Group Cell Architecture for Cooperative Communications

Driven by the increasing demand for capacity and Quality of Service in wireless cellular networks and motivated by the distributed antenna system, the authors proposed a cooperative communication architecture—Group Cell architecture, which was initially brought forward in 2001. Years later, Coordinated Multiple—Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) for LTE—Advanced was put forward in April 2008, as a tool to improve the coverage of cells having high data rates, the cell—edge throughput an...