Performance of LTE ADVANCED Uplink in a Flat Rayleigh Channel

Abstract

This paper describes the performance of LTE advanced uplink transmission in a flat Rayleigh channel. The uplink is simulated using a modified version of the Vienna uplink link level matlab code simulator. This modified version supports two transmission antennas instead of one. Moreover, it includes two extra processes; layer mapping and precoding. In addition, the demodulation reference signal is presented and employed to allow channel estimation. In this paper, the structure of the LTE advanced system is described. Furthermore, we present generation of the demodulation reference signal. Four combinations of two distinct channel estimation and two signal detection methods are used to provide the simulation results of performance evaluation in term of the BER and throughput curves for selected scenarios.

Keywords

• ber
• flat rayleigh
• lte advanced
• ls
• mmse
• ssd
• zf.