What is LTE?

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is initiated by 3GPPto improve the mobile phone standard to
cope with future technology evolutions and needs.

What is goal of LTE?

The goals for LTE include improving spectral efficiency, lowering costs, improving
services, making use of new spectrum and reformed spectrum opportunities, and better
integration with other open standards.

What speed does LTE offer?

LTE provides downlink peak rates of at least 100Mbit/s, 50 Mbit/s in the uplink and RAN
(Radio Access Network) round-trip times of less than 10 ms.

What is LTE Advanced?

LTE standards are in a matured state, now with release 8 frozen. LTE Advanced,
however, is still in the works (might be almost finished now). Often the LTE standard is
seen as 4G standard which is not true. 3.9G is more acceptable for LTE. So why it is not
4G? The answer is quite simple LTE does not fulfill all requirements of ITU 4G
definition

"A brief History of LTE Advanced: The ITU has introduced the
term IMT Advanced to identify mobile systems whose capabilities
go beyond those of IMT 2000. The IMT Advanced systems shall
provide best-in-class performance attributes such as peak and
sustained data rates and corresponding spectral efficiencies,
capacity, latency, overall network complexity and quality-of-
service management. The new capabilities of these IMT-Advanced
systems are envisaged to handle a wide range of supported data
rates with target peak data rates of up to approximately 100
Mbit/s for high mobility and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low
mobility."

What is LTE architecture ?

The evolved architecture comprises E-UTRAN (Evolved UTRAN) on the access side
and EPC (Evolved Packet Core) on the core side.

What is EUTRAN?

The E-UTRAN (Evolved UTRAN) consists of eNB's, which provide the E-UTRA user
plane (PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol terminations towards the
UE. The eNBs are interconnected to one another by the X2 interface. The eNBs are also
connected by the S1 interface to the EPC (Evolved Packet Core), more specifically to
the MME (Mobility Management Entity) by means of the S1-MME and to the Serving
Gateway (S-GW) by means of the S1-U.

What are LTE Interfaces?

What are LTE Network elements?
What are LTE protocols & specifications?
What is VoLGA?
What is CS Fallback in LTE?
How does LTE Security works?
What is IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)?
How does measurements work in LTE?
What is Automatic Neighbour Relation?
How Intra E-UTRAN Handover does is performed?
How does policy control and charging works in LTE?
What is SON & how does it work in LTE?
How does Network Sharing works in LTE?
How does Timing Advance (TA) works in LTE?
How does LTE UE positioning works in E-UTRAN?
How many operators have committed for LTE?
What is Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC)?
How does Location Service (LCS) work in LTE network?
How does Lawful Interception works in LTE Evolved Packet System?
What is carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced?
What is Relay Node and how does Relaying works in LTE-Advanced?