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5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design 
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5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design
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Oxford University 
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the 5G telecoms principles and concepts

Duration

5 days

Total fee

1.68 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design
 at 
Oxford University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
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5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design
 at 
Oxford University 
Course details

More about this course
  • Attending this course will provide you with a well-rounded understanding of the key aspects of 5G telecoms
  • The course covers the 5G New Radio technology and explains the important features that provide the improved performance and flexibility
  • The new 5G network architecture and protocols are also covered, with a final day spent explaining how handsets are actually designed
  • The course will appeal to a wide audience including mobile operators, government regulatory bodies, telecoms consultants and those working in the field of IPR

5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design
 at 
Oxford University 
Curriculum

5G Introduction

The key features of LTE Advanced as basis of 5G New Radio

New 5G concepts including Network Slicing, URLLC and Bandwidth Parts

An overview of beamforming and its application to 5G at millimetre frequencies

5G Learnings and Global Status

New use cases of 5G communications

5G data rates, performance, and capacity

Network architecture concepts: Non-standalone architecture (NSA), Standalone Architecture (SA), Open- and Virtual-RANs (O-RAN & vRAN)

5G Spectrum evolution and mmWave

Spectrum strategies, auctions and refarming including Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Millimetre wave regulation and data rates achieved in real world deployments

Massive MIMO technology and practical examples of new RF heads

Carrier aggregation and dual connectivity

Enhanced MIMO and multi-cell transmission

5G-Advanced in 3GPP Releases 16-18

Industrial IoT / URLLC: Unlicensed band, positioning, 60-71 GHz, reduced capability IoT

Boosted 5G experience: Extended reality (XR), cloud gaming, edge computing

Radio enhancements: AR/VR optimization, cloud gaming, enhanced MIMO, UE power savings, mobility enhancements, multi-cell transmission

New use cases: Car-to-car (V2X), Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN), Public safety, Sidelink

Deployment automation: Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB), Self Optimized Network (SON), Minimization of Drive Testing (MDT)

5G RF Design Challenges

How UE RF design tackles the increasing number of bands and band combinations

How 5G new features, Dual Connectivity and new physical layer impacts the RF Front-End complexity

RF Performance Challenges in migrating from single carrier LTE to EN-DC to NR standalone uplink carrier aggregation

Overview of 3GPP features that minimise UE power consumption: cDRX, 5G SUL/ULSUP, uplink CP-OFDM, Bandwidth Part adaptation and benefits of small cell deployments

5G Protocols

The evolution of 3GPP RAN and Core Network protocols

5G NR Protocols and associated procedures

New 5G Architectures: Cloud-RAN), 5G Core Network (5GCN), Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Machine Type Communications (MTC) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC)

The concepts of Service-Based Architecture (SBA) and Network Functions (NFs)

The use of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to support Network Slicing

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5G and 5G-Advanced Specifications and System Design
 at 
Oxford University 
Faculty details

Dr Harri Holma
Harri Holma joined Nokia Research Centre in 1994 and received his M.Sc. 1995. He has been with Nokia since 1998 and has been located both in Finland and in USA during that time.
Dr Jonathan Moss
He currently works on vehicular radar development for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems at Veoneer. He previously worked for 5 years in Windows Mobile handset development and prior to that was responsible for 3G network optimisation for O2 Group in the UK, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Mr Laurent Noel
He worked on reconfigurable multi-mode, multi-standard, digital RF solutions for LTE, FDD-WCDMA, EGPRS, and TD-SCDMA projects.
Mr Antti Toskala
Antti Toskala (M.Sc) joined the Nokia Research Center in 1994, where he undertook WCDMA system studies, leading later WCDMA concept development in the ACTS FRAMES project. During 1997, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer and CDMA Specialist participating in the ETSI SMG2 UMTS standardization work.

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