LTE Toolbox

Simulate, analyze, and test the physical layer of LTE and LTE-Advanced wireless communications systems

LTE Toolbox provides standard-compliant functions and apps for the design, simulation, and verification of LTE, LTE-Advanced, and LTE-Advanced Pro communications systems. The system toolbox accelerates LTE algorithm and physical layer (PHY) development, supports golden reference verification and conformance testing, and enables test waveform generation.

With the toolbox you can configure, simulate, measure, and analyze end-to-end communications links. You can also create and reuse a conformance test bench to verify that your designs, prototypes, and implementations comply with the LTE standard.

Using LTE Toolbox with RF instruments or hardware support packages, you can connect transmitter and receiver models to radio devices and verify your designs via over-the-air transmission and reception.

What Is LTE Toolbox?

Waveform Generation

Generate standard-compliant LTE, LTE-Advanced, and LTE-Advanced Pro waveforms. Configure and create various downlink, uplink and channels and signals.

Downlink Processing

Generate downlink physical signals, physical channels, transport channels, and control information.

LTE Waveform Modeling Using Downlink Transport and Physical Channels

LTE DL-SCH and PDSCH Processing Chain

LTE Parameterization for Waveform Generation and Simulation

LTE Downlink Test Model (E-TM) Waveform Generation

LTE downlink waveforms with transport & physical channels.

LTE downlink waveforms with transport and physical channels.

Uplink Processing

Generate uplink physical signals, physical channels, transport channels, and control information.

Uplink Waveform Modeling Using SRS and PUCCH

Mixed PUCCH Format Transmission and Reception

Release 10 PUSCH Multiple Codeword Transmit and Receive Modeling

LTE uplink waveforms including SRS and PUCCH.

Link-Level Simulation

Model end-to-end communication links. Perform waveform generation, channel modeling, and receiver operations. Compute BER, BLER, throughput, and conformance tests.

Propagation Channel Models

Characterize and simulate 3D channels, MIMO fading channels (EPA, EVA, and ETU), and moving high-speed train MIMO channels.

Simulate Propagation Channels

Using the lte3DChannel System object

Using the lteFadingChannel Function

Using the lteMovingChannel Function

Simulating propagation channels.

Conformance Testing

Perform link-level BER, BLER, and throughput conformance tests.

Analyze Throughput for PDSCH Demodulation Performance Test

PDSCH Throughput for Non-Codebook Based Precoding Schemes: Port 5 (TM7), Port 7 or 8 or Port 7-8 (TM8), Port 7-14 (TM9 and TM10)

PDSCH Throughput Conformance Test for Single Antenna (TM1), Transmit Diversity (TM2), Open Loop (TM3) and Closed Loop (TM4/6) Spatial Multiplexing

Effect of Inter-Cell Interference on PDSCH Throughput

PDSCH demodulation throughput performance test.

Test and Measurement

Build test models (E-TM) and reference measurement channels (RMC) for LTE, LTE-A, and UMTS waveforms.

LTE RMC

Configure downlink and uplink reference measurement channels.

Release 10 PDSCH Enhanced UE-Specific Beamforming

Generate preconfigured LTE downlink RMC waveforms.

Generating preconfigured LTE downlink RMC waveforms.

Measurements

Perform uplink and downlink measurements, including EVM, ACLR, and in-band emissions.

LTE Uplink EVM and In-Band Emissions Measurements

PDSCH Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) Measurement

LTE Downlink Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio (ACLR) Measurement

LTE EVM and in-band emissions measurements.

UMTS RMC

Build UMTS reference measurement channel (RMC) configuration structures and generate UMTS waveforms.

UMTS Downlink Waveform Generation

UMTS Uplink Waveform Generation

UMTS downlink RMCs and waveforms.

Signal Recovery

Recover signal information, including receiver operations, identification, and initial cell search details.

Downlink and Uplink Receivers

Perform LTE downlink and uplink operations, including frame synchronization, frequency offset, frequency correction, channel estimation, and zero-forcing and MMSE-based equalization.

LTE Downlink Channel Estimation and Equalization

Release 12 Downlink Carrier Aggregation Waveform Generation, Demodulation and Analysis

DL-SCH HARQ Modeling