The way forward to the next generation radio access network beyond IMT-Advanced: Potential technologies and overall framework

Based on a survey on the technical challenges to the future radio access network beyond LTA-Advanced, which should offer very high average areal throughput to support a vast amount of data traffic and user density with energy-efficient operation, we discuss the potential techniques and propose an overall framework.

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