GSM Phase 2+ general packet radio service GPRS: Architecture, protocols, and air interface

Christian Bettstettert, Lîans Jorg Vogel, Jörg Eberspächert

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Abstract

The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a new bearer service for GSM that greatly improves and simplifies wireless access to packet data networks, e.g., to the Internet. It applies a packet radio principle to transfer user data packets in an efficient way between mobile stations and external packet data networks. This tutorial gives an introduction to GPRS. The article discusses the system architecture and its basic functionality. It explains the offered services, the session and mobility management, the routing, the GPRS air interface including channel coding, and the GPRS protocol architecture. Finally, an interworking example between GPRS and IP networks is shown.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)117-118
Number of pages2
JournalIEICE Transactions on Communications
VolumeE83-B
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2000

Keywords

  • Data services
  • General packet radio service
  • GPRS
  • GSM
  • Wireless internet access

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