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LTE System Toolbox

Simulate the physical layer of LTE and LTE-Advanced wireless communication systems
LTE System Toolbox provides standard-compliant functions and tools for the design, simulation, and verification of LTE and LTE-Advanced communications systems. The system toolbox accelerates LTE algorithm and physical layer (PHY) development, supports golden reference verification and conformance testing, and enables test waveform generation. With the system toolbox, you can configure, simulate, measure, and analyze end-to-end communications links. You can also create and reuse a conformance test bench to verify that your designs, 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) and SC-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 reference implementation. With its comprehensive set of transmitter, receiver, and channel model components, the system toolbox provides test vectors and metrics needed to verify each individual component of the transmitter or the receiver. 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 grid represents the framework that the LTE standard uses to organize data and to multiplex various channels and signals before OFDM transmission on each antenna. Using the functions in the system toolbox that generate and populate various elements of the grid, you can verify design correctness and catch placement and mapping mistakes in your implementations.

Downlink physical signals, their associated functions, and their locations on the resource grid. LTE System Toolbox enables 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-level simulations you can obtain expected measures of performance, including throughput and block error rate, and evaluate real implementations based on simulated measures. The system toolbox also enables better system planning, for example, by facilitating link-level simulations that provide some of the parameters needed to design a 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 carrier aggregation 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 MIMO multi-antenna schemes, and OFDM signal generation Full uplink processing chain, including uplink shared and control channel processing, uplink SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO multi-antenna schemes, and SC-FDMA signal generation

LTE-defined propagation channel models, including extended pedestrian A model (EPA), extended vehicular A model (EVA), extended typical urban model (ETU), moving propagation channel models, and high-speed train MIMO channel models LTE System Toolbox enables you to set up tests that measure the throughput performance of a physical downlink shared 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 let you express all combinations of transmitter, channel model and receiver operations. Using these tools for conformance and block error rate (BLER) testing, you can obtain link-level performance measures and verify compliance with standard specifications.

Conformance test results: throughput as a function of SNR as part of downlink TS 36.101 conformance testing. The system 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 LTE transmitter parameters. Generated waveforms can be customized using MATLAB, providing greater flexibility than the reference measurement channel (RMC) generation offered by hardware-based signal generators. You can then use each generated waveform to test and verify accuracy and performance of software or hardware implementations 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),

physical hybrid indicator channel (PHICH), physical random access channel (PRACH), physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) Physical signals, including primary synchronization signal (PSS), secondary synchronization signal (SSS), cell specific reference signals (RS), demodulation reference signals (DMRS), channel state information reference signals (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 system toolbox provides flexibility for generating these waveforms functions for programmatic use and waveform generation tools with user interfaces for interactive use.

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

Signal Information Recovery LTE System Toolbox provides functions for signal information recovery, including identification and source localization. These measurements are useful for obtaining information necessary to decode a signal or for ascertaining the location and identity of a mobile unit. For example, in an emergency, first responders can use these measurements to quickly locate the mobile unit in distress. Signal information recovery measurements in the system toolbox include: Signal recovery procedures Cell identity search

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 cell identities, and extract system information such as the master information block (MIB) and the system information block (SIB). The process involves acquiring slot and frame synchronization, demodulation, and decoding of the majority of the downlink channels. By demodulating and decoding the MIB information, you can obtain essential parameters such as the system bandwidth. 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 other than SIB1. Obtaining these parameters is essential for handoff, mobile unit localization, and other system access and registration procedures.

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

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 both downlink (base station to mobile) and uplink (mobile to base station) transmissions. The accuracy of physical layer modeling and simulation tools offered by LTE System Toolbox have been used in industry since 2009 and verified for compliance on Agilent and Rohde & Schwarz hardware.

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