3G evolution : HSPA and LTE for mobile broadbandUpplaga 2

• With over 130 new pages and three chapters, it has the most thorough up-to-date coverage of the latest technologies and standards of long-term evolution (LTE), the latest development the world’s most used cellular communications standard - UMTS. • Written by authors from Ericsson, one of the world’s leading communications engineering suppliers, who have played a central role within 3GPP to develop LTE and HSPA standards. LTE is the next major step in the development of the world’s biggest cellular communications standard – UMTS. It is projected that UMTS will grow from 2.5 billion users to 4 billion by 2011. In the US it has been adopted by the two biggest cellular communications suppliers in the US - AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless. LTE consists of new standards and technologies to achieve mobile broadband. It will give users the ability to access the Internet using mobile broadband on their cell/mobile phone or device wherever they are. The final detailed specifications of the standard have just been finalised. This book is a "must-have" buy for all communications engineers and professionals who need to gain a quick and insightful understanding of the LTE standard and technologies in order to implement their future LTE-based products.