A UE-grouping Based Load Balancing Scheme for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems

Yun Lin; Wenbo Wang; Yuan Li

8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A UE-grouping Based Load Balancing Scheme for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694606,
    author={Yun Lin and Wenbo Wang and Yuan Li},
    title={A UE-grouping Based Load Balancing Scheme for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems},
    proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2013},
    month={11},
    keywords={lte-advanced ca cc scheduling load balancing},
    doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694606}
}

Yun Lin
Wenbo Wang
Yuan Li
Year: 2013
A UE-grouping Based Load Balancing Scheme for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694606

Yun Lin¹^,*, Wenbo Wang¹, Yuan Li¹

1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

*Contact email: lywspn@gmail.com

Abstract

By aggregating Component Carriers (CCs) to en-large the transmission bandwidth, Carrier Aggregation (CA) greatly improves the peak data rate for Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-Advanced) system. However, more than one carrier scheduling in a system results in the problem of load imbalance among carriers. This paper presents a UE-grouping based load balancing (UGLB) scheme for CC scheduling in which both the load and channel quality conditions of CC are taken into account and different condition settings are provided to different UE groups. The proposed scheme not only properly balances the load among CCs but also achieves high throughput. Through simulation the performance of UGLB scheme is verified.

Keywords: lte-advanced ca cc scheduling load balancing

Published: 2013-11-14
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694606