Cooperative communication technologies for LTE-advanced

The LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system is currently under development to allow for significantly higher spectral efficiency and data throughput than LTE systems. In a wireless system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with frequency reuse factor one such as LTE, the achievable cell spectral efficiency is often limited by the inter-cell interference or coverage shortage of base stations. Hence in LTE-A, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission/reception (a.k.a. multi-cell MIMO or base station cooperation) and relaying technologies are being introduced to clear these major performance hurdles. In this paper, overall picture of cooperative communication technologies being discussed in LTE-A systems including CoMP and relaying is presented, together with considerations on system design.

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