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LEVEL 1: iBWAVE DESIGN NETWORK PLANNING
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COURSE PREREQUISITES: DESIGN PLANS

(TO BE COMPLETED THROUGH THE E-LEARNING CENTRE) ¨ Acquire knowledge of the 3 types of plans in iBwave
Design
V 3-part training videos ¨ Procedures and tools to design on each plan
V In-building review ¨ How to create various types of RF systems, add
V Project deployment process components and scale and manipulate floor plans
¨ How to design in-building networks using the 3 types of
plans, purpose and features
INTRODUCTION
¨ Understand design consistency and information display
¨ The in-building wireless world
¨ Design Plan and mini quiz
¨ In-building wireless applications
¨ Layout Plan and mini quiz
¨ Wireless technologies evolution
¨ Picture Plan and mini quiz
¨ System architectures
¨ Workshop for creating a project using the 3 types of plans
¨ Passive DAS
¨ Hybrid DAS
¨ In-building design tools REPORTS
¨ In-building design components ¨ Purposes and functionalities of reports in iBwave Design
¨ Link budgets ¨ How to create, customize and change parameters in
¨ Noise modeling ¨ reports
¨ Propagation basics ¨ How to export reports
¨ Reports workshop
PHASE 1: COLLECTING INFORMATION
¨ Site visit preparation
PROBLEM BASED WORKSHOP
¨ Site survey
¨ Common mistakes and pitfalls in designing
¨ Signal measurement
¨ Workshop on project enhancement

PHASE 2: DESIGN, ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT

SELECTION DATABASE EDITOR
¨ Understanding project requirements ¨ Network component database management
¨ 2D modeling ¨ Database editor workspace features
¨ System architecture selection: - Vendor selection ¨ How to create, edit, delete and share components
- Cost optimization ¨ Troubleshooting component errors
- Design layout ¨ Workshop to create components
¨ Creating preliminary designs
¨ Business case validation PROJECT VALIDATION
¨ Installation validation: - Real estate owner and ¨ Define areas in a project that require validation to ensure
lease validation / negotiation accuracy and consistency
¨ Creating final designs ¨ Describe common methods to verify projects
¨ How to use iBwave Design to troubleshoot errors in a
PHASE 3: SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION design
¨ Equipment delivery and installation ¨ Workshop on project validation
¨ System commissioning
¨ System integration
¨ System validation DESIGNING A PROJECT FROM SCRATCH
¨ System optimization ¨ Review of steps to design a project from start to finish
¨ Acceptance and sign-off ¨ Demonstrations using sample files
¨ Exercises for students to practice and refresh prior to exam

iBWAVE DESIGN INTRODUCTION

¨ In-building design challenges INTRODUCTION TO iBWAVE DESIGN MODULES
¨ What is iBwave Design? ¨ Overview of the key features available with iBwave Design
¨ iBwave Design features and benefits ¨ Modules (covered in more depth at the Expert Level):
¨ iBwave Design environment and navigation - Propagation Module
¨ Demonstration of utilities, tips and best practices - Optimization Module
- Collection Module

PROJECT SETTINGS
¨ Creating and saving project properties MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM
(1 hour)
¨ Page and print setup
¨ Workspace customization and setting templates PRACTICAL EXAM
¨ Workshop to set up project properties (hands-on (2 hours)
exercices)
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW / CONCLUSION
¨ Demonstration of workshop solution (1 hour)
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LEVEL 2: PROPAGATION, DATA COLLECTION AND OPTIMIZATION
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COURSE PREREQUISITES: IN-BUILDING PROPAGATION MEASUREMENT

(TO BE COMPLETED THROUGH THE E-LEARNING CENTRE)
GUIDELINES
¨ Propagation measurement basics
V Radio wave propagation basics ¨ Measurement equipment
V Basic propagation models ¨ Walk routes guidelines
V Antenna characteristics ¨ Calibration and validation

INTRODUCTION COLLECTION MODULE

¨ Importing collected survey data into iBwave Design
¨ Manual data collection
PREREQUISITE: RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION ¨ Understanding file output of various data collection tools
BASICS
¨ Workshop to practice importing survey data and using the
¨ Electromagnetic theory principles
data Collection Module
¨ The uniform plane wave
¨ Effects of materials
¨ Propagation mechanisms TUNING AND VALIDATION
¨ Reflection and refraction ¨ Measurements for model tuning
¨ Waveguiding ¨ Identification of disputable survey data
¨ Scattering ¨ Walls, floors, and model tuning in iBwave Design
¨ Propagation model validation example
¨ Calibration model in iBwave Design
PREREQUISITE: BASIC PROPAGATION MODELS
¨ Workshop on model tuning and calibration
¨ Path loss
¨ Free space loss
IMPORTING OUDOOR PREDICTION
¨ How to define building properties
PREREQUISITE: ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS
¨ How to import outdoor prediction into iBwave Design
¨ Antenna basics
¨ How to display the imported outdoor maps
¨ Antenna parameters
¨ Radiation patterns
¨ Antenna types used for in-building OPTIMIZATION MODULE
¨ In-building antenna cases ¨ Setting network optimization parameters
¨ Radiating cables ¨ Understanding the optimization output maps in iBwave
Design
¨ Creating output maps (ex. SNIR & Ec/Nt Maps)
IN-BUILDING PROPAGATION MODELS
¨ Optimal antenna placement
¨ In-building propagation models
¨ Empirical and physical models
¨ Comparing models: measures of accuracy DESIGNING A PROJECT FROM SCRATCH
¨ Keenan & Motley empirical model ¨ Review of steps to design a project from start to finish
¨ Cost 231 multi-wall empirical model ¨ using the iBwave Design Modules
¨ In-building dominant path model ¨ Demonstrations using sample files
¨ Challenging environments ¨ Exercises for students to practice and refresh prior to exam

BUILDING MODELING ADVANCED PROJECT VALIDATION - COMMON

¨ Acquire knowledge on how to model a building
ERRORS
¨ Importing the walls from image files and AutoCAD,
¨ Define areas in a project that require validation to ensure
selecting the right building material, scaling and exporting
accuracy and consistency
it into a 3D model
¨ Highlight common pitfalls when working on complex
¨ Hands-on workshop to practice building modeling using
designs
sample files from complex structures
¨ Describe common methods to verify projects using iBwave
Design Modules
PREDICTION PANEL & CONFIGURATION ¨ How to use iBwave Design to troubleshoot errors in a
¨ Conducting a propagation study using iBwave Design design
¨ Features of the Propagation Module (panel and output ¨ Workshop on project validation
map configuration)
¨ Compare differences of propagation results according to
MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM
the selected propagation models and the available (1 hour)
parameter settings
¨ Color schemes PRACTICAL EXAM
(2 hours)
¨ Prediction models
¨ Compliancy area PRODUCT PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW / CONCLUSION
(1 hour)

PROPAGATION WORKSHOP
¨ Conducting propagation exercises with different
compliancy areas and models
¨ Compare accuracy of the model against measurement
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LEVEL 3: MIMO, WI-FI, STADIUMS AND CAPACITY PLANNING
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MIMO SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR STADIUM DESIGN

MIMO THEORY ¨ Multi-operator design considerations for stadiums
¨ Specific RF measurement requirements and issues for stadiums
¨ Introduction
¨ Handover planning and optimization
¨ MIMO Operation Modes: - Diversity - Multiplexing
¨ Installation and other implementation constraints and
¨ Open Loop vs. Closed Loop
considerations
¨ MIMO Gains Compared to SISO Systems: - Diversity Gain
- Multiplexing Gain
¨ MIMO Schemes: - WCDMA - HSDPA - LTE - WiMAX
WI-FI DATA OFFLOAD
MIMO IN iBWAVE DESIGN BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS
¨ MIMO Gain Configuration ¨ Data growth: historical and projections for next 5-10 years
¨ Creating Output Maps with MIMO Parameters ¨ Nature of data: indoors vs. outdoor, work vs. home vs.
¨ Running MIMO Predictions on-the-move
¨ Analyzing MIMO Prediction Results: MIMO Gain ¨ Devices: relative volumes between feature phones, smartphones,
¨ MIMO Gain Compared to SISO tablets
¨ MIMO Workshop ¨ Challenge: revenue growth vs. data growth. Cost per GB for
operator (very interesting).
¨ Projected growth of 3G-enabled devices by category and Wi-Fi
CAPACITY enabled devices
¨ Concept of data offload: how Wi-Fi and femtocells fit together
CAPACITY PLANNING THEORY
¨ (strong focus on Wi-Fi)
Capacity Background
¨ Subscriber Types and Mix
¨ Capacity Limits WI-FI TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
¨ Example of Capacity Calculations: - GSM - UMTS - HSPA - LTE ¨ Wi-Fi basics
- History - Bodies: IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance
- Decoding the standards: IEEE 802.11 a,b,g,n,…
CAPACITY PLANNING IN iBWAVE DESIGN - How does the Wi-Fi air interface work?:
¨ Capacity Analysis Algorithm • Modulation and coding • CSMA
¨ Subscriber Types and Different Technologies ¨ Radio issues
¨ Running a Capacity Analysis - Bands supported (with regional variations)
¨ Understanding Capacity Analysis Results - 2.4 GHz and 5GHz spectrum (future 60 GHz spectrum,
¨ Capacity Analysis Workshop licensed band operation)
- Device availability
• Less than 2% of personal mobile devices support 5 GHz
STADIUM DESIGN - Wi-Fi channel numbering and bandwidth occupancy
STADIUM DESIGN REQUIREMENTS - SINR performance:
¨ What makes a stadium environment special?: • Performance curves
- The differing needs of three communities – visitors, stadium • Interference relative to collisions (impact of carrier
operations and event personnel sensing)
- Radio challenges – mix of pitch, seating and back of house, all • Adjacent channel and out of band performance (NB
with different propagation environments cordless phones in or adjacent to 2,.4 GHZ)
- Capacity – intensity of demand compared with typical venues, - Interference challenges
likelihood of high existing coverage, strong variation between • Channel planning, non Wi-Fi devices, automated
events compared to in-between, leading to challenges in channel planning
business case - Link budgets with focus on coverage:
- Mix of systems – not only cellular, but broadcasting, Wi-Fi, • Expected range • Role of antennas vs. licensing
PMR, etc. - Capacity planning (also for APs) (for all the different layers, 2G,
- Business criticality – if the radio system doesn’t work a new 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi) with differences between a, b, g and n
stadium cannot open and existing stadiums cannot operate • Users, contention, Tput, number of access points, too
- KPI requirements for various wireless technologies: many access points
• GSM • CDMA 1x/EVDO • Beacon packets and impact on interference or CS
• UMTS/HSPA(+) • LTE backoff or collisions
¨ Specific requirements: ¨ Network issues
• Coverage levels - Network architectures and implications (different vendors,
• Frequency bands and technologies power over Ethernet, optical fibers...)
• Capacity for voice and data - Routing (back to switch)
• Handover to surrounding network - Access controllers
¨ Gathering project data: ¨ Managing Wi-Fi environment
- Environment classification, characteristics, building materials, - Proliferation of devices (both APs and phones, incl Mifi,
and challenges: iPhones personal hotspot, etc.)
- Types of stadium: football, baseball and rugby stadiums; sport - Ongoing monitoring and intrusion detection (example
arenas (basketball, ice hockey, etc.); car racing venues; use of products)
pitch/not etc. ¨ What does it mean (different vendors) for # of AP, switches...
- Traffic and capacity needs - Radio dimensioning
- Existing network topology, traffic data and existing - Network dimensioning
measurements
- Creation of a three-dimensional building model in IBwave WI-FI BASED OFFLOAD
¨ Status and future of data offloading
STADIUM DESIGN ISSUES ¨ Economics: how does offload reduce cost per GB?
¨ Isolation from existing macrocell sites, including existing coverage ¨ Potential and perils:
measurement issues and key points - Wi-Fi ubiquity vs. offloading the customer
¨ Capacity considerations to support peak loading issues, load - Battery life
sharing, dynamic channel assignment, etc. - Customer experience
¨ Choice of radio system architecture: - Own networks vs. ‘over-the-top’
- Low power DAS ¨ Distinction between carrier Wi-Fi and consumer Wi-Fi
- Highly directive overhead antennas ¨ Implementation challenges:
- Micro/pico/femtocells - (Seamless) Authentication (less focus)
- Base station hotel - Mobility
- Business model considerations for stadium design - Hotspot 2.0
- Differing needs of each area: - Authentication schemes
• Seating • Pitch • EAP-SIM
• VIP / Corporate boxes • Broadcasters and press - 802.11 initiatives
• Back of house public ¨ Market status
• Back of house operational - Operators deployed
• Ingress/egress and surrounding area - Industry initiatives

STADIUM DESIGN CAPACITY PLANNING

¨ Special strategies to optimize network resources: sectorization, PRACTICAL EXAM
(2 hours)
zoning, antenna placement, optimization, etc.
¨ Sectorization strategy
¨ Motivations and benefits
¨ Ring
¨ Wedge
¨ Hybrid
¨ Managing sector overlap
¨ Optimizing performance