📘 Course Title
4G RF Planning
📝 Course Description
This course provides a practical and structured introduction to LTE (4G) RF Planning, covering the complete planning lifecycle starting from planning concepts and dimensioning, moving through coverage and capacity planning, and ending with practical planning workflows and simulations using planning tools.
The course focuses on real operator planning practices, explaining how engineers design LTE networks to meet coverage, capacity, and quality targets, and how predictions, simulations, and PCI planning are performed in real projects.
It is designed to help learners move from LTE theoretical knowledge to practical RF planning skills required for planning and rollout teams.
⏱ Course Duration
6 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Fresh graduates interested in RF Planning
- LTE / 4G engineers
- RF optimization engineers transitioning to planning
- Engineers preparing for RF Planning and rollout roles
✅ Prerequisites
- LTE / 4G Fundamentals
🌐 Language
Arabic with English subtitles
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand LTE RF planning concepts and objectives
- Differentiate between different types of RF planning
- Perform coverage and capacity dimensioning for LTE networks
- Build link budgets and analyze coverage requirements
- Prepare planning tools and project settings
- Configure propagation models and antenna parameters
- Perform coverage and traffic simulations
- Analyze prediction results and optimize planning decisions
- Understand Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) concepts
- Perform PCI planning and resolve PCI-related issues
📚 Course Content Outline
Section 1: Introduction to 4G RF Planning
- Course introduction
- Types of RF planning
- LTE planning workflow and steps
- Dimensioning steps
Coverage & Capacity Dimensioning
- Coverage dimensioning concepts
- Practical coverage dimensioning examples
- Capacity dimensioning
Planning Tool Preparation
- Software preparation
- Adding sites
- Propagation model configuration
- Antenna configuration
- TMA, feeders, and base station settings
Predictions & Simulations
- Coverage predictions
- Loading maps
- Traffic map creation
- Traffic simulation
- Analyzing predictions based on simulations
Advanced Planning Topics
- Automatic Cell Planning (ACP)
- PCI planning (Part 1 & Part 2)
🚀 Course Value
- Complete LTE RF Planning foundation
- Strong focus on practical planning workflow
- Covers both theory and tool-based implementation
- Ideal preparation for Planning, Rollout, and Design roles
- Excellent continuation after LTE RF Optimization