4G University Suite™
Introduction
4G University Suite™ is a platform for research and education on LTE/LTE-Advanced and WiMAX primarily targeted at universities and research institutions. It is based on the IS-Wireless flagship products: LTE PHY Lab™, WiMAX PHY Lab™ and 4G System Lab™. A selection of these products is complemented with additional material such as programs for university laboratory classes, courseware for supporting lectures and formulation of M.Sc. or Ph.D. projects.
Overview
The three component tools, namely LTE PHY Lab™, WiMAX PHY Lab™ and 4G System Lab™ are very much complementing each other.
LTE PHY Lab™ and WiMAX PHY Lab™, acting as link-level simulators, model the downlink and the uplink processing chains of PHY layer for LTE and WiMAX, respectively. High detail of functional blocks implementation, reflecting baseband models of base station and mobile station, allows for great flexibility in educations and R&D. This makes the two tools indispensable for all students and researchers active in the area of digital signal processing, development of baseband algorithm and RF processing for LTE and WiMAX.
4G System Lab™ – a system-level simulator, allows to verify the overall performance of the radio network, taking into account interference environment and temporal dynamics of channel and traffic conditions. The tool models all the events that happen within a radio network, including terminals mobility, cell reselections, attach, random access, admission control, handovers, power control, scheduling and many more. Hence, a vast area of network planning and optimization problems can be investigated, from simple coverage and capacity verifications, through validation of the influence of chosen radio resource management (RRM) features up to technology business casing.
Example of laboratory class, entitled: "OFDMA Receiver in the LTE System".
Features:
- Link-level simulation environments: LTE PHY Lab™ including LTE-Advanced and WiMAX PHY Lab™
- System-level simulation environment: 4G System Lab™
- Laboratory cases and courseware support
- Multiuser license and Academic discount
Example of laboratory cases:
- OFDMA/SCFDMA transmitter based on the LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX system
- OFDMA Receiver based on the LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX System
- Baseband signal processing with the example of LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX System
- Observation of system performance (e.g. throughput / spectral efficiency measurements) under various mobility models applied
- Research on various RRM parameters settings (e.g. handover, admission control)
- System behavior observation (e.g. throughput / spectral efficiency measurements) with the usage of different user types (mobility models)
- MIMO schemes in LTE-Advanced (including various reference signals)
- LTE-Advanced transmission/radio frame generation with the use of Carrier Aggregation for DL and UL
Example of research topcis:
- Methods for time and frequency synchronization in LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX
- Methods for channel estimation and correction in LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX
- Scheduling algorithms for LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX
- Co-channel interference management schemes for LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX
- Radio network planning methods for LTE/LTE-Advanced & WiMAX
- SON algorithms development for LTE/LTE Advanced
Example thesis:
Modeling and Simulation of Scheduling Algorithms in LTE Networks. To read the thesis please have a look here.
Avalibility
4G University Suite™ is available for purchase.
Purchasing information and product brochure
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