Contents of 'The GSM System for Mobile communications'

It covers all aspects of the standard, and is indeed aimed at bridging the gap between a basic knowledge of telecommunications and the thousands of pages of the GSM technical specifications.

It contains the following chapters :

• Foreword by Thomas Haug, former Chairman ETSI/SMG
• Setting the Scene
  • A little bit of history
  • Cellular systems
  • GSM services and functions
• Architecture
  • Subsystems
  • Functional planes
  • Interfaces and protocols : an overview
• Transmission
  • An end-to-end view of transmission
  • Speech transmission inside GSM
  • Data transmission inside GSM
• The radio interface
  • The channels
  • The multiple access scheme
  • From source data to radio waves
• Signalling transfer
  • Link protocols
  • Relaying protocols
• Radio Resource management
  • Managing radio channels
  • Architecture and protocols
  • Procedures
• Mobility and Security management
  • Location management
  • Security management
• Communication Management
  • Call control
  • Supplementary services management
  • Short messages
• Network Management
  • Subscriber management
  • Maintenance
  • Mobile Station management
  • System engineering and operation
  • Architecture and protocols
• List of GSM Specifications
• Bibliography
• Indexes