- Introduction
- What is LTE?
- Where it sits in the mobile communications environment
- The drivers for LTE
- The drivers for LTE Advanced
- How does it compare with UMTS, HSPA, and WiMAX?
- What does it add to UMTS, HSPA, and WiMAX?
- What is SAE?
- What LTE Is Designed to Achieve
- Performance aims
- Capability goals
- Architectural considerations
- Migration considerations
- Complexity
- Deployment requirements
- LTE Access Network Technologies
- Component entities and functionality
- Interfaces
- Radio procedures and signaling
- LTE radio interface overview
- Backhaul options
- LTE Core Network Technologies (SAE)
- Component entities and functionality
- Interfaces
- All IP platform
- IMS solution
- LTE Voice over LTE
- VoLTE solution
- CSFB solution
- IMS implementation (MMtel)
- LTE Core Network
- Core network architecture design principles
- Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
- LTE specific core entities and functionality
- Mobility management entity
- Serving gateway
- Packet data network gateway
- Interfaces
- Bearers and signaling
- Procedures
- Interworking requirements of LTE to legacy networks
- Service delivery and IMS
- LTE Rollout and Future Developments
- Standards bodies
- Vendors and operators
- LTE deployment: Where are we now?
- What applications and services will LTE enable?
- LTE Advanced: What it is, what it promises
- Wrap-up
- Course recap and Q/A
- Evaluations