“Introduction to Long Term Evolution (LTE) Technology” by Ms Sonali Sarpotdar, RF Communications Application Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Pune, India.

Date:  April 27, 2010 (Tuesday)
Venue:  7:30pm – 8:30pm; 6:30pm networking
Venue:  PSDC, 1 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, 11900 Bayan Lepas

Admission is free

Refreshments will be served before the lecture.  Network and interact with like-minded engineers and researchers before the seminar begins.

Abstract

LTE is the 3.9 generation system for mobile communication based on OFDMA technology. It consists of an all IP core and a new air interface which is resilient to multipath and poor radio conditions. This paper discusses the goals of the LTE system and the expected time lines for development and deployment.

The Air Interface is discussed in details. The Physical signals, physical Channels and transport channels are described in details with the function of each channel. The paper talks about the frame structure for both FDD and TDD versions of the standard. Call set-up procedure is also described. A brief comparison with WiMax is also included in the paper. Finally Agilent’s test and measurement solutions for LTE are covered.

Speaker

Sonali has 14 years of association with the wireless and cellular industry.  She has experience of working in various capacities in radio network implementation, switching operations and intelligent network implementation. Sonali has been an application engineer with Agilent for more than 8 years.  She works closely with cellular handset protocol and platform developers to identify test needs, and to provide solution for the same.