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4G Americas LTE Aggregation Unlicensed Spectrum November 2015 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 1 1 Introduction 1 2 Deployment Scenarios 2 2.1 LTE-WLAN Radio Level Aggregation (LWA) 2 2.2 LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum 6 2.2.1 Indoor Deployments 8 2.2.2 Outdoor Deployments 9 3 Data Offloading with LTE-WLAN Aggregation10 3.1 Architectural Aspects 10 3.2 User and Control Plane 12 3.3 Performance Evaluation 14 3.3.1 Simulation Methodology and Assumptions 14 3.3.2 Deployment Scenarios 14 3.3.3 WLAN Offloading and LWA Solutions Compared14 3.3.4 Metrics for Optimization15 3.3.5 System Performance Results 15 3.3.6 TCP Performance Results 18 3.3.7 Discussion of Results 18 3.4 Interworking with Previous Offloading Solutions 19 4 LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum19 4.1 Data Offloading for Operators19 4.1.1 Overview 19 4.2 Coexistence with WLAN in Adjacent Channels 20 4.3 Performance Evaluation for Co-channel LAA and WiFi 21 5 Conclusion21 Appendix: LWA Performance Evaluation - Simulation Details 22 Acronym List 24 Acknowledgements 25 4G Americas LTE Aggregation Unlicensed Spectrum November 2015 PREFACE A key industry discussion concerns the efficient use of spectrum to serve societies’ connectivity requirements. A recent solution to the rising wireless data demands, and the topic of this paper, is data offloading from licensed LTE networks to unlicensed spectrum. Recent work by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) on offloading to the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) via LTE/WiFi Aggregation a