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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2014.39C.9.861

LTE-Based Macro Base Station Platform Architecture  

Jeong, Chan-Bok (ETRI, High-Speed Modem Research Section)
Bae, Hyeon-Deok (CBNU, School of Electrical Engineering)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.39C, no.9, 2014 , pp. 861-869 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper shows the research of a platform architecture relates to the LTE-based macro basestation; the proposed platform architecture is designed with the interface between the baseband signal and IF (Intermediate Frequency) per codeword. Using this method, we can smoothly transmit/receive a large amounts of data regardless of the number of antenna in a macro base station which is used technology such as massive MIMO. In this paper, We analyzed the evolution of LTE technology and the trend in the development of the LTE-based system. For validation of the proposed architecture, we compare the general architecture of a conventional with the proposed architecture. From the calculation results of transmission quantity data, we see that the proposed architecture can give better performance than the existing architecture. By presenting this architecture, we hope to provide a new foundation for Design and Implementation of a LTE base station platform which is used technology such as massive MIMO, carrier aggregation (CA), coordinated multi point (CoMP).
Keywords
LTE; MIMO; Carrier Aggregation; CoMP; Architecture;
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