| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要(Chinese Abstract) | 第8-10页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第10-11页 |
| Dedication | 第11-19页 |
| List of Mathematical Conventions and Acronyms | 第19-27页 |
| 1 Introduction and Background of study | 第27-47页 |
| 1.1 Introduction | 第27-30页 |
| 1.2 Overview of LTE and LTEA-Advanced Requirements and Standards | 第30-34页 |
| 1.2.1 LTE Requirements and Standards | 第30-31页 |
| 1.2.2 LTE-Advanced Requirements and Standards | 第31-34页 |
| 1.3 LTE Architecture and Radio Resources | 第34-40页 |
| 1.3.1 The E-UTRAN and E-UTRA | 第34-37页 |
| 1.3.2 LTE Frame structure and Radio Resources | 第37-40页 |
| 1.4 Resource Scheduling Concept in LTE-Advanced | 第40-41页 |
| 1.5 Scope and Objectives of Study | 第41页 |
| 1.6 Contributions and List of Published Works | 第41-44页 |
| 1.7 The Organization of the Thesis | 第44-47页 |
| 2 Background and Overview of LTE-Advanced Network Elements and Benefits | 第47-71页 |
| 2.1 4G Technology Candidates | 第47-49页 |
| 2.2 LTE-Advanced Targets, Benefits and Challenges | 第49-52页 |
| 2.2.1 Targets | 第49页 |
| 2.2.2 Benefits and Challenges | 第49-51页 |
| 2.2.3 LTE Network Elements and interfaces | 第51-52页 |
| 2.3 E-UTRAN (The Radio Access Network) functionalities | 第52-57页 |
| 2.3.1 The EPC (Core Network) | 第54-57页 |
| 2.4 Spectrum and Bandwidth Issues | 第57-62页 |
| 2.4.1 The spectrum | 第57页 |
| 2.4.2 Economic importance of spectrum | 第57-58页 |
| 2.4.3 Spectrum Coordination and Utilization | 第58-62页 |
| 2.5 Multiple Access Schemes | 第62-64页 |
| 2.6 Deployment Challenges and Aspirations | 第64-65页 |
| 2.7 Scheduling Algorithm and Related works | 第65-71页 |
| 2.7.1 Scheduling Algorithm | 第65-67页 |
| 2.7.2 Related work | 第67页 |
| 2.7.3 Generic Resource scheduling Techniques | 第67-69页 |
| 2.7.4 Classification of Resource Scheduling Techniques | 第69-71页 |
| 3 Resource scheduling in Interference-limited environment | 第71-87页 |
| 3.1 Resource Scheduling in LTE-Advanced | 第71-72页 |
| 3.2 Wireless Communication, Interference and Interference-Limited scenarios described | 第72-74页 |
| 3.2.1 Interference in Wireless Communication | 第72页 |
| 3.2.2 Types of Interference | 第72-73页 |
| 3.2.3 Interference-Limited scenarios | 第73-74页 |
| 3.3 Interference Distribution Models | 第74-80页 |
| 3.3.1 Physical Model | 第75-76页 |
| 3.3.2 Statistical Model | 第76-78页 |
| 3.3.3 Analytical model | 第78-80页 |
| 3.4 Interference Model Using WF~2Q and CQI Reporting | 第80-83页 |
| 3.4.1 Interference Estimation using WF~2Q | 第81-82页 |
| 3.4.2 CQI Reporting for Correcting Estimation | 第82-83页 |
| 3.5 Simulation setup and Results | 第83-84页 |
| 3.5.1 Simulation Setup | 第83-84页 |
| 3.6 RESULTS | 第84-87页 |
| 3.6.1 Throughput Evaluation | 第84-86页 |
| 3.6.2 Fairness Evaluation | 第86-87页 |
| 4 Radio Resource Scheduling Within Frequency Selective Environment for CarrierAggregation Systems | 第87-111页 |
| 4.1 Spectrum issues and 4G proposals | 第87-89页 |
| 4.2 Concept of Carrier Aggregation for LTE-Advanced systems | 第89-91页 |
| 4.3 Challenges imposed by Carrier Aggregation | 第91-95页 |
| 4.3.1 Design of Guard Bandwidth between Carriers | 第91-92页 |
| 4.3.2 Component carrier selection | 第92页 |
| 4.3.3 Issues of Component Carrier Selection | 第92-95页 |
| 4.4 Analytic Hierarchy Process for Component Carrier Selection in an impromptu network deployment | 第95-104页 |
| 4.4.1 Component Carrier Selection procedure | 第97页 |
| 4.4.2 System Model | 第97-104页 |
| 4.5 Frequency Selective Environment and Carrier Aggregation Deployment | 第104-106页 |
| 4.6 Resource Scheduling in a Frequency Selective Environment for Carrier Aggregation Systems | 第106-111页 |
| 4.6.1 System Model | 第107-109页 |
| 4.6.2 Simulation and Results | 第109-111页 |
| 5 Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and Control Signaling | 第111-143页 |
| 5.1 LTE Control Channel Architecture | 第111-112页 |
| 5.2 Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) Frameworks | 第112-118页 |
| 5.2.1 PDCCH Resource Allocation Paradigm | 第113-117页 |
| 5.2.2 PDCCH Decoding Process | 第117-118页 |
| 5.3 PDCCH and Carrier Aggregation (CA) Systems | 第118页 |
| 5.4 PDCCH and Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) Scenario | 第118-120页 |
| 5.5 Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) | 第120-128页 |
| 5.5.1 R-PDCCH Resource Mapping | 第123-126页 |
| 5.5.2 R-PDCCH Decoding Procedure | 第126-128页 |
| 5.6 Enhanced PDCCH Frame Work | 第128-135页 |
| 5.6.1 Baseline Algorithm for Decoding DCI Messages | 第130-133页 |
| 5.6.2 Minimum Aggregation Level (Min. AL) Algorithm | 第133-134页 |
| 5.6.3 Minimum Start Point Algorithm | 第134页 |
| 5.6.4 CCE Allocation Reshuffling | 第134页 |
| 5.6.5 Power Adjustment Algorithm | 第134-135页 |
| 5.6.6 Co-Channel Interference Avoidance Algorithm | 第135页 |
| 5.7 Key Performance Indices in PDCCH Scheduling | 第135-137页 |
| 5.8 New Remapping Strategy for PDCCH scheduling for LTE-Advanced Systems | 第137-143页 |
| 5.8.1 Initial Assumptions | 第138页 |
| 5.8.2 Algorithm Procedure | 第138-139页 |
| 5.8.3 Simulations and Results | 第139-143页 |
| 6 Adaptive Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) for LTE-Advanced Systems | 第143-163页 |
| 6.1 Deriving EPDCCH Resources from PDSCH | 第143-144页 |
| 6.2 EPDCCH Decoding Process | 第144-148页 |
| 6.3 EPDDCH design paradigm | 第148-149页 |
| 6.4 EPDDCH Mapping Techniques | 第149页 |
| 6.5 Adaptive EPDCCH for LTE-Advanced systems | 第149-151页 |
| 6.5.1 Using CQI to reduce EPDCCH mapping overhead | 第149-150页 |
| 6.5.2 Resource Allocation Procedure | 第150-151页 |
| 6.6 ECCE Utilization | 第151-156页 |
| 6.7 Adaptive Search Space and Blind Decoding Procedure | 第156-159页 |
| 6.8 Simulation and Results | 第159-163页 |
| 6.8.1 EPDCCH set resource mapping | 第159页 |
| 6.8.2 Blocking Probability and Resource utilization | 第159-163页 |
| 7 Conclusions | 第163-171页 |
| 7.1 Summary and Conclusions | 第163-165页 |
| 7.2 Open challenges | 第165-169页 |
| 7.3 Vision and Expectations for Future Technologies | 第169-171页 |
| 7.3.1 Innovative applications | 第169-170页 |
| 7.3.2 Social and Business Solutions | 第170页 |
| 7.3.3 Global roaming | 第170-171页 |
| 8 References | 第171-183页 |
