LTE watch: December 2010

Twitter update

Announcement

I will be presenting a tutorial on LTE and LTE-Advanced at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2012 Spring in Yokohama, Japan on May 6. More info here.

LTE white papers & tutorials

Towards 4G: Technical Overview of LTE and WiMAX - Hyung G. Myung (IEEE WCNC, Apr. '10)
3GPP Release 10 and Beyond: HSPA+, SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced - 4G Americas (Feb. '11)
LTE-Advanced Technology Introduction - Rohde & Schwarz (Mar. '10)
HSPA to LTE-Advanced: 3GPP Broadband Evolution to IMT-Advanced (4G) - Rysavy Research / 3G Americas (Sep. '09)
3GPP LTE: System overview, product development, and test challenges - Agilent (Sep. '09)
LTE: An Introduction - Ericsson (Jun. '09)
LTE TDD Technology Overview - Rohde & Schwartz (Jun. '09)
LTE Part I: Core Network - IEEE (Feb. '09)
LTE Part II: Radio Access - IEEE (Apr. '09)
Latest Results from LSTI, Feb. 2009
The Mobile Broadband Evolution: 3GPP Release 8 and Beyond HSPA+, SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced - 3G Americas (Feb. '09)
Mobile Broadband Evolution: The Roadmap from HSPA to LTE - UMTS Forum (Feb. '09)
LTE: Towards Mobile Broadband - ATIS (Jan. '09)
LTE-Advanced: Evolving LTE towards IMT-Advanced - Ericsson (Sep. '08)
UMTS LTE technology introduction - Rohde & Schwarz (Sep. '08)
3GPP LTE protocol primer - Agilent (Jun. '08)

LTE books

The LTE / SAE Deployment Handbook (Dec. '11)
Essentials of LTE and LTE-A (Aug. '11)
LTE, The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice, 2nd Ed. (Jul. '11)
4G: LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband (Mar. '11)
LTE for UMTS: Evolution to LTE-Advanced, 2nd Ed. (Mar. '11)
Fundamentals of LTE (Sep. '10)
LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless: Design and Measurement Challenges (May '09)
LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband (Apr. '09)
LTE Self-Organizing Networks (Dec. '11)
LTE Signaling (Dec. '10)
LTE Security (Sep. '10)
SAE and the Evolved Packet Core: Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution (Aug. '09)
Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution (Oct. '08)

LTE market reports

LTE Spectrum Strategies and Forecasts to 2016 - Informa (Jul. '11)
Global opportunities for LTE TDD - Ovum (Feb. '11, free)
LTE and LTE-Advanced - ABI Research (Dec. '10)
Voice Over LTE, IMS & the Future of Rich-Media Services in the 4G Era - Heavy Reading (Dec. '10)
The State of the LTE Market - In-Stat (Nov. '10)
4G LTE Revenue Opportunities - Juniper Research (Nov. '10)
LTE Deployment Strategies - Infonetics Research (Nov. '10)
The 4G Semiconductor Market - ABI Research (Oct. '10)
4G Spectrum Fragmentation - Yankee Group (Oct. '10)
4G LTE Hardware Opportunities - Juniper Research (Aug. '10)
Backhaul Evolution Strategies for LTE Operators - Heavy Reading (Apr. '10)
LTE Device Chipsets - In-Stat (Feb. '10)
The Road to LTE Worldwide: Is WiMAX Really the Enemy? - In-Stat (Jan. '10)
WiMAX and LTE - Pyramid Research (Jan. '10)
IP Transformation - ABI Research (Jan. '10)
Evolved Packet Core for LTE - Heavy Reading (Nov. '09)
LTE and WiMAX Intellectual Landscapes - ABI Research (Nov. '09)
LTE Mobile Broadband Ecosystem: the Global Opportunity - UMTS Forum (Jun. '09, free)
LTE's Five-Year Global Forecast - Pyramid Research (May '09)
Global Mobile Broadband: Market Potential for LTE - Analysys (Jan. '08, free)

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LTE (Long Term Evolution) from 3GPP is a next generation cellular wireless standard which is considered as the prominent path to 4th generation (4G) cellular wireless system. Hope you find many useful information here. Thank you.