Course Outline

  • Introduction and Background on LTE (~0.5 week)

  • Network Architecture and Protocols (~2 weeks)

    • Network architecture

    • Control plane protocols

    • User plane protocols

  • Physical Layer for Downlink (~6 weeks)

    • OFDMA Technology Overview and Downlink PHY Design

    • Synchronization and Cell Search

    • Reference Signals and Channel Estimation

    • Downlink Physical Data and Control Channels

    • Link Adaptation and Channel Coding

    • Multiple Antenna Techniques

    • Multi-User Scheduling and Interference Coordination

    • Broadcast Operation

  • Physical Layer for Uplink (~2.5 weeks)

    • Uplink PHY Design

    • Uplink Reference Signals

    • Uplink Physical Channel Structure

    • Uplink Capacity and Coverage

    • Random Access for Uplink

    • Uplink Transmission Procedures

  • Practical Deployment Aspects (~1 week)

    • User Equipment Positioning

    • Radio Propagation Environment

    • Radio Frequency Aspects

    • Radio Resource Management

    • Paired and Unpaired Spectrum

    • Picocells, Femtocells, and Home eNodeBs

    • Self Optimizing Networks

    • LTE System Performance

  • LTE Advanced (~1 week)

    • Introduction to LTE Advanced

    • Carrier Aggregation

    • Multiple Antenna Techniques for LTE Advanced

    • Relaying

    • Additional Features of LTE Release-10 and Future Directions

  • 5G Communications (~3 weeks)

    • 5G network architecture

    • mmWave Communications

    • Massive MIMO

    • Machine Type Communications (MTC)

    • Device-to-Device Communications (D2D, ProSe)

    • Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications (V2X)

    • Tactile Internet