NB-IoT RAN 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

NB-IoT RAN Planning is mainly aimed at a technical audience. It is suitable for technical professionals, RAN operators, Radio planning engineers, RAN optimization engineers, IoT service providers, Research Institutes, defense sector, who currently are or will be involved in NB-IoT technology and deployment assessment, NB-IoT RAN planning and NB-IoTdimensioning with emphasis on throughput enhancements and LTE coverage deployments.

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

Course Review

This NB-IoT training course leads the audience into a deep dive towards NB-IoT 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 NB-IoT physical layer from the throughput perspective up to cell coverage, cell range and device capacity. It teaches how to maximize NB-IoTRAN network capacity and enhance NB-IoTDL/UL data transmission. The course is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies.

Course Benefits for individuals (Professionals)

UnderstandingNB-IoT RAN planning and dimensioning requirements
Explore NB-IoTRAN coverage and capacity principles
Learn how to plan for NB-IoT cell edge
Decide about average cell performance targets and planning conditions.
Understand the principles behind the control channels and reference signals capacity and coverage requirements
Learn how to configure NB-IoT basic physical and MAC layer 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 NB-IoT RAN planning and dimensioning.
Understand how NB-IoT deployment will affect LTE capacity and coverage.
Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned network, maximizing coverage, capacity(throughput) and number of IoT devices targeting to good quality customers’ IoT services
Identify new revenue streams that can be enabled through NB-IoT network
Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization

You will learn

The key points you will learn through this course

NB-IoT Radio Technology Review

NB-IoT Basic Planning

NB-IoT Special Planning

Course Outline

A short brief of your program details & schedule

NB-IoT Air Interface Overview

NB-IoT Air interface overview
NB-IoT physical layer
NB-IoT OFDM/OFDMA principles
NB-IoT Frequency domain physical layer structure
NB-IoT Frequency bands and supported Channel Bandwidth.
NB-IoT TDD and FDD deployments
NB-IoT Time Domain physical layer structure and slot structure details
NB-IoT coding principles
NB-IoT Modulation schemes
NB-IoT Physical layer OFDM mapping
NB-IoT inband, stand alone, guardband deployment
NB-IoT anchor PRB

NB-IoT 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
NB-IoT Coverage modeling : Coverage extension solution
Doppler effects and channel models
Sub 3GHz Pathloss models (400 MHz -2.6 GHz)
C-Band Pathloss models (3.4-3.8 GHz)
Example: Link budget analysis overview; various cases (rural, urban, dense urban, O2I)
Exercise: Link Budget calculations using Excel

NB-IoT Uplink Planning

NB-IoT UL quality requirements
Vendor (equipment) UL requirements
Power control factor
NB-IoT Coverage Extension in UL
NB-IoT FEC repetition coding for UL Interference mitigation
Coverage planning for NB-IoT PUSCH channel
Coverage planning for NB-IoT PUCCH channel
Coverage planning for NB-IoT UL reference signals
NB-IoT UL cell capacity estimations
NB-IoT UL throughput estimation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
Exercise: UL capacity estimationsusing Excel spread-sheet calculator

NB-IoT Downlink Planning

NB-IoT quality requirements
Vendor (equipment) DL requirements
NB-IoT Coverage Extension in DL
NB-IoT FEC repetition coding for DL Interference mitigation
Coverage planning for NB-IoT PDSCH channel
Coverage planning NB-IoT PDCCH
Coverage planning for DL reference signals
NB-IoTDL cell capacity estimations
NB-IoT DL throughput calculation (average, cell edge, max) vs SINR
Exercise: DL capacity estimations using Excel spread-sheet calculator

NB-IoT special deployments

NB-IoT over Li-Fi
NB-IoT over GEO satellite
NB-IoT over LEO satellite
NB-IoT service over Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
Excel spread-sheet calculator examples

Training Format

Instructor-Led Training

On-Site Classroom: 2days

Web delivered (Virtual): 2 days

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

FAQ's

Which are the available NB-IoT Operational modes?

Following “3GPP TS 36.201 V13.2.0, June 2016; LTE physical layer; General description” and “Rohde-Schwarz in a white paper in web link: (www.rohde-schwarz.com/appnote/ 1MA266)” NB-IoT technology occupies a frequency band of 180 kHz bandwidth, which corresponds to one resource block in LTE transmission. With this restriction, the following operation modes are possible: ● Stand alone operation. A possible scenario is the utilization of currently used GSM frequencies. With their bandwidth of 200 kHz there is still a guard interval of 10 kHz remaining on both sides of the spectrum ● Guard band operation, utilizing the unused resource blocks within an LTE carrier's guard-band ● In-band operation utilizing resource blocks within an LTE carrier

Which are the Frequency bands used in NB-IoT?

Following “3GPP TS 36.101 V13.4.0, June 2016; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception” and “Rohde-Schwarz in a white paper in web link: (www.rohde-schwarz.com/appnote/ 1MA266)”, the same frequency numbers as in LTE are used.

How is NB-IoT DL slot structure implemented in 3GPP standards?

Following “3GPP TS 36.211 V13.2.0, June 2016; Physical channels and modulation” and “Rohde-Schwarz in a white paper in web link: (www.rohde-schwarz.com/appnote/ 1MA266)” in the DL, OFDM is applied using a 15 kHz subcarrier spacing with normal cyclic prefix (CP). Each of the OFDM symbols consists of 12 subcarrier occupying this way the bandwitdh of 180 kHz. Seven OFDMA symbols are bundled into one slot. This is the same resource grid as for LTE in normal CP length for one resource block, an important structure for the in-band operation mode. A resource element is defined as one subcarrier in one OFDMA symbol in the grid.

NB-IoT RAN Planning