LTE-A Carrier Aggregation Enhancements in Release 11

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Summary
LTE-Advanced standardisation in Release 10 was completed some time ago and vendors are busy implementing the latest features.
By now Release 11 is well advanced and first change requests to the specifications will be agreed upon at the next RAN plenary in
September 2012. This newsletter provides an overview about Release 11 enhancements defined for one of the most important LTE-Advanced features – Carrier Aggregation. Core of the described enhancements are the support of Carrier Aggregation in Heterogeneous Networks with non-collocated cell sites.