3GPP release 8 first time introduce LTE Technology. All following releases enhanced the technology to next level. 3GPP release 8 provides following feature set for LTE and specifications for this release was frozen in Dec 2008. High peak data rates : Up to 300 Mbps in Downlink and 75 Mbps in Uplink when using 4×4 MIMO … Read more
The initial enhancements were included to LTE in 3GPP release 9 as frozen in Dec 2009. These enhancements were the improvements which were left behind from release 8 or perhaps some of them provided some minor improvements in the release 8 features. These enhancements/improvements are listed below Femto Cell as LTE Home eNodeB MIMO Beam-forming … Read more
3GPP release 10 driving force to further develop LTE technology towards LTE–Advanced. LTE Release 10 was to provide higher bit rates in a cost efficient way and, at the same time, completely fulfil the requirements set by ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as 4G. Its specifications freeze in 2011. Increased peak data rate, DL … Read more
3GPP standards development falls into three principal areas: radio interfaces, core networks and services. 3GPP Release 11 standards were frozen in December 2012 with the core network, protocols in December 2012 and radio access network (RAN) protocols in March 2013.For LTE, Rel-11 provides enhancements to the LTE-Advanced technologies introduced in 3GPP Release 10. Release 11 … Read more
3 GPP Release 12 was largely completed on-time in March 2015, with a few exceptional features allowed an extension to later in the year. Release 12 builds on the innovations in Release 10 and Release 11 to further increase performance, efficiency and capabilities. All three releases are known as LTE-Advanced. Figure show evolution of LTE Advance. … Read more
3GPP Release 13 first release was frozen in March 2016. It was brought to reality with a quite extensive set of new functionalities as compared to LTE-Advanced. They are summarized below. LTE in unlicensed spectrum Carrier Aggregation enhancements LTE enhancements for Machine-Type Communications (MTC) Enhancements for D2D Elevation Beamforming / Full-Dimension MIMO Indoor positioning Single-cell Point-to-Multipoint … Read more
The 3GPP RAN group has started working on the evolution of LTE in 3GPP Release 14, targeting completion by June 2017. This release targeting improvement and new features for LTE-Advanced Pro. As short List of the new feature is given below Improvement to LTE efficiency – Downlink Multi user Superposition Transmission – Enhancements on FD-MIMO – … Read more
In parallel to LTE evolution, Release 13 and Release 14 work already started. 3GPP Release-14 was focused mainly on 5G study items and the first phase of 5G system specification just started within 3GPP Release 15 targeted to be completed by September 2018. 3GPP Release 15 is capturing LTE enhancements features and 5G aspects and listed … Read more
What is the smallest time measurement unit Ts in LTE? Show the calculation. How many Ts are there in 1 subframe? In normal cyclic prefix, what is the length of the 0th and 1st symbol CP in Terms of Ts? How is the length of total time if all 7 CPs are added together in … Read more
What is the DRX and DRX active period? What channels does it monitor inactive period? What is MAC-ContentionResolutionTimer – What is the start and end activity? What is the HARQ RTT Timer? What is the msg3 buffer? What is the PRACH Resource Index? What is ra-PRACH-MaskIndex? What are the Logical Channels carried through HARQ? What … Read more