In recent years, free space optical (FSO) communication has gained significant importance
owing to its unique features: large bandwidth, license free spectrum, high data rate, easy …

Conventional cellular systems are designed to ensure ubiquitous coverage with an always
present wireless channel irrespective of the spatial and temporal demand of service. This …

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 …

Cellular networks have been undergoing an extraordinarily fast evolution in the past years.
With commercial deployments of Release 8 (Rel-8) Long Term Evolution (LTE) already …

Decode‐and‐forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access
networks and is currently being standardized in 3GPP to be part of the LTE‐Advanced …

By the design and optimization of upcoming radio access techniques and a further evolution
of the existing system, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) had laid down the …

This paper addresses the interference management problem in the context of LTE-
Advanced femtocells. Due to the expected large number of user-deployed cells, centralized …

(57) ABSTRACT A method of transmitting control information in a carrier aggregation system
is provided. The method includes: trans mitting bandwidth information of a component …

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 …

In this paper we address codebook design for LTE-Advanced downlink. In order to meet the
peak spectral efficiency requirements of up to 30 bit/s/Hz, LTE-Advanced supports up to …