Optimization and Analysis of GSM Networks

3 Credits

The techniques needed to successfully optimize a functioning GSM networkwill be examined. Students will conduct extensive drive tests of a working network in the Washington DC area using state-of-the-art drive test equipment and will analyze the recorded data with post-processing analysis tools. Also, they will learn to recognize problems based on network behaviors and what courses of action are available to correct them. Lab work and data collection will constitute a majority of the class work.