LTE System ToolboxSimulate the physical layer of LTE and LTE-Advanced wireless communication systems

LTE System Toolbox™ provides standard-compliant functions and tools for the design, simulation, andverification of LTE and LTE-Advanced communications systems. The system toolbox accelerates LTE algorithmand physical layer (PHY) development, supports golden reference verification and conformance testing, andenables test waveform generation. With the system toolbox, you can configure, simulate, measure, and analyzeend-to-end communications links. You can also create and reuse a conformance test bench to verify that yourdesigns, prototypes, and implementations comply with the LTE standard.

Key Features▪ Standard-compliant models for LTE and LTE-Advanced (Releases 8, 9, and 10)

▪ End-to-end physical layer transmit and receive processing functions, including OFDM (downlink) andSC-FDMA (uplink)

▪ MIMO antenna transmission and UE-specific beamforming functions

▪ Channel estimation, synchronization, and MIMO receiver functions

▪ Standard-compliant propagation channel models

▪ Test models and reference measurement channel (RMC) waveform generators

▪ Interactive tools for conformance and BER testing

▪ Recovery of low-level parameters, such as cell identity

Design Verification

LTE System Toolbox facilitates the process of testing an LTE design by providing a golden referenceimplementation. With its comprehensive set of transmitter, receiver, and channel model components, the systemtoolbox provides test vectors and metrics needed to verify each individual component of the transmitter or thereceiver. The set of components includes:

▪ Channel coding with rate matching, scrambling, and modulation

▪ MIMO operations, including layer mapping and precoding

▪ Resource element mapping and OFDM and SC-FDM signal generations

▪ Frame synchronization, frequency offset, frequency correction

▪ Downlink and uplink channel estimation, perfect channel estimation

▪ Equalization: Zero-forcing and MMSE-based algorithms

▪ Demodulation, descrambling, and channel decoding

▪ Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)

LTE System Toolbox provides a comprehensive specification of the time-frequency resource grid. The gridrepresents the framework that the LTE standard uses to organize data and to multiplex various channels andsignals before OFDM transmission on each antenna. Using the functions in the system toolbox that generate andpopulate various elements of the grid, you can verify design correctness and catch placement and mappingmistakes in your implementations.

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Downlink physical signals, their associated functions, and their locations on the resource grid. LTE System Toolboxenables you to place data within the grid for correct implementation of the LTE transceiver.

End-to-End Simulation

LTE System Toolbox enables you to model and simulate the physical layer of the LTE standard. With link-levelsimulations you can obtain expected measures of performance, including throughput and block error rate, andevaluate real implementations based on simulated measures. The system toolbox also enables better systemplanning, for example, by facilitating link-level simulations that provide some of the parameters needed to designa cell tower of a given geometry and propagation profile.

The set of supported functions for transmitter, receiver, and channel modeling operations includes:

Frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) frame structures and carrier frequencies

All transmission bandwidths, including LTE from 1.4 to 20 MHz and LTE-A up to 100 MHz with carrieraggregation

LTE physical signals, including downlink and uplink reference signals and synchronization signals

LTE physical channels, including control channels and shared channels

Full downlink processing chain, including downlink shared and control channel processing, all MIMOmulti-antenna schemes, and OFDM signal generation

Full uplink processing chain, including uplink shared and control channel processing, uplink SU-MIMO andMU-MIMO multi-antenna schemes, and SC-FDMA signal generation

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LTE-defined propagation channel models, including extended pedestrian A model (EPA), extended vehicular Amodel (EVA), extended typical urban model (ETU), moving propagation channel models, and high-speed trainMIMO channel models

LTE System Toolbox enables you to set up tests that measure the throughput performance of a physical downlinkshared channel (PDSCH) under conformance test conditions specified in the LTE standard document TS 36.101.System toolbox data structures let you concisely express all system parameters, and system toolbox functions letyou express all combinations of transmitter, channel model and receiver operations. Using these tools forconformance and block error rate (BLER) testing, you can obtain link-level performance measures and verifycompliance with standard specifications.

Conformance test results: throughput as a function of SNR as part of downlink TS 36.101 conformance testing. Thesystem toolbox includes performance measure and metrics that let you verify compliance with standard specifications.

Signal Generation and Analysis

LTE System Toolbox provides a variety of time-domain signals, or waveforms, that you can use to test, measure,and verify various implementations. You can generate individual waveforms for all combinations of LTEtransmitter parameters. Generated waveforms can be customized using MATLAB, providing greater flexibilitythan the reference measurement channel (RMC) generation offered by hardware-based signal generators. You canthen use each generated waveform to test and verify accuracy and performance of software or hardwareimplementations of a receiver.

Waveforms generated by the system toolbox feature:

▪ Physical channels, including physical broadcast channel (PBCH), physical control format indicator channel(PCFICH), physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH),

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physical hybrid indicator channel (PHICH), physical random access channel (PRACH), physical uplinkshared channel (PUSCH), physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)

▪ Physical signals, including primary synchronization signal (PSS), secondary synchronization signal (SSS), cellspecific reference signals (RS), demodulation reference signals (DMRS), channel state information referencesignals (CSI-RS), and sounding reference signals (SRS)

▪ Channel quality measurements, including EVM, ACLR, and in-band emissions

▪ Downlink reference measurement channel (RMC)

▪ Downlink E-UTRA test model (E-TM)

▪ Uplink reference measurement channel (FRC/RMC)

You can generate downlink test model waveforms as specified in LTE standard document TS 36.141. The systemtoolbox provides flexibility for generating these waveforms— functions for programmatic use and waveformgeneration tools with user interfaces for interactive use.

LTE Test Model Generator for generating waveforms as specified in TS 36.141. You can customize waveform contentusing tools provided by LTE System Toolbox.

Signal Information Recovery

LTE System Toolbox provides functions for signal information recovery, including identification and sourcelocalization. These measurements are useful for obtaining information necessary to decode a signal or forascertaining the location and identity of a mobile unit. For example, in an emergency, first responders can usethese measurements to quickly locate the mobile unit in distress.

Signal information recovery measurements in the system toolbox include:

▪ Signal recovery procedures

▪ Cell identity search

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▪ Master information block (MIB) decoding

▪ System information block type 1 (SIB1) recovery

▪ Time difference of arrival (TDOA) positioning

LTE System Toolbox provides a comprehensive set of receiver functions to model how a mobile unit (UE)communicates with the network. These functions enable you to perform UE cell-search procedures, obtain cellidentities, and extract system information such as the master information block (MIB) and the systeminformation block (SIB). The process involves acquiring slot and frame synchronization, demodulation, anddecoding of the majority of the downlink channels.

By demodulating and decoding the MIB information, you can obtain essential parameters such as the systembandwidth. You can then extract additional system parameters, such as system information block type 1 (SIB1)that contains the public land mobile network (PLMN) identity and other scheduling information for SIBs otherthan SIB1. Obtaining these parameters is essential for handoff, mobile unit localization, and other system accessand registration procedures.

Radio network temporary identity (RNTI) search and recovery of system information block (SIB). LTE System Toolboxprovides functions that enable you to perform UE cell search procedures, obtain cell identities, and extract systeminformation.

Conformance Testing

LTE System Toolbox functionality is accurate, comprehensive, and conformant to the LTE standard specification.Data structures and functions in the system toolbox comply with the 3GPP LTE standard Releases 8, 9, and 10.

The system toolbox provides a comprehensive set of transmitter, channel model, and receiver operations for bothdownlink (base station to mobile) and uplink (mobile to base station) transmissions. The accuracy of physicallayer modeling and simulation tools offered by LTE System Toolbox have been used in industry since 2009 andverified for compliance on Agilent and Rohde & Schwarz hardware.

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