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One of the key ingredients of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is delivery of broadcast status messages among vehicles for safety purposes. This requires an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) that provides low average delay and high reliability. To this end, Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) has been commonly proposed for Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Nevertheless, the hidden- node...
This paper analyzes the radio channel between cellular network and Unmanned Aerial Vehichles (UAVs). The assessment is done by means of field measurements performed in a rural environment in Denmark. The tests were conducted in an operating LTE network (800 MHz), using a commercial cell phone placed inside the frame of a winged UAV. Trials were conducted with UAV flying at 5 different heights measured...
In this paper we set out to analyze the indoor capacity under a realistic high-rise building scenario. The study takes into consideration the number of indoor cells deployed per floor, different inter-site distances (ISDs), transmit power settings and outdoor macro interference levels. The outcome shows large variation in performance gain just by optimizing indoor cell locations, highlighting the...
The deployment of LTE in unlicensed spectrum has recently been proposed to improve cellular data capacity. Under the title of License Assisted Access (LAA), 3GPP is developing a global standard to enable operators of licensed spectrum to expand into unlicensed spectrum. For regions with less restrictive regulations, the LTE-U Forum has developed a proprietary implementation based on LTE Release 12...
The objective of this paper is to propose traffic steering solutions that aim at optimizing the end- user throughput. Two different implementations of an active mode throughput-based traffic steering algorithm for Heterogeneous Networks (HetNet) are introduced. One that always forces handover of the active users towards the cell offering the highest throughput, and a second scheme that aims at maximizing...
A next generation Beyond 4G (B4G) radio access technology is expected to become available around 2020 in order to cope with the exponential increase of mobile data traffic. In this paper, research motivations and high level requirements for a B4G local area concept are discussed. Our suggestions on the design of the B4G system as well as on the choice of its key technology components are also presented.
The traffic in cellular networks has been growing at an accelerated rate. In order to meet the rising demand for large data volumes, shrinking the cell size may be the only viable option. In fact, locally deployed small cells, namely picocells and femtocells, will certainly play a major role in meeting the IMT-Advanced requirements for the next generation of cellular networks. Notwithstanding, several...
This paper addresses the interference management problem in the context of LTE-Advanced femtocells. Due to the expected large number of user-deployed cells, centralized network planning becomes increasingly less viable. Consequently, we consider an architecture of autonomous decision makers. Our main contribution in this paper, denominated Generalized Autonomous Component Carrier Selection (G-ACCS),...
Market analyst research studies predict significant mobile data traffic increase over the next 5 to 10 years. The mobile network operators have to be able to meet these capacity demands by upgrading and optimizing their existing networks in parallel with the deployment of new radio access technologies. This paper proposes a mathematical modeling framework for the mobile broadband traffic growth to...
In this paper we analyse the downlink performance of a rank adaptive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system in a busty traffic cellular network. A LTE-Advanced system with multiple component carriers was selected as a study case. To highlight the advantage of using MIMO techniques, we used a single input multiple output (SIMO) system as a baseline for performance comparison. The gain mechanisms...
For the future LTE-Advanced network, one of the requirements in the uplink (UL) direction is to enhance the celledge user performances. Coordinated multi-point reception in the UL is one of the techniques being investigated to further improve the performance of LTE networks. With the help of the information coordination through the links between the sites and advanced receivers the UL performance...
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