Cellular IoT connectivity training course description

This course is designed to give the delegate a foundation in the technical requirements, solutions and benefits of deploying eMTC, NBIoT and reduced capabilities support with the 4G/5G environment

With billions of IoT devices expected to be able to connect to the 5G ecosystem it is imperative to accommodate these new revenue streams into the business arena. Many adaptations have to be made to accommodate, low power, low mobility and low data transfer devices into an environment which is expecting high data throughput.

What will you learn

• Recognise the use case scenarios for NBIoT, eMTC and the use of Reduced Capabilities devices
• List the differences between the technologies
• Explain the unique requirements of RedCap
• Explain the unique requirements of NBIoT
• Explain the three options to deploy NBIoT
• Explain the control channels for NBIoT
• Describe the different messages required in an NBIoT air interface

Cellular IoT connectivity training course details

Cellular IoT connectivity training course contents

eMTC

Physical layer aspects, narrow bands, frequency band allocations, channel arrangements, new system information block type 1, new SIB type 1, CE modes A and B, describing differences between CE Mode A & B, no or small repetitions, power control methods in A & B, many repetitions in mode B, equivalent coverage enhancements, coverage enhancement (UEs in CE), TX power, repetition, cross subframe and cross PRB channel estimation, Multi-Subframe Frequency Hopping, redundancy version cycling, Power Spectral Density (PSD) boosting, system information, repetition of channels, MPDCCH - new DCIs, DCI 6.0B & 6.1B, cross-subframe scheduling, carrier aggregation with cross subframe scheduling, transmission modes, T0 to T9 modes.

NB-IoT

Physical operations options: Inband, Guardband, Standalone. What a NB-IoT device does not support, feature support lists, user plane versus control plane solution, RRC suspend and resume, user data over the signalling plane, Non-IP Data Delivery (NIDD), the SCEF, new NB channels UL/ DL, N channels in the physical layer, new signals UL/DL, broadcasting of system information, BCCH additional IoT information, the Resource Unit - RU, transport block sizes DL, number of repetitions, network deployment modes, new random access, preamble repetitions, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, HARQ processes available in NBIoT, C-eDRX / I-eDRX, connected mode eDRX, idle mode eDRX, Hyper System Frame Numbering H-SFN, requirement for an accurate clocking system, 10240 radio frames, mobility, link between mobility and battery life.

RedCap

Redcap (5G NR-Light): 5G NR to support IoT growth, evolution of Cellular IoT, how Redcap fits into 5G NR use cases, key redcap release in R17: HD-FDD, max bandwidth restrictions, lower modulation requirements and fewer branches. Establishing a new device class – 5G NR-Light – in 5G Standards.

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