Certificate Course in Advance Mobile Communication Technologies (3G, 4G)

Telecom and Datacom Fundamentals
Communication Fundamentals, Understanding of Wired & Wireless systems Electromagnetic Spectrum, Frequency, Velocity, Wavelength, Bandwidth Transmission media - Twisted pair, Coax, Fiber, Satellite and LOS Modulation methods, Multiplexing techniques, Antennas theory and characteristics Introduction to LAN's, MAN's and WAN's, IEEE standards, Switching concepts, T1/E1 standards, X.25, ATM and Gigabit Ethernet IP Addressing IPv4 and IPv6 concepts.

Global System for Mobile communication and Signaling System
FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, Introduction to cellular concepts Wireless Generations: 1G, 2G, 3G, Frequency ranges, GSM Architecture MS, BSS, MSC, Transcoder, HLR, VLR and other network elements Authentication, Channels on Air-Interface, Handovers, Time slot and Frame structure Call process procedures and Transmission process, Traffic Engineering, SS7 signaling, Architecture nodes, Protocol stack, Signal units and Call setup Configuration of cell site, Drive Test and RF planning

IS-95A standard and CDMA 2000 1x
Introduction to CDMA, Spread Spectrum techniques, DSSS, FHSS, THSS. Pseudo noise sequence, Diversity, Orthogonal codes, Walsh codes Architecture, Forward and Reverse Links, Handoff, Power control, Call processing and Speech coding Evolution of IS-95A to CDMA 2000 1x, Physical and logical channels, Call processing and services. 1x EVDO Architecture, Channels in EVDO and Call procedures

3G Technologies
Introduction to packet switching, GPRS network elements, GPRS attach & PDP context activation, EDGE concepts Introduction to WCDMA, Radio channels, Frame structure, Enhancements in WCDMA, UTRAN Architecture, Node-B, RNC, Core network, IMS , Services and security UMTS protocols and Procedure Examples, UMTS Radio network planning and dimensioning, Coverage issues, Link budget & tools for planning, the move towards 4G WLAN standards, WLAN concepts, WLAN architecture WiMax

4G Technologies
Introduction to LTE, Goals and market drivers, Network architecture, e-UTRAN and EPC, roles of UE, eNB, MME, S-GW, P-GW and HSS, Interfaces S1, X2, S6a, S5 and S11 LTE air interface, Orthogonality, OFDM, MIMO, Antenna Considerations. LTE services - CS-Fall back, VoLTE and SR-VCC, SMS support, Interworking with 2G/3G wireless networks, Wireless Mobility in LTE.