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5G RAN Planning & Design

Radio planning taught as arithmetic you can reproduce and defend in a design review — a link budget that ends in a cell radius, a capacity chain that ends in a site count, and the parameter sheet that leaves your desk. Every number is computed from stated inputs against two 3GPP reference cases, urban and rural, lifted from a single published evaluation table so no two lessons can disagree.

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Lessons
28
Video
≈4.5h
Hands-on
10 exercises
Before you start
5G Foundation

About this course

Who it's for. RF and RAN planning engineers, design consultants and technical leads who own or review a radio design.

Before you start. 5G Foundation. 5G RAN Specialist helps throughout — this course plans the air interface that one explains.

This course includes

  • 28 video lessons — the first needs no account, and all are free for your first 7 days
  • 10 hands-on exercises — interactive labs and checkpoints
  • Study pack — question bank and slides
  • A free mock exam to find your gaps
  • Certification exam and a QR-verifiable certificate — with Prime Membership or this certification

Skills you'll gain

  • Propagation models
  • Shadow fading margins
  • Link budgets & cell radius
  • Capacity dimensioning
  • SINR prediction
  • PCI planning
  • PRACH root sequences
  • Neighbour planning

Syllabus

5 modules · 28 lessons · certification exam

  1. Module 1 — The planner's frame: from a live cell to a document set

    Install the role frame: what a plan actually promises, which constraint binds it, and a receiver noise floor you derive rather than look up.

    1. Search ring to parameter sheet: who decides whatWatch free8:34
    2. Edge rate at an edge probability: what a plan promisesFree with an account6:56
    3. Coverage-limited or capacity-limited: the question that orders the designFree with an account7:56
    4. The noise floor and receiver sensitivity: the ledger's bottom row, derivedFree with an account9:13
    5. Whose Signature Is On It? · Checkpoint~5 min
    6. Derive the Floor · Interactive lab~7 min

  2. Module 2 — Propagation and prediction: the loss side, and how far to trust it

    Match a propagation model to the question, respect the range it was fitted over, and turn a coverage target into a margin you can spend.

    1. Empirical, scenario-stochastic and deterministic models: three kindsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:47
    2. Distance, frequency, height and clutter: the four termsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:55
    3. Urban macro, street canyon and rural macro: the scenario models and their limitsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:49
    4. Shadow fading: from a standard deviation to a margin you can spendFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:11
    5. Outdoor-to-indoor loss: the wall that decides where the cell endsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:47
    6. Prediction versus measurement: tuning a model, and what a plot never showsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:15
    7. Can This Model Answer That? · Checkpoint~6 min
    8. Buy the Probability · Interactive lab~6 min

  3. Module 3 — The budget that ends in a cell radius

    Build the link budget row by row, find the channel that actually sets the cell edge, and turn decibels into a cell radius and a site count.

    1. Coupling loss, hardware budget and allowable path loss: three metricsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership9:05
    2. Radiated power and array gain: four components, and the rules that zero themFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership10:37
    3. From transmit power to allowable path loss: the ledger, row by rowFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership10:16
    4. Which channel sets the cell edge: ranking every link by its budgetFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:57
    5. From allowable path loss to cell radius, site spacing and site countFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership9:19
    6. Height, downtilt, azimuth and sector count: aiming the cell you just sizedFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership10:22
    7. Which Bracket Is It? · Checkpoint~6 min
    8. Which Link Runs Out First · Interactive lab~7 min

  4. Module 4 — Capacity, quality, and the grid you actually inherit

    Turn a distance into a rate: three capacity numbers, an offered load you can defend, and the grid you actually inherit rather than the one you drew.

    1. Peak, average and cell-edge: three capacity numbers, one commitmentFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership11:26
    2. Best server and the SINR surface: from a plan to a quality predictionFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership12:23
    3. Subscribers, busy hour and offered load: what the area demandsFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership11:59
    4. What one cell carries: resource blocks, overhead, duty cycle and efficiencyFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership12:08
    5. Overlay on an inherited grid: subset, holes, anchor bound, refarm or shareFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership12:19
    6. The capacity site count, the verdict, and the headroom you must not sellFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership13:28
    7. Three Numbers, One Cell · Checkpoint~5 min
    8. Build the Demand, Then the Verdict · Interactive lab~7 min

  5. Module 5 — Parameter planning and the design handover

    Give identities, sequences, neighbour lists and tracking areas a defended value each, then hand the package over with an honest account of what is verified.

    1. Reuse one: what is actually reuse-planned in a 5G networkFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership7:52
    2. Physical cell identity: collision, confusion and the modulo structureFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership9:09
    3. Root sequences and cyclic shift: the door-knock channel encodes your cell radiusFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership9:19
    4. Neighbour relations: the list you ship and the list that maintains itselfFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:50
    5. Tracking areas and notification areas: sizing paging against signallingFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership9:06
    6. The design handover: the package, its acceptance state, and what belongs to optimisationFree for 7 days with a free account, then with Prime Membership8:44
    7. Read the Assignment · Checkpoint~6 min
    8. Cut the Door Open · Interactive lab~6 min

  6. Certification exam

    Earns a certificate

    35 questions · 60 min · 65% to pass — earns your TELCOMA Certified RAN Planning & Design Specialist, a QR-verifiable certificate.

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Study materials

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Download the 5G RAN Planning & Design question bank and slide deck — every signal check in the course, with answers, plus every figure.

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Modules end with a hands-on exercise — 10 in this course. You move the controls, the numbers answer back, and a wrong turn tells you why.

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Derive the Floor · Interactive lab · ~7 min

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