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LTE repeater

LTE repeater does just power amplification of the

received signal from LTE eNB or LTE Base Station.
After amplification it transmits the signal back to the
UEs(User Equipments) or Mobile Subscribers. Due to
this received weak signal along with noise power also
gets amplified. Due to this noise amplification, SNR
(Signal to Noise Ratio) will not be improved and further
gets degraded. LTE repeater operations have been
depicted in figure-1.

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The other type of relay is LTE relay type-2 as depicted

in figure-3. Following are the operations involved in this
type of relay. All the functionalities are similar to LTE
relay type-1. In addition following two steps are added.
After decoding, data regeneration processing is
carried out.

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data transmission processing is carried out before it is

encoded and modulated.

Following table summarizes the difference between

features of all these LTE devices. The benefits of LTE
repeater and LTE relay compare to LTE Base Station
(i.e. eNB) is that backbone connectivity is not required
unlike LTE Base Station before relaying the signal back
to the UEs.

Feature LTE LTE LTE

eNB repeater relay

SNR Yes No Yes

improvement

Backbone Yes No No
connectivity

FEC Encoding, Yes No Yes

decoding

Modulation, Yes No Yes

Demodulation

RF Amplification Yes Yes Yes

LTE relay Type-1

This type-1 relay cell will have physical cell ID of its
own. It transmits its own unique sync. channels, ref.
symbols etc. These parameters are different compare
to donor cell i.e. main LTE eNB.

Here UE will receive scheduling information and HARQ

feedback directly from relay node(i.e. LTE relay) and
transmits its control channels to the relay node. Control
channels include SR, CQI, ACK etc.

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LTE relay Type-2

This relay node will not have separate Physical Cell ID.
Hence it will not create any new cells. It has capability
to transmit PDSCH but can not transmist CRS and
PDCCH.

Refer basic function of repeater used in VHF, UHF and

microwave communication.

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