Traffic Engineering
- Getting Started: Apparatus and Issues of Traffic Engineering
- Overview of probabilistic systems
- Overview of stochastic systems
- Telecommunications services types and traffic generation
- Voice call profiles
- Data call profiles
- Accounting for static capacity
- Accounting for mobility
- Models and Techniques of Traffic Engineering
- Traffic information, sources of data
- Analysis of data
- Calculation of Erlang B
- Use of Erlang B
- Calculation of Extended Erlang B
- Use of Extended Erlang B
- Use of Extended Erlang B in radio resource sharing
- Calculation of Erlang C
- Use of Erlang C
- Use of Erlang C in data services
- Static dimensioning
- Mobility Overview
- Mobile network overview
- BTS/Node B
- BSC/RNC
- Switching
- Signalling
- Mobility call flows
- Resource allocation
- Set up and tear down
- Synchronicity
- Codecs used and accounting for codec variability
- Transcoder free operations (TrFO) and impact to capacity engineering
- Remote Transcoder Operation (RTO) and impact to capacity engineering
- Mobility Traffic Engineering for GSM
- Mobility for GSM systems
- Predicting mobility requirements
- Accounting for mobility impact in GSM systems
- Impact of capacity in GSM systems
- Advanced capacity management techniques in GSM systems
- Radio network load balancing
- BSC load balancing
- Propagation delay budgets
- Codecs used throughout GSM systems
- 2.5G data on GSM systems
- Timeslot allocation between voice and data
- Timers for BTS hand over
- Timers for inter-BSC hand over
- Timers for inter-MSC hand over
- Dimensional trade-offs, capacity versus mobility versus probability of time slot availability
- Mobility Traffic Engineering for CDMA/WCDMA systems
- Accounting for mobility impact in CDMA/WCDMA systems
- Impact of capacity in CDMA/WCDMA systems
- Impact of traffic to capacity in CDMA/WCDMA systems
- Impact of interference to capacity and performance
- Radio network load balancing
- BSC/RNC load balancing
- Soft hand offs
- Hard hand offs
- Soft hand off boundaries
- Timers for BSC hand over
- Timers for BSC/RNC hand over
- Timers for inter-MSC hand over
- Impact of 1xRTT data to CDMA2000 systems
- Impact of data on UMTS systems
- Impact of HSDPA data on W-CDMA systems
- Call handover procedure between GSM and UMTS systems
- Load balancing between GSM/UMTS systems
- Workshops
- Generation of service demand
- Calculation of traffic requirements
- Busy hour dimensioning
- Use of Erlang tables
- Applicability of Erlang tables to services mix
- Resource sharing
- Load balancing
- Network optimization techniques
- Advanced Traffic Topics and Course Wrap-up
- Quality of service in 3G networks
- Services requirements for quality of services
- Quality of service methods and techniques in 3G
- Predicting impacts of 3G data applications to resource utilization
- Predicting impacts of 3G data applications to availability capacity
- Scheduling and buffering
- Synchronization
- Q/A and Evaluations
