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2012-06-15, 10:30 PM
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Table of contents
Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................................... v
List of figures .................................................................................................................................... vii
List of tables...................................................................................................................................... vii
1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Problem Statement ..................................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Goals of the thesis ...................................................................................................................... 3
1.3 Scope and limits of the thesis..................................................................................................... 4
1.4 Research methods ...................................................................................................................... 5
1.5 Thesis outline ............................................................................................................................. 6
2. LONG TERM EVOLUTION OF 3GPP ...................................................................................... 7
2.1 Introduction to LTE ................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Requirements for UTRAN evolution ......................................................................................... 9
2.3. Evolved System Architecture ................................................................................................. 11
2.4 LTE Air interface concepts ...................................................................................................... 13
2.5 LTE protocol structure and main tasks .................................................................................... 18
3. MOBILITY ................................................................................................................................... 25
3.1 Introduction to mobility ........................................................................................................... 25
3.2 Intra LTE handovers ................................................................................................................ 30
3.3 Inter Radio Access Technology handovers.............................................................................. 34
4. LTE FUNCTIONALITY AND PERFORMANCE TESTING................................................ 41
4.1 Introduction to LTE performance testing and system verification .......................................... 41
4.2 Tools and methods for testing .................................................................................................. 44
4.3 Challenges in LTE end-to-end testing ..................................................................................... 50
5. TEST PLAN FOR FIELD ENVIRONMENT I-RAT HANDOVERS .................................... 53
5.1 Presenting the I-RAT handover field environment test plan ................................................... 53
5.2 Plan for test execution .............................................................................................................. 58
5.3 KPI measurements for I-RAT handovers ................................................................................ 60
6. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK ................................................................................. 70
6.1 Conclusions .............................................................................................................................. 70
6.2 Future work .............................................................................................................................. 71
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 72
APPENDIX ....................................................................................................................................... 75

direct link :http://lib.tkk.fi/Dipl/2011/urn100472.pdf

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