ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is intended to introduce the delegate to the air interface technologies used in the European Standard and American Standard 3rd Generation mobile deployment. It covers primarily the air interface, but also includes the Radio Access Network components and nodes and description of the normal operating procedures of both technologies.
TARGET PARTICIPANTS:
This course is for evryone who has an understanding of the basic concepts of RF and mobile technologies, GSM/GPRS operation and basic communications
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction to Access Technologies
Introduction
Major attributes of CDMA systems
Third-Generation systems
Multiple Access technologies
Modes of Operation in wireless communications
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and Spreading Codes
Introduction
Types of techniques for Spread Spectrum
The concept of Spread Spectrum System
System Processing Gain
The performance of DSSS
The DSSS system
BPSK
QPSK
Bit Scrambling
The performance of a CDMA system
Autocorrelation
Cross-correlation
Orthogonal functions
Speech & Channel Coding
Speech coding
Pulse code modulation
Adaptive pulse code modulation
Code-excited linear prediction
Enhanced variable-rate codec
Channel coding
Convolutional coding
Diversity, Combining & Antennas
Diversity reception
Types of diversity
Macroscopic diversity
Microscopic diversity
RAKE receiver
Basic combining methods
Selection combining
Maximal-ratio combining
Equal-gain combining
Examples of Base Station and Mobile Antennas
CDMA2000 System
cdma2000 layering structure
upper layer
link layer
cdma2000 channels
channel naming convention
logical channels used by PLICF
Physical layer
Forward link physical channels
Forward link features
Reverse physical channels
Data services in cdma2000
Mapping logical channels to physical channels
Evolution of cdmaOne to cdma2000
Major technical differences between cdma2000 and W-CDMA
Introduction to UMTS Networks
UMTS topology
WCDMA concepts
WCDMA network deployment options
Introduction to WCDMA
Summary of main parameters in WCDMA
Spreading & dispreading recap
Multipath radio channels and RAKE reception
Power control
Softer and soft handovers
Radio Access Network Architecture
System architecture
UTRAN architecture
General protocol model for UTRAN terrestrial interfaces
Iu, the UTRAN-CN interface
UTRAN internal interfaces
UTRAN enhancements and evolution
UMTS core network architecture an evolution
Physical Layer
Transport channels and their mapping to the physical channels
Spreading and modulation
User data transmission
Signalling
Physical layer procedures
Terminal radio access capabilities
Radio Interface Protocols
Protocol architecture
The medium access control protocol
The radio link control protocol
The packet data convergence protocol
The broadcast/multicast service
The radio resource control protocol
Early UE handling principles
RF Planning & Optimisation
Overview of the network deployment process
Link budgets
Network planning tools
Interference considerations during network planning
Topology planning
Parameter settings and optimisation during network planning
RF optimisation
Initial Parameter Settings
Broadcast of system information
Translation between information element values and engineering values
Over-the-air parameters
Physical layer parameters
Intra-frequency cell reselection parameters
Access parameter recommendations
Intra-frequency handover parameters
Service Optimisation
KPI and layered optimisation approach
Voice service optimisation
Video-telephony service optimisation
PS data service optimisation
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)