5G NR Call Processing: Standalone Mode
Enhance your technical skills and understanding of 5G Call Processing (Standalone Mode) with this full-day course. Train with engineers at Qualcomm Technologies: a world pioneer in 5G tech.
Why Take This Course?
- Enhance your industry knowledge and skills by gaining a greater understanding of 5G NR Call Processing Standalone Mode.
- Train with engineers at Qualcomm Technologies – a world leader in 5G technology and wireless engineering.
- Learn online and at your own pace with our flexible eLearning format. Or, set up a live training session for groups of at least 15 people.
Course Outline:
- Discuss 5G Evolution and Network Architecture.
- Provide an overview of UE functions/procedures in Idle mode.
- Look at registration and PDU establishment, QoS and network slicing, RRC states and allowed transitions, call flows and procedures related to mobility: Intra-NR and Inter RAT, call flows related to beam management, VoNR, and failure recovery.
- Conclude with a discussion of other call processing considerations.
Prerequisites:
- You have taken or are familiar with the content in the following QWA courses:
- This course is part of our corporate program and requires an NDA for access.
Objectives:
- Describe 3GPP specification evolution from LTE to 5G NR.
- List the deployment options for both SA and NSA.
- Describe 5G network architecture and main network functions as compared with LTE.
- Describe the System Information Acquisition process.
- Define the types of on-demand OSI delivery.
- List the use cases for Paging and its types.
- Explain Intra/Inter-Frequency and Inter-RAT reselection.
- Describe the Random Access process.
- Describe the UE RM status for 5GMM and 5GSM.
- Describe the NAS Identity, authentication, security, and registration procedures.
- Describe the call flow procedure of PDU session establishment and release.
- List QoS parameters used in 5G.
- Describe QoS establishment signaling flows.
- Discuss QoS marking and resource mapping.
- Describe Network Slicing and deployment options.
- Illustrate Slice setup procedures during Registration and PDU Session establishment.
- Discuss Slicing implementation in Mobility, Roaming and Interworking with EPS.
- Introduce the RRC states in 5G NR SA mode.
- Describe transitions and call flows across NR RRC states.
- Review the differences between NR SA and NSA RRC states.
- Introduce Beam Management in 5G NR.
- Describe various procedures for Beam establishment.
- Discuss CSI-RS for Beam Tracking or Beam Refinement.
- Introduce TCI States and QCL concepts for Beam Management.
- Discuss Uplink Beam Management.
- Introduce 5G NR measurement configuration and reporting.
- Describe handover procedure involving Xn Interface.
- Review CFRA and RACH prioritization during handover.
- Walk through uplink waveform change scenario.
- Introduce network topology and functional aspects of interworking between NR and LTE.
- Discuss key parameters of IRAT measurement configuration.
- Discuss UE context processing while IRAT mobility.
- Discuss signaling call flow for idle and connected mode mobility.
- Explain aspects of handover between SA and NSA.