Gerade wurden die LTE-Release 8 User Equipment Categories veröffentlicht. Es wird bestimmt interessant wenn in der Zukunft Geräte 4×4 MIMO unterstützen, dann sollte es möglich sein wirklich große Mengen an Daten zu übertragen.

LTE Release 8 Key Features

• High spectral efficiency
  — OFDM in Downlink, Robust against multipath interference & High affinity to advanced techniques such as Frequency domain channel-dependent scheduling & MIMO
  — DFTS-OFDM(“Single-Carrier FDMA”) in Uplink, Low PAPR, User orthogonality in frequency domain
  — Multi-antenna application
• Very low latency
  — Short setup time & Short transfer delay
  — Short HO latency and interruption time; Short TTI, RRC procedure, Simple RRC states
• Support of variable bandwidth
  — 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz
• Simple protocol architecture
  — Shared channel based
  — PS mode only with VoIP capability
• Simple Architecture
  — eNodeB as the only E-UTRAN node
  — Smaller number of RAN interfaces, eNodeB « MME/SAE-Gateway (S1), eNodeB « eNodeB (X2)
• Compatibility and inter-working with earlier 3GPP Releases
• Inter-working with other systems, e.g. cdma2000
• FDD and TDD within a single radio access technology
• Efficient Multicast/Broadcast
  — Single frequency network by OFDM
• Support of Self-Organising Network (SON) operation

via 3gpp.org