Abstract
To meet the ever increasing data rate demand in cellular network, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) introduced Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) with Listen Before Talk (LBT) mechanism to utilize the unlicensed spectrum to supplement the licensed LTE users. However, this leads to interference to already incumbent technologies in unlicensed spectrum such as WiFi. Furthermore, multi-carrier aggregation has been proposed to further increase the capacity in unlicensed spectrum. As WiFi primarily works on the principle of energy detection in the channel, in this paper, we first develop an analytical model to measure the performance of LAA and WiFi coexistence in unlicensed spectrum which supports multi-carrier aggregation which employs SINR based collision that allows the possibility of concurrent transmissions. Further, to reduce the interference to WiFi, we propose a coexistence method named Carrier Aggregation with Transmit Power Control (CATPC) which dynamically adjusts the LAA transmit power. CATPC provides a better opportunity for WiFi devices, better channel utilization, and energy efficient transmission by LAA. Through extensive simulations we demonstrate the effectiveness of CATPC when compared to other coexistence methods proposed in the literature.
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