Mobile Communications

Overview

ETSI is proud to have a leading role in the development of mobile communication technologies. The Institute has been in the front line of this work, from the development of the Global System for Mobile communicationTM (GSM) specifications, through the evolved technologies such as the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE), to 3rd Generation and beyond.

GSM and its evolved technologies now serve around 2.5 billion users throughout the world. That sort of success would be impossible without standards, and illustrates the huge potential of well-managed standardization programmes.

User demand, drawn from growing experience with information and communication technologies generally, is driving the mobile communication industry to develop faster, more efficient and more comprehensive mobile services. These have resulted in today's 3rd Generation (3G) technologies, and ETSI was a founding partner in 3GPP, a global standards collaboration. As user expectations continue to grow, ETSI aims to remain very much part of the evolution of 3G and beyond.

Mobile overview

The pages in this part of the ETSI website provide an overview of various aspects of mobile technologies. The 3GPP site contains much more detail, including the specifications themselves, all available free of charge.




Standards

The following is a list of recently published and frequently downloaded standards. Please use the ETSI Work Programme to find further related standards.

Standard No. Standard title.
TR 125 913 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; Requirements for Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA) and Evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN) (3GPP TR 25.913 version 7.3.0 Release 7)
TS 125 331 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification (3GPP TS 25.331 version 11.5.0 Release 11)
TS 124 229 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; IP multimedia call control protocol based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP); Stage 3 (3GPP TS 24.229 version 11.7.0 Release 11)
TS 131 130 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; (U)SIM Application Programming Interface (API); (U)SIM API for Java™ Card (3GPP TS 31.130 version 11.0.0 Release 11)
TS 145 008 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Radio subsystem link control (3GPP TS 45.008 version 11.3.0 Release 11)
TS 151 021 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification; Radio aspects (3GPP TS 51.021 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 148 008 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Mobile Switching Centre - Base Station system (MSC-BSS) interface; Layer 3 specification (3GPP TS 48.008 version 11.4.0 Release 11)
TS 148 018 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN); BSS GPRS protocol (BSSGP) (3GPP TS 48.018 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 151 010-4 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Mobile Station (MS) conformance specification; Part 4: Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) application toolkit conformance test specification (3GPP TS 51.010-4 version 4.25.0 Release 4)
TS 136 323 LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification (3GPP TS 36.323 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 136 331 LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification (3GPP TS 36.331 version 11.3.0 Release 11)
TS 136 355 LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP) (3GPP TS 36.355 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 137 320 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio measurement collection for Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT); Overall description; Stage 2 (3GPP TS 37.320 version 11.3.0 Release 11)
TS 143 055 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Dual Transfer Mode (DTM); Stage 2 (3GPP TS 43.055 version 11.1.0 Release 11)
TS 145 002 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Multiplexing and multiple access on the radio path (3GPP TS 45.002 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 145 005 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Radio transmission and reception (3GPP TS 45.005 version 11.3.0 Release 11)
TS 144 018 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol (3GPP TS 44.018 version 11.4.0 Release 11)
TS 144 060 Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Mobile Station (MS) - Base Station System (BSS) interface; Radio Link Control / Medium Access Control (RLC/MAC) protocol (3GPP TS 44.060 version 11.4.0 Release 11)
TS 136 211 LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation (3GPP TS 36.211 version 11.2.0 Release 11)
TS 136 212 LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and channel coding (3GPP TS 36.212 version 11.2.0 Release 11)