Fundamentals of LTE

Foreword

With the deployment of LTE, the wireless revolution will achieve an important milestone. For the first time, a wide-area wireless network will be universally deployed that has been primarily designed for IP-centric broadband data (rather than voice) from the very beginning. LTE also is rapidly becoming the dominant global standard for fourth generation cellular networks with nearly all the major cellular players behind it and working toward its success.

Having been personally involved in designing, developing, and promoting one of the first OFDM-based cellular systems since the late 1990s, back when such an approach was considered slightly eccentric, LTE’s success is personally very satisfying for me to see. As with any standard, which ...