4G " Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network Planning Etisalat Academy
  • Location: Dubai
  • Duration: 2 Days

    Course details

    As operators ready themselves to deploy LTE, a good understanding of planning considerations for its successful rollout is essential. This course presents, in a theoretical and practical way, the parameters necessary to plan an LTE network, from a RF coverage point of view.

    The course begins with a quick reminder of LTE system architecture and air interface characteristics. It is then followed by a discussion of uplink and downlink link budget The course provides hands-on practice on Link budget calculations and associated formulations to analyze sensitivity impact across variables and to resolve specific case studies.

    Expected Accomplishments

    • Explain the LTE Air Interface Structure
    • Explain the principles of OFDM A and SC-FDMA
    • Formulate LTE link budgets for uplink and downlink considering channel bandwidth, TX, RX and transmission parameters
    • Derive SNR requirements for a given cell edge throughput
    • Estimate slow fade margin for a given cell edge probability
    • Describe resource allocation in the uplink and downlink
    • Describe the LTE frame format in the downlink and uplink
    • Perform uplink and downlink coverage and capacity calculations for LTE.
    • Understand traffic modeling for LTE
    • Highlight the main factors that impact cell capacity
    • Evaluate the cell capacity
    • Estimate the number of sites based on coverage and capacity

    Course Outline

    LTE Air Interface

    • Review the LTE ft EPS system Architecture 
    • LTE frequency bands 
    • OFDM A vs. SC-FDMA 
    • OFDMA parameters 
    • Uplink and downlink frame formats 
    • Resource allocations

    LTE Downlink Budget

    • Uplink budget parameters 
    • Thermal noise 
    • SI NR requirements 
    • Cell load
    • Downlink interference margin 
    • Cell edge probability 
    • Slow fade margin estimates

    LTE Uplink Budget

    • Uplink budget parameters
    • Path loss as a function of cell edge throughput 
    • SI NR requirements 
    • Uplink interference margin

    LTE Coverage Planning 

    • RF propagation models for LTE 
    • Okumura-Hata and Cost-Hata models 
    • Wolfish Ikegami model 
    • Estimating cell range and cell area

    LTE Capacity Planning 

    • Subscriber traffic profiles 
    • Traffic modelling 
    • Cell throughput dimensioning 
    • Simulations
    • Factors affecting cell capacity 
    • Estimating site counts based on coverage and capacity
    Updated on 29 October, 2017

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