Femto Cell System Engineering
- Duration: 1 day or 6 hours
- Level: Level 3
Femto Cell System Engineering
Course Outline
Divided into 4 sections, the topics covered will include:
Section 1: Why Femto Cells? (1 hour)
- Femto Cells - Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities.
- Femto Cells v UMA - Advantages and Disadvantages.
- Who’s Who - Vendors supporting Femto Cell solutions and Service Providers Trialling / Deploying Femto Cells.
- Femto Cells and LTE.
Section 2: Femto Cell Architecture (2 hours)
- The Network Elements - HNB, HN-GW and AAA.
- The Iu-h Interface and Protocols - HNBAP and RUA.
- Protocol Stacks - Control and User Plane.
- Femto Cells, Packet Switching and the Integrated GGSN.
- IP Backbone Network - xDSL and Cable.
- Femto Cells and VoIP - AMR, RTP, RTCP, Sigtran (SCTP, M3UA etc).
- QoS on the Iu-h Interface - Problems and Solutions.
Section 3: Femto Cell Operation (1.5 hours)
- HNB Initialization, Setup and Remote Management - TR069/TR169.
- HNB and Cognitive Radio - adapting to both Macro and Femto Cells.
- HNB Discovery / Registration, UE Registration and Access Control.
- Femto Cell Security and Access Control - IPSec, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, ACL.
- RRC Connection Establishment.
- Mobile Originated / Terminated Call Setup - Bearer Establishment over the Iu-h Interface.
- Packet Switched Operation.
Section 4: Mobility and Interworking (1.5 hours)
- Femto Cell Planning Basics - LAI, Scrambling Codes etc.
- HNB Selection / Re-selection - Qhyst, Qoffset, Sintersearch, and Sintrasearch.
- Hierarchical Cell Structures and PLMNs.
- Handovers - HNB to Node B and Node B to HNB.
- Interference Scenarios and Possible Solutions.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for network engineers involved in the development and operation of Femto Cells and product managers requiring a detailed understanding of the issues effecting Femto Cell deployment.
Pre-learning
Pre-learning is provided to prime those attending the instructor led phase. Each lesson is based on an interactive online format and should take about 30mins to complete. The pre-learning lessons are:
- Test of Understanding - Try the online check to see how much you know.
- Packet Switching.
- Protocol Stacks an IP.
- IP Addressing.
- Femto Cell Basics.