- Motivation, Background, and GPRS Services
- General perceptions of GPRS: True and false!
- Review of existing GSM network architecture and data services: Or Motivation for GPRS
- GPRS traffic models
- GPRS-offered data services
- GPRS 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
- GPRS Air Interface Protocol Structures
- Mobility management and routing areas vis-à-vis location areas
- Mobile station states: Idle, Ready, Standby and associated transition and triggering mechanisms and parameters
- GPRS vis-à-vis GSM RF layer
- GPRS Medium Access Control (MAC) Sublayer
- GPRS Radio Link Control (RLC) Sublayer
- GPRS Logical Link Control (LLC) Layer
- GPRS Structures on the TDMA Air Interface
- New set of logical channels defined by GPRS
- The GPRS-Introduced 52-frame multiframe
- Mapping of GPRS logical channels to the physical channel(s)
- MAC operation and resource allocation schemes in GPRS
- RLC block structures and associated issues
- Retransmission strategies used in GPRS and protocol stalling issues
- Course Recap and Conclusion
- Strengths and weaknesses of GPRS
- Motivation for Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), or EDGE
