Certified Cellular Technology Expert

Certified Cellular Technology Expert

Instructor: Dr. Ivica Kostanic, Dr. Josko Zec, Andrew Garrett, David Burgess
Location: Melbourne, FL
Length of course: 5 days
CCTE Cost: $4,000

Detailed syllabus

Objective: Provide overview of cellular systems and 4G
Covered topics:
Fundamental cellular concepts
Standardization
Elements of cellular network
Radio access
Major cellular procedures
Elements of cellular network engineering
Link budget and coverage estimation
Fundamentals of 4G LTE
LTE air interface
LTE Technical details
Voice in LTE
Locating LTE mobiles

Objective: Provide overview of 5G (NR) and dissect various data sources
available to investigators
Covered topics:
5G air interface
5G technical details
5G cell trace measurements
Locating 5G mobiles
Millimeter waves in 5G

Covered topics:
-RF engineering
⦁ Building penetration losses
⦁ Vehicle penetration losses
⦁ Link budget and coverage estimation
⦁ Effects of down tilt, frequency, clutter, etc. on coverage
-Analysis of Data Sources
⦁ Antenna types and spec sheets
⦁ Crowdsourced
⦁ NDCAC / CALEA
⦁ Call Detail Records
⦁ NELOS records
⦁ PCMD record
⦁ Truecall
⦁ RTT – Real Time Tool
⦁ Drive Test Data

Objective: To show various ways to estimate cellular coverage for a specific tower
using multiple data sources including Call Detail Records and understand how
the network predicts location.
Covered topics:
-Various way of locating mobile phones
⦁ Cell level
⦁ OSS based predictions
⦁ A-GPS
⦁ GPS
-Estimating cellular coverage using various data sources using software
tools
⦁ Crowdsourced
⦁ NDCAC / CALEA
⦁ Call Detail Records
⦁ NELOS records
⦁ PCMD record
⦁ Truecall
⦁ RTT – Real Time Tool
-Legal Workshop
⦁ Critical Analysis of prior testimony
⦁ Document Discovery (Who has the data?)
⦁ History – How the courts came to accept bad theories?
⦁ Educating the court
⦁ Estimation Demonstrations – (Case Studies)

Certification

Students will be tested after each day of classes. A certificate of successful completion will be issued to students that successfully pass all the tests.