3G/4G LTE Technology

On completing this course, you will be able to:

• Appreciate the mobile broadband marketplace
• Understand the area of interworking between technologies
• Be aware of the potential costs and risks involved in LTE
• Receive an overview of the possible applications for LTE

• Introduction

• UMTS, HSPA and Mobile WiMAX
• Goals of LTE: Performance Aims & Objectives
• Evolution towards LTE
• Data capacity charts
• Evolution- SDR
• 3GPP RELATIONS

• Access Network

• UE (USER EQUIPMENT)
• RAN(S1 Interface)
• Core Network(X2 interface)
• MME
• P-GW
• S-GW

• LTE Physical Layer

• MIMO Concepts
• Spatial Multiplexing
• Smart antennas
• Adaptive modulation technique
• Spectral efficiency
• OVSF Planning
• Space Time Diversity Coding & Spatial Multiplex

• Access Technology

• Application in LTE
• Uplink and Downlink are Different
• OFDMA
• SCFDMA
• Changes to Modulation
• Forward Error Correction

• Internetworking

• IP Selection
• Subscriber Profile Update
• Disconnection
• Tunnel Establishment and Disconnection

• Layer3 – RRC

• Rrc-Idle+Connected- Intial Operation
• RRC idle Cell –Reselection
• Paging Procedure
• System information Reception
• RRC Connection Control
• RRC Measurements

• Layer 2- RLC & MAC

• RLC- Radio Link Control

• RLC Architecture
• Services and Functions
• Data transfer procedure
• ARQ procedures

• Medium Access Control

• MAC Architecture
• Random Access Procedure
• Uplink time alignments
• HARQ Entities and Processes
• PDU formats and parameters