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LTE Advanced

About: LTE Advanced is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 74262 citations. The topic is also known as: Long-Term Evolution Advanced & LTE-A.


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TL;DR: A new feature of LWA is presented, its flow control scheme, which controls how to aggregate downlink traffic in licensed and unlicensed bands, and can be expanded to work with any number of frequency bands and radio technologies.
Abstract: Long term evolution-wireless local area network (LTE-WLAN) aggregation (LWA) has recently emerged as a promising third generation partnership project (3GPP) Release 13 technology to efficiently aggregate LTE and WLAN at the packet data convergence protocol layer, allowing uplink traffic to be carried on LTE and downlink on both LTE and WLAN. This removes all the contention asymmetry problems of WLAN and allows an optimum usage of both licensed and unlicensed band for downlink. In this paper, we present a new feature of LWA, its flow control scheme, which controls how to aggregate downlink traffic in licensed and unlicensed bands. This aggregation technique exploits user equipment-based flow control feedback in the form of LWA status reports, and can be expanded to work with any number of frequency bands and radio technologies. The same concepts apply to 5G networks, although the performance evaluation provided here is in the context of LTE-Advanced Pro. Simulation results in a typical enterprise scenario show that LWA can enhance user performance up to 8 times over LTE-only, and 3.7 times over WLAN only networks, respectively. The impact of the file size and LWA status report frequency on network performance is also investigated.

34 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
10 Jun 2012
TL;DR: A Frequency Domain Packet Scheduling (FDPS) algorithm for efficient radio resource management of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) in LTE networks is proposed and results demonstrate significant improvement in the multicast traffic performance.
Abstract: Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the emerging 4G wireless technology developed to provide high quality services in mobile environments. It is foreseen that multimedia services and mobile TV will assume an important role for the LTE proliferation in mobile market. However, several issues are still open and meaningful improvements have to be introduced for managing physical resources when group-oriented services should be supplied. To this end, we propose a Frequency Domain Packet Scheduling (FDPS) algorithm for efficient radio resource management of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) in LTE networks. The proposed scheduler exploits an optimization process to organize multicast subscribers in subgroups according to channel quality feedbacks provided by users. Optimization is driven by the aim of minimizing the “user dissatisfaction” with a consequent improvement in the network capacity. The effectiveness of the proposed scheduling algorithm is evaluated through simulation; obtained results demonstrate significant improvement in the multicast traffic performance.

34 citations

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TL;DR: The paper proposes fast intelligent inter-layer network selection as a new handover approach to select the best network among the candidate networks, where Quality of Service, handover delay and improved data bit rates are set to be achieved.
Abstract: The convergence of multitude radio access networks forming a cluster of seamless heterogeneous wireless environment has made the wireless communication industry meet the paradigm of always best connected, where various mobile devices are able to access numerous types of applications and services. However, achieving such landmarks could not be possible without difficulties which this paper tries to highlight some of the technical challenges underlying seamless vertical handover. It provides a general overview of the mobility management process including a brief on multi-homing mobility protocol and focuses on vertical handover decision making techniques, hi ghlighting some radio interface standar and analysed some handover approaches. The paper proposes fast intelligent inter-layer network selection as a new handover approach to select the best network among the candidate networks, where Quality of Service, handover delay and improved data bit rates are set to be achieved.

34 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Sep 2016
TL;DR: Although the design of these channels is based on LTE, there are some differences, particularly in the uplink, with the introduction of subcarrier-level transmission, which enables the achievement of the stated targets for NB-IoT.
Abstract: In 3GPP Rel-13, a narrowband system based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) is being introduced to provide wide-area cellular connectivity for the Internet of Things. This system, named Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), can be deployed in three different operation modes - (1) stand-alone as a dedicated carrier, (2) in-band within the occupied bandwidth of a wideband LTE carrier, and (3) within the guard-band of an existing LTE carrier. The design targets of NB-IoT include low-cost devices, high coverage (20-dB improvement over GPRS), long device battery life (more than 10 years), and massive capacity. Latency is relaxed although a delay budget of 10 seconds is the target for exception reports. This paper discusses the design and performance of the downlink and uplink data channels. Although the design of these channels is based on LTE, there are some differences, particularly in the uplink, with the introduction of subcarrier-level transmission. The similarities have enabled rapid specification, while the enhancements in the design enable the achievement of the stated targets for NB-IoT.

34 citations

Patent
21 Aug 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, channel state information (CSI) and acknowledgement (ACK) enhancements in Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced enabling communications over an unlicensed spectrum are disclosed.
Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) and acknowledgement (ACK) reporting enhancements in Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) enabling communications over an unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. For example, ACK/NAK may include unlicensed spectrum interference information, such as WIFI interference. Additionally, in anticipation of a future downlink transmission, UEs may report WiFI interference to base stations absent a current downlink transmission. Also, CSI-RS and/or IMR resources may be staggered across subframes and/or within slots of subframes. Further, CSI reporting may include separate reports for CSI-RS resources that experience unlicensed spectrum interference and interference free CSI-RS resources. Still further, CSI reports may include a request to the base station to switch the current channel or band. Finally, inter-RAT ACK and CSI reporting may be provided on a second unlicensed spectrum band, such as a WIFI band, for a first unlicensed spectrum band, such as an LTE/LTE-A unlicensed band.

33 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202316
202242
202156
202082
2019135
2018192