Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Introduction
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Normative references
  1.3 Definitions and abbreviations
2 General
3 Services
4 System Architecture, Entities And Functions
  4.1 The Mobile Station (MS)
  4.2 The Base Station System (BSS)
  4.3 The Mobile-services Switching Centre (MSC)
  4.4 The Home Location Register (HLR)
  4.5 The Visitor Location Register (VLR)
  4.6 Operation and Maintenance Centre (OMC)
  4.7 System architecture, interworking and interfaces
5 Subsystems of a GSM PLMN
  5.1 The Base Station System (BSS)
  5.2 The Switching and Management Subsystems (SMSS)
  5.3 Operation and maintenance subsystem
6 Other aspects
  6.1 Signalling
  6.2 Transmission plan
  6.3 Technical description of services and facilities
  6.4 Coding aspects and information processing
  6.5 Interworking
History

Abstract

Provides a general description of a GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). It contains a definition and a summarised description of the elements comprised in the network, and their functions and the associated performance objectives.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	SMG 1