Chapter 5
Relaying
Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) considers relaying for cost-effective throughput enhancement and coverage extension. Relaying is deployed in LTE-A as a tool to improve coverage for high data rates, group mobility, temporary network deployment, and cell-edge throughput, and/or to provide coverage in new areas.
The relay node (RN) is wirelessly connected to the radio-access network via a donor cell. Relay transmission can be seen as a kind of collaborative communication in which an RN helps to forward user information from ...
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