LTE-Advanced:

Enhanced aggregation scheme

in contiguous intra-band carrier
aggregation.

eman Rockson

artment of Information and Communications Engineering

ngnam University.

Presentation Outline
Introduction
Literature
Idea

review

proposal

Algorithm

Proposal

Simulation

results

Introduction: Evolution of Mobile Communication Technologies

Contributing factors
Reduction in the price of mobile
equipments
Increase in the use of social media
Increased online gaming
Increased video streaming
K.G.Coffman and A.M.Odlyzko. Growth of the Internet. AT&T Labs - Research. 2001. PP 3 - 11

4G is the fourth generation of wireless mobile

telecommunications technology, succeeding 3G
systems with the objective of providing high
data rate.

Examples of 4G technologies

Long Term Evolution (LTE),

LTEAdvanced (LTE-A) and

Mobile WiMAX.

Overview: LTEAdvance
Support

1 Gb/s

downlink peak data rates up to

Supports
Higher

Carrier Aggregation

order MIMO

Enhanced

Inter-Cell Interference
Coordination
3GPP TR 36.913, Requirements for further advancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio
Access (E-UTRA), v.8.0.1, March 2009.

L. Miller. Carrier Aggregation Fundamentals for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.

Carrier Aggregation

3GPP Release 12 specifications

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up to 5 Carrier channels can be aggregated
Each channels bandwidth can be up to 20MHz
Therefore 20MHz X 5 CCs = 100MHz bandwidth
3GPP TR 36.913, Requirements for further advancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio
Access (E-UTRA), v.8.0.1, Mar. 2009.

Difference between Multi-carrier and Carrier Aggregation

Classes of carrier aggregation schemes

A. Z. Yonis, M. F. L. Abdullah and M. F. Ghanim, Design and Implementation of Intra

band Contiguous Component Carriers on LTE-A, International Journal of Computer
Applications, vol. 41, no. 14, (2012) , pp. 25-30.

LITERATURE REVIEW
----------------------------------------Researches already conducted
in Contiguous CA

LITERATURE REVIEW: Carrier Aggregation

Performance
* Using 20MHz of
bandwidth per Carrier
Channel

A.Z.Yonis, M. F. L. Abdullah and M. F. Ghanim, "Design and Implementation of Intra band

Contiguous Component Carriers on LTE-A", International Journal of Computer Applications,
Volume 41, No. 14, Mar. 2012, pp 28 - 29

3GPP TS 36.101. Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network. Evolved Universal Terrestrial
Radio Access (E-UTRA). User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception (Release 10). V10.2.1.
Mar. 2011. pp 21

Anritsu. "Understanding LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation". Vol. 2, no.1, pp 26, Sep. 2013

3GPP TS 36.101. Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network. Evolved

Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA). User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and
reception (Release 10). V10.2.1. Mar. 2011. pp 21

Idea Proposal

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Enhanced aggregation scheme

in contiguous intra-band carrier
aggregation.

Idea Proposal

3GPP TS 36.101. Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network. Evolved Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA). User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception (Release
10). V10.2.1. Mar. 2011. pp 18

 TS 36.101 User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception. 2012.

Anritsu. "Understanding LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation". Vol. 2, no.1, pp 26, Sep. 2013

Idea Proposal

Carrier Aggregation configurations for intra-band contiguous CA

TS 36.101 User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception.

2012.

Idea Proposal
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
-------------------------------------------------------------------Generate a wider bandwidth
(>40MHz) of an aggregated
downlink waveform using the
approved 3 (10MHz, 15MHz and
20MHz, at most) contiguous
channels in the CA_40
configuration.

Algorithm Proposal

Algorithm Discussion
Defined the number of component carriers and bandwidths
3 contiguous carriers
Defined carrier bandwidths ( at most 10,15 and
20MHz)
Component Carrier (CC) configuration
Used 1X3 vector to define the number of Resource
Block (RBs) for each component carrier
CC1 -> 50 RBs, CC2 -> 75RBs, CC3 -> 100RBs

Algorithm Discussion
Defined the number of component carriers and bandwidths
3 contiguous carriers
Defined carrier bandwidths ( at most 10,15 and
20MHz)
Component Carrier (CC) configuration
Used 1X3 vector to define the number of Resource
Block (RBs) for each component carrier
CC1 -> 50 RBs, CC2 -> 75RBs, CC3 -> 100RBs

Algorithm Discussion
Carrier aggregation parameter calculation
Defined vector to contain the center frequencies of
each carrier
Defined the Lower CC to have center frequency of
0MHz
Defined the spacing between each carrier (15 kHz)
Calculated the lower and higher frequency edges

Zhang L, Liu F, Huang L, Wang WB (2010) Traffic load balance methods in the LTE-Advanced system with

Algorithm Discussion
Oversampling Rate Calculation
* Made an assumption for 90% bandwidth
consumption
Calculate sampling rates of the component carriers
Calculate overall sampling rate for the aggregated
signal based on the individual sampling rates.

Algorithm Discussion
Waveform generation and carrier aggregation
Generated the waveform for each CC sampling it at
the overall sample rate
Modulated using Frequency Modulation
Aggregated to form the aggregated signal
Carrier aggregation waveform spectrum plotting

Simulation Results

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Simulation
Results
BW (Aggregated Channel) : 44.6000
MHz
Component Carrier 1: Fc: 16.8000
MHz
Component Carrier 2: Fc: 4.8000 MHz
Component Carrier 3: Fc: 12.3000
MHz

Simulation Results

Simulation Results

Simulation Results
[observation]

CC1 -> 100 RBs, CC2 -> 75RBs, CC3

-> 25RBs

Simulation Results
[observation]

CC1 -> 25 RBs, CC2 -> 75RBs, CC3 ->

100RBs

Results based
Conclusion
The size of the Resource Blocks (RB) affects
the bandwidth of a carrier.
The order of the aggregation based on the
RB sizes of each contribution carrier affects
the overall aggregated bandwidth.
Thus, an ascending order of aggregation
is the most optimal.

Thank
You.