Title
LTE-Advanced Radio Access Enhancements: A Survey
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11277-014-2062-y
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
LTE-Advanced,Carrier aggregation,MIMO,Heterogeneous network,Relay nodes,CoMP transmission and reception
Radio resource management,Computer science,Computer network,MIMO,Access stratum,Cellular network,Heterogeneous network,Radio access network,LTE Advanced,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
80
3
0929-6212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.79
212
Authors
3
Search Limit
100212
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad Dehghani1110.79
Kamran Arshad232826.17
Richard MacKenzie3444.41