WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) Overview provides an overview of the WCDMA system, as defined in the 3GPP Release 99 specifications for the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The course begins with an overview of WCDMA and UMTS concepts, including spectrum allocations, network topology, protocol stack, and channel mappings. It then describes the procedures of the Access Stratum protocol layers, covering the Radio Resource Control, Radio Link Control, and Medium Access Control layers. Next, physical layer transmit procedures are covered, as well as procedures for acquisition, random access, paging, measurements, power control, and transmit diversity. The course concludes with discussion of handover and cell reselection procedures, security features, and call setup procedures for packet-switched and circuit-switched calls.

This two-day course presents the network planning principles applicable to modern wireless RF systems and a thorough yet easy-to-follow introduction to CDMA and CDMA2000 network planning with its unique RF considerations. The course is an effective pathway for engineers and technical personnel from other backgrounds or technologies who want to come up to speed quickly in CDMA network planning and RF engineering.
This two day course is for anyone involved in the network deployment process that needs to learn about network planning principles as applied to CDMA networks.

At conclusion, participants should be familiar with the key principles of signal physics and interference principles, RF propagation in the wireless environment, antennas for wireless systems, traffic engineering and wireless capacity considerations, as well as the key operational and design issues of CDMA systems.
Applicability
CDMA systems at both cellular and PCS frequencies

Network planning course will give the technical professional the required knowledge and background to perform RF network planning activities for a CDMA network. The course is intended for those individuals familiar with the CDMA Air Interface Standard, either IS-95 or cdma2000, but desiring to understand the basic concepts behind planning a CDMA and CDMA2000 1x network.

Topics covered:
• Link budgets
• Propagation models
• Traffic modeling
• A review of available network planning tools required to successfully plan a CDMA network
• PN planning
• Soft hand-off control
• Hard hand-off planning
• Packet zone planning and spectrum planning
• Site selection criteria.

This course provides a technical and business overview of current and coming CDMA technologies, starting with a review of CDMA fundamentals and the 2G IS-95 standard. It then offers detailed explanations of the prominent 3G wideband CDMA implementations, including TIA cdma2000 and ETSI/ARIB W-CDMA, so that you and your organization can be ready to meet the coming challenges. Since the new 3G-CDMA standards are constantly evolving, this course prepares the technical professional to understand and interpret virtually any CDMA standard that is defined or that may emerge.

This course provides the student an in-depth description of the functioning of a cdma2000 system according to the key CDMA standards (TIA/EIA/IS2000-A) and the rationale behind the specifications. Course discussions provide a point by point description of key processes including power control, spread spectrum signal generation, hand-off techniques, call processing, registration, authentication, encryption. Emphasis is placed on new features and capabilities introduced in cdma2000.

Having completed this course the participant will be able to understand how security is implemented, deployed and managed in IS-95 and CDMA2000 (1x-EV-DO and 1xEV-DV) networks, understand security concepts, understand the benefits of new security techniques applied and how they are implemented.

This course will provide a comprehensive coverage of the technologies behind the 4G mobile system including Multicarrier-CDMA (MC-CDMA), Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), Software Defined Radio (SDR), Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and more. It analyses and discusses all relevant 4G technologies in one coherent framework. You will be guided from 3G to 4G where you will learn about 4G qualities and characteristics, and realize how 4G can support us with higher data transferring rates.

CDMA2000 1xEV-DV (1x EVolution for Data and Voice) provides integrated voice and simultaneous high-speed packet data multimedia services at high speeds . 1xEV-DV is backward compatible to IS-95A/B and CDMA2000 1X and will enable a simple migration to 1xEV-DV from 1X networks while preserving existing services offered by operators, including voice and data services on the same carrier, and simultaneous voice and data.

1xEV-DO or 1x Evolution for Data Optimized (Rev 0 and Rev A), a data-optimized version of CDMA2000 called 1xEV-DO, provides a flexible, integrated solution that maximizes capacity and throughput for both voice and data.This course presents a clear explanation of 1x-EV-DO including: it's advantages, standards, architecture, protocols, operations, technical capabilities, security and implementation.