LTE (4G) RAN Planning

LTE (4G) RAN Planning will offer delegates a good and deep understanding on LTE NR Radio Access Network (RAN) planning, with emphasis on LTE capacity and coverage

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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

LTE (4G) RAN 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 LTE RAN planning and dimensioning with emphasis on throughput enhancements and LTE coverage deployments.

Prerequisites: Those wishing to take this course should have a good and solid understanding of LTE technology, with emphasis on LTE air interface and physical layer procedures.

Course Review

This LTE(4G) training course leads the audience into a deep dive towards LTE RAN planning principles, both from understanding as well as configuration perspective. It offers a thorough description of the opportunities, challenges, and risks that’s needed to exploit and deploy the LTE physical layer from the throughput perspective up to coverage and cell range. It teaches how to maximize LTE RAN network capacity and enhance DL/UL data transmission. The course is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)

Understanding LTE RAN planning and dimensioning requirements
Explore LTE 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 physical and MAC layer 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 LTE RAN planning and dimensioning.
Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned network, maximizing coverage and capacity (throughput) targeting to good quality customers’ 5G services
Identify new revenue streams that can be enabled through LTE network
Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization

You will learn

The key points you will learn through this course

LTE Radio Technology Review

LTE Planning

LTE Special Planning

Course Outline

A short brief of your program details & schedule

LTE Technology Preview

LTE Air interface overview
LTE frame structure
FDD – TDD modes
LTE frequency bands
LTE signals and channels review
LTE Service: eMBB, ΝΒ-ΙοΤ, VoLTE

MIMO Technology overview

LTE MIMO review
3GPP Rel.8-14 MIMO standardization
TX Diversity, Spatial Mux and Beam-forming principles
2×2, 4×4, 8×8 MIMO gains
SU-MIMO
MU-MIMO

LTE Channel Modeling

What is a Mobile Channel model ?– general principles
Non-Line of Sight and Rayleigh modeling
LoS and Rice modeling
nLoS and Shadowing modeling
Site modeling : Macro, micro, pico
Doppler effects and channel models
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; 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 UL reference signals
LTE UL cell capacity estimations – eMBB service
LTE UL Carrier Aggregation capacity (FDD-TDD and Unlicensed band)
LTE UL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
LTE 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 DL reference signals
LTE DL cell capacity estimations – eMBB service
LTE DL Carrier Aggregation capacity (FDD-TDD and Unlicensed band)
LTE DL throughput calculation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
LTE DL Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) throughput estimation
Exercise: DL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

LTE VolTE planning

VoLTE network quality requirements
VoLTE DL/UL requirements
VoLTE SINR vs coverage
VoLTE capacity (number of users) planning
VoLTE optional features parameter configuration
Exercise: UL/DL capacity and coverage estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

LTE special planning

LTE over Li-Fi
LTE over GEO satellite
LTE over LEO satellite
LTE NB-IoT badic planning principles
LTE Fixed Wireless Access UL/DL capacity
LTE Fixed Wireless Access coverage
Excel spread-sheet calculator examples

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 Timing Advance (TA) and how is it working in LTE?

UEs wishing to establish RRC connection with eNB transmit a Random Access Preamble, where eNB estimates the transmission timing of the terminal based on that PRACH attempt. In the next step eNB transmits a Random Access Response which consists of timing advance command, based on that UE adjusts the terminal transmit timing. The timing advance is initiated from E-UTRAN with MAC message that implies and adjustment of the timing advance.

What is Network Sharing in LTE?

3GPP network sharing architecture allows different PLMN operators to have separate core network and connect to a unique shared radio access network. The operators do not only share the radio network elements, eNodeB hardware and antenna tower infrastructure, but may also share the radio resources themselves.

What is Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR)?

Following 3GPP specifications, the purpose of the Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) functionality is to relieve the LTE planners and operation maintenance engineers from the burden of manually managing Neighbor Relations (NRs). This feature will simplify and would help operators to minimize effort for better network mobility provisioning.

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