Price: $1,699.00
Length: 2 Days
LTE SON Training Description
LTE SON Training, Self-Organizing Networks (SON) training course covers all aspects of a SON-enabled system including technologies, planning, design, architecture, operation and maintenance. LTE SON training introduces self-optimization, self-configuration and self-healing of LTE and LTE-Advanced Networks.
Learn about LTE SON drivers, requirements, challenges, enabling technologies, architectures, trends, core network, and end-to-end operational for a SON-enabled LTE system and beyond.
Topics include:
- LTE and LTE-Advanced network architecture
- SON framework, use cases and architectures
- Automated (plug & play) connectivity setup
- SON operation in both the Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
- SON operation in Multi-RAT operational scenarios
- Self-planning/configuration, self-deployment and fault management
- 3GPP Management Reference Model
- Coverage and Capacity Optimization (CCO)
- Mobility Load Balancing (MLB)
- Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO)
- Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC)
- Minimization of Drive Tests (MTD)
- SON in Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
- SON evolution to Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN)
Course Content
Introduction to SON
- LTE and LTE-Advanced principles
- LTE and LTE-Advanced management architecture, radio access scenarios
- Self Organizing Optimizing (SON) Networks
- Concepts behind SON
- SON History and Challenges
- SON Vision
- SON Architectures
- Operational challenges for SON
- SON architecture types
- Centralized, distributed and hybrid
- Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) in the context of SON
- LTE SON concept and foundations
- SON Frameworks
- LTE/EPC and SON Introduction
- Self Optimizing Networks (SON) in the LTE system
- SON framework, use cases and architectures
- SON domains and SON operation in LTE radio network
- Self-Configuration, Self-Optimization and Self-Healing
- SON operation in both the Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
- SON operation in Multi-RAT operational scenarios
- SON use cases
Concepts behind Self-Configuration
- Self-planning/configuration, self-deployment and fault management
- Auto-connectivity and commissioning
- Automated (plug & play) connectivity setup
- eNB including X2/S1 interface setup
- Neighbor and cell ID configuration
- Self-Optimization works during the normal operation of the network
- Handover/RACH parameters
- Adjusting the RAN configuration
- Dynamic radio configuration
Concepts behind Self-Optimization
- Network performance
- Automated network failure detection and recovery
- Mobility Robustness Optimization
- Mobility Load balancing
- Energy Savings
- LTE Capacity and Coverage Optimization
- RACH Optimization
Concepts behind Self-Healing
- Cell degradation detection, diagnosis and recovery
- Cell outage compensation
- SON for core networks
SON Operations and Maintenance
- SON Operation
- SON business values
- Future SON
Advanced SON Topics
- 3GPP Management Reference Model
- Auto-connectivity (including X2 and S1 setup)
- Automated configuration of Physical Cell Identity (PCI)
- Automatic Neighbor Relation function (ANR)
- Relay Node auto-connectivity
- LTE Self-Optimization
- Coverage and Capacity Optimization (CCO)
- Mobility Load Balancing (MLB)
- Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO)
- Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC)
- Minimization of Drive Tests (MTD)
- Coordination of SON functions
- LTE Self-Healing
- Automatic network failure detection, diagnostics and recovering
- Cell degradation detection and improvement
- Cell outage compensation / mitigation
- SON in Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
- Frequency planning
- LTE – PCI planning
- Spectrum management
- Antenna settings optimization
- Neighbor list management)
- SON evolution to Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN)