Next-Generation Mobile Network
Tsuguo Kato · 2012
The number of people using mobile phones 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 10 years up to 2020. There are high expectations that Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is known as a 3.9G wireless system, will be a new service platform that can support such a huge amount of mobile data traffic. This paper describes the features, technologies and network architecture of LTE, which started commercial service in December 2010 in Japan, realizing high-speed wireless access.