Incremental bit rates in FDD networks for LTE advanced over LTE

Long Term Evolution (LTE) Networks are being planned to be upgraded to LTE Advanced along with increasing availability of Release 10 User Equipment (UEs) and Spectrum Availability for Carrier Aggregation. LTE Advanced brings a major step increase in Down Link and Uplink Throughputs and related spectral efficiencies. This paper explains the evolution of Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) throughputs for different Channel Bandwidths. The maximum theoretical physical layer throughputs and expected actual application layer throughputs after removing the necessary overheads by different broadcast, signaling, synchronization & random access channels have been explained with an impact analysis thereof. Throughput gains for upcoming LTE Advanced deployments have been computed for Frame Structure Type 1 (FDD) for Channel Bandwidth of 1.4 MHz, 3MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz along with Carrier Aggregation of 2 & 5 Component Carriers. Impact of increasing Signaling Channels, retransmissions & code rate on throughputs has been explained so that the computations can be extended to any deployment scenario.