SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003
(Main)Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2 and Phase 2+) (GSM); Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification; Part 4: Repeaters (GSM 11.26 version 5.1.1)
General Information
- Abstract
SUBJECT Minimum ofset for spurious emmisions measurements
- Status
- Published
- Publication Date
- 30-Nov-2003
- Current Stage
- 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
- Start Date
- 01-Dec-2003
- Due Date
- 01-Dec-2003
- Completion Date
- 01-Dec-2003
Overview
SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003 sets the requirements and test methods for digital cellular telecommunications equipment, specifically for GSM Base Station System (BSS) repeaters. This Slovenian standard is harmonized with the European ETS 300 609-4, addressing GSM 900 and DCS 1800 repeaters under Phase 2 and Phase 2+ of the GSM standard. The focus of this document is to specify the minimum offset for spurious emissions measurements and ensure that GSM repeaters meet stringent requirements for radio frequency (RF) emissions and performance in operational environments.
Developed under the guidance of the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST), this document is critical for manufacturers, network operators, and testing bodies involved with GSM infrastructure compliance, providing a benchmark to verify repeater equipment performance and environmental suitability.
Key Topics
- Repeater Definitions: Explains broadband and channelized repeaters, which receive, amplify, and retransmit mobile station (MS) and base transceiver station (BTS) signals within specified GSM transmit bands.
- Radio Frequency Bands: Outlines applicable bands, including P-GSM 900, E-GSM 900, DCS 1800, and R-GSM 900. The standard clarifies operational bands and alignment with network requirements.
- Test Environments: Defines normal and extreme test conditions for temperature, pressure, humidity, and vibration, ensuring performance under real-world and laboratory settings.
- Spurious Emissions: Establishes measurement methods and limits for emissions outside the intended transmission band, critical for minimizing interference with other electronic devices and compliance with regulatory frameworks.
- Intermodulation Attenuation: Describes test cases and acceptable thresholds for interference products created by non-linearities in repeaters, guaranteeing network performance and reliability.
- Out-of-Band Gain: Specifies how to test a repeater's gain outside the operational frequency range, including measurement at harmonic frequencies, to prevent signal leakage and unintended amplification.
- Manufacturer's Declarations: Specifies operational bands, output power per channel, and supported channels that must be declared for compliance and transparency.
Applications
The requirements outlined in SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003 are essential in several practical areas:
- Repeater Manufacturing and Certification: Provides clear criteria for designing, developing, and testing GSM repeaters, ensuring that all units meet minimum performance standards for spurious emissions and signal fidelity.
- Mobile Network Expansion: Enables mobile operators to deploy repeaters with confidence, supporting robust network coverage, especially in challenging environments (e.g., tunnels, buildings, rural areas).
- Quality Assurance: Ensures that repeaters maintain optimal operation across a range of environmental conditions, reducing risk of failure and network downtime.
- Industry Compliance and Regulation: Assists regulatory bodies and third-party testing laboratories in verifying GSM repeater conformity with European and international standards.
- Interference Prevention: Minimizes disruptions to other communication systems by enforcing strict control on spurious RF outputs and system intermodulation performance.
Related Standards
For a comprehensive approach to GSM equipment compliance, the following related standards are referenced or aligned with SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003:
- ETS 300 577 (GSM 05.05): Governs radio transmission and reception for GSM Phase 2.
- ETS 300 019 Series: Covers equipment engineering and environmental condition classifications for telecom equipment.
- ETS 300 113: Specifies technical characteristics and test conditions for land mobile radio equipment.
- ETR 100 (GSM 01.04): Provides terminology and abbreviations used across the GSM standards suite.
- IEC 68-2, IEC 721: International standards for environmental testing and classification.
By adhering to SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003 and its referenced documents, companies and organizations ensure reliable, compliant, and interference-free operation of GSM repeater equipment within European and global mobile communication networks.
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Frequently Asked Questions
SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003 is a standard published by the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST). Its full title is "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2 and Phase 2+) (GSM); Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification; Part 4: Repeaters (GSM 11.26 version 5.1.1)". This standard covers: SUBJECT Minimum ofset for spurious emmisions measurements
SUBJECT Minimum ofset for spurious emmisions measurements
SIST ETS 300 609-4 E3:2003 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 33.070.50 - Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.
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Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-december-2003
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Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2 and Phase 2+) (GSM); Base Station
System (BSS) equipment specification; Part 4: Repeaters (GSM 11.26 version 5.1.1)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: ETS 300 609-4 Edition 3
ICS:
33.070.50 Globalni sistem za mobilno Global System for Mobile
telekomunikacijo (GSM) Communication (GSM)
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
EUROPEAN ETS 300 609-4
TELECOMMUNICATION October 1998
STANDARD Third Edition
Source: SMG Reference: RE/SMG-081126PQR1
ICS: 33.020
Key words: Digital cellular telecommunications system, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
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GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2 & Phase 2+);
Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification;
Part 4: Repeaters
(GSM 11.26 version 5.1.1)
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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Copyright Notification: No part may be reproduced except as authorized by written permission. The copyright and the
foregoing restriction extend to reproduction in all media.
© European Telecommunications Standards Institute 1998. All rights reserved.
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Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation and publication of this document, errors in content,
typographical or otherwise, may occur. If you have comments concerning its accuracy, please write to
"ETSI Standards Making Support Dept." at the address shown on the title page.
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Contents
Foreword .5
1 Scope .7
2 Normative references.7
3 Definitions and abbreviations .7
3.1 Definitions .7
3.2 Abbreviations .8
4 General.8
4.1 Radio frequency bands.8
4.2 Test environments .8
4.2.1 Normal test environment .8
4.2.2 Extreme test environment .9
4.2.3 Extreme temperature .9
4.3 Manufacturers declarations .9
5 Spurious emissions .10
5.1 Test purpose.10
5.2 Test case .10
5.3 Conformance requirement.11
5.4 Reference requirement.11
6 Intermodulation attenuation.11
6.1 Test purpose.11
6.2 Test case .11
6.3 Conformance requirement.12
6.4 Reference requirement.12
7 Out of band gain.12
7.1 Test purpose.12
7.2 Test case .12
7.3 Conformance requirement.12
7.4 Reference requirement.12
Annex A (informative): Testing of gain for part band repeaters .13
A.1 Rationale for this test.13
A.2 Gain outside operating band .13
A.2.1 Test purpose.13
A.2.2 Test case .13
A.2.3 Conformance requirement.13
Annex B (informative): Change history .14
History.15
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Foreword
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) has been produced by the Special Mobile Group
(SMG) Technical Committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) describes the Radio Frequency (RF) tests for
GSM 900 and DCS 1800 repeaters within the digital cellular telecommunications system
(Phase 2/Phase 2+).
The contents of this ETS may be subject to continuing work within SMG and may change following formal
SMG approval. Should SMG modify the contents of this ETS, it will be resubmitted for OAP by ETSI with
an identifying change of release date and an increase in version number as follows:
Version 5.x.y
where:
y the third digit is incremented when editorial only changes have been incorporated in the
specification;
x the second digit is incremented for all other types of changes, i.e. technical enhancements,
corrections, updates, etc.
Transposition dates
Date of adoption of this ETS: 23 October 1998
Date of latest announcement of this ETS (doa): 31 January 1999
Date of latest publication of new National Standard
or endorsement of this ETS (dop/e): 31 July 1999
Date of withdrawal of any conflicting National Standard (dow): 31 July 1999
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1 Scope
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) describes the Radio Frequency (RF) tests for
GSM 900 and DCS 1800 repeaters which receive, amplify, and retransmit a received Mobile Station (MS)
signal in the GSM MS transmit band and simultaneously receive, amplify and retransmit a received Base
Transceiver Station (BTS) RF signal in the GSM BTS transmit band.
This ETS is applicable to repeaters meeting the requirements of either GSM Phase 2 or GSM Phase 2+.
Unless otherwise stated, all tests are applicable to repeaters meeting Phase 2 and/or Phase 2+ GSM
requirements, because the requirements of the Phase 2 and Phase 2+ core GSM specifications which are
referenced in the test are consistent. Most differences between Phase 2 and Phase 2+ requirements
represent Phase 2+ features which are optional for the BSS to support.
2 Normative references
This ETS incorporates by dated and undated reference, provisions from other publications. These
normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the publications are listed
hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications
apply to this ETS only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references, the
latest edition of the publication referred to applies.
[1] ETR 100 (GSM 01.04): "Digital cellular telecommunication system (Phase 2);
Abbreviations and acronyms".
[2] ETS 300 019-1-0: "Equipment Engineering (EE): Environmental conditions and
environmental tests for telecommunications equipment Part 1-0; Classification
of environmental conditions; Introduction".
[3] ETS 300 019-1-3: "Equipment Engineering (EE): Environmental conditions and
environmental tests for telecommunications equipment Part 1-3; Classification
of environmental conditions, Stationary use at weather-protected locations".
[4] ETS 300 019-1-4: "Equipment Engineering (EE): Environmental conditions and
environmental tests for telecommunications equipment Part 1-4; Classification
of environmental conditions, Stationary use at non-weather-protected locations".
[5] ETS 300 113: "Radio Equipment and Systems (RES); Land mobile service;
Technical characteristics and test conditions for radio equipment intended for
the transmission of data (and speech) and having an antenna connector".
[6] ETS 300 577 (GSM 05.05): "Digital cellular telecommunication system
(Phase 2); Radio transmission and reception".
[7] IEC 68-2: "Basic environmental testing procedures: Part 2 Tests".
[8] IEC 721: "Classification of environmental conditions".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of this ETS, the following definitions apply:
broadband repeater: A repeater which is designed for operation on any combination of ARFCNs (up to a
specified maximum number) within the operating band of the repeater.
channelized repeater: A repeater which is designed for operation on a specified subset of ARFCNs
within the operating band of the repeater. The subset of ARFCNs may be determined during the
manufacture of the repeater, or may be programmable.
GSM: Unless otherwise specified, references to GSM include both GSM 900 and DCS 1800.
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repeater: A bi-directional Radio Frequency (RF) amplifier which can amplify and transmit a received
Mobile Station (MS) signal in the GSM MS transmit band, simultaneously it can amplify and transmit a
received Base Transceiver Station (BTS) RF signal in the GSM BTS transmit band.
spurious emissions: Emissions at frequencies other than those of the carrier and sidebands associated
with normal modulation and switching.
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of this ETS, the following abbreviations apply:
BTS Base Transceiver Station
MS Mobile Station
RF Radio Frequency
Abbreviations used within the GSM specifications are given in ETR 100 (GSM 01.04) [1].
4 General
A repeater can be designed to amplify the whole transmit RF band or just a part of the band. In the latter
case the repeater can be either Broadband, with frequency band selective filtering, or channelized, with
channel selective filtering.
4.1 Radio frequency bands
A repeater, as a bi-directional amplifier, can amplify and transmit a received MS signal in the MS transmit
band, simultaneously it can amplify and transmit a received BTS signal in the BTS transmit band. The
relevant MS and BTS transmit bands, as defined in GSM 05.05 [6], are given in table 1.
Table 1: MS and BTS transmit RF bands
MS transmit band BTS transmit band
P-GSM 900 890 - 915 MHz 935 - 960 MHz
E-GSM 900 880 - 915 MHz 925 - 960 MHz
1710 - 1785 MHz 1805 - 1880 MHz
DCS 1800
R-GSM 900 876 - 915 MHz 921 - 960 MHz
NOTE: In some circumstances, for instance when an operator (or more than one operator who
co-ordinate the use of repeaters), is not allocated a complete band as defined in
table 1, it may be necessary to restrict the frequency range of operations of repeaters.
In these circumstances, the test of "Gain outside operating band" in annex A may be
used to verify the performance of the repeater.
4.2 Test environments
For each test in this ETS, the environmental conditions under which the repeater is to be tested are
defined.
4.2.1 Normal test environment
When a normal test environment is specified for a test, the test should be performed under any
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