Coexistence of LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi on 5 GHz With Corresponding Deployment Scenarios: A Survey

Long term evolution (LTE) carrier aggregation with 5 GHz unlicensed national informational infrastructure band has been pointed out by the industry as a good solution to handle the rapidly increasing amounts of data traffic. To provide fair coexistence of LTE-licensed assisted access (LTE-LAA) and Wi-Fi on 5 GHz, several coexistence mechanisms have already been proposed. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the coexistence of LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi on 5 GHz with corresponding deployment scenarios. We first analyze coexistence-related features of those two technologies, including motivation, LTE carrier aggregation with unlicensed band, LTE and Wi-Fi medium access control protocols comparison, coexistence challenges and enablers, performance difference between LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi, as well as co-channel interference. Second, we further extensively discuss current considerations about the coexistence of LTE-LAA and Wi-Fi. Third, influential factors for the classification of small cell scenarios, as well as four representative scenarios are investigated in detail. Then we explore a relatively smooth technical route for solving coexistence-related problems, which practically takes features of a specific scenario as the base for designing deployment mode of LTE-LAA and/or Wi-Fi. A scenario-oriented decision making procedure for the coexistence issue and the analysis on an example deployment scenario, including design and performance evaluation metrics focusing on the concept of the scenario-oriented coexistence are presented. We finally forecast further research trends on the basis of our conclusion.

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