LTE (4G) Overview 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

LTE (4G) Overview is aimed at a technical audience as well as managers and non-technical personnel who want to get some insight overview into LTE technology. It is suitable for technical professionals, RAN operators, Radio planning engineers, technical managers who currently are or will be involved in LTE network and technology. Marketing engineers as well as technical consultants will find this course a good initial step into their career path to pre-sales. Finally students, researchers and technical consultants into various other fields than mobile technology, will find this course valuable to fill the gap between their expertise (IT technology machine learning and software engineers etc) and the LTE technology

Prerequisites: In order for the attendant to better understand the content of this topic and to gain a further insight into the LTE network description, a general knowledge radio, RF and wireless technology might be useful. In any case course can be customized to offer also introductory terms and descriptions

Course Review

This LTE (4G) training course introduce audience into LTE technology in a stepwise path. The ultimate need to transform the society into a digital era will make clear to audience the necessity for LTE technology. The LTE core network together with the LTE RAN architectures will be thoroughly presented, introducing the audience into the detailed descriptions spanning from the spectrum enhancements and channels towards the MIMO introduction and carrier aggregation. After this course participants will have a solid understanding of the LTE network from architectures up to all functional modules in both RAN and core domain.

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)

Understand basic principles behind LTE network.
Evaluate implementation options for LTE and build knowledge of a comprehensive set of technology / deployment scenarios.
Understand the pre-sales and post-sales marketing and management requirements for LTE deployment and LTE technology
Confidence to set expectation and drive internal debate on advanced technology issues, and to better evaluate solutions in terms of commercially viability, reliability, risk and strategy

Course Benefits for your Organization

Equip organization engineers with the necessary knowledge of LTE
Develop technology solutions and roadmaps that are better aligned with the expected industry direction and that take account of latest technology developments and initiatives
A solid foundation on which to build organizational competency development plans to ensure opportunities arising from LTE and LTE-A can be maximized.
Keep ahead of competitors in preparing your network for LTE-A and LTE-Apro
Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization

You will learn

The key points you will learn through this course

LTE Requirements

LTE Core Architecture

LTE RAN Architecture

LTE Special cases

Course Outline

A short brief of your program details & schedule

LTE Requirements and services

What is LTE??
Why we need LTE??
LTE standards overview
LTE network architecture
LTE services
MBB: Mobile Broadband requirements
MTC: Machine Type Communication requirements

LTE Performance Overview

3GPP Systems, Motivation, Industry Groups
ITU-, NGMN-, 3GPP- View and Timeline
LTE Scenarios and Use Cases
LTE Capacity Increase
Variety of Device Types
Variety of use services
Saving Energy and IoT technologies

LTE core evolution

LTE core standardization
Reason behind LTE EPC
LTE EPC core architecture
LTE EPC nodes and functions
LTE EPC interfaces

LTE core signaling overview

LTE EPC signaling overview
LTE EPC internode signaling
LTE EPC to RAN signaling
QoS overview in LTE EPC
LTE EPC and authentication procedures
Log file signaling analysis examples

LTE RAN evolution

LTE RAN standardization
LTE RAN evolution
Reason Behind LTE-A to LTE-Apro evolution
LTE RAN overview
HW Requirements
LTE RAN Frame structure
LTE FDD vs. TDD
LTE RAN frequency domain
LTE physical channels and signals
LTE RAN signaling overview
Log file signaling exercises review

LTE MIMO overview

LTE MIMO principles
LTE precoder and MIMO schemes
MIMO capacity enhancements
MIMO functional principles
MIMO evolution Rel.8 to Rel.14

LTE functional overview

LTE Scheduler
LTE Carrier Aggregation
What is LTE-A and LTE-Apro??
LTE CoMP
LTE VoLTE support
LTE Mobility overview

LTE special deployments

LTE NB-IoT and Cat-M1
LTE over satellite
LTE over Li-Fi (Visible Light Communication – VLC)
LTE in Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)

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

What is LTE?

LTE, also known as Long Term Evolution, was initially introduced by 3GPP in order to improve the expected data throughput, in order to cope with the needs and demands of future networks’ services and simpler architectures.

What are the LTE advantages from user’s experience and perception?

LTE by implementation supports a superior user experience when it comes to stability, throughput, and latency. Moreover the expected improved capacity will bring new and better services to users through high-speed access anytime, anywhere. Users will be able to stream data, video, and VoIP from anywhere with less delay and discrepancies than older technologies.

What are the LTE advantages from Operator’s perspective?

LTE offers operators the advantage of implementing, building and running a future-proof network, offering higher capacity, increased throughput, and an improved user experience. It also helps operators to create new business opportunities, services and revenue streams. Because of its low complexity and simplified architecture LTE offers a low OPEX keeping in the same time its backwards compatibility with older technologies (i.e. GPRS, 2G, and 3G) and nowadays future technologies (i.e. 5G and 6G)

LTE (4G) Overview