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Advanced Technologies for LTE Advanced

Edited by: Salah Eddine El Ayoubi, Yeon Jeong, Oh-Soon Shin and Yoan Shin

  1. The estimation of fast-fading LTE downlink channels in high-speed applications of LTE advanced is investigated in this article. In order to adequately track the fast time-varying channel response, an adaptive ...

    Authors: Xuewu Dai, Wuxiong Zhang, Jing Xu, John E Mitchell and Yang Yang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:232
  2. One of the key challenges for future orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based networks is inter-cell interference coordination. With full frequency reuse and small inter-site distances, coping with ...

    Authors: Harald Burchardt, Zubin Bharucha, Gunther Auer and Harald Haas
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:180
  3. This article examines spectrum allocation and partitioning schemes to mitigate cross-tier interference under downlink beamforming environments. The enhanced SIR owing to beamforming allows more femtocells to s...

    Authors: Sunheui Ryoo, Changhee Joo and Saewoong Bahk
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:160
  4. In multi-hop relay systems, the end-to-end channel capacity is restricted by bottleneck node. In order to prevent some relay nodes from being the bottleneck of system and to guarantee the end-to-end channel ca...

    Authors: Pham Thanh Hiep, Fumie Ono and Ryuji Kohno
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:153
  5. Relaying is one of the enabling techniques for next generation systems. Factors deciding on performance of relay-enhanced systems are the resource allocation and coordination. The capacity of the wireless rela...

    Authors: Jacek Góra and Simone Redana
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:124
  6. Carrier aggregation (CA) is a promising technology that will allow IMT-Advanced system candidates to achieve spectrum bandwidths of up to 100 MHz using available system resource blocks (RB), even if these are ...

    Authors: Guillermo Galaviz, David H Covarrubias, Angel G Andrade and Salvador Villarreal
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:107
  7. Long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) has emerged as a promising mobile broadband access technology aiming to cope with the increasing traffic demand in wireless networks. However, the enhanced spectral efficie...

    Authors: Vicente Osa, Carlos Herranz, Jose F Monserrat and Xavier Gelabert
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:99
  8. In cooperative relaying, the base station broadcasts a signal to the destination, the relay overhears it and forwards it in a next time slot to the destination. The latter combines the two received copies of t...

    Authors: Anis Jdidi and Tijani Chahed
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:88
  9. In a multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) cellular system where there are many candidate users, it is critical to select a user group which maximizes the overall throughput of the system. However...

    Authors: Kyeongjun Ko and Jungwoo Lee
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:71
  10. As the long term evolution (LTE) standard comes to an end, 3rd Generation Partnership Project is discussing further evolution of the LTE to meet the international mobile telecommunications advanced requirement...

    Authors: Thien-Toan Tran, Yoan Shin and Oh-Soon Shin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:54
  11. It is known that the conventional semi-orthogonal user selection based on a greedy algorithm cannot provide a globally optimal solution due to its semi-orthogonal property. To find a more optimal user set and ...

    Authors: Jiho Song, Jong-Ho Lee, Seong-Cheol Kim and Younglok Kim
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:36