Evolved Packet System (EPS): The LTE and SAE Evolution of 3G UMTS - Hardcover

Lescuyer, Pierre; Lucidarme, Thierry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470059761 ISBN 13: 9780470059760

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS are key mobile communication technologies, chosen by more than 2 billion people around the world. In order to adapt to new services, increasing demand for user bandwidth, quality of service and requirements for network convergence, major evolutions are introduced in 3G network standard.

Evolved Packet System (EPS) presents the EPS evolution of the 3G/UMTS standard introduced by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard committee. This new topic is looked at from a system perspective, from the radio interface to network and service architecture. Hundreds of documents being issued by Standard organisations are summarised in one book to allow the reader to get an accessible comprehensive view of EPS evolution.

• Proposes a system view of Evolved UMTS, from the radio to Core and service architecture

• Gives a comprehensive and global view of the system that technical specifications do not provide

• Describes the new system as well as the inheritance and migration from 2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS

• Written by experts in the field who specialise in two complementary but very different technical domains (i.e. "radio interface" and "network architecture")

• Contains many figures and examples for better understanding.

This book is essential for industry professionals in the telecommunication business, telecommunication system architects and designers, product manufacturers and operators and postgraduate students.

About this title

About the Author

Pierre Lescuyer – Currently working as a UMTS System Architect in the Strategic Evolutions department of Nortel, France.  For more than 10 years he has worked in different R&D positions, from system and architecture design to participation in 3GPP and ETSI standard committees. He has produced material written in English, mainly about GSM, GSM-R (the Railway declination of GSM) and UMTS features or system general description or specification. Most of these being intended for internal use or external distribution to Nortel customers.

Thierry Lucidarme – also working as a UMTS System Architect in the Strategic Evolutions department of Nortel, France.

Review

"The book is essential for industry professionals in the telecommunication business and telecommunication systems postgraduate students." (Computing Reviews, June 6, 2008)

"...this is one of the best GSM texts that we’ve read, and an excellent engineer’s introduction to EPS." (IPL Telecasting, February 2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470059761
• ISBN 13: 9780470059760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350