V. M2M AND LTE-A NETWORK CONVERGENCE M2M
communication is one of the focuses of the LTE-A project, as the demand for M2M is increasing rapidly. Within the next several years M2M communications are expected to eventually exceed the number of H2H (human-to-human) communications. A primary driver for the replacement of H2H by M2M communication is that there are almost 50 billion machines in the world, but only 6 billion people