Course Modules

1. Structure of GSM Air interface

1.1 FDMA/TDMA scheme
1.2 Frame structure
1.3 Synchronization between uplink and downlink

2. Physical and logical channels

2.1 Logical channels
2.1.1 Broadcast channels
2.1.2 Common control channels
2.1.3 Traffic channels
2.1.4 Dedicated channels
2.2 Physical channels
2.3 Mapping of logical channels into physical channels
2.4 Frame structure of the logical control channels
2.5 Use of common control channel

3. Fundamentals of Wireless channels and error control

3.1 Propagation phenomena
3.2 Path loss
3.3 Multipath fading
3.4 Noise and interference
3.5 Channel errors
3.6 Error control
3.7 Timing advance

4. GSM PHYSICAL LAYER

4.1 Transmission and reception
4.2 Channel coding and interleaving
4.3 Modulation
4.4 Demodulation
4.5 Air interface (UM)
4.6 Deinterleaving
4.7 Channel decoding