Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Chapter 1 LTE Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 LTE System Overview -- 1.3 The Evolution from UMTS to LTE -- 1.4 LTE/SAE Requirements -- 1.5 LTE/SAE Timeline -- 1.6 Introduction to the 3GPP LTE/SAE Specification Documents -- 1.7 References -- Chapter 2 Air Interface Concepts -- 2.1 Radio Frequency Aspects -- 2.2 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing -- 2.3 Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access -- 2.4 Multi-Antenna Operation and MIMO -- 2.5 References -- Chapter 3 Physical Layer -- 3.1 Introduction to the Physical Layer -- 3.2 Physical Channels and Modulation -- 3.3 Multiplexing and Channel Coding -- 3.4 Introduction to Physical Layer Signaling -- 3.5 Physical Layer Procedures -- 3.6 Physical Layer Measurements and Radio Resource Management -- 3.7 Summary -- 3.8 References -- Chapter 4 Upper Layer Signaling -- 4.1 Access Stratum -- 4.2 Non-Access Stratum -- 4.3 References -- Chapter 5 System Architecture Evolution -- 5.1 Requirements for an Evolved Architecture -- 5.2 Overview of the Evolved Packet System -- 5.3 Quality of Service in EPS -- 5.4 Security in the Network -- 5.5 Services -- 5.6 References -- Chapter 6 Design and Verification Challenges -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Simulation and Early R&D Hardware Testing -- 6.3 Testing RFICs With DigRF Interconnects -- 6.4 Transmitter Design and Measurement Challenges -- 6.5 Receiver Design and Measurement Challenges -- 6.6 Receiver Performance Testing -- 6.7 Testing Open- and Closed-Loop Behaviors of the Physical Layer -- 6.8 Design and Verification Challenges of MIMO -- 6.9 Beamforming -- 6.10 SISO and MIMO Over-the-Air Testing -- 6.11 Signaling Protocol Development and Testing -- 6.12 UE Functional Testing -- 6.13 Battery Drain Testing.

6.14 Drive Testing -- 6.15 UE Manufacturing Test -- 6.16 References -- Chapter 7 Conformance and Acceptance Testing -- 7.1 Introduction to Conformance Testing -- 7.2 RF Conformance Testing -- 7.3 UE Signaling Conformance Testing -- 7.4 UE Certification Process (GCF and PTCRB) -- 7.5 Operator Acceptance Testing -- 7.6 References -- Chapter 8 Looking Towards 4G: LTE-Advanced -- 8.1 Summary of Release 8 -- 8.2 Release 9 -- 8.3 Release 10 and LTE-Advanced -- 8.4 Release 11 -- 8.5 Release 12 -- 8.6 References -- List of Acronyms -- Index.