Transmitter Architecture for CA: Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems

CA has already found its place in the deployment of 4G wireless networks. It successfully shows its value as an efficient way to increase the signal bandwidth within the available spectrum. This article is focused on demonstrating and analyzing the possible transmitter architecture solutions for CA. Further, the benefits and issues of using concurrent dual-band transmitter architecture are investigated. The recent progress on deploying concurrent dual-band PAs has been surveyed, where recent published literatures reported significant improvement on the concurrent dual-band PA design and achievable efficiency. The challenges present in the development of the linearization schemes for concurrent dual-band transmitters are addressed and possible solutions are studied.