LTE Radio Network Planning and Design

Instructor Led | Duration: 3 Days

The LTE system supports broadband wireless access in a mobile cellular environment, and is considered the next generation (beyond 3G) wireless system,
offering data rates in the range of 100 Mbps. Wireless service providers see great potential in offering broadband wireless access experience to subscribers in
a cost-effective manner. Unlike the 3G systems based on the CDMA air interface, the LTE system is based on the OFDM-based radio air interface. The LTE
system will also deploy advanced antenna systems to increase the throughput, coverage and capacity of the network. Thus deploying the LTE system is going
to provide a unique and challenging opportunity. This course covers the radio network planning and design aspects of an LTE network and describes the
process of mapping the service and market requirements to RF system parameters.


Intended Audience
This course provides practical examples and intertwines the exercises at
every stage of the system design process and is intended for LTE system
designers, RF systems engineering, network engineering, deployment and
operations personnel.

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
Explain the process of wireless network design
Describe the link budget for the LTE system
Discuss the process of mapping the network requirements to
corresponding system parameters
Describe the impact of operating frequency spectrum and
bandwidth
Explain multiple antenna techniques in LTE and their impacts
Design the radio network based on capacity, coverage and quality
requirements
Explore site selection and acceptance
Calculate the cell site and distributed backhaul needs and plan for
the future growth

Suggested Prerequisites
Overview of OFDM (eLearning)
LTE Overview (eLearning)
Mastering LTE (Instructor Led)

Course Outline
1. Introduction to LTE System Design
1.1. Process of wireless network design
and deployment
1.2. LTE network requirements
1.3. Market and service requirements
1.4. RF planning checklist
1.5. Network planning checklist
2. LTE System Planning Considerations
2.1. Bandwidth options
2.2. Frequency reuse patterns
2.3. Sync signal planning
2.4. Reference signal planning
2.5. Random access preamble planning
2.6. Key performance indicators
2.7. Inter-radio access technology
3. Advanced Antenna Considerations
3.1. Diversity techniques in LTE
3.2. SU-MIMO
3.3. MU-MIMO/SDMA
4. Link Budget for LTE
4.1. System parameter considerations
4.2. Gains and losses
4.3. MAPL for UL and DL
5. RF Design
5.1. Morphology definition
5.2. RF design process and options
5.3. Propagation models
5.4. Site configurations
5.5. Search rings


6. Cell Planning Considerations
6.1. Site selection criteria
6.2. Designing for coverage and
capacity
6.3. Designing for traffic and QoS
6.4. Configuration parameter selection
7. Site Shakedown and Acceptance
7.1. Drive testing
7.2. Site shakedowns
7.3. Site acceptance
7.4. Cluster acceptance
8. LTE Network Planning
8.1. Air interface capacity
8.2. Cell site capacity planning
8.3. Distributed backhaul planning