Qualcomm, SK Telecom Demo Enhanced Licensed Assisted Access Technology
Qualcomm Technologies and SK Telecom did the first over-the-air technology demo of enhanced licensed assisted access (eLAA) at SK Telecom's Corporate R&D Center in Bundang, Korea, Qualcomm said. ELAA technology “increases data speeds in both uplink and downlink by aggregating…
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licensed and unlicensed spectrum to create a wider data pipe in both directions,” Qualcomm said in a news release. “eLAA is an evolution of LAA, which used the unlicensed spectrum to boost the data speed in the downlink direction only.” The demo used licensed spectrum at 2.6 GHz and unlicensed at 5 GHz, Qualcomm said. “When evaluating coexistence, a baseline was first established using only Wi-Fi users, of which some were then switched from Wi-Fi to LAA/eLAA while others remained on Wi-Fi,” the company said. “The trial demonstrated that the users that remained on Wi-Fi were unaffected by those that switched to LAA/eLAA. This effectively demonstrates that LAA/eLAA shares the unlicensed spectrum fairly with Wi-Fi.”