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7 STATUS OF RELEASE 10: HSPA+ ENHANCEMENTS AND LTE‐ADVANCED<br />
7.1 LTE‐ADVANCED FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGIES<br />
3GPP LTE Rel-10 and beyond, also known as LTE-Advanced, is intended to meet the diverse<br />
requirements of advanced applications that will become common in the wireless marketplace in the<br />
foreseeable future. It will also dramatically lower the Capital Expenses (CAPEX) and Operating Expenses<br />
(OPEX) of future broadband wireless networks. Moreover, LTE-Advanced will provide for backward<br />
compatibility with LTE and will meet or exceed all IMT-Advanced requirements.<br />
This section will discuss the enabling technologies of LTE-Advanced Rel-10. The organization of the<br />
discussion is as follows: Section 7.1.1 will focus on the support of wider bandwidth. Section 7.1.2 and<br />
7.1.3 will examine uplink and downlink enhancements, respectively. Section 7.1.4 will discuss the support<br />
for Relays in the LTE-Advanced network. Section 7.1.5 will detail the support of heterogeneous network.<br />
Section 7.1.6 will present MBMS enhancements and Section 7.1.7 will discuss the SON enhancements.<br />
Section 7.1.8 will expound on the vocoder rate enhancements.<br />
7.1.1 SUPPORT OF WIDER BANDWIDTH<br />
Carrier Aggregation (CA) has been identified as a key technology that will be crucial for LTE-Advanced in<br />
meeting IMT-Advanced requirements. The need for CA in LTE-Advanced arises from the requirement to<br />
support bandwidths larger than those currently supported in LTE while at the same time ensuring<br />
backward compatibility with LTE. Consequently, in order to support bandwidths larger than 20 MHz, two<br />
or more component carriers are aggregated together in LTE-Advanced. An LTE-Advanced terminal with<br />
reception capability beyond 20 MHz can simultaneously receive transmissions on multiple component<br />
carriers. An LTE Rel-8 terminal, on the other hand, can receive transmissions on a single component<br />
carrier only, provided that the structure of the component carrier follows the Rel-8 specifications.<br />
The spectrum aggregation scenarios can be broadly classified into three categories:<br />
1. Intra-band adjacent<br />
2. Intra-band non-adjacent<br />
3. Inter-band<br />
Examples of these scenarios are provided in Figure 7.1.<br />
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