Course Description
This course is designed to highlight many of the optimisation and planning techniques and references required for optimal usage and reliability on both GSM and UMTS networks. Setting and measuring KPIs for Traffic Engineering, PS Data engineering, multiservice engineering, Capacity planning and optimising capacity, including Location update, network performance and roaming. It will also discuss the KPI and Layered Optimisation Approach, identifying the main KPIs, Voice Service Optimisation, Video Telephony and PS Data service optimisation. We will also discuss the use of VoIP and VoIP performance issues within a cellular network and touch on 3G LTE concepts and deployment.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Understand the functionality of a GSM, UMTS, LTE network
- Explain the basics of GSM, UMTS, LTE network planning
- Explore project planning process of GSM/GPRS networks
- Understand the engineering tools and procedures required for GSM, UMTS, LTE engineering and planning
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network professionals, marketing and sales professional, IT professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with GSM and other wireless networks, applications and services.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
UMTS Network Topology
- GSM Network Architecture
- UMTS Overlay Architecture
- UMTS Release 6 & Beyond
- WCDMA Concepts
- WCDMA Physical Layer Procedures
- UMTS Signalling Concepts
- Physical, Logical and Transport Channels
WCDMA Network Deployment Options
- Overlay with GSM, Macro Network
- Overlay with GSM, Macro, Micro and In-building
- UMTS User Plane Protocols
- UMTS Communication Management
- UMTS Mobility Management
- Multiple PDP Contexts
- UMTS Traffic Classes
- GTP Tunnelling
- Signalling in the UMTS Core Network
- UMTS Radio Access Network
- Radio Interface Protocols
- Handover Type
- UTRAN Transport
- UTRAN QoS
- UTRAN Signalling
- Coverage & Capacity
- Radio Resource Management
- Basics of the Optimisation Process
- KPIs for WCDMA
- Network Performance Monitoring
UMTS Core Networks
- UMTS Quality of Service (QoS)
- IP Bearer Establishment
- Transport Network Protocols
- IP Bearer Control Protocol
- KPIs for voice quality
- Network Performance Management
- The PS Domain
- Network Analysis
- Network Dimensioning
- End-to-end Quality of Service
- Traffic Classes
- Core Network Optimisation
The CS Domain
- Media Gateway Controllers
- Media Gateways
- MEGACO/H.246
- Signalling Gateways
- SIGTRAN
- User Adaptation (SS7 Signalling)
- SCTP for Transport
- Performance Data
- Key Performance Indicators in GPRS
- IP Multimedia Subsystem
- The IMS
- The Evolved Network Architecture
- Protocols & Interfaces
Session initiation Protocol
- An Overview
- SIP Messages
- SIP Dialogs
- Voice over IP Concepts
- VoIP Examples
- VoIP Call Flows
- VoIP in Cellular
- 3G LTE (4G)
- The new architecture
- The LTE Air Interface
- The SAE All-IP Core Network
- Interworking with other access methods
- Handling voice and SMS in LTE
- Circuit Switched Fall-back