Abstract: This work aims to provide a detailed study on Carrier Aggregation (CA) techniques for 5G New Radio (5G NR) networks while elaborating on CA deployment scenarios, CA-enabled 5G networks, and resource management and scheduling techniques. CA empowers the User Equipment (UE) and the network to aggregate carrier frequencies in licensed, unlicensed, or Shared Access (SA) bands of the same or different spectrum bands to boost the achieved data rates. We also analyze the cross-carrier scheduling scheme in CA-enabled 5G networks for Downlink (DL) resou...
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Computer network
Distributed computing