《System level simulation of LTE networks》.pdf

System level simulation of LTE networks Josep Colom Ikuno, Martin Wrulich, Markus Rupp Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering Vienna University of Technology, Austria Gusshausstrasse 25/389, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Email: {jcolom, mwrulich, mrupp }@nt.tuwien.ac.at Web: http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/ltesimulator Abstract—In order to evaluate the performance of new mobile The LTE system-level simulator [1] supplements an already network technologies, system level simulations are crucial. They freely-available LTE link-level simulator [7]. This combination aim at determining whether, and at which level predicted link allows for detailed simulation of both the physical layer level gains impact network performance. In this paper we present a MATLAB computationally efficient LTE system level simulator. procedures to analyze link-level related issues and system-level The simulator is offered for free under an academic, non- simulations where the physical layer is abstracted from link commercial use license, a first to the authors’ knowledge. The level results and network performance is investigated. simulator is capable of evaluating the performance of the Down- The license under which the simulators are published al- link Shared Channel of LTE SISO and MIMO networks using lows for academic research and a closer cooperation between Open Loop Spatial Multiplexing and Transmission Diversity different universities and research facilities. In addition, deve