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W-CDMA & UMTS System Overview

  • Course Name: W-CDMA & UMTS System Overview
  • Duration: 3 days
  • Technical Level: 5

Overview

Designed to give a good overall understanding of the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), this course establishes the need for a new generation of mobile network before explaining, in detail, how UMTS proposes to meets those requirements.

The service aspects, architecture, protocols, and implementation strategies are all presented in a clear concise format. This, together with a thorough grounding of the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) scheme used in UMTS, the structure of the Air Interface, the associated radio planning issues and migration strategies, will ensure the delegate is equipped with a good all round view of UMTS.

Course Objectives

  • State the main principles driving the development and introduction of the next generation of mobile networks, and how these are addressed by UMTS
  • Describe the overall UMTS architecture, explaining the role of the User Equipment, UTRAN, and Core Network
  • Describe the function and operation of each UMTS network element
  • Relate protocols to the relevant interfaces, describing the basic requirements and principles associated with each interface
  • Explain the basic operation of the air interface, describing the capabilities, advantages, requirements and operation of the W-CDMA system applied to UMTS, together with the basic protocol structure and resulting impact on services
  • State the transport protocols to be adopted at each point in the network and appreciate the reasons why those protocols have been chosen for standardisation
  • Recognise and follow UMTS basic procedures, relating each phase in a procedure to the relevant UMTS or transport network protocol operation
  • Discuss with confidence, some of the issues related to planning UMTS radio networks. Appreciate, also, the possible migration strategies towards the next generation of mobile network

Course Requirements

A basic understanding of GSM architecture and procedures would be an advantage, but not essential.