A TUTORIAL ON LTE EVOLVED UTRAN (EUTRAN) AND LTE SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS (SON)

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A TUTORIAL ON LTE EVOLVED UTRAN (EUTRAN) AND
LTE SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS
(SON)


TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii
ABSTRACTiv
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
LIST OF TABLES xi
LIST OF ACRONYMS xii
Chapter Page

1 LONG TERM EVOLUTION – OVERVIEW AND GOALS
1.1 Evolution to LTE
1.2 Long Term Evolution Goals

2 THE LTE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
2.1 Evolved Packet System (EPS) / System Architecture Evolution (SAE)
2.2 LTE Network Architecture
2.2.1 Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
2.2.1.1 Mobility Management Entity (MME)
2.2.1.2 Serving Gateway (S-GW)
2.2.1.3 Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW)
2.2.1.4 Policy and Charging Resource Function (PCRF)
2.2.1.5 Home Subscription Server (HSS)
2.2.2 Evolved UTRAN (EUTRAN)
2.2.3 User Equipment (UE)
2.2.4 Services Domain

3 E-UTRAN & E-UTRAN NETWORK INTERFACES
3.1 E-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network)
32 The eNB
33 LTE Protocol Architecture
34 E-UTRAN Control Plane Architecture
341 Radio Resource Control (RRC)
3411 The key features of RRC
3412 The RRC States
35 E-UTRAN User Plane Architecture
351 Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Layer
3511 Robust Header Compression (RoHC)
3512 Security (Encryption and Integrity Protection)
352 Radio Link Control (RLC) Layer
353 Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer
3531 Priority Handling
3532 HARQ
354 Physical (PHY) layer
36 E-UTRAN Network Interfaces
361 The S1 Interface
3611 The S1 Control (S1-MME) Plane
3612 The S1 User (S1-U) Plane
3613 S1-Application Protocol (S1-AP)
362 The X2 Interface
3621 X2 User Plane Interface
3622 X2 Control Plane Interface
3623 X2 Application Protocol (X2-AP)

4 LTE SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS (SON)
41 Introduction
42 SON Development in NGMN and 3GPP
421 Self-Configuration
422 Self Optimization
423 Self-Healing
43 SON Architectures
431 Centralized SON
432 Distributed SON
433 Hybrid SON
44 SON Use Cases
441 Coverage and Capacity Optimization
442 Energy Savings
443 Interference Reduction
444 Mobility Robust Optimization
445 Mobility Load Balancing Optimization
446 RACH (Random Access Channel) Optimization
447 Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR)
448 Mobility robustness optimization
45 Study of Handover Parameter Optimization
5 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
APPENDIX
A STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL (SCTP)
B S1 FLEX MECHANISM
C CAPEX
REFERENCES
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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