Introduction:

As UMTS proliferates worldwide, there’s growing demand for a good, strong course on UMTS. This course is that. In this course, you will learn the architecture and operation of UMTS-FDD as it impacts the design and optimization of a UMTS-FDD network. We will begin with a close look at the architecture of a UMTS network, with emphasis on the FDD mode. We will learn about both the optional and mandatory features of UMTS-FDD. We will also discuss the relationships between the logical channels, transport channels, and physical channels in a good deal of depth. All of this will allow you to exploit the technology’s strengths to come up with better network designs, trouble shoot performance problems, and identify solution approaches. It will also help you interface with vendors more effectively.

Audience:

Those with some CDMA background who wish to learn more about UMTS-FDD. The standard presentation of this course assumes a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related subject along with an appropriate background in communications engineering.

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of the wireless network structure and operation, RF propagation and fading issues, and link budget analysis. At least two years experience in the design and optimization of a wireless network using any major technology.

Customize it:

This 3-4-day UMTS course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Enowireless will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization’s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Enowireless, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren’t too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our “standard”, one size fits all, class.

Objectives:

Course Outline

UMTS Introduction and Overview UMTS releases and the corresponding features UMTS network architecture UMTS radio technology overview: UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) Review of major aspects of spread spectrum techniques as applied to UTRA UMTS Radio Interface Protocol Architecture Physical layer (Layer 1) Data link layer (Layer 2) Network layer (Layer 3) UMTS Channelization Concepts and Implementation UMTS physical channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage UMTS transport channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage UMTS logical channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage Mapping of logical channels to transport channels and associated optimization issues Mapping transport channels to physical channels and associated optimization issues UMTS Code Structures, Cell Selection, and Cell Reselection Mechanisms UMTS scrambling codes: Long codes and short codes usage, properties and optimization UMTS channelization codes: Tree codes usage, properties and optimization UMTS synchronization channel and its structure and usage in the cell selection/reselection process UMTS Speech Coding and Channel Coding Options Speech coding and AMR in UMTS (as opposed to AMR in GSM) Error control coding ---Convolutional codes ---Turbo codes ---Strengths and weaknesses and associated design, operational, and optimization considerations UMTS Spreading and Modulation Specifics ---Specifics of spreading in the Dedicated Channel (DCH) ---Overview of spreading in other channels ---Modulation specifics and associated issues UMTS Measurements and Intersystem Handovers Compressed mode, measurement methodology, parameters, and optimization issues UMTS-to-GSM handovers Course Recap and Conclusion