HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT OF THE MASTER'S THESIS

Author: Kimmo Karjalainen

Name of the thesis: Traffic measurement method evaluation for GSM system

Date: 6.8.1999
Number of Pages: 69

Faculty: Electrical and Communications Engineering

Professorship: S-72 Communications Technology

Supervisor: Professor Sven-Gustav Häggman

Instructor: Dr. Tech. Rolf Beranek


In this work a new traffic measurement method for GSM900 and GSM1800 systems is investigated. The measurement method is to monitor the mobile station transmission activity on the GSM radio interface. The aim of this work is to investigate the suitability of the new measurement method for its purpose and to analyze the measurement error quantity.

Keywords: GSM900, GSM1800, traffic measurements, radio interface