Lte performance Analysis on 800 and 1800 mhz Bands

APPENDIX 

Appendix A: LTE Downlink Link Budget 

Parameters 

Unit 

LTE 800 DL 

LTE 1800 DL 

Boltzmann Constant 

 

1.38E-23 

1.38E-23 

Room Temperature 

Kelvin 

2.90E+02 

2.90E+02 

Base Station Height 

meters 

81.00 

77.00 

Mobile Station Height 

meters 

1.50 

1.50 

Carrier Frequency 

MHz 

800 

1800 

Bandwidth 

Hz 

1.00E+07 

1.00E+07 

Number of Resource Blocks 

 

50.00 

50.00 

Number of Sub-carriers per Resource Block 

 

12 

12 

Bandwidth per Sub-carrier 

Hz 

1.50E+04 

1.50E+04 

Effective Bandwidth 

Hz 

9.00E+06 

9.00E+06 

Time Period per resource block 

s 

5.00E-04 

5.00E-04 

Total Number of Sub-carriers 

 

600 

600 

Transmitter Power 

dBm 

46 

46 

Antenna Gain (From manufacturer's specifications) 

dBi 

17.1 

17.8 

Cable Losses 

dB 

0.25 

0.34 

Antenna Diversity Gain 

dB 

0 

0 

Body Loss 

dB 

0 

0 

EIRP 

dBm 

62.85 

63.46 

 

 

 

 

Thermal Noise Density 

dBm/Hz 

-2.04E+02 

-2.04E+02 

Total Thermal Noise of the system 

dBm 

-104.43 

-104.43 

 

 

 

 

Receiver Antenna Gain 

dB 

0 

0 

Receiver Noise Figure 

dB 

7 

7 

Receiver Losses 

dB 

0 

0 

Modulation Scheme 

 

QPSK 

QPSK 

No of Bits per Symbol 

 

2 

2 

Coding Rate 

 

0.1 

0.1 

Useful Bits per Symbol 

 

0.2 

0.2 

No. Of Bits per Resource Block 

 

16.80 

16.80 

Spectral Efficiency 

bps/Hz 

1.68E-01 

1.68E-01 

Required SINR at the Cell Edge 

dB 

-9.08 

-9.08 

 

 

 

 

Receiver Sensitivity 

dBm 

-106.52 

-106.52 

Fading Margin 

dB 

0 

0 

Interference Margin 

dB 

4 

4 

Coverage Probability 

% 

95 

95 

Indoor Path Loss 

dB 

0 

0 

Control Channel Overhead (29%) 

dB 

-0.53 

-0.53 

Total Path Loss 

dB 

165.9 

166.5 

 

 

 

 

Cell Radius (Okumura Hata Model) 

Km 

29.3 

12.7 

 

 

 

 

 

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Appendix B: UMTS Link Budget 

General info 

Unit 

Value 

Frequency 

MHz 

900.00 

Chip rate 

cps 

3.84E+06 

Temperature  

K 

290 

Boltzman's constant 

J/K 

1.38E-23 

Noise Bandwidth 

Hz 

3.84E+06 

Base Station Height 

meters 

8.10E+01 

Mobile Station Height 

meters 

1.50E+00 

Service profile 

Unit 

Downlink 

Load 

% 

50 

Bit rate 

kbps 

1024 

 

 

 

Receiving end 

  

Mobile 

Noise figure 

dB 

7 

 

 

 

Thermal Noise power 

dBm 

-108.13 

Cell Interference margin (

noise rise

) 

dB 

3.01 

Total interference level 

dBm 

-98.12 

 

 

 

Required E

b

/N

o

 

dB 

7 

Processing Gain 

dB 

5.74 

Antenna diversity gain 

dB 

0 

SHO diversity gain 

dB 

2 

Power control headroom 

dB 

0 

Fading Margin (rural) 

dB 

0.8 

Required C/I 

dB 

0.06 

 

 

 

Receiver sensitivity 

dBm 

-98.06 

 

 

 

RX antenna gain 

dBi 

0 

LNA gain 

dB 

0 

Cable loss  

dB 

0 

Required signal power 

dBm 

-98.06 

 

 

 

Transmitting end 

  

NodeB 

TX Power / connection 

W 

40 

TX Power / connection 

dBm 

46.02 

Antenna gain 

dB 

1 

Cable loss 

dB 

0.2 

Peak EIRP 

dBm 

62.7 

 

 

 

Isotropic path loss  

dB 

160.8 

 

 

 

Cell Radius (Okumura Hata Model) 

Km 

18.1 

 

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Document Outline

• ABSTRACT
• CONTENTs
• list of Abbreviations
• list of Symbols
• List of figures
• LIST OF TABLES
• 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. Evolution of wireless technology
  • 1.2. Objectives and scope of the research
  • 1.3. Research methodology
• 2. LONG TERM EVOLUTION
  • 2.1. LTE requirements
  • 2.2. Evolved Packet System (EPS)
    • 2.2.1. Logical elements of EPS
      • 2.2.1.1 User Equipment
      • 2.2.1.2 E-UTRAN NodeB (eNodeB)
      • 2.2.1.3 Mobility Management Entity (MME)
      • 2.2.1.4 Serving Gateway (S-GW)
      • 2.2.1.5 Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW)
      • 2.2.1.6 Policy and Charging Resource Function (PCRF)
      • 2.2.1.7 Home Subscription Server (HSS)
    • 2.2.2. Interfaces and Protocols
• 3. LTE RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY
  • 3.1. Introduction to OFDM
  • 3.2. Single Carrier FDMA
  • 3.3. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
  • 3.4. Modulation techniques
  • 3.5. LTE frame structure
• 4. EPS MOBILITY MANAGEMENT (EMM)
  • 4.1. EPS connection procedure
  • 4.2. IDLE state mobility management
    • 4.2.1. Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection
    • 4.2.2. Cell selection
    • 4.2.3. Cell re-selection
    • 4.2.4. Location Management
  • 4.3. Handover
    • 4.3.1. Intra-LTE handover
      • 4.3.1.1 X2 based handover
      • 4.3.1.2 S1 based handover
    • 4.3.2.  Inter RAT handover
  • 4.4. Measurement events and triggers
• 5. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
  • 5.1. Link adaptation
  • 5.2. Physical Cell Identity (PCI)
  • 5.3. Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP)
  • 5.4. Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ)
  • 5.5. Signal to Interference-Noise Ratio (SINR)
  • 5.6. Capacity of memoryless channels
  • 5.7. Received Signal Code Power (RSCP)
  • 5.8. Downlink throughput
• 6. RADIO COVERAGE AND LINK BUDGET
  • 6.1. Free space model
  • 6.2. Okumura-Hata model
  • 6.3. Link budget calculations
    • 6.3.1. Cell edge SINR calculations
  • 6.4. Theoretical cell coverage calculations
• 7. MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS
  • 7.1. LTE 800 MHz coverage measurements
    • 7.1.1. Measurement setup
    • 7.1.2. CQI and link adaptation
    • 7.1.3. RSRP coverage analysis
      • 7.1.3.1 PCI coverage
      • 7.1.3.2 RSRP analysis
      • 7.1.3.3 RSRP analysis on multiple runs
      • 7.1.3.4 Detected set analysis
    • 7.1.4. RSRQ coverage analysis
    • 7.1.5. SNR analysis
    • 7.1.6. Downlink throughput analysis
      • 7.1.6.1 Throughput analysis on multiple runs
  • 7.2. LTE 1800 MHz measurements and comparison
    • 7.2.1. CQI and link adaptation comparison
    • 7.2.2. RSRP comparison
    • 7.2.3. RSRQ comparison
    • 7.2.4. SNR comparison
    • 7.2.5. Throughput comparison
  • 7.3. UMTS 900 comparison
    • 7.3.1. RSRP vs. RSCP
    • 7.3.2. Throughput comparison
• 8. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
  • 8.1. Measurement analysis
  • 8.2. Reliability and validity test
  • 8.3. Limitations of the analysis
  • 8.4. Moving ahead
• REFERENCES
• APPENDIX