LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX: Towards IMT-Advanced Networks

Index

1G, see Evolution

2G, see Evolution

3G, 5–6

3G market penetration, 1

Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM), 23

addressing and identification,

added identifiers for IEEE 802.16m, 73

in IEEE 802.16–2009, 71–3

in LTE and LTE-Advanced, 151–3

Advanced WirelessMAN, 48

air interface,

IEEE 802.16–2009, 43

IEEE 802.16m, 48

LTE, 134

LTE-Advanced, 135

ARQ/HARQ,

in IEEE 802.16–2009, 98

in IEEE 802.16j-2009, 103

in IEEE 802.16m, 105

in LTE, 182

in LTE-Advanced, 187

bandwidth requests and grants,

in IEEE 802.16, 86, 102

in LTE and LTE-Advanced, 175

capacity,

network capacity, 260

VoIP capacity requirement, 12

carrier aggregation,

concept, 25

in IEEE 802.16m, 48

in LTE-Advanced, 184

cell selection in LTE and LTE-Advanced,

acquiring system information, 164

cell selection and reselection, 163

PLMN selection, 162

channel state information, 23

classification (of services/flows or bearers),

in LTE and LTE-Advanced, 175

in WiMax, 89–93

coexistence, 227–47

approaches to inter-technology access, 230

examples, 231–4

intersystem interference, 227–8

cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum, 261

comparison,

architecture, 223

coexistence, 227–47

MIMO Implementation, 217

OFDMA Implementation, 216

QoS support, 237–47

relay adoption, 222

comparison

spectral efficiency, 216

spectrum flexibility, 219

Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission/reception

concept, 33–5

in LTE-Advanced, 184

dynamic channel assignment, 24

enabling technologies, 20–37

evolution, 3–5, 213–6

entities, 129

Evolved Packet Core (EPC), 129 ...