The goal of Mastering Advance GSM training is to present details and up-to-date information on the GSM standard. The participants will become familiar with the features of the GSM standard and why and how it evolved. The participants will learn about practical performance and deployment issues specific to the GSM standard.The goal of Mastering Advance GSM training is to present details and up-to-date information on the GSM standard. The participants will become familiar with the features of the GSM standard and why and how it evolved. The participants will learn about practical performance and deployment issues specific to the GSM standard.

This course will enable participants to:

• Develop their understanding of what GSM is and what it can do, including the motivation for its development, its early history, and its present capabilities.
• Help the engineering team in planning, optimization and performance management for the wireless data network. Have a better know how of the parameters involved and KPI metrics;
• Develop their appreciation of how GSM and related technologies can be used to deliver value to customers, including an exploration of what is meant by "quality of service" and a discussion of the network technology, management systems and business processes required to deliver customer value;
• Explore the linkages between technological capabilities of GSM and the marketing and pricing decisions that are an essential part of delivering quality to customers;

The participants will gain a detailed end-to-end knowledge of the GSM technology, its benefits and potential pitfalls.

The participants should have attended the Basic GSM Course.

All technical staff of GSM Operators.

• frequency hopping
• logical channels
• permitted channel combinations
• channel mapping
• timeslot structure

• radio connection establishment,
• location updating,
• IMSI detach,
• MO - Mobile Originating
• MT - Mobile Terminating call,

• Air interface

• CM – Connection Management
• MM – Mobility Management
• RR – Radio Resource Management

• frame structure
• acknowledge/unacknowledged mode
• retransmissions
• segmentation

• channel coding
• burst formatting
• modulation