Co-Existence Study Between Analog TV (PAL-I) and LTE in Digital Dividend Band: South African Case Study

Due to spectrum demand for mobile communication services, many studies has considered the impact of coexistence of two services in the same band. This paper presents a coexistence study between analog television (ATV) frequency using PAL-I systems and Long Term Evolution (LTE) in the digital dividend frequency band using South Africa as a case study. Four different scenarios between ATV and LTE are presented and simulated in SEAMCAT. The ATV as the primary user of the band while DTV is a secondary user. The results obtained from the simulation shows that the ATV and LTE can coexist.