LTE-ADVANCED-NEXT-GENERATION

A MITA V A G HOSH, R APEEPA T R A TASUK,

B ISHW ARUP M ONDAL, N ITIN M ANGAL VEDHE,

AND T IM T HOMAS, M OTOROLA I NC.

LTE-A DVANCED: N EXT-G ENERATION

W IRELESS B ROADBAND T ECHNOLOGY

Bandwidth extension in LTE-A is supported

via carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation allows

deployment bandwidths of up to 100 MHz, enabling

peak target data rates in excess of 1 Gb/s in the DL and 500 Mb/s in

the UL to be

achieved.