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Collaborating Effectively on a Virtual Team

Openers Discussion: What are the challenges of collaborating with a non-co-located/global/culturally diverse team? Creating and Collaborating with a Virtual Team Short lecture:  Composition of virtual team, skills to look for; membership on a virtual team, being a “team citizen” virtually; recognizing the seeming saliency of local requests and committing time to virtual team Activity:  Building…

Unified Communications in Public Safety

Introduction: Multiple Views of Unified Communications Microsoft View Cisco View IBM View Nortel, Avaya and Alcatel-Lucent View Service Provider View UC vs Unified Messaging   Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 The O’Reilly Factor Shifting Paradigms   Multimedia, Internet, Communications, Entertainment (MICE) MICE Overview Life beyond the Triple Play Infrastructure, QoS, and QoE Service Ubiquity Broadband…

UMTS-TDD Design & Optimization

UMTS-TDD Air Interface UMTS-TDD Overview UMTS-TDD Protocols PHY Layer Structure MAC Layer Structure Layer 3 Structure UMTS-TDD Architecture PLMN Interconnection 3G Core Network Interconnection Radio Network Procedures Cell Selection/Reselection RAB/RB Procedures Power Control Handovers Signaling End-to-End Communications Radio Resource Management RRM Function Layer 1 RRM Algorithms Dimensioning and Optimization RAN dimensioning of TDD Designing for…

UMTS-TDD

Introduction to UMTS with a Review of the Key FDD Mode Concepts UMTS releases and associated features: An Overview UMTS network architecture UMTS radio technology overview: UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and what’s new in the TDD mode Review of the spread spectrum techniques as applied to UTRA Review of the concepts of physical channels,…

UMTS Planning & Optimization

RF Planning and Optimization Overview of the Network Deployment Process Initial Optimization Ongoing Optimization Link Budgets Uplink Link Budgets Downlink Link Budget for CPICH Downlink Link Budget for Various Services (Connected Mode) Uplink and Downlink and Service Comparison Network Planning Tools Network Planning Tool Inputs Coverage Considerations During Network Planning Interference Considerations During Network Planning…

UMTS

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…

Technical Writing: Proposals, Reports, E-mails, SWOT Analyses

Day 1:  The Basics The writing process Defining the message Organizing one’s thoughts Outlining using a creative approach Creating the first draft Rewriting The 24-hour test Creating the final draft Common errors Group exercises Sentence structure The four parts of every sentence Active versus passive styles Subject/verb agreement Eliminating semantic noise Appropriate sentence length Common…

Career Transition: An Opportunity for Betterment

Introduction Case Study:  What Do I Do Now? Exercise:  Danger or Opportunity? Understanding Change:  Typical Response to Change and How Change Is Best Accepted Change Model The Movement of Change Anticipating and Dealing with Reactions to Change Chaos Theory and How Humans Adapt to Change Nine Principles of Change What Prevents Us from Accepting Selecting…

WiMAX Traffic & Capacity Engineering

 Introduction Course objectives and overview Overview of probabilistic systems Overview of stochastic systems Overview of Monte Carlo simulation Arriving at a deterministic function based on probability Impact to rate of change based on multi-variant inputs Telecommunications Traffic and Self-Similarity Overview of traffic simulation Use of Monte Carlo simulation for telecommunications Cost based routing systems Telecommunications…

Traffic Engineering – Multimedia Networks

Day 1: Traffic Engineering Concepts Traffic Engineering Techniques Overview Circuit Cell Packet Switch/Router Issues Access and Admission Backbone Internetworking QoS/QoE Issues Traffic Distributions and Metrics Busy Hour Traffic (BHT) Measurement Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA) “Best Effort” Metrics Traffic Engineering Focus Points Access Backbone Interconnection Doing The Math Blocking Rates Grade of Service (GoS) Quality…