Date

Monday-Tuesday, November 24-25, 2008

Fees

$1,177

Location

Reston, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC (just a few minutes’ drive from the Dulles International Airport). After you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing detailed information about the class location.

Target Audience, Prerequisites, and Brief Description

If you are an experienced wireless engineer with understanding of the basic DSSS/CDMA principles who wishes to learn in depth about the cdma2000 1xRTT-EVDO (“EVDO”) technology, this course is intended for you. Please note that the course focuses on the green field implementation of 1xEVDO.

Meet the Presenter: Max Main

Max Main, a principal member of the Eogogics telecommunications faculty, is a widely known and respected presenter, consultant, and author. Over the past 18 years, he has taught hundreds of classes on state-of-the art telecommunications systems, from two days to two weeks long, to diverse audiences worldwide. His deep technical expertise combined with a unique talent for explaining complex material in terms easy to understand has made him popular with engineering and non-technical audiences alike. His course repertoire includes 3G/4G (EVDO/EVDV, UMTS/HSPA, 3G LTE), WiMAX, 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA), WAN/LAN, convergence technologies including VoIP, microwaves, satellite communications, digital home technologies, and network security. His teaching career builds on 30+ years of hands-on work in telecommunications engineering. During his long career, he has been involved in the design and deployment of many classified military wireless communications systems using CDMA and other technologies. He led the engineering team for a pioneering CDMA-based military satellite communications system for the U.S. Air Force. He was the lead engineering manager for a program that established the first air-transportable earth station satellite system for the U.S. State Department and the White House Communications Agency. He also served as the engineering coordinator and training manager for a national cellular network system upgrade to CDMA in Brazil. He is the author of several books on subjects ranging from RF propagation and network optimization to convergence, VoIP, satellites, and wireless search/rescue location determination systems. His textbook and lab materials on wireless training/certification are used in several college-level engineering courses as well as in corporate training programs. He is a frequent guest speaker at industry trade shows on trends in wireless regulatory and standards issues. He also serves as a subject matter expert (SME) and senior consultant on international telecommunications policy and wireless technology trends for a large venture capital management organization. Read his detailed biography.

Detailed Course Outline:

• Session 1: Introduction to the 1xEVDO Technology
  • Basis for phased approach to EVDO
  • Competing technologies
  • Basic overview and review of cdma2000 architecture
• Session 2: New Concepts in cdma2000 1x EVDO
  • Link adaptation
    • Adaptive modulation and coding
    • Variable channelization spreading
    • Hybrid ARQ
  • Multiuser diversity
  • Beam forming
  • Turbo codes
  • Transmit diversity
  • Network-controlled selectable mode vocoder
• Session 3: TIA-856 1xEVDO Rev 0
  • HRPD and 1xEVDO overview
  • Access network and access terminal
  • 1x EVDO air interface
    • Air interface overview
    • Air interface protocol stack
    • HRPD layering structure and default protocols explained
      • Physical layer
      • MAC layer
      • Security layer
      • Connection layer
      • Connection layer
      • Session layer
      • Stream layer
      • Application layer
      • Default implementations at each layer
• Session 4: Air Interface Channelization
  • Forward link channels
    • Pilot
    • MAC
    • Control
    • Traffic
  • Reverse link channels
    • Reverse access channel mode
    • Reverse traffic channel mode
  • Forward physical channel composition
    • MAC addressing
    • Forward link frame and slot structure
    • Control channel slot cycles
  • Forward traffic channel
    • Modulation parameters
  • Forward MAC channel
    • Multiplexing (RAB and RPC/DRC Lock channels)
    • Modulation parameters
    • Pilot PN code offsets per sector for 1x EV DO
  • Reverse physical channel composition
  • Reverse traffic channel frame structure and parameters
    • Reverse data and ACK channels
    • Pilot/RRI channel
    • DRC channel structure
    • Reverse access channel structure
  • Forward link parameters
    • Forward link rate selection
    • Forward link packet scheduling
      • Scheduling options
      • Hybrid ARQ
  • Reverse link data transmission parameters
    • Data rate selection
    • Reverse rate limits and max rate parameters
  • Reverse traffic channel power control
  • Cell//Sector reselection
• Session 5: 1xEVDO IS856 Rev A Features
  • New DRC rates
  • Decreased connection establishment time
  • Reverse link upgrades
    • Higher order modulation
    • Multicode data transmission
    • Auxiliary pilot
    • Enhanced link adaptation
    • Fast HARQ
    • Expanded rate control
  • Forward link upgrades
    • New DRC interpretations
    • New MAC indices
  • Expanded QOS features
    • Multiflow QOS
  • Cell switching algorithm
  • Sleep time and fast call setup
  • Network architecture overview
• Session 6: 1xEVDO Rev B: Overview of 2006 TIA Standard for Revision B
  • Multicarrier operation in non-contiguous spectrum blocks
  • Backward compatibility
  • Statistical multiplexing
  • Move toward statistical multiplexing
  • Increased talk-time and standby time
  • Higher order modulation – 64QAM
• Session 7: Core Network for 1vEV DO Revision A
  • Access terminal and Access Network
  • Packet Data Serving Node
  • AAA Server
  • Base Station Controller/Packet Data Function
  • Interoperability Specification (IOS) A13
  • Radio and Core Network Interfaces
• Session 8: 3GPP Evolved Packet Core Network
  • System Architecture Evolution (3GPP Release 8)
  • Evolved Packet Core Network Architecture
  • Mobility Management Entity (MME),User Plane Entity (UPE)
  • Inter Access System Anchor
  • 3GPP Anchor
  • SAE Anchor
  • Serving Gateway
• Session 9: Course Review and Discussion