- UMTS-FDD: Review of Key Concepts
- Bit Error rate versus Eb/N0
- UMTS-FDD Error control coding versus modulation versus Eb/N0
- Logical, transport, and physical channels used for data transport
- Retransmission strategies used in UMTS-FDD versus hard/soft decoding
- HSDPA Architecture
- HSDPA-defined transport channels
- HSDPA physical layer changes relative to UMTS-FDD
- HSDPA MAC layer changes/improvements relative to UMTS-FDD
- HSDPA Operation and Design Considerations
- Physical layer functionality, parameters, and optimization considerations
- MAC layer functionality, parameters, and optimization
- Adaptive modulation schemes, parameters, and optimization
- Adaptive coding schemes, parameters, and optimization
- Incremental redundancy/hybrid ARQ
- Conceptual structures
- Operational and optimization issues
- Course Recap and Conclusion
- HSDPA’s elegance, simplicity, and complexities — all at the same time
- Evolution of HSDPA, including HSUPA
