1. Introduction to MIMO, Beamforming and Massive MIMO
2. 5G NR Transmission Chain
3. Types of Beamforming-Analog Beamforming
4. Digital Beamforming
5. Hybrid Beamforming
6. 5G NR Active Antenna System (AAS)
7. 8T8R & 64T64R Configurations in 5G Active Antenna System (AAS)
8. Comparison of Antenna Sizes in Sub 6 GHz & mmWave
9. Virtualized Antenna Representation
10. Active Antenna Unit (AAU) in 5G
11. Antenna Configurations for Different RF Planning Scenarios
12. Single Panel & Multi-panel Antennas
13. Grid of Beams (GoB)
14. Antenna Port Vs Physical Antenna
15. Quasi Co-Located (QCL) Ports
16. DL MIMO Characteristics in Sub 6GHZ
17. DL MIMO Characteristics in mmWave
18. Why DL-MU-MIMO is Limited to Maximum 16 Layers
19. UL-MIMO Characteristics
20. Why Channel State Information (CSI) in Important
21. What is Channel State Information (CSI) Report & its Calculation in FDD and TDD
22. Why Use TDD with Large Number of Antenna Ports
23. Types of CSI (Channel State Inormation)
24. Types I CSI (Standard Resolution)
25. Why Co-phasing is Required
26. Subtypes of Type-I CSI
27. Type-II CSI (High Resolution)
28. Relationship Between Antenna Subarrays and CSI ports
29. Flow Diagrams for Downlink Single User MIMO Procedures
30. 1. CSI-RS Based DL Single User MMO Procedure
31. 2.Beamformed CSI-RS Based Procedure for DL SU-MIMO
32. 3. SRS Based DL Single User MIMO
33. UL Transmission Schemes
34. 1. Codebook Based UL Transmission Scheme
35. 2. Non-Codebook Based UL Transmission Scheme