Informa Certified LTE Radio Planning Professional
- Duration: 4 Days
- Price: 2595* Plus Applicable Taxes
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 earths 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
