Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations
Repeaters have been an attractive solution for mobile operators to upgrade their wireless networks at low cost and to extend network coverage effectively. Since the first LTE commercial deployment in 2009, many mobile operators have launched LTE networks by upgrading their 3G and legacy networks. Be...
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| author | Woon-Young Yeo Sang-Min Lee Gyung-Ho Hwang Jae-Hoon Kim |
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| description | Repeaters have been an attractive solution for mobile operators to upgrade their wireless networks at low cost and to extend
network coverage effectively. Since the first LTE commercial deployment in 2009, many mobile operators have launched LTE
networks by upgrading their 3G and legacy networks. Because all 3G frequency bands are shared with the frequency bands
for LTE deployment and 3G mobile operators have an enormous number of repeaters, reusing 3G repeaters in LTE networks is
definitely a practical and cost-efficient solution. However, 3G repeaters usually do not support spatial multiplexing with multiple
antennas, and thus it is difficult to reuse them directly in LTE networks. In order to support spatial multiplexing of LTE, the role
of 3G repeaters should be replaced with small LTE base stations or MIMO-capable repeaters. In this paper, a repeater network
is proposed to reuse 3G repeaters in LTE deployment while still supporting multilayer transmission of LTE. Interestingly, the
proposed network has a higher cluster throughput than an LTE network with MIMO-capable repeaters. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4f4e4777d60d4416bb269445fac03fa92025-08-20T03:20:18ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2013-01-01201310.1155/2013/185372185372Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base StationsWoon-Young Yeo0Sang-Min Lee1Gyung-Ho Hwang2Jae-Hoon Kim3Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Republic of KoreaNetwork Technology R&D Center, SK Telecom, 9-1 Sunae-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-838, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Computer Engineering, Hanbat National University, San 16-1 Dukmyung-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-719, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Ajou University, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749, Republic of KoreaRepeaters have been an attractive solution for mobile operators to upgrade their wireless networks at low cost and to extend network coverage effectively. Since the first LTE commercial deployment in 2009, many mobile operators have launched LTE networks by upgrading their 3G and legacy networks. Because all 3G frequency bands are shared with the frequency bands for LTE deployment and 3G mobile operators have an enormous number of repeaters, reusing 3G repeaters in LTE networks is definitely a practical and cost-efficient solution. However, 3G repeaters usually do not support spatial multiplexing with multiple antennas, and thus it is difficult to reuse them directly in LTE networks. In order to support spatial multiplexing of LTE, the role of 3G repeaters should be replaced with small LTE base stations or MIMO-capable repeaters. In this paper, a repeater network is proposed to reuse 3G repeaters in LTE deployment while still supporting multilayer transmission of LTE. Interestingly, the proposed network has a higher cluster throughput than an LTE network with MIMO-capable repeaters.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/185372 |
| spellingShingle | Woon-Young Yeo Sang-Min Lee Gyung-Ho Hwang Jae-Hoon Kim Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations The Scientific World Journal |
| title | Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations |
| title_full | Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations |
| title_fullStr | Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations |
| title_short | Coexistence of 3G Repeaters with LTE Base Stations |
| title_sort | coexistence of 3g repeaters with lte base stations |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/185372 |
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