Course description
This course is Day 1 of the LTE and LTE-Advanced: System Design and Operation course, and can be taken on its own or as a primer to the full five-day course. In this course, we will explain the benefits of the new LTE air interface and the many improvements over 3G WCDMA, including a high level explanation of the System Architecture Evolution and mobility management.
Using PC simulation tools we will provide a full explanation of the OFDMA and SC-FDMA modulation procedures, with some easy-to-understand FFT demonstrations along the way. We will look at multipath equalisation, use of cyclic prefix and random access procedures, with comparison back to 3G.
With LTE today operating over a wide variety of different frequency bands across the world, we explain the numbering of the worldwide frequency allocations. Starting from the basics of communications theory, we derive the LTE air interface link budget for uplink and downlink directions, and look at some typical radio planning examples.
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