Lte advanced: high-impact technology – what you

LTE Advanced is a preliminary mobile communication standard, formally submitted as a candidate 4G system to ITU-T in late 2009, was approved into ITU, International Telecommunications Union, IMT-Advanced and expected to be finalized by 3GPP in early 2011. It is standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a major enhancement of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. This book is your ultimate resource for LTE Advanced. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about LTE Advanced right away, covering: LTE Advanced, 3GPP, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, A5/1, Access Point Name, BSSGP, Cell Broadcast, Charging data record, Closed subscriber group, CSN.1, DC-HSUPA, Dual-Cell HSDPA, E-UTRA, EUTRAN, Evolved HSPA, Flat IP, Frame Protocol, General Packet Radio Service, Generic Access Network, Generic Authentication Architecture, GPRS Core Network, GPRS Roaming Exchange, GSM codes for supplementary services, GSM procedures, GTP', Insert Subscriber Data, Integration Reference Point, IP Multimedia Services Identity Module, IP Multimedia Subsystem, MMS Architecture, Mobile station, Multimedia Messaging Service, NBAP, Network Service Access Point Identifier, Node B, Online charging system, Opportunity Driven Multiple Access, PDCP, Radio Network Controller, Received signal code power, Self-Optimization, SIM Application Toolkit, SMS, TD-SCDMA, Timing advance, UICC, UMTS-FDD, UMTS-TDD, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, User equipment, USIM Application Toolkit, USSD Gateway, VoLGA Forum. This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of LTE Advanced. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of LTE Advanced with the objectivity of experienced professionals.