5G: Architecture and Key principles

Name: 5G: Architecture and Key principles
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Learn what key concepts make 5G one of the biggest leaps in the world of networking

Created bySathishkumar Jagadeesan

Last updated 12/2020

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What you'll learn

The key principles that govern the design of 5G
The architecture of the 5G Network
The 5G Use cases
5G Radio Access Network
5G Core Network
Explaining key 5G concepts in simple words

Course content

4 sections • 28 lectures • 2h 14m total length

Introduction2:01
A brief history7:25
Trace the evolution from fixed and mobile phones to 5g, highlighting amps, cellular layout, gsm, tdma and mdma, 2.5g, lte, and ofdm-based air interfaces.
Why 5G?3:50
5G use cases5:04
The 5G system5:30
Explore the 5G system across user equipment, radio access network, and core network, and learn how control plane and user plane separation enables scalable, low-latency services with service-based architecture.
5G Deployment Options4:14
Examine 4g and 5g deployment options, including standalone 5g with a 5g core and non-standalone dual connectivity with LTE and NR, detailing primary and secondary radio roles.
Section 1 - Reference0:02

Introduction2:03
Explore the 5G radio access network, millimeter-wave spectrum, and NR alongside LTE, and learn how massive MIMO, wideband carriers, and virtualization enable enhanced mobile broadband and low-latency use cases.
MIMO8:16
Demonstrates how MIMO and beamforming boost 5G capacity and data rates through diversity, spatial multiplexing, and massive MIMO, with open/closed loop precoding and hybrid beamforming.
5G Spectrum6:57
Dual Connectivity3:25
Dual connectivity links a 4G eNodeB as primary and a 5G gNodeB as secondary to improve throughput, mobility, and robustness, using split bearers over X2 with co-located MCG and SCG.
Flexible Numerology5:19
Mini slot, Preemptive scheduling, self contained slot4:19
Scheduling3:37
This lesson explains scheduling options in nr for mobile broadband and low latency data, including downlink control information, semi-persistent scheduling, and configured grant types 1 and 2 for uplink.
Quality of Service7:09
Explain quality of service and how 4G and 5G manage traffic with bearers, QoS flows, and PDU sessions. Highlight GBR, non-GBR, and delay-critical GBR for URLLC.
Massive Machine Type Communications13:39
Explore massive machine type communications in 5g, enabling up to 50,000 devices per cell with long battery life and extended coverage via cat-m1 and nb-iot.
NR Cell5:39
Explore how NR cell concepts evolve in 5G, from sectorized cells around a base station to beamforming assisted deployments, and how synchronization signals and system information enable cell search.
RRC States5:43
Section 2 - Reference0:02

Introduction6:08
Explore the 5G core network and how network slicing, service-based architecture, and virtualization enable an automated and programmable platform for diverse services, from connectivity providers to service enablers and providers.
5G core network3:49
Explore how the 5g core separates control and user planes, assigns IP addresses, and enforces QoS with UPF and packet gateway, while SMF, UDM, and USF handle sessions and authentication.
Network Slicing5:29
Service Based Architecture7:07
Virtualization2:26
Explore network function virtualization and how decoupling hardware from software enables vnfs to run on standard data center equipment, with cloud native Docker deployments.
NFV6:40
Explore how cloud computing delivers on-demand resources and pay for what you use, and how virtualization with hypervisors and containers enables cloud native applications.
Core Network Functions7:24
Explore how 5G core network functions like the NRF, AF, AMF, SMF, PCF, UDR, and UDM operate as services, with service based interfaces and reference point representations guiding policy-driven connectivity.
Section 3 - Reference0:01

Requirements

Basic understanding of telecommunications
Principles of wireless communications
3G or 4G

Description

5G is here!

The last decade had been about empowering the world through Mobile Broadband. It has changed the way we do everything ranging from ordering food, getting a taxi to consuming television.

Now, it is the time for 5G. In this course, you will be able to understand

- a brief history of telecommunication networks

- the key capabilities of 5G

- the 5G use cases

- the 5G architecture

- the key features in 5G Radio Access Network

- the key features in the 5G Core Network

and more..!

The course is designed to not take too long to learn from. I believe a good course can be concise, well illustrated and give value to the students at the shortest possible time. So, get started!

This course will be particularly helpful if you are preparing for an interview related to 5G, or if you have been working in telecom but is new to 5G. At the end of this course, you will be able to explain the key technical concepts in very simple words that will be an added advantage to both at work, exams and interviews.

Who this course is for:

Telecom professionals
Telecom students
Networking students
Interview candidates

5G: Architecture and Key principles

What you'll learn

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Course content

Overview7 lectures • 28min

5G Radio Access Network12 lectures • 1hr 6min

5G Core8 lectures • 39min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: