Course Title:

UMTS Long Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution

Duration:

1 Day

Cost:

£395

Synopsis:

This course provides a technical overview of the Evolution of both UTRAN and CN technologies and architectures as currently specified / recommended by 3GPP. In addition to the presentation of key aims and objectives of LTE/SAE, individual features, technologies and envisaged procedures are discussed. From a UTRAN LTE perspective, the course highlights particular modulation, coding, multiple access and radio performance enhancements, including latency reduction and throughput enhancement features. With regard to CN SAE, the introduction of new interfaces and the separation of control / data plane transport mechanisms and architectures are presented, along with migration to AIPN and support for mobility across multiple access networks.

Pre-requisites:

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Content Outline:

UTRAN LTE Aims 

UTRA enhancements 

UTRAN architecture optimisation 

User-plane throughput improvement  

User-plane latency reduction 

Control-plane latency and capacity improvements  

Spectrum efficiency 

Mobility criteria 

Coverage and performance 

Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS)  

Spectrum flexibility 

Architecture and migration 

Radio Resource Management  

SAE Aims 

E-UTRAN / EPC functional split 

All IP Network (AIPN) 

Simplified network architecture 

QoS, policy management and charging 

MME / UPE separation 

Migration / Evolution to EPC 

Inter-system working