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Introduction To GPRS: General Packet Radio System (GPRS)

GPRS is a new mobile data service that provides packet-switched access over GSM and TDMA networks. It reserves radio resources only when data is being sent, reducing reliance on traditional circuit-switched elements. GPRS facilitates instant connections and new mobile applications by allowing speeds up to 171.2 kbps. It fully enables mobile internet functionality by interworking between existing internet and GPRS networks.

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Introduction To GPRS: General Packet Radio System (GPRS)

GPRS is a new mobile data service that provides packet-switched access over GSM and TDMA networks. It reserves radio resources only when data is being sent, reducing reliance on traditional circuit-switched elements. GPRS facilitates instant connections and new mobile applications by allowing speeds up to 171.2 kbps. It fully enables mobile internet functionality by interworking between existing internet and GPRS networks.

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Introduction to GPRS

• The General Packet Radio System (GPRS) is a new service that provides
actual packet radio access for mobile Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) and time-division multiple access (TDMA) users.

General Packet Radio Service


• General -> not restricted to GSM use (DECT ?, 3rd generation systems ?)
• Packet Radio -> enables packet mode communication over air
• Service, not System -> existing BSS (partially also NSS) infrastructure is
used
• The main benefits of GPRS are that it reserves radio resources only
when there is data to send and it reduces reliance on traditional
circuit-switched network elements.
• Theoretical up to 171.2 kbps transmission speed are achievable
using all eight timeslots at the same time.
• No dial-up connection is necessary, GPRS facilitates instant
connections whereby information can be sent or received
immediately as the need arises.
• GPRS facilitates several new applications that have not previously
been available over GSM networks due to the limitations in speed
and message length.
• GPRS fully enables Mobile Internet functionality by allowing
interworking between the existing Internet and the new GPRS
network.
ECE-403 Wireless and Mobile Communication_Budhaditya_Bhattacharyya 11/4/2016
• GPRS is an overlay network onto a second generation GSM network.
• GPRS attempts to reuse the existing GSM network elements as much possible,
but in order to effectively build a packet based mobile cellular network.
• .
Circuit
Switching

• Data are transmitted inside fixed, periodic frames.


• Each circuit is allocated a fixed subset of the time-slots in each frame,
connection ID and routing information is provided implicitly by the time-slotID
in which a data is transmitted.
• The transmission capacity of a link is portioned into a fixed number of
circuits, each of them having fixed rate, unused capacity in one circuit cannot
be used by other circuits.
• Primary advantage is advantage is very simple to design.
• The biggest problem is wasteful in transmission capacity, especially when
actual rate of connections varies widely with time.
Packet
Switching

• Non-periodic multiplexing of packets on a demand basis. Each packet carries


its own source and destination (connection) ID, and can be stored and
forwarded at any later time.
• The transmission capacity of a link is shared among all flows that pass
through it, on a demand basis; any capacity that is not used by one flow can
be used by another.
• Primary advantage is advantage no waste in transmission capacity.
• The biggest challenge : dynamic control (per packet) rather than static (at
connection set up)
• Unpredictability of traffic, leading to contention for resources.

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