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Technology
Courses
PLANNING
AND DESIGN OF CELLULAR SYSTEMS
Target
Audience
Engineers and technicians working with cellular systems RF planning.
Pre-requirements
Basic knowledge on RF propagation and communication systems.
Goals
Help students develop a methodology for planning and designing wireless
systems.
Course
Syllabus
- Basic architecture of mobile systems: radio base
station, subscribers terminals, control and switching center, HLR,
VLR, and authentication center;
- Most common multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA,
and CDMA;
- Identification of cellular system design steps,
approaching coverage maximization and interference reduction while
still carrying satisfactory traffic;
- Analysis and comparison of Lee and COST 231 prediction
models;
- RF signal fading types;
- Co-channel and adjacent channel interference identification
techniques; identifying possible ways of eliminating them without
reduction of coverage or impact on carried traffic;
- Calculation of the ideal number of radio base stations
and traffic channels per sector;
- Main characteristics of signal boosters and microcells;
- Several resource allocation techniques (frequencies,
SAT, DCC, DVCC, pilot offset, frequency hopping< sequences) to obtain
better reuse and interference minimization, consequently, achieving
better service quality;
- Comparison of the main characteristics of most
currently used systems: AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, and GSM;
- Cellular systems evolution trends and migration
techniques;
- Practical example of cellular systems planning
using CelPlanner Suite.
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