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5G RAN Design with Emphasis on Air Interface

This course will offer delegates a good and deep understanding on 5G NR Radio Access Network (RAN) planning and dimensioning procedures with focus on the NR RAN layer 1 channels, overheads and capacity
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Customer Tailored

We can tailor the included topics,tech level,and duration of this course right to your team’s technical requirements and needs. - MCNS offers courses to companies, institutions, departments etc and not to individuals as per open courses.
Aimed At

This course is mainly aimed at a technical audience. It is suitable for technical professionals, RAN operators, Radio planning engineers, RAN optimization engineers, Research Institutes, defense sector, who currently are or will be involved in deploying and designing 5G networks and services.

Prerequisites: Those wishing to take this course should have an introductory level of understanding on 5G technology.

Course Review

This 5G training course leads the audience into a deep dive towards 5G NR technology design and dimensioning principles, both from NR Air interface channels and signals understanding as well as capacity and coverage configuration perspective. It offers an understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and risks that’s needed to exploit and deploy 5G based on traditional MIMO as well as mMIMO technology. A detailed analysis from the scope of RAN capacity and coverage is properly explained, emphasizing on the RAN layer 1 configuration and settings. The course covers both eMBB and FWA services and it is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)
  • Understanding 5G RAN requirements
  • Explore 5G RAN coverage and capacity principles
  • Learn how to plan for cell edge users as well as average cell performance conditions
  • Understand the principles behind the control channels and reference signals capacity and coverage requirements.
  • Learn how to configure basic parameters
  • Practice on capacity and coverage planning tools (i.e. excel calculators examples) through practical exercises
Course Benefits for your Organization
  • Equip organization engineers with the necessary knowledge to accomplish difficult and complex tasks related to 5G NR RAN planning, design and optimization.
  • Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned and high quality customers’ 5G services
  • Identify new revenue streams that can be enabled through 5G proper planning, NR Layer 1 configuration and channel settings.
  • Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization
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5G Radio Technology Review

Basics on NR Dimensioning

Course Outline
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5G New Radio (NR) Technology Preview

  • 5G Air interface overview
  • 5G NR FR1 and FR2 bands
  • Scalable numerology
  • NR frame structure
  • FDD – TDD modes
  • NR signals and channels review
  • Stand-Alone (SA) architecture
  • 5G SA Services: eMBB, massive IoT, URLLC

MIMO & mMIMO Technology overview

  • LTE to 5G MIMO review
  • 3GPP Massive MIMO standardization
  • Beam-forming principles
  • Active Antenna Systems; Active Antenna Units
  • Massive MIMO panels and EiRP
  • Massive MIMO Digital beamforming gain: Practical approach
  • Massive MIMO Analog/Hybrid beamforming gain: Practical approach
  • MIMO TM3, TM4, TM8-10 modes: gain and performance

DL/UL Control Channels & Signals

  • 5G NR SSB
  • Random access procedure and initial beam establishment
  • RACH procedure Msg1-Msg4 sequence and contents
  • Timing Advance and Time synchronization
  • 5G NR PDCCH channel
  • 5G NR PDCCH parameter configuration
  • 5G NR PUCCH formats
  • 5G NR PUCCH parameter configuration
  • 5G NR PUCCH power control
  • 5G NR SRS power control
  • Practical Exercises

DL/UL User Data Transmission Channels

  • 5G NR reference signals related to control plane (DMRS, CSI-RS, TRS, PTRS)
  • 5G NR reference signals parameters and configuration
  • DMRS configuration vs. wireless channel conditions
  • PTRS configuration vs. wireless channel conditions
  • 5G NR Type A transmission
  • 5G NR Type B transmissions
  • 5G NR HARQ codebook principles and Code Block Group (CBG) based retransmissions
  • 5G NR HARQ and CBG parameters
  • 5G NR PUSCH power control
  • Practical exercises

Uplink Planning

  • Network quality requirements
  • Vendor (equipment) UL requirements
  • RACH and RACH success probability
  • Power control factor
  • Uplink Interference factor: Optional features for Interference mitigation
  • Coverage planning for PUSCH channel
  • Coverage planning for control channels (PUCCH, RACH)
  • Coverage planning for signals (SRS, DMRS)
  • 5G NR sector UL capacity estimations
  • 5G NR UL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
  • 5G NR Carrier Aggregation UL capacity
  • Exercise: UL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

Downlink Planning

  • Network quality requirements
  • Vendor (equipment) DL requirements
  • Power gain calculation
  • Interference factor: Optional features for Interference mitigation
  • Coverage planning for PDSCH channel
  • Coverage planning (including aggregation level) for control channel PDCCH
  • Coverage planning for signals (PSS, SSS, PBCH, SIB1, SIBx, CSI-RS, DMRS, PTRS, TRS)
  • 5G NR sector DL capacity estimations
  • 5G NR DL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
  • 5G NR Carrier Aggregation DL capacity
  • Exercise: DL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

RACH Root sequence Planning

  • RACH Root Sequence planning
  • RSI and sectorization
  • RACH Preamble selection and cell size coordination
  • RACH SINR requirements
  • RACH collision probability vs capacity
  • Exercise: RACH collision probability and RACH decoding vs. SINR using Excel spread-sheet calculator
Training Format

Instructor-Led Training

On-Site Classroom: 2 days

Web delivered (Virtual): 2 days

Excellent and descriptive course material (pdf file) will be provided

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