5G RAN SA Planning Course by MCNS

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

5G RAN SA Planning 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 SA throughput enhancements and 5G SA deployments.

Prerequisites: Those wishing to take this course should have a good and solid understanding of 5G technology, with emphasis on 5G NR air interface.

Course Review

This 5G training course leads the audience into a deep dive towards 5G Stand Alone technology planning principles, both from understanding as well as configuration perspective. It offers an understanding of the opportunities, challenges, and risks that’s needed to exploit and deploy the 5G SA technology from the throughput perspective. It teaches how to maximize RAN SA network capacity and enhance data transmission. The course is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)

Understanding 5G SA 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 SA RAN planning.
Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned and high throughput and quality customers’ 5G services
Identify new revenue streams that can be enabled through 5G
Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization

You will learn

The key points you will learn through this course

5G Radio Technology Review

Basics on Standalone (SA) Planning

Course Outline

A short brief of your program details & schedule

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 Service: eMBB

MIMO & mMIMO Technology overview

LTE to 5G MIMO review
3GPP Massive MIMO standardization
Beam-forming principles
Massive MIMO panels and EiRP
Massive MIMO beamforming gain: Practical approach
Active Antenna Systems, Active Antenna Units

5G Channel Modeling

What is a Mobile Channel model ?– general principles
Non-Line of Sight and Rayleigh modeling
LoS and Rice modeling
Shadow modeling
Site modeling : Macro, micro, pico
Doppler effects and channel models
FR1 Pathloss models (3.6-3.8 GHz, 5-6 GHz)
FR2 Pathloss models for mmW (24-30 GHz, 30-40 GHz, 50-60 GHz)
Example: Link budget analysis overview; various cases (rural, urban, dense urban, O2I)
Exercise: Link Budget calculations using Excel

Uplink Planning

Network quality requirements
Vendor (equipment) UL requirements
Power control factor
Uplink Interference factor: Optional features for Interference mitigation
Coverage planning for PUSCH channel
Coverage planning for PUCCH channel
Coverage planning for signals (SRS, DMRS)
5G NR SA sector UL capacity estimations – eMBB service
UL SA & Carrier Aggregation capacity
UL SA overall throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
UL Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) throughput estimation
Exercise: UL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

Downlink Planning

Network quality requirements
Vendor (equipment) DL requirements
Power gain calculation
DL 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, CSI-RS, DMRS)
5G NR SA sector DL capacity estimations – eMBB service
DL SA & Carrier Aggregation capacity
DL SA overall throughput calculation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
DL Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) throughput estimation
Exercise: DL capacity estimations 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

FAQ's

Are higher frequencies used in 5G SA risky for public health?

EMF exposure from 5G networks, including through the use of new frequency bands, has to remain below the recommended limits, just like 2G, 3G and 4G networks. New guidelines from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) were released in March 2020. So following ICNIRP 1998 guidelines, they are protective for current applications of radio frequency EMFs, while their new guidelines incorporate also EMF exposure for frequencies above 6 GHz, where future 5G technologies will operate. This will result in reducing the maximum magnitude of localized exposure. Limits for the exposure to EMFs that are currently recommended at international and EU level were classified by the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the third level in a scale of five levels of risk, which puts them in the group with other ‘possibly carcinogenic’ elements, such as pickled vegetables. This means that radio EMFs are less risky than eating red meat, working night shifts or drinking hot coffee, which are at the second level and assessed as ‘probably carcinogenic’. Radio EMFs are considered even less risky than air pollution, wood dust or alcoholic beverages, which, being at the first level, fall into the ‘carcinogenic’ category'. More information on classifications is available on the International Agency for Cancer Research website.

How are 5G SA number of antennas and EMF limits related?

Some people are worried that more antennas means more EMF exposure. The European Commission takes protection of public health very seriously and ensures that any emissions are subject to high precautionary measures. 5G networks will use small cells with lower power levels and therefore lower EMF exposure levels than the existing large cells in 4G networks. A recent Commission study showed that in urban areas where 5G will be deployed and 4G antennas are still in use, the overall exposure levels will modestly increase, but this will still be a long way below safe limits, which are 50 times lower than levels at which health effects are possible. As the 4G antennas go out of use, exposure levels will go down. Moreover, 4G and older generation antennas, which operate with higher emission powers, are expected to be used less and less in these areas. The new, small cell networks will develop and distribute sources of electromagnetic fields more evenly at lower power levels.

How is 5G SA performance boosted?

In pure technical terms, 5G networks are characterised by low-latency with nearly real-time network responsiveness, wider bandwidth for ultra-fast data and guaranteed quality having a part of the network reserved for a particular use. These features make 5G the key foundation to test and launch the latest technologies, namely, the Internet of Thing (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual and Augmented reality (VR and AR). Edge computing is a key concept to meet these requirements. It means data processing close to, or directly on, the user’s device, rather than sent over the network to a data processing centre and then retrieved and sent it back to the user’s device. Such real-time interaction will enable applications like health and patient monitoring, remote control of factory machines, smart grids for renewable energy management, autonomous vehicles, precise fault detection and quick intervention, and more.

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