LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the 3GPP's (3rd Generation Partnership Project) new standard and accompanying technologies that mobile network operators such as ATT, Verizon and TeliaSonera are adopting for their networks.
To move to higher-speed networks that can cater to customer demand for mobile broadband multimedia applications, the 3GPP has developed the latest LTE-Advanced (LTE Release 10) standard, which will be fixed in December 2010. This book focuses on LTE and LTE-Advanced, and provides engineers with real insight and understanding into the why and how of the standard and its related technologies. This book is written by engineers from Ericsson--the world's leading telecommunications supplier--who was heavily involved in the development of the standard.
Table of Contents
1 Background of LTE 2 High data rates in mobile communication 3 OFDM transmission 4 Wider-band 'single-carrier' transmission 5 Multi-antenna techniques 6 Scheduling, link adaptation and hybrid ARQ 7 LTE radio access an overview 8 Radio interface architecture 9 Physical transmission resources 10 Downlink physical-layer processing 11 Uplink physical-layer processing 12 Retransmission protocols 13 Power control, scheduling and interference handling 14 Access procedures 15 Multimedia broadcast/multicast services 16 Relaying 17 Spectrum and RF characteristics 18 Performance 19 Other wireless communications systems 20 Summary and concluding remarks
