Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Introduction of HSS in the LTE
Labels:
FOKUS FUSECO Forum,
HSS,
LTE,
Network Architecture
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
LTE Base station equipment
Labels:
Base Station,
LTE,
NTT DoCoMo
Monday, 23 January 2012
LTE Policy Control and Charging
Labels:
Alcatel-Lucent,
LTE,
Network Architecture,
PCRF
Sunday, 22 January 2012
What is coming next after LTE and IMT-Advanced
Interesting presentation from NSN
Other related posts:Saturday, 21 January 2012
Funny: How phone users view other phone users
Labels:
Android,
Blackberry,
iPhone,
Mobile Humour
Monday, 16 January 2012
HSPA vs LTE
Interesting report to remind the differences between HSPA and LTE available here.
Labels:
HSPA,
LTE,
White Papers and Reports
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Next Mobile Network (NMN)
Labels:
5G,
AIPN,
Future Networks,
HetNets,
NTT DoCoMo
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Couple of presentations on 4G/LTE and Femtocells
Monday, 9 January 2012
Overview of LTE Handovers
From the NTT Docomo Technical journal:
The LTE handover is broadly divided into a backward handover (PS handover) and forward handover. In the former, the network performs cell switching and notifies the mobile terminal of the destination cell, and in the latter, the mobile terminal performs autonomous switching to pick up the destination cell.
To control packet loss due to a momentary cutoff at the time of radio switching, PS handover supports a data forwarding process that transfers undelivered data from the switching-source eNodeB to the switching-destination eNodeB and a reordering process that corrects sequencing mistakes between forwarded data and new data.
The forward handover can be classified into Release with Redirection triggered by a cutoff signal from the network and Non Access Stratum (NAS) Recovery in which the mobile terminal autonomously performs a NAS recovery, either of which is accompanied by data loss due to a momentary cutoff. From a different perspective, handover can be classified in the following two ways according to whether it is accompanied by Radio Access Technology (RAT) or frequency switching or by eNodeB or EPC switching (Figure 7).
1) Intra-RAT handover: This is a handover that occurs within the LTE system in which node transition occurs between sectors within an eNodeB, between eNodeBs within an EPC switch, or between EPC switches.
A handover between eNodeBs within an EPC switch may be an X2 or S1 handover. In an X2 handover, signal processing is performed by the X2 logical interface between eNodeBs, while in an S1 handover, signal processing is performed by the S1 logical interface between an eNodeB and the EPC switch. There is a tradeoff between the cost of maintaining an X2 link and the cost incurred by an S1 handover, and operations are configured accordingly.
Handover can also be classified by whether the center frequency is the same before and after handover, that is, whether the handover occurs within the same frequency or between frequencies.
2) Inter-RAT handover: This is a handover that occurs between RATs either as a transition from LTE to 3G or from 3G to LTE.
A detailed post on LTE to 3G Inter-RAT handover is available here.
Labels:
Handovers,
LTE,
NTT DoCoMo,
Technical Details
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Testing and Optimising LTE
An interesting presentation from JDSU
Labels:
LTE,
LTE & 5G World Series,
Network Optimisation,
Testing
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