You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Scenario A<br />
Intra-Band<br />
Adjacent<br />
Scenario B<br />
Intra-Band<br />
Non-Adjacent<br />
Scenario C<br />
Inter-Band<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
EUTRA – FDD UL<br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
EUTRA – FDD UL<br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
EUTRA – FDD UL<br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Figure 7.1. Spectrum Aggregation Scenarios for FDD.<br />
For LTE Rel-10 CA, each component carrier aggregated together is a LTE Rel-8 carrier. That is, each<br />
component carrier uses the LTE Rel-8 numerology and occupies a maximum of 110 resource blocks.<br />
Both contiguous component carriers and non-contiguous component carriers are supported. The exact<br />
CA scenarios will be determined by RAN 4 in a release-independent manner as discussed in Section 7.4.<br />
In LTE Rel-10, both symmetric as well as asymmetric CA are supported. In symmetric CA, the numbers of<br />
<strong>DL</strong> and UL component carriers are the same. In asymmetric CA the numbers and bandwidths of <strong>DL</strong> and<br />
UL carriers are different. For simplicity, LTE Rel-10 only supports asymmetrical CA where the number of<br />
<strong>DL</strong> carriers is greater than or equal to the number of UL carriers. In TDD deployments, however, the<br />
number of component carriers in UL and <strong>DL</strong> is typically the same.<br />
For the MAC to PHY mapping strategy, separate transport blocks, HARQ entities, and HARQ feedback<br />
are supported for each component carrier. This allows for maximum reuse of Rel-8 functionalities and<br />
better HARQ performance due to carrier component-based link adaptation. This strategy also implies that<br />
the uplink transmission format is a multi-carrier transmission consisting of an aggregation of single carrier<br />
DFT-S-OFDM (NxDFT-S-OFDM) illustrated in Figure 7.2.<br />
www.4gamericas.org February 2011 Page 52<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
EUTRA – FDD UL<br />
Band k<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network A resources<br />
combined with Network B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Combined Combined<br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network A resources<br />
combined with Network D<br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
EUTRA – FDD <strong>DL</strong><br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
EUTRA – FDD <strong>DL</strong><br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Combined Combined<br />
UL<br />
UL<br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
Network A resources<br />
combined with Network D<br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
EUTRA – FDD <strong>DL</strong><br />
Band j<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
B<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Combined Combined<br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
<strong>DL</strong><br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
C<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
A<br />
EUTRA – FDD <strong>DL</strong><br />
Band k<br />
Network<br />
D<br />
Network<br />
A