Carrier Aggregation Ba Tale ners lg 01 Introduction 3GPP Release 10 introduced carrier aggregation (CA), allowing aggregation of contiguous or non-contiguous component carriers (CCs) to achieve wider bandwidths and higher spectral efficiency. 02 Benefits Achieving wider bandwidths, CA enables better user experience in terms of peak DL and UL data rates. ai Peak DL data rate in 2x2 MIMO scenarios ® Bandwidth &® Peak UL data rate in 2x2 MIMO scenarios OA SE oius TDD: 110 FDD: 150 Ox Sos 5 ‘TDD: 220 ‘TDD: 330 FDD: 300 c FDD: 450 ee Pe 03 Usage Scenarios EA: frequency of F2 : frequency of Intra-eNodeB CA Bi| Co-coverage CCs B) Ditferent-coverage CCs ape BJ One CC for macro coverage; another for El One CC for macro coverage; another Lone coverage provided by RRHs () go (),jiedo»