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. Let’s look at how the Tracking Area Updates work from the point of view of the network. Let’s take an example of a … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 3. Processing Location Updates
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IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 4. Changing MME and SGW
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 we’ve seen earlier, the eNB needs a connection to an MME and a S-GW. However different eNBs may connect to different S-GWs … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 4. Changing MME and SGW
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 2. Balancing Location Update Load
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 we saw before larger Tracking Areas minimize the number of UEs between terminals to update their location. The problem is the cells/eNBs … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 2. Balancing Location Update Load
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 1. Managing Location
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 we saw with the Network Triggered Service Request, the network needs to know which eNB / cell the UE is currently being … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Mobility Management – 1. Managing Location
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 3. Standby Modes
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 we discussed before when no data has been sent by a UE for a period of time the eNB will switch from … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 3. Standby Modes
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 4. UE Triggered Service Request
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 we just saw when a terminal moves to ECC-Idle while in EMM-Registered state, it releases it’s radio resources, so what happens when … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 4. UE Triggered Service Request
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 2. UE Connection to the Network
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. One of the common themes we cover over and over in the 4G discussion is the desire to preserve energy on the UE … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 2. UE Connection to the Network
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 1. Attach and Detach Procedures
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. A LTE UE has permanent IP connectivity for as long as it is connected. As soon as the UE powers up it requests … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Sporadic Data Flows – 1. Attach and Detach Procedures
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 7. NAS and Global View of Protocol Stack
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 LTE architecture compartmentalises the roles in the mobile network. For example the eNB concentrates on radio connection management, while the MME focuses … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 7. NAS and Global View of Protocol Stack
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 5/6. S1AP Connection
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. Each MME can manage millions of UEs. To handle this load the requirements of each subscriber for the MME must be as minimal … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 5/6. S1AP Connection
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 4. Transmitting Packets in a Tunnel
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. Establishing a GTP Tunnel When a new tunnel is setup between two nodes, GTP-C will be used to setup the tunnel and the … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 4. Transmitting Packets in a Tunnel
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 3. Identifying & Managing Tunnels
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 we’ve talked about traffic to and from UEs is encapsulated in GTP-U tunnels, with the idea that by encapsulating data destined for … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 3. Identifying & Managing Tunnels
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 2. GTP Protocol
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. When a packet arrives from an external network, like the internet, it is routed to the P-GW. The P-GW takes this packet and … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 2. GTP Protocol
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 1. Principle of Encapsulation
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. Mobile networks are by definition, mobile. In a fixed network, if I were to connect my laptop to my network at home, I’d … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Management of Data Flows – 1. Principle of Encapsulation
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 7. PDCP & Global Vision
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 Packet Data Convergence Protocol PDCP protocol stack sits ontop of the radio interface stack, and manages the connection the EPC. There is … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 7. PDCP & Global Vision
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 6. Random Access
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. LTE mostly relies on reservation based protocols, meaning resources are broken up into smaller elements which are reserved and allocated dynamically as needed. … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 6. Random Access
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 5. RLC Protocol
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 we just discussed the MAC layer multiplexes streams from the RLC layer. This allows mutliple streams of data to share the same … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 5. RLC Protocol
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 4. Transmission Reliability in Radio
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. Radio is always subject to interference, we talked before about how coding is used on the physical layer to try and correct these … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 4. Transmission Reliability in Radio
IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 3. Packet Allocation
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. Allocation Tables To inform UEs of which resources are allocated to it, the eNB regularly publishes Allocation Tables with this information. Resources are … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 3. Packet Allocation
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 … Continue reading IMTx: NET02x (4G Network Essentials) – Radio Interface – 2. Resource Blocks & Sub-Frames
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