Capacity evaluation of Carrier Aggregation techniques in LTE-Advanced system

Ibraheem Shayea*, Mahamod Ismail, Rosdiadee Nordin

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Abstract

In Long Term Evaluation (LTE)-Advanced system, Carrier Aggregation (CA) technique that provide substantial enhancement in data rate transmission for downlink and uplink over wider bandwidth have been proposed. The basic idea of CA technique is to aggregate several smaller contiguous or noncontiguous components, thus concurrent radio resources across multiple carriers are utilized. This paper overview CA technique including data aggregation schemes, bandwidth structure, and CA implementation in LTE-Advanced systems. A simulation model for LTE-Advanced in the downlink has been developed to investigate the impact of CA using up to five Component Carriers (CCs) on the system performance in terms of average throughput and number of active users per cell with respect to non-CA. Simulation show that CA improves the system performance in term of average user throughput within the cell coverage area as CCs increases. Furthermore, CA implementation can enhance the system capacity in term of number of active users in each cell.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2012
Pages99-103
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2012 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 3 Jul 20125 Jul 2012

Publication series

Name2012 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2012

Conference

Conference2012 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2012
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period3/07/125/07/12

Keywords

  • Carrier Aggregation
  • LTE-Advanced System
  • throughput

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