Designing LTE and LTE Advanced Physical Layer Systems with MATLAB

This three-day course provides an overview of the LTE and LTE-Advanced physical layer. Using MATLAB^®, and LTE Toolbox^™, attendees will learn how to generate reference LTE waveforms and build and simulate an end-to-end LTE PHY model. Topics include:

Review of the advanced communications techniques forming the core of an LTE system: OFDMA and SC-FDMA multi-carrier techniques, and MIMO multi-antenna systems
Descriptions of all of the signals and elements of the processing chain for the uplink and downlink LTE physical channels
Methods for golden reference verification with the standard

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Prerequisites

MATLAB Fundamentals and knowledge of wireless communications systems

Day 1 of 3
Introduction to 3GPP Long Term Evolution	Objective: Provide an introduction to the LTE standard and its relationship to other 3GPP standards. Understand general requirements and objectives for LTE. Get an overview of different protocol layers within LTE. 3GPP evolution from R5 to R11 Requirements Spectrum flexibility General characteristics Multi-user scheduling Resource allocation Frequency reuse planning
OFDM Theory Review	Objective: Understand the basics of OFDM modulation, cyclic prefix insertion, and windowing. Motivation for multi-carrier vs single-carrier Introduction to OFDM Generation of OFDM symbols using the IFFT Cyclic prefix (guard interval) Windowing to reduce out of band emissions Advantages and disadvantages of OFDM
LTE Frames, Slots and Resources	Objective: Understand the concepts of frames, subframes, slots, and physical resource grids in LTE downlink and uplink. LTE generic frame structure Downlink and uplink slot formats Resource elements and resource blocks Downlink OFDM symbol construction Uplink SC-FDMA symbol construction LTE downlink resource capacity

Day 2 of 3
Procedures	Objective: Understand different physical layer procedures for both downlink and uplink specified in LTE. Cell search Cell identities in cell search Symbol synchronization Frame and cell synchronization System information acquisition: MIBs and SIBs Timing synchronization procedures Uplink power control
MIMO Background	Objective: Understand different MIMO techniques namely diversity, beamforming, and spatial multiplexing. Learn about singular value decomposition as the solution to the generic MIMO problem. Spectral efficiency and capacity Transmit and receive diversity The Alamouti Scheme Delay Diversity and Cyclic Delay Diversity Beamforming Spatial multiplexing Singular value decomposition Equalizing, predistortion, precoding, and combining
LTE Downlink Physical Layer Modulation	Objective: Understand processing elements for different downlink physical channels and downlink physical signals. Learn about resource grid and control channel element. Downlink physical channel processing chain Codewords and layers Scrambling and modulation Transmission schemes Diversity, spatial multiplexing, and beamforming Synchronization signals: PSS and SSS Reference signals: cell and UE specific, MBSFN Downlink physical channels: PBCH, PCFICH, PDSCH, and PDCCH Control region REGs and CCEs, PDCCH search spaces Resource grid mapping
MIMO in LTE R8	Objective: Learn different MIMO techniques specified in the LTE standard. Codewords to layers mapping Precoding for spatial multiplexing Precoding for transmit diversity Beamforming in LTE Cyclic Delay Diversity-based precoding Precoding codebooks

Day 3 of 3
LTE Multiplexing and Channel Coding	Objective: Understand the coding, multiplexing, and mapping to physical channels for all transport channels in downlink and uplink. Transport channels and control information: DL-SCH, PCH, BCH, DCI, CFI, HI, UL-SCH, and UCI Mapping of transport channels to physical channels CRC coding and masking Code block segmentation Convolutional and turbo coding Rate matching, bit selection and pruning Transport channels and control information processing chains HARQ: incremental redundancy, stop-and-wait
LTE Uplink Physical Layer Modulation	Objective: Understand processing elements for different uplink physical channels and uplink physical signals. Uplink physical channel processing chain Scrambling and modulation SC-FDMA review Uplink Reference signals: DRS and SRS Uplink physical channels: PUSCH, PUCCH, and PRACH Control information: CQI, RI, PMI, HI, and SR Control signaling on PUSCH and PUCCH PUCCH formats Uplink physical channels and physical signals
LTE Release 9	Objective: Learn about new features introduced in LTE Release 9. Release 9 features MBMS support Home eNodeB Positioning support Transmission schemes
LTE Advanced – Release 10	Objective: Learn about new features introduced in LTE Release 10. IMT-Advanced Technologies Carrier aggregation Uplink spatial multiplexing Spatial Orthogonal Resource Transmit Diversity Downlink enhanced MIMO CSI reference signals

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