1. What is LTE?

LTEi (Long Term Evolution) is initiated by 3GPPi to improve the mobile

phone standard to cope with future technology evolutions and needs.

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2. What is goal of LTE?

The goals for LTE include improving spectral efficiency, lowering costs,
improving services, making use of new spectrum and reformed spectrum
opportunities, and better integration with other open standards.

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3. What speed LTE offers?

LTE provides downlink peak rates of at least 100Mbit/s, 50 Mbit/s in the

uplink and RAN (Radio Access Network) round-trip times of less than 10
ms.

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4. What is LTE Advanced?

LTE standards are in matured state now with release 8 frozen. While LTE
Advanced is still under works. Often the LTE standard is seen as 4G
standard which is not true. 3.9G is more acceptable for LTE. So why it is
not 4G? Answer is quite simple - LTE does not fulfill all requirements of ITU
4G definition.

Brief History of LTE Advanced: The ITU has introduced the term IMT
Advanced to identify mobile systems whose capabilities go beyond those of
IMT 2000. The IMT Advanced systems shall provide best-in-class
performance attributes such as peak and sustained data rates and

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 corresponding spectral efficiencies, capacity, latency, overall network
complexity and quality-of-service management. The new capabilities of
these IMT-Advanced systems are envisaged to handle a wide range of
supported data rates with target peak data rates of up to approximately 100
Mbit/s for high mobility and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility.

See LTE Advanced: Evolution of LTE for more details.

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5. What is LTE architecture?

The evolved architecture comprises E-UTRAN (Evolved UTRAN) on the

access side and EPC (Evolved Packet Core) on the core side.

The figure below shows the evolved system architecture

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 6. What is EUTRAN?

The E-UTRAN (Evolved UTRAN) consists of eNBs, providing the E-UTRA

user plane (PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol
terminations towards the UE. The eNBs are interconnected with each other
by means of the X2 interface. The eNBs are also connected by means of
the S1 interface to the EPC (Evolved Packet Core), more specifically to the
MME (Mobility Management Entity) by means of the S1-MME and to the
Serving Gateway (S-GW) by means of the S1-U.

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7. What are LTE Interfaces?

The following are LTE Interfaces : (Ref: TS 23.401 v 841)

 S1-MME :- Reference point for the control plane protocol between

E-UTRAN and MME.
 S1-U:- Reference point between E-UTRAN and Serving GW for the
per bearer user plane tunneling and inter eNodeB path switching
during handover.

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