General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Jörg Eberspächer, Hans-Jörg Vögel, Christian Bettstetter · 2001
This chapter explains in detail the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), which has been introduced in GSM networks in the year 2000. It covers: Overview of the GPRS system architecture (with SGSN and GGSN) and fundamental functionality, interworking with GSM GPRS services and quality of service parameters, simultaneous usage of GPRS and GSM Session management (GPRS attach/detach, PDP context), mobility management, and routing Protocol architecture in the transmission and signaling plane, routing, and address allocation and conversion Interworking with IP networks Air interface: multiple access, radio resource management, logical GPRS channels, mapping of logical channels to physical channels Channel coding (block coding, convolutional coding, and interleaving) Authentication and Ciphering