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:
§  Peak data rates: Downlink – 1 Gbps and  Uplink – 500 Mbps.
§  Spectrum efficiency: 3 times greater than LTE.
§  Peak spectrum efficiency: Downlink – 30 bps/Hz; Uplink – 15 bps/Hz.
§  Spectrum use: the ability to support scalable bandwidth use and spectrum aggregation where non-contiguous spectrum needs to be used.
§  Latency: from Idle to Connected in less than 50 ms and then shorter than 5 ms one way for individual packet transmission.
§  Cell edge user throughput to be twice that of LTE.
§  Average user throughput to be 3 times that of LTE.
§  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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