Mobile backhaul networks

• Evaluate requirements to mobile backhaul networks and assess the backhaul’s impact on coverage and capacity
• Define design criteria for mobile network deployments
• Design backhaul networks (dimensioning and choice of technology)
• Estimate load and capacity requirements in mobile networks and based upon this carry out dimensioning of mobile backhaul
• Define requirements to synchronization, resilience and security
• Explain how protocols, capacity and technologies impact mobile applications
• Design backhaul for special applications, e.g., small-cells, relays, inter cell coordination and Cloud-RAN
• Comprehend advanced literature in the field of mobile communication

Mobile backhaul networks:
Topologies, wire-less and wire-line backhaul technologies, capacity, load and dimensioning, fronthaul and backhaul, mobile access and aggregation networks, synchronization, resilience, Quality of service, security. Protocols, protocol stacks and protocol overheads.
LTE/LTE-A/5G mobile network radio access (5G multi RIT):
Providing coverage and capacity. Macro/micro/pico/femto cells. Special antennas, remote radio heads, cloud-RAN and open-RAN. Interference mitigation techniques.

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4-6 workshops with lectures and problem solvings. Projectwork with report and oral presentation/exam by the end of the course, where both report work and a number of problemsolving (questions in curriculum) with be included in the assessment