LTE Advanced Key Features
LTE refers to
the advanced version of LTE that is being developed by 3GPP to meet or exceed
the requirements of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a true
fourth generation radio-communication standard known as IMT-Advanced. 4G LTE,
whose project name is LTE-Advanced, is being specified initially in Release 10
of the 3GPP standard, with a functional freeze targeted for March 2011.
Following is the Key Features for
LTE Advanced:
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Peak data rates: Downlink – 1 Gbps and Uplink – 500 Mbps.
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Spectrum efficiency: 3 times greater than LTE.
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Peak spectrum efficiency: Downlink – 30 bps/Hz; Uplink – 15
bps/Hz.
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Spectrum use: the ability to support scalable bandwidth use and
spectrum aggregation where non-contiguous spectrum needs to be used.
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Latency: from Idle to Connected in less than 50 ms and then
shorter than 5 ms one way for individual packet transmission.
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Cell edge user throughput to be twice that of LTE.
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Average user throughput to be 3 times that of LTE.
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Mobility: Same as that in LTE
§ Carrier
Aggregation
§ Higher order
MIMO
§ Relay nodes and
Heterogeneous networks
§ Enhanced
Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
§ Coordinated
Multipoint (CoMP) Transmission – Formalized in 3GPP Release 11
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