FROM GSM TO LTE
AN INTRODUCTION TO MOBILE
NETWORKS AND MOBILE
BROADBAND

Martin Sauter
WirelessMoves, Germany
A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publication

List of Tables
1.1STM transmission speeds and number of DS0s 5
1.2Mobile country codes 15
1.3Basic services of a GSM network 16
1.4Supplementary services of a GSM network 17
1.5GSM frequency bands 22
1.6GSM power levels and corresponding power output 33
1.7SIM card properties 54
1.8Examples for APDU commands 57
1.9Some fields of the response APDU for a SELECT command 57
2.1Selected GPRS multislot classes from 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project)
TS 45.002 Annex B1 67
2.2GPRS coding schemes 69
2.3EDGE modulation and coding schemes (MCS) 71
2.4Resegmentation of EDGE blocks using a different MCS 72
2.5Sample MMS settings 107
3.1Spreading factors and data rates 132
3.2Spreading and scrambling in uplink and downlink directions 133
3.3AMR codecs and bit rates 154
3.4RNC and SGSN states 158
3.5Core network and radio network states 160
3.6A selection of HSDPA mobile device categories 181
3.7Spreading code sets and maximum resulting speed of different E-DCH categories 192
4.1LTE UE categories 208
4.2Extract of LTE frequency bands sorted by region 209
4.3Defined bandwidths for LTE 218
4.4System information blocks and content overview 225
4.5LTE transmission modes 230
4.6Downlink control channel message types (DCI formats) 237
5.1802.16 standards documents 280
5.2802.16 modulation schemes 282
5.3Parameters of a MAC header 289
5.4Selection of service flow attributes 292
6.1Different PHY standards 322
6.2Additional 802.11 standard documents that describe optional functionality 323
6.3802.11g datarates 340
6.4Comparison of PHY carrier parameters of 802.11g vs. 11n 341
6.5Feature combinations and resulting transmission speeds 344
7.1Bluetooth versions 366
7.2ACL packet types 372
7.3SCO packet types 373
7.4ACL packet types 375
7.5Selection of HCI commands 381
7.6Bluetooth profiles for different applications 393