📘 Course Title
5G Mobile Technology – From A to Z
📝 Course Description
This course delivers a comprehensive and well-structured overview of 5G mobile technology, starting from the motivation behind 5G and its use cases, then diving into 5G network architecture, radio access network, core network, and air interface, and finally covering protocol stacks, physical layer processing, and key 5G procedures.
The course explains how 5G achieves high data rates, ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and network flexibility, with clear explanations of modern concepts such as network slicing, SDN, O-RAN, Massive MIMO, and millimeter wave bands.
It is designed to give learners a strong technical foundation in 5G and prepare them for real-world 5G networks.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
⏱ Course Duration
13 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Mobile network engineers moving toward 5G
- LTE engineers upgrading their skills to 5G
- Professionals interested in next-generation mobile networks
✅ Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of 4G (LTE fundamentals)
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the motivation, use cases, and requirements of 5G
- Explain 5G deployment phases and network options
- Understand dual connectivity and network slicing concepts
- Describe SDN and O-RAN roles in 5G networks
- Understand 5G RAN and 5G Core architecture
- Explain 5G security concepts and RRC states
- Understand 5G air interface principles and key parameters
- Analyze OFDMA, SC-FDMA, FFT/IFFT, and waveform behavior
- Understand Massive MIMO and small cell deployments
- Identify FR1 and FR2 frequency bands
- Analyze time and frequency domain resources and NR resource grid
- Understand bandwidth part (BWP) concept
- Explain NR reference signals and channels
- Understand 5G protocol stack and physical layer processing
- Analyze synchronization, random access, power control, and handover
- Understand voice services over 5G (VoNR)
📚 Course Content Outline
Section 1: Introduction
- Introduction to the course
- Important notes before starting
- Why 5G?
- 5G use cases and performance requirements
Section 2: 5G Network Architecture
- 5G network phases and dual connectivity
- 5G network deployment options
- Network slicing
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Open RAN (O-RAN)
- 5G Radio Access Network (RAN)
- 5G Core network architecture
- 5G security concepts and RRC states
- 5G interfaces
Section 3: 5G Air Interface
- 5G air interface overview
- OFDMA principles and operation
- Mapper functions
- FFT & IFFT
- OFDM disadvantages
- SC-FDMA
- Key air interface parameters and small cells
- Massive MIMO
- FR1 and FR2 frequency bands
- Frequency domain resources
- Time domain resources
- Coverage vs capacity vs latency
- NR duplex techniques
- 5G NR resource grid
- Bandwidth part (BWP)
- NR reference signals
- NR channels (Part 1 & Part 2)
Section 4: 5G Protocol Stack & Physical Layer
- 5G protocol stack overview
- 5G protocol stack layers
- Physical layer processing
Section 5: 5G Procedures
- 5G synchronization and random access
- Power control and handover
- Voice over NR (VoNR)