Analysis and Simulation of LTE Downlink: EPA and ETU model

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology can provide 100 Mbps and 30 Mbps in down and upstream. Its improvement in latency and scalable bandwidth capacity depend mainly on the channel numbers and quality. Analysing the performance of LTE downlink using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Extended Typical Urban (ETU) models can lead to better usage of these networks. Therefore, in this paper physical layer for downlink channel of LTE in FDD (frequency division duplexing) mode will be analysed. Where the two propagation techniques of LTE Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) will be compare to choose the best in this paper. The simulation results show that ETU better and faster than EPA in reaching target throughput and reaching higher maximum throughput for all cases at all Doppler values.