Following at the luck of the 1st variation, this booklet is absolutely up-to-date, protecting the newest additions to LTE and the main beneficial properties of LTE-Advanced.

This ebook builds at the luck of its predecessor, supplying a similar complete system-level realizing  equipped on causes of the underlying conception, now improved to incorporate whole assurance of unlock nine and the constructing requirements for LTE-Advanced. The booklet is a collaborative attempt of greater than forty key specialists representing over 20 businesses actively engaging within the improvement of LTE, in addition to academia. The e-book highlights sensible implications, illustrates the predicted functionality, and attracts comparisons with the well known WCDMA/HSPA criteria. The authors not just pay specific awareness to the actual layer, giving an perception into the elemental options of OFDMA-FDMA and MIMO, but additionally hide the better protocol layers and process structure to allow the reader to realize an total figuring out of the system.

Key New Features:

• Comprehensively up-to-date with the newest adjustments of the LTE liberate eight necessities, together with more desirable assurance of Radio source administration RF elements and function requirements
• Provides exact insurance of the hot LTE unencumber nine positive factors, together with: eMBMS, dual-layer beamforming, person gear positioning, domestic eNodeBs / femtocells and pico cells and self-optimizing networks
• Evaluates the LTE process performance
• Introduces LTE-Advanced, explaining its context and motivation, in addition to the foremost new positive factors together with: service aggregation, relaying, high-order MIMO, and Cooperative Multi-Point transmission (CoMP).

This booklet is a useful reference for all examine and improvement engineers curious about implementation of LTE or LTE-Advanced, in addition to graduate and PhD scholars in instant communications. community operators, provider prone and R&D managers also will locate this ebook insightful.