Coverage and quality assessment with intra-band carrier aggregation on LTE-advanced based wireless access network

This paper discusses the impact of carrier aggregation in Long Term Evolution based cellular technology, especially the intra-band type. It is done by splitting carrier bandwidth into component carriers and putting them into different channel configurations. The simulation results showed that usage of carrier aggregation on the same bandwidth is able to increase the coverage of access network. However, carrier aggregation may impact network quality for slightly decreasing SINR and downlink throughput due to additional inter-channel interference.