Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Emad Kazi · IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering · 2013
The number of people using mobile phone in the world has exceeded 4.5 billion and this figure is continuing to grow.For the past several years, mobile data traffic such as internet access, the downloading of music and video communication has been nearly tripling every year.With the popularity of smartphones, mobile data traffic will increase 200 times in the 7 to 8 years upto 2020.There are high expectations that Long Term Evolution (LTE) which is known as 3.9G wireless system will be a new service platform that can support a huge amount of mobile data traffic.This paper describes the features, technology and network architecture of LTE & also provides an overview of next generation telecommunication network LTE, which is started commercially in December 2010 in Japan (started by DOCOMO), realizing high speed wireless access.It also outlines the further trends towards a further speed increase.