Written by experts actively involved in the 3GPP standards andproduct development, LTE for UMTS, Second Edition gives acomplete and up-to-date overview of Long Term Evolution (LTE) in asystematic and clear manner. Building upon on the success of thefirst edition, LTE for UMTS, Second Edition has been revisedto now contain improved coverage of the Release 8 LTE details,including field performance results, transport network, selfoptimized networks and also covering the enhancements done in 3GPPRelease 9. This new edition also provides an outlook to Release 10,including the overview of Release 10 LTE-Advanced technologycomponents which enable reaching data rates beyond 1 Gbps.Key updates for the second edition of LTE for UMTS arefocused on the new topics from Release 9 & 10, and include:* LTE-Advanced;* Self optimized networks (SON);* Transport network dimensioning;* Measurement results.