Service Quality of the Urban Microcellular Scenario in the Sub-6 GHz Frequency Bands

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 12; pp. 70318 - 70333
• Main Authors: Paulo, Rui R., Teixeira, Emanuel B., Velez, Fernando J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 4G mobile communication; 5G mobile communication; 5G-air-simulator; Computer architecture; exponential effective SINR mapping; Frequencies; ITU-R M.2135-1; LTE-Sim; Microcell networks; Microprocessors; modulation and coding scheme; Propagation losses; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithms; Signal to noise ratio; small cell networks; sub-6 GHz frequency bands; Throughput; two-slope model; urban micro cell scenario

This paper compares the service quality between 4G and 5G New Radio (NR) among different sub-6 GHz frequency bands in an urban micro-cellular outdoor setting. An updated version of LTE-Sim is considered to obtain the exponential effective signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio in 4G while determini...