LTE Network Planning
- LTE air interface overview
- Air interface structure overview
- Air interface bit mapping
- Theoretical throughput calculations
- Exercises
- Services and QoS restrictions
- Identification of available services
- QoS restrictions based on 3GPP standards
- Traffic considerations
- Simulation results and simulators
- Most useful simulation curves
- Exercises
- Initial conditions: Operator details and requirements
- Setting up the initial planning case
- Filling up the customer requirements table
- Understanding the critical conditions for initial planning
- Uplink considerations: Throughput and capacity
- Throughput considerations
- Capacity considerations
- Operator capacity requirements
- Capacity estimation
- Practical exercises using simulation tool: Practice on different planning scenarios
- Expected Interference and SINR
- Intercell-interference estimation based on statistical counters
- Intercell-interference estimation based on simulations
- Intercell-interference estimation based on drive test measurements
- Intercell-interference estimation based on mathematical queue models
- SINR estimation algorithm based on simulations
- SINR for different MIMO configurations
- Throughput estimation based on statistical counters
- Throughput estimation based on queue models
- Throughput estimation based on real drive test measurements
- Uplink cell range
- Estimating worst cell edge scenario throughput
- Estimating average cell throughput
- Fulfilling customer requirements
- Uplink cell range estimation
- Recursive procedures to improve customer requirements
- Practical exercises using simulation tool: Practice on different planning scenarios
- Downlink considerations: Throughput and capacity
- Starting point: Uplink cell edge range
- Case study: Downlink throughput considerations fulfillment
- Capacity considerations: Operator requirements fulfillment
- Case study: Downlink throughput considerations not fulfilled
- Capacity considerations: Operator requirements not fulfilled
- General approach discussions
- Introduction to scheduler: Algorithm decision process
- Practical exercises: Case studies
- Downlink expected interference and SINR
- Intercell-interference estimation based on statistical counters
- Intercell-interference estimation based on simulations
- Intercell-interference estimation based on drive test measurements
- Intercell-interference estimation based on queue models
- SINR estimation algorithm based on simulations
- SINR for MIMO configurations
- Throughput estimations based on statistical counters
- Throughput estimations based on queue models
- Downlink cell range
- Estimating worst cell edge scenario downlink throughput
- Estimating average downlink cell throughput
- Fulfilling customer requirements
- Uplink cell range estimation
- Recursive procedures to improve customer requirements
- Practical exercises using simulator tools and MS Excel spreadsheets
- Control channel requirements
- Control channels air interface format
- Control channel SINR requirements based on simulations
- Control channel fulfilling conditions
- Cell range re-evaluations for control channel requirements
- X2-S1 transport capacity design: IP/Ethernet overview
- IP protocol description overview
- Ethernet protocol description overview
- IP/Ethernet backhaul bandwidth considerations
- Using IP/Ethernet for LTE transport
- Estimating bandwidth
- Choosing appropriate plug-in units hardware: Vendor specific
- Radio parameters and performance optimization
- LTE radio functionality overview
- LTE KPI’s overview
- Optimizing LTE scheduler functionality
- Optimizing LTE RLC/MAC throughput
- Wrap-up
- Course Recap and Q/A
- Evaluations
