What is LTE Advanced?

LTE standards are in matured state now with release 8 frozen. While LTE Advanced is still under
works. Often the LTE standard is seen as 4G standard which is not true. 3.9G is more
acceptable for LTE. So why it is not 4G? Answer is quite simple - LTE does not fulfill all
requirements of ITU 4G definition.
Brief History of LTE Advanced: The ITU has introduced the term IMT Advanced to identify mobile
systems whose capabilities go beyond those of IMT 2000. The IMT Advanced systems shall
provide best-in-class performance attributes such as peak and sustained data rates and
corresponding spectral efficiencies, capacity, latency, overall network complexity and qualityof-
service
management.
The
new
capabilities
of
these
IMT-Advanced
systems
are
envisaged
to

handle
a wide
range
of
supported
data
rates
with
target
peak
data
rates
of
up to approximately

100
Mbit/s
for
high
mobility
and
up
to
approximately
1
Gbit/s
for
low
mobility