COURSE # TOO-341

CDMA SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Most comprehensive presentation of the CDMA technologies, standards, and protocols.

Rapid growth of Cellular and PCS services worldwide places significant demands on the technology to provide nearly wireline quality of service along with continuously expanding capacity. Today, several competing technologies dominate the market with the Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, playing a very significant role in this growing market. This comprehensive course presented by the authors of the recently published course text book, reviews the Cellular and PCS communications and radio propagation, and covers the architecture and IS-95 and J-STD-008 CDMA standards.

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This course, by experts in PCS and CDMA, including one of the authors of Wireless and Personal Communications Systems and Applications of CDMA to Wireless/Personal Communications, presents operational and engineering aspects of cellular and PCS technologies with particular emphasis on CDMA. It has been developed as an introduction and a detailed information resource for Telecommunication Managers, Network Analysts, Designers, and Engineers. Participants in this course will become familiar with the standards that apply to the CDMA system, and will be able to apply that knowledge in their jobs. While the course is geared to the engineer, mathematics is kept to a minimum and understanding of the technology concepts is stressed. This course has no prerequisites; however, prior technical training in engineering, sciences or equivalent experience will be helpful.

Course Outline:

Text:Applications of CDMA to Wireless/Personal Communications, by Joseph E. Wilkes and Vijay K. Garg.

About the Instructor

Dr. Joseph E. Wilkes is with Bell Communications Research, Inc., Red Bank, NJ, where he is working on issues related to interoperability between the wireless systems designed for Europe (GSM) and those designed for North America (AMPS, CDMA, PACS, TDMA). He is also involved in tradeoffs between different digital technologies. While at AT & T, Dr. Wilkes worked on PCS Security Standards, ISDN A-interface for PCS, interoperability issues, cellular fraud control and wireless e-mail. In the 1970's, Dr. Wilkes was part of the design team for the world's first cellular phone system and is the principal author of the AMPS standard used for analog cellular phones in the U.S.A. and other countries. Dr. Wilkes received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.E.E. at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University).

A Director at Telcordia Tecnologies (formerly Bellcore), a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC, Dr. Zablocky is a recognized expert on Personal Communications Systems, PCS. His extensive knowledge of CDMA and IS-41 has earned him recognition from major telecommunications service providers and CDMA equipment manufacturers. Dr. Zablocky developed specifications for interfacing an IS-95 based CDMA radio system to the Local Exchange Company's (LEC's) network utilizing the LEC's transport mechanisms and database capabilities. He developed Authentication Center (AC) specifications for Bellcore's Personal Access Communication System (PACS). He is also involved in analyzing and performance modeling of new and existing radio system designs, including new Wideband CDMA systems, in various indoor and outdoor RF propagation environments. Currently, Dr. Zablocky is developing CDMA RF planning algorithms for a major RF planning tool vendor that will enable the vendor to use their existing Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) RF planning tool for CDMA. He is also managing the development of a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) test plan for a major Local Exchange Company (LEC). Prior to joining Bellcore in 1995, Dr. Zablocky worked at Science Applications International Corporation, SAIC, and at the Center for Naval Analysis, CNA. He holds a BSEE and BS (Physics) from Fairleigh Dickinson University, MSE from University of Central Florida, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

Details:

Course: TOO-341        Duration: 3 Days        FEE: $1,195        CEUs: 2.16


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Last modified April 20, 1999.