creator Raj, Avneet advisor Zhou, Chi Long term Evolution Advanced(LTE-A) was introduced to eliminate the short comings of Long term Evolution(LTE).LTE uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) for its downlink transmission. But OFDM suffers from inter cell interference which means that cell edge suffer from a low throughput, hence LTE-A has come up with certain new techniques to solve this problem which are Carrier Aggregation(CA) and Coordinated multipoint transmission (CoMP).There are certain resource allocation techniques been currently used in CoMP which are either throughput based or fairness based .In my Thesis I have made a new resource allocation scheme which is throughput based and is aimed to provide the cell edge users with optimum data rate.To achieve this I have used soft frequency re-use pattern and to achieve higher throughput also used the CA technology. For simulation of the system I used Matlab,the simulation results show that the cell edge users in my scheme achieve higher Signal to noise ratio(SINR) optimum throughput. I have also compared my results with the existing joint proportional fairness scheme(JPF) and found that I achieve a higher overall throughput compared to the JPF scheme. viii Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-08-21T19:26:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Avneet_Raj_thesis.pdf: 751042 bytes, checksum: c9e9afba42feb09e0e5507e2bf8f0565 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-21T19:26:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Avneet_Raj_thesis.pdf: 751042 bytes, checksum: c9e9afba42feb09e0e5507e2bf8f0565 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012 2012-04-04 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2812 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access ECE / Electrical and Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department