5G Roaming and Core
Course Overview:
This course designed and customized to start with 5G Knowledge from the beginner level to the
advance level and cover all major topics of 5G from the technology, 5GC, Radio to security
aspects. To make training more interactive we propose the necessary tools, log files with field
examples will be considered at necessary points.
We propose a total of 10 days (4 Hrs per day) of training to cover following subjects as
identified by the customer.
Duration
10 Days
Pre-requisites
Basic understanding of telecom, 3G, 4G technology will be useful.
Targeted audience
This course is suitable for telecom engineers, Solution architects, Security experts, technical managers,
and RF planning & optimization engineers currently working on 4G/3G /2G technologies to further
understand.
Content outline
Topic 1 - 5G Technology
o 5G introduction
o Evolution
o real time examples
o 5G Air Interface Introduction
o Introduction to HTML/2 protocol
o 5G Spectrum
● Topic 2 - 5G-Core Architecture- E2E
o 5G Architecture E2E - NSA & SA
o 5G core network
o Service based Architecture
o Roaming and Non-Roaming Reference point architecture
o Architecture Reference Model for Non-3GPP Accesses (Wi-Fi Interworking)
o Functional description of network functions
o Field examples
● Topic 3 – end to end call flows with signaling and procedure
o 5G NSA Registration/attach procedure
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5G SA registration/attach procedure
5G SA/NSA Handover procedures
Topic 3 – Roaming Support in 5G and use cases
o 5G Data Roaming – data flow
o VoLTE Roaming – data flow
o RAEX Documents: IOT, Op Data, IR.21
o 5G Roaming Launch
o BA.xx
o TADIG Testing (TD.xx and TD.xx)
o 5G Roaming – TAP and Billing
o NRTRDE Solution and 5G
o Trends & SAS in the (tele)communications industry (overview of industry trends
& our position & what we do in comms)
o AI, ML and Intelligent Decisions explained (analytics life cycle, Artificial
Intelligence and Intelligent Decisions)
o Explaining why telcos need one enterprise wide, open, analytics platform with
ML/AI capabilities);
o Some Customer Intelligence use cases
Topic 4 - Network Virtualization/Containerized Network Functions Architecture &
Operations
o NFV Architecture
o Use Cases
o NFV in 5G Core and Access Network
o Why Kubernetes is important for Telco 5G journey
Topic 5 - Network Slicing and NWDAF
o Network Slicing
o Dividing physical resources into logical networks
o Network slice data model – NSSAI, slice instances, slice selection
o Network Slicing for different use cases
o Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF)
o NWDAF Services
o Network Function and Network Function Service discovery and selection
Topic 6 – Charging and Policy Management
o Usage Data Reporting for Secondary RAT
o Secondary RAT Periodic Usage Data Reporting Procedure
o Support for Edge Computing
o Policy Control
Topic 7 - Basic procedures for 5GC
o Session Management procedures
o SMF and UPF interactions
o Handover procedures
o Network Exposure
Topic 8 - 5G System Security - 2 days
o 3GPP 5G Security Architecture and Security Domains
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5G Security requirements and features
Security procedures between UE and 5G network functions
EAP framework in 5G
5G Key hierarchy, key derivation, and distribution scheme
Security for non-3GPP access to the 5G core network
Security procedures between UE and external data networks via the 5G Network
Security aspects of Network Exposure Function (NEF)
industry examples
E2E protocol security
Real field example
Pre-Post Evaluation
To make training more meaningful we also propose pre – post evaluation of the attendees
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30 mins at the start of training and 30 mins at the end of training will be dedicated for the
evaluation.