5G NSA Troubleshooting Workshop: mmWave

Why Take This Course?

• Enhance your industry knowledge and skills by gaining a greater understanding of 5G NSA troubleshooting.
• 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:

• Learn how mmWave provides ample performance gains, but is also prone to RF impairments.
• Understand real world 5G deployment issues and how to troubleshoot and optimize performance.

Prerequisites:

• You should take this course if you are at least one of the following:
  • Network Engineer
  • Network Planner
  • System Engineer
  • Service Designer
  • Network Optimizer
  • Manager
  • Capacity Planner
• This course is part of our corporate program and requires an NDA for access.

Objectives:

• Understand 5G NR NSA concepts at a high level.
• Review troubleshooting case studies for log information for mmWave deployment.
• Identify the basic EN-DC setup procedure.
• Define a troubleshooting flowchart related to EN-DC setup procedures.
• Discuss case studies related to EN-DC setup procedure failures.
• Identify RACH triggers and configuration parameters.
• Describe the RACH troubleshooting flowchart.
• Discuss RACH access case studies.
• Describe 5G NR PDCCH design.
• Review case studies on PDCCH decoding failures.
• Explain 5G NR PUCCH operation principles.
• Analyze case studies on PUCCH decoding failures.
• Summarize debugging processes for control channel failures.
• Describe DL Data Transfer procedures and discuss DL Data Bearer Configuration.
• Explain the DL HARQ process.
• Analyze logs to troubleshoot various cases related to downlink performance.
• Describe UL data transfer overview.
• Understand how the scheduling procedure takes place.
• Describe UL power control in NR.
• Define UL troubleshooting flow charts.
• Illustrate various UL issues and troubleshooting steps.
• Discuss the EN-DC measurement object and events.
• List common mobility issues and summarize troubleshooting process.
• Analyze EN-DC mobility case studies.
• Describe beam management key functions and procedures.
• List DL beam management issues and troubleshooting flowchart.
• Present case studies for beam switch/refinement scenarios.
• Analyze beam switching failure and beam failure recovery case studies.