Who Should Attend?

Engineers new to the field of RF engineering, managers, or other personnel responsible for RF systems whether wireless, cellular/mobile, microwave, or other, will benefit from a comprehensive understanding of RF fundamentals. An electrical engineering degree or equivalent background is desired, but not required.

Course Content

1. Basics of RF.
   • Principles of RF propagation.
   • Electromagnetic spectrum.
   • RF modulation fundamentals.
   • Reflection, refraction, diffraction.
   • Fundamentals of digital RF communication.
   • Propagation models: Okumura, HATA, Cost 231.
   • Free space loss.
   • Reflection scatting loss, Rayleigh fading, multipath.
   • Multipath cancellation.
2. Basics of Traffic Engineering.
   • Trunks, circuits, overview of the T-Carrier System.
   • Erlang tables.
   • Blocking probability, basic operational concepts towards grade of service (GoS).
   • Traffic simulation.
3. RF Design.
   • Tools available for design.
   • Design considerations.
   • Propagation losses.Link budget.
   • System degradation.
   • Eb/No, SNR, BER, Noise.
   • Limitations of bandwidth.
   • Receiver sensitivity.
   • Intermodulation distortion.
   • RF performance & optimization.
   • RF system management & KPIs.
   • Sample link budget calculations.
4. RF Deployments.
   • Project planning for RF deployments.
   • Process of RF deployments.
   • Successful/unsuccessful RF deployments.
   • Morphology zones.
   • Design engineering.
   • Traffic engineering.
   • Call processing.
   • Mobility management.
   • Soft versus Hard hand over.
   • RF optimization & performance testing.
   • Indoor design considerations.
5. Antennas.
   • How antennas work.
   • Antenna gain.
   • Antenna radiation patterns.
   • Isotropic and dipole radiators.
   • Effective radiated power.

Course Objectives

Provide a basic understanding of antenna design, antenna patterns, RF modulation, RF system design considerations, explain RF performance and optimization, understand propagation, and understand the evolution of standards.

Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisities to attend the course.

Training Structure

Three days training divided into logical sessions. Lecture and theoretical exercises.

Methodology

Instructor led training.