LTE/SAE Fundamentals
- Review of the 3GPP UMTS and HSPA Evolution
- UMTS architectural components
- Migration to all-IP packet mode
- HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+
- Problems with the UMTS approach
- The LTE approach
- The drivers for LTE
- Capability goals and performance aims
- LTE Radio Access Network
- Architectural considerations
- Evolved NodeB (eNodeB)
- eNodeB functionality
- The radio interface requirements
- Interfaces: X2, S1
- Implementation of the interfaces
- Backhaul options
- LTE Core Network
- Why change the UMTS core?
- Major change items
- EPC entities and functionality
- Mobility management entity
- Serving gateway
- Packet data network gateway
- Interfaces
- Bearers and signaling
- Protocol stacks
- Service delivery and IMS
- Additional interfaces and entities for interworking
- LTE Air Interface Fundamentals (Physical Layer)
- Frequency spectrum and bandwidth
- Spread spectrum method and purpose
- Modulation schemes and error correction
- OFDM in the downlink
- SC-FDMA in the uplink
- Radio frame structure
- Resource blocks
- Reference signals
- Scheduling considerations
- Resource allocation
- Physical, logical, and transport channels
- Radio channels and their usage
- Interworking
- Interworking with UMTS and earlier 3GPP networks
- Interworking with WLANs
- Interworking with trusted non-3GPP networks (CDMA)
- Handovers
- Handling voice
- Wrap-up
- Course recap and Q/A
- Evaluations
