Technical Papers on LTE-Advanced in Feb. 2010 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine

The list of the papers are as follows:

* Cooperative MIMO Channel Models: A Survey - The authors provide an overview of the state of the art in cooperative MIMO channel modeling. Cheng-Xiang Wang and Xuemin Hong, Heriot-Watt University; Xiaohu Ge, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Xiang Cheng, Heriot-Watt University; Gong Zhang, Huawei Technologies Company Ltd.; John Thompson, The University of Edinburgh

* Carrier Aggregation for LTE-Advanced Mobile Communication Systems - The authors review continuous and non-continuous CA techniques, and present two data aggregation schemes in the physical and medium access control layers. Guangxiang Yuan, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and University College London; Xiang Zhang and Wenbo Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Yang Yang, University College London and Chinese Academy of Sciences


* Self-Configuration and Self-Optimization for LTE Networks - The authors introduce the market and technological perspectives for SONs, and then they focus on the self-configuration procedure. Honglin Hu and Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaoying Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southeast University; Yang Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University College London; Ping Wu, Uppsala University

* Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Optimized Video Delivery over LTE - The authors present a new QoS-aware LTE OFDMA scheduling algorithm for wireless real-time video delivery over the downlink of LTE cellular networks to achieve the best user-perceived video quality under the given application delay constraint. Haiyan Luo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Song Ci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dalei Wu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jianjun Wu, Huawei Technologies; Hui Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences