- UMTS Introduction and Overview
- UMTS releases and the corresponding features
- UMTS network architecture
- UMTS radio technology overview: UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA)
- Review of major aspects of spread spectrum techniques as applied to UTRA
- UMTS Radio Interface Protocol Architecture
- Physical layer (Layer 1)
- Data link layer (Layer 2)
- Network layer (Layer 3)
- UMTS Channelization Concepts and Implementation
- UMTS physical channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage
- UMTS transport channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage
- UMTS logical channels: Definition, properties, and corresponding usage
- Mapping of logical channels to transport channels and associated optimization issues
- Mapping transport channels to physical channels and associated optimization issues
- UMTS Code Structures, Cell Selection, and Cell Reselection Mechanisms
- UMTS scrambling codes: Long codes and short codes usage, properties and optimization
- UMTS channelization codes: Tree codes usage, properties and optimization
- UMTS synchronization channel and its structure and usage in the cell selection/reselection process
- UMTS Speech Coding and Channel Coding Options
- Speech coding and AMR in UMTS (as opposed to AMR in GSM)
- Error control coding
- Convolutional codes
- Turbo codes
- Strengths and weaknesses and associated design, operational, and optimization considerations
- UMTS Spreading and Modulation Specifics
- Specifics of spreading in the Dedicated Channel (DCH)
- Overview of spreading in other channels
- Modulation specifics and associated issues
- UMTS Measurements and Intersystem Handovers
- Compressed mode, measurement methodology, parameters, and optimization issues
- UMTS-to-GSM handovers
- Course Recap and Conclusion
