Protocol Analysis in UMTS Networks Tektronix英文电子书.pdf

White Paper: Protocol Analysis in UMTS Networks Tektronix, Inc. Introduction As of today, there are still very few UMTS networks offering commercial service. However, since third-generation (3G) handset functionality is improving and a wider range of handsets is becoming available, the number of 3G UMTS subscribers is increasing. By March 2003 there were more than 350,000 UMTS users and more than 6,000,000 cdma2000 users in Japan, and the rollout of UMTS throughout Europe is underway. Even some GSM operators in the US are already testing or are about to test UMTS. Therefore, there is an urgent need to provide hands-on practical examples of protocol testing in the first UMTS “islands“ of this world. Call tracing and similar tasks haven’t vanished with the advent of UMTS; in fact, tasks such as these have become even more complex. This is also valid for engineers with many years of protocol testing experience in GSM-networks. This document is intended to ease troubleshooting and protocol testing tasks in today and tomorrow’s UMTS-networks. Standards The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) solicited several international organizations for descriptions of their ideas for a 3G mobile network: CWTS China Wireless Telecommunication Standard group ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, Japan T1 Standards Committee T1 Telecommunications, USA TTA Telecommunications Technology Association, Korea TTC Telecommunication Technology Committee, Japan ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute As a result, ITU combined different technologies for IMT-2000 standards at 2000 MHz. The main advantage of IMT-2000 is that it specifies international standards and also the interworking with existing PLMN standards, such as GSM. In general the quality of transmission is improved. The data transfer rate is increased dramatically. Transfer rates of 144 kbit/s or 384 kbit/s is available in a short time; howev