Relaying
The possibility of a terminal communicating with the network, and the data rate that can be used, depends on several factors, the path loss between the terminal and the base station being one. The link performance of LTE is already quite close to the Shannon limit and from a pure link-budget perspective, the highest data rates supported by LTE require a relatively high signal-to-noise ratio. Unless the link budget can be improved, for example with different types of beam-forming solutions, a denser infrastructure is required to reduce the terminal-to-base-station distance and thereby improve the link budget.
A denser infrastructure is mainly a deployment aspect, but in later releases of LTE, various tools enhancing the support ...
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