Joerg Huschke

LTE release 14 outlook

Todays 4G LTE systems bring unprecedented mobile broadband performance to over a billion of users across the globe. Recently, work on a 5G mobile communication system has begun, and next to a new 5G air interface, LTE will be an essential component. The evolution of LTE will therefore strive to meet 5G requirements and to address 5G use cases. In this article, we provide an overview of foreseen key technology areas and components for LTE Release 14, including latency reductions, enhancements for machine-type communication, operation in unlicensed spectrum, massive multi-antenna systems, broadcasting, positioning, and support for intelligent transportation systems.

Statistical multiplexing gains of H.264/AVC video in E-MBMS

With the increasing acceptance of H.264/AVC as a video coding standard for mobile multimedia, it becomes very important to control the extreme burstiness of the traffic generated by the H.264/AVC encoder. Statistical multiplexing of video streams can be used to reduce the bit rate variations. In practice, the number of video streams that can be multiplexed together is quite limited and therefore, additional mechanisms are needed to eliminate the residual burstiness and to adapt the bit rate of the bundle to the bit rate of the transport channel. Here we evaluate the potential statistical multiplexing gains with and without the coordination in the encoders. The gains are measured relative to the case where rate-controlled (capped) streams are delivered on individual transport channels.

Dynamic Cell Size Adaptation and Intercell Interference Coordination in LTE HetNets

LTE heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are deployed in areas of high user density in order to increase the capacity in the cellular mobile network. However, they are raising two problems: fixed cell sizes and interference. In our work, we propose a technique, which is maximizing the throughput of the users while considering fairness, dynamically adapting cell sizes and reducing interferences. Moreover, we included the concept of cell selection offsets (CSOs) for the adaptation of the cell sizes and we applied protected subframes, a time domain intercell interference coordination technique in LTE advanced. In our results, we consider the system throughput and the 5-percentile UE throughput and show, that our technique outperforms the best static HetNet configurations achieving a gain up to 16.5% in terms of the fairness based system throughput and a gain up to 37.0% in the 5-percentile UE throughput.