Future UMTS Standards: 3GPP Long Term Evolution and 4G

Seminarkode: DK 2.18

Termin

geplant 2011

Location

Oberpfaffenhofen

Scientific Coordination

E. Seidel, Nomor Research GmbH, München

Focus

Wireless broadband internet access providing IP based services to mobile users is growing rapidly worldwide and state of the art systems cannot support future requirements. 3GPP Long Term Evolution is the enhancement of the UMTS air interface based on OFDM/MIMO preparing the road to future 4G. This future mobile communication system, which is currently being standardized in 3GPP, shall provide data rates up to 100Mbps with latency values below 5ms and shall thus make UMTS competitive for the next decade. The scalable OFDM technology allows a flexible spectrum allocation in existing and new frequency bands. In 4G the technology based on Advanced LTE shall provide data rates up to 1Gbps.
This course provides a detailed understanding of the physical layer, the protocol and the architecture of LTE access networks as defined in the 36-series of 3GPP specification Release 8. The course first introduces the fundamentals of the OFDM/SC-FDMA based physical layer as well as the principles of MIMO technology. Next physical layer numerology, processing and related procedures are explained, in particular link adaptation, L1/2 control signaling, radio resource management and scheduling algorithms are covered. Furthermore a good understanding of the radio and network protocols of LTE/SAE is given. The RRC, PDCP, RLC and MAC layers are explained in detail. Different network entities (eNB, aGW, MME) and interfaces of the Evolved Packet Core as well as the underlying QoS concept are introduced. Based on exemplary procedures such as initial access, connection setup and handover the interworking of those entities over the S1 and X2 interfaces are explained.

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