Evolution to 3G and UMTS Services Overview

• Standardisation, ITU/IMT2000, ETSI and 3GPP
• UMTS Bearers
• UMTS Teleservices, Service Capabilities and Supplementary Services
• Multimedia Services
• Role of IN/CAMEL and toolkits
• IMT2000 spectrum

UMTS Architecture and Protocols

• UMTS Release 99 architecture and its evolution
• UMTS Release 4 and Release 5
• UTRAN architecture, protocols and channels
• UMTS network areas and network/user equipment identities
• User Equipment (UE)
• Other access mechanisms to the Core Network

Generic CDMA Principles and Techniques

• Multiple access schemes compared: frequency division
• (FDMA), time division (TDMA), code division (CDMA) and
• hybrid schemes including Time Division CDMA (TD-CDMA)
• Spread spectrum techniques
• Methods of implementing CDMA
• Code length, chip rate, auto-correlation, cross-correlation and orthogonality
• Characteristics and properties of Pseudo-noise (PN) codes, Combinational codes and Orthogonal code sets
• Synchronisation techniques
• The pilot signal
• The use of separate channelisation and scrambling codes
• Coding and decoding of multiple users in a wideband channel
• Impact of interference on channel capacity
• Factors affecting cell capacity and the soft capacity effect
• Narrow and wideband CDMA comparison
• Need for open and closed loop power control
• Cell breathing
• Hard, soft and softer handover
• Antenna diversity techniques
• The Rake receiver
• Multi-user detection
• Discontinuous transmission and reception
• Sectored, beamed and smart antennas
• Uplink low-noise amplifiers (LNA)

UMTS Layer 1

• Use of the IMT2000 spectrum for UMTS
• FDD, TDD and ODMA operation
• Overall physical layer (L1) function
• Description of codes used in UMTS for synchronisation, channelisation and scrambling
• Application of the codes
• Description of physical channels and mapping between physical and transport channels
• Physical channel timing, slot and frame structures
• Synchronisation arrangements and procedures
• Pilot channels: common and channel associated
• Channel coding and multiplexing
• Open and closed loop power control
• Random access and contention resolution procedures
• Differences between FDD and TDD mode at the physical layer

UMTS Layer 2

• Overall architecture and functions
• Description of logical and transport channels
• Differences between FDD and TDD mode
• Radio link control (RLC)
• Medium access control (MAC)
• Packet data convergence protocol (PDCP)
• Broadcast and Multicast Control (BMC)
• Summary of mapping through logical, transport and physical channels for FDD and TDD mode

UMTS Layer 3

• Overall radio resource control (RRC) architecture and functions
• Service access points
• Functional entities
• RRC PDU types
• RRC service states
• RRC procedures

UMTS Procedures and Techniques

• Idle mode procedures
• Connected mode procedure
• Handover
• Location services (LCS)
• Security
• UMTS-GSM intersystem operation

High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)

• Mobile Broadband
• Radio Interface Evolution
• HSPA
• Benefits
• Features of HSDPA & HSUPA
• Data Rate Evolution
• Services
• Deploying HSPA
• HSDPA
• HS-DSCH
• Modulation
• Transmission Time Interval
• Link Adaptation
• Fast Scheduling
• HARQ
• Terminal Categories
• HSUPA
• Multi Code
• TTI
• HARQ
• Resource Scheduling
• Fast Scheduling
• UE Categories
• HSPA+
• Higher Order Modulation
• MIMO
• Continuous Packet Connectivity