Università Roma Tre

Course Contents
- The ICT System
- The ICT Market Scenario
- Hints from Economics
- Network Fundamentals
- The Phone Network and the Signaling System
- Network Management Models and Fundamentals
- Network Management Protocols
- Services Management

Slides
Network Management Fundamentals, CISCO, 2006

General characteristics of mobile networks. Current trends in the TLC market. Basic and Added Value services. General architecture of digital mobile networks: GSM and UMTS. Functional blocks and protocols for circuit switched and packet switched (GPRS) services. GSM: Physivcal layer characteristics, Radio frame structure, physical transportation and logical channels. Modulation, demodulation, conding and decoding techniques and formats (basic and enhanced). GSM: channel coding, interleaving and frequency hopping, MAC and RLC sublayers. Mobility management and power control. Call session control functions: inbound and outbound call control procedures, supplementary services, short message and multimedia message services. Functional blocks and protocols for packet switched services (GPRS) in GSM.
GPRS: Mobility management, quality of service. Frame structure and virtual channel allocation in GSM/GPRS. Modulation, demodulation, conding and decoding techniques and formats (basic and enhanced) in GSM/GPRS.
Queuing theory basics. Erlang Formulas. Cluster selection and cell planning in low and high traffic density areas for circuit switched and packet switched (GPRS) services. UMTS reference architectures (from release 99 to LTE and aLTE). Functional blocks and related protocols. Physical, logical, and transport layers. Modulation, demodulation, conding and decoding techniques and formats (release 99, HSPA and LTE). Performance assessment. Mobility management and power control in UMTS. Radio resources (RR) management. Evolutionary trend and characteristics of UMTS-LTE.
IP Multimedia System: General characteristics and architecture. Call Session Control in IPMS: SIP protocol. IP Multimedia System security: Diameter protocol.

A. Neri. "Appunti dalle lezioni di Sistemi radiomobili". Freely available at http://elearning.dia.uniroma3.it/moodle/.

Additional books freely available in the e-book collection of ROMA TRE Biblioteca di Area Scientifico-tecnologica (http://host.uniroma3.it/biblioteche/page.php?page=collezion0)

Mobile Radio Networks
Published Online: 22 Nov 2001
Author(s): Bernhard H. Walke
Print ISBN: 9780471975953 Online ISBN: 9780470841938
DOI: 10.1002/0470841931
Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Radio Network Planning and Optimisation for UMTS (Second Edition)
Published Online: 20 Feb 2007
Editor(s): Jaana Laiho, Achim Wacker, Tomá Novosad
Print ISBN: 9780470015759 Online ISBN: 9780470031407
DOI: 10.1002/9780470031407
Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
WiMAX
Published Online: 22 Jan 2007
Author(s): Loutfi Nuaymi
Print ISBN: 9780470028087 Online ISBN: 9780470319055
DOI: 10.1002/9780470319055
Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd