Aiming at actual evaluation of IMT-Advanced system performance using field tests, this paper develops an IMT-Advanced testbed system with a transmission bandwidth of 100 MHz. Taking into account recent advances in research and development of an IMT-Advanced system, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are also promising technologies in IMT-Advanced. In addition, in order to meet the requirements for IMT-Advanced, the system seems to have a bandwidth of about 100 MHz with the aid of MIMO transmission. The developed system is based on the above more reliable prediction compared with previous studies, and the goals of this development are to provide a more realistic transmission performance, judgment criteria for operators introducing new air interfaces, and to explore new applications. This paper also presents the experimental results of rotational OFDM (R-OFDM) and twin turbo (T2) decoder implemented in the testbed and demonstrates that our proposals are better than the conventional schemes in actual radio transmission. Both physical layer technologies have been proposed by the authors, however, the previous works are only predicated on computer simulation. In this paper, the proposals are experimentally evaluated by distorting the transmitted signal on radio waves with a fading simulator and additional noise generator. When the packet error rate performance is measured, the measurement results are verified to be in good agreement with the simulation results. The experimental results also demonstrate that the R-OFDM can reduce the required carrier to the interference power ratio (CIR) of OFDM by about 1.1 dB in single-input single output (SISO) multi-path fading channel. In addition, it becomes clear that the T2 decoder is better than the turbo decoder in error correction, and the required CIR reduction achieves about 0.8 dB in SISO AWGN channel. The throughput performances are also measured with different modulation and coding conditions, and the measured forward throughput in the SISO AWGN channel achieves up to 373.6 Mbps. In addition, by use of 22 MIMO transmission, the measurements results substantiate that throughput of 512.7 Mbps can be realized even in the multi-path fading condition.

This paper describes an evolution and standardization trends of the wireless channel modeling activities towards IMT-Advanced. After a background survey on various channel modeling approaches is introduced, two well-known multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel models for cellular systems, namely, the 3GPP/3GPP2 Spatial Channel Model (SCM) and the IMT-Advanced MIMO Channel Model (IMT-Adv MCM) are compared, and their main similarities are pointed out. The performance of MIMO systems is greatly influenced by the spatial-temporal correlation properties of the underlying MIMO channels. Here, we investigate the spatial-temporal correlation characteristics of the 3GPP/3GPP2 SCM and the IMT-Adv MCM in term of their spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity gains. The main goals of this paper are to summarize the current state of the art, as well as to point out the gaps in the wireless channel modeling works, and thus hopefully to stimulate research in these areas.

This paper proposes applying the Layered Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) radio access scheme and its radio access techniques to LTE (Long-Term Evolution)-Advanced to satisfy its system requirements, which are much stricter than those of the Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). Layered OFDMA comprises layered transmission bandwidth assignment (bandwidth is assigned to match the required data rate), a layered control signaling structure, and support for layered environments for both the downlink and uplink. Especially in the uplink, an adaptive multi-access scheme with hybrid single-carrier and multicarrier based radio access is applied. Layered OFDMA radio access will support all the functionalities specified in Release 8 LTE and later enhancements. Key radio access techniques such as fast inter-cell radio resource management that takes advantage of remote radio equipment (RRE) so as to realize inter-cell orthogonality, multi-antenna transmission with more antennas, and coverage enhancing techniques are used to achieve a high level of capacity and cell-edge spectrum efficiency.

This paper provides an overview of the 3GPP radio-access technologies for mobile broadband -- HSPA and its evolution, and LTE. The paper also discusses the current stage of the 3GPP activities on evolving LTE towards LTE-Advanced and full IMT-Advanced compliance.