The Purpose of this course is to provide Hands-on training to RF engineers to perform UMTS RF network design by educating them using real hands on activities as the industry requires hiring the professional RF engineers. This course is developed based on practical aspects of RF engineering and was put together by highly experience RF Professionals who have more than 20 years of industry experience. The course will help to identify the key points of RF design which the industry requires into the RF engineers to have from day one. It describes the process of designing the network and market requirements of RF system parameters and walks through the different design calculations. The course discusses the RF planning aspects, the use of existing infrastructure, overlay configurations, backhaul capacity planning as well as growth considerations. Also the program consists of hands on sessions to apply the key learning points by allowing the participants to utilize RF design guidelines, site and market data, and design tools selected by the local market to perform RF design tasks and obtain hands-on experience. HTN wireless will provide this program to use RF design tools, processes and real data for the service operator network.

1. Introduction to Wireless Systems
2. Wireless Access Technologies
3. Communication Concepts
4. System Architecture
5. Air Interface UMTS
6. Services/Bearers
7. Introduction of RF design
8. Antennas, Concepts
9. Link Budget
10. RF design Inputs
11. Design Threshold
12. Cell Planning consideration
13. Planning Criteria
14. Capacity Planning
15. Spectrum Management
16. In-building Solutions
17. Prediction Tools

By completing the course, the student will be able to acquire the following Knowledge:

• Wireless network design concepts
• Discuss the antenna propagation and Tilts, and antenna sharing RXAIT concept
• The link budget concept for a UMTS system
• IFHO inter frequency handover impacts and planning of UMTS network
• T Compare and evaluate different network design options
• Apply selected tools and processes more efficiently
• Analyzing the network economics for different design choices
• Discuss neighbor list planning considerations
• Design the radio network based on capacity, coverage and quality requirements
• Calculate the capacity for cell site, RNC, and back haul needs and plan for the future growth
• Compare and evaluate different network design options

This course is intended for RF design engineers and RF performance engineers who want to learn about UMTS RF design concepts and processes.

• Knowledge of GSM/UMTS system Architecture
• Knowledge of Tools and basic RF design procedures

4 Days (4 hours per day)

Online using WebEx: Student must have access to high speed internet

Audio Conference Bridge : Student must have access to a phone line to dial into a conference bridge. Alternatively audio can be delivered over the internet using the conferencing system. This will require a headset with a microphone.