GSOC2015LTECA

Carrier Aggregation support for the LTE module

Student: Danilo Abrignani

Mentors: Marco Miozzo Nicola Baldo

• Abstract: 3GPP standardizes, in release R10, the Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology. This consists of the possibility, for a single user equipment (UE), to aggregate Radio Resources belonging to different carriers, in order to have more bandwidth available, and a higher potential throughput. The idea is to improve the current LENA implementation, with CA functionalities, by implementing a sort of “proxy” between the RLC/RRC layer and MAC/Scheduler layers, associated to the multiple carriers.
• Code: soon on http://code.nsnam.org
• About me: I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bologna, Italy. My research interests are in wireless sensor network and mobile network simulation. Something more about me on my Linkedin page.

Plan

• 1st Week:

 * Implementation of RRC messages for Carrier Aggregation support
 * Writing design documentation 

• 2nd - 4th Weeks:

 * Implementation of the LTE-A helper, activation of different carriers and synchronization procedure. 
 * Writing test code and debugging.
 * Writing design documentation

• 5th - 6th Weeks:

 * Write test documentation, submit code for review, consolidate code and documentation. 

• 7th -8th Weeks:

 * Start writing the CA-Mac module, design documentation.
 * Write test and debugging, writing test documentation, submit code for review.

• 9th - 10th Weeks:"'

 * Define a basic algorithm that takes into account QoS indicators. Write design documentation
 * Writing test application and debugging. Submit code for review. Update code and documentation.

• 11th - 12th Weeks:

 * Unified LTE-A and LTE helpers. 
 * Write test applications, update documentation and code. 
 * Possible improvements.

Some References

• • LTE-A HetNets using Carrier Aggregation, Nomor whitepaper [1]
  • 3GPP TS 36.211
  • 3GPP TS 36.213
  • 3GPP TS 36.331