Course 132 - Technical
Introduction To CDMA
Scope
This
two-day seminar gives technical personnel a solid introduction to CDMA
principles and system operation.
Target Audience
Technical personnel
responsible for design, maintenance, problem-solving and growth planning of
CDMA systems.
Course Presentation Setting and Methods
Presented
in a classroom setting using computer projection with student workbooks.
Topical Outline
Introduction to CDMA
¨
Survey
of Current Wireless Technologies
¨
Comparison
of CDMA and other access methods
¨
Wireless
Deployment Survey: who’s using what?
CDMA Air Interface Overview
¨
CDMA
Spread-Spectrum Basics
¨
CDMA
Signal RF Characteristics
¨
CDMA
Spreading Sequences and Code Channels, forward and reverse links
¨
How it
all works: decoding individual CDMA signals
¨
Capacity
Implications of the Air Interface
Basic
CDMA Network Architecture and Hardware Capacity Implications
Basic
CDMA Handset Architecture
Key CDMA Performance Parameters and
their Significance
¨
Ec/Io,
FER, Eb/No, Receive Power, Transmit Power, Transmit Gain Adjust
¨
Access
Throttling: Excess Forward Link
Capacity and thresholds
Call Processing from Perspective of the Subscriber Handset
¨
RF Section,
Digital Section, Correlators (“rake fingers”)
¨
Operation
of the Pilot Searcher
¨
Operational
States, from wakeup through end of a call
CDMA Handoff
¨
CDMA
Pilot Sets, number of members, promotion and demotion
¨
Handoff
Parameters, Handoff Messaging
¨
Pilot Searcher
timing implications
¨
RF
implications of handoff scenarios
¨
Hard
handoff and inter-network considerations
Introduction
to CDMA Layer 3 Messaging
Basic
System Traffic Engineering and Design
System
Growth Management
Real-life
Example Data
Prerequisites
Basic
technical mathematics; one to two years exposure to communications systems or
general electronics.
Course Documentation and Materials
Student
Guide
Miscellaneous
supplies.
Facilities and Hardware Requirements
Classroom suitable for student note-taking and a screen or other projection surface
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