A lightweight and accurate link abstraction model for the simulation of LTE networks in ns-3

Authors:
Marco Mezzavilla;Marco Miozzo;Michele Rossi;Nicola Baldo;Michele Zorzi
Affiliations:
Dept. of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padova, Padova, Italy;Centre Tecnológic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain;Dept. of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padova, Padova, Italy;Centre Tecnológic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain;Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche (CFR), Ferrara, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this work we present a link abstraction model for the simulation of downlink data transmission in LTE networks. The purpose of this model is to provide an accurate link performance metric at a low computational cost by relying solely on the knowledge of the SINR and of the modulation and coding scheme. To this aim, the model combines Mutual Information-based multi-carrier compression metrics with Link-Level performance curves matching, to obtain lookup tables that express the dependency of the Block Error Rate on the SINR values and on the modulation and coding scheme being used. In addition, we propose a 3GPP-compliant Channel Quality Indicator evaluation procedure, based on the proposed Link Abstraction Model, to be used as part of the LTE Adaptive Modulation and Coding mechanisms. Finally, we discuss how these contributions have been tested, validated and integrated in the ns-3 simulator. The link abstraction model described in this paper has been included in the official ns-3 distribution since release 3.14.