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Table of Contents
1.2 Overview 7
1.4 References 13
1.2 Overview
The Abis Interface supports signalling and traffic circuits between the Base Transceiver
Station(BTS) and the Base Station Controller Frame (BCF). The Abis Interface is based
on the PCM30 transmission principles of the ITU-T at a data rate of 2.048 Mbit/s. The
PCM30 interface carries 32 x 64 Kbit/s channels.
Functions implemented at the Abis Interface are:
• Voice/Data traffic exchange
• Signalling exchange between the BCF and BTS
•
Transport of O&M information between the BTS and the BCF.
The bandwidth of each Abis interface is shared by31 timeslots1. Some timeslots are
allocated to carry traffic and others to carry signalling information.
“Traffic” timeslots are subdivided into 4 x 16 Kbit/s subrate GSM1800/GSM900 traffic .
channels.2 The situation is shown schematically in
BTS-2000 BCF-2000
2.048 Mb/s
8 Bit
frames either or
Bit transfer
64Kbit/s Rate 16 16 16 16
64Kbit
Kbit Kbit Kbit Kbit
3 13
Abis Physical
Kbit Kbit Characteristics
Vocoded
Speech
Over-
head
1
E1 has 32 timeslots but timeslot 0 is utilised for frame synchronisation.
2
These are termed “full-rate” 16 Kbit/s traffic channels. “Half-rate” 8kbit/s traffic channels will be
available in the future.
3
Lucent also supports the T1 transmission system. This is not detailed in this document but may be
included at a later date.
SYNC ST T T ST T T ST T T ST T T ST T T
TRX1
TRX2
TRX3
TRX4
TRX5
T or T or T or T or T or T or
ST T T ST T T ST T T S01
S07 S06 S05 S04 S03 S04
TRX10
TRX6
TRX7
TRX8
TRX9
4
Multidrop indicates that more that one BTS can utilise the same Abis interface
connection
1.3.3 Example 1
For a 3-sectored (4,4,4) site:
Traffic Timeslots required = 2 x # TRXs = 2 x 12 = 24
Perform the signalling timeslot calculation on a per cell basis.
# Signalling Timeslots for cell A = # TRX + 1 = 4 + 1 = 2
4 4
Signalling Timeslots required for cell B and C are the same in this example.
Total # signalling channels required = 3 x 2 = 6
Total # Timeslots required = # Signalling timeslots + # Traffic timeslots = 6 + 24 = 30.
The situation is shown schematically in Figure 3.
Cell 1 Cell 2
TRX2
TRX3
TRX4
TRX5
TRX6
Cell 2 Cell 3
T T T T S03 S4T T T T T T T T T
TRX10
TRX11
TRX12
TRX7
TRX8
TRX9
1.3.4 Example 2
For a 2 x 2-sectored 3,3 on a single Abis:
Cell 1 Cell 2
S3T+ S3T+
SYNC T T T T T T T T T T T T
S01 S02
TRX1
TRX2
TRX3
TRX4
TRX5
TRX6
Cell 3 Cell 4
S3T+ S3T+
T T T T T T T T T T T T
S03 S04
TRX10
TRX11
TRX12
TRX7
TRX8
TRX9
Figure 4: Timeslot allocation for 2 x 2 sectored 3,3 on a single Abis, using release LM5 software.
1.4 References
[Ref. 1] BSS Network Configuration Training Course (WL9011), Issue A, June 19 1997
[Ref. 2] Lucent Network Design Tool (NDT). Available through Offer Engineering, Swindon, England