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LTE-Advanced Radio Access Enhancements: A Survey

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Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-Advanced) is the next step in LTE evolution and allows operators to improve network performance and service capabilities through smooth deployment of new techniques and technologies. LTE-Advanced uses some new features on top of the existing LTE standards to provide better user experience and higher throughputs. Some of the most significant features introduced in LTE-Advanced are carrier aggregation, enhancements in heterogeneous networks, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception, enhanced multiple input multiple output usage and deployment of relay nodes in the radio network. Mentioned features are mainly aimed to enhance the radio access part of the cellular networks. This survey article presents an overview of the key radio access features and functionalities of the LTE-Advanced radio access network, supported by the simulation results. We also provide a detailed review of the literature together with a very rich list of the references for each of the features. An LTE-Advanced roadmap and the latest updates and trends in LTE markets are also presented.

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The research leading to these results was partially derived from the University of Greenwich Research & Enterprise Investment Programme Grant under Agreement Number RAE-ES-01/14. The simulations results presented in this article have been generated using Vienna LTE-Advanced Link Level Simulator and Vienna LTE Link Level Simulator provided by the Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

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  1. Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent, UK

    Mohammad Dehghani & Kamran Arshad

  2. BT TSO, Adastral Park, Ipswich, England

    Richard MacKenzie

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Dehghani, M., Arshad, K. & MacKenzie, R. LTE-Advanced Radio Access Enhancements: A Survey. Wireless Pers Commun 80, 891–921 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-2062-y

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