UMTS RF Engineering Course Outline______________________________________________________

UMTS RF Engineering Course Outline

Dr. Hatem MOKHTARI
Cirta Consulting LLC

DAY 1

1. UMTS Standards :
1.1. Brief Historical Overview on 3GPP, IMT2000, etc.
1.2. Regulatory Bodies Worldwide: ITU, ETSI, FCC, TIA, etc
1.3. Migration from 2G, 2.5G to 3G :
1.3.1. Customer Requirements
1.3.2. Technological Advances
1.3.3. Technical and Commercial Constraints
1.3.4. Wireless Telephony Market Trends : Vendors, Operators, ISPs, etc.

2. Mathematical background of SS-CDMA Systems

2.1. Multiple Access
2.1.1. Spread Spectrum Modulation
2.1.2. Properties of Spread Spectrum System
2.1.3. Tolerance of Narrow-band interference
2.1.4. Practical Examples : Computation of C/I, comparison with
Thresholds, etc.
2. 2. DS-Spread Spectrum
2.2.1. Modulation Example
2.2.2. Processing Gain in QPSK DS-SS Systems
2.2.3. Tolerance to Wide-Band interference
2. 3. WCDMA in Cellular Radio Networks
2.3.1. Multipath Environment characteristics
2.3.2. Soft, Softer, and Hard Handover
2.3.3. Practical Examples : HO Gain
2.3.4. Power Control : Open-Loop, Closed-Loop, Inner-loop, outer-
loop
2.3.5. WCDMA Load Equation : Definition of Eb/No, Noise Rise
2.3.6. Practical Examples : Test on Load computation, different
interference scenarios, effect on spatial filtering, etc.

DAY 2

3. UMTS System Dimensioning

3.1. General Guidelines
3.2. Dimensioning Workflow
3.3. Link budget Parameters
3.3.1 Eb/No for different Multipath Radio Propagation Channels
3.3.2. Load Factor and its impact on MAPL
3.3.3. Bit Rates as defined in the ETSI Recommendations

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3.3.4. WCDMA Spectral Efficiency (throughputs in kbps per carrier

per cell)
3.3.5. Orthogonality
3.3.6. HO Gains
3.3.7. BTS Static Sensitivity : TMA, Antenna Gain, Sectorization
Gain, SHO Overhead, Signaling Overhead,
3.3.8. Link budgets and Coverage Efficiency of WCDMA
3.3.9. Practical Examples : Coverage and Capacity Planning

4. Cell Ranges Selection Process

5. Dimensioning Guidelines
6. Guidelines for Traffic-per-cell computation

7. Dimensioning Rules
7.1. BTS Processing Capability
7.2. BTS Dimensioning Principles

8. Examples of Dimensioning for Different Operator Strategies

9. Detailed Planning : A Step further in Network Dimensioning

10. Requirements for Detailed Planing

11. Capacity and Coverage Planning

12. WCDMA / GSM co-location requirements and constraints

13. Pilot Planning

13.1. Uplink : Channelisation codes, Scrambling Codes
13.2. Downlink : Channelisation codes, Scrambling Codes
13.3. Ec/Io computation : Comparison to Eb/No values
13.4. Practical examples

14. UMTS Cell Search Procedure

15. Interference Checking :Per Environment basis

15. Background noise interference notion
15.1. Noise Theory
15.2. Quality Gain Computation using a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)
15.3. Examples with and without an LNA : impact on Coverage and
Capacity

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DAY 3

16. UMTS/UMTS and UMTS/GSM co-location issues from RF standpoint

16.1. Technical Constraints
16.2. GSM and UMTS RF Mask : in-band and out-of-band interference
16.3. IM3 between UMTS and GSM1800
16.4. Practical Design issues : channel spacing, shoulder level cautions,
ETSI Recommendations, etc.

19. Site-sharing :
19.1. Practical guidelines : UMTS/UMTS, UMTS/GSM900,
UMTS/GSM1800, Antenna Patterns, etc.

20. Results of Isolation measurements between antennas in collocation in

the UMTS frequency band :
20.1. Vertical Polarization results
20.2. Dual Polarization results
20.3. Conclusions

21. Practical Test :

21.1. Network Dimensioning

21.2. Capacity and Coverage Computation for different UMTS Services
21.2.1. Soft Capacity (UL)
21.2.2. Hard Capacity (UL)
21.2.3. Mixed Service Capacity Planning (DL/UL)

21.3. RF Propagation and Antenna Calculation :

20.3.1. Site General Model : Okumura-Hata Extended to 2.0 GHz
20.3.2. Delay Spread Calculation :Example of Delay Power Profile
from measurements
20.3.3. Site-Specific Microcellular Propagation Models : An
overview

22. Final Conclusion

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