C. Gessner
Rohde and Schwarz

Even with the introduction of High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA), the evolution of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) has not reached its end. To ensure the competitiveness of UMTS for the next ten years and beyond, UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been introduced in 3GPP release 8. LTE (also known as Evolved UTRA and Evolved UTRAN) provides new physical layer concepts and protocol architecture for UMTS. This application note introduces LTE technology and testing aspects.