The 3G Long-Term Evolution - Radio Interface Concepts and Performance Evaluation

Abstract—3GPP is in the process of defining the long-term evolution (LTE) for 3G radio access, sometimes referred to as Super3G, in order to maintain the future competitiveness of 3G technology. The main targets for this evolution concern increased data rates, improved spectrum efficiency, improved coverage, and reduced latency. Taken together these result in significantly improved service provisioning and reduced operator costs in a variety of traffic scenarios. This paper gives an overview of the basic radio interface principles for the 3G long-term evolution concept, including OFDM and advanced antenna solution, and presents performance results indicating to what extent the requirements/targets can be met. It is seen that the targets on threefold user throughput and spectrum efficiency compared to basic WCDMA can be fulfilled with the current working assumptions. More advanced WCDMA systems, employing e.g. advanced antenna solutions may however achieve similar performance gains. E...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: VTC
• Authors: Erik Dahlman, Hannes Ekström, Anders Furuskar, Ylva Jading, Jonas Karlsson, Magnus Lundevall, Stefan Parkvall
• Keywords: Long-Term Evolution, Reduced Latency, VTC 2006, WCDMA