Table 4 Summary of simulation parameters.
Parameter | Used value/model |
|---|---|
Scenario | Wide area DL (frequency adaptive) |
Channel model | WINNER C2 channel |
Shadowing | Independent lognormal random variables (standard deviation 8 dB) |
Sector Tx antenna |
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UT receive antenna | Omnidirectional |
Intersite distance | 1000 m |
Signal bandwidth | 15 MHz (i.e., 48 chunks which is 1/3rd of the baseline assumptions) |
Mobility | 70 km/hr |
Sector Tx power | 46 dBm |
Scheduler | Adaptive Token Bank Fair Queuing, score based, and round-robin |
Interference model | brute force method (central cell is considered with interference from the 1st-tier) |
Antenna configuration | Single-in-single-out (SISO) |
Coding | B-LDPCC |
AMC modes | BPSK (rate 1/2 and 2/3), QPSK (rate 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4), 16QAM (rate 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4), and 64QAM (rate 2/3 and 3/4) |
AMC thresholds | With FEC block of 1728 bits and 10% BLER |
Frame duration | 0.6912 ms (scheduling interval) |
Traffic model | 1.9 Mbps 2IRP model for MPEG video |
Packet size | 188 Bytes |
Packet drop criterion | Delay ≥ 0.19 sec |
Simulation time | 60 sec |
Simulation tools | MATLAB and OPNET |
directional with WINNER baseline antenna pattern