Objective: Provide an introduction to the LTE standard and its relationship to other 3GPP standards. Understand general requirements and objectives for LTE. Get an overview of different protocol layers within LTE.

• 3GPP evolution from R5 to R11
• Requirements
• Spectrum flexibility
• General characteristics
• Multi-user scheduling
• Resource allocation
• Frequency reuse planning

Objective: Understand the basics of OFDM modulation, cyclic prefix insertion, and windowing.

• Motivation for multi-carrier vs single-carrier
• Introduction to OFDM
• Generation of OFDM symbols using the IFFT
• Cyclic prefix (guard interval)
• Windowing to reduce out of band emissions
• Advantages and disadvantages of OFDM

Objective: Understand the concepts of frames, subframes, slots, and physical resource grids in LTE downlink and uplink.

• LTE generic frame structure
• Downlink and uplink slot formats
• Resource elements and resource blocks
• Downlink OFDM symbol construction
• Uplink SC-FDMA symbol construction
• LTE downlink resource capacity

Objective: Understand different physical layer procedures for both downlink and uplink specified in LTE.

• Cell search
• Cell identities in cell search
• Symbol synchronization
• Frame and cell synchronization
• System information acquisition: MIBs and SIBs
• Timing synchronization procedures
• Uplink power control

Objective: Understand different MIMO techniques namely diversity, beamforming, and spatial multiplexing. Learn about singular value decomposition as the solution to the generic MIMO problem.

• Spectral efficiency and capacity
• Transmit and receive diversity
• The Alamouti Scheme
• Delay Diversity and Cyclic Delay Diversity
• Beamforming
• Spatial multiplexing
• Singular value decomposition
• Equalizing, predistortion, precoding, and combining

Objective: Understand processing elements for different downlink physical channels and downlink physical signals. Learn about resource grid and control channel element.

• Downlink physical channel processing chain
• Codewords and layers
• Scrambling and modulation
• Transmission schemes
• Diversity, spatial multiplexing, and beamforming
• Synchronization signals: PSS and SSS
• Reference signals: cell and UE specific, MBSFN
• Downlink physical channels: PBCH, PCFICH, PDSCH, and PDCCH
• Control region
• REGs and CCEs, PDCCH search spaces
• Resource grid mapping

Objective: Learn different MIMO techniques specified in the LTE standard.

• Codewords to layers mapping
• Precoding for spatial multiplexing
• Precoding for transmit diversity
• Beamforming in LTE
• Cyclic Delay Diversity-based precoding
• Precoding codebooks

Objective: Understand the coding, multiplexing, and mapping to physical channels for all transport channels in downlink and uplink.

• Transport channels and control information: DL-SCH, PCH, BCH, DCI, CFI, HI, UL-SCH, and UCI
• Mapping of transport channels to physical channels
• CRC coding and masking
• Code block segmentation
• Convolutional and turbo coding
• Rate matching, bit selection and pruning
• Transport channels and control information processing chains
• HARQ: incremental redundancy, stop-and-wait

Objective: Understand processing elements for different uplink physical channels and uplink physical signals.

• Uplink physical channel processing chain
• Scrambling and modulation
• SC-FDMA review
• Uplink Reference signals: DRS and SRS
• Uplink physical channels: PUSCH, PUCCH, and PRACH
• Control information: CQI, RI, PMI, HI, and SR
• Control signaling on PUSCH and PUCCH
• PUCCH formats
• Uplink physical channels and physical signals

Objective: Learn about new features introduced in LTE Release 9.

• Release 9 features
• MBMS support
• Home eNodeB
• Positioning support
• Transmission schemes

Objective: Learn about new features introduced in LTE Release 10.

• IMT-Advanced Technologies
• Carrier aggregation
• Uplink spatial multiplexing
• Spatial Orthogonal Resource Transmit Diversity
• Downlink enhanced MIMO
• CSI reference signals