… techniques advocated in this article lie in the intersection of both categories 1 and 2 as they
aim to efficiently … (CRSs) need to be transmitted in almost every transmission time interval (TTI…

… achieve wider transmission bandwidths. … -efficient methods of exploiting MSCA [30]. The
focus of our work is designing new methods of exploiting MSCA to improve the energy efficiency …

… , when used along with multi-carrier modulation for backward … due to the consideration of
poweramplify (PA) efficiency or … proposed method is equally applicable to multiple physical …

… multicarrier technique termed spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexing (SEFDM) in
a carrier aggregation (CA… bandwidth, thereby improving spectral efficiency. CA is a long term …

… The multi-carrier signal cannot be treated as a single signal and … transmission procedure
per CC, including the modulation, … uplink control design to provide efficient data transmission. …

… aggregation (CA) technique is employed to allow user equipment (UE) to use multiple carriers
for high data rate communications. However, multi-carrier transmission … aggregation (DCA…

… the transmission characteristics of carriers in different transponders. In particular, we propose
a flexible carrier allocation approach for … system that employs multi-carrier transponders. In …

… Our approach differs from the conventional water filling (WF) … where pi is the average transmit
power on the i−th channel, N0 is … spread, Td, having assumed a multi-carrier system. • Each …

… Examples of some physical layer enhancement techniques being … However, multi-carrier
transmission will generally be … This allows for efficient support of techniques such as load …

… a digital pre-distortion technique and a filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) technique have been
… more efficient approach to utilize the inter-band non-contiguous CA is to boost transmission …