Novel Handover Optimization with a Coordinated Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Deployment Scenario in LTE-Advanced Systems

Table 1

Summary of the proposed CC-CADS and the previous CADS from the literature [1–4].

	CADS-1	CADS-2	CADS-3	Proposed CC-CADS
Band type	Contiguous	Non-Contiguous	Non-Contiguous	Contiguous
Frequency of CC1	2 GHz	2 GHz	2 GHz	2 GHz
Frequency of CC2	2.0203 GHz	3.5 GHz	3.5 GHz	2.0203 GHz
Spacing frequency	300 kHz	300 kHz	300 kHz	300 kHz
Beam orientation	Both CCs have the same direction	Both CCs have the same direction	Each CC has different direction	Each CC has different direction
Coverage areas	Identical	Overlaid and co-located	Co-located	Co-located
Initial PCC	CC1	CC1	CC1	CC1
Initial SCC	CC2	CC2	CC2	CC2