| 1 | At GEC16: |
| 2 | === 3.3) Options for Introducing LTE Equipment === |
| 3 | [[BR]] |
| 4 | Suman Banerjee [[BR]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | GEC14 discussion: [[BR]] |
| 7 | Moderator: Harry Mussman (GPO) [[BR]] |
| 8 | Ray Raychaudhuri (WINLAB) [[BR]] |
| 9 | Ivan Seskar (WINLAB) [[BR]] |
| 10 | Patrick Gossman (Wayne State) [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/GEC13Agenda/WiMAXPlanning/The%20Case%20for%20LTE.pptx The Case for LTE] [[BR]] |
| 11 | Gregg Tome (Airspan) [[BR]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | GEC15 discussion group formed: [[BR]] |
| 14 | Moderator: Suman Banerjee (Wisconsin) [[BR]] |
| 15 | Ray Raychaudhuri (WINLAB) [[BR]] |
| 16 | Ivan Seskar (WINLAB) [[BR]] |
| 17 | Patrick Gossman (Wayne State) [[BR]] |
| 18 | Bryan Lyles (NSF) [[BR]] |
| 19 | Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe (Utah) (new) [[BR]] |
| 20 | Tod Sizer (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent) (new) [[BR]] |
| 21 | Walt Magnusen (Texas A&M) (new) [[BR]] |
| 22 | Harry Mussman (GPO) [[BR]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | What are our goals? [[BR]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | How do we match available: base station equipment, on-air frequencies and mobile stations? [[BR]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php LTE frequency bands (from Ivan)] [[BR]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Gregg Tome: Airspan has equipment that operates at 2.6GHz (but this is outside of EBS band) [[BR]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Tod Sizer: Have used commercial small cells operating at low power, borrowed commercial spectrum, and commercial devices, in a lab setting. [[BR]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Ivan and Tod: There is available open-source back-end software (Fraunhoffer?) [[BR]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Walt: Has equipment to test for LTE in public safety, from General Dynamics/IPWireless [[BR]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | What are next steps? [[BR]] |
| 39 | * Tod to talk with Ray and Ivan [[BR]] |
| 40 | * Suman to organize calls/meetings [[BR]] |
| 41 | |