5G Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Introduction Course

Explore 5g fundamentals, drivers, architecture, use cases, and network slicing that enable customizable services, faster broadband, lower latency, and IoT across industries.

Explore the evolution and standards of 5G, spectrum and bands, and key radio technologies like millimeter wave, beamforming, and massive MIMO. Assess deployment options, architecture, network slicing, and industry impacts.

Trace the evolution from 1g to 5g, highlighting milestones, features, and data speeds. Examine how GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and LTE built the foundation for fast, interconnected mobile networks.

Explore 5G standards across releases 15 to 17, including 5G new radio, network slicing, and cloud-native architecture, with phase two expanding into industrial IoT and massive machine type communication.

Trace the 3GPP standards organization, including technical specification groups, SA, and CN/T, via six WGs, along history from 1999 to 2017 showcasing LTE, carrier aggregation, CoMP, and 5G phase 1–2.

Explore how 5G requirements drive development across enhanced mobile broadband, ultra reliable low latency, massive machine type communication, and fixed wireless access.

Explore 5g performance targets, including a 10 gbps peak data rate, 1 ms latency, up to 100x more connected devices per area, and high reliability, coverage, and energy efficiency goals.

Explore how 5G enables URLLC, supports eMBB, and enables mMTC. Learn about mini slots, numerology, uplink grant-free transmission, and multi-antenna strategies.

Explore fixed wireless access in 5G, delivering fiber-like last-mile connectivity, and examine uplink grant-free transmission and the four deployment cases for homes, businesses, backups, and backhaul.

Explore the 5G spectrum frequency ranges, including low, mid, and high bands, and learn how millimeter wave bands enable ultra high speed, wide coverage, and capacity for diverse use cases.

Explore dynamic spectrum sharing as a bridge for 4g and 5g, enabling shared low, mid, and high bands, and a smooth, cost-effective transition to standalone 5g.

Explore 5G NR technologies including millimeter wave bands, small cells, massive MIMO and beamforming, and dynamic spectrum sharing to deliver multi-gigabit, ultra-reliable connectivity.

Explains massive MIMO and beamforming as key 5G technologies that boost capacity, coverage, and spectrum efficiency, addressing millimeter wave challenges with focused transmission to user equipment.

Trace the four industrial revolutions, identify drivers and enablers, and show how 5G powers Industry 4.0 through virtualization, software-defined networking, and varied data traffic.

Explore how 5g use cases surpass 4g with machine-type communication and IoT, delivering low latency for mission-critical services like e-health and autonomous driving.

Explore 5g use cases across health, industry 4.0, drones, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, highlighting edge computing, real-time IoT monitoring, and ultra low latency for augmented reality.

Explore how private 5G networks enable massive machine type communication, ultra low latency, and extreme data rates for industrial IoT.

Explore 5g design principles, including flexible design for carrier frequencies and deployment types, forward compatibility across releases 15-17, and ultra clean design to minimize always-on transmissions and reduce opex.

Examine 5G enablers like end-to-end network slicing, mobile edge computing, and control plane–user plane separation, plus multi axis wireless–wireline convergence, enabling customized, low-latency services for industry needs.

Network slicing creates virtual sub networks with tailored resources, spectrum bands, and core network features to support services from ultra low latency for automated manufacturing and connected cars to IoT.

Discover how network slicing supports 5g services with NFV and SDN on a unified physical infrastructure, deploying three-layer data centers to enable eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC.

Understand edge computing as a key 5G enabler that reduces latency by bringing compute and control near users, while multi connectivity combines 5G, LTE, and Wi-Fi for high bandwidth.

Explore edge computing with 5G to bring computing and storage closer to data, enabling low latency, high bandwidth for private 5G, vehicle-to-everything, and edge content delivery use cases.

Explore 5G deployment options—non-standalone, standalone, and dual connectivity—and discuss migration paths from non-standalone to standalone, plus effects on latency, data rates, and IoT and vehicles.

Examine the evolution from 4g to 5g core, emphasizing cloud-based service-based architecture, control–user plane separation, and the mapping of 5g functions to lte with new features like network slicing.

Explore how the 5G core control plane uses a cloud-based service-based architecture to enable scalable, flexible networking, with network functions delivering services to other authorized functions via a standard interface.

Analyze the 5g network architecture and service-based framework, detailing authentication, data management, and mobility functions, and explain how new radio, massive mimo, and beamforming enhance capacity and coverage.

Explore how the 5g service-based architecture uses the system management function to coordinate with the data plane, establish sessions, allocate IP addresses, and enforce QoS and policy.

Discover the 5G network architecture, including cloud-native UDM data management, authentication and key generation, service based architecture, and secure external interactions via network exposure functions.

Learn how the 5G core control plane interconnects network functions via service-based architecture and reference points. Understand how service-based interfaces replace or map to point-to-point references.

Explore how 5G interfaces interconnect network functions through reference points from N1 to N37, with examples of messages and procedures for user equipment, context management, resource management, handover, and QoS.

Explore how 5G data channels organize user data, control information, and synchronization across the radio access network, with parallels to the LTE protocol stack.

Explore 5g data channels and user equipment identifiers used to differentiate connected devices and radio channels, including paging channel, transport channel, and random access identifiers.

Discover how 5g data channels use subscriber and network identifiers, including supi, suci, and the permanent equipment identifier, to enable privacy and session management in the network.

Examine the 5G user plane and control plane protocol stacks, detailing SDAP, PDCP, RLC, MAC, and the physical layer, plus service-based interfaces with core networks and QoS flow mapping.

Explore the user plane in 5G networks, detailing GTP-U tunneling over IP/UDP, data forwarding, session management, and non-guaranteed delivery of user plane videos.

Explore the 5G core control plane, detailing service-based architecture, protocol stacks, and signaling between AMF and SMF, including registration, session management, and security provisions.