum
• f the two sinusoidal waves, with

a phase shift depending on the logic symbol.

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WHY COMPRESSION IS NECESSARY IN GSM CODEC?

• 1. If speech were digitised in a linear fashion it would require

a high data rate that would occupy a very wide bandwidth.

• 2. It is necessary to compress the data to send it through the

available channel.

• 3. Speech is captured at a high enough sample rate and

resolution to allow clear reproduction of the original sound. 4. It must then be compressed in such a way as to maintain the fidelity of the audio over a limited bit rate, error-prone wireless transmission channel.

• 5. At the receiver, the compressed data is expanded to

regenerate the audio.

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GSM CODEC RATES

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Codec name Bit rate (kbps)

• 1. Full rate

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• 2. Enhanced Full Rate (EFR)

12.2

• 3. Half rate

5.6

• 4. Adaptive Multirate (AMR )

12.2 - 4.75

• 5. Adaptive Multirate

Wideband (AMR-WB) – baseband is enhanced to the range 50 – 7,000 Hz. 23.85 - 6.60

SALIENT FEATURES OF ADAPTIVE MULTIRATE (AMR)

• 1. AMR uses 20ms frames.
• 2. Discontinuous transmission is employed so that when there is no

speech activity the transmission is cut.

• 3. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is used to indicate when there is
• nly background noise and no speech.
• 4. Comfort Noise Generator (CNG) is added at the receiver to provide

some background noise, even when no speech data is being

• transmitted. This provides the feedback for the user that the

connection is still present.

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WHAT IS TRANSMITTED FOR VOICE IN GSM?

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Best coefficients are selected get the best approximation of the 20mS sample Low order coefficients are coded as 6-bit while Higher order are coded as 3-bit 20ms of 104 Kbps stream = 2080 bits