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LTE Throughput Calculation Guide

This document discusses LTE throughput calculation in 3 sentences: Using a 20MHz channel with 4x4 MIMO configuration theoretically provides a peak data rate of 403Mbps but with 25% overhead for reference signals and other overhead, the effective data rate is about 302Mbps. An alternative way to calculate LTE throughput is using the transport block size from table 7.1.7.1-1, which with 100 RBs and a TBS index of 26 provides a transport block size of 75376 bits, resulting in an effective peak data rate of 301.5Mbps for a 4x4 MIMO configuration. The document provides links to tables in 3GPP specifications for modulation, transport block size, and

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LTE Throughput Calculation Guide

This document discusses LTE throughput calculation in 3 sentences: Using a 20MHz channel with 4x4 MIMO configuration theoretically provides a peak data rate of 403Mbps but with 25% overhead for reference signals and other overhead, the effective data rate is about 302Mbps. An alternative way to calculate LTE throughput is using the transport block size from table 7.1.7.1-1, which with 100 RBs and a TBS index of 26 provides a transport block size of 75376 bits, resulting in an effective peak data rate of 301.5Mbps for a 4x4 MIMO configuration. The document provides links to tables in 3GPP specifications for modulation, transport block size, and

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LTE Throughput calculation

Let us understand peak data rate or LTE throughput calculation with following LTE system
configuration.

20MHz channel, 4x4 MIMO configuration,


Theoretically, Peak Data rate= No. of REs per subframe x no. of bits per modulation symbol
=16800 x 6
=100800 bits/ 1 ms
Data Rate=100.8Mbps
For 4x4 MIMO data rate=403Mbps

About 25% of overhead is used here for RS(reference signal), synchronization signals,
PDCCH, PBCH & for some coding. This leads to effective data rate of about 403Mbps X
0.75 = 302Mbps.
Each of the Resource Element(RE) will carry a modulation symbol.

Another way for LTE throughput calculation is to use Table number 7.1.7.1-1 which gives
Transport Block Size(TBS). TBS indicates No. of bits that can be transmitted in one
subframe per Transmit Time Interval. From the table with RBs of 100 and TBS index of 26,
Transport Block Size is 75376. For MIMO configuration of 4x4, we will get about data
rate(peak) about 75376 x 4 per 1ms. This leads to effective peak data rate of 301.5 Mbps.

LTE throughput related links

Table number 7.1.7.1-1: Modulation and TBS index for PDSCH, REFER: 3GPP TX 36.213
Table number 7.1.7.2.1-1: Transport block size ,REFER: 3GPP TX 36.213

LTE Throughput Calculator

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