Links Interfacing Demonstration of LTE-Advanced Networks Using NS-2 Modeller

Society of 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is presently evolving Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-Advanced) as a development of the standard of LTE. This generation aims to produce specifications for a new radio-access technology geared to higher data rates, low latency and greater spectral efficiency. LTE-Advanced is an evolutionary step in the continuing development of LTE where the description in this article is based on LTE release 10. This paper provides detailed interfacing parameters and factors, which effect to implement the traffics and links of the transport layer for LTE-Advanced networks using the network simulator NS-2. Furthermore, it provides a deeper insight for the interface of protocol stacks, user plane, and control plane of protocol stack with the investigation to the links between the main parts LTE-Advanced structure in terms of events, activities, organizations and other factors that have played an important role over transport layer.