EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 618787, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/618787
Research Article
Relay Architectures for 3GPP LTE-Advanced
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0803, Austin, TX 78712-0240, USA
Received 17 February 2009; Accepted 31 May 2009
Academic Editor: Angel Lozano
Copyright © 2009 Steven W. Peters et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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