What is LTE Cat 5?

LTE Cat-5 (LTE Category 5) is an LTE user equipment (UE) category that defines the performance and specifications – such as data rate, power, bandwidth, etc. – of the LTE Cat 5 UEs. LTE Cat 5 UEs support a downlink data rate of 299.6 Mbit/s and an uplink data rate of 75.4 Mbit/s. They support 4x4 MIMO using multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to provide higher data rates and better performance in wireless communication. These UEs support 4 layers for spatial multiplexing in downlink (DL) and 64-QAM in uplink (UL).

Key Specification of LTE Cat 5 UEs

Note: 

• DL-SCH stands for Downlink shared channel,
• UL-SCH stands for Uplink shared channel,
• TTI stands for Transmission Time Interval,
• PDCP stands for Packet Data Convergence Protocol,
• SDU stands for Service Data Unit.

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