Flexible Dual-Connectivity Spectrum Aggregation for Decoupled Uplink and Downlink Access in 5G Heterogeneous Systems
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 86556650
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/JSAC.2016.2615185
- Title of journal
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- Article number
- 7582426
- First page
- 2851
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 11
- ISSN
- 0733-8716
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 24
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The originality of the paper is the introduction of a formal and pioneering framework combining the capacity boosting techniques of carrier aggregation and downlink/uplink decoupling, demonstrating the significant performance gains of both and applying said technology to heterogeneous 5G systems. The significance is that it has influenced standards work on decoupled access traffic steering, switch and splitting support in the 5G System (5GS) architecture of the 3GPP standard, with King’s contributing via BT [https://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/23_series/23.793/23793-g00.zip]. The rigour is due to very detailed mathematical and simulation analysis, which derived the exact information-theoretical performance and outage benefits.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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