An Overview of Mobile Broadband in 4G Long Term Evolution and Emerging Strategies for Resolving Deployment Limitations in Developing Countries

Agboje, O. E. and Oni, O.O. and Nkordeh, Nsikan (2017) An Overview of Mobile Broadband in 4G Long Term Evolution and Emerging Strategies for Resolving Deployment Limitations in Developing Countries. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 12. pp. 6447-6451. ISSN 0973-4562

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Abstract

The role of mobile broadband in the society cannot be overemphasized in the global internet ecosystem. Its deployment and penetration is basically to satisfy end users increasing demand for data services and improve their quality of life. Therefore the need for a fast and reliable mobile broadband connection is an important driver of business and economic advancement of any nation. The increasing demand of data for new applications and request for more services by end users in global mobile competitive market motivated the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to introduce Long Term Evolution (LTE). This unique ability of LTE technology to offer a flexible spectrum support between 1.25MHz – 20MHz bandwidth makes it very attractive to both operators and the subscribers when compared to UMTS with a fixed bandwidth of 5MHz. However, with these vast opportunities lies an array of limitations, restrictions and challenges to both the operators and the subscribers.This paper provides a technological overview of LTE network as well as the challenges and solutions towards its deployment in developing countries.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Mobile broadband, 3GPP, LTE, MIMO
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2018 11:29
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2018 11:29
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/11598

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