The TEL-3 non-certification course covers the LTE technology platform at the 101 level. The course consists of 4 modules covering the LTE systems technology foundations and the LTE network building blocks, enabling trainees to acquire a comprehensive and applied knowledge of the 3GPP 4G LTE systems technologies. The course focuses on an audience with basic familiarity of the telecom and RF systems and working knowledge layer-2 and layer-3 network elements (the TCP/IP protocol stack). Topics covered in this course are as much as possible aligned with the RDL-6000 and RDL-62000 so that practical aspects of LTE can be underscored.

The course content is enriched with hands-on labs (with over 70% hands-on if done onsite). If done online, the hands-on part is limited to the demonstration and walk-through of the feature using a live ClearView server.

Courses are conducted by AVIAT expert trainers in a mentoring environment backed by their deep technology expertise and experience.

The course is conducted at Aviat Training locations or can be arranged at customer sites.

Upon completing this course, the trainees will have gained the necessary expertise to understand the use and working of the following in the RDL systems excluding 4G systems:

• Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems from 1G to 4G- an overview
• Building block of the 3GPP LTE network – RAN and Core
• The OSI and TCP/IP networking models
• Frequency bands and their propagation attributes – licensed and unlicensed bands
• TDD and FDD air interfaces working and parameters.
• Single carrier and multi-carrier signal transmission – bandwidth and transmission reliability parameters
• Basic building blocks of a digital communications system and digital modulation techniques
• RF channel characteristics and parameters such as coherence bandwidth, coherence time and Doppler effect, multipath and flat and frequency selective fading
• Antennas – characterizing parameters such gain, beamwidth, XPD, front to back ratio and polarization
• Transmitter and receiver building blocks and parameters and properties including linearity consideration, spectral mask and out of band emission, receiver sensitivity, noise floor, phase noise and PLL systems
• OFDM as a multicarrier systems including subcarrier spacing, FFT size and transmission mask, FFT size and mobility requirement, cyclic prefix and multipath handling capability, time and frequency views of the OFDM signal, peak to average power ration (PARP) in OFDM systems and power amplifier constraints.
• LTE DL (OFDMA) and UL (SC-FDMA) access technologies
• Transmit and Receiver diversity and multi-antenna systems from LTE perspective and point of view
• Measurement parameters in LTE at the UE and signal quality metrics
• Handover, mobility and RAN sharing in LTE
• RF interference detection and mitigation in LTE deployments, interference types and co-channel and adjacent channel interference, interference and interference mitigation best practices, ICIC, CoMP…
• Introductory overview of SON features such as ANR, MLB, MRO and PIC conflict/confusion handling
• Summary of LTE 4G releases 8-14 and a big picture of 5G (Release 15/16)

• Participants The course focuses on an audience with basic familiarity of the telecom and RF systems and working knowledge layer-2 and layer-3 network elements (the TCP/IP protocol stack).
• Each student must have a laptop with administrative rights to install and run IP networking simulation software.

• BWA in the context of the OSI and TCP/IP protocols
• Layer-2, Layer-3 and Layer-4 packet header usage in LTE
• Capacity and coverage constraints and parameters in BWA systems
• Signal amplitude, phase and frequency
• Wave polarization and transmission characteristics
• Signal quality metrics – SNR, CINR, SINADR, BER and PER
• Digital Modulation schemes and Error Control
• Mobile wireless channel characteristics such delay spread and Doppler
• Antenna parameter such as gain, bandwidth and beamwidth

• OFDM definition and advantage over single carrier transmission
• OFDM on the time (symbol) and frequency (subcarriers) dimensions
• Subcarrier utilization within an OFDM symbol
• The concept of guard interval – time and sampling view
• Multi-path and channel fading from the OFDM perspective
• OFDMA (LTE DL) and SC-FDMA (LTE UL) parameters

• Transmission capacity of a wireless link
• Multi-antenna systems
• MIMO definition and transmission modes in LTE

• Operational Parameters
• OFDM definition carrier transmission
• OFDM on the time (symbol) and frequency (subcarriers and advantage over single) dimensions
• Subcarrier utilization within an OFDM symbol
• The concept of guard interval – time and sampling view
• Multi-path and channel fading from the OFDM perspective
• OFDMA (LTE DL) and SC-FDMA (LTE UL) parameters

• Basic hands-on exercises

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Sufficient in size to handle all participants, instructor, desks, chairs, classroom equipment. The room must have enough 110 AC (220) AC power and air conditioning to operate equipment, all student’s client’s PC’s and the server or radio as required.

Classroom Equipment

• Marker board, SVGA or Overhead projector and screen.

Desk and Chairs

• Desks or workstations with enough room for each student to write have open books, client PC and / or, keyboard and monitor.

Internet Access

• Internet access through the server or through client PC.