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Relaying in LTE-Advanced

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Relays in LTE-Advanced

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Relaying and many other technologies have been standardized by Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in Release 10 of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) specifications, which results in huge performance enhancements compared to Release 9. To underline the major evolution, 3GPP approved LTE-Advanced as the official marker for Release 10 of LTE. In LTE-Advanced, relaying means that the eNodeB communicates with the user equipment (UE) with the help of a relay node (RN) wirelessly connected to the network. Specifically, the RN receives the RF signals transmitted from the eNodeB/UE and then forwards the processed signals to the UE/eNodeB.

Historical Background

With the increasing demand for high-rate applications and explosive growth in the number of UEs, the performance requirements of the wireless network, such as capacity and data rates, are much higher. One way of network performance enhancement is to deploy more eNodeBs. In this way, the distance...

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  1. College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

    Yi Lou

  2. Department of Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

    Honglin Zhao

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

  2. Institute of Faculty of Business and Information, University of Ontario, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Xiaodong Lin

  3. University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA

    Kuan Zhang

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Lou, Y., Zhao, H. (2020). Relaying in LTE-Advanced. In: Shen, X.(., Lin, X., Zhang, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78262-1_81

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