• John M.

    PBCH: Does the MIB tell the UE how many antennas are used in the cell?

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    Before answering this question let's review the contents of the Master Information Block (MIB). You will find the definition of the MIB in the RRC specification, 36.331. It contains just three parameters...
  • Bhagwan

    Comparison of UMTS/CDMA and LTE Coverage

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    Almost always LTE is deployed as an overlay with 3G technology, that could be UMTS or CDMA2000. And then it is natural to compare the coverage between 3G and 4G. I have often seen that we try to compare...
  • Chris

    Bearers Questions

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    There were a couple of good questions on the LTE University forum page recently. I thought it would be good to address those questions. The first question was: are default bearers created on a per UE or...
  • Hongyan

    How to calculate peak data rate in LTE?

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    You may hear it many times that the peak data rate of LTE is about 300Mbps? How is the number calculated? What are the assumptions behind? Let's estimate it in a simple way. Assume 20 MHz channel bandwidth...