The Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the newly adopted standard technology to offer enhanced capacity and coverage for mobility networks, providing advanced multimedia services beyond traditional voice and short messaging traffic for billions of users. This new cellular communication system is the natural evolution of 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)-based access networks, enhancing the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). LTE introduces a substantial redesign of the network architecture resulting in the new eUTRAN (Enhanced Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network) and the EPC (Enhanced Packet Core). In this context, the LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) is built upon a redesigned physical layer and based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) modulation, which features robust performance in challenging multipath environments and substantially improves spectrum efficiency and capacity. Moreover, the new all-IP core architecture is designed to be...