This course is intended for technical telecommunications professionals, especially engineers involved with 
product design, development, integration and testing of LTE.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the new 3GPP standard for wireless broad band data services. It comprises, E-UTRA network, which uses OFDMA technology and EPC (Evolved Packet Core), an all-IP core network. This framework allows the migration of 3GPP system towards packet-optimized system that supports multiple RATs (Radio Access Technologies), higher-data-rates and lower-latencies. Also it provides an evolution path for 3GPP and non-3GPP legacy technologies.

This course provides an in-depth discussion of LTE air interface. The course begins with an overview of LTE/E-UTRAN network architecture and protocols and introduces OFDMA, the key technology of LTE. It then discusses the DL and UL channels, signals and operations. This is followed by a comprehensives discussion of MAC, RLC and PHY layers of the LTE air interface.

After completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe 3GPP technology evolution.
• List the key performance requirements for LTE.
• Describe evolved system architecture.
• Explain OFDM for LTE.
• Identify E-UTRA air interface capabilities.
• Name and map DL and UL Physical channels to higher protocol stack layer.
• Describe overall E-UTRA DL and UL operations.
• Recognize multiple antenna techniques.
• Describe Key operations at the PHY/MAC/RLC layers.