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2G CDMA, cdma2000 & 3G Workshop

Dec. 13-15, 2000

Las Vegas

Flamingo Hilton Hotel

Workshop Room: Reno

Exhibition Space Available

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Location: Flamingo Hilton Hotel, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109. Flamingo Hilton is in the center of the Las Vegas actions. It is one of the most famous Las Vegas hotels and is next to Bellagio and Caesars Palace. Please call +1(800)835-5686 or +1(702)733-3111, Fax:+1(702)733-3353 to make hotel reservation. Please use group code "cdma" to get special rate of $45/night Dec. 12 to Dec. 14 and $79/night Dec. 15-16 (weekend). The hotel special rate cut-off date is Nov. 21, 2000. Please reserve room before that time. This rate may still be available after cut-off date. if you have difficult reserve hotel rooms, please email us: witmail@bigfoot.com

 

Onsite Workshops on 3G (cdma2000 & W-CDMA) & 2G CDMA Available Upon Request

Workshop Leader: Ed Lu

Ed Lu is a leading expert and a consultant on wireless communications systems. He has been involved in wireless communications business development, CDMA subscriber unit testing, cellular and PCS system design, wireless data technology, microcell technology, optical fiber communications, and electromagnetic wave propagation for more than sixteen years. He was a member of CTIA CDMA System Operational and Performance Test Group. He developed AirTouch Communications CDMA Test Bed program, supporting AirTouch's CDMA Digital cellular transition. He was the Director of Network Planning & Engineering for McCaw International and Chief Engineer of Shanghai McCaw Telecommunications, in charge of building one of the most dense Digital Cellular Systems in the world. He was also the Technical Director of Mobile System International.

Ed Lu brings his solid R&D background, CDMA field operation experience, practical system design and engineering experience to this workshop. A well-respected wireless communication strategist, Ed Lu will also share his views on smart antennas, superconducting filter, CDMA optimization, CDMA system development directions, PCS system deployment strategies, microcells, wireless data & internet and IMT-2000 3G systems.

 

Who should Attend This Workshop

This CDMA workshop is designed for chip designers, network engineers, RF planners, engineering managers and others who want to learn how CDMA works and how best to implement the technology. By attending this workshop, you can better optimize your CDMA systems and make them 3G ready. This is the place to get all of your questions answered on the latest advancements in CDMA so you can shorten your learning curve and build a better system.

With 560 pages of handout note, this is one of the most extensive Advanced CDMA & 3G Workshops.

Workshop Schedule and Topics (Subject to change)

Workshop begins each day on 8:30 AM. Ends at 5PM. It may end earlier on 3rd day afternoon.

Part I: 2G CDMA System (IS-95)

Chapter 1.1        CDMA Basic

                             IS-95 System Structure

                                 Forward Link

                                    Variable Vocoder

                                        13K CELP

                                        8K CELP

                                        Deploying EVRC

                                        Markov model

                                        Voice activity facor calculation

                                        Why forward voice activity factor is larger?

                                    Channel Coding

                                        CRC

                                        Convolutional coding

                                     Symbol Repetition

                                     Block Interleaver

                                     Scrambling

                                         Long code mask

                                      PN & Walsh Codes

                                         Short & long PN codes

                                      Digital Modulation

                                         Spectrum efficiency vs. C/I ratio

                                         QPSK & OQPSK

                                      CDMA Mobile Power                                                                                         

                                      Linear Amplifier

                                      CDMA Waveform

                                Reverse Channel

                                    Walsh modulation

                                    Power Switch

                                    Randomizer

                                CDMA Channel Structure

                                    Pilot Channel

                                        Pilot planning

                                    Sync Channel

                                    Paging Channel

                                        Slotted mode

                                    Access Channel

                                        Access probe

                                    CDMA Frame Structure

                                        Blank & burst mode

                                        Dim & burst mode

                                        Mixed mode

                                        Frame Erasure bit

Chapter 1.2             CDMA System Architecture

                                    Base Station

                                    Base Controller

                                    Mobile Switch

                                    User Terminal

                                    Roaming Network

                                    CDMA Timing System

                                    CDMA Signal Flow

                                    CDMA Call Process

                                    Idle Hand-off

                                    Channel Element

                                  RAKE Receiver

                                    Search Finger

                                    Diversity Combining

                                    Correlation

                                  Power Control

                                     Power control bits

                                     Forward power control           

                                     Reverse power control

                                        Open loop

                                        Close loop

                                            Inner loop

                                            Outer loop  

                                         Power control process

                                         Power control error

                                         Power control speed

                                         Optimizing power control parameters

                                         Power control dynamic range

                                         Power control rule in soft hand-off region

                                CDMA Hand-off

                                    Soft hand-off

                                    Softer hand-off

                                    3-way soft & softer hand-off

                                    Signal path during soft hand-off

                                    Soft hand-off process

                                    Hand-off threshold optimization

                                    Pilot pollution

                                    Soft hand-off message

                                    Search mode

                                    Pilot scanning process

                                    Soft hand-off capacity reduction factor

                                    Soft hand-off overhand factor

                                    CDMA hard hand-off

                                    Pilot beacon implementation

                                    Which channel power strength control CDMA hand-off process?

                                    Optimizing Soft hand-off parameters: T_ADD, T_DROP, T_TDROP

                                    Optimizing neighbor list & cells based on test data

                                    Search window impact on system performance

                                    Setting and optimizing search window size for CDMA system

 

Chapter 1.3        CDMA System Design & Engineering

                                    CDMA Channel Parameters

                                    Path Loss Model

                                    Path Loss Slope & Capacity

                                    Fade Margin

                                        Area coverage reliability & boundary coverage reliability

                                    Soft Hand-off Gain

                                    CDMA Coverage and Capacity Modeling

                                    Pole capacity; CDMA system link budget

                                    Does soft hand-off reduce capacity?

                                    Forward link coverage & capacity

                                    Forward Link Voice Activity factors: 9.6Kbps & 14.4 Kbps

                                    Optimize Pilot Power Allocation

                                    Calculate Pilot Allocation for different pilot threshold

                                    Reverse link coverage & capacity

                                    Frequency reuse efficiency calculation

                                    Receiver noise figure and sensitivity

                                    Link Balancing Issues

                                    Loading: the link between capacity and coverage

                                    Cell breathing and soft capacity

                                    Noise rise above thermal noise floor

                                    Step by step design method of CDMA coverage & Capacity

                                    Ambient Noise Effect on CDMA Capacity and Coverage

                                    Superconduting filter: where you may use it?

                                    Ignition noise & ambient noise measurements

                                    Step by Step procedures of CDMA System Capacity Planning

                                    Step by Step procedures of CDMA System Coverage Planning

                                    Case Study: One Market 3-year capacity and coverage design

                                    CDMA System Performance Matrix

                                    CDMA system performance under different speed, multipath delay, etc.

                                    Apply CDMA to wireless local loop (WLL)

                                    Design system at minimum front-end cost

                                    CDMA Migration & Deployment Engineering and Planning

                                    System capacity planning issues

Part II:        Advanced CDMA Topics                              

Chapter 2.1        CDMA Optimization

                                Improving Capacity

                                Improving Coverage

                                Optimization Process

Chapter 2.2        CDMA Antenna System

                                Choose CDMA Antenna

                                    Horizontal beam width selection

                                    Soft hand-off % & beam width

                                Sectorization Efficiency

                                Pilot Pollution

                                Downtilt

                                Azimuth Rotation

                                Dual Polarization Antenna

                                    Cross polarization Density

                                    Where you may deploy dual polarization antenna?

                                CDMA Microcell

                                    Search window issues

                                Distributed Antenna System (DAS)

                                CDMA Repeater Deployment

                                Cable Microcell Integrator

                                CDMA Wireless Local Loop

                                Mobile Satellite Service (Globalstar)

                                Smart Antenna

                                    Adaptive system

                                    Switched beams                                                                          

Chapter 2.3        Digital Conversion

                                Dual Mode System

                                CDMA Carrier & Guard band

                                AMPS to CDMA Conversion

                                Capacity Gain & Loss

                                Interference & Intermodulation

                                Rural Coverage Issues

                                PCS Bands

Chapter 2.4        Multiple CDMA Carrier

                                Deploying 2nd CDMA carrier

                                Optimization issues

Chapter 2.5        CDMA Geolocation & E911 Services

                                Network based

                                Handset based

                                Hybrid system

Chapter 2.6        CDMA Data & Internet

                                Short Message System (SMS)

                                Circuit Data

                                Packet Data

                                EDGE/GPRS/1X RTT

                                CDMA Internet Access System

                                Evolution to higher data rate

                                HDR & Tantivy System

Part III            3G System

Chapter 3.1        3G Standards

                                IMT-2000 Standards

                                IMT-2000 Spectrum

                                3GPP & 3GPP2

                                cdma2000 & WCDMA

                                3G Spectrum Auction in Europe

                                Cell Range vs Data Rate

                                Site Count vs. Data Rate

Chapter 3.2        3G System for IS-95 CDMA

                                IS-95A & IS-95B

                                3G-1X & 3G-3X

                                Migration Planning

                                Performance Enhancement

                                3G System Deployment

                                Spectrum Sharing of 2G & 3G

                               

cdma2000

 

Band Class 0-9

Reverse Link

                Radio Configuration 1-6 (RC 1 to RC 6)

                Spreading Rate 1 & 3 (SR1 & SR3)

                Reverse Pilot Channel

                Access Channel

                Enhanced Access Channel

                Reverse Common Control Channel

                Reverse Dedicated Control Channel

                Reverse Fundamental Channel

                Reverse Supplemental Code Channel

                Reverse Supplemental Channel

                Channel Structure

                Data Rates for SR1 & SR3

                Turbo Encoder

                Reverse Power Control Subchannel

                Outer & Inner Loop Power Control

Forward Link

                Forward Pilot Channel

                Sync Channel

                Paging Channel

                Broadcast Control Channel

                Quick Paging Channel

                Common Power Control Channel

                Common Assignment Channel

                Forward Common Control Channel

                Forward Dedicated Channel

                Forward Fundamental Channel

                Forward Supplemental Code Channel

                Forward Supplemental Channel

                Forward & Reverse Power Control Subchannel

                Transmission Timing

                Symbol Duplexing

                Hopping Pilot Beacon

 

Chapter 3.3             cdma2000 System

Chapter 3.4        3G System for GSM

                                2G Bottlenecks

                                2G to 3G Evolution

                                WCDMA Radio Parameter

                                Physical Channel Architecture

                                EDGE

                                GPRS

                                WCDMA Capacity & Coverage

                                ATM

Chapter 3.5           G3G: Global 3G

                                Harmonization

                                Software Radio

 

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