Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) over LTE

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) over LTE will offer delegates a thorough understanding of FWA over LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) Planning and Design

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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

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) over LTE 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 FWA design deployments and FWA RAN network dimensioning.

Prerequisites: Those wishing to take this course should have a good and solid understanding of LTE RAN technology, LTE design and LTE procedures with emphasis on FWA requirements.

Course Review

This 4G (LTE) FWA training course leads the audience into the Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) principles over LTE technology. A detailed analysis on basic procedures for FWA over LTE RAN planning, design and network dimensioning principles is explained and presented, both from technology understanding as well as configuration perspective.

FWA is a broadband service for high throughput and the methodology to maximize FWA RAN network capacity and coverage, as well as to enhance data transmission is one of the primary goals of this course. Proper mathematical model approaches to estimate FWA throughput vs. SINR, RACH collision and RAN paging is fully explained. Finally this course also considers some LTE RAN optional features to improve FWA performance. The course is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies.

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)

Understanding FWA over LTE RAN requirements
Explore FWA over LTE RAN coverage and capacity principles
Learn how to plan for FWA over LTE cell edge users as well as average cell performance conditions
Understand the planning FWA over LTE principles behind the control channels and reference signals capacity and coverage requirements
Learn how to complete FWA RAN design capacity and coverage (i.e. Paging, RACH planning & dimensioning)
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 FWA over LTE RAN plan, design and optimization.
Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned and high quality customers’ FWA over LTE services
Offer indoor and outdoor well planned network services
Identify new revenue FWA over LTE streams.
Prepare for future network capacity expansions and quality performance optimization

You will learn

The key points you will learn through this course

FWA over LTE RAN Overview

FWA over LTE RAN Planning

FWA over LTE RAN Design

Course Outline

A short brief of your program details & schedule

LTE Technology Review

LTE Air interface overview
LTE frame structure
FDD – TDD modes
LTE frequency bands
LTE signals and channels review

MIMO for FWA overview

3GPP Rel.8-14 MIMO standardization
eNodeB MIMO TM4 CLSM and Beam-forming transmission scheme
eNodeB MIMO 2×2, 4×4 Performance Gains
eNodeB MIMO TM8-TM10 modes
eNodeB MIMO 8×8 Performance Gains
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) technology
CPE technical characteristics
CPE antenna characteristics
CPE MIMO performance

FWA Pathloss

FWA Point-to-Point Link
Non-Line of Sight (nLoS) and Rayleigh modeling
LoS and Rice modeling
nLoS and Shadowing modeling
Fresnel zones and Diffraction Losses
Outdoor vs. Indoor losses
LTE sub 3GHz Pathloss models (400 MHz -2.6 GHz)
LTE C-Band Pathloss models (3.4-3.8 GHz, 5-6 GHz)
Example: Link budget analysis overview
Exercise: Link Budget calculations using Excel

FWA Uplink Planning

FWA UL quality requirements
CPE UL requirements
FWA Power control factor
FWA Uplink Interference factor
FWA Uplink Optional features
Coverage planning for PUSCH channel
Coverage planning for PUCCH channel
PUCCH capacity vs. formats
PUCCH coverage vs. formats
Coverage planning for UL reference signals
FWA UL cell capacity estimations – eMBB service
FWA UL Carrier Aggregation capacity (FDD-TDD and Unlicensed band)
FWA UL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
FWA TDD UL capacity and coverage capacity
Exercise: UL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

FWA Downlink Planning

FWA DL quality requirements
CPE DL requirements
FWA DL Interference factor
FWA DL Optional features
Coverage planning for PDSCH channel
Coverage planning (including CCE aggregation level) for control channel PDCCH
PDCCH Capacity estimation vs. CCE Aggregation level
Coverage planning for DL reference signals
FWA DL cell capacity estimations – eMBB service
FWA DL Carrier Aggregation capacity (FDD-TDD and Unlicensed band)
FWA DL throughput calculation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
FWA TDD DL capacity and coverage capacity
Exercise: DL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

FWA RACH Design

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

FWA over LTE Paging Dimensioning

LTE Paging review
LTE Paging intensity
FWA Paging capacity estimation
S1 interface capacity estimation vs paging intensity
FWA Paging Success rate estimation (mathematical model)
Exercise: Paging Capacity estimations and Paging decoding probability vs SINR SINR using Excel spread-sheet calculator

Training Format

Instructor-Led Training

On-Site Classroom: 3 days

Web delivered (Virtual): 3 days

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

FAQ's

What is FWA standing for?

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is a way of providing wireless connectivity through radio links between two fixed points. In other words, fixed wireless is a way to provide wireless internet access to homes or businesses without laying fiber and cables to provide last mile connectivity. FWA enables network operators to provide ultra-high-speed broadband to sub-urban and rural areas where the cost of laying fiber or maintaining fiber lines is prohibitively expensive.

How is FWA feasible in LTE rural areas?

Due to higher propagation losses and LoS/nLoS scenarios a special Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) will be also required in customer’s home rooftop, to radiate higher levels of radio power to maintain an acceptable link.

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