Mastering 5G PHY: Complete Development Training

What You'll Learn

✓ OFDM basics and its role in wireless communication

✓ Understanding 5G NR Physical Layer 3GPP specification

✓ Essential and advanced modules in 5G PHY

✓ SSBurst: PSS, SSS and PBCH demodulation chain

✓ PDCCH: CRC, CORESET, search spaces, blind decoding

✓ PDSCH & PUSCH: complete physical layer processing

✓ CSI-RS: channel estimation and beam management

✓ DMRS for DL and UL channels

✓ PUCCH formats 0–4 with signal generation

✓ PRACH: preamble generation, cyclic shift, receiver design

✓ SRS: uplink channel sounding & codebook-based MIMO

✓ PTRS: phase noise estimation and compensation

✓ HARQ: concepts, CBG transmission, codebooks

✓ SU-MIMO, MU-MIMO & beamforming fundamentals

✓ 5G throughput calculation by hand

✓ Operating bands, ARFCN, GSCN, sampling rates

About This Course

Welcome to the most comprehensive 5G Physical Layer training available. Whether you're a seasoned engineer, a developer, or a fresher looking to break into the field, this course provides everything you need to succeed.

You will learn everything from the basics to advanced concepts of the 5G PHY. Step-by-step explanations and simple visualizations make even the most complex topics easy to understand. By the end of the training, you will have a solid understanding of 5G signals and channels, enabling you to build, optimize, and innovate in RAN networks confidently.

This training stands out for its logical structure, expert guidance, and industry relevance. If you are ready to transform your career, gain in-demand skills, and lead the future of wireless communication, this is the perfect starting point.

Every topic is grounded in 3GPP TS 38.212 and related specifications, so you'll always know exactly what standard defines each procedure and why it was designed that way.

Course Curriculum

13 sections · 101 lectures · 20 hours 15 minutes total

1. Introduction

1h 8m

▶ 3GPP standards — who writes 5G? Meetings, TDocs, specifications

▶ What is the Physical Layer? Different channels in 5G PHY

▶ Overview of the full 5G NR stack

2. Essential Modules of 5G Physical Layer

4h 10m

▶ CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Checks in 5G PHY

▶ Channel coding techniques: LDPC & Polar codes

▶ Rate matching: bit selection and bit interleaving

▶ Scrambling: pseudo-random sequences, C_init values

▶ Modulation: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM

▶ OFDM: cyclic prefix, resource grid, BWP

▶ Numerology, slots, frames, resource blocks

3. Synchronization Signal Burst (SSBurst)

47m

▶ PSS, SSS: structure and generation

▶ PBCH demodulation: complete chain

▶ End-to-end SSBurst receiver design

4. Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)

1h 18m

▶ CORESET: configuration and structure

▶ Search spaces and DCIs in 5G

▶ PDCCH transmitter chain: CRC to resource mapping

▶ Blind decoding of control information

▶ UE multiplexing in PDCCH

5. Physical Downlink/Uplink Shared Channel (PDSCH & PUSCH)

3h 49m

▶ Resource allocation in time and frequency

▶ MCS tables and transport block size calculation

▶ SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO

▶ DMRS for shared channels — complexity and configuration

▶ Frequency multiplexing of multiple UEs

6. Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH)

1h 47m

▶ When does UE send PRACH? Role in random access

▶ PRACH signal generation

▶ Cyclic shift, restricted sets

▶ Short and long PRACH formats

▶ Receiver design for PRACH detection

7. Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)

3h 8m

▶ What does PUCCH carry? HARQ-ACK, SR, CSI

▶ PUCCH Format 0: sequence and resource mapping

▶ PUCCH Format 1: signal generation & receiver

▶ PUCCH Formats 2, 3 & 4 in full detail

8. Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS)

1h 27m

▶ CSI-RS for channel estimation and beam management

▶ CDM groups, ZP and NZP CSI-RS

▶ CSI-IM for interference management

▶ CQI, RI, and PMI feedback

9. Sounding Reference Signal (SRS)

1h 14m

▶ Significance of SRS in uplink channel sounding

▶ Codebook and non-codebook-based MIMO with SRS

▶ Step-by-step SRS signal generation

10. Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS)

57m

▶ What is phase noise? Where does it come from?

▶ Impact of phase noise in 5G systems

▶ PTRS generation in DL and UL

▶ Phase noise estimation at the receiver

11. HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest)

53m

▶ HARQ concept and operation

▶ CBG-based transmission

▶ HARQ codebooks for PDSCH

12. Additional Topics

2h 14m

▶ Operating bands in 5G NR

▶ RSRP & RSRQ measurements

▶ Sampling rates in 5G

▶ ARFCN and GSCN

▶ TDD slot structures

▶ 5G throughput calculation by hand

▶ PAPR — Peak to Average Power Ratio

13. Add-on: Timing Advance

49m

▶ Timing advance concept and procedures in 5G