LTE-Advanced - The Mainstream in Mobile Broadband Evolution

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Requirements for LTE-Advanced were defined in June 2008 and since then it has been developed and evaluated in 3GPP RAN Working Groups. LTE-Advanced Study Item is to be completed in March 2010 and several LTE Release 10 Work Items have already been kicked off. This paper addresses the state of LTE-Advanced standardization, performance and network deployments in February 2010.