The Vienna LTE-Advanced Simulators - Up and Downlink, Link and System Level Simulation

This book introducesthe Vienna Simulator Suite for 3rd-Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)-compatible Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) simulators and presentsapplications to demonstrate their uses for describing, designing, and optimizingwireless cellular LTE-A networks.

Part One addresses LTEand LTE-A link level techniques. As there has been high demand for the downlink(DL) simulator, it constitutes the central focus of the majority of thechapters. This part of the book reports on relevant highlights, includingsingle-user (SU), multi-user (MU) and single-input-single-output (SISO) as wellas multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions. Furthermore, itsummarizes the optimal pilot pattern for high-speed communications as well asdifferent synchronization issues. One chapter is devoted to experiments thatshow how the link level simulator can provide input to a testbed. This sectionalso uses measurements to present and validate fundamental results onorthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions that are notlimited to LTE-A. One chapter exclusively deals with the newest tool, theuplink (UL) link level simulator, and presents cutting-edge results.

In turn, Part Twofocuses on system-level simulations. From early on, system-level simulations havebeen in high demand, as people are naturally seeking answers when scenarioswith numerous base stations and hundreds of users are investigated. This partnot only explains how mathematical abstraction can be employed to speed upsimulations by several hundred times without sacrificing precision, but alsoillustrates new theories on how to abstract large urban heterogeneous networkswith indoor small cells. It also reports on advanced applications such as trainand car transmissions to demonstrate the tools' capabilities.

 

List of contents

Introduction.- LinkLevel Simulation Basics.- Downlink Synchronization.- Symbol Detection in HighSpeed Channels.- Optimal Pilot Pattern for Downlink Transmissions.- Single UserMIMO LTE Transmission with Quantized Feedback.- Multi User and Multi CellSimulations.- Advanced Multi User MIMO Concepts.- LTE-Advanced UplinkTransmissions.- LTE-Advanced Uplink Transmissions.- Basic System LevelSimulations and Advanced Features.- Modeling Regular Aggregate Interference bySymmetric Structures.- Modeling Asymmetric Aggregate Interference by SymmetricStructures.- Analysis of Urban Two-Tier Heterogeneous Cellular Networks.- Simulationof Two-Tier Heterogeneous Cellular Networks.- Advanced System LevelApplications.

About the author

Markus Rupp was born
in 1963 in Völklingen, Germany. He received his Dipl.-Ing. Degree in 1988 at
the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993 at the
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, where he worked with Eberhardt
Hänsler on designing new algorithms for acoustic and electrical echo
compensation. From November 1993 until July 1995, he held a postdoctoral
position at the University of Santa Barbara, California, with Sanjit Mitra
where he worked with Ali H. Sayed on a robustness description of adaptive
filters with impact on neural networks and active noise control. From October
1995 until August 2001, he was a member of Technical Staff at the Wireless
Technology Research Department of Bell-Labs in Crawford Hill, NJ, where he
worked on various topics related to adaptive equalization and rapid
implementation for IS-136, 802.11 and UMTS. In October 2001 he was appointed a
Full Professor of Digital Signal Processing in Mobile Communications at the
Technische Universität (TU) Wien, where he served as the Dean from 2005 to 2007
and from 2016 to 2017. He was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing from 2002 to 2005 and is currently associate editor of JASP EURASIP
Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and JES EURASIP Journal on Embedded
Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was elected AdCom Member of EURASIP
from 2004 to 2012, serving as President of EURASIP from 2009 to 2010. He has
authored and co-authored more than 500 scientific papers, including 15 patents
on adaptive filtering and wireless communications.
 
Stefan Schwarz was
born in Neunkirchen, Austria, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. degree in
electrical engineering and his Dipl.-Ing. degree (M.Sc. equivalent) in
telecommunications engineering with the highest distinctions in 2007 and 2009,
respectively, both at TU Wien. He also received his Dr. techn. degree (Ph.D.
equivalent) in telecommunications engineering  with the highest
distinctions in 2013 at TU Wien. In 2010 he received the honorary prize of the
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research for outstanding graduates of
scientific and artistic universities. In 2014 he received the INiTS Award in
the category Information and Communication Technologies for innovative
scientific works with potential economic applications. From 2008 to 2014 he
worked as a project assistant in Prof. Markus Rupp’s Mobile Communications
group at TU Wien’s Institute of Telecommunications, where he chiefly focused on
link and system level simulation of Long-Term Evolution (LTE)/ Long-Term
Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) networks and was one of the lead developers of the
Vienna LTE Simulators. In 2012 he visited the University of Texas at Austin as a
research scholar and collaborated with Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr. on limited
feedback algorithms for distributed antenna systems. Since 2015 he has been
employed as postdoctoral researcher (university assistant) at the Institute of
Telecommunications, leading a contract research project on Low Latency Group
Communication over Long-Term Evolution Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services
(LTE MBMS). His research interests lie in the broad fields of wireless
communications and signal processing.
 

Martin Taranetz was
born in 1986 in Amstetten, Austria. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical
engineering and his Dipl.-Ing degree (M.Sc. equivalent) in telecommunications
engineering with the highest distinctions from the TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in
2008 and 2011, respectively. He also received his Dr. techn. degree (Ph.D.
equivalent) in telecommunications engineering with the highest honors from the
TU Wien in 2015. In his dissertation, he focused on the system level modeling
and evaluation of heterogeneous cellular networks. Since 2015, he has been
employed as a project assistant in the Mobile Communications group at TU Wien’s
Institute of Telecommunications. From January 2014 to April 2014 he was a
visiting researcher with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at the
University of Texas at Austin. His research interests lie in the broad fields
of wireless communications and signal processing. He is a reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing. 

Summary

This book introduces
the Vienna Simulator Suite for 3rd-Generation Partnership Project
(3GPP)-compatible Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) simulators and presents
applications to demonstrate their uses for describing, designing, and optimizing
wireless cellular LTE-A networks.

Part One addresses LTE
and LTE-A link level techniques. As there has been high demand for the downlink
(DL) simulator, it constitutes the central focus of the majority of the
chapters. This part of the book reports on relevant highlights, including
single-user (SU), multi-user (MU) and single-input-single-output (SISO) as well
as multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions. Furthermore, it
summarizes the optimal pilot pattern for high-speed communications as well as
different synchronization issues. One chapter is devoted to experiments that
show how the link level simulator can provide input to a testbed. This section
also uses measurements to present and validate fundamental results on
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions that are not
limited to LTE-A. One chapter exclusively deals with the newest tool, the
uplink (UL) link level simulator, and presents cutting-edge results.

In turn, Part Two
focuses on system-level simulations. From early on, system-level simulations have
been in high demand, as people are naturally seeking answers when scenarios
with numerous base stations and hundreds of users are investigated. This part
not only explains how mathematical abstraction can be employed to speed up
simulations by several hundred times without sacrificing precision, but also
illustrates new theories on how to abstract large urban heterogeneous networks
with indoor small cells. It also reports on advanced applications such as train
and car transmissions to demonstrate the tools’ capabilities.

 

Product details

• Authors: Marku Rupp, Markus Rupp, Stefa Schwarz, Stefan Schwarz, Martin Taranetz
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9789811006166
• ISBN: 978-981-10-0616-6
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 249 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 696 g
• Illustrations: XXXIV, 357 p. 139 illus.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology; Signals and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, computer science, engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applications of Mathematics, Communications Engineering, Networks, Information theory, Applied mathematics, Computer simulation, Computer modelling & simulation, Simulation and Modeling, Information and Communication, Circuits