Does this mean that the 64 ARFCN channels are spread across the entire
spectrum (at which point channel hopping become more effective?), or just
within a small allocation?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:33:07PM +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> > > I don't really know if full spectrum monitoring it's required to do the
> > > cracking/interception job
> >
> > No, it's not, unless you want to listen to _all_ the communication taking
> > part simultaneously in the zone ...
> >
> > Most likely the local cell isn't gonna hop between all the ARFCN in the
> band
> > ... The two config I've seen here locally :
> >  - A few ARFCN relatively close together ( < 60 MHz and even often < 25
> MHz
> > )
>
> Yes, (I know Sylvain, you know this, but maybe not all others in this
> thread)
> this by the way is the result of how the spectrum is allocated to a single
> operator by the regulatory authority in the respective country.
>
> >  - The BCCH ARCFN + A large contiguous range of hopping ARFCN somewhere
> > else.
>
> This is the result of common network planning methods where you have one
> rarely
> reused allocation of ARFCN for BCCHs, and faster frequency reuse scheme for
> the hopping and power-controlled traffic chnannels.
>
> Also, you generally are interested in the traffic of one cell.  And for
> that
> cell, you can obtain the Cell Channel Allocation list from its BCCH.  After
> that
> you have a limited set of ARFCNs that you will have to monitor.  The
> specification limits the number of ARFCN of one given cell to 64.
>
> --
> - Harald Welte <[email protected]>
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