uency-Division Multiple Access (FDMA), 2, GTP Signalling, 277 59, 500 GTPU, 273, 376, 390, 391, 401 Frequency-Selective Fading, 261, 265, 423 Guard Band, 250 Fresnel zone, 245-246, 255, 264 Frontal System, 263 Half rate, 60, 143-144, 500 Front-to-Back ratio, 239 Handover, 145-152, 154-159, 186, 274-275, FTP, 166, 180-181, 183 277-279, 303, 308, 418, 430, 433-434, 436, Full-Rate (FR), 54, 60, 144, 399, 494 470, 482, 485-487 Handover algorithm, 147, 149 Gain of the Antenna, 4, 29, 31-33, 36, 39, 40, 49, Handover and adjacency difference, 168-169 234, 238-239, 249, 252, 504 Handover causes, 147, 154 Gate Tunnelling Protocol (GTP), 35, 273, 277, Handover control, 20, 97, 133, 156, 157, 183, 430 382, 384, 390-391, 401 Handover distribution, 107, 133 Gateway (GW), 348, 429 Handover failures, 154, 155 Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), 11, 273, Handover features, 149 328-329, 332, 377-385, 391, 394-395, Handover parameters, 126, 149-150 399-400, 403, 413-414 Handover performance, 145, 154 Gateway Mobile Switching Centre (GMSC), 5, 7, Handover phases, 160 Handover success rate, 22, 121, 132, 154, 368 Gaussian Minimum Phase-Shift Keying (GMSK), Hard handover, 97, 99-100 10, 163-168, 171-173, 175, 179 Hardware configuration, 339 Gb Interface, 377-378, 384, 391-392, 407 Hardware monitoring, 160 Gb Link, 25, 35 Header Error Control (HEC), 225, 228, 313 Gb NSVC CIR, 35 High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (HSCSD), 377 Gd Interface, 407 Home Location Register (HLR), 5, 76, 318, General Packet Radio Services (GPRS), 9, 10, 11, 328-330, 333-335, 348, 352, 368, 371, 375, 22-23, 54-55, 57, 62-69, 78-80, 82-86, 174, 377-378, 378-382, 395, 400, 403, 413 285-286, 327-331, 377-384, 390-392, 407 HSN planning, 118 Generic Flow Control (GFC), 227 Hyperframe, 60 Gf Interface, 407 Gi Interface, 381, 396, 402-403, 411 IDLE, 84, 85, 103, 166, 383 G-Interfaces, 401-403 Idle State, 84-85, 383 Global System for Mobile Communication, 3 IMEI, 5-6, 136, 376-377 GMSK Modulation, 164, 166 IMSI, 5-7, 85, 98, 106, 136, 322, 382-383, 400 Gn, 273, 381, 390, 