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Overview

This course is day 2 and 3 of the LTE, LTE-Advanced and HSPA Evolution: System Design and Operation course and can be taken on its own or as part of the 5-day course. For details of the full 5-day LTE, LTE-Advanced and HSPA Evolution: System Design and Operation course click here.

All delegates will receive a free copy of "LTE for UMTS: Evolution to LTE-Advanced" by Harri Holma and Antti Toskala (Wiley).

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Description

Presentations by Dr Harri Holma, NSN Fellow - Radio System Performance, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland and Dr Antti Toskala, Manager, Radio Standardization, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland, authors of the current definitive works, "LTE for UMTS - OFDMA and SC-FDMA Based Radio Access", "HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS" and "WCDMA for UMTS".

Programme details

Course content

Part 1 – LTE Standards and System Performance

• Status of LTE global deployments
• LTE Architecture with S1 and X2 interfaces
• Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
• Layer 2 and layer 3
• Physical layer with OFDMA and SC-FDMA principles
• Mobility management
• Radio Resource Management (RRM)
• Data rates, coverage and capacity
• Voice solutions (CS fallback and VoLTE)
• Frequency variants
• TDD Mode (TD-LTE)

Part 2 - LTE-Advanced and HSPA Evolution Standards and System Performance

• 3GPP status of LTE Advanced in Releases 10-11
• Carrier aggregation
• Multiantenna solutions (MIMO)
• Heterogeneous networks (HetNet)
• Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP)
• LTE evolution in Release 12 and beyond
• HSPA Evolution features in Releases 7-12
• Dual cell HSPA (DC-HSPA), Continuous packet connectivity (CPC), HS-RACH/HS-FACH, HSDPA multiflow
• HSPA voice evolution
• LTE Benchmarking with HSPA evolution

First day registration from 8.30am when course materials will be distributed.
Refreshments from 8.30am on the first day plus two 30 minute breaks during the day and a one-hour lunch break.
The course will begin at 9.00am and end at approximately 5.00pm on each day.

Staff

Dr Harri Holma

Role: Speaker

NSN Fellow - Radio System Performance,
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

Harri Holma joined Nokia Research Centre in 1994 and...more received his M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology 1995. He has been with Nokia Networks since 1998 and has been located both in Finland and in USA during that time.

Harri Holma is currently working as NSN Fellow with Nokia Siemens Networks with special interest on radio system performance. He has completed his PhD at Helsinki University of Technology 2003. Dr. Holma has edited the books "WCDMA for UMTS", "HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS" and "LTE for UMTS" and contributed to a number of other books in the radio communication area.

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Dr Antti Toskala

Role: Speaker

Head of 3GPP Radio Standardization,
Nokia Siemens Networks

Antti Toskala (M.Sc) joined the Nokia Research Centre in 1994,...more where he undertook WCDMA system studies. In September 1995 he joined the ACTS FRAMES project, and in the later phase, worked as the team leader for the work package which defined the FMA2 WCDMA concept. During 1997, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer and CDMA Specialist participating in the ETSI SMG2 UMTS standardization work.

He chaired the UMTS physical layer expert group in ETSI SMG2 during 1998, and from 1999 (the start of the 3GPP activity) until 2003 he worked in 3GPP as chairman of the TSG RAN WG1, the group responsible for the physical layer of the WCDMA standard. His group was responsible for the standardization of WCDMA physical layer, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and for the start of uplink packet data evolution (HSUPA).

From 2003 to 2005 he worked as Senior Standardization Manager with System Technologies, at Nokia Networks and contributed to product development as the HSDPA Chief Architect for Nokia Networks.

From 2005 to 2006 he worked with Nokia Networks as Senior Standardization Manager focusing on HSPA and LTE standardization.

Currently he is with Nokia Siemens Networks, in Espoo, Finland working as the Head of 3GPP Radio Standardization, with technical focus on HSPA and LTE evolution.

He has co-authored what are considered to be the 3 definitive books in 3G (“WCDMA for UMTS”, “HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS” and “LTE for UMTS”). He regularly lectures on WCDMA, HSPA and LTE technologies in various universities and institutions around the world and has a large number of patents and publications in the field.

As part of the 2010 LTE World Summit LTE Awards, he received the “Award for Individual Contribution for LTE Development” recognising his contribution to both LTE standardization and LTE knowledge spreading in the industry.

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Certification

Participants who satisfy the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Attendance. The pdf sample above is an illustration only, and the wording will reflect the course and dates attended.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

Payment

Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.

All courses are VAT exempt.

Scholarships

Details of funding opportunities, including grants, bursaries, loans, scholarships and benefit information are available on our financial assistance page.

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Programme Fee

Standard Course Fee: £995.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Telecoms and mobile technologies