LTE and LTE-Advanced have undeniably provided a major step forward in mobile
communication capability, enabling mobile service provisioning to approach for the first time …

LTE-Advanced extends the capabilities originally developed in LTE within the 3GPP. Carrier
aggregationis the most significant, albeit complex, improvement provided by LTE-Advanced …

Abstract Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-Advanced) is the next step in LTE evolution
and allows operators to improve network performance and service capabilities through …

Eventually it will penetrate into our daily life and change the way we live just like many
technological innovations whose original research came from the life needs. To achieve …

Long-term evolution (LTE) represents an emerging and promising technology for providing
broadband ubiquitous Internet access. For this reason, several research groups are trying to …

Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA), known as the Long Term Evolution
(LTE) technology, brings cellular communication to the fourth generation (4G) era. In this …

Today's 4G LTE systems bring unprecedented mobile broadband performance to over a
billion of users across the globe. Recently, work on a 5G mobile communication system has …

This article provides an overview of the LTE radio interface, recently approved by the 3GPP,
together with a more in-depth description of its features such as spectrum flexibility, multi …

Carrier aggregation is one of the key features for LTE-Advanced. By means of CA, users
gain access to a total bandwidth of up to 100 MHz in order to meet the IMT-Advanced …

In the future steps of 3GPP LTE-Advanced, we will need to ensure the sustainability of 3GPP
radio access technologies in order to respond to the anticipated challenging requirements of …