Acknowledgments
We would like to take the chance to acknowledge the efforts of all who participated directly or indirectly in creating and publishing this book.
First of all, a special “thank you” goes to Ralf Kreher's sister Brit who created and formatted all the figures you will find in this book. Another one goes to our family members and all who supported and encouraged us to get this work done.
Eiko Seidel and his team at Nomor Research have not just created some excellent primers about LTE radio interface procedures and set up the 3GPP LTE Standards Group at www.linkedin.com, but also given us deep insight into their scheduling simulator, a tool used to design scheduling algorithms for eNodeB vendors.
Antonio Bovo working as System Architect for Tektronix Padova contributed some very detailed research on E-UTRAN protocols and functions. From his work we have derived the major part of the S1AP section of this book.
Karsten Gienskey and Marcus Garin working for Tektronix Berlin shared with us their earliest prototypes and design specifications for RLC reassembly and radio interface tracing. Without their great job we would have been “blind” on the radio interface.
Ulrich Jeczawitz, freelancer and ex-colleague of Tektronix Berlin, and the development team of the Tektronix G35 protocol simulator led by Dirk-Holger Lenz, generated traces of E-UTRAN and Enhanced Packet Core signaling procedures long before they occurred in any live network field trial.
Lars Chudzinsky, working ...
