- 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, transport channels, and logical channels
- UMTS-TDD Channelization Concepts and Implementation
- UMTS physical channels: Definition, properties, and usage; what’s new in TDD
- UMTS transport channels: Definition, properties, and usage; what’s new in TDD
- UMTS logical channels: Definition, properties, and usage: What’s new in TDD
- Mapping of logical channels to transport channels: What’s new in TDD
- Mapping transport channels to physical channels: What’s new in TDD
- TDD slot structures and associated degrees of freedom (and complexity)
- UMTS-TDD Spreading and Modulation Specifics
- Specifics of spreading in the dedicated channel in the TDD mode
- Overview of spreading in other channels in the TDD mode
- Course Recap and Conclusion
