MTS to launch LTE on 1 September

Russian mobile operator MTS will start sales of its MTS Connect packages supporting LTE in the Moscow region soon. Wimax subscribers of its subsidiary Comstar will switch to the LTE technology from 7 August, the operator announced. The commercial launch of LTE services from the operator will start in Moscow from 1 September.

The MME Function

The MME Function

• NAS signalling
• NAS signalling security
• AS Security control
• Inter CN node signalling for mobility between 3GPP access networks
• Idle mode UE Reachability (including control and execution of paging retransmission)
• Tracking Area list management (for UE in idle and active mode)
• PDN GW and Serving GW selection
• MME selection for handovers with MME change
• SGSN selection for handovers to 2G or 3G 3GPP access networks
• Roaming
• Authentication
• Bearer management functions including dedicated bearer establishment
• Support for PWS (which includes ETWS and CMAS) message transmission.

eNB Functionalities

• Functions for Radio Resource Management: Radio Bearer Control, Radio Admission Control, Connection Mobility Control, Dynamic allocation of resources to UEs in both uplink and downlink (scheduling)
• IP header compression and encryption of user data stream
• Selection of an MME at UE attachment when no routing to an MME can be determined from the information provided by the UE
• Routing of User Plane data towards Serving Gateway
• Scheduling and transmission of paging messages (originated from the MME)
• Scheduling and transmission of broadcast information (originated from the MME or O&M)
• Measurement and measurement reporting configuration for mobility and scheduling
• Scheduling and transmission of PWS (which includes ETWS and CMAS) messages (originated from the MME).

Huawei Completes LTE to GSM ANR Interoperability Test

Huawei has announced the completion of a multi-mode, LTE to GSM ANR (Automatic Neighbor Relations) IOT (Interoperability Test). Based on 3GPP R9 standards, Huawei’s completed LTE-to-GSM ANR IOT: reduces manual configuration for neighbor relations by 90%, improve handover success rate, and reduces network management and optimization costs for operators.

Multi-mode ANR, which supports the automatic management and optimization of neighbor relations for networks featuring multiple modes and layers, is a key feature of Huawei’s SingleSON solution, says the company. In 2011, Huawei completed an earlier version of the LTE-to-UMTS multi-mode ANR IOT with Qualcomm. This more recent iteration enables LTE systems to automatically manage neighbor relations for GSM NCLs (Neighbor Cell List) and NRTs (Neighbor Relation Table), enhancing user mobility experience when moving from an LTE network to a GSM network.

P-GW Function

The PDN Gateway (P-GW) hosts the following functions (see 3GPP TS 23.401 [17])

• Per-user based packet filtering (by e.g. deep packet inspection)
• Lawful Interception
• UE IP address allocation
• Transport level packet marking in the downlink
• UL and DL service level charging, gating and rate enforcement
• DL rate enforcement based on APN-AMBR

What is Dormant Handoff?

A handoff that occurs when an MS with a dormant packet session determines that it has crossed a packet zone boundary. Dormant handoff results in A10 connection(s) being established between the target PCF and the target PDSN. A dormant handoff may require exchange of higher layer protocol messages between the MS and the PDSN, and thus, reactivation of the packet data session. Note that no air interface channels are handed off or re-configured as the result of a dormant handoff.

What are Femtocells?

In telecommunications, a femtocell is a small, low-power cellular base station, typically designed for use in a home or small business. It connects to the service provider’s network via broadband (such as DSL or cable); current designs typically support two to four active mobile phones in a residential setting, and eight to 16 active mobile phones in enterprise settings. A femtocell allows service providers to extend service coverage indoors or at the 

cell edge, especially where access would otherwise be limited or unavailable. Although much attention is focused on WCDMA, the concept is applicable to all standards, including GSM, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and LTE solutions.

Femtocells have an output power less than 0.1 Watt, similar to other wireless home network equipment, and will typically allow up to about 4 simultaneous calls/data sessions at any time. Mobile phones connected to a femtocell will typically operate at levels similar to other wireless phones used in the home.

Femto cells or femtocells are small cellular telecommunications base stations that can be installed in residential or business environments either as single stand-alone items or in clusters to provide improved cellular coverage within a building. It is widely known that cellular coverage, especially for data transmission where good signal strengths are needed is not as good within buildings. By using a small internal base station - femtocell (femto

cell), the cellular performance can be improved along with the possible provision of additional services.

In 3GPP terminology, a Home NodeB (HNB) is a 3G femtocell. A Home eNodeB (HeNB) is an LTE femtocell.

Typically the range of a microcell is less than two kilometers wide, a picocell is 200 meters or less, and a femtocell is on the order of 10 meters, although AT&T calls its product, with a range of 40 feet (12 m), a "microcell".

What is EVM?

EVM stands for Error Vector Magnitude. According to 3GPP TS 36.101 (eNB Rx) and 36.104 (UE Rx) section 6.5.2, the EVM measures the difference between the reference waveform and the measured waveform. The EVM is calculated after the FFT (UE Rx) or IDFT (eNB Rx) as the square root of the ratio of the mean vector power to the mean reference power given in %. The EVM formula is given in TS 36.101, annex F2 (eNB Rx) and TS 36.104, annex E2 (UE Rx).

The Future of Mobile

A Good Infographics on The Future of Mobile.

How a UE knows which PDCCH part to listen in LTE?

UE knows which PDCCH part to listen from the RRC configuration (for dedicated resources). For the initial connection and broadcasted info the UE uses predefined PDCCH configuration and the one obtained from System Information.

Who is the Best in 4G LTE Verizon or AT&T

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Spectrum Infographics

Everything which you need to know about Spectrum.
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Spectrum Infographics

What is AAL2?

ATM adaptation layer 2

• Concept introduced by Ericsson on ISS-95 (1995)
• Bandwidth efficient transmission of low rate, short and variable length packets in delay sensitive applications
• Several (up to 248) AAL2 user information streams are multiplexed on the same ATM connection.
• Standardized in ITU-T I.366, I.363, Q.2630
• Ericsson owns the  “AAL2 patent”
• Inventor: Lars-Göran Petersen
• Cello supports:
• node internal AAL2 connections
• network wide AAL2 connections
• Cello may also act as a pure AAL2 switch
• CPS is implemented on ET as AAL2 multiplexor/demultiplexor
• SSSAR is implemented on SPM (or application device)
• AAL2U is the interface between CPS and SSSAR

Wireless Tipping Point Infographics

Wireless Tipping Point Infographics.
Good infographics on Wireless Data Traffic and much more.

Yahoo appoints former Google executive as CEO

Yahoo has appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer, as President and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors effective July 17, 2012.

Mayer was responsible for Local, Maps, and Location Services for Google, the company's suite of local and geographical products including Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View, and local search, for desktop and mobile.

The appointment of Mayer, a leading consumer internet executive, signals a renewed focus on product innovation to drive user experience and advertising revenue for one of the world's largest consumer internet brands, whose leading properties include Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Mobile, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Search.

LTE Map-338 Investments from Across the world

LTE Deployment Map-338 Investments from Across the world

LTE Deployment Map

GSA Confirms LTE Investments by Telecoms Operators in More Than 100 Countries

The GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) has published an update to its Evolution to LTE report which confirms 338 telecoms operators in 101 countries have committed to commercial LTE network deployments or are engaged in trials, technology testing or studies.

The report covers LTE FDD and LTE TDD technologies.

LTE commercial network launches per year:

• 2009 = 2 networks launched
• 2010 = 15 networks launched (year-end cumulative total = 17)
• 2011 = 30 networks launched (year-end cumulative total = 47)
• 2012 to July 11th = 42 networks launched (total to date = 89)

GSA end 2012 outlook raised again, to 150 networks in 64 countries

4G Explained: What Is LTE?

We’ve all seen the ads from the major carriers touting “the largest 4G network in the country,” but what does that even mean? And what’s the difference between AT&T’s two 4G networks, one that’s LTE and one that’s not? And what is LTE?

The most notable change you’ll experience when moving from a 3G to a LTE device is a dramatic speed upgrade. LTE networks are on average 10 times faster than their 3G counterparts. Sites load faster, Netflix doesn’t pause every five seconds, and apps download at greater speed.

Also Check the Road Map for LTE and HSPA+

Services Provided by Physical (L1) Layer

The physical layer offers data transport services to higher layers. The access to these services is through the use of transport channels via the MAC sub-layer. A transport block is defined as the data delivered by MAC layer to the physical layer and vice versa. Transport blocks are delivered once every TTI (Transmission Time Interval).

The physical layer is expected to perform the following functions in order to provide the data transport service:

- Error detection on the transport channel and indication to higher layers

- FEC encoding/decoding of the transport channel

- Hybrid ARQ soft-combining

- Rate matching of the coded transport channel to physical channels

- Mapping of the coded transport channel onto physical channels

- Power weighting of physical channels

- Modulation and demodulation of physical channels

- Frequency and time synchronisation

- Radio characteristics measurements and indication to higher layers

- Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna processing

- Transmit Diversity (TX diversity)

- Beamforming

- RF processing. (Note: RF processing aspects are specified in the TS 36.100)

Is LTE Performance Good? See the Facts

Firstly, substantial increases in peak LTE speeds do not equate to similar increases in network capacity. LTE maximises the data rate available to end users that experience excellent radio conditions (for example close to a base station). However, mobile users that experience poor signal conditions will continue to achieve relatively poor data rates. Hence, it is only a lucky few within a base station coverage area that will experience data rates approaching the peak rates possible. It is true that these users will increase the average throughput delivered by the base station, but by nowhere near the magnitude suggested by the peak data rates.

LTE Performance

Secondly, the highest LTE speeds are only achieved through the use of  large spectrum allocations – ideally 2x20MHz – which is four times the 2x5MHz spectrum used by W-CDMA and HSPA.

Taken from UnwiredInsight

Is LTE require in Telecom?

If you have question in your mind on LTE requirement in Telecom than this is the right read for you.

Higher data rates: Obviously this is a general requirement requested from any new system.

Quality of service, Lower delay: To enable true convergence between real-time and non-real-time services quality of service awareness is of absolute importance. This must already be paid attention to during the design of the physical layer. So LTE/EPC will be QoS aware from the very beginning on and not have QoS as an add-on, which is usually not very efficient.

Expected New Spectrum allocation: It is expected to get some new frequency bands assigned to 3G. LTE should be ready to use these bands.

Flexible Bandwidth usage: LTE should be able to deal with frequency bands of different size. So a fixed bandwidth ultra-wideband system is not of big use. Rather LTE should be able to scale the frequency requirements dependent on the operator’s choice.

Reduced Terminal Complexity: 3G terminals are very complex and thus suffer often from poor performance due to hardware limitations and very often also software limitations (or bugs). LTE terminals should have essentially lower complexity. This would also offer the possibility to implement other performance enhancement techniques later on.

These points result in a long list of requirements for LTE/EPC. So 3GPP/ETSI
demand to have downlink bit rates of greater than 100 Mbps and uplink bit rates of 50 Mbps. Of high importance is also to increase the cell edge bit rates compared to HSPA.

SK Telecom implementing Multi Carrier technology to improve LTE service, roaming

South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom has officially begun the commercial rollout of its Multi Carrier (MC) network. The technology, which will be available in twenty-three cities by the close of 2012, will allow equipped devices to seamlessly wander between the 800MHz and 1.8GHz LTE frequencies (while also adding 20MHz of uplink/downlink spectrum). Aside from improving throughput and coverage within the country, SK hopes the addition of the 1.8GHz frequency to its handsets' repertoire will provide customers with a better LTE roaming experience when abroad -- a handful of Asian and European nations have settled on 1.8GHz as their Long Term Evolution band of choice. New devices, with compatible radios, will be necessary to leverage the Multi Carrier goodness, although the carrier did note that Samsung's ever-popular Galaxy S III would support the hotness. We would like to raise our glass to SK Telecom and offer a toast to the bright future of multi-band high-speed wireless networks.

Evolved Packet Core

A white Paper from Alcatel Lucent on Introduction to Evolved Packet Core.

This white paper provides a brief introduction to Evolved Packet Core — a new mobile core for LTE. Herein, key concepts and functional elements-EPC gateways (Serving Gateway and Public Data Network Gateway), Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF)-are outlined, as well as key changes in LTE requirements imposed on the Evolved Packet Core, and the deployment challenges.

Table of contents

1 1. Executive summary

2 2. Evolved Packet Core overview

2 2.1 EPC: Radical changes in the network

2 2.2 EPC: Radical changes in the network

3 3. EPC components description

4 3.1 Serving Gateway

4 3.2 Packet Data Network Gateway

5 3.3 Mobility Management Entity

6 3.4 Policy and Charging Rules Function

6 4. EPC challenges

8 5. Abbreviations

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LTE Drive Test Demo Video

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LTE Drive Test from resedential area covered by some LTE sites.


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The magic of 4G LTE. Capturing moments reinvented

A very Good Video from Alcatel Lucent.
Gives info on LTE Application for normal human being.
Transform the way you send and receive live HD video and images with LTE devices


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LTE Infographics

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. Its full name is 3GPP Long Term Evolution for the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, or 3GPP UMTS LTE for short.

LTE is the next generation of wireless technology. LTE is not just the next generation of wireless technology. LTE is an ongoing, living standard. LTE is a standard that will continuously improve over time.

LTE is a very good, easily deployable network technology, offering high speeds and low latencies over long distances.

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Air Interface Characteristics

Air Interface Characteristics

Air Interface Characteristics

• OFDMA (DL) and SC-FDMA ( UL)
• TDD/FDD/H-FDD
• Several Frequency Bands (Ex: 700 to 2500 MHz)
• Two Radio Frame Structures (Type 1 for FDD,Type 2 TDD)
• Numerous Multiple Antenna Techniques
• Scalable Bandwidth (1 4 3 5 10 15 & 20MHz)

DNA and Ericsson boost customer experience in Finland

Finnish operator DNA has chosen Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) to provide a Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution based on User Data Consolidation (UDC) for real-time data consolidation and exposure. This solution will enable DNA to resolve customer-care issues in a faster and more efficient way than was previously possible. As a result, the end-user experience will be greatly improved.

The DNA Customer Care center serves more than 3 million users - a high proportion of who are mobile broadband users who demand high standards of service quality and user experience. With the new solution, DNA benefits from reduced time per call and escalations to second-line support, which significantly enhances customer satisfaction and loyalty and reduces churn and opex.

"Delivering high-quality customer care is at the heart of our business," says Tommy Olenius, Vice President, Technology, DNA. "The implementation of this solution gives us the optimal tools to monitor the customer experience and to proactively make adjustments as issues arise."

Source: Ericsson News Room

How a UE knows which PDCCH part to listen in LTE?

UE knows which PDCCH part to listen from the RRC configuration (for dedicated resources). For the initial connection and broadcasted info the UE uses predefined PDCCH configuration and the one obtained from System Information.

Value of RSRP, RSRQ, RSSI and SINR to get Good Data Rate

RSRP, RSRQ ,RSSI are the measurements that the UE takes for cell reselection or handover puroposes. It is not used for the purposes of the transmission settings, but to take the decision (by the UE – in case of cell reselection; or eNB – in case of handover) to move the UE to other cell. In the case of handover, the UE sends the measurement results according to the eNB commands (e.g. periodically or triggered by event). The power of the eNB is constant and does not depend on the RSRP / RSRQ / RSSI measurements.

The measurements and feedback that relate to the transmission settings are known as CQI (channel quality indicator). Depending on that value (CQI index), the eNB takes the decision to assign a particular MCS (modulation and coding scheme) for a particular UE. The higher the CQI (ranging from 0 up to 15) the higher the modulation and coding scheme and the higher the throughput. However it is up to the implemented receiver algorithms in the UE, at which SNIR the good throughput can be achieved (the algorithms are vendor dependent so the “good SNIR” may vary for various UEs).