Cellular Location Services
Course Details
Cellular location services have been standardized by the 3GPP across all of the major generations of cellular technology. This course seeks to provide an end to end exploration of the techniques and technologies involved, including the driving factors, standardization, requirements, architectural elements, protocols and protocol stacks, 2G-5G LCS operation and location finding techniques (overview and specific examples).

Gavin Mitchell
Mpirical Trainer
Gavin heads up Mpirical’s training product portfolio, which includes all course development alongside the development of NetX. Gavin’s main area of focus is 4G and 5G core networks, with considerable expertise gained over the 20 years of training experience he has within the mobile telecommunications space.
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Course Contents
LCS Concepts and Drivers:
- Services and Use Cases.
- Standardization.
- LCS Capabilities and Requirements.
Location Services Architecture:
- High Level Architecture.
- Le Reference Point.
- Gateway Mobile Location Centre.
- (Evolved) Serving Mobile Location Centre.
- Location Management Function.
- Location Retrieval Function.
Legacy Location Services:
- Architecture for Legacy LCS.
- 2G GSM LCS Protocols.
- 2G GSM LCS Operation.
- 3G UMTS LCS Protocols.
- 3G UMTS LCS Operation.
4G LTE Location Services:
- Architecture for 4G LTE Location Services.
- 4G LTE LCS Protocols.
- 4G LTE LCS Operation.
5G NR Location Services:
- Architecture for 5G NR Location Services.
- 5G NR LCS Protocols.
- 5G NR LCS Operation.
IMS Location Services:
- Architecture for IMS Location Services.
- IMS Emergency Services Call Flow.
Location Finding Techniques:
- Overview.
- GSM – Cell ID and Timing Advance.
- UMTS – Cell ID and Round Trip Time.
- A-GPS / A-GNSS.
- Terrestrial Beacon System.
- LTE E-CID.
- LTE OTDOA.
- Wi-Fi Positioning.
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