📘 Course Title
CDMA, UMTS & HSPA – From A to Z
📝 Course Description
This course provides a comprehensive and structured understanding of 3G mobile communication systems, starting from CDMA fundamentals and spreading techniques, then moving into UMTS architecture, radio interface, protocol stack, and mobility procedures, and finally introducing HSPA as a high-speed packet access enhancement.
The course focuses on explaining how 3G systems work internally, including coding, synchronization, power control, and handover mechanisms, while linking theoretical concepts with real network behavior and call scenarios. It is designed to bridge the gap between 2G knowledge and advanced 3G technologies.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
⏱ Course Duration
17 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Junior mobile network engineers
- Engineers transitioning from 2G to 3G technologies
- Professionals seeking a solid understanding of UMTS systems
✅ Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of 2G (GSM fundamentals)
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the motivation behind 3G and its evolution
- Explain CDMA principles including spreading, scrambling, and code usage
- Analyze multi-user detection, rake receivers, and frequency reuse in CDMA
- Understand UMTS access technologies, duplex methods, and frequency bands
- Describe UMTS channel structure and code allocation
- Understand UMTS network architecture and core network elements
- Explain authentication, signaling, and protocol stack in UMTS
- Analyze physical layer processing, coding, and synchronization
- Understand power control, admission control, and cell breathing concepts
- Explain mobility management and handover procedures
- Analyze UMTS call scenarios and location services
- Understand the concept and role of HSPA in 3G networks
📚 Course Content Outline
Section 1: CDMA, UMTS & HSPA
- Introduction to 3G systems and course preparation
- Motivation and need for 3G technologies
- CDMA fundamentals and spreading concepts
- Spreading vs scrambling
- UE and Base Station codes
- PN codes and synchronization mechanisms
- Multi-user recovery and CDMA frequency reuse
- Rake receiver architecture and operation
- Evolution and appearance of UMTS
- UMTS access technologies, duplex techniques, and frequency bands
- UMTS bands overview
- UMTS codes and channelization
- UMTS channels structure
- UMTS network architecture overview
- 3G core network elements (MSC, TC/IWF)
- USSD Gateway, FNR, and authentication center
- RNC and Node-B functions
- UMTS statistics, areas, and USIM
- UMTS protocol stack
- Physical layer processing (Part 1 & Part 2)
- Convolutional coding
- Cell search procedures
- Power control and multi-user detection
- Admission control and cell breathing
- Handover mechanisms
- Location services and UMTS call scenarios
- Introduction to HSPA