E******* LTE Access transport network diminsion

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Table of Contents
1 LTE/SAE INTRODUCTION ...........................................................5
OBJECTIVES:...................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................7
OVERALL EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM (EPS) ARCHITECTURE...............16
LTE RADIO INTERFACE.....................................................................19
2 ETHERNET AND IP SUITE IN LTE RAN....................................25
IP RAN INTRODUCTION.....................................................................27
ETHERNET AND IP SUITE..................................................................29
S1 AND X2......................................................................................................29
ETHERNET PHYSICAL LAYER .....................................................................31
THE ETHERNET FRAME...............................................................................32
LAYER 2 SWITCH ..........................................................................................35
INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ..........................................................................37
ROUTERS (L3 SWITCH) ................................................................................47
TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS ..........................................................................52
OTHER TRANSPORT NETWORK PROTOCOLS .........................................60
IP/ETHERNET QUALITY OF SERVICE...............................................63
3 LINK DIMENSIONING.................................................................67
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................69
DIMENSIONING CONCEPTS ........................................................................70
LINK DIMENSIONING .........................................................................77
TRANSPORT NETWORK OVERHEAD CALCULATIONS.............................79
DIMENSIONING METHOD.............................................................................80
QUALITY OF SERVICE .......................................................................87
4 NODE DIMENSIONING...............................................................91
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................93
DUL.................................................................................................................94
RUL...............................................................................................................101