UMTS Operations - 4 days

Introduction Second Generation 2.5 G Mobile Systems Third Generation 3G Mobile Systems Characteristics of the UMTS System The UMTS Network 1. UMTS Spectrum allocations. 2. FDD Physical Channels 3. Types of Physical, Transport & logical Channels 3.1. Physical Channels 3.2. Transport Channels 3.3. Logical Channels 3.4 Mapping of Logical - Transport - Physical Channels.
4. CDMA in FDD UMTS 4.1. A Simple Appreciation of OVSF Coding 4.2 UMTS OVSF Code Tree 4.3. How OVSF Codes are allocated 4.4 How Codes are used to Separate UE using the same cell and to Separate Cells (which may be using the same OVSF codes) 5. Combining Downlink Physical Channels 25.213.

6. Physical Channels Structure on the Uu 2

6.1. Downlink Common Physical Channels PSCH Primary Synchronisation Channel SSCH Secondary Synchronisation Channel CPICH Common Pilot Channel P-CCPCH Primary Common Control Physical Channel S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel AICH (Access) Acquisition Indicator Channel AP-AICH Access Preamble-Acquisition Indicator Channel CD/CA-ICH Collision Detection/Channel Allocation Indicator Channel PICH Paging Indicator Channel CSICH Common Packet Channel Status Indicator Channel 6.2. PRACH Uplink Common Physical Random Access Channel 6.3. PCPCH Uplink Physical Common Packet Channel 6.4. DPCH Dedicated Physical Channels.

7. An Introduction to UMTS Procedures

7.1. Synchronising to the network 7.2. System Information 7.3. Accessing the UMTS network Services - an introduction 7.4. MT Telephone Call - an introduction 7.5. Packet Switched Data Communications- an introduction
8. An Introduction to the UTRA - UMTS Radio Access Network Protocol Stack
8.1. Layer 1 the Physical Layer 8.2 Layer 2 the MAC - medium access control layer The Transport Channel 8.3 layer 2 the RLC - Radio Link Control Layer 25.322 8.4 Layer 2 PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol Layer 25.323 8.5 Layer 2 BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control 25.324
8.6 Layer 3 Radio Resource Control 8.7. Downlink Signal Processing 8.8 Uplink Signal Processing.

9. The UMTS Physical Layer

9.1. L1 processing of the downlink transport channel 25.212 9.2. PLMN Selection 9.3. Cell Selection 9.4 Camped on Activities 9.5 Conditions for Cell Re-selection 9.5.1. Squal conditional measurement when HCS is not used 9.5.2. Squal conditional measurement when HCS is used 9.5.3. Fast- moving UE cell reselection rules 9.6. Cell Re-Selection Criteria. 9.7. Cell Access Restrictions 9.8. RRC Connected Mode Cell Reselection 9.9. Discontinuous Reception, DRX, and Paging. 9.10. Measurements in CELL_DCH State for Handovers 9.10.1. UTRA handover Types 9.10.2 Measurement Procedures 9.10.3. Macro Diversity 9.10.4. Compressed Working 25.215 9.10.5 Transmit Diversity 25.211, 25.214 Open-Loop transmit Diversity Closed Loop Transmit Diversity 9.10.6 Transmit Power Control 9.10.7. Accessing the network services with ASC- Access Service Classes 9.10.8. Accessing the uplink Physical common packet channel - CPCH 9.11. Physical Channel Timings and Connected Frame Number 9.12. CFN in use -an illustration of SFN to CFN observed time difference 9.13. Compressed Mode Gapping.

10. The MAC-medium access control Layer

10.1. MAC-network access & data transfer using CCCH-common control channel & DTCH 10.2 MAC-medium access control (UE) Introduction 10.2.1 UL-DCH to PRACH-or-PCPCH-on the air interface . 10.2.2. UL-DTCH or DCCH-to a DPCH-on the Uu 10.2.3. Network (UTRAN) MAC 10.3. Encryption.

11. The RLC- radio link control Layer 25.322

11.1. RLC- radio link control- AM (acknowledged mode) Functional Diagram 25.322 RLC- radio link control Set-up 25.322 11.2. RLC-AM (acknowledged mode) Transmission and Reception 25.322 11.3. RLC-AM-Flow Control 11.4. RLC- radio link control UM (unacknowledged mode) Transmission 25.322 11.5. RLC- TM (transparent mode) Transmission 25.322.

12. The PDCP-packet data convergence protocol Layer 25.323

13. BMC-broadcast and multicast control layer. 25.324

14. RRC - radio resources control Layer 25.331

14.1. RRC- Introduction to operations 14.1.1. RRC - Control Functions to lower layers 14.1.2. RRC-and the NAS-non access stratum 14.1.3. RRC-Signalling to the RLC-layer Signalling Radio Bearers Radio Bearers - A Definition 23.107 14.1.4. RRC-channels used beyond the RLC-layer 14.1.5. U-Plane & C-Plane 14.2. RRC-in action -illustrative examples 23.110 & 24.007 14.2.1. RRC-layers establishing a CS-circuit switched call 14.2.3. RRC-layers establishing a PS-packet-switched call on the CPCH /FACH 14.2.4. PS Resource Release 23.060, 25.33.

15. 3G Security Procedures 33.102

15.1. 3G Network Access Security 33.102 15.2. 3G Network Access Security procedures - Authentication 33.102, 25.331 15.3. 3G Network Access Security procedures -Encryption & Integrity 33.102, 25.331 Integrity Checking Encryption Integrity function f9 inputs Ciphering function f8 inputs 15.4. The UMTS Subscriber with different versions of UE - user equipment and GSM core network.

16. UMTS QoS-quality of service