5G NR (New Radio) Technical Training-A Deep Dive

5G NR (New Radio) is a new Radio Access Technology (RAT) developed by 3GPP for the 5G mobile networks. In this course you will have an in-depth understanding about 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) based upon the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard and specifications.

The 5G New Radio standards developed by 3GPP is intended to significantly improve the performance, flexibility, scalability and efficiency of mobile networks. In this way 5G was designed to be able to ensure the optimum use of the available spectrum, whether it is licensed, shared or unlicensed, and achieve this across a wide variety of spectrum bands. 5G New Radio is able to provide high bandwidth communication for the transmission of streaming services as well as low latency services.

This course is targeted for:

• Telecom professionals/ engineers

• Telecom students

• Networking students

Course Contents:

Section 1: Introduction
                   Main Components of a 5G Network Architecture
                   Next Generation NodeB (gNB)
                   PDU (Protocol Data Unit) Sessions
                   5G Use Cases Mapped to Difference Usage Scenarios
                   5G NR Frequency Bands
                   Most Popular 5G Bands

Section 2: 5G Radio (Wireless) Access Technology (RAT)
                   5G Wireless Access Technology
                   Basics of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
                   OFDM in Its Simplest Form
                   OFDM IN Practice (Simplified Model)
                   Mutipath Environment And Cyclic Prefix
                   5G Flexible Numerology and Frame Structure
                   5G Resource Block (RB) and Resource Element (RE)
                   5G FDD TDD Modes-SUL and SDL Frequency Bands
                   Slot Formats and Slot Format Indicators (SFI) in 5G
                   5G NR self Contained Slots
                   Mini-Slots in 5G NR
                   Modulation in 5G
                   Adaptive Modulation and Coding in 5G
                   Modulation and the Coding Schemes (MCS) in 5G
                   Why Lower Numerology-SCS for Larger Cell Size
                   SCS Vs Cell Size
                   Advantages of TDD Deployment
                   5G Frequency Bands in FR1 and FR2

Section 3:Massive MIMO And Beam Forming in 5G
                    Introduction to MIMO, Beamforming and Massive MIMO
                   5G NR Transmission Chain
                   Types of Beamforming-Analog Beamforming
                    Digital Beamforming
                    Hybrid Beamforming
                    5G NR Active Antenna System (AAS)
                    8T8R & 64T64R Configurations in 5G Active Antenna System (AAS)
                    Comparison of Antenna Sizes in Sub 6 GHz & mmWave
                    Virtualized Antenna Representation
                    Active Antenna Unit (AAU) in 5G
                    Antenna Configurations for Different RF Planning Scenarios
                    Single Panel & Multi-panel Antennas
                    Grid of Beams (GoB)
                    Antenna Port Vs Physical Antenna
                    Quasi Co-Located (QCL) Ports
                    DL MIMO Characteristics in Sub 6GHZ
                    DL MIMO Characteristics in mmWave
                    Why DL-MU-MIMO is Limited to Maximum 16 Layers?
                    UL-MIMO Characteristics
                    Why Channel State Information (CSI) in Important?
                    What is Channel State Information (CSI) Report & its Calculation in FDD and TDD?
                    Why Use TDD with Large Number of Antenna Ports?
                    Types of CSI (Channel State Inormation)
                    Types I CSI (Standard Resolution)
                     Why Co-phasing is Required?
                     Subtypes of Type-I CSI
                     Type-II CSI (High Resolution)
                     Relationship Between Antenna Subarrays and CSI ports
                     Flow Diagrams for Downlink Single User MIMO Procedures
                     1. CSI-RS Based DL Single User MMO Procedure
                     2. Beamformed CSI-RS Based Procedure for DL SU-MIMO
                     3. SRS Based DL Single User MIMO
                     UL Transmission Schemes
                     1. Codebook Based UL Transmission Scheme
                     2. Non-Codebook Based UL Transmission Scheme

Section 4: 5G NR Protocol Stack
                    Control and User Plane Separation in 5G
                    5G NR Control Plane Protocol Stack
                    5G NR User Plane Protocol Stack
                    Combined 5G NR Protocol Stack
                    5G NAS (Non-Access Stratum) Layer
                    Radio Resource Control (RRC) Layer
                    Service Data Adaption Protocol (SDAP) Layer
                    Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Layer
                    Radio Link Control (RLC) Layer: Transparent, Acknowledged & Unacknowledged Mode
                    Medium Access Layer (MAC) Layer

Section 5: 5G RAN/gNB split Options
                    Horizontal gNB Disaggregation: Central Unit (CU) & Distributed Unit (DU)
                    Different RAN Functional Splits
                    RAN Split Option 1
                    RAN Split Option 2
                    RAN Split Option 8
                    RAN Split Option 6
                    RAN Splits Logical View
                    Option 7.2x for 5G Open RAN
                    Enhanced CPRI (e-CPRI) Protocol

Section 6: 5G NR Radio Access Network (RAN) Deployment Options
                   What is Dual Connectivity (DC)?
                   Signaling Radio Bearers in Dual Connectivity (DC)
                   Standalone Deployment Options 1 and 2
                   5G Non-Standalone (NSA) Option 3, 3a, 3x
                   Data Bearer Protocol Stack in Option 3, 3a, 3x
                   5G Non-Standalone (NSA) option 4
                   5G Non-Standalone (NSA) option 7
                   Option 5 and 6: Unlikely Deployment Options

Section 7: 5G NR Air Interface
                   Channel Bandwidth & Maximum Transmission BW Configuration
                   NR-Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (NR-ARFCN)
                   Difference Between Global And Channel Raster
                   Bandwidth Part in 5G
                   Resource Grid on 5G Air Interface
                   5G NR Model for Air Interface Channels
                       5G NR Logical channels
                       5G NR Transport Channels
                       5G NR Physical Channels
                       1. Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS)
                            Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) Location in Time Domain
                            Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) Location in Frequency Domain
                       2. Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) Signal:Types and Patterns
                       3. Sounding Reference Signal (SRS)
                       4. Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS)Procedures to understand 5G channels
                   5G NR Cell Acquisition Procedure
                   5G NR Cell Acquisition- Beam Sweeping
                   The Number, Location and Pattern of SSBs in a Burst Set for FR1 and FR2
                    5G NR Cell Acquisition- Signal Synchronization Block (SSB)
                   5G NR Cell Acquisition- Physical Cell ID (PCI)
                   5G Cell Acquisition: Minimum system information
                   5G Cell Acquisition: Master Information Block (MIB)
                   5G Cell Acquisition: Control Resource Set (CORESET)
                   5G Cell Acquisition: System Information Block 1 (SIB1)
                   Initial Access (RACH Procedure)
                   Scheduled Data Transmission Procedure
                   Control Resource Set (CORESET) Revisited
                    Paging Process