LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. The LTE project was initiated in November 2004 and the focus was on enhancing the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and optimizing the 3GPP’s radio access architecture.
The most important objective of LTE is to achieve the following:
- Higher Bitrates (100 Mbps DL an 50 Mbps UL)
- Reduced delays in terms of connection establishment and transmission latency.
- Increase cell edge bit rate.
- Network optimization for packet data
- Simplified NW structure
- Lower cost per bit
- Frequency flexibility
- Seamless mobility between different radio access technologies
- Reasonable power consumption for UEs
Detailed Requirements
Peak data rate
- Instantaneous downlink peak data rate of 100 Mb/s within a 20 MHz downlink spectrum allocation (5 bps/Hz)
- Instantaneous uplink peak data rate of 50 Mb/s (2.5 bps/Hz) within a 20MHz uplink spectrum allocation)
Control-plane latency
- Transition time of less than 100 ms from a camped state, such as Release 6 Idle Mode, to an active state such as Release 6 CELL_DCH
- Transition time of less than 50 ms between a dormant state such as Release 6 CELL_PCH and an active state such as Release 6 CELL_DCH
Control-plane capacity
- At least 200 users per cell should be supported in the active state for spectrum allocations up to 5 MHz
User-plane latency
- Less than 5 ms in unload condition (ie single user with single data stream) for small IP packet
User throughput
- Downlink: average user throughput per MHz, 3 to 4 times Release 6 HSDPA
- Uplink: average user throughput per MHz, 2 to 3 times Release 6 Enhanced Uplink
Spectrum efficiency
- Downlink: In a loaded network, target for spectrum efficiency (bits/sec/Hz/site), 3 to 4 times Release 6 HSDPA )
- Uplink: In a loaded network, target for spectrum efficiency (bits/sec/Hz/site), 2 to 3 times Release 6 Enhanced Uplink
Mobility
- E-UTRAN should be optimized for low mobile speed from 0 to 15 km/h Higher mobile speed between 15 and 120 km/h should be supported with high performance
- Mobility across the cellular network shall be maintained at speeds from 120 km/h to 350 km/h (or even up to 500 km/h depending on the frequency band)
Coverage
- Throughput, spectrum efficiency and mobility targets above should be met for 5 km cells, and with a slight degradation for 30 km cells. Cells range up to 100 km should not be precluded.
Further Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS)
- While reducing terminal complexity: same modulation, coding, multiple access approaches and UE bandwidth than for unicast operation.
- Provision of simultaneous dedicated voice and MBMS services to the user.
- Available for paired and unpaired spectrum arrangements.
Spectrum flexibility
- E-UTRA shall operate in spectrum allocations of different sizes, including 1.25 MHz, 1.6 MHz, 2.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz in both the uplink and downlink. Operation in paired and unpaired spectrum shall be supported
- The system shall be able to support content delivery over an aggregation of resources including Radio Band Resources (as well as power, adaptive scheduling, etc) in the same and different bands, in both uplink and downlink and in both adjacent and non-adjacent channel arrangements. A “Radio Band Resource” is defined as all spectrum available to an operator
Co-existence and Inter-working with 3GPP Radio Access Technology (RAT)
- Co-existence in the same geographical area and co-location with GERAN/UTRAN on adjacent channels.
- E-UTRAN terminals supporting also UTRAN and/or GERAN operation should be able to support measurement of, and handover from and to, both 3GPP UTRAN and 3GPP GERAN.
- The interruption time during a handover of real-time services between E-UTRAN and UTRAN (or GERAN) should be less than 300 msec.
Architecture and migration
- Single E-UTRAN architecture
- The E-UTRAN architecture shall be packet based, although provision should be made to support systems supporting real-time and conversational class traffic
- E-UTRAN architecture shall minimize the presence of “single points of failure”
- E-UTRAN architecture shall support an end-to-end QoS
- Backhaul communication protocols should be optimised
Radio Resource Management requirements
- Enhanced support for end to end QoS
- Efficient support for transmission of higher layers
- Support of load sharing and policy management across different Radio Access Technologies
Complexity
- Minimize the number of options
- No redundant mandatory features
Standardization
In 2007, E-EUTRA progressed from feasibility study stage to first approved Technical specification. Theres also LTE Specifications below :
| TS 36.101 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception | . |
| TS 36.104 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception | . |
| TS 36.106 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); FDD repeater radio transmission and reception | . |
| TS 36.111 | Location Measurement Unit (LMU) performance specification | . |
| TS 36.113 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) and repeater ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) | . |
| TS 36.116 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Relay radio transmission and reception | . |
| TS 36.117 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Relay conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.124 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements for mobile terminals and ancillary equipment | . |
| TS 36.133 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for support of radio resource management | . |
| TS 36.141 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.143 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); FDD repeater conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.171 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for Support of Assisted Global Navigation Satellite System (A-GNSS) | . |
| TS 36.201 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE physical layer; General description | . |
| TS 36.211 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation | . |
| TS 36.212 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and channel coding | . |
| TS 36.213 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures | . |
| TS 36.214 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer; Measurements | . |
| TS 36.216 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer for relaying operation | . |
| TS 36.300 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2 | . |
| TS 36.302 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Services provided by the physical layer | . |
| TS 36.304 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) procedures in idle mode | . |
| TS 36.305 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Stage 2 functional specification of User Equipment (UE) positioning in E-UTRAN | . |
| TS 36.306 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio access capabilities | . |
| TS 36.307 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements on User Equipments (UEs) supporting a release-independent frequency band | . |
| TS 36.314 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Layer 2 - Measurements | . |
| TS 36.321 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification | . |
| TS 36.322 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification | . |
| TS 36.323 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification | . |
| TS 36.331 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification | . |
| TS 36.355 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP) | . |
| TS 36.401 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Architecture description | . |
| TS 36.410 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); S1 general aspects and principles | . |
| TS 36.411 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); S1 layer 1 | . |
| TS 36.412 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); S1 signalling transport | . |
| TS 36.413 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); S1 Application Protocol (S1AP) | . |
| TS 36.414 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); S1 data transport | . |
| TS 36.416 | Mobile Relay for E-UTRA | . |
| TS 36.420 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 general aspects and principles | . |
| TS 36.421 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 layer 1 | . |
| TS 36.422 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 signalling transport | . |
| TS 36.423 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 Application Protocol (X2AP) | . |
| TS 36.424 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 data transport | . |
| TS 36.440 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); General aspects and principles for interfaces supporting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) within E-UTRAN | . |
| TS 36.441 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Layer 1 for interfaces supporting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) within E-UTRAN | . |
| TS 36.442 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Signalling Transport for interfaces supporting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) within E-UTRAN | . |
| TS 36.443 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M2 Application Protocol (M2AP) | . |
| TS 36.444 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M3 Application Protocol (M3AP) | . |
| TS 36.445 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M1 data transport | . |
| TS 36.446 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M1 User Plane protocol | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TS 36.455 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE Positioning Protocol A (LPPa) | . |
| TS 36.508 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); Common test environments for User Equipment (UE) conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.509 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); Special conformance testing functions for User Equipment (UE) | . |
| TS 36.521-1 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Radio transmission and reception; Part 1: Conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.521-2 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Radio transmission and reception; Part 2: Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) | . |
| TS 36.521-3 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Radio transmission and reception; Part 3: Radio Resource Management (RRM) conformance testing | . |
| TS 36.523-1 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 1: Protocol conformance specification | . |
| TS 36.523-2 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 2: Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) proforma specification | . |
| TS 36.523-3 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 3: Test suites | . |
| TS 36.571-1 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; UE positioning in E-UTRA; Part 1: Minimum Performance conformance | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TS 36.571-2 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; UE positioning in E-UTRA; Part 2: Protocol conformance | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TS 36.571-3 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; UE positioning in E-UTRA; Part 3: ICS | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TS 36.571-4 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; UE positioning in E-UTRA; Part 4: Test suites | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TS 36.571-5 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; UE positioning in E-UTRA; Part 5: UE positioning test scenarios and assistance data | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TR 36.800 | Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Extended UMTS / LTE 800 Work Item Technical Report | . |
| TR 36.801 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Measurement Requirements | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TR 36.803 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TR 36.804 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
| TR 36.805 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Study on minimization of drive-tests in next generation networks | . |
| TR 36.806 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Relay architectures for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced) | . |
| TR 36.807 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception | . |
| TR 36.808 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Carrier Aggregation; Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception | . |
| TR 36.809 | RF Pattern Matching location method in the LTE | . |
| TR 36.810 | Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); UMTS / LTE in 800 MHz for Europe | . |
| TR 36.811 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Adding 2 GHz band LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) (Band 23) for Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) in North America | . |
| TR 36.812 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE TDD 2600MHz in US work item Technical Report | . |
| TR 36.813 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); LTE L-Band Technical Report | . |
| TR 36.814 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Further advancements for E-UTRA physical layer aspects | . |
| TR 36.815 | Further Advancements for E-UTRA; LTE-Advanced feasibility studies in RAN WG4 | . |
| TR 36.816 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Study on signalling and procedure for interference avoidance for in-device coexistence | . |
| TR 36.817 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Uplink multiple antenna transmission; Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception | . |
| TR 36.818 | Expanding 1900MHz | . |
| TR 36.819 | Coordinated multi-point operation for LTE physical layer aspects | . |
| TR 36.820 | APAC 700 MHz Work Item Technical report | . |
| TR 36.821 | Extended UMTS/LTE 1500 work item technical report | . |
| TR 36.822 | LTE RAN Enhancements for Diverse Data Applications | . |
| TR 36.826 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Relay radio transmission and reception | . |
| TR 36.839 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Mobility enhancements in heterogeneous networks | . |
| TR 36.871 | MIMO enhancement for LTE-Advanced | . |
| TR 36.888 | Study on provision of low-cost Machine-Type Communications (MTC) User Equipments (Ues) based on LTE | . |
| TR 36.902 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Self-configuring and self-optimizing network (SON) use cases and solutions | . |
| TR 36.903 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Derivation of test tolerances for Radio Resource Management (RRM) conformance tests | . |
| TR 36.912 | Feasibility study for Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced) | . |
| TR 36.913 | Requirements for further advancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) (LTE-Advanced) | . |
| TR 36.921 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); FDD Home eNode B (HeNB) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements analysis | . |
| TR 36.922 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); TDD Home eNode B (HeNB) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements analysis | . |
| TR 36.927 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Potential solutions for energy saving for E-UTRAN | . |
| TR 36.931 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Frequency (RF) requirements for LTE Pico Node B | . |
| TR 36.938 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Improved network controlled mobility between E-UTRAN and 3GPP2/mobile WiMAX radio technologies | . |
| TR 36.942 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Frequency (RF) system scenarios | . |
| TR 36.956 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Repeater planning guidelines and system analysis | SPECIFICATION WITHDRAWN |
Heres also links for LTE / 3PPP Specification Numbering, LTE / 3GPP Specification Release in Matrix Version and LTE / 3PPP Specification Status Report.
LTE System Architecture
eNodeB
EPS (Evolved Packet System) eNodeB covers the following functionalities:
- Functions for Radio Resource Management
- Radio Bearer Control
- Radio Admission Control
- Connection Mobility Control
- Dynamic allocation of resources to UEs, both in the uplink and in downlink.
- IP header compression and encryption of user data.
- Selection of MME at UE attachment
- Routing of user plane data towords Serving Gateway
- Scheduling and transmission of paging messages
- Scheduling and transmission of broadcast message
- Measurements for mobility and scheduling
MME (Mobility Management Entity)
- NAS signalling
- NAS signalling security
- Inter CN node signalling for mobility between 3GPP access networks (terminating S3)
- UE Reachability in ECM-IDLE state (including control and execution of paging retransmission)
- Tracking Area list management
- PDN GW and Serving GW selection
- MME selection for handovers with MME change
- SGSN selection for handovers to 2G or 3G 3GPP access networks
- Roaming (S6a towards home HSS)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Bearer management functions including dedicated bearer establishment
- Lawful Interception of signalling traffic
- Warning message transfer function (including selection of appropriate eNB)
- UE Reachability procedures.
S-GW (Serving Gateway)
The Serving GW is the gateway which terminates the interface towards E-UTRAN.
For each UE associated with the EPS, at a given point of time, there is a single Serving GW.
The Serving Gateway covers the following functionalities:
- the local Mobility Anchor point for inter-eNodeB handover;
- sending of one or more “end marker” to the source eNodeB, source SGSN or source RNC immediately after switching the path during inter-eNodeB and inter-RAT handover, especially to assist the reordering function in eNodeB.
- Mobility anchoring for inter-3GPP mobility (terminating S4 and relaying the traffic between 2G/3G system and PDN GW);
- ECM-IDLE mode downlink packet buffering and initiation of network triggered service request procedure;
- Lawful Interception;
- Packet routing and forwarding;
- Transport level packet marking in the uplink and the downlink, e.g. setting the DiffServ Code Point, based on the QCI of the associated EPS bearer;
- Accounting for inter-operator charging. For GTP-based S5/S8, the Serving GW generates accounting data per UE and bearer;
NOTE: Connectivity to a GGSN is not supported.
PDN GW (PDN Gateway)
The PDN GW is the gateway which terminates the SGi interface towards the PDN.
If a UE is accessing multiple PDNs, there may be more than one PDN GW for that UE, however a mix of S5/S8 connectivity and Gn/Gp connectivity is not supported for that UE simultaneously.
PDN GW functions include for both the GTP-based and the PMIP-based S5/S8:
- Per-user based packet filtering (by e.g. deep packet inspection);
- Lawful Interception;
- UE IP address allocation;
- Transport level packet marking in the uplink and downlink, e.g. setting the DiffServ Code Point, based on the QCI of the associated EPS bearer;
- Accounting for inter-operator charging;
- UL and DL service level charging (e.g. based on SDFs defined by the PCRF, or based on deep packet inspection defined by local policy);
- Interfacing OFCS through according to charging principles and through reference points
- UL and DL service level gating control
- UL and DL service level rate enforcement (e.g. by rate policing/shaping per SDF);
- UL and DL rate enforcement based on APN-AMBR (e.g. by rate policing/shaping per aggregate of traffic of all SDFs of the same APN that are associated with Non-GBR QCIs);
- DL rate enforcement based on the accumulated MBRs of the aggregate of SDFs with the same GBR QCI (e.g. by rate policing/shaping);
- DHCPv4 (server and client) and DHCPv6 (client and server) functions;
- The network does not support PPP bearer type in this version of the specification. Pre-Release 8 PPP functionality of a GGSN may be implemented in the PDN GW;
- packet screening.
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