📘 Course Title
LTE, LTE-Advanced & LTE-Advanced Pro – From A to Z
📝 Course Description
This course provides a complete and structured understanding of LTE (4G) mobile communication systems, starting from the enabling technologies such as OFDMA, SC-FDMA, and MIMO, then moving through LTE network architecture, air interface, protocol stack, and key radio procedures.
The course also introduces LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro features that enhance capacity, coverage, and performance, preparing learners for advanced 4G networks and serving as a solid foundation for 5G studies.
The content is explained in a clear and practical manner, connecting theory with real LTE network behavior.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
⏱ Course Duration
12 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Junior and mid-level mobile network engineers
- Engineers transitioning from 2G/3G to LTE
- Professionals planning to move toward 5G technologies
✅ Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of 2G (GSM fundamentals)
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the key technologies that enable LTE performance
- Explain OFDMA, SC-FDMA, FFT/IFFT, and MIMO concepts
- Describe LTE network architecture including E-UTRAN and EPC
- Understand LTE operational states and signaling principles
- Analyze LTE air interface resources in time and frequency domains
- Understand LTE frame structure, channels, and resource grid
- Explain LTE protocol stack and physical layer processing
- Understand LTE radio procedures such as synchronization, random access, and paging
- Analyze power control, timing advance, and handover in LTE
- Understand voice services in LTE networks
- Identify key enhancements introduced in LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro
📚 Course Content Outline
Section 1: LTE Enabling Technologies
- Introduction and course preparation
- OFDMA fundamentals
- OFDMA operation and principles
- Mapper functions
- FFT & IFFT
- OFDM advantages and disadvantages
- SC-FDMA
- Channel Dependent Scheduling (CDS) overview
- MIMO concepts
Section 2: LTE Network Architecture
- LTE network architecture overview
- E-UTRAN components and functions
- EPC architecture and elements
- LTE operational states
Section 3: LTE Air Interface
- LTE air interface introduction
- Frequency domain resources
- Time domain resources and LTE resource grid
- Frame structure
- LTE channels
Section 4: LTE Protocol Stack & Physical Layer
- LTE protocol stack
- LTE physical layer overview
Section 5: LTE Procedures
- Cell synchronization
- Random access and paging
- Power control
- Timing advance updating and handover
- Voice calls in LTE networks
Section 6: LTE-Advanced & LTE-Advanced Pro
- LTE-Advanced concepts and enhancements
- LTE-Advanced Pro features