LTE-Advanced

ChunYen@itri.org.tw 2011.3.22

Agenda
What is Carrier Aggregation?
CA working scope for LTE Rel-10 CA deployment scenarios

Carrier Aggregation Features

Primary cell (PCell) and secondary cell (SCell) Cross Carrier Scheduling Activation and Deactivation Mechanism

CA Related Issues

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What is Carrier Aggregation (CA)?

Two or more component carriers (CCs) or cells are aggregated in order to support wider transmission bandwidths up to 100MHz. A UE may simultaneously receive or transmit on one or multiple CCs depending on its capabilities.

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CA Working Scope for LTE Rel-10

Rel-8/9 backward compatible carriers (CCs) are the basic building blocks.
Signalling should support aggregation of up to 5 DL and 5 UL CCs

With regards to FDD DL:

Support both intra- and inter-band aggregation. Support inter-band aggregation under deployments with RRH and repeaters

With regards to FDD UL and TDD:

Work on intra-band aggregation should be prioritised Deployment scenarios with RRH and repeaters implying multiple TA maintenance should be supported when inter-band aggregation is supported
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Downlink and Uplink Asymmetry

Asymmetric Number of DL and UL Component Carriers
More DL CCs can be configured than UL CCs It is not supported to configure a UE with more UL CCs than DL CCs
FDD band #1
DL CC#1 UL CC#1 DL CC#2

Example 1:
FDD band #2
UL CC#2

Can configure to an UE

DL CC#1

FDD band #1

Example 2:
FDD band #2

UL CC#1 DL CC#2 UL CC#2

Can NOT configure to an UE

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CA Deployment Scenarios

Scenario 1: Cells with nearly the same coverage

Scenario 4: Remote Radio Heads (RRHs)

Scenario 2: F2 Cell with smaller coverage

Scenario 5: Frequency Selective Repeaters

Scenario 3: F2 antennas are directed to the cell boundaries of F1

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Primary Cell and Secondary Cell

Primary Cell: the cell, operating on the primary frequency, in which the UE either performs the initial connection establishment procedure or initiates the connection reestablishment procedure, or the cell indicated as the primary cell in the handover procedure. Secondary Cell: a cell, operating on a secondary frequency, which may be configured once an RRC connection is established and which may be used to provide additional radio resources.

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Cross Carrier Scheduling

Cross-carrier scheduling with the Carrier Indicator Field (CIF) allows the PDCCH of a serving cell to schedule resources on another serving cell:
Cross-carrier scheduling does not apply to PCell When the PDCCH of an SCell is configured, cross-carrier scheduling does not apply to this SCell i.e. it is always scheduled via its PDCCH;

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Activation and Deactivation

To enable reasonable UE battery consumption when CA is configured, an activation/deactivation mechanism of SCells is supported.
Activation/deactivation does not apply to PCell.

The activation/deactivation mechanism is based on the combination of a MAC control element and deactivation timers. When an SCell is deactivated,
the UE does NOT need to receive PDCCH/PDSCH for the SCell the UE does NOT report CQI/PMI/RI for the SCell the UE does NOT transmit on UL-SCH for the SCell the UE does NOT transmit SRS for the SCell
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CA Related Issues
System Information Handling Measurement Handover Procedure Radio Link Failure Buffer Status Report Power Headroom Report

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References
[1] RP-100661: Carrier Aggregation for LTE WID [2] 3GPP TR 36.912: Feasibility Study for Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced) [3] 3GPP TS 36.300: E-UTRA and E-UTRAN; Overall description; (Stage 2) [4] 3GPP TS 36.321: E-UTRA MAC Protocol Specification [5] 3GPP TS 36.331: E-UTRA RRC Protocol Specification

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Q&A
Thank you

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