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During the past years, there has been a quickly rising interest in radio access tech-
nologies for providing mobile as well as nomadic and fixed services for voice,
video, and data. The difference in design, implementation, and use between
telecom and datacom technologies is also getting more blurred. One example is
cellular technologies from the telecom world being used for broadband data and
wireless LAN from the datacom world being used for voice over IP.
In 2005, when the world crossed-over to Web 2.0, business professionals and managers in
every industry – from traditional retail to high tech media and telecom – felt the first powerful
tremors of the strategic shifts taking place, sweeping away traditional business models and
altering competitive landscapes.
Optical communication technology has been extensively developed over the
last 50 years, since the proposed idea by Kao and Hockham [1]. However, only
during the last 15 years have the concepts of communication foundation, that
is, the modulation and demodulation techniques, been applied. This is pos-
sible due to processing signals using real and imaginary components in the
baseband in the digital domain. The baseband signals can be recovered from
the optical passband region using polarization and phase diversity tech-
niques, as well as technology that was developed in the mid-1980s.
LTE-Advanced becomes a truly global standard for 4G cellular communications.
Relay, as one of the key technologies of LTE-Advanced, can significantly extend
the coverage, and improve the system throughput. LTE-A standards and tech-
nologies were described in several recent books where the limited pages for relay
feature prevent the detailed explanations of the technology. In this book, we tried
to provide an in-depth description of LTE-A relay development. More specifically,
significant portions are spent on relay channel modeling and potential technologies
during the study item phase of the development, although some of those tech-
nologies, such as Type 2 cooperative relay, multi-hop relay, relay with backhaul of
carrier aggregation, were not standardized in Release 10 LTE.
In the past few decades, a technological revolution has occurred that has changed
the way we live in dramatic ways. This technological revolution is the result of
the emergence and evolution of a wide variety of new wireless networking tech-
nologies. Now people using these technologies are able to access the network and
control many applications at will with their handheld devices anywhere, anytime.
Although these technologies have made a long lasting impact in the revolution, it
has also opened up various challenging issues which are yet to be resolved to make
them more efficient and cost-effective.
