July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
19h 58m
English
In the previous chapter, the targets of LTE were discussed. In this chapter, an overview of some of the most important technology components and features of LTE will be provided. Chapters 15–20 will then provide a more detailed description of the LTE radio access.
As already mentioned, in parallel to the development of LTE, there has also been an evolution of the overall 3GPP architecture, a work known as the System Architecture Evolution (SAE). A description of SAE and the guiding principles behind the SAE design is found in Chapter 21.
The LTE downlink transmission scheme is based on OFDM. As discussed in Chapter 4, OFDM is ...
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