Abstract: Long-Term Evolution (LTE) of Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) is one of the latest steps in an advancing series of mobile telecommunication systems. LTE was and is standardized in parallel to other radio access network technologies like Enhanced Data Rates for GSM evolution (EDGE) and High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) . This means that LTE is not a simple replacement of existing technologies. Rather it is expected that different kinds of radio access will coexist in operator networks. From this background it emerges that understanding LTE also requires understanding alternative and coexisting technologies. Indeed, one of the major challenges of LTE signaling analysis will concern the analysis of handover procedures. Especially, the options for possible inter- Radio Access Technology (RAT) handovers have multiplied compared to what was possible in UMTS Release 99. The first standard that promised complete control of quality of service (QoS) was UMTS Release 99. Controlled Vocabulary Terms access protocols; Land mobile radio cellular systems; long term evolution; quality of service; radio access networks
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-12-17
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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