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Scenario A<br />

Intra-Band<br />

Adjacent<br />

Scenario B<br />

Intra-Band<br />

Non-Adjacent<br />

Scenario C<br />

Inter-Band<br />

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UL<br />

UL<br />

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UL<br />

Network<br />

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Network<br />

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EUTRA – FDD UL<br />

Band j<br />

Network<br />

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Network<br />

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EUTRA – FDD UL<br />

Band j<br />

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EUTRA – FDD UL<br />

Band j<br />

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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 />

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<strong>DL</strong><br />

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Network<br />

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Network A resources<br />

combined with Network D<br />

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Network<br />

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EUTRA – FDD <strong>DL</strong><br />

Band j<br />

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Band j<br />

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<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 />

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