Understanding Digital PCS: The TDMA Standard / Edition 1

by Cameron Kelly Coursey

Overview

Digital PCS (otherwise known as ANSI-136) is one of today's most successful TDMA cellular standards, offering cellular customers superior network capacity coupled with advanced features such as privacy, longer battery life, caller identification, message waiting, and much more. Now you can unravel the complex engineering details behind the fast-moving ANSI-136 standard with this one-of-a-kind new book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890063620
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/28/1998
Series:	Mobile Communications Library Series
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.28(d)

About the Author

Cameron Coursey is a Member of the Technical Staff at SBC Technology Resources, Inc., a division of SBC Communications, Inc., where he provides implementation support and participates in standards activities and industry forums related to ANSI-136. Mr. Coursey earned his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and is a member of the IEEE.

Table of Contents

The Digital PCS Family Tree: AMPS. IS-54 TDMA. IS-136 TDMA. PCS. Advantages of Digital PCS: Capacity Enhancement. Feature Flexibility. AMPS Compatibility. The Digital PCS Family of Standards: Telecommunications Industry Association. Interim Standards and National Standards. The Digital PCS Standards. Layer 1 — The Digital PCS Physical Layer: Channelization and Duplexing. Modulation. Power Output. Time Slot and Frame Structure. Digital Control Channel Structure. Digital Traffic Channel Structure. Channel Coding and Interleaving. Layer 2 — The Digital PCS Data Link Layer: DCCH Protocols. DTC Protocols. Layer 3 — The Digital PCS Network Layer: DCCH Messaging. DTC Messaging. Network Architecture and Intersystem Operation: Overview. Mobile Switching Center. Base Station. Interworking Function. Additional Network Elements. Intersystem Signaling. Mobile Station Operation: Mobile Station Types. Mobile Station States. Mobile Station Procedures. Mobile Station Identities. Reselection and Hierarchical Cell Structures: Neighbor Cells and Neighbor Cell Information. Control Channel Locking and Reselection Criteria Procedures. Reselection Trigger Conditions. Candidate Eligibility Filtering. Candidate Reselection Rules. Reselection Examples. Implementing Hierarchical Cell Structures. Mobile Sleep Mode: Paging Sub-Channel and Paging Frame Class. Processes Impacting Sleep Mode. Extending Sleep Mode with Operational Enhancements. Voice Services: Voice Coding and Decoding. Call Processing. Teleservices: Teleservice Delivery. SMS_TeleserviceIdentifier and Higher Layer Protocol Data Identifier. Teleservice Segmentation and Reassembly. Broadcast Teleservices. Defined Teleservices (including Short Message Service and Over-the-Air Activation). Circuit-Switches Data Services: Analog Circuit-Switched Data Service. Digital Circuit-Switched Data Service (including RLP1, IS-135 Data Part, and Data Call Processing). Non-Public Services: Network Types. Private and Residential System Identities. Autonomous Systems. Special Considerations for 1900 MHz Operation: Intelligent Roaming. Hyperband Reselection and Handoff. Dual-Band, Dual-Mode Mobiles. Authentication, Privacy, and Encryption: CAVE. A-Key and SSD. Authentication Procedures. Updating Shared Secret Data. Voice Privacy. Signaling Message Encryption. Encryption on the DCCH. Network Parameter Settings: Selection and Access Parameters. Reselection and Handoff Boundaries. Equipment Testing: Network Testing. Mobile Testing (including Performance Testing, Interoperability Testing, and Protocol Conformance Testing). Towards Global TDMA: The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. Global TDMA Forum. Global WIN Forum. Global Operators' Forum. The Future of Digital PCS: IMT-2000 and Third Generation Cellular. 136+. 136HS. Potential Further Digital PCS Enhancements.

Editorial Reviews

First explains that digital Personal Communications Service (PCS) is a marketing name for Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), a standard widely used by providers of mobile and cellular phone service in North America; and that the standard is actually known as TIA/EIA-136. Then explains the standard in detail and how mobile phones and cellular networks that are compliant with it interoperate. The treatment is suitable for design engineers who want to know how a piece or part they are responsible for fits into the larger system, to radio- frequency performance engineers engaged in setting parameters, and to sales agents explaining the system to potential customers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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