Title :
A receiver for LTE Rel-11 and beyond supporting non-contiguous carrier aggregation
Author :
Sundstrom, Lars ; Anderson, Matthew ; Strandberg, Rune ; Ek, S. ; Svensson, Jorgen ; Fenghao Mu ; Olsson, T. ; ud Din, Imad ; Wilhelmsson, L. ; Eckerbert, D. ; Mattisson, Sven
Author_Institution :
Ericsson, Lund, Sweden
Abstract :
Carrier aggregation (CA) is introduced in 3GPP LTE Rel-10 [1] to meet the demand for further increased bitrates. While LTE Rel-10 supports simultaneous reception of two carriers either in contiguous intra-band or in inter-band CA configuration, the upcoming LTE Rel-11 will add support for non-contiguous (NC) carriers within bands. Supporting NC CA in handsets is a demanding challenge for several reasons. Foremost, the total bandwidth spanned by the carriers may be several times the bandwidth of the individual carriers, possibly spanning an entire band with interfering signals between desired carriers. Furthermore, the distance between TX and RX carriers will vary and worse, may be much smaller than the fixed duplex distance for LTE Rel-8 and W-CDMA single carrier operation [2-5].
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; code division multiple access; diversity reception; intercarrier interference; radio receivers; radiofrequency interference; wavelength division multiplexing; 3GPP LTE Rel-10; LTE Rel-11; LTE Rel-8; NC carrier; RX carrier; TX carrier; W-CDMA single carrier operation; carrier reception; contiguous intraband CA configuration; fixed duplex distance; handset; interband CA configuration; interfering signal; noncontiguous carrier aggregation; receiver; Baseband; CMOS integrated circuits; Harmonic analysis; Mixers; Power harmonic filters; Radio frequency; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4515-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487759
