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...

CQI (Channel Quality Indication) report is an important element of LTE and has significant impact on the system performance. There are two types of CQI report in LTE: periodic and aperiodic. The...

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...

In cellular networks, when a mobile moves from cell to cell and performs cell selection/reselection and handover, it has to measure the signal strength/quality of the neighbor cells. We know that in UMTS...