Who Should Attend:

This course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network professionals, marketing and sales professional, IT professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with CDMA wireless networks, applications and services.

Prerequisites:

This is an introductory course with no prerequisites.

Course Description:

This course provides a technical and business overview of current and coming CDMA technologies, starting with a review of CDMA fundamentals and the 2G IS-95 standard. It then offers detailed explanations of the prominent 3G wideband CDMA implementations, including TIA cdma2000 and ETSI/ARIB W-CDMA, so that you and your organization can be ready to meet the coming challenges. Since the new 3G-CDMA standards are constantly evolving, this course prepares the technical professional to understand and interpret virtually any CDMA standard that is defined or that may emerge.

Course Objectives:

The following topics are covered: Spread Spectrum Techniques and Architectures CDMA Will Be the Dominant Mobile Telephone Technology Why CDMA Has Grown Rapidly Why CDMA is Preferred Technology for Next Generation Systems CDMA: Key Enabler for the Wireless Internet Factors Driving 3G Harmonization The Best CDMA Business Opportunities and more...

Course Outline:

CDMA Review IS-95 Orientation North American standards (TIA) Basic CDMA Spectrum Spreading Process Code Division Multiple Access RAKE receiver Soft handoffs Single user-Single path Single user- Multiple paths Multiple users with single paths Multiple users with Multiple paths Multipath and Rake receivers CDMA vs. Analog FDMA CDMA vs. TDMA CDMA system overview Locating and keeping track of a MS Mobility management Radio resource management Features in a CDMA cellular system Soft hand-offs Power control Forward and reverse links Long and short codes CDMA Channels CDMA physical channels CDMA logical channels Shared vs. dedicated channels Forward and Reserve logical channels CDMA Physical Layer CDMA protocol layering Forward channels Reverse channels PN Codes and Walsh Functions IS-95 features Pseudo Random (PN) codes Orthogonal codes Short PN codes Long PN codes Walsh functions The Forward Link The Pilot channel The Sync channel The Paging channel Forward traffic channels Call and signaling states The Reverse Link The Access channel The Reverse traffic channels Orthogonal modulator Long codes Forward Traffic Channels Forward link structure Variable rate codec Power control channel Power Control The near-Far problem Need for power control Open loop power control (Reverse Link) Closed loop power control (Reverse Link) Forward link power control Power control implications and tradeoffs CDMA Network Architecture Basic structure Switching Functions BSC Functions BTS Functions Forward features CDMA Subscriber Unit Architecture Basic structure Vocoder operation Transmitter operation Receiver operation Handoff protocol & messaging Mobile Station Control on the traffic channel state Forward traffic channel power control Service options Acknowledgment procedures Processing the in-traffic system parameters message Alerting Conversation substate Release substate Mobile station states Paging channel monitoring procedures Acknowledgments Registration Idle handoff Paging channel messages System Parameters message Access Parameters message CDMA Call Processing Call processing flows Registration Utilized services Handoffs Within one CDMA system Multi-cell (soft) Handoff Multi-Sector (softer) Handoff CDMA to CDMA hard handoffs CDMA to Analog hard Handoff Handoff thresholds Trade-offs and implications Handoff Procedures Pilot sets Pilot search Handoff messages Set maintenance Power control during soft handoff Soft handoff scenarios Registration Forms of registration Systems and networks roaming Registration timers and indicators Registration procedures CDMA System Capacity Key capacity parameters Derivation and discussion Soft capacity increase CDMA vs. FDMA vs. TDMA capacity System design and implementation issues Transition planning from analog to CDMA Field trials results CDMA Evolution CDMA standards Future of CDMA Status of Cdma2000