Chapter 9

LTE and LTE-Advanced

Thomas Derham

LTE and LTE-Advanced represent the recent efforts of the image Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to define the evolution of cellular communications beyond image Generation (3G) CDMA-based technology. The existing family of 3G standards ranging from WCDMA to HSPAimage has achieved strong commercial success and, in the latter case, can provide peak downlink speeds in excess of 20 Mbps. For LTE, the emphasis is not only ...

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