3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth
| Commitment | 5 days, 7-8 hours a day. |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings | Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said |
| Price | $3,995.00 |
| Delivery Options | Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live |
Course Overview
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth Course – Hands-on
This fast-paced, five-day 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course will help those familiar with 2G technologies migrate to 3G systems. The 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course begins with a review of the digital modulation techniques, radio propagation characteristics, and performance improvement techniques. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of the system building blocks and various system operating scenarios for both the CDMA2000 and WCDMA systems. The course concludes with a study of the link budget spreadsheets and system capacity examples.
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Course Details:
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth Course – Customize it
- We can tailor this 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course to suit the needs of audiences such as hardware engineers, software/application developers, service designers, sales engineers, marketing/sales personnel, radio planners, and persons involved in defense and homeland security endeavors.
- If you are familiar with some aspects of this 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the training around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
- If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth Course – Audience/Target Group
The target audience for this training course:
- This 3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth course is aimed at technical professionals who are familiar with 2G wireless systems such as GSM or CDMA and wish to undertake an in-depth study of the 3G systems, namely WCDMA and CDMA2000.
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth Course – Class Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this training course are:
- Familiarity with 2G technologies such as GSM and/or CDMA.
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth Course – Objectives:
Upon completing this training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:
- Manage multiple AWS accounts for your organization
- Connect on-premises datacenter to AWS cloud
- Discuss billing implications of connecting multi-region VPCs
- Move large data from on-premises datacenter to AWS
- Design large datastores for AWS cloud
- Understand different architectural designs for scaling a large website
- Protect your infrastructure from DDoS attack
- Secure your data on AWS with encryption
- Design protection of data-at-rest as well as data-in-flight
- Enhance the performance of your solutions
Course Syllabus
3G: WCDMA, UMTS and CDMA2000 Training in Depth – Course Content
Digital Modulation Overview
- Introduction to key wireless standards
- IS-95, GSM
- Multiple access principles (TDMA, CDMA, FDMA, SDMA)
- Complex envelope representation of signals and systems
- Bridge relationship to actual hardware
- Provide mathematical insight
- Support computer simulation
- Stochastic theory review
- Digital modulation theory
- BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, MSK, GMSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, etc.
- Pulse shaping filter selection (Nyquist and Raised Cosine filtering)
- Nonlinear amplification (spectral regrowth)
- Migration path and reasoning behind choices available
- Spread spectrum: Frequency Hopping, Direct Sequence CDMA, RAKE receiver, IS-95 CDMA uplink and downlink example, receiver block diagram
- System metrics: BER, SNR, Eb/No definitions
Radio Propagation Characterization
- AWGN channel
- Rayleigh/Rician multipath fading
- Mathematical background
- Practical explanation
- Delay spread concept (flat vs. frequency selective fading)
- Indoor and outdoor propagation measurements
- Delay spread and coherence bandwidth (outdoor and indoor)
- Log normal shadowing
- Path loss models (Free Space, Hata, Cost231, Walfish-Bertoni, etc.)
- Micro/Macro cell measurements
- Comparison of worldwide measurements.
- Man-made interference
- Co-Channel interference (CCI)
- Adjacent Channel interference (ACI)
- Correlation of frequency and time
- Simulating multipath fading channels: Jakes, LPF-ing, etc.
Performance Improvement Techniques
- Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- Block (linear codes, encoder, syndrome decoding)
- Convolutional (trellis diagram, Viterbi algorithm, punctured coding)
- Turbo (encoder and decoder)
- Interleaver/de-interleaver – advantages and disadvantages
- Antenna receiver diversity techniques: Switching, Equal Gain, Maximal Ratio, Optimal Combining
- Theoretical SNR improvement
- Expected BER performance
- Antenna transmit diversity techniques: Space Time Block Codes, Closed Loop Antenna Arrays, MIMO
CDMA2000 System Components (Building Blocks)
- System goals (latency, throughput, etc.)
- CDMA200 Release A, B and C overview
- Mobile Station State Definition
- CDMA 1xRTT physical channels (UL and DL)
- Logical channels (UL and DL)
- Protocol overview (Layer 1 – PHY, Layer 2- MAC, Layer 3- RLC functions)
- 1xEV-DO Release A, B and C overview
- 1xEV-DO physical channels
- Access Terminal State Definition
- 1xEV-DO logical channels
- PN sequences discussion: m sequences, Gold codes, Walsh
- Spreader and despreader (Complex and Quadrature)
- RAKE receiver
CDMA2000 System Scenarios
- Echo profile manager (searcher)
- PN time tracking and acquisition
- Paging discussion
- Power control
- Uplink and downlink
- Comparison to IS-95
- Multi-user scenarios
- Pilot symbol aided coherent detection
- Channel estimation
- QPSK vs. BPSK pilot symbols
- Variable processing gain
- Cell search and handoffs
- Channel assignment
- Traffic channel and radio configurations
- UL/DL performance
- Available data rates
- Multicode transmission
- Receiver implications
- Network architecture (BTS, BSC, CN)
- Migration from circuit-switched to packet based systems
- Comparison with WCDMA system scenarios
3GPP WCDMA System Components (Building Blocks)
- System goals (latency, throughput, etc.)
- 3GPP Release Overview (Release 99 to Release 8 features)
- WCDMA physical channels
- UE state definitions
- WCDMA logical channels
- WCDMA protocol overview (Layer1-PHY, Layer2-MAC, Layer3-RLC functions)
- High-speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) overview
- HSDPA physical channels
- High-speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) overview
- HSUPA physical channels
- PN sequences discussion: m sequences, Gold codes, OVSF
- Spreader and despreader
- RAKE receiver: Overall block diagram discussion
- RAKE receiver: Signal processing
- Channel estimation (multi-slot averaging)
- PN code time tracking (DLL, TDL)
- AFC (two types)
- AGC
- DC offset
- Modulation comparison
- Searcher and finger management
3GPP WCDMA System Scenarios
- Echo profile manager (searcher)
- PN time tracking and acquisition
- SIR power control
- Inner, Outer, and Closed Loop
- UL and DL Closed Loop comparison
- Performance improvement
- Multi-user scenario
- Pilot symbol aided coherent detection
- Channel estimation
- QPSK vs. BPSK pilot symbols
- Rate matching
- Variable processing gain
- Modulation (HPSK) and filtering
- Cell search and handoffs
- Intra-frequency measurements
- Paging discussion
- Comparison of IS-95, CDMA2000 and WCDMA paging protocols
- Power consumption conclusion
- Channel assignment
- Call flow diagrams
- Mobile originated
- Mobile terminated
- HSDPA performance results
- Available data rates
- Multicode transmission
- Receiver implications
- Performance
- Network architecture (NodeB, Radio Network Controller – RNC, Core Network -CN)
- Partitioning of protocol stack across network
- Access Stratum (AS) and Non-Access Stratum (NAS)
- Migration from circuit-switched to packet based systems
- What needs to change on the 3G systems to support this migration?
- Comparison with CDMA2000 system scenarios
- System architecture
- Ciphering examples
- Integrity protection
- Confidentiality
- WCDMA and HSDPA examples
Link Budget and System Capacity Examples
- Link budget methodology
- Link budget equations
- Rise over Thermal calculations
- Example for indoors and outdoors (Excel spreadsheets)
- Cell capacity example
- Targeted frequency bands
Course Wrap-up: Recap and Discussion
Whether you are looking for general information or have a specific question, we want to help.
I got a lot out of the real world scenarios presented in class. Brian