Fourth Generation Mobile Communications / LTE.

LTE (long-term evolution) mobile communication system is offering high bitrates in IP communications. Fourth Generation Mobile Communications/LTE describes various aspects of LTE as well as the change of paradigm, which it is bringing to mobile communications. The book is a vital resource for the en...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rémy, Jean-Gabriel
Other Authors: Letamendia, Charlotte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; I.1. Mobile communication systems: 0G, 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G; I.1.1. Rationale; I.1.2. Short history of mobile communications, milestones; I.1.2.1. 0G; I.1.2.2. 1G; I.1.2.3. 2G; I.1.2.4. 3G, the need for fast data transmission; I.1.2.5. 4G; I.1.2.6. 5G; I.2. High speed broadband mobile services: what the customers are waiting for; I.2.1. Customers' expectancies; I.2.2. Advantages of LTE for fulfilling these expectancies.
  • I.2.3. How the advent of smartphones impacts customers' expectations1 LTE Standards and Architecture; 1.1. 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP); 1.1.1. 3GPP history; 1.1.2. 3GPP, the current organization; 1.1.3. 3GPP releases; 1.2. LTE
  • numbering and addressing; 1.2.1. The network IDs; 1.2.2. The MME IDs; 1.2.3. The tracking area IDs; 1.2.4. The Cell IDs; 1.2.5. The mobile equipment ID; 1.3. LTE architecture overview; 1.3.1. Overall high level description of LTE; 1.3.1.1. LTE network elements; 1.3.1.2. LTE connection with outside communication networks; 1.3.1.3. LTE access network.
  • 1.3.1.4. LTE mobile terminals1.3.1.5. USIM; 1.3.2. LTE performance; 1.3.3. LTE
  • QoS architecture; 1.3.4. FDD, TDD, LTE advanced; 1.3.5. Frequencies for LTE; 1.3.5.1. Frequency allocation for LTE/IMT in ITU world radio conferences (WRCs); 1.3.6. Basic parameters of LTE; 1.4. Radio access subsystem: eUTRAN (also called eUTRA); 1.4.1. LTE visualization tool from Rohde and Schwartz; 1.4.2. eUTRAN characteristics; 1.4.3. eUTRAN interfaces; 1.4.3.1. X2 and S1 interface implementation; 1.4.3.2. Overall architecture [3GPP TS 36.300]; 1.4.3.2.1. eNB functionality; 1.4.3.2.2. MME functionality.
  • 1.4.3.2.3. S-GW functionality1.4.4. Signaling on the radio path; 1.4.4.1. User plane; 1.4.4.2. Control plane; 1.4.4.2.1. Physical layer (layer 1); 1.4.4.2.2. Medium access layer (MAC); 1.4.4.2.3. Radio link control (RLC); 1.4.4.2.4. Radio resource control (RRC); 1.4.4.2.5. Packet data convergence control (PDCP); 1.4.4.2.6. Non-access stratum (NAS) protocols; 1.4.4.3. Channels; 1.4.4.3.1. Physical control format indicator channel; 1.4.5. Physical layer; 1.4.5.1. Downlink physical channel; 1.4.5.2. Uplink physical channel; 1.4.6. RLC and MAC layer; 1.4.6.1. Radio resource management.
  • 1.4.6.2. S1 interface1.4.7. Dynamic radio resource management in LTE; 1.4.8. MIMO; 1.4.9. Macrocells, microcells and femtocells; 1.5. Core network; 1.5.1. LTE network elements; 1.5.2. LTE interfaces [TS 23.401]; 1.5.2.1. Control plane interfaces; 1.5.2.2. User Plane interfaces; 1.5.3. Functional split between the E-UTRAN and the EPC; 1.5.4. S1 interface-based handover; 1.5.4.1. Successful handover; 1.5.4.2. S1-based handover reject scenario; 1.5.4.3. S1-based handover cancel scenario; 1.6. LTE
  • roaming architecture; 1.6.1. LTE network mobility management; 1.7. SIM for communications privacy.