Background of LTE
1.1 Introduction
Mobile communications has become an everyday commodity. In the last decades, it has evolved from being an expensive technology for a few selected individuals to today’s ubiquitous systems used by a majority of the world’s population. From the first experiments with radio communication by Guglielmo Marconi in the 1890s, the road to truly mobile radio communication has been quite long. To understand the complex mobile-communication systems of today, it is important to understand where they came from and how cellular systems have evolved. The task of developing mobile technologies has also changed, from being a national or regional concern, to becoming an increasingly complex task undertaken by global standards-developing ...
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