Preface
Goal and Objective of the Book
This book was prompted by the desire to fill the gap between theoretical descriptions and a more pedagogical description of the main technological components of International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced (IMT-Advanced) such as Radio Resource Management (RRM), Carrier Aggregation (CA), improved MIMO support, and relaying. The book also covers the latest research innovations beyond the IMT-Advanced system, in particular, promising areas such as Coordinated Multipoint transmission or reception (CoMP), Network Coding (NC), Device-to-Device (D2D) and spectrum sharing.
Each chapter presents the basis of its topic in a simple way. A review of the latest research advances for that topic is then given. A special emphasis in each area is given to the state of the art of global standardization, in particular LTE-A. Finally, each chapter concludes by looking towards the future and discussing predictions. The reader is expected to have completed a basic undergraduate course in digital communications and mathematics (i.e. probability, calculus and linear algebra).
In order to help the reader extract the important information, the most relevant statements in every chapter are framed in a gray color, or emphasized in italic.
Structure of the Book
Chapter 1 provides an overview of cellular technology evolution and the latest market and technology trends. Chapter 2 presents innovative concepts for advanced RRM. Carrier Aggregation techniques are presented ...
