Who Should Attend?
Anyone who need a knowledge about Indoor cell planning. Engineers responsible for the Radio Frequency design for indoor areas.

Course Content

1. Capacity dimensioning:
   • Public indoor cells,
   • Business indoor cells.
2. Radio Frequency design:
   • Link budget,
   • Design levels.
3. Antenna configuration:
   • Antenna positioning,
   • Antenna configuration supporting wall dependence,
   • Workflow,
   • Survey,
   • Measurement,
   • Examples of antenna configurations:
     • Office building,
     • Car park,
     • Shopping mall.
4. Path loss estimation – different methods used.
5. Frequency planning:
   • General,
   • Planning with re-use of outdoor frequencies,
   • Planning rules with dedicated frequencies,
   • High building and skyscrapers.
6. Traffic control:
   • Hierarchical Cell Structure,
   • Idle mode,
   • Active mode.
7. Tuning and optimization.
8. Case study.

Course Objectives
Explain and understand the overall process of indoor planning. After completing the course, students should know how to:

• perform capacity dimensioning,
• calculate power out from BTS,
• calculate SS (design and required level),
• derive the correct antenna configuration,
• correctly plan and position antennas inside the building (up to the building structure),
• calculate signal attenuation,
• assign RF frequencies,
• control the traffic from/to indoor cell,
• perform basic tuning and optimization of indoor system.

Pre-requisites
Good knowledge and understanding of GSM system. Basic knowledge about general cell planning process.

Training Structure
Two day training divided into logical sessions. Exercises and calculations, path loss estimation – different methods used,  case study.

Methodology
Instructor led training.