LTE-Advanced Air Interface Technology

Xincheng Zhang graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Beijing, China) in 1992. He has been working for China Mobile for 20 years as a technical expert with a solid understanding of wireless communication technologies. He is working as a senior wireless network specialist in the fields of antenna arrays, analog/digital signal processing, radio resource management, propagation modeling, and so on. He has participated in many large-scale wireless communication system designs for a variety of cellular systems using various radio access technologies, including the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), and Long Term Evolution (LTE). He is the author or coauthor of eight books on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Worldwide.

LTE Advanced significantly enhances the existing LTE Rel-8 and supports much higher peak rates, higher throughput, greater coverage, and lower latencies, resulting in a better user experience. This book discusses in detail the air interface technologies of LTE-A. The text fully explains the selection of technology and its evolution. The authors have attended many 3GPP meetings and make it easy for a senior technical person to start learning LTE-A.

From LTE to LTE-A: Review of LTE. Performance Targets of LTE-A. LTE-A Technologies. Carrier Aggregation: Basic Concepts of CA. CA Configurations. CA Layer 2 Structure. DL CA Operations. UL CA Operations. CA Scheduling. RRM and Mobility. RF Consideration for CA. Collaborative Multipoint: General Description. CoMP Technology. Reference Signal Design. CoMP Feedback. DL CoMP. UL CoMP. CoMP Limitation. CoMP Performance. MIMO: Wireless Channel Characteristics. Overview of MIMO. DL MIMO. UL MIMO. Multiuser MIMO. Cooperative MIMO. Beamforming and DL Dual-Stream Technology. Relaying: Relay Technology. Relay Architecture. Relay Radio Protocol. Relay Performance Analysis. Relay Evolution. Self-Organizing Network: Self-Configuration. Self-Optimization. Self-Healing. SON Outlook. Heterogeneous Networks: Features of the Heterogeneous Network. Heterogeneous Network Combined with Cloud RAN. Radio Strategy.