UMTS 3xxG Evolution: HSDPA, HSUPA, and 3GLTE

Course ID

P-HSPA1

Duration

3 day(s)

Aimed At

This course is aimed at the telecommunications professionals who are already familiar with UMTS and wish to learn about HSDPA, HSUPA, and LTE.

Prerequisites

You should have some prior experience with UMTS.  If unfamiliar with UMTS, consider taking our public class on UMTS. See UMTS:  A Fast-Track Tutorial on our public seminars page: https://eogogics.com/classes

Course in a Nutshell

High Speed Downlink/Uplink Packet Access (HSDPA and HSUPA) are advanced data services that are now being deployed on the UMTS networks worldwide. Together, HSDPA and HSUPA offer reduced latency and much higher data rates on the downlink and uplink. They are expected to help usher in a mass market for mobile IP multimedia services.

This course offers a comprehensive review of the UMTS/WCDMA architecture followed by detailed coverage of the performance and design features contained in the 3GPP specifications for UMTS release 5 (HSDPA), release 6 (HSUPA), and release 7 (HSPA+). We will learn about the functionality and coding of the new transport and physical channels as well as the adaptive modulation and coding techniques behind the new high speed capabilities of UMTS. We will undertake comprehensive review of the work-in progress on Release 8, Long Term Evolution (or LTE). We will conclude with a look at the ITU proposal for 4G, the next generation of wireless technologies. Upon course completion, you will have a good understanding of what lies beyond UMTS Release 99, which will help you plan future upgrades to your network.

Course Outline

  • UMTS Standards and Architecture: An Overview
    • Evolution to 3G CDMA technologies
    • From GSM to UMTS
    • UMTS global deployment history
    • UMTS/WCDMA: A review of key concepts
    • UMTS and GSM interoperability issues
    • GSM and the UMTS overlay architecture
    • 3GPP UMTS releases
    • Evolution of TDMA, CDMA and OFDM
  • WCDMA: A Review of the Key Features and Parameters
    • Spreading and despreading
    • Multipath channels and Rake receivers
    • Power control strategies
    • WCDMA channelization
    • Source coding (the voice channel)
    • Channel coding and interleaving
    • Soft and softer handoff
    • Power control strategies
    • Spreading and modulation
      • Uplink modulation
      • Downlink modulation
      • Synchronization channel spreading and modulation
    • User data transmission
    • WCDMA signaling and radio interface protocols
  • UMTS Core Network
    • UMTS core network to radio interface definitions
    • Core network components
  • Evolution to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
    • UMTS/HSPA evolution timeline
    • Progress of global deployments for HSDPA
    • Progress of Rel-99/Rel-5/Rel-6 UMTS
  • High Speed Downlink Packet Access (Release 5)
    • Current status of Release 5
    • Key concepts and features of Release 5
    • HSDPA attributes in detail
      • Adaptive modulation and coding
      • Added physical channels
      • Fast hybrid ARQ
      • Fast Node B scheduling
      • Short Transmission Time Interval (TTI)
      • Modulation
      • QPSK
      • 16QAM
      • Adaptive modulation and coding tradeoffs
      • New physical channels
        • HS-SCCH: The High Speed-Shared Control Channel
        • HS-DPCCH: The Uplink High Speed-Dedicated Physical Control Channel
        • HS-PDSCH: The High Speed-Physical Downlink Shared Channel
  • High Speed Uplink Packet Access (Release 6)
    • Current status of Release 6
    • Key concepts and features of Release 6
    • Scheduled and unscheduled transmission modes
    • New physical channels
      • E-AGCH (Access Grant Channel)
      • E-DCH Relative Grant Channel
      • F-DPCH (Fractional-DPCH)
      • E-HICH (E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel)
      • E-DPCCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel)
      • E-DPDCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel
  • Review of Work in Progress on Release 7 and HSPA Evolved/HSPA+
    • Background and status of Release 7
    • Release 7 radio enhancements
    • Higher order modulations
      • 16QAM
      • 64QAM
    • Continuous packet connectivity
      • Discontinuous transmission and reception (DTX/DRX)
      • HS-SCCH-less operation
      • New DPCCH slot format
    • MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) Antennas
    • RAN architecture improvements
    • Device related enhancements
      • Globally routable user agent uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
      • UMTS Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) enhancements
    • Evolved EDGE
    • Release 7 performance improvements
      • Higher order modulation on the downlink (DL)
      • DL bit rate improvement with 64 QAM
      • Higher order modulation on the uplink (UL)
      • UL bit rate improvements with 16 QAM
  • Wireless Data Trends and Forecasts
    • Wireless data revenue outlook
    • 3G devices
    • Applications
    • IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
    • VoIP over Cellular
  • Looking Ahead to 3GPP Release 8: SAE/EPS and LTE/EUTRAN
    • Evolved Packet System (EPS) architecture and service
    • Architecture Evolution (SAE): Key features
    • Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Evolved UMTS Radio Access Network (EUTRAN): Key features
      • EPS functional nodes
        • Mobility Management Entity (MME)
        • Serving gateway
        • PDN gateway
        • Evolved UTRAN (eNodeB)
      • Support for non-3GPP accesses
      • Interfaces & protocols
      • Interfaces & protocols for non-3GPP accesses
      • System aspects
        • Key hierarchy in EPS
    • UTRAN Long Term Evolution (LTE) Air-interface
      • LTE downlink structure
        • OFDM and channel structure
        • Downlink transport channels and downlink physical channels
        • LTE uplink structure: Shared channel and control channel structure
      • Radio access protocol architecture
      • Multi-antenna solutions
        • MIMO options
      • Interference mitigation techniques
    • Other Release 8 enhancements
      • Common IMS
      • Multimedia priority service
      • IMS enhancements for support of packet cable access
      • IMS service brokering
      • Voice Call Continuity (VCC) enhancements
  • Defining 4G, The Next Generation of Wireless Technologies
    • What is (and what is not) 4G?
    • The ITU role in 4G
    • The progression towards 4G
    • Overview of IMT-R M.1645
    • Relevant ITU-R 4G resolutions, recommendations and reports