Wireless Broadband: Technology & Regulation

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  • Course:Wireless Broadband: Technology & Regulation
  • Course ID:WIRELESS-TL Duration:3 days Where: Your Office (7+ Persons)
  • Available as a private, customized course for your group at your offices or ours and in some cases as a WebLive(TM) class.

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Course Outline

Part 1: Cellular Systems Design and Components

  • Introduction
    • The cellular concept and objectives
    • 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G and 4G overview
  • Performance criteria
    • Voice quality
    • Data quality
    • Service quality and call load
  • Radio signal propagation
    • Basic channel modeling
    • Signal strength vs distance
    • Impediments to propagation
  • Interference
    • Co-channel interference
    • Carrier-to-interference ratio
    • Adjacent channel interference
  • Frequency reuse and planning
    • Cellular hexagonal grid concept
    • Distance to reuse
    • Handoff
  • System components
    • Mobile telephone
    • Base station
    • Interconnection to the public switched telephone network (PSTN)

Part 2: Foundations of cellular telephony (GSM, IS-95)

  • Pre-2G cellular: AMPS
    • Modulation and channel use
    • In-band control signals
  • Digital modulation characteristics
    • Bandwidth efficiency
    • Clarity
    • Effect of bit error rate on speech quality
  • Speech coding
    • Tradeoff in rate vs quality
  • GSM
    • Time division multiple access (TDMA)
    • Architecture
    • Channels and channel modes
    • Call processing and management
  • IS-95 CDMA
    • Code division multiple access (CDMA)
    • Call processing and management
  • 2G data systems
    • SMS, HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, iDEN

Part 3: 3G Cellular (WCDMA/UMTS, cdma2000)

  • Operation and comparison of 3G systems
    • Architecture
    • Channels and multiple access
    • Speech coding
    • Call processing and management

Part 4: 4G Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX and LTE)

  • Concept of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
    • Extension to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
  • BWA basics
    • Requirements and user expectations
  • WiMAX and LTE
    • Features and standards summary
    • Mobile operation
    • OFDMA uplink and downlink
  • Wi-Fi: The first BWA
    • Range and data rates
    • Comparison to WiMAX and LTE

 

Part 5: Base Station Antennas

  • Basic antenna characteristics
    • Effective isotropic radiated power
    • Polarization
    • Directivity and gain
  • Antenna types and selection
    • Transmit and receive antennas
    • Downtilt
    • Sectoring antennas
  • Advanced antennas for base stations
    • Receive diversity
    • Transmit diversity
    • Beamtilt
    • Modular high-gain antennas
    • Higher order sectorization
    • Fixed and steerable array antennas
    • Antenna technologies for enhancing system capacity

Part 6: Base Station Towers

  • Tower types
    • Monopole
    • Free standing
    • Guyed
  • Methods of disguising towers
  • Tower lighting and marking
  • Tower co-siting and collocation
  • Maintenance

Part 7: Cellular System Regulation

  • Market regulatory structure in the US
    • MSA and RSA
    • Tier A and Tier B carriers
    • Role of the FCC
  • Overview of regulation in other markets
    • Europe (ETSI)
    • Overview of other regulatory agencies
  • Discussion and Course Wrap-up
    • Discussion: Issues of interest to the participants
    • Course recap
    • Questions/Answers
    • Course evaluation