A long term evolution link level simulator

3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the evolution of the UMTS which will make possible to deliver next generation high quality multimedia services according to the users' expectations. Since the LTE performance evaluation needs link and system level simulations, a software tool to simulate the LTE Downlink based on OFDM technology with MIMO antenna processing is presented in this master thesis. This simulator contains the MIMO algorithms, the spatial channel models and modulation and coding schemes for LTE. The result of this simulator serves to evaluate the OFDM-MIMO LTE Link Level performance in different environments and create link level look-up tables to be used as an input for a future LTE system level simulator.

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