Traffic Engineering Training Overview

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Traffic Engineering Training Overview Course with Hands-On Exercises (Online, Onsite and Classroom Live)

Good traffic engineering is not only an essential element of a network’s initial design but also critical to its smooth, ongoing operation. The job of the engineer responsible for traffic on a mobile network has recently become more important as well as more complex. Traffic is growing faster on mobile networks than on traditional, land line, fixed infrastructure networks.

This growth in mobility traffic is paralleled by the increasing growth and diversity of mobility based data applications and services along with a continuously changing subscribers’ services profile. And, of course, any analysis of traffic over radio channels must also account for the radio related impacts to capacity which can be dynamic in nature.

In this Traffic Engineering Training Overview course, you will study traffic engineering from multiple angles including an overview of the various RF modulation techniques popular in commercial networks today, and how those modulation techniques impact available capacity. Emphasis is placed on understanding the correct methodology to use for a particular service and achieving the highest level of utilization and efficiency without sacrificing the quality of service.

The Traffic Engineering Overview course will not only arm you with a good understanding of when to employ the appropriate Erlang or other traffic model, it will also give you a new level of sophistication in ensuring the quality of service (QoS) for your subscribers while maximizing the utility of your network.

Traffic Engineering Training OverviewDuration: 2 days

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  • We can adapt this Traffic Engineering Training Overview course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Traffic Engineering Training Overview course, we can omit or shorten their discussion
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Traffic Engineering Training Overview Course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Traffic Engineering Training course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Traffic Engineering Training course:

  • All
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Traffic Engineering Training course are:

  • Wireless Network Structure, Operation, and Technologies Training

While there are no specific course prerequisites, prior exposure to telecommunications traffic issues and some background in probability and statistics will be helpful.

Traffic Engineering Training Overview - OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Traffic Engineering Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • At the end of this Traffic Engineering course, the participants will be able to understand traffic engineering for both voice and data networks, use of the Erlang B, extended Erlang B, and Erlang C formula, accounting for randomness, implications of service type to bearer path characteristics and therefore bandwidth requirements, traffic engineering for data networks, and traffic simulation theory.
Traffic Engineering Training Overview - COURSE SYLLABUS

Getting Started:  Apparatus and Issues of Traffic Engineering

  • Overview of probabilistic systems
  • Overview of stochastic systems
  • Telecommunications services types and traffic generation
  • Voice call profiles
  • Data call profiles
  • Accounting for static capacity
  • Accounting for mobility

Models and Techniques of Traffic Engineering

  • Traffic information, sources of data
  • Analysis of data
  • Calculation of Erlang B
  • Use of Erlang B
  • Calculation of Extended Erlang B
  • Use of Extended Erlang B
  • Use of Extended Erlang B in radio resource sharing
  • Calculation of Erlang C
  • Use of Erlang C
  • Use of Erlang C in data services
  • Static dimensioning

Traffic Engineering Training – Mobility Overview

  • Mobile network overview
  • BTS/Node B
  • BSC/RNC
  • Switching
  • Signalling
  • Mobility call flows
  • Resource allocation
  • Set up and tear down
  • Synchronicity
  • Codecs used and accounting for codec variability
  • Transcoder free operations (TrFO) and impact to capacity engineering
  • Remote Transcoder Operation (RTO) and impact to capacity engineering

Mobility Traffic Engineering for GSM

  • Mobility for GSM systems
  • Predicting mobility requirements
  • Accounting for mobility impact in GSM systems
  • Impact of capacity in GSM systems
  • Advanced capacity management techniques in GSM systems
  • Radio network load balancing
  • BSC load balancing
  • Propagation delay budgets
  • Codecs used throughout GSM systems
  • 2.5G data on GSM systems
  • Timeslot allocation between voice and data
  • Timers for BTS hand over
  • Timers for inter-BSC hand over
  • Timers for inter-MSC hand over
  • Dimensional trade-offs, capacity versus mobility versus probability of time slot availability

Mobility Traffic Engineering for CDMA/WCDMA systems

  • Accounting for mobility impact in CDMA/WCDMA systems
  • Impact of capacity in CDMA/WCDMA systems
  • Impact of traffic to capacity in CDMA/WCDMA systems
  • Impact of interference to capacity and performance
  • Radio network load balancing
  • BSC/RNC load balancing
  • Soft hand offs
  • Hard hand offs
  • Soft hand off boundaries
  • Timers for BSC hand over
  • Timers for BSC/RNC hand over
  • Timers for inter-MSC hand over
  • Impact of 1xRTT data to CDMA2000 systems
  • Impact of data on UMTS systems
  • Impact of HSDPA data on W-CDMA systems
  • Call handover procedure between GSM and UMTS systems
  • Load balancing between GSM/UMTS systems

Traffic Engineering Training Workshops

  • Generation of service demand
  • Calculation of traffic requirements
  • Busy hour dimensioning
  • Use of Erlang tables
  • Applicability of Erlang tables to services mix
  • Resource sharing
  • Load balancing
  • Network optimization techniques

Advanced Traffic Topics and Course Wrap-up

  • Quality of service in 3G networks
  • Services requirements for quality of services
  • Quality of service methods and techniques in 3G
  • Predicting impacts of 3G data applications to resource utilization
  • Predicting impacts of 3G data applications to availability capacity
  • Scheduling and buffering
  • Synchronization
  • Traffic Engineering Training Q/A and Evaluations
Traffic Engineering Training Overview Course Wrap-Up

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