LTE Standards (eBook)

Jean-Gabriel Remy is Professor at the Catholic University of Paris (ISEP) in France. He was Chief Scientist at SFR for more than 10 years. In that position, he participated in the creation of 3GPP, actively participating in it until 2010. He is currently an ingénieur général for the French Ministry of Finance in Paris. Charlotte Letamendia works for a French company that operates in the fields of broadband (broadband and residential terminals), management of documents (printing terminals, software and solutions, digital production workflow), digital set-top boxes (satellite, cable, terrestrial and IP TV) and telecom and energy (M2M, telecommunications infrastructure, smartgrids and metering).

Introduction

The LTE project: milestones

LTE standards and architecture

3GPP

Radio access sub-system

OFDMA and its avatar for uplink and downlink

Signaling on the radio path

MIMO

Macrocells, microcells, femtocells

Core network : IMS

SIM for communications privacy

USIM

ISIM

OFDMA

General principles

OFDMA in the LTE radio sub-system

Coverage of a country with LTE

Frequency planning

Compatibility with DTT

Health effects

The full-IP core network

Telephony processing

General description of IMS

Latency management

SIM card and security

SIM card description

USIM and ISIM

OAT

Security services

LTE roll-out

Radio propagation software

Macro-cells, micro-cells, femto-cells

Heterogeneous network

Allocated frequency bands, multi-band operation

backhaul

Operation & maintenance

Load tests

Supervision

OTT Services

Video on demand

Dedicated services

Web TV

LBS

Positioning

GPS driven applications

Open applications vs. verticalization

The Apple model

The Web based applications

Conclusion