Tricks to Read and Understand 3GPP Specifications

3GPP specifications are backbone of 3G, IMS, HSPA, Enhanced UTRA technologies. To understand a certain aspect of a protocol stack or encoding of PDUs or to study deep into physical layer one need to understand the respective specifications.   The specifications are developed taking into consideration that they should describe the behaviors of certain layer but the implementations in most of places are left to the developers. For a beginner studying 3GPP specifications are really difficult. There are various reasons. 3GPP Specification Are Interlinked Each specification in 3GPP has many referenced specifications. So when one tries to understand one specification he end up following many. This happens to many new 3GPP professionals. 3GPP Specifications Do Not Cover Examples It is always handy to have some real time examples with the theories. As many part of 3GPP specification are left implementation dependent, they do not cover many examples. Also encoding and [...]

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