Ali-Yahiya T. Understanding LTE and its Performance

Springer Science & Business Media, 2011. — 250 p.Mobile communications were largely introduced by GSM at the beginning of the 1990s. A telecommunication revolution was born with the success story of this new mobile technology. Today, one cannot imagine his life without a mobile phone. The number of users of GSM in the world now approaches to be five billions.
Since this huge success and the convergence with the IP world, new standards were created to combine the packet-switched technologies to GSM in order to access the Internet from any mobile device. From GPRS to 3G and 3G+, we have seen the evolution of the mobile telecommunication with the ambition to offer the possibility to surf through the Internet from anywhere and at any time. Again, 3G+ is a huge success and people change their life by using new devices such as smart phones to be connected permanently. Regarding this success, new applications are introduced to offer new services.