Coordinated Multi-Point in Mobile Communications

by Marsch, Patrick; Fettweis, Gerhard P.

• ISBN13: 9781107004115
• ISBN10: 110700411X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

A self-contained guide to coordinated multi-point (CoMP), this comprehensive book covers everything from theoretical basics to practical implementation. Addressing a wide range of topics, it highlights the potential gains of CoMP, the fundamental degrees of freedom involved and the key challenges of using CoMP in practice. The editors and contributors bring unique real-world experience from running the world's first and largest test beds for LTE-Advanced, and recent field trial results from these tests are presented. With detailed insight into the realistic potential of CoMP as a key technology for LTE-Advanced and beyond, this is a must-read resource for professionals and students who want the big picture on CoMP or require in-depth knowledge of how to build cellular communication systems for the future.

Table of Contents

Motivation and Basics

Introduction

An operator's point of view

Information-theoretic basics

Gains and trade-offs of multi-cell joint signal processing

Practical CoMP Schemes

CoMP schemes based on interference-aware transceivers or interference coordination

CoMP schemes based on multi-cell joint signal processing

Challenges Connected to CoMP

Clustering

Synchronization

Channel knowledge

Efficient and robust algorithm implementation

Scheduling, signaling and adaptive usage of CoMP

Backhaul I-Hsiang Wang

Performance Assessment

Field trial results

Performance prediction of CoMP in large cellular systems Thorsten Wild

Outlook and Conclusions

Outlook

Summary and conclusions

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