COURSE # TOO-335
TDMA SYSTEMS OPERATION AND TECHNOLOGY
From the introduction, to the IS-136 (TDMA) systems operation - a clear standards-based presentation emphasizing the signaling, protocol and system issues.
Now that so many analog cellular systems have been replaced by second-generation digital systems, the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) first generation cellular system lives on as one of the operating modes of the second-generation, digital IS-136 cellular standard. A steady evolution of elaborate digital extensions to AMPS has given us today's second generation TDMA (TIA/EIA-136 also called IS-136 and ANSI-136) protocol with all the functionality of its CDMA and GSM relatives, and its own set of unique features. Today, the TDMA family of standards provides reliable mobile telephony and data services throughout the Western Hemisphere and in dozens of other countries. Ambitious third generation (3G) initiatives and recent convergence with GSM, means that ANSI-136 will likely become one of the world's most important digital cellular systems. It remains the technology of choice for network operators who originally deployed AMPS systems. It fully protects the AMPS investments as it offers subscribers unique digital features and global roaming.
The course is an intensive, system-oriented overview of TDMA, including its AMPS mode, using the radio interface signaling protocols to illustrate the system's characteristics and operation. Concentrating on the signaling aspects to make system operation intuitive serves the needs of those who seek a strong standards orientation for the course. This course is an intensive overview of the whole IS-136 family of standards, in all its deployments. Extensive material is included on the
unique features of the protocol: hierarchical cells, IRDBs, and AMPS interoperability. During the course a special effort is made to bring order to the library of standards as it explains the system operation in evolutionary terms, from AMPS, to the quasi-digital TDMA (IS-54) systems that appeared in the early 1990s, to the present-day fully digital form converging with GSM. The course concludes with a treatment of TDMA's third generation initiatives: GPRS and GAIT.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of the:
- Organization of the IS-136 family of standards.
- Place of TDMA technologies and standards in mobile radio.
- Evolution of AMPS to TIA/EIA-136 via IS-54 dual-mode.
- Signaling and systems aspects of IS-136.
- Unique aspects of the system such as private systems and intelligent roaming.
- TDMA's convergence with GSM.
- Up-to-date information resources and references on TDMA.
Who should attend:
This course presents an intensive protocol and signaling oriented overview of ANSI-136 applicable to a wide range of wireless interests. The recent convergence initiatives with GSM make it a valuable course for GSM practitioners and excellent preparation for GPRS/EDGE courses. It concentrates on those aspects of TIA/EIA-136 that, unless thoroughly
understood, could impair efficient work anywhere in the TDMA community. Order is brought to the complexity of the standards through a careful treatment of the evolutionary aspects unique to ANSI-136. The course has been developed for project managers, system engineers, test engineers, performance engineers, and all others responsible for product
development, system operation and interoperability issues. Although the course has no prerequisites and is specifically designed for a wide range of interests, it assumes some general familiarity with telecommunications networks and technologies, cellular radio systems, and digital radio technologies. Those new to the industry and/or unfamiliar with telecommunications networks and wireless systems are advised to first attend OEI Course #TOO-330, "A Crash Course in Cellular Communications".
Course Outline:
- The Origins, AMPS (ANSI-335A)
- History
- Frequency bands
- Network organization
- ACC - Analog Control Channels: FOCC and RECC
- AVC - Analog Voice channels: FVC and RVC
- Radio techniques
- Selected signaling parameters and details
- Dual-Mode TIA/EIA-627
- Dual-mode access
- Physical layer
- Logical channels
- Call processing states
- Testing considerations
- TIA/EIA-136
- System features
- Physical layer
- Data link and network layers
- System architecture and operation
- Mobile station operation
- Hierarchical cell structures and reselection
- Operating modes and services
- TIA/EIA-136 Signaling and System Operation
- DCCH layer 2 and 3 protocols and message sets
- DTC message set
- Mobile station identities, states, and procedures
- Reselection and hierarchcal cell structures
- Voice services, DTX, and the ACELP
- Teleservices
- Nonpublic systems
- Intelligent roaming
- Network parameters
- Third Generation
- GPRS
- GAIT
Text: Understanding Digital PCS - The TDMA Standard, by Cameron Kelly Coursey (Artech House).
About the Instructor
Malcolm Oliphant is with Tektronix, where he is the Strategic Marketing
Manager for the Mobile Business Unit. He has more than 30 years of experience with mobile radio systems, particularly with first and second generation cellular and PMR (Private Mobile Radio). Malcolm was the Strategic Marketing Manager for IFR until early 2000 and spent most of the 1990s with Schlumberger involved in early GSM deployments. He is currently performing risk analysis in third and fourth generation cellular and other converged communications technologies and networks for Tektronix, which is assuming leadership roles in converged network testing and optimization. He has co-authored two popular books on GSM and PCS. Mr. Oliphant received his B.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Details:
Course: TOO-335 Duration: 3 Days FEE: $1,399 CEUs: 2.16
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding this course
to Anita Hellstrom, Program Coordinator, by e-mail, FAX: (636)
273-4955 or TELEPHONE: (636) 273-9608.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the
Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified June 23, 2004.
