Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Chapter 1. Background of LTE
  • chapter 2. High data rates in mobile communication
  • chapter 3. OFDM transmission
  • chapter 4. Wider-band "single-carrier" transmission
  • chapter 5. Multi-antenna techniques
  • chapter 6. Scheduling, link adaptation, and hybrid ARQ
  • chapter 7. LTE radio access : an overview
  • chapter 8. Radio-interface architecture
  • chapter 9. Physical transmission resources
  • chapter 10. Downlink physical-layer processing
  • chapter 11. Uplink physical-layer processing
  • chapter 12. Retransmission protocols
  • chapter 13. Scheduling and rate adaptation
  • chapter 14. Access procedures
  • chapter 15. Multi-point coordination and transmission
  • chapter 16. Heterogeneous deployments
  • chapter 17. Multimedia broadcast/multicast services
  • chapter 18. Relaying
  • chapter 19. Spectrum and RF characteristics
  • chapter 20. Performance
  • chapter 21. Future radio access
  • final thoughts