TETRA Overview
- TETRA Overview: Introduction
- What Is TETRA?
- Trunked Mobile Communications: Concepts and Benefits
- ETSI and the TETRA Standards: Identifying the key Specification Documents
- TETRA features
- Bearer Services, Teleservices, Supplementary Services
- Voice and Data Services
- DMO: Direct Mode Operation
- TMO: Trunked Mode Operation
- SDS: Short Data Service and How It Differs from SMS
- Security
- TETRA Applications
- TETRA Equipment, Addressing and Numbering
- Radio Terminals: Handheld and Vehicle-mounted
- Terminal Capabilities
- TETRA Numbering and Addressing
- Identifiers and How They Are Used: TEI, MNI, ITSI, ISSI, GTSI, ATSI
- Terminal MMI: How the Menu System and MMI Are Used to Select Features/Functions
- TETRA Base Stations: Typical Capabilities
- TETRA Switching and Management Infrastructure: Typical Capabilities
- TETRA Architecture, Interfaces, and Call Handling Procedures
- Distribution of TETRA Network Functionality
- Functionality of BS, LSC, MSC, LS, MT, TE
- TETRA Standardized Interfaces
- Trunked Mode Air Interface
- Inter-System Interface
- Peripheral Equipment Interface
- Line Station Interface
- Network Management Interface
- Direct Mode Air Interface
- Gateway Equipment
- TETRA Call Handling Procedures (how calls make use of the TETRA Infrastructure)
- MS Operational Modes
- Mobility Management
- Attachment to Network
- Cell Selection and Reselection
- Group Call Handling
- Individual Call Handling
- Cell Selection/Reselection in Traffic Mode
- Security, Authentication, and Encryption
- Circuit Mode Data Operation
- Packet Mode Data Operation
- Direct Mode Call Handling
- Repeater and Gateway Operation
- TETRA Air Interface
- Frequency Spectrum Allocations and Channel Assignments
- Structure of the Physical and Logical Channels
- How FDMA and TDMA Are Used
- Functions of Physical Layer
- Functions of the Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer
- Functions of the Logical Link Control (LLC) Layer
- TDMA Frame, and Multi-frame Structure
- TETRA Physical Layer
- Frequency Allocation
- Carrier Frequencies and Radio Channel Numbers
- TETRA Modulation Scheme (π/4DQPSK)
- Frame, Slot, and Burst Structures
- Radio Resource Functions
- Synchronization
- Frequency Reference
- Transmission Delays
- Scrambling
- Power Control
- TETRA Data Link Layer
- LLC and MAC Sublayers
- Coding and Interleaving (how and why it is used)
- FEC and Error Correction (how and why it is used)
- Channel Coding for Data and Signaling
- Stealing (how and why it is used)
- The Random Access Procedure
- Mapping of Logical Interfaces onto Physical Layer
- System Modes: Normal, Extended, Minimum, Discontinuous
- Mobile Station Modes: Idle, Signaling and Packet Data, Traffic, Economy
- TETRA Network Layer
- Network Layer Concepts
- TETRA Network Layer and Protocol Stacks
- Mobile to Base Link
- Mobility Management Protocols
- Circuit Mode Operation
- Packet Mode Operation
- TETRA Data Services
- Course Wrap Up: Course Recap, Final Q & A Session, and Evaluations
