LTE Throughput Calculator

For 64 QAM

SB RB/SB Carriers/RB RE/RB Bits/RE MIMO Layers ms/second

100 2 12 7 6 2 1000

Glossary:
SB Scheduling Block
RB Resource Block
RE Resource Element
Part of 20MHz Bandwidth shown
CCE Cotrol Channel Element
1 CCE = 36 RE

1ms = 1 TTI= 1 subframe, 10ms

= 1 Frame

Singalling Part of LTE Resources

Physical Signals Control Channels

Total REs PSS SSS CRS+holes PDCCH
168000 124 124 16000 6280
% of total 100% 0.1% 0.1% 9.5% 3.7%

Total Number of REs

Number of
Scheduling/R
Bandwidth esouce Total Number
[MHz] Blocks of Res
1.4 6 10080
3 15 25200
5 25 42000
10 50 84000
15 75 126000
20 100 168000

REs in Cell Specific Reference Symbols

REs in HARQ channel PHICH

REs in control channel PDCCH
 Approximate figure Max Throughput
(see control channel
Theoretical on PSDCH
dimensioning)

SIB, RRC signalling,

Channel coding Paging Messages +
% - minus (Redundancy) 5% to 66%
bps Mbps Protocol Stack
overheads depending on radio
conditions headers for RLC,
MAC, PDCP, and IP

85% 172,166,400.00 172.17 0.95 5%

20MHz Bandwidth shown

ontrol Channels
PBCH PCFICH PHICH Total
240 160 1560 24488
0.1% 0.1% 0.9% 14.6%
 Max Acheivable
Throughput DL with 1 user
in a cell

HARQ Re-
transmissions (2 Mbps
-10%)

2% 152.27
S. No References Can be found in
1 Control Channel Dimensioning LTE L12B CPI
2 LTE in Bullets - DL Bit Rates google.com