Interference coordination methods for Evolved-Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (E-MBMS) in Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) are presented. In addition, we consider signal space diversity based on Rotation Matrices (RM) known to provide good performance gains over uncorrelated Rayleigh fading channels. OFDM/OFDMA systems can make the use of RM very attractive both for single and multiple antenna transmissions. In this paper, OFDM/OFDMA signals based on LTE parameters are combined with RM, MIMO, Turbo, or LDPC codes. We have considered different types of receivers, namely, we used an MMSE (Minimum Mean Squared Error) equalizer and a Maximum Likelihood Soft Output criterion (MLSO). Frequency, signal, and space diversity gains are evaluated for different spatial channel models (SCM) based on ITU multipath propagation channels. Different adaptive frequency reuse and schedulers are considered to evaluate the E-MBMS spectral efficiency at the cell borders. 1. Introduction Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) considers a series of new transmission technologies, such as, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception, relay and carrier aggregation. The objective is to meet the high technical and services requirements of IMT-Advanced standards, such as, peak data rate up to 100？Mbps in high-speed mobility environment and 1？Gbps in a pedestrian environment. The bandwidth varies from 20？MHz to 100？MHz. The LTE standard is the basic standard that paves the way for the future 4th Generation (4G) wireless networks. LTE addresses the emerging trend for the mass provision of rich multimedia services, such as Mobile TV, in a more powerful and spectral efficient way than its predecessors. The Evolved-Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (E-MBMS) framework is envisaged to play an essential role for the LTE-A proliferation in mobile environments. E-MBMS constitutes the evolutionary successor of MBMS, which was introduced in the Release 6 of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). With E-MBMS, the mass provision of multimedia applications to mobile users will be a reality. With the introduction of Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) [1], cellular broadcast will become an essential delivery option of Mobile TV. TV channels can then be broadcasted to an unlimited number of users. On the other hand, the number of channels is limited due to the available broadcast capacity. As MBMS indicates, there are two types of service mode: the broadcast mode and the multicast mode. Each mode has different characteristics in terms of complexity and
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