
Program Title
Basic Mobile Network Package – From 2G to Pre-5G
📝 Program Description
The Basic Mobile Package is a well-structured training program designed to provide a solid foundation in mobile communication technologies, starting from 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE), moving through 3G (CDMA, UMTS, HSPA), and reaching 4G LTE with an introduction to LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro.
This package focuses on core concepts, network architecture, air interface fundamentals, and essential procedures across mobile generations, making it ideal for beginners and fresh graduates who want a clear and practical understanding of mobile networks without heavy specialization in planning or optimization.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
⏱ Total Duration
55 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Fresh graduates
- Beginners in mobile networks
- Junior engineers seeking strong fundamentals
- Anyone planning to start a career in mobile communications
✅ Prerequisites
- No prerequisites required
The package starts from telecom and mobile basics.
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this package, learners will be able to:
- Understand mobile network evolution from 2G to 4G
- Explain cellular concepts, access techniques, and planning basics
- Understand GSM, UMTS, and LTE network architectures
- Analyze air interface concepts, channels, modulation, and coding
- Understand mobility management procedures such as handover and location update
- Explain voice and data services across different generations
- Build a strong foundation for advanced studies in LTE, 5G, optimization, or planning
- Prepare for technical interviews in mobile network roles
📚 Program Structure & Content
Section 1: 2G – GSM, GPRS & EDGE
- Introduction to mobile networks and career paths
- Telecom fundamentals and communication systems design
- Access techniques and evolution of mobile communications
- Cellular structure and planning basics
- Sectorization, power control, and cell splitting
- GSM network architecture and mobile station modes
- Mobile equipment, SIM, BTS, BSC, TRAU, MSC, GMSC
- HLR, VLR, AUC, EIR, OMC, and GSM areas
- GSM air interface fundamentals
- Radio propagation: fading, Doppler effect, ISI, path loss
- Burst structure and channel types
- Speech coding, channel coding, interleaving, and security
- GSM modulation and power control
- Handover and location updating
- GSM call scenarios
- Introduction to GPRS and EDGE
- GPRS vs EDGE comparison
- GPRS & EDGE network elements, areas, and coding schemes
- Interview questions
Section 2: 3G – CDMA, UMTS & HSPA
- Introduction to 3G and motivation for UMTS
- CDMA fundamentals and spreading techniques
- Scrambling, UE and BS codes
- PN codes and synchronization
- Multi-user recovery and frequency reuse
- Rake receiver
- UMTS evolution and access technologies
- UMTS bands, codes, and channels
- UMTS network architecture
- Core network elements (MSC, TC/IWF, USSD, FNR, AUC)
- RNC and Node-B
- UMTS statistics, areas, and USIM
- UMTS protocol stack
- Physical layer processing and convolutional coding
- Cell search and synchronization
- Power control, admission control, and cell breathing
- Handover and call scenarios
- Introduction to HSPA
- Interview questions
Section 3: 4G – LTE & LTE-Advanced
- LTE introduction and evolution
- OFDMA principles and motivation
- FFT / IFFT and mapper functions
- OFDM disadvantages and SC-FDMA
- Channel Dependent Scheduling (CDS)
- MIMO concepts
- LTE network architecture (E-UTRAN & EPC)
- LTE operational states
- LTE air interface fundamentals
- Frequency and time domain resources
- LTE resource grid and frame structure
- LTE channels
- LTE protocol stack and physical layer
- Cell synchronization
- Random access and paging
- Power control
- Timing advance updating and handover
- Voice calls in LTE
- Interview questions
Section 4: Pre-5G – LTE-Advanced & LTE-Advanced Pro
- LTE-Advanced concepts and evolution
- LTE-Advanced Pro enhancements and features
🚀 Program Value
- Strong foundation package for mobile networks
- Clear progression from 2G → 3G → 4G
- Beginner-friendly with real technical depth
- Includes interview preparation topics
- Ideal stepping stone toward Advanced LTE, 5G, Planning, or Optimization tracks
