Programme
Informa Certified LTE Radio Planning Professional

The course will cover:

• Overview of RF principles
  • EM waves and the radio spectrum
  • Polarisation
  • Baseband signals – bit rate and baud rate
  • Decibels
  • Thermal, natural, and man made noise
  • Noise factors and noise figures
  • Modulation techniques and impacts on capacity and bandwidth
  • Requirements of error control techniques
  • Introduction to multiple access methods (FDMA/TDMA/CDMA/OFDM/OFDMA)
  • Duplex techniques – TDD, FDD
• Propagation principles
  • The space wave
  • The impact of the earth’s atmosphere
  • Topography and clutter
  • Atmospheric refraction
  • Diffraction, Absorption, Reflection
  • Scattering, Shadowing
  • Abnormal propagation phenomena
  • Multipath propagation
  • Fading (flat and selective)
  • Cellular principles and sectorisation
  • The fixed and mobile environments (including NLOS and LOS)
• OFDM and OFDMA concepts
  • Overview of OFDM/OFDMA principles
  • Determination of the OFDM key parameters
  • Structure of the OFDM symbol, time-domain pulse shaping
  • Orthogonal subcarriers, subcarrier spacing, spectrum of OFDM signal
  • Overview of LTE air interface
  • Role of Cyclic Prefix (CP) – (long and short CP)
  • Logical, Transport and Physical channels
  • Reference signals and channel estimation
  • Synchronisation signals
  • LTE synchronization schemes (time and frequency synchronization)
  • Modulation and coding schemes
  • Random access preamble
  • LTE spectrum options
  • LTE system data rates
  • Adaptive modulation and coding
  • Power control
• Advanced antenna systems
  • The isotropic radiator
  • Practical antennas
  • Antenna gain
  • Front to back ratios and beam width
  • Diversity theory
  • Multi antenna theory – SISO, SIMO, MISO, SU-MIMO, MU-MIMO
  • Spatial multiplexing
  • Smart antennas
• Propagation modelling and link planning
  • Physical, empirical and mixed models
  • ITU-R recommendations
  • Free space loss
  • Diffraction models
  • Fresnel Zones – obstacle clearance
  • Reflection points
  • Fade margins
  • Rain fall loss
  • Building and vegetative loss
  • Multipath models
  • Link budgets
  • Diversity techniques
  • Interference mechanisms
  • The regulatory environment – frequency bands and licence conditions
  • Co-existence of technologies in IMT bands
  • System parameters
• Capacity planning principles
  • The business plan and the market to be served.
  • Base station capacity and coverage – cell edge issues
  • Coverage limited, Capacity limited
  • Service capacity, Oversubscription
  • Traffic profiles and traffic calculations