TY - GEN
T1 - Inter-band carrier aggregation in heterogeneous networks
T2 - 2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014
AU - Ntouni, Georgia D.
AU - Boulogeorgos, Alexandros Apostolos A.
AU - Karas, Dimitrios S.
AU - Tsiftsis, Theodoros A.
AU - Foukalas, Fotis
AU - Kapinas, Vasileios M.
AU - Karagiannidis, George K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/21
Y1 - 2014/10/21
N2 - This paper deals with the performance assessment of the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced Release 12 physical downlink channel, emphasizing on the Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology and its recent advances, such as the challenging interband non-contiguous solution. By processing the LTE-Advanced waveforms in the time domain (instead of the more common baseband), we describe the underlying system model and the associated simulation setup in detail. The error performance of the system is evaluated under different physical layer parameters and CA scenarios, according to the latest updates of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical specifications. Our analysis reveals that the Heterogeneous Band (HetBand) non-contiguous CA technology can be efficiently applied to the design of next generation mobile broadband networks, given that the exploitation of both unlicensed and frequency dispersed bands might be a promising solution against the spectrum scarcity.
AB - This paper deals with the performance assessment of the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced Release 12 physical downlink channel, emphasizing on the Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology and its recent advances, such as the challenging interband non-contiguous solution. By processing the LTE-Advanced waveforms in the time domain (instead of the more common baseband), we describe the underlying system model and the associated simulation setup in detail. The error performance of the system is evaluated under different physical layer parameters and CA scenarios, according to the latest updates of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical specifications. Our analysis reveals that the Heterogeneous Band (HetBand) non-contiguous CA technology can be efficiently applied to the design of next generation mobile broadband networks, given that the exploitation of both unlicensed and frequency dispersed bands might be a promising solution against the spectrum scarcity.
KW - Carrier aggregation
KW - heterogeneous bands
KW - inter-band spectrum aggregation
KW - long term evolution-advanced
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84911952466
U2 - 10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933470
DO - 10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933470
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911952466
T3 - 2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 842
EP - 847
BT - 2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 26 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -