The Lte-Advanced Deployment Handbook: The Planning Guidelines for the Fourth Generation Networks (Hardcover)

List of Contributors vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction 1
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

2 LTE-Advanced Principles 15
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

3 LTE-Advanced Architecture 59
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

4 Advanced Core Network 85
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen, Tero Jalkanen, Ilkka Keisala, Juha Kallio, and Olli Ramula

5 LTE-A Radio Network 113
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen, Sebastian Lasek, Katarzyna Rybiańska, Krzysztof Wiśniowski, Jacek Góra, Krystian Safjan, Jarosław Lachowski, Agnieszka Szufarska, Stanisław Strzyz, Szymon Stefanski, Damian Kolmas, Francesco D. Calabrese, Guillaume Monghal, Mohammad Anas, and Luis Maestro

6 Terminals and Applications 179
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen, Tero Jalkanen, Juha Kallio, and Pertti Penttinen

7 LTE-A Functionality 205
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen and Juha Kallio

8 Planning of the LTE-Advanced Core Network 237
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen and Olli Ramula

9 Planning of the LTE-Advanced Radio Network 257
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

10 Optimization of LTE-A 293
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen, Elpiniki Tsakalaki, and Parth Amin

11 Measurements 339
Jyrki T. J. Penttinen and Jonathan Borril

12 Recommendations 373
Sebastian Lasek, Dariusz Tomeczko, Krystian Krysmalski, Maciej Pakulski, Grzegorz Lehmann, Krystian Majchrowicz, Marcin Grygiel, Piotr Grzybowski, Mateusz Rączkowiak, Krzysztof Wiśniowski, Katarzyna Rybiańska, and Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

Index 473