What is the difference between 4G and LTE?

New standards such as WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE) have been referred to as 4G, LTE Advanced, which is also known as true 4G standard, is evolution of LTE stand ard. Therefore, LTE and LTE Advanced have compatibility, where LTE terminal can work in LTE Advanced network, and LTE Advanced Terminal can work in LTE network. Capacities of true 4G standards are much higher when compared with LTE. LTE supp orts up to a maximum of 2.7 bps/Hz/cell, while LTE Advanced (True 4G) has a capa city of 3.7 bps/Hz/cell. Even though, both LTE and LTE-Advanced (true 4G) suppor t the same spectral efficiency in downlink, uplink spectral efficiency is much h igher with true 4G. Both LTE and 4G are focused on data rate improvement. Peak downlink data rate of LTE is 300Mbps, while official 4G definition requires 1Gbps downlink data rate. Therefore, true 4G has much higher data rate when compared with LTE, in both up link as well as in downlink. LTE is known as 3GPP release 8, while true 4G is considered as 3GPP release 10, which is evolution of initial LTE technology. LTE networks are being deployed around the world now, while true 4G networks are still pending for trials. This is simply due to the stability of LTE when compa red with LTE-Advanced. Initial LTE standards are published in March 2008, wherea s initial stages of LTE-Advanced (True 4G) were standardized in March 2010. 4G is the next generation of mobile broadband communication, whereas LTE is the basis for true 4G technologies such as LTE-Advanced High spectral efficiency is one of the key features of LTE which was achieved us ing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) with 64-QAM (Quadratur e Amplitude Modulation) technique. Use of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna techniques is another key point which improved the spectral efficiency o f LTE to 15bps/Hz. LTE should be able to support up to 300Mbps downlink and 75Mb ps in uplink as per the 3GPP specification. Architecture of LTE is much simpler and flat when compared with the previous 3GPP releases. eNode-B directly connect s with System Architecture Evolution Gateway (SAE-GW) for data transfer, while i t connects with Mobile Management Entity (MME) for signaling as per the LTE arch itecture. This simple eUTRAN architecture allows better utilization of resources , The 3GPP says LTE will have peak theoretical data rates of 326 Mbps in a 20-MHz channel. The standard requires an all-IP core network. it defined a 3G technology as being capable of peak data rates up to 2 mbps for stationary or walking users with at least 384 Kbps in a low-speed moving vehicle and 144 Kbps for a high-speed moving vehicle.