Handover Performance over a Coordinated Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Deployment Scenario in the LTE-Advanced System

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="971297.fig.007a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijvt/volume-2014/971297/figures/971297.fig.007a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Assumed operating frequency bands in the proposed CC-CADS based on two contiguous bands</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="971297.fig.007b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijvt/volume-2014/971297/figures/971297.fig.007b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Proposed CC-CADS with 120° sectorization; each based on two contiguous CCs with different antenna directions</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Coordinated contiguous CA deployment scenario.</table>

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Figure 7: Handover Performance over a Coordinated Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Deployment Scenario in the LTE-Advanced System 