Planning LTE-Advanced using carrier aggregation intra-band non-contiguous and inter-band non-contiguous method

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology application in Indonesia has limited on contiguous frequency allocation for the cellular operator. Release 10 3GPP generated LTE-Advanced which supports carrier aggregation feature. In this paper, the design of LTE-Advanced uses 20 MHz bandwidth by comparing carrier aggregation inter-band non-contiguous scenario on 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency and intra-band non-contiguous on 1800 MHz frequency. Based on result, carrier aggregation inter-band non-contiguous network is better to be applied in Bandar Lampung City.