A Realistic Model and Simulation Parameters of LTE-Advanced Networks

Abstract: Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-Advanced) network is the continuation of 3GPP-LTE (3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project) and it targets to advanced develop of the requirements of LTE in terms of throughput and coverage. Then, LTE- Advanced is not new as a radio access technology, but it is an evolution of LTE to enhance the performance. LTE-Advanced was accomplished in late of 2010 and it enhanced the LTE spectrum flexibility over carrier aggregation, further its extended multi antenna broadcast, where that introduced a supporting for the relaying and provided an enhancement in the part of inter-cell interference coordination in heterogeneous network utilizations. Recently, LTE-Advanced network is the promised candidate for 4G cellular systems to run into top rates of data reaches to 100 Mbps with high mobility and 1Gbps with low mobility, where that are wanted in 4G system. Furthermore, LTE-Advanced must be capable to upkeep broader bandwidth than it provided by LTE. This article offered the designing and the architecture of LTE-Advanced further to the key features with the full configurations and the simulation tools to model the traffic links of it using network simulator 2 (NS-2).

Keywords: LTE; LTE-Advanced; NS-2; TCP