At GEC16: === 3.3) Options for Introducing LTE Equipment === [[BR]] Suman Banerjee [[BR]] GEC14 discussion: [[BR]] Moderator: Harry Mussman (GPO) [[BR]] Ray Raychaudhuri (WINLAB) [[BR]] Ivan Seskar (WINLAB) [[BR]] Patrick Gossman (Wayne State) [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/GEC13Agenda/WiMAXPlanning/The%20Case%20for%20LTE.pptx The Case for LTE] [[BR]] Gregg Tome (Airspan) [[BR]] GEC15 discussion group formed: [[BR]] Moderator: Suman Banerjee (Wisconsin) [[BR]] Ray Raychaudhuri (WINLAB) [[BR]] Ivan Seskar (WINLAB) [[BR]] Patrick Gossman (Wayne State) [[BR]] Bryan Lyles (NSF) [[BR]] Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe (Utah) (new) [[BR]] Tod Sizer (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent) (new) [[BR]] Walt Magnusen (Texas A&M) (new) [[BR]] Harry Mussman (GPO) [[BR]] What are our goals? [[BR]] How do we match available: base station equipment, on-air frequencies and mobile stations? [[BR]] [http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php LTE frequency bands (from Ivan)] [[BR]] Gregg Tome: Airspan has equipment that operates at 2.6GHz (but this is outside of EBS band) [[BR]] Tod Sizer: Have used commercial small cells operating at low power, borrowed commercial spectrum, and commercial devices, in a lab setting. [[BR]] Ivan and Tod: There is available open-source back-end software (Fraunhoffer?) [[BR]] Walt: Has equipment to test for LTE in public safety, from General Dynamics/IPWireless [[BR]] What are next steps? [[BR]] * Tod to talk with Ray and Ivan [[BR]] * Suman to organize calls/meetings [[BR]]