- Motivation, Background, and Limitations of GPRS: Why Did EDGE Become a Necessity
- What are the fundamental limitations of GPRS?
- Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS) vis-à-vis Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
- GPRS/EGPRS Network Architecture
- GPRS mobile station modes and classes
- Packet control unit (PCU) and channel codec unit (CCU)
- Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
- Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN)
- Border Gateway (BG)
- Protocol stacks between the various GPRS network elements and network optimization considerations
- EDGE Air Interface Protocol Structures
- EDGE vis-à-vis GPRS vis-à-vis GSM RF layer
- GMSK of GPRS versus 8-PSK option of EDGE
- EDGE Medium Access Control (MAC) Sublayer
- EDGE Radio Link Control (RLC) Sublayer
- EDGE link adaptation schemes
- Air interface optimization considerations
- EDGE Layer 2 Retransmission Strategies
- Soft decoding
- Incremental redundancy and hybrid ARQ
- Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) and associated RLC block structures and issues
- Optimization considerations vis-à-vis retransmission strategies used in EDGE and MCS families
- Course Recap and Conclusion
