GSM: Radio Transmission Aspects
spectrum allocation
n in 1978 Europe allocated 2x25 MHz in the 900 MHz range for
mobile communications
890 - 915 MHz for the uplink (mobile station to base station)
935 - 960 MHz for the downlink (base station to mobile station)
n top 10 MHz in each band reserved for a pan-European mobile
system, since band was also used by national analog systems
multiple access:
n GSM divides allocated bandwidth into carriers spaced 200 kHz
apart, starting 200 kHz from the edge - maximum of 124
carriers in GSM900, 374 carriers in DCS1800 (2x75 MHz
allocation)
n TDMA divides time on each carrier frequency into burst
periods lasting 15/26 (0.577) ms