5-day instructor-led

Provides information on GPRS performance degradation issues, testing and measurement techniques. It also describes on GPRS network planning, air interface, GPRS components, coding schemes, IP Packet flows, data speed issues and finally the GPRS optimization issues.

Good knowledge on GPRS / EDGE, Understanding of Drive test, call trace are pre requisite for this course.

Those who require in-depth knowledge of GPRS network planning, optimization and troubleshooting.

Day 1

1. Introduction to GSM network
2. Introduction to GSM NSS core network- layers, protocols
3. Introduction to GSM BSS Radio network- layers protocols
4. Mobility management, Radio resource management
5. The cellular idea. Planning and optimization

Day 2

1. Introduction to GPRS network
2. GPRS air interface design
3. GPRS network architecture- Components and procedures (GGSN-SGSN)
4. GPRS protocol stack
5. GPRS interfaces (Gb, Gs and Gp Interfaces)

Day 3

1. Introduction to IP
2. TCP/IP for GPRS networks - IP tunneling
3. IP addressing in GPRS, DHCP, GPRS configuration for IP. IP packet flows.
4. Session management
5. PDP context activation

Day 4

1. GPRS Mobility management
2. GPRS attach in details
3. PDP context activation in details
4. Location management
5. GGSN routing to external network

Day 5

1. GPRS performance
2. GPRS coding schemes
3. GPRS data speed issues
4. GPRS optimization issues