LTE Technology and Network Design

 Sponsored by: WCA International

Provide by: Inacon GmbH and CelPlan Technologies, Inc

When: April 22 to 23, from 9 to 5 PM (lunch break 12:30 to 1:30)
              WCA 2008- Capitalizing on the 4G Eco-system
  Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
  Room: Arlington

Course Duration: 2 days

Who should attend this class?

1. High level management and decision makers from LTE or WiMAX operators

2. High level management from vendors and service providers that need to have an in-depth understanding of the technology and its network design

3. High level engineers that are responsible for the design and launching of WiMAX networks,

Pre-Requisites:
Experience with UMTS (HSDPA) or cdma2000 (EVDO) network design deployment or management

Course Description:
This course addresses the needs of everybody who needs to understand the technology and concepts of LTE as the future 4G standard of 3GPP.

After an overview of 4G standards, the course introduces the requirements of LTE, provides insight to the most relevant changes to L1/L2/L3 and the network architecture of E-UTRAN to UMTS, HSDPA, and HSUPA. This introductory part ends with an overview of LTE technology.

The course then presents important characteristics of key layer 1 technologies: OFDM and MIMO, continuing with a detailed description of the LTE L1. Among others we evaluate in detail the application of essential technologies such as OFDMA (downlink) and SC-FDMA (uplink) and the LTE frame structure.

This part concludes with the discussion of physical layer procedures such as power control (PC), timing advance control, cell search, random access, antenna technology.

The course then evaluates, in detail, higher layer protocols of E-UTRAN such as MAC (Medium Access Control), RLC (Radio Link Control), RRC (Radio Resource Control), PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) as well as security and quality of service in LTE.

This part includes the discussion of NAS (Non- Access Stratum) procedures such as mobility management and the various kinds of handover to be supported by LTE.

The course concludes with a presentation of selected E-UTRAN scenarios that should give participants an understanding of how the protocols of LTE work together across different network elements; focusing on RRC connection establishment, PDP context establishment, sell reselection, and handover scenarios. Finally the journey of a TCP MTU through the protocol layers is described in detail.

Next we will cover briefly selected topics related to the design of LTE network design, like:

1. Business Plan, CAPEX, OPEX, Marketing Plan and ROI

2. Traffic modeling of Customer demand and Offered Services, addressing issues like MSTR, QoS and Latency. IP Traffic Data definition.

3. Customer Distribution Layers including buildings and other environments

4. Analysis of the RF channel and its representation

5. Comparison of Propagation models and desired features

6. RF Interference Issues and traffic outage

Finally we will present the 50 steps required for a design of a LTE network, which are grouped in the following steps:

1. GIS data

2. Customer Modeling

3. Network Modeling

4. Network Optimization

5. Performance

6. Backhaul

How to Enroll:

1. Send an e-mail to training @celplan.com

2. For information call: 703-259-4036

Price:

1. Before April 4th: US$ 1,940.00 per student

2. After April 4th: US$  2,300.00 per student

Download Registration form here and fax it to the number provided in the form.

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