THE ANALYSIS OF 2600 MHZ FREQUENCY SPECTRUM BY USING ASYMMETRIC CARRIER AGGREGATION FOR LTE-ADVANCED WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK

• Main Author: Nivika Tiffany Somantri - NIM: 23216074
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/29695
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

2600 MHz frequency spectrum is currently managed by PT.MCI with pay TV service, so it needs the analysis of refarming process to move S-Band to the other frequency spectrums, in this case, it is Ku-Band. Based on the analysis of refarming process using Rec. ITU-R SM.1603, the movement process of S-Band frequency to Ku-Band is considered optimum to implement. After finding the optimum movement process, S-Band can be implemented for LTE-Advanced network. LTE-Advanced network implementation uses the process of dimensioning, where the dimensioning process chosen in the design is capacity dimensioning. The results show that 91% using 43 dBm of areas are successfully included and 9% of areas that cannot be covered are caused by regional contours. LTE-Advanced can increase the network capacity by combining some component carriers. The combination of component carriers can use asymmetric carrier aggregation and symmetric carrier aggregation. The results of the average throughput obtained show that using asymmetric bandwidth will be more efficient in accordance with asymmetric broadband traffic needs, where the bandwidth requirements in the downlink are greater than the uplink. The average throughput value generated using asymmetric with 60 MHz downlink bandwidth and 40 MHz uplink produces throughput of 489,399 Mbps and 84,331 Mbps, while using symmetric throughput results obtained with 60 MHz downlink bandwidth and 60 MHz uplink results in a throughput of 466,934 Mbps in the downlink and 252,740 Mbps on the uplink.