White Paper - Future Technologies for Fixed Mobile Convergence, SAE and LTE in Cellular Mobile Communications

The Mobile Communications industry is currently developing standards and solutions for the next steps in the evolution of mobile networks. This paper looks at the fundamental radio and network technologies being introduced in these steps, and how this is aligned into the future Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) of the Next Generation Networks.

Some selected headings from the paper are listed below:

• Definition of FMC
• NGN Network trend from a technical point of view
• LTE/SAE Introduction
• SAE Technology
• LTE Technology

• LTE Protocol and Signalling
• Latency Improvements in LTE
• Impact on users of the technology
• Testing challenges