On the Potentials of Traffic Steering in HetNet Deployments with Carrier Aggregation

Panagiotis Fotiadis; Michele Polignano; Paolo Zanier; Ingo Viering

doi:10.1109/VTCSpring.2014.7023020

On the Potentials of Traffic Steering in HetNet Deployments with Carrier Aggregation

Panagiotis Fotiadis, Michele Polignano, Paolo Zanier , Ingo Viering

Institut for Elektroniske Systemer

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Abstract

This paper investigates the potentials of Traffic
Steering (TS) in Carrier Aggregation (CA) deployments. TS
is defined as the mechanism to optimally distribute traffic
among the deployed cells. Obviously, such functionality is rather
crucial in scenarios where solely non-CA User Equipments (UE)
are present. The introduction of CA is expected to simplify
inter-layer load balancing, as CA UEs can concurrently connect
to multiple carriers. In order to evaluate the relevance of TS
in CA environments, a simple TS framework is developed,
where load balancing decisions are applied in both Radio
Resource Control (RRC) UE states. System level simulations
have been conducted for different deployments and CA
UE ratios. The corresponding results have shown that TS
should be mandatory for any CA penetration below 50%,
irrespective to the network deployment. Nevertheless, for
scenarios where the number of deployed carriers is greater
than the multi-carrier connectivity capabilities of the CA
device, TS should be applied even for higher CA UE ratios,
since the CA scheduler cannot solely resolve the load imbalances.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2014 IEEE 79th
Antal sider	5
Forlag	IEEE
Publikationsdato	2014
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-4799-4482-8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2014.7023020
Status	Udgivet - 2014
Begivenhed	2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference : VTC2014-Spring - Seoul, Sydkorea Varighed: 18 maj 2014 → 21 maj 2014 http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2014spring/

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Konference	2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference
Land/Område	Sydkorea
By	Seoul
Periode	18/05/2014 → 21/05/2014
Internetadresse	http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2014spring/

Navn	I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings
ISSN	1550-2252

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Fotiadis, P, Polignano, M, Zanier , P & Viering, I 2014, On the Potentials of Traffic Steering in HetNet Deployments with Carrier Aggregation. i Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2014 IEEE 79th. IEEE, I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings, 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference , Seoul, Sydkorea, 18/05/2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2014.7023020

On the Potentials of Traffic Steering in HetNet Deployments with Carrier Aggregation. / Fotiadis, Panagiotis; Polignano, Michele; Zanier , Paolo et al.
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2014 IEEE 79th. IEEE, 2014. (I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings).

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