Coexistence Analysis Involving 3GPP Long Term Evolution

As the standardization of Evolved-UTRA or LTE is ongoing in 3GPP, it is important to ensure the coexistence between two LTE systems or between LTE and legacy UMTS systems sharing the same frequency band. This paper is aimed at presenting a complete view of the status and challenges of the coexistence issue. The high-level methodology, UL power control, and ACLR modeling, etc. are discussed in detail. To ensure coexistence without tightening the RF requirements and hence increasing the cost for LTE, mitigation techniques like interference-aware resource allocation are proposed and shown to be effective by simulation results.