Although the commercialization of LTE technology began in end 2009, the technology is still being enhanced in order to meet ITU-Advanced requirements. This white paper summarizes these necessary improvements, which are known as LTE Advanced.
The driving force to further develop LTE towards LTE–Advanced, LTE R-10 is to provide higher bitrates in a cost efficient way, and at the same time completely fulfil the requirements set by ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as 4G.
