A Comparison Between Different Reception Diversity Schemes of a 4G-LTE Base Station in Reverberation Chamber: A Deployment in a Live Cellular Network

The uplink performance of a real fourth-generation long-term-evolution (LTE) frequency-division multiplexing base station was observed by adopting a reverberation chamber as propagating environment. In the downlink direction, the reception of the LTE signal is limited to mobile station receivers. On...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on electromagnetic compatibility Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 2029 - 2037
Main Authors: Barazzetta, Massimo, Micheli, Davide, Bastianelli, Luca, Diamanti, Riccardo, Totta, Matteo, Obino, Pietro, Lattanzi, Renzo, Moglie, Franco, Primiani, Valter Mariani
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2017
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
4G mobile communication
Base station (BS)
Base stations
block error rate (BLER)
Cellular communication
cooperative multiple input multiple output
coordinated multipoint (CoMP)
Delays
Diversity reception
fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G LTE)
Frequency division multiplexing
Interference
key performance indicators (KPIs)
live radio access network
Long Term Evolution
Mobile communication
Mobile communication systems
modulation and coding scheme (MCS)
Personal communications systems
Radio equipment
Receivers
Reception diversity
Rejection
reverberation chambers (RCs)
Signal to noise ratio
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR)
throughput (TP)
transport format indication (TFI)
Wireless carriers
Wireless communications
ISSN:0018-9375, 1558-187X
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Summary:The uplink performance of a real fourth-generation long-term-evolution (LTE) frequency-division multiplexing base station was observed by adopting a reverberation chamber as propagating environment. In the downlink direction, the reception of the LTE signal is limited to mobile station receivers. On the other hand, different reception schemes could be implemented by the base station in the uplink direction. Interference rejection and coordinated multipoint reception criteria are based on spatial diversity and are analyzed in a rich multipath environment. These options could be susceptible to impairments due to the presence of Gaussian noise, also including the more realistic case of a discontinuous noise source. The testing session was carried out under a collaboration program between TIM S.p.A., Nokia, and Università Politecnica delle Marche, and it ended up by introducing envisioned reception solutions of the base station in a live customer's cellular network.
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ISSN:0018-9375
1558-187X
DOI:10.1109/TEMC.2017.2657122