Contents

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND

1.2 BENEFITS OF TDD TECHNOLOGY

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THIS WHITE PAPER

1.4 TERMINOLOGY

2 TDD SPECTRUM IN THE WORLD

2.1 OVERALL OF TDD SPECTRUM

2.2 ALLOCATED TDD SPECTRUM

2.2.1 Region 1 (mainly Europe, Middle East and Africa)

2.2.2 Region 2 (North and South America)

2.2.3 Region 3 (mainly Asia and Australia)

2.3 TDD LICENSE PLAN AND FUTURE SPECTRUM

3 TDD COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT

3.1 TDD COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT STATUS

3.2 TD-LTE DEPLOYMENT TREND

4 PRODUCT AVAILABILITY

4.1 USER DEVICES AND CHIPSET

4.2 SYSTEM EQUIPMENT

5 ISSUES RELEVANT TO TDD SPECTRUM AND DEPLOYMENT

5.1 LARGE TDD SPECTRUM BLOCK DEMANDED

5.2 TDD SPECTRUM HARMONIZATION

5.3 COEXISTENCE ISSUES

6 SOLUTIONS TO FACILITATE TDD SPECTRUM UTILIZATION

6.1 SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE SPECTRUM BLOCK

6.1.1 Spectrum exchange/merger

6.1.2 LTE Carrier Aggregation

6.2 COEXISTENCE SOLUTIONS

6.2.1 Coexistence between multiple TDD networks

6.2.2 Coexistence between TDD and FDD

6.2.3 Coexistence between TDD and WiMAX

6.2.4 Coexistence between TD-LTE and WiFi

6.3 NEW BAND ALLOCATION

7 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TDD SPECTRUM UTILIZATION

8 REFERENCE

9 APPENDIX

9.1 APPENDIX 1: SOLUTIONS FOR TDD SYNCHRONIZATION

9.2 APPENDIX 2: SOLUTIONS FOR UES COEXISTENCE

9.3 APPENDIX 3: SOLUTIONS FOR COEXISTENCE BETWEEN TD-LTE AND WIMAX

9.4 APPENDIX 4: SOLUTIONS FOR COEXISTENCE BETWEEN TD-LTE AND WIFI

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