5G RAN SA Planning, Design & Dimensioning

5G RAN SA Planning, Design & Dimensioning will offer delegates a good and deep understanding on 5G NR Radio Access Network (RAN) planning and dimensioning procedures with focus on the Stand Alone (SA) design & deployment

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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

5G RAN SA Planning, Design & Dimensioning 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 SA.

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

5G RAN SA Planning, Design & Dimensioning leads the audience into a deep dive towards 5G Stand Alone (SA) technology planning, design and dimensioning 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 with emphasis on massive MIMO beamforming solutions. It teaches how to maximize RAN network capacity and enhance data transmission, evaluate service quality, optimize usage of radio network resources, design the RACH channel, plan for paging capacity, dimension TAs and RNA for RRC-inactive users, consider quality requirements for RAN reference signals and channels and finally dimension the front-haul and back-haul transmission network capacity. Finally it also considers some 5G RAN SA optional features to improve performance. 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 complete special topics on capacity and coverage (i.e. Paging, RACH planning & dimensioning, TA planning)
Learn how to configure basic parameters
Practice on capacity and coverage planning tools (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 plan, 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
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

SA mobility planning scenarios

5G SA Special Design Requirements

5G SA Transport Network Design Requirements

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 for SA deployment: gain and performance

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 (below 3 GHz, C-Band, 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
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 SA sector UL capacity estimations – single service
5G NR SA sector UL capacity estimations – combined services
5G NR SA UL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
5G NR SA & 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 SA sector DL capacity estimations – single service
5G NR SA sector DL capacity estimations – combined services
5G NR SA DL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
5G NR SA & Carrier Aggregation DL capacity
Exercise: DL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

SA mobility planning

SA mobility scenarios
SA Handover events (A2, A3, A5) and parameter settings
SA RwR conditions
SA Radio Link Failure coverage estimation

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

5G NR SA Paging Dimensioning Considerations

5G NR Paging review
5G NR Paging intensity
5G NR SA Paging capacity estimation
NG interface capacity estimation vs paging intensity
5G NR SA Paging Success rate estimation
Exercise: Paging Capacity estimations and Paging decoding probability vs SINR SINR using Excel spread-sheet calculator

SA Tracking Area Dimensioning Considerations

TA & TA list capacity considerations
Tracking area Update (TAU) signaling load
Notification area (RNA) capacity planning
RRC-Inactive state and signaling loading

D-RAN Deployment

Distributed (D-RAN) deployment requirements
Back-haul transport network requirements
Optical fiber throughputs and capacity
MW-Link throughput and capacity
Exercise: capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

C-RAN Deployment

Centralized (C-RAN) deployment requirements
Passive (RRU) vs. Active Antenna Unit (AAU) requirements
CPRI and eCPRI standards and requirements
Front-haul transport network requirements
Back-haul transport network requirements
Optical fiber throughputs and capacity
MW-Link throughput and capacity
Exercise: capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

v-RAN Deployment

virtual (v-RAN) or cloud RAN deployment requirements
CU-DU split architectures and deployment scenarios
Passive (RRU) vs. Active Antenna Unit (AAU) requirements
CPRI and eCPRI standards and requirements
F1 interface requirements
E1 interface requirements
Optical fiber throughputs and capacity
MW-Link throughput and capacity
Exercise: capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

Xn Deployment

SA Xn interface deployment requirements
Xn-AP and Xn-UP capacity and throughput considerations
Optical fiber throughputs and capacity
MW-Link throughput and capacity
Exercise: capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

Training Format

Instructor-Led Training

On-Site Classroom: 4days

Web delivered (Virtual): 4 days

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

FAQ's

How is 5G SA coverage affected?

It is well known that higher radio frequencies have shorter wavelengths, meaning they can’t travel too far without high attenuation. Consequently 5G SA “cells” have to be smaller if an MNO wants to provide access to those high-frequency bands. 5G networks require more infrastructure, and that infrastructure offers less coverage. However, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) like Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M are beginning to incorporate 5G technologies. Massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is the 5G evolution of NB-IoT and LTE-M, and it will facilitate greater 5G coverage.

How is 5G SA outdoor to indoor planning affected?

From basic physics it is well known that higher frequencies have a harder time penetrating buildings, which means they have poor indoor coverage. 5G can use bands in low and mid-range frequencies as well, but indoor applications will often not be able to use the higher bands. As a common practice we can say that 5G connectivity is most useful in big cities where there’s a higher concentration of cellular devices (and greater demand for high-speed, low latency Internet). But it will take time for MNOs to build up the infrastructure needed to provide widespread 5G coverage.

What is the 5G SA operating frequency range? highest Modulation Scheme used in LTE-A?

5G networks can facilitate connectivity on low frequencies below 1 Gigahertz (GHz), mid frequencies from 1 GHz to 6 GHz, and high frequencies from 6 GHz to over 100 GHz. Additionally, a 5G network can connect devices over both licensed and unlicensed bands, giving providers greater flexibility with how they use the radio frequency spectrum. While the substantially higher frequencies allow for greater data speeds, this also creates new coverage and infrastructure challenges for engineers that want to take advantage of 5G.

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