Smart Cities and Homes

Chapter 6

LTE and 5G systems

E. Kammoun^*

F. Zarai^*

M.S. Obaidat^†*    Department of Telecommunications, ENET’Com, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia^†    Department of Computer and Information, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, United States

Abstract

Telecommunication systems continue to grow tremendously in the past few decades. This growth was driven by the massive amounts of capacity required for exploiting mobile traffic. Despite the increase in performance and Quality of Service (QoS) provided by mobile telecommunication systems during the past decade, mobile operators competitively kept upgrading cellular networks’ architectures and technologies. Hence, following the deployment of the Third Generation Partnership Project Long-Term Evolution (3GPP ...