Paper Info
Title
A novel approach to supporting legacy devices in LTE networks
Abstract
The explosive growth in data traffic is resulting in a spectrum crunch forcing many wireless network operators to look towards refarming their 2G spectrum and deploy more spectrally efficient Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. However, mobile network operators face a challenge when it comes to spectrum refarming because 2G technologies such as Global System for Mobile (GSM) is still widely used for low bandwidth machine-to-machine (M2M) devices. In this paper we propose a novel solution to provide GSM connectivity within an LTE carrier through an efficient overlay by reserving a few physical resource blocks for GSM. With this approach, operators can refarm their 2G spectrum to LTE efficiently while still providing some GSM connectivity to their low data rate M2M customers. Furthermore, spectrum can be dynamically shared between LTE and GSM. An approach similar to that proposed in this paper can also be applied for other narrow band technology overlays over LTE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831202
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless network operators,machine-to-machine devices,cellular radio,lte networks,global system for mobile,2g spectrum,legacy devices,mobile network operators,gsm,long term evolution,telecommunication traffic,data traffic,spectrum crunch,physical resource blocks,novel approach,lte technology,m2m devices,signal to noise ratio,ofdm,bandwidth,interference
Wireless network,GSM,Computer science,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Small cell,Cellular network,Overlay,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,LTE Advanced
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2334-0983
2
0.48
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xingqin Lin1121365.14
Harish Viswanathan247768.86