COURSE # TOO-330
CRASH COURSE IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS
Intensive primer introducing and explaining all aspects of the evolution of Cellular Telecommunications including key technologies and the regulatory and economic environments.
Now that so many digital cellular systems have replaced first-generation analog networks and successfully made the industry the largest consumer electronic market in history, the industry dynamics propel it further, toward the third generation. Wireless mobile communications have a short and very recent influence on our lives, relative to the fixed telephone networks and technologies, which have served us for over 100 years. Why then did mobile telephone services remain relatively dormant for so long, and what brought upon their recent explosive growth? Why are there so many incompatible systems today, and what is the nature of their incompatibility? How do cellular networks function, and what are the differences between analog and digital? What are the key differences among the prevailing digital systems in use today, and what will the future bring?
This course has been designed in response to requests by many who are either new or peripheral to the industry, but who need a solid foundation for successful performance or who wish to proceed with more specialized reading or training offered at OEI.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by understanding:
- The history and evolutionary trends in mobile telephony.
- The regulatory and economic environments within the cellular radio industry.
- How a cellular phone works, as well as the functions of its various components in the fixed portion of the network.
- Design, deployment, and testing methods.
- The differences between analog and digital cellular.
- Key multiple - access technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA
- Key digital radio technologies: digital modulation, channel coding, and voice coding.
- Standards bodies.
- The paths to third-generation (3G) system.
Who should attend:
This course is an intensive primer covering cellular telephony emphasizing the key technical aspects. It is primarily designed to prepare participants who are new to the cellular radio industry for the specialized technology courses offered by OEI and other institutions. Though mainly a preparatory course, it is also useful as an introduction for all employees in technical, marketing and sales positions, in all segments of the wireless communications industry. Although the course
has no prerequisites and is specifically designed for a wide range of interests, it assumes some background in science or technical work.
Course Outline:
- History, Origins, and Organization
- History of mobile radio
- Overview of wireless communications
- Systems, Components, and Concepts
- System concepts
- Base stations
- Channelization
- RF Propagation
- Licenses and regulatory structure
- Methods and Procedures
- Network enhancements
- Testing
- Telephone Networks - Fixed and Wireless
- The MSC (Mobile Switching Center)
- Modern Digital Networks
- Architectures
- Transport technologies
- Signaling and SS7
- Packet networks and the Internet
- QoS (Quality of Service)
- Cellular Technologies and Techniques
- Call processing
- Interconnections
- Roaming
- Digital cellular systems
- Standards bodies
- Digital radio techniques
- Multiple-access techniques
- Digital modulation
- Call processing
- Testing considerations
- Fraud and authentication
- New Issues in Cellular
- Capacity Engineering
- Wireless data
- Business issues
- Allied and Competing Technologies and Systems
- SMRs and ESMRs
- Microwave radio
- Satellites
- The Future
- Always-on services
- 3G and 4G
Text: Wireless Crash Course, by Paul Badell (McGraw-Hill, 2001) ISBN: 0-07-137210-5
About the Instructor
Malcolm Oliphant is with Tektronix, where he is the Strategic Marketing
Manager for the Mobile Business Unit. He has more than 30 years of experience with mobile radio systems, particularly with first and second generation cellular and PMR (Private Mobile Radio). Malcolm was the Strategic Marketing Manager for IFR until early 2000 and spent most of the 1990s with Schlumberger involved in early GSM deployments. He is currently performing risk analysis in third and fourth generation cellular and other converged communications technologies and networks for Tektronix, which is assuming leadership roles in converged network testing and optimization. He has co-authored two popular books on GSM and PCS. Mr. Oliphant received his B.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Details:
Course: TOO-330 Duration: 2 Days FEE: $1,099 CEUs: 1.44
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding this course
to Anita Hellstrom, Program Coordinator, by e-mail, FAX: (636)
273-4955 or TELEPHONE: (636) 273-9608.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the
Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified June 23, 2004.
