Research Article

On the Coverage Extension and Capacity Enhancement of Inband Relay Deployments in LTE-Advanced Networks

Table 4

RN Deployment Characteristics, ISD 1732 m.

RN tiers per sectorScenarioNumber of RNsTotal RN coverage area [%]

1 tierSc 1721
Sc 2539
Sc 3548

2 tiersSc 11436.5
Sc 21061.5
Sc 31069.5