Categories
EUTRAN LTE Mobile Networks Notes RF

IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 2. Resource Blocks & Sub-Frames

These are my lecture notes from IMT’s NET02x (4G Network Essentials) course, I thought I’d post them here as they may be useful to someone. You can find my complete notes here. As spectrum is sparse and expensive, so it must be used wisely and shared across multiple users. LTE shares spectrum in both frequency […]

Categories
EUTRAN LTE Mobile Networks Notes RF

IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 1. Radio Transmission

These are my lecture notes from IMT’s NET02x (4G Network Essentials) course, I thought I’d post them here as they may be useful to someone. You can find my complete notes here. The E-UTRAN relies on Phase Shift Keying to modulate data. The downlink uses orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) while the uplink uses SC-FDMA […]

Categories
EPC Linux LTE Mobile Networks RF Software

Magma – Facebook’s Open Source LTE / 4G EPC/OSS Platform

In February Facebook announced they’d open sourced their Magma project, Magma provides a software-centric distributed mobile packet core and tools for automating network management. Open-sourcing Magma to extend mobile networks Magma’s modular software based architecture means you can scale up extra resources as needed, with no need to have physical hardware to run your EPC. […]

Categories
EPC IMS / VoLTE LTE Mobile Networks Notes RFCs & Standards SDM Security SIM Cards Software VoIP

All About IMS Authentication (AKAv1-MD5) in VoLTE Networks

How the AKAv1-MD5 algorith derives keys and how it’s used in IMS Networks