Practical Guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT: Paving the way towards 5G

Essential reference providing best practice of LTE-A, VoLTE, and IoT Design/deployment/Performance and evolution towards 5G

This book is a practical guide to the design, deployment, and performance of LTE-A, VoLTE/IMS and IoT. A comprehensive practical performance analysis for VoLTE is conducted based on field measurement results from live LTE networks. Also, it provides a comprehensive introduction to IoT and 5G evolutions. Practical aspects and best practice of LTE-A/IMS/VoLTE/IoT are presented. Practical aspects of LTE-Advanced features are presented. In addition, LTE/LTE-A network capacity dimensioning and analysis are demonstrated based on live LTE/LTE-A networks KPIs. A comprehensive foundation for 5G technologies is provided including massive MIMO, eMBB, URLLC, mMTC, NGCN and network slicing, cloudification, virtualization and SDN.

Practical Guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT: Paving the Way Towards 5G can be used as a practical comprehensive guide for best practices in LTE/LTE-A/VoLTE/IoT design, deployment, performance analysis and network architecture and dimensioning. It offers tutorial introduction on LTE-A/IoT/5G networks, enabling the reader to use this advanced book without the need to refer to more introductory texts.

• Offers a complete overview of LTE and LTE-A, IMS, VoLTE and IoT and 5G
• Introduces readers to IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)Performs a comprehensive evaluation of VoLTE/CSFB
• Provides LTE/LTE-A network capacity and dimensioning
• Examines IoT and 5G evolutions towards a super connected world
• Introduce 3GPP NB-IoT evolution for low power wide area (LPWA) network
• Provide a comprehensive introduction for 5G evolution including eMBB, URLLC, mMTC, network slicing, cloudification, virtualization, SDN and orchestration

Practical Guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT will appeal to all deployment and service engineers, network designers, and planning and optimization engineers working in mobile communications. Also, it is a practical guide for R&D and standardization experts to evolve the LTE/LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT towards 5G evolution.

About the Authors

AYMAN ELNASHAR, PHD, has 20+ years of experience in the telecoms industry including 2G/3G/LTE/WiFi/IoT/5G/Wireless Networks. He was part of three major start-up telecom operators in the MENA region (Orange/Egypt, Mobily/KSA, and du/UAE). Currently, he is Head of Core and Cloud planning with the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co. "du", UAE. He is the founder of the Terminal Innovation Lab and UAE 5G Innovation Gate (U5GIG). Prior to this, he was Sr. Director – Wireless Networks, Terminals and IoT where he managed and directed the evolution, evaluation, and introduction of du wireless networks, terminals and IoT including LTE/LTE-A, HSPA+, WiFi, NB-IoT and is currently working towards deploying 5G networks in UAE.

Prior to this, he was with Mobily, Saudi Arabia, from June 2005 to January 2008, as Head of Projects. He played a key role in contributing to the success of the mobile broadband network of Mobily/KSA. From March 2000 to June 2005, he was with Orange Egypt.

He has published 30+ papers in the wireless communications arena in highly ranked journals and international conferences. He is the author of Design, Deployment, and Performance of 4G-LTE Networks: A Practical Approach, Wiley 2014, and Simplified Robust Adaptive Detection and Beamforming for Wireless Communications, Wiley 2018.

His research interests include practical performance analysis, planning and optimization of wireless networks (3G/4G/WiFi/IoT/5G), digital signal processing for wireless communications, multiuser detection, smart antennas, massive MIMO, and robust adaptive detection and beamforming.

MOHAMED EL-SAIDNY, M.SC., is a leading technical expert in wireless communication systems for modem chipsets and network design. He established and managed the Carrier Engineering Services Business Unit at MediaTek, the department responsible for product business development and strategy alignment with network operators and direct customers. He has 15+ years of technical, analytical and business experience, with an international working experience in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and South-East Asia markets.

Mohamed is the inventor of numerous patents in CDMA and OFDM systems and the co-author of Design, Deployment and Performance of 4G-LTE Networks: A Practical Approach, Wiley 2014. He has published several international research papers in IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, other IEEE Transactions, in addition to contributions to 3GPP specifications.