LTE physical layer: Performance analysis and evaluation

Hamid Mousavi, Iraj S. Amiri, Mohammad Ali Mostafavi, Chang Yoong Choon

3GPP LTE was proposed by cooperation between groups of telecommunications consortium named as 3rd Generation Partnership Project to improve the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) standard. It supports up to 300 Mbps of data transmission in downlink using the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation as well as up to 75 Mbps throughput for uplink using the Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) modulation schemes. In this paper, the study of LTE PHY layer performance evaluation is conducted for downlink transmission utilizing Single-Input and Single-Output (SISO) and Multi-Input and Multi-Output (MIMO) techniques. We present a comprehensive investigation of the LTE performance analysis, where the Bit Error Rate (BER), Block Error Rate (BLER) and throughput performance results of LTE PHY layer provided.