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General Packet Radio Service
Justin Champion
Room C208 - Tel: 3273www.staffs.ac.uk/personal/engineering_and_technology/jjc1
General Packet Radio Service
Value Added ServicesOperators have seen the use of data as a new
source of revenueThe potential for data use is
To sell the users the data applications To charge them for data needed to use them To charge other developers to allow the applications
on to the network
General Packet Radio Service 3G data use
Although the UK operators have bought licensees to use 3G the infrastructure is not ready
The operators paid a lot for the radio spectrum licenses This left little available for infrastructure upgrades Also devices were not ready to be used with 2 Mbps
LicenseLicense CompanyCompany PaidPaid (Pounds) (Pounds)
A TIW (3) 4,384,700,000
B Vodafone 5,964,000,000
C MM02 4,030,100,000
D One2One (T-Mobile) 4,003,600,000
E Orange 4,095,000,000
General Packet Radio Service
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) This standard was agreed by ETSI March 1998 It is designed to allow data communication to take
place within the existing GSM infrastructure. A few additional servers are added to the network to
allow this and these will be discussed later This is described as being a 2.5G technology To use GPRS you will need a GPRS enabled device
Existing GSM devices will not be able to make use of the additional features
General Packet Radio Service General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Features Higher connections speeds
Theoretical Maximum of 171 Kbps Interference Distance from transmitter All GSM channels would have to be dedicated to GPRS
communications This speed also does not take into account any error-correction Does not consider a device uploading data
Actually speeds with conditions taken into account is theoretically a maximum of 53.6 Kbps
Studies have show the average is usually about 30 – 40 Kbps Always on Data communications
No delay in setting up a data communication
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GPRS Devices In the standard there are three types of GPRS devices
A Capable of Simultaneous data transfer and voice communications
B Automatic switching between voice and data calls. This will need to
be configured on the device itself C
Switching between data and voice operated by the device user manually.
All of these standards are backwards compatible with the GSM networks for voice communications
General Packet Radio Service
GPRS Relies on the fact that Internet communications are
bursty in nature A large amount of data will be received and the user will process
it before requesting more i.e. a web page A single voice circuit will from GSM will be broken into smaller
parts and the GPRS data is sent on this circuit. All data is sent in packets
Data must be broken into small packets These packets are re-assembled at the destination These packets add an overhead in the form of the packet header
Lower resource requirements than circuit switched communications
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Packet/Circuit Transfer Consider a packet as being an letter in the post
Packets can be sent and only when the packet is being looked at to get the address or moved will resources be allocated
Issues Packet headers reduces the amount of actual data sent Packets are for the most part currently not good with real-time
data
Consider a circuit as being a telephone call A circuit is created between you and the receiver All communications are sent through this circuit
Resources have to be allocated even if you are not saying anything As paths between parties are already worked out and agreed real-
time communications can take place better
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GPRS Channel Breakdown
Channel Use of the Channel
0 Voice
1 AAAABBABBAAAAFA
2 Voice
3 AAABAABAAAFAAAA
4 AAAFAFAFFFAFFFFB
5 BBBBABABAFFFFFFF
6 Voice
7 FFAFFAFFABABBBBB
Data UsersA = User 1B = User 2F = User 3
In this instance we have 3 voice calls and 5 users receiving data
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GPRS Channel Breakdown Continued A channel which is being used for GPRS data
Can only be shared between other GPRS users It can not be allocated in that time slot for GSM voice calls
Even if part of the time slot is available The use of GPRS will reduce the amount of voice calls that can
be made on that cell With enough data calls a cell will become useless for voice
callers, which require exclusive access to the time slots
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GPRS Multi slot classesClass Downlink Uplink Maximum Active
1 1 1 2
2 2 1 3
3 2 2 3
4 3 1 4
5 2 2 4
6 3 2 4
7 3 3 4
8 4 1 5
9 3 2 5
10 4 2 5
11 4 3 5
12 4 4 5
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GPRS coding schemes Depending on environment one of the following coding
schemes are used
Scheme Max Throughput per 1 Time Slot Error Checking
CS-1 8 Kbps Good
CS-2 12 Kbps Good
CS-3 14.4 Kbps Moderate
CS-4 20 Kbps Poor
Schemes CS-1 and CS-2 are usually used
General Packet Radio Service GPRS network layers
Sub Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (SNDCP) Provides services to the higher layers
Compression Connectionless, connection orientated services Multiplexing Segmentation
BSS GPRS Application Protocol (BSSGP) Allows
Maps a SGSN to a BSS Control information between a BSS and a SGSN
BSS Refers to a base station and an associated Base station controller
General Packet Radio Service GPRS Infrastructure
As discussed earlier GPRS build upon the GSM networks. Network elements need changing
Base stations Requires a software upgrade
Base station controller Requires a software upgrade
New parts need adding Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
Has VLR functionality Authorise attached users
Details recorded of data packets to be charged for Session Management Router for packets which may be lost during a handover during a data
call
General Packet Radio Service GPRS Infrastructure continued
Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) Is the connection into the GPRS network It carries out all translations that area required Firewall for the network Collates data regarding the amount of packets received
Potentially in the future this will allow for competing GGSN’s in a network! Free market choosing either the cheapest or most reliable GGSN!
There are 3 types of GGSN A – Near Future/Now
The GGSN becomes part of its own ISP and provides Internet services. The devices will be assigned IP address using DHCP.
B – Now The SSGN always selects the same GGSN to do the Internet work. The
configuration will be done dynamically and on a temporary basis C – Future
This allows a private company to have its own GGSN, with an encryption key so that only authorised devices can gain access. i.e. a VPN into a network, constant email access etc
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Packet Control Unit (PCU) Logically part of the Base station controller Responsible for the radio interface of GPRS
GPRS and SMS SMS messages are sent in GPRS as a part of the
normal data channels In GSM they are usually sent via the control channels
Why This changes has taken place ready for the Multimedia
Messaging service Due to the size of the messages
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Current Supported Protocols IP
Internet Protocol Connectionless protocol, which delivers based on best effort Widely used in most networks
X.25 Connection orientated communications Reliability built in with error checking the header Uses Virtual circuits
Intended for terminal services Still used but is being replaced by other technologies
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General Packet Radio Service Problems Initial problems existed in respect to the GPRS device
When launched there was only a few compatible devices These had poor features and terrible battery life There was nothing to use the increased data rate Limited advertising of the features of GPRS
Potentially this was an issue around how much the advertising of the WAP services cost operators
This is now changing O2 have seen a 25% growth in usage of GPRS data from Jan to
June 2003(http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,36230, 2003)
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IP address packet routing The intention is to give each device a unique IP address
This reduces the amount of address translation which is required One address being used all the way across the network
Address is issued by the GGSN Based upon the DHCP protocol on a temporary basis Issue that needs considering is what happens when you move GGSN?
Packets which are sent to you at the old address Another device may receive your data
Roaming This is a particular issue when using the device and moving around A single address is not always attached to a device If communications are lost then you get a new IP address issued
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IP Address Why does it change ?
IP packet routing is based around subnets The subnet directs the packet to roughly where device is The network then directs to the actual machine based on the subnet IP addresses are made up of two parts
Network Address (the subnet) Host Address
The subnet part will get the packet to the correct location Host address will get to the actual device
General Packet Radio Service
IP Address Consider what will happen with a large network
If a single IP address was retained by a device how do you route data when it moves from the home location?
i.e. I visit London for the weekend with my device Consider
What happens when I visit Germany with my device Mobile IP is a possible solution
With your packet being forwarded from your original address to your new one
This is an additional load on the infrastructure IPv6
Possible future use and will be discussed in a later lecture
General Packet Radio Service
IP Address As you connect and disconnect you will be given a new
IP Address Using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Consider if you disconnect because an handover does not work
What happens to your packets, does another device get them ? Addresses Issues
Two options Private - only available within the network
Uses Network address translator (NAT) to get data from the Internet
Public – Available from outside of the network Effectively the node is a part of the Internet All of the PC security issues are still valid
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Public IP considerations This does allow faster access to the Internet IP Security (IPSEC) can be used Consider though how many devices would need these
addresses 1 Billion worldwide devices are predicted by 2005
(www.simplewire.com/support/faq/issue/369160855.html, 2004) 4 Billion potential IP address
Mobile devices could take a very large chunk of the address space In fact too much this would not leave enough for other uses
General Packet Radio Service Key Points of lecture
GPRS increases the data rate of GSM 20-40 Kbps
Uses current GSM infrastructure, with small changes Additional servers
How GPRS operates Breaking the time frame into parts
Issue of IP packets in a network Changing IP Addresses Consequences if you don’t