AE1/AE2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

DE1/DE2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

SE1/SE2 plus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Topic Watt, dB, dBd, dBm & conversions Drive testing - data collection - Tool setup parameters CW Testing Understand propagation path loss(free space) Frequency and PN planning (based on field experience - and theortical) Basics of Drop call analysis in field (based on field experience) Basics of Handover failure reasons (based on field experience) Diversity techniques (RF related theoratical information) Erlang (RF related theoratical information) Antennas(omni,directional) (RF related theoratical information) RF block diagram for GSM and CDMA (vocoder, interleaving, encoding etc) Differences between multiple access techniques (TDMA, FDMA and CDMA) US Cellular spectrum for AMPS/TDMA, GSM, CDMA, 1xRTT, UMTS GSM System Architecture

Evolution of GSM/GPRS/CDMA/EVDO/UMTS technologies Familiarity with at least one propogation tool Model Tuning (import CW data, modify coefficients, definition of standart deviation and mean errors) Interference (adjacent, co-channel, inter symbol) understand different fading (slow/fast) understand link budget completely, receiver sensitivity (bts,ms), noise figure, fade margins Design basics: cell split, macro - micro sites, overshooting, antenna downtilt, BTS power attenuation, capacity and interference (quality) Understand design coverage thresholds Traffic and capacity issues Traffic modeling (Erlang B,C,Poisson) Understand BSS components System algorithms (Power control, Handover, frequency hopping etc) Idle Mode Behavior Location area, routing area, updates and concept AMR (Definition, benefits, modes, sets) Definition of WCDMA and UMTS comparing 2G limitations Use of TMA & LNA Metrics for judging an RF network performance (drop call rate, access failure rate, blocked call rate, handoff percentage).

Physical and logical channels Frame structures Call setup process (RACH, AGCH, syncronization, SDCCH) Understand layer 3 messages Understand how to reduce dropped calls/access failures Familiarity with RF optimization parameters Power control and Handover algorithms Capacity enhancement techniques and features Frequency Hopping, parameters and fractional load AMR Link Adapation and general tuning parameters Cell Reselection concept in GPRS/EDGE. (C31 - C32) with impacts on optimization Optimization of GPRS/EDGE & KPIs BA list concept (Definition, benefits) Discontinious Transmission concept (Definition, benefits) How would you optimize GPRS/EDGE network to increase throughput? Other RF network handoff types (Inter-frequency, inter-BSC, inter-vendor) and their design and operation. Logical approach to addressing a sudden RF network performance issue (e.g. sudden increases in drop calls in a given cluster).

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select lead panelist, to set standard of questions duke,hemant,duke select names from PM's list each panelist selects 10-15 questions lead panelist take notes of questions all panelist should be done together