1) LTE was developed by 3GPP to provide higher performance cellular technology compared to UMTS. It uses OFDMA for downlink and SC-FDMA for uplink to improve spectral efficiency and handle multipath interference.
2) LTE-Advanced, defined in 3GPP Release 10, further enhances LTE through techniques like carrier aggregation, advanced MIMO, and higher bandwidth support to achieve speeds up to 1 Gbps.
3) The key goals of LTE and LTE-Advanced are to provide higher capacity, performance, and backward compatibility to meet growing user demands for mobile broadband.