Support of Low Complexity LTE Terminals

The support of low bandwidth LTE devices would allow LTE to be a cost effective means of supporting low rate applications such as machine to machine communications (M2M), facilitating the migration of mobile networks from GPRS to LTE. This paper describes why lowering device bandwidth leads to a significant reduction in baseband processing complexity, the issues that currently prevent the support of low bandwidth LTE devices, some potential solutions to these problems and analyses the coexistence and link budget implications of supporting these low bandwidth LTE devices.