ABSTRACT
Contents 10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 10.2 Overall Procedure for Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 10.3 Link-Level Simulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
10.3.1 Common Function Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 10.3.2 HSDPA Link-Level Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 10.3.3 HSUPA Link-Level Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
10.4 System-Level Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 10.4.1 System-Level Simulator Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
10.4.1.1 Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 10.4.1.2 Transmitter (Node B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 10.4.1.3 Receiver (UE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 10.4.1.4 System-Level Simulator for the HSUPA
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 10.4.2 Performance Metrics of System-Level Simulations . . . . . . . 349 10.4.3 Numerical Examples of System-Level Simulations . . . . . . . 350
10.4.3.1 HSDPA System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 10.4.3.2 HSUPA System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
10.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
10.1 Introduction The performance of HSDPA/HSUPA systems is of interest to research engineers to understand the characteristics of the systems and to further enhance performance. Link-and system-level simulations are pratical approaches to evaluate system performance. In this chapter the simulation methodology for the HSDPA/HSUPA systems is described and their performance results are presented.
