GSM and UMTS : the creation of global mobile communication / edited by Friedhelm Hillebrand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillebrand, Friedhelm.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global system for mobile communications.

Physical Description:

viii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley, [2002]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM ... "provides nearly 500 reference documents including reports of all standardisation Plenary meetings, strategy documents, key decisions, the GSM Memorandum of Understanding and the report of the UMTS Task Force." -- p. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Chapter 1 GSM's Achievements / Friedhelm Hillebrand 1

Section 2 GSM and UMTS Milestones 5

Section 3 GSM Success Measured by Numbers 7

Chapter 2 The Agreement on the Concepts and the Basic Parameters of the GSM Standard (Mid-1982 to Mid-1987) 11

Section 1 The Market Fragmentation in Europe and the CEPT Initiatives in 1982 / Thomas Haug 11

Section 2 The GSM Standardisation Work 1982-1987 / Thomas Haug 15

Section 3 The Franco-German, Tripartite and Quadripartite Co-operation from 1984 to 1987 / Philippe Dupuis 23

Section 4 The GSM Memorandum of Understanding the Engine that Pushed GSM to the Market / Stephen Temple 36

Section 5 The Role of the European Commission / Philippe Dupuis 52

Chapter 3 The Detailed Specification Work Leading to the GSM Phase 1 Standard used for the Opening of Service (1987-1991) / Thomas Haug 57

Chapter 4 Consolidating GSM Phase 1 and Evolving the Services and System Features to GSM Phase 2 in ETSI SMG (1992-1995) / Philippe Dupuis 61

Chapter 5 Evolving the Services and System Features to Generation 2.5 by the GSM Phase 2+ Program (1993-2000) 73

Section 1 The GSM Phase 2+ Work in ETSI SMG from 1993 to 1996 / Philippe Dupuis 73

Section 2 The GSM Work in ETSI SMG from May 1996 to July 2000 / Friedhelm Hillebrand 80

Section 3 GSM Railway / Ansgar Bergmann 99

Chapter 6 GSM Goes to North America / Don Zelmer 105

Chapter 7 The UMTS Related Work of the European Commission, UMTS Taskforce, UMTS Forum and GSM Association 115

Section 1 The European Research / Joao Schwarz da Silva 115

Section 2 The European Regulation / Ruprecht Niepold 128

Section 3 The UMTS Taskforce / Bosco Eduardo Fernandes 147

Section 4 The UMTS Forum / Thomas Beijer 156

Section 5 Spectrum Aspects / Josef Huber 165

Chapter 8 The UMTS Standardisation Work in ETSI 179

Section 1 The Initial Work in ETSI SMG (up to Spring 1996) / Philippe Dupuis 179

Section 2 The Creation of the UMTS Foundations in ETSI from April 1996 to February 1999 / Friedhelm Hillebrand 184

Chapter 9 The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 221

Section 1 The Creation of 3GPP / Karl Heinz Rosenbrock 221

Section 2 UMTS in 3GPP (December 1998 to May 2001) / Niels Peter Skov Andersen 247

Chapter 10 Services and Services' Capabilities 263

Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications for Tendering of Infrastructure (1982 to March 1988) / Friedhelm Hillebrand 263

Section 2 The Years from Mid-1988 to early 2001 / Alan Cox 286

Chapter 11 System Architecture Evolution / Michel Mouly 301

Chapter 12 Radio Aspects 309

Section 1 The Early Years from 1985 to 1995 / Didier Verhulst 309

Section 2 The Development from 1995 to 2000 / Michael Farber 319

Chapter 13 The Subscriber Identity Module: Past, Present and Future / Klaus Vedder 341

Chapter 14 Voice Codecs / Kari Jarvinen 371

Chapter 15 Security Aspects / Mike Walker, Timothy Wright 385

Chapter 16 Short Message and Data Services 407

Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications in March 1988 for Tendering / Friedhelm Hillebrand 407

Section 2 The Development from Mid-1988 to 2000 / Kevin Holley 417

Section 3 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) / Wolfgang Roth, Jurgen Baumann 425

Chapter 17 Mobile Stations Type Approval / Remi Thomas, David Barnes 431

Chapter 18 Operation and Maintenance / Gisela Hertel 445

Chapter 19 Professional Technical Support and its Evolution 451

Section 1 The PN in the CEPT Environment / Bernard Mallinder 451

Section 2 PT12 and PT SMG in the ETSI Environment / Ansgar Bergmann 453

Section 3 MCC in the 3GPP and ETSI Environment / Adrian Scrase 457

Chapter 20 Working Methods and their Evolution / Ansgar Bergmann 463

Chapter 21 The Contributions of the GSM Association 481

Section 1 Co-operation of the Operators from the Agreement of the GSM MoU to the Opening of Service in 1991/1992 / Renzo Failli 481

Section 2 God Send Mobiles, the Experiences of an Operator Pioneer / George Schmitt 490

Section 3 The Evolution from the Informal GSM MoU Group to the GSM Association from 1992 to 1998 / Arne Foxman 495

Section 4 The Evolution of the GSM Association from 1998 to 2000 / Petter Bliksrud 506

Section 5 The Work on Services Aspects / Armin Toepfer 511

Section 6 The Work on Data Interchange for International Roaming / Michael Giessler 516

Section 7 The Third Generation Interest Group / Neil Lilly 525

Chapter 22 GSM and UMTS Acceptance in the World 531

Section 1 Global Acceptance of GSM / Friedhelm Hillebrand 531

Section 2 Global Acceptance of UMTS / Bernd Eylert 542

Chapter 23 GSM Success Factors / Friedhelm Hillebrand 547

Annex 1 Plenary Meetings of GSM, SMG, TSG SA, GSM MoU, GSMA 549

Annex 2 Organisation Evolution of the Technical Groups 555

Annex 3 Lists of Chairpersons 568.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0470843225

OCLC:

47643972