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Certified Small Cells Radio Planning and Optimisation Programme
Technology concepts
- Macro, micro, pico & femtocells
- What is a small cell?
- Benefits of small cells
- Use cases
- Frequency planning for small cells
- Heterogeneous networks
- Heterogeneous deployment scenarios
The Small Cell Market
- Small cell forum
- Hetnet forum
- Small cell market highlights
- Small cell providers
Review of LTE
- Core network
- Radio access network
- Air interface
- Frequency bands
- OFDMA
- Multiple antennas
- State diagrams
- LTE Advanced
- Circuit Switched Fallback
- VoLTE
Support for Small Cells in LTE
- Cell detection
- Home evolved NodeB
- Closed subscriber groups
- HeNB support in Release 8
- HeNB support in Release 9
- HeNB support in Release 10
- Self optimizing networks
- Other Small Cell Technologies
- Core network of UMTS and GSM
- UMTS radio access network
- UMTS air interface
- Soft handover
- GSM air interface
- Wireless local area networks
- Research themes for 5G
Requirements for Small Cell Planning
- The planning process
- Business requirements
- Clutter and building data
- Site survey
- Radio survey
- Network planning tools
Antenna Systems for Indoor Small Cells
- Requirements
- Picocells and femtocells
- Distributed antenna systems
- Passive DAS
- Active DAS
- Diversity reception
- MIMO antennas
Indoor Design
- Design scenario
- Capacity issues
- Coverage issues
- Interference issues
- Multiple floors
- Elevators
- High-rise buildings
- Handover issues
- Typical process
Outdoor design
- Design scenario
- Capacity and coverage
- Interference issues
- Outdoor remote radio heads
- Indoor coverage from an outdoor cell
Interference Management
- Downlink interference case 1
- Downlink interference case 2
- Avoidance principles
- Avoidance method
- Uplink interference case 1
- Uplink interference case 2
- Avoidance principles
- Avoidance method
- Uplink/downlink imbalance
- Range expansion
Link Budget Estimation for LTE Small Cells
- Introduction
- Link budget estimation
- Small cell propagation models
- EIRP
- Receiver noise
- Receiver interference
- Receiver sensitivity
- Link level parameters
- Example link budgets
Parameter Setting and Optimization for LTE Small Cells
- Parameter setting and self configuration
- Interference management
- Mobility management
Practical’s and Exercises
Throughout the training programme, exercises and practical’s will be given to reinforce the material being presented. These will include;
- UL Link budget – indoor/outdoor
- DL Link Budget – indoor/outdoor
- Propagation Modelling
- Parameter Setting – PCI, PRACH and Mobility
- RF Software Planning Demonstrations