Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a secure, reliable, and efficient type of Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) Technology that was standardized by 3GPP in Release 13 (LTE Advanced Pro) and uses licensed spectrum.

This book guides you through the LTE, LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G from the perspective of practical aspects of air interface, RAN, Core Network and end-to-end data transfer. The practical approach is reflected by the angle of system design, link budget process, network planning, parameter configurations and optimizations together with the required tradeoffs. We also evaluate the different features’ impact on the overall system as it evolves from LTE to LTE-Advanced and then going further to LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G.

The survey article co-authored by Grandmetric and Movilo, “3GPP Spectrum Access Evolution Towards 5G“, Michal Szydelko and Marcin Dryjanski [1], presents the evolution of: EUTRA frequency bands, Spectrum aggregation mechanisms, Spectrum licensing, Duplexing schemes, Spectrum sharing, Spectrum refarming techniques, within 3GPP, with the focus on LTE-Advanced Pro [2] and beyond. Note: this article reflects the […]

  As 3GPP Rel-13 has been already frozen (with the exception of Narrow Band IoT), the time has come to provide an overview for the evolved LTE under the name of LTE-Advanced Pro. As already mentioned in one of the previous articles (LTE evolution: from LTE, via LTE-Advanced, towards LTE-Advanced Pro), LTE-Advanced Pro is a […]

  In this article I’m sharing a short overview of the LTE evolution, starting with its introduction within 3GPP Release 8 back in early 2009 up to LTE-Advanced Pro to be finalized in March 2016 within Release 13[1]. Timeline, main features and a maximum throughput calculation is provided for each of the LTE evolution steps. […]