Price: $1,699.00
Length: 2 Days
Fundamentals of Cellular Networks Training
Fundamentals of Cellular Networks Training covers the A-Z of classic and modern cellular networks. The attendees will learn about basic connectivity requirements, planning, building blocks, architecture, design, implementation and performance of end-to-end all the types of cellular networks from 2G-6G. All operational use cases and sub-systems of the the cellular network including mobile device, connectivity, radio network, transmission network and core network are covered with focus on both practical and theoretical issues.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendees will be able to:
- Describe the classic wireless cellular networks and trends for next generation wireless networks including 4G and 5G
- Sketch the components, network elements, subsystems and interfaces of the cellular networks
- Sketch the components, network elements, subsystems and interfaces of the cellular networks
- Define the key features of the cellular networks air interface
- Walk through the generic mobile device operations including power-up, connectivity and service access setup
- Explain how uplink and downlink traffic are handled in cellular networks
- Explain deployment scenarios of cellular networks
- Explain cellular networks security features and scenarios
Course Topics
Overview of Cellular Networks and Technologies
- Cellular and Mobile Network Fundamentals
- Principles behind Mobile Networks
- Cellular Concepts
- Cellular Networks
- Cell Design – Reuse Pattern
- Cluster Size
- Frequency Reuse
- Frequency Planning and Assignments
- Cellular Sectoring
- Sectored Frequency Planning
- Principles behind Mobility
- Introduction and Mobile Basics
- Principles behind Roaming
- Handover/Handoff Principles
- Traffic Engineering
- Multiple Access
- FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and OFDMA/SC-FDMA
- Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
- Time division multiple access (TDMA)
- Code division multiple access (CDMA)
- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
- OFDM access (OFDMA)
- Single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA)
- Peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR)
Overview of Multiple Access in Cellular Networks
- First-Generation Mobile Networks (1G)
- Second-Generation Cellular Networks (2G)
- Third-Generation Cellular Networks (3G)
- Fourth-Generation Cellular Networks (4G)
- Fifth-Generation Cellular Networks (5G)
- Sixt-Generation Cellular Networks (6G)
Forth-Generation (4G) Digital Cellular Technology
- Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS)
- From GSM to GPRS to UMTS
- Evolution to HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE
- UMTS Radio and Core Network (CN)
- Services in UMTS
- UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network)
- UMTS Radio Interface
- UMTS Network Components
- UMTS Network Architecture
- Base Station (Node B)
- Radio Network Controller (RNC)
- GPRS Support Nodes
- High Speed Downlink
- High Speed Uplink
- Protocols in UMTS
- Protocol Reference Architecture
- Transport Network Protocols
- Radio Network Protocols
- CDMA and W-CDMA?
- System Network Protocols
- All-IP Network Architecture
- IP Multimedia System (IMS)
- Security Architecture
Forth-Generation (4G) Digital Cellular Technology
- Long Term Evolution (LTE)
- LTE Network Architecture
- System Architecture Evolution (SAE)
- LTE/EPC Network architecture and
- LTE RAN and EPC interfaces and protocols
- E-UTRAN – eNodeB
- LTE air interface
- OFDM/OFDMA concepts
- SOFDMA SC-FDMA concepts
- LTE Mobility and Security
- LTE QoS
- Cell selection/reselection and Handover
- LTE-Advanced
Fifth-Generation (5G) Digital Cellular Technology
- 5G Requirements and Technologies
- 5G Spectrum
- Frequencies 6 GHz right up to 100 GHz
- Massive MIMO and beamforming
- Internet of Things (IoT)/Internet of Everything (IoE)
- 5G requirements on reliability, performance, quality of experience (QoE)
- 5G Air interface
- CRAN Introduction
- 5G Waveform
- mm-wave Characterization
- mm wave spectrum and propagation
- Linear precoding & decoding
- Matched filter decoding
- Conjugate beamforming
- 3D beam forming
- Channel estimation
- 5G Core network
- SDN and NFV
- 5G and Non-cellular wireless technologies
- Bluetooth and BLE and Bluetooth 5
- WLAN/Wi-Fi/WiFi6E/WiFi7
- ZigBee
- Unlicensed ISM/SRD bands
Evolving of 5G Cellular Technology
- Overview of current and future 5G
- Evolved mobile broadband (eMBB)
- Ultra reliable low latency services (URLLC)
- Massive machine type communication (mMTC)
- Overview of 5G Technologies
- mmWave applied in 5G
- Design Principles of 5G
- 5G Radio & Core Network
- 5G core network concepts
- 5G New Radio and NG-RAN
- Mobile Edge Computing
- 5G radio access networks -5G RAN
- 5G RAN Architecture
- 5G and IoT
- Overview of LPWA
- Comparison between LTE, NB-IoT, and LTE-M
Future of 5G and Migration to 6G (IMT-2030)
- The 5G Advanced, an evolution towards 6G
- 3GPP Releases 15, 16, 17, 18 and Beyond
- The 5G Advanced standardization- 3GPP Release 18
- Cellular wireless access toward 6G
- Principles of Sub THz and VLC (Visible Light Communications)
- Overview of NTNs in 6G
- Role of LEO and GEO Satellites
- Integration of HABS and HIBS in 6G