Why CoMP ?

As you may learned from the evolution path of any wireless communication, the strongest motivation for new technology and new feature is to increase the throughput and/or to increase the reliability of the communication. Some features are more focused on the reliability issues and some features would be more focused on throughput issues. Let's take a high level view of several LT features of LT in terms of the two aspects, reliability and throughput. As you can naturally think, LT development started with S!S" configuration #! think this was only in development stage, by the time LT started being deployed everything was $ % $ &!&! by default' and the technology evolved to &!&". (efinately this is mainly for increasing the throughput. Since the initial LT deployment, $ % $ &!&" has been the dominent feagure for most of LT device and LT network. Then another evolution for throughput improvement started being adopted. !t was )arrier Aggregation #mainly )arrier Aggregation between two different bands'. "nce the throughput evolution by )arrier Aggregation is implemented, another path of evolution is being discussed. This new evolution path also eventually lead to throughput improvement, but direct effect of this evolution would be to increase spectral efficiency especially in cell*edge area and decrease interference between multiple cells by letting + communicate with multiple cells in specially coordinated manner. This new technology is called )o&, #)oordinated multi*point operation'. The motivation of )o&, officially described by -.,, are to improve the coverage of high data rate to improve the cell*edge throughput to increase the system throughput

Proposed Scenarios According to -.,, T/ -0.123 422.$.5 #$52-*53', 6 different scenario were proposed for the situations where )o&, can be benificial and these fource scenarios are illustrated as shown below.

7ollowing is brief description of each scenario 8 Scenario 2 9 Applies to :omogeneous network !ntra*site )o&, 8 Scenario $ 9 Applies to :omogeneous network )o&, between a &acro cell and multiple high T% power //: #/emote /adio :ead' 8 Scenario - 9 Applies to :eterogeneous network )o&, between a &acro cell and multiple low T% power //: #/emote /adio :ead' Transmission//eception points created by //: have different cell !( from the &acro )ell's !( 8 Scenario 6 9 Applies to :eterogeneous network )o&, between a &acro cell and multiple low T% power //: #/emote /adio :ead' Transmission//eception points created by //: have same cell !( as the &acro )ell's !(

CoMP Categories

CoMP Sets As the name #)o&, ; )oordinated &ult*,oint' implies, )o&, is operating in the unit of multiple points. This multiple points participating in )o&, is called a 'Set'. There are two large categories of )o&, Sets as described below. 8 )o&, "perating Set 9 )o&, "perating Set is a multiple geographically separated points participating in )o&, operation. ach points within a set can either directly or indirectly participates in )o&, operation. o (irect participation means that those points actually transmit data o !ndirect participation means that those points does not transmit data but influence on )o&, operation by contributing in making decisions on the user scheduling/beamforming )o&, Transmission point#s' within a set may work in a little different way depending on )o&, scheme#)ategory' o !n <T #<oint Transmission', all of these points would transmit data at the scheduled subframe

!n )S/)=, (,S, SS,S, only one of these points actually transmit data and other points assists with )o&, operation

8 )o&, &easurement Set 9 )o&, measurement set is a multiple geographically separated points about which a + perform measurement #)S!' and report the result.

RRC Aspect of CoMP )>!*/eport=oth*r22 ;;? S >+ @) A csi*!&*)onfigTo/eleaseList*r22 )S!*!&*)onfigTo/eleaseList*r22 ",T!"@AL, ** @eed "@ csi*!&*)onfigToAdd&odList*r22 )S!*!&*)onfigToAdd&odList*r22 ",T!"@AL, ** @eed "@ csi*,rocessTo/eleaseList*r22 )S!*,rocessTo/eleaseList*r22 ",T!"@AL, ** @eed "@ csi*,rocessToAdd&odList*r22 )S!*,rocessToAdd&odList*r22 ",T!"@AL ** @eed "@ B )S!*!&*)onfigToAdd&odList*r22 ;;? S >+ @) #S!C #2..ma%)S!*!&*r22'' "7 )S!*!&* )onfig*r22 csi*!&*)onfigToAdd&odList ; 7or a serving freDuency *+T/A@ configures one or more )S!* !&*)onfig only when transmission mode 25 is configured for the serving cell on this carrier freDuency. csi*,rocessToAdd&odList ; 7or a serving freDuency *+T/A@ configures one or more )S!* ,rocess only when transmission mode 25 is configured for the serving cell on this carrier freDuency. )S!*!&*)onfig*r22 ;;? S >+ @) A csi*!&*)onfig!d*r22 )S!*!&*)onfig!d*r22, resource)onfig*r22 !@T . / #5..-2', subframe)onfig*r22 !@T . / #5..2E6', ... B resource)onfig ; )S! reference signal configuration, see TS -0.$2- F.$.0 and TS -0.$22 table 0.25.E.$*2 and 0.25.E.$*$G for 6 / s. 8 TS -0.$22 * Table 0.25.E.$*2; &apping from )S! reference signal configuration to #k', l' ' for normal cyclic prefi% 9

subframe)onfig ; !H)S!I/S 8 -0.$22 * Table 0.25.E.-*2; )S! reference signal subframe configuration 9