Long Term Evolution Simulator - A Survey

Objectives: Long Term Evolution(LTE) can be defined as a 4G wireless broadband technology developed by the 3GPP. It becomes the hopeful broadband ubiquitous Internet access technology. Methods: To maximize its working and performance many research works are going on in this field.It requires a flexible, more realistic and standard simulation environment is required to check its performance. LTE simulator is of different kinds system-level simulator and linklevel simulator, hence there is a need to study in detail about this simulators. Findings: In this paper different simulators are discussed. The different simulators include physical-layer simulator, system-level simulator, link-level simulator. All simulator are analyzed with the BER (Bit Error Rate) and throughput results. Applications: This paper help to analyze the different types of simulators. Which helps to increase the performance of the LTE.