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3GPP How to Calculate LTE Data Rate Downlink Throughput

How to Calculate LTE Data Rate

Downlink Throughput

Prashant Panigrahi February 12, 2015 5

This tutorial explains how LTE downlink maximum throughput is

determined. This is a simple and straightforward formula for data rate
calculation.

The maximum data rate depends on channel bandwidth. As LTE uses

di erent channel bandwidths both for FDD and TDD.

Lets take the example for LTE using FDD, where channel bandwidth can be
5 MHz, 10 MHz and 20 MHz. In LTE release 8 there is no carrier aggregation,
so lets just consider simple cases.

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Here we are calculating maximum data rate at the physical layer. The data
rate always depends on the channel bandwidth. For example, in case of 5
MHz channel bandwidth, 300 subcarriers are used.

For a perfect idle condition 64 QAM can be used. That means each symbol
is now allowed to carry 6 bits.
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So the total bits carried by 300 subcarriers for the duration of a symbol is
300 X 6 = 1800 bits.
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2Again 1 symbol is of 71.4 microseconds for LTE. So the data rate is 1800 /
71.4 = 25.2 Mbps.
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So the formula for calculating maximum data rate at physical layer is:

(Number of subcarriers X 6) / 71.4 microseconds

For 10 MHz using the same formula the maximum data rate in downlink is
50.4 Mbps and for 20 MHz it is 100.8 Mbps.

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Tagged LTE maximum speed, LTE throughput formula

5 COMMENTS

Mukul
2 years ago Permalink

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Why TM6 is called spatial multiplexing though there is only one layer
and no data rate gains as such from TM6

Vlad B.
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7 months ago Permalink

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Hi! I have never seen such values for the throughput in LTE FDD. On a
bandwidth of 20MHz its either 75Mbps in SISO or 150Mbps for MIMO
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22. I dont understand why the values you posted here are so
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di erent.

Edward B
6 months ago Permalink

The calculation assumes all resource elements are available for

PDSCH. But on average, approximately 25% are used for overhead
channels PBCH, PDCCH, etc, so 75% of that number is in line what
what you observed. You can also look at TS 36.213. The maximum
transport block size in table 7.1.7.2.1-1 is 75376 bits per 1 ms TTI,
which is 75 Mbps for SISO also.

Scott
3 months ago Permalink

These calculations are nonsense. In order to calculate the data rate

one must take into consideration not only the symbol but the code
rate. The maximum code rate is 1. This implies 1 data bit per symbol.
The code rates are as shown below:

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4ary 1/3
16ary 2/3
64ary 1

Hence, for 600 RE LTE carrier (10 MHz) the maximum data rate is one
for each symbol which implies a maximum 64ary data rate of
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SATHEESH MONIKANDAN BALAKRISHNAN

2 2 weeks ago Permalink

good fundamental to study the datarate calculation.

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