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Long Term Evolution (LTE) Tutorials

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Long Term Evolution (LTE) Tutorials

LTE video tutorial

Rohde & Schwarz 's 14-part presentations provide an excellent introduction to LTE. The presentations start with a background on LTE. This is followed by lectures that cover LTE frequency bands, OFDM, OFDMA, SC-FDMA and LTE signaling. The lectures also cover channel mapping and UE categories.

LTE physical layer

An excellent overview of the LTE physical layer. Get an overview of OFDM and SC-FDMA
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transmit and receive chains. LTE channels and reference signals are described in detail. Highly recommended.

LTE link layer design

This article describes the LTE link-layer protocols, which abstract the physical layer and adapt its characteristics to match the requirements of higher layer protocols.The LTE link-layer protocols are optimized for low delay and low overhead and are simpler than their counterparts in UTRAN. The state -of-the-art LTE protocol design is the result of a careful crosslayer approach where the protocols interact with each other efficiently. This article provides a thorough overview of this protocol stack, including the sub-layers and corresponding interactions in between them, in a manner that is more intuitive than in the respective 3GPP specifications.

Introduction to LTE architecture

This article provides an overview of the LTE radio interface, together with a more in-depth description of its features such as spectrum flexibility, multi-antenna transmission, and intercell interference control. The performance of LTE and some of its key features is illustrated
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with simulation results. This article provides a high-level overview of LTE and some of its key components: spectrum flexibility, multi-antenna transmission, and ICIC. Numerical simulations are used to show the performance of the first release of LTE, as well as assess the benefit of the key features. Indeed these contribute strongly to LTE meeting its performance targets. An outlook of the evolution of LTE toward LTE-Advanced and full IMT-Advanced capabilities complete the article. Clearly, LTE offers highly competitive performance and provides a good foundation for further evolution.

LTE and LTE Advanced presentations

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Agilent's 2-part webinar introduces you to the LTE and LTE-Advanced physical layer. OFDM, OFDMA, MIMO and LTE frame structure are described in detail.

LTE protocol architecture

This paper describes the system architecture and performance objectives of LTE. The role of different functional elements and their interfaces are covered. The article also discussed the uplink and downlink channel types. The article also covers mobility management in LTE.

LTE channels and performance

In this paper, an overview of the air interface for LTE E-UTRA with system performance results is provided. It is shown that LTE E-UTRA system performance can achieve 3-4x improvement over HSDPA and HSUPA with receiver diversity. LTE EUTRA uplink performance improvement relative to HSUPA was achieved without using any MIMO, interference
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suppression, or larger TTI and was mainly due to orthogonality and ability to use narrow band transmissions for coverage limited situations. In the downlink, the performance gap in reaching the desired target range of 3-4x spectral efficiency and average user throughput can be met using MIMO techniques.

LTE channels and protocol layers

This paper provides an overview of the MAC for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) also referred to as E-UTRAN, with a focus on the handset or User Equipment (UE). The protocol stack functions consist of the Medium Access Control (MAC), Radio Link Control (RLC), Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP), and Radio Resource Control (RRC). LTE uses all the time on the downlink for conveying data; the downlink PHY is fully scheduled so there are no gaps due to arbitration or contention except for the initial access on the random access procedure. The downlink carries multiple logical channels over one link, so a lot of information is multiplexed together in one transport block, as opposed to other networks where any given packet is only carrying one type of information at a given time, such as in a control plane or a user plane..

LTE physical layer presentation

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The presentation covers LTE architecture, frame structure, channels, MIMO and scheduling. OFDM and SC-FDMA are also covered.

Dynamic radio resource management in LTE

Radio resource management attracts great attention while utilizing available resources to provide users with enhanced system throughput. Radio resources management include transmission power management, mobility management, and scheduling of radio resources. An intelligent radio resource management is at the heart of LTE to make it a robust technology to meet the broadband mobility needs of upcoming years. This will schedule the available resource in a best way and provide to the users with the enough transmission capability to achieve the decided QoS even while they move freely and also will make sure that these assigned resources would not interfere with already assigned resources. This will also be of interest that the transmitted signal will reach the receiver in a good health while utilizing the power efficiently available at the transmitter.

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MIMO

For over a decade universities and wireless research labs have been combining multiple antenna transmission techniques with advanced signal processing algorithms to create what is sometimes called smart-antenna and is also known as multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technology. These schemes are now moving into mainstream communication systems. Indeed, MIMO technologies can already be found in wireless local area network access points (e.g. 802.11n based solutions). This has led to MIMO being standardized in WiMAX as well as in 3GPP Rel-6 and Rel-7 of the UTRAN (HSPA) specifications. Further, Rel-8 of the E-UTRAN (LTE) 3GPP specifications, completed in March 2009, included the most advanced forms of MIMO in any standard in the industry. And even more advanced MIMO enhancements are currently being studied for inclusion in 3GPP Rel-9 and Rel-10.

LTE signal visualization

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LTE signal demonstration

LTE visualization tool

This tool is free to download and use. It models the allocation of downlink Resource Elements to the set of Signals and Physical Channels. The user can configure each of the variables which have an impact upon the allocation of Resource Elements, e.g. the channel bandwidth, number of transmit antenna and cell identity. The tool also quantifies throughput for each modulation scheme and a range of assumed coding rates.

LTE/LTE Advanced Networks - special issue

This special issue consists of five papers. The first three papers focus on LTE: there is a survey paper on resource scheduling and interference mitigation techniques, a paper on
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resource scheduling for the provision of different services, and a paper on a method for improving the tradeoff between service quality and radio coverage for enhanced multimedia broadcast and multicast service (E-MBMS). The other two papers are focused on LTE-A: one paper discusses distributed algorithms for solving two self-configuration problems and the other examines the performance of decode-and-forward relaying.

EPC Videos
MME

S-GW

MME
Chris Reece 08:26

MME by chrisreece

S-GW
Chris Reece 08:31

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S-GW by chrisreece

P-GW

HSS

P-GW
Chris Reece 10:32

P-GW by chrisreece

HSS
Chris Reece 08:51

HSS by chrisreece

Voice over LTE

VoLTE video tutorial

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VoLTE presentation

This presentation explores the various alternatives for supporing voice over LTE.

Circuit switched fallback in LTE

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LTE & Voice

Chris Reece 13:59

LTE & Voice by chrisreece Many networks use circuit switched fallback for setting up voice. When an LTE user makes a voice call, the mobile falls back to to UMTS. Pros and cons of CS fallback are also discussed.

Introduction to IMS

IMS will increasingly play a bigger role in next generation IP services. IMS will start with voice and move over to other services. IMS components and their interactions with LTE and voice networks are discussed.

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