On the Coverage Extension and Capacity Enhancement of Inband Relay Deployments in LTE-Advanced Networks

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks and is currently being standardized in 3GPP to be part of the LTE-Advanced release 10. Two inband operation modes of relay nodes are to be supported, namely Type 1 and Type 1b. Relay nodes promise to offer consi...

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Main Authors: Abdallah Bou Saleh, Simone Redana, Jyri Hämäläinen, Bernhard Raaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/894846