Essential reference providing best practice of LTE–A, VoLTE, and IoT Design/deployment/Performance and evolution towards 5G This book is a practical guide to the design, deployment, and performance of LTE–A, VoLTE/IMS and IoT. A comprehensive practical performance analysis for VoLTE is conducted based on field measurement results from live LTE networks. Also, it provides a comprehensive introduction to IoT and 5G evolutions. Practical aspects and best practice of LTE–A/IMS/VoLTE/IoT are presented. Practical aspects of LTE–Advanced features are presented. In addition, LTE/LTE–A network capacity dimensioning and analysis are demonstrated based on live LTE/LTE–A networks KPIs.  A comprehensive foundation for 5G technologies is provided including massive MIMO, eMBB, URLLC, mMTC, NGCN and network slicing, cloudification, virtualization and SDN.   Practical Guide to LTE–A, VoLTE and IoT: Paving the Way Towards 5G can be used as a practical comprehensive guide for best practices in LTE/LTE–A/VoLTE/IoT design, deployment, performance analysis and network architecture and dimensioning. It offers tutorial introduction on LTE–A/IoT/5G networks, enabling the reader to use this advanced book without the need to refer to more introductory texts.  Offers a complete overview of LTE and LTE–A, IMS, VoLTE and IoT and 5G Introduces readers to IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)Performs a comprehensive evaluation of VoLTE/CSFB Provides LTE/LTE–A network capacity and dimensioning Examines IoT and 5G evolutions towards a super connected world Introduce 3GPP NB–IoT evolution for low power wide area (LPWA) network Provide a comprehensive introduction for 5G evolution including eMBB, URLLC, mMTC, network slicing, cloudification, virtualization, SDN and orchestration  Practical Guide to LTE–A, VoLTE and IoT will appeal to all deployment and service engineers, network designers, and planning and optimization engineers working in mobile communications. Also, it is a practical guide for R&D and standardization experts to evolve the LTE/LTE–A, VoLTE and IoT towards 5G evolution.