10 October - 13 October 2010 (Sun - Wed)
4-days instructor-led training, 0900 - 1700
Dubai, UAE

Course will enable participants to:

• Understand the transmission interface requirements (Iub) in 3G networks
• Aspects of migrating from legacy transport network to 3G network using ATM and IP
• Advanced MW link planning in light of ITU-T Rec.
• Achieve better spectral efficiency with improved frequency and capacity planning techniques
• Able to derive a strategy for planning 3G BW requirements across MW

Cellular networks are rapidly migrating towards 3G and with data dominant traffic needs of backhaul requirements are changing as well. Ethernet or packet solutions across different layers of transport are a regular feature. Transmission planners are faced with several questions of what to choose for backhaul? Go for a hybrid solution or an all-IP? What are the requirements of different traffic types in 3G environment? We answer all these questions in detail with examples and cases studies in our course.

• Understanding of structures of different interfaces in 3G
• Iub, Iur understanding and its requirements
• Mapping of traffic on interfaces and its backhauling
• QoS requirements understanding
• Dimensioning of traffic between nodeB and RNC
• Features required in a packet radio
• Differentiate between hybrid and packet radio and their applications

Knowledge of Microwave link planning preferably attending the course offered by Telefocal “Microwave transmission Engineering & Link planning”

Anyone related to access transmission engineers, managers, technicians and senior managers interested in understanding the requirements of planning a 3G transmission access network.

DAY 1

• Network layers
  
  
• Standards and Evolution of UMTS
  
  
• Migration from 2G to 3G
  
  
• 3G network architecture
  • Node B
  • RNC & its types
  
  
• Interfaces and protocols
  • R.99 architecture & Sub-systems
  • R.4 architecture & Sub-systems
  • R.5/6 architecture & Sub-systems
  
  
• 3G traffic classes
  
  
• ATM transport in Iub
  
  • Packet vs Cell
  
  
• ATM cell structure
  
  
• ATM layers
  
  
• Iub protocol stack
  
  
• Node-RNC connection
  
  
• 3G traffic classes
  
  
• ATM QoS
  
  
• Traffic shaping and policing
  
  
• QoS model in UMTS

DAY 2

• IMA
  
  
• IP/ATM interworking
  
  
• UMTS transmission networks
  
  
• L2 Switching
  • Redundancies and issues
  • Spanning trees and RSTP
  • VLANs
  
  
• IP in the RAN
  
  
• IP in the Iu/Iub interface
  
  
• IP QoS in the RAN
  
  
• MW Link planning process
  
  
• Propagation
  
  • K-factor
  • Gradient, calculation, M values
  • Ducting and fading
  • Types
  • Ducts counter measures
  
  
• Link budgeting
  
  • DFM, FM, Thermal noise
  
  
• W-curve
  
  
• Network Topologies
  
  
• Network optimization
  
  
• RSL fluctuations/short term/long term
  
  
• Ethernet MW radios
  
  • Frames, types, structure

DAY 3

• ITU frequency plans
  
  
• Frequency re-use techniques
  
  
• Frequency splicing
  
  
• Transmission improvements
  
  
• Protection and Diversity schemes
  
  • SD, FD,AD, Hybrid
  
  
• Nodal solution
  
  
• Adaptive modulation
  
  
• Performance and outages
  
  • Time classification
  • G.826, G.828
  • K.Q factor
  • HRP model
  
  
• PtP with Common hub antenna
  
  
• Packet/Hybrid/Ethernet Radios
  
  
• What is Hybrid Radio?
  
  
• Encapsulation
  
  
• Interference analysis

Day 4

• Ethernet L2 Switching
  
  
• QoS Guarantee switching mechanism
  
  
• Adaptive Modulation
  
  
• Ethernet OAM
  
  
• Synch across Ethernet
  
  
• Time & Clock synchronization, 1588V2
  
  
• Migration strategy to 3G
  
  
• Forecasting
  
  
• Frequency optimization
  
  
• Case studies