LTE Advanced

The Global 4G Solution

It only gets better

LTE Advanced is the next major milestone in the evolution of LTE. It incorporates many dimensions of enhancements including the aggregation of multiple radio channels (carriers), advanced antenna techniques and others. But most of the gain comes from optimizing HetNets, resulting in better performance from small cells. LTE Advanced Hetnets are one of the major solutions in addressing the anticipated 1000x increase in mobile data. Qualcomm has prototyped and demonstrated the benefits of LTE Advanced HetNets at global events.

Brings more out of small cells

Small cells such as pico and femtocells bring the network closer to users and provide a big leap in performance. But LTE Advanced optimizes small cell performance through features such as “Range Expansion” to make the leap even more significant. Range Expansion increases the utilization of small cells to increase overall network capacity.

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Faster data rates for all users

Simply adding small cells to a network only benefits users close to those cells. But LTE Advanced enhances the user experience for all users with higher data rates, even when the small cells are not positioned in optimal locations. Added to that advanced receivers allow devices to discover small cells early and further increase performance of range expansion.

More carriers means more speed

LTE Advanced can aggregate up to 5 carriers (up to 100 MHz) to increase user data rates and capacity for bursty applications such as web browsing. Aggregation (multicarrier) when combined with higher order MIMO can provide extremely high peak data rates, theoretically up to 1Gbps. Initially, aggregation of two 10 MHz carriers will enable peak data rates up to 150 Mbps (Cat 4).

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Qualcomm is an LTE Advanced leader

We’ve established a state-of-the-art, over-the-air test network in San Diego to evaluate and prototype LTE Advanced HetNet features. The performance of this network was demonstrated at MWC2012.

Opportunistic small cells

With extremely dense small cell deployments envisioned to meet the 1000x increase in mobile data, it is very important to minimize interference. Opportunistic small cells dynamically turn ON/OFF based on proximity of users, to not only reduce interference but also lower energy consumption. Qualcomm demonstrated the benefits of this feature as well as that of relay nodes at Mobile World Congress 2013. The demo utilizes our live over-the-air LTE Advanced small-cell network in San Diego.