Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index
  • Background of LTE
  • - High data rates in mobile communication
  • - OFDM transmission
  • - Wider-band 'single-carrier' transmission
  • - Multi-antenna techniques
  • - Scheduling, link adaptation and hybrid ARQ
  • - LTE radio access
  • - an overview
  • - Radio interface architecture
  • - Physical transmission resources
  • - Downlink physical-layer processing
  • - Uplink physical-layer processing
  • - Retransmission protocols
  • - Power control, scheduling and interference handling
  • - Access procedures
  • - Multimedia broadcast/multicast services
  • - Relaying
  • - Spectrum and RF characteristics
  • - Performance
  • - Other wireless communications systems
  • - Summary and concluding remarks