LTE-Advanced Training, Long Term Evolution Advanced

LTE-Advanced training provides a technical overview of LTE-Advanced including motivation, major new key features such as as carrier aggregation, enhanced advanced antenna techniques for the DL/ UL, relay repeaters, and coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception, requirements, network architecture, security, coverage, performance, required enhancements in LTE and migration strategies for LTE-Advanced deployment.

LTE–Advanced provides higher bitrates in a cost efficient way and, at the same time, completely fulfill the requirements set by ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as 4G.

4G LTE or LTE-Advanced was specified initially in Release 10 of the 3GPP standard in 2010.

LTE-Advanced supports wider frequency bandwidths (40MHz or more). Carrier aggregation was introduced in Release 10 to allow combining multiple pipelines together to create a larger single pipeline (provide backward compatibility with LTE ). This is very similar to 802.11n and 802.11ac/ad or concept of channel bonding for wireline broadband networks.

LTE-Advanced LTE Training course provides a technical overview of LTE-Advanced, describing the features such . In summary, this course provides a technical overview of R10 and beyond.

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What is LTE-Advanced?

4G LTE-Advanced refers to the evolved version of LTE that is developed by 3GPP to meet or exceed the requirements of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a true fourth generation radio-communication standard known as IMT-Advanced.

LTE-Advanced is  a further evolution of LTE, an OFDMA-based technology, specified in Release 8 and 9, which is supported by a tremendous ecosystem of manufacturers and operators worldwide, and has already proven itself to be the global next generation technology.

In November 2010, the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) ratified LTE-Advanced as IMT-Advanced.

Higher capacity is the main focus In LTE-Advanced:

• Increased peak data rate, DL 3 Gbps, UL 1.5 Gbps
• Higher spectral efficiency, from a maximum of 16bps/Hz in R8 to 30 bps/Hz in R10
• Increased number of simultaneously active subscribers
• Improved performance at cell edges, e.g. for DL 2×2 MIMO at least 2.40 bps/Hz/cell.

The main new functionalities introduced in LTE-Advanced are Carrier Aggregation (CA), enhanced use of multi-antenna techniques and support for Relay Nodes (RN).

• Wider bandwidth support for up to 100 MHz via aggregation of 20 MHz blocks (Carrier Aggregation)
• Uplink MIMO (two transmit antennas in the device)
• Higher order downlink MIMO of up to 8 by 8 in Release 10
• Coordinated Multipoint Transmission (CoMP) with two proposed approaches: coordinated scheduling and/or beamforming, and joint processing/transmission in Release 11
• Heterogeneous network (Het-net) support including enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC)
• Relay

Who Should Attend

Engineers, network planners, network designers, product managers, project managers, program managers, testers, R&D, UE manufacturers, tool vendors, operators, semiconductor professionals and anyone else who need to understand LTE-Advanced or  4G LTE landscape.

Objectives

Upon completion of the LTE-Advanced Training Course, the attendees will be able to

• Describe concepts behind ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as true 4G
• List and describe major key features in LTE-Advanced
• List LTE-Advanced network architecture and components
• Describe LTE-Advanced OTA interface and services
• List the requirements, performance, testing and security targets for LTE-Advanced
• Identify enhancement requirements for LTE systems to support LTE-Advanced features
• Explore migration strategies for LTE-Advanced implementation and deployment
• List the performance targets for IMT-Advanced and LTE-Advanced
• Summarize architectural enhancements relative to Release 8
• Describe the key features of Release 10 LTE-Advanced
• Explain the key features of LTE-Advanced beyond Release 10
• Identify the enhancements required in an LTE network to migrate to LTE-Advanced
• Give examples of deployment scenarios for LTE-Advanced including heterogeneous networks (HetNets)

Outline

Overview of LTE-Advanced

• What is LTE-Advanced?
• Backward compatibility with LTE
• LTE-Advanced features
• IMT-Advanced and LTE-Advanced
• Evolution from Release LTE 8/9 to Release 10/11/12 LTE-Advanced (4G LTE)
• Spectrum Allocation
• Carrier Aggregation
• Overview of LTE-Advanced services and features
• Over-the-air provisioning (OTA) in LTE-Advanced
• Simplified View of an OTA Provisioning Architecture

LTE-Advanced Network Architecture

• LTE Advanced Features and Performance (R10, R11 and beyond)
• Release 10/11 Architecture
• LTE Advanced Relays
• Enhanced HeNB in Release 10 and beyond
• Self-Organizing Networks (SON) in Release 9/10/11/12

LTE-Advanced Enhancements

• Release 10 Air Interface Enhancements
• Carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced
• Scheduling for Component Carriers
• Enhanced multiple antenna techniques for DL and UL
• Coordinated and Distributed MIMO
• SON enhancements
• LTE-Advanced Release 11 and Beyond
• Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception
• Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and eICIC
• Interference cancellation
• Overall System Latency Enhancements

Self-Organizing Networks and Heterogeneous Networks in LTE-Advanced

• SON Architectures SON Framework and Management Model and Interfaces
• Self-configuration (S1/X2)
• Self-Optimization (ANR)
• Mobility Load Balancing
• Mobility Robustness Optimization
• HeNB Architecture
• HeNB Gateway Functionality
• HeNB Access Control
• Closed Subscriber Group management
• HeNB Identification
• LTE-Advanced Coverage Enhancement using  Relay Nodes
• Range Expansion
• PDCCH Control Channel Robustness
• Enhanced Inter-cell Interference Coordination (eICIC)
• Almost Blank Subframes and CSI Measurement Restrictions
• Enhanced PDCCH Control Channel to support Beam Forming

Concepts behind Carrier Aggregation and Enhanced MIMO

• What is  Carrier Aggregation (CA)?
• Uplink Multiple Timing Advance for Carrier Aggregation Rel.11
• Uplink Carrier Aggregation and Multi-Cluster Transmission
• Simultaneous Uplink Control Channel Transmission
• Enhanced Downlink Spatial Multiplexing with 8×8 SU-MIMO
• Enhanced Downlink Multi-User MIMO and Beamforming
• Dedicated Reference Symbol Structure for LTE-A MIMO
• Uplink Multi Antenna Transmission
• Coordinated multipoint transmission and reception (CoMP)
• Cooperative Base Stations and Remote Radio Heads
• CoMP modes: joint processing, coordinates beam forming & scheduling
• CoMP Resource Management and Signaling Procedures

LTE Advanced Operational Procedures

• Network Acquisition and Attach in LTE-Advanced
• Power-up system acquisition
• Random access
• Attach
• Cell reselection and handover
• Idle to connected transition
• Dormant to active transition
• Initial Attach and EPS Bearer Activation
• Mobility in LTE Advanced
• Cell Reselection and Handover
• DTX/DRX in LTE Advanced
• Handover to WiFi for offloading IP traffic