Mobile Technologies and the Changing Market

• The Evolution from 2G to 3.5G
• HSPA and HSPA+ Features
• Services and Applications
• Service Drivers
• Market Analysis – Trends, figures, growth, strategies
• 3GPP and 3GPP2 Work Efforts
• Standards Status and Technology Trials
• Spectrum for Mobile Services

• LTE Capabilities and Services Achieving Spectral Efficiency
• Principles of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
• Multiple Antenna Systems and MIMO Principles
• Uplink Proposals for LTE
• Downlink Proposals for LTE
• Access Network Architecture
• Interfaces and Protocols

Service Architecture Evolution (SAE)

• Basic Network Architecture
• Network Node Functions
• eNB, MME, S-GW, P-GW
• SAE Interfaces
• S1-U, S1-MME, X2
• Inter-Working Architectures
• Trusted Access
• Non-Trusted Access
• 3GPP inter-working

Service Provision in LTE

• Requirements for LTE Services
• Quality of Service
• IP Multimedia Sub-System (IMS)
• VoIP and IMS
• Voice and VoLGA in LTE

All the above points will be summarised and direct comparisons will be made