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LTE Advanced
This paper addresses the performance targets and the technology components being studied by 3GPP for LTE Advanced. The high level targets of LTE-Advanced are to meet or exceed the IMT-Advanced requirements set by ITU-R. A short history of the LTE standard is offered, along with a discussion of its standards and performance. The technology components considered for LTE-Advanced include extended spectrum flexibility to support up to 100MHz bandwidth, enhanced multi-antenna solutions with up to eight layer transmission in the downlink and up to four layer transmission in the uplink, coordinated multi-point transmission/reception, the use of advanced relaying and heterogeneous network deployments.
