Aspire     5G Technologies and Practices     5G Technologies and Practices Track 1: 5G Principles

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Familiarity with 5G network architecture is imperative for anyone involved with this groundbreaking technology, even non-technical administrators, partners, and participants. This course approaches 5G network architecture and design concepts from a high level – an easy way for all interested parties to understand the working mechanisms of 5G networks.
Topics in this course include a review of cellular mobile communication networks, their components, and architecture, in addition to a deep dive into the technologies that empower 5G's revolutionary potential.
You'll also examine how 5G is expected to coexist with 4G during an initial transition period and review some more theoretical concepts involving what are known as protocol stacks.
At the end of this course, you should have a solid recognition of how 5G mobile networks and network communication in general work.

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Objectives

Anatomization of 5G Communications: Network Architecture & Topology discover the key concepts covered in this course recall the various components of a modern cellular mobile communications network and how they interact with each other recognize the characteristics and components of a core cellular network and backhaul and the required design parameters for use in a 5G network describe what a RAN is, its characteristics, some of the technologies used by it, and why it is an important part of the 5G architecture describe MIMO and massive MIMO as technologies and how they help to enable many of the innovative characteristics of 5G identify the types of cells in a 5G network and how each type is used within the network as a whole distinguish between the NFV and SDN and identify how they enable 5G network slicing recognize what network slicing is and what role it plays within a 5G network specify how 4G and 5G must coexist during a transition period and how this is achieved describe the importance and use of a protocol stack in the understanding of networking using the Internet as an example identify the various components of the 5G protocol stack and the roles they play summarize the key concepts covered in this course