Improved Component Carrier Selection Method for Non-Continuous Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems

In order to meet the requirement of wider bandwidth in IMT-Advanced, carrier aggregation (CA) is introduced by 3GPP to support bandwidth up to 100MHz in its LTE-Advanced standards. An LTE Rel.10 UE can aggregate up to 5 component carriers (CCs) simultaneously, but may be assigned only part of the total available CCs depending on its capability or traffic load. Thus, a proper CC selection method is necessary. First, two traditional CC selection methods respectively named Random and Round Robin CC selection are investigated, which can well balance the load across different CCs. However, neither of them is suitable for non-continuous CA scenarios through our analysis. To solve this problem, an improved CC selection method for non-continuous CA is proposed in this paper. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms both of the traditional ones.

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