- Introduction
- Trunked mobile communications
- Concepts and benefits of trunking
- Trunk mobile systems compared (iDEN, Tetrapol)
- TETRA technology
- ETSI standardization
- The TETRA MoU
- TETRA equipment and systems
- Features and Services
- TETRA features
- Bearer services, teleservices, supplementary services
- Voice and data services
- Circuit-switched and packet-switched data
- IP packet data
- Short Data Service (SDS)
- Direct Mode Operation (DMO)
- Trunked Mode Operation (TMO)
- Support for Value Added Services (VAS)
- TETRA applications
- Spectral efficiency
- Security aspects
- TETRA Architecture
- BS, LSC, MSC, LS, MT, TE
- TETRA network and standard interfaces
- Standard gateways
- Trunked mode air interfaces
- Inter System Interface (ISI)
- Terminal Equipment Interface (PEI)
- Line Station Interface (LSI)
- Network Management Interface (NMI)
- Direct Mode Air Interface (DMAI)
- Gateways to public networks
- TETRA Direct Mode Operation (DMO)
- Gateway mobile station
- Repeater station
- Addressing, Numbering, Dialing, and TETRA MMI
- Numbering and addressing
- TEI, MNI, TSI, SSI
- GTSI, ATSI
- Leading digit dialing
- Call scenarios
- TETRA IP
- TETRA Air Interface
- Spectrum allocations and channel assignments
- Physical and logical channels
- TDMA structure
- Medium Access Control (MAC) sublayers
- Logical Link Control (LLC) layer
- Frame, slot and burst structures
- Air interface message sets
- Idle mode/dedicated mode procedures
- Power budgets and range estimation
- Cellular capacity issues
- TETRA Voice Coding
- ACELP coding
- Speech vs. transmission frames
- Interfaces to other voice systems
- Voice transcoding
- TETRA and Data Networks
- Circuit mode data operation
- Packet mode operation
- X.25, TETRA data services, SCLNP
- Inter-network protocols
- TETRA IP
- Interworking with IP networks
- TETRA over IP solutions
- TETRA Security and Billing
- Overview of TETRA security requirements
- Authentication, Encryption
- End-to-end encryption
- Billing in TETRA networks
- TETRA Physical Layer
- Frequency allocation
- Carrier frequencies and radio channel numbers
/4DQPSK modulation- Frame, slot and burst structures
- Synchronization
- Frequency reference
- Transmission delays
- Scrambling
- Power control
- Channel quality measurement
- Physical layer performance
- Emissions and interference
- Area coverage techniques
- TETRA Data Link Layer
- LLC and MAC sublayers
- Coding and interleaving
- FEC and error detection
- Channel coding for data and signaling
- Coding parameters
- Stealing
- Random Access (RA)
- Logical channel routing
- 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
- TETRA protocol stacks
- Mobile to base link
- Mobility management protocols
- Circuit mode operation
- Packet mode operation
- X.25, TETRA data services, SCLNP
- Inter-network protocols
- TETRA System Design and Deployment
- Capacity in the air interface/core network
- Deployment issues
- Network management issues
- TETRA and Public Mobile Systems
- GSM services and features
- Comparison of TETRA and GSM
- Convergence of TETRA and GSM
- Evolution of TETRA towards 3G services
- Unifying TETRA and UMTS
- Course Wrap Up
- Future developments in TETRA technology
- Course recap, Q&A session, and evaluations
