Current developments in LTE-ADVANCED: Radio resource management review

This paper provides a review of current technology components currently used by OFDMA-based Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-Advanced). LTE-Advanced significantly enhanced the previous versions of LTE Release 8/9 to support higher data rates and wider coverage resulting in best experience for users. Some of the technologies discussed in this paper are enhanced Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), advanced repeaters or known as relaying systems, coordinated multipoint transmission/reception and carrier aggregation to expand the capability of the bandwidth spectrum. Among the issues addressed in this paper are related to balancing of transmit power control for both base stations and relay stations and also frequency spectrum allocation in order to avoid any interference within a mobile cell. This also includes how to manage different types of interferences such as intercell interference, intersymbol and intercarrier interferences in the LTE-Advanced system.