Modeling and simulation of packet scheduling in the downlink LTE-advanced

LTE-Advanced, the true 4G technology of 3GPP family, is a complex radio access technology with co-existence of many types of user equipments. As it is a new technology, there are few published research focusing on modeling and simulation of LTE-Advanced system. A simulation tool is indispensable for research relating to Radio Resource Management mechanisms such as packet scheduling. This paper presents detailed descriptions of a computer simulation tool that can effectively model packet scheduling, as well as describes some of its simulation results.