This book addresses the needs of technical engineering staff who work on the design, test, integration and validation of LTE-Advanced equipment, both network and UE-side. The book provides a thorough review of LTE-releases 8 and 9 before jumping deep into everything you need to understand about design details and system engineering in LTE-Advanced. Starting out with the details of carrier aggregation, the following chapters are dedicated to all LTE-Advanced features like the new MIMO-modes, HetNet-operation, the integration and operation of relay nodes, the improvements with eICIC and feICIC and a detailed description of the new features with Rel 12 and their realization like for instance "new carrier type", MTC and D2D.weiterlesen