1 Architecture of LTE frame (FDD)

Time

2 LTE radio frame = 10 ms

1 Subframe = 1 ms

1 slot = 0.5 ms

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7 Note:

1) 1 Transport Block contains 2 slot (1 ms)

2) Normal throughput Calculation/Estimation:

For example: Number of RB is 100. There are 12*7 Resource Elements
in per RB, and then can calculate the total number of Resource
Elements per subframe :

12 Subcarriers * 7 LTE symbol * 100 RBs * 2 slots = 16800 Symbols

=12 subcarriers = 180 kHz

per subframe.
(1 subcarrier = 15 kHz)
Frequency

1 Resource Block

Then assume it is using 64 QAM and no coding, so one symbol can

(Channel Bandwidth)

carry 6 bits. Finally the throughput is:

Resource Blocks

16800 Symbols/subframe * 6 bits/Symbol = 100800 bits/subframe

100800 bits/subframe /1 ms/subframe = 100.8 Mbps

Actually, there is 25% overhead in LTE hence we have:

Peak Data Rate = 100.8 Mbps * 75% = 75.6 Mbps

4 3
In the Release 10 (LTE-Advanced), it is using the MIMO 4x4 so the new
peak data rate is :

Peak Data Rate = 75.6 Mbps * 4 = 302.4 Mbps

Channel
Bandwidth 1.4 3 5 10 15 20
(MHz)
5
6 LTE symbols Number of
Resource 6 15 25 50 75 100
Two types of Cyclic Prefix supported by LTE: Blocks
1) Normal CP (short CP)
As shown above, if Normal CP is used in LTE and then there
are 7 symbols in 1 slot(0.5 milliseconds). So the length of
prefix of the first symbol is 5.208 microseconds and the
length of the other per symbol is 4.6875 microseconds.
2) Extended CP (long CP)
It is 16.67 microseconds.

The real architecture consist of the LTE 7 Symbols

(Normal CP)

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By Longhao Zou (zoulonghao@gmail.com)

Cycle Prefix August, 2012