5G RF Engineering Training Bootcamp
5G RF Engineering Training Bootcamp is a 3-day new course based on 3GPP Technical Specifications. Participants will learn the fundamentals of 5G rf engineering including 5G NR (New Radio) and mmWaves.
Who Will Benefit: 5G RF Engineering Training Bootcamp course is intended for working professionals and students with a background or interest in 5G wireless communications and RF engineering.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply key technologies of 5G and 5G NR (New Radio) RF engineering
- Explain the RF engineering principals applied to 5G NR including planning, propagation models, antenna theory, and more
- Define RF principals applied to 5G systems and networks
- Identify 5G RF System impairments
- Identify the 5G RF design constraints
- Calculate and determine the main RF system characteristic including link budget and optimization applied to 5G systems
- Calculate the capacity and number of 5G nodes
Key Topics
5G RF Planning and Requirements
- RF Fundamentals
- 5G NR and 5G Ultra Wideband
- 5G RF Propagation Models
- 5G RF Parameters
- 5G RF System Architectures
- 5G Antenna Engineering
- Radio Network Planning towards 5G mmWave
- Standalone Small-Cell Architectures
- 5G mmWave Impairments
- 5G RF System Impairments
- 5G System Performance and RF Optimization
5G NR Planning, Design and Engineering
- Defining geographic maps and site locations
- Establishing link budget and RF propagation model
- Predicting 5G NR coverage
- Map of existing LTE sites
- RF models of buildings and structures
- RF model of foliage
- Utilizing geographically accurate RF models
- Co-siting with 4G LTE sites
- Macro/small cell sites
- Establishing baseline
- Optimizations to improve coverage
- Accurately predicting 5G NR coverage
- 5G NR mmWave Planning
- 5G NR mmWave outdoor and indoor deployment strategy
- 5G NR mmWave coverage prediction methodology
- Use of link budget & RF planning tool
- 5G NR mmWave link budget
- Cell edge data rate
- 28 GHz downlink and Uplink outdoor coverage
- Establishing link budget and RF propagation model
- Example of high-level 5G NR mmWave link budget for indoor deployment
- DL:UL TDD configuration
- 5G NR mmWave link budget Cell edge data rate
5G RF Network Deployment Requirements
- 5G RF planning process
- Requirements/constraints of the planning process
- High-capacity requirements in a small area
- Demanding network planning operational scenario
- 5G dense network deployment
- Performance and network density
- Network layout
- The Planning Method
- Propagation analysis
- System analysis
- Planning optimization
- The Planning Optimization Algorithm
Workshops and Exercises
- Workshop 1: Planning a simple 5G Network
- Workshop 2: Planning and designing of a Private 5G Network
- Workshop 3: Calculating 5G radio network nodes numbers, location and configuration
- Workshop 4: Calculating capacity and cost for high-capacity scenarios that range
from dense to ultra-dense mmWave - Workshop 5: Planning and designing a 5G standalone small-cell network deployments