LTE Architecture Flashcards
EPS?
Evolved Packet System
EPS Components?
User Equipment
Evolved UTRAN
Evolved Packet Core
UE Components?
Mobile Terminal
Terminal Equipment
Universal Integrated Circuit Card
USIM?
Stores user-specific data such as
- User’s phone number
- Home network identity
Carries out various security-related calculations, using secure keys that the smart card stores
IP Support?
LTE UE Supports
- IPv4
- IPv6
- Duel Stack
A mobile receives one IP address for every Packet Data Network it is communicating from:
- Internet
- Private corporate network
What is E-UTRAN is made of?
Enhanced NodeB
Features of eNodeB?
Serving eNB
Hard Handover
Combines the functions of NodeB and RNC of UMTS
X2 Interface
Transport Network?
S1 and X2 Interfaces are not physical, rather logical interfaces.
Femto Cell
Smallest cell in LTE eNB is called Home eNB Closed Subscriber Group Home eNB Gateway S1 Interface in Femto cell
Architecture of the EPC?
Main components of the EPC
- HSS
- P-GW
- S-GW
- MME
HSS
Home Subscriber Server
P-GW
PDN Gateway
S-GW
Serving Gateway
MME
Mobility Management Entity
Home Subscriber Server?
Continued from UMTS
Central database
Contains information about all the subscribers
PDN Gateway?
EPC's gateway to the Packet Data Networks (PDN) Connects to one or more - Outside data networks - LTE Operator's servers - IP Multimedia Subsystem APN SGi
Serving Gateway?
Acts as a high-level router
Forwards data between the base station and the PDN gateway.