Implementation of LTE-R transceiver and the performance with WINNER D2a channel model

With the rapid development of high-speed railway, the train speed can reach up to 350 km/h. Much more technical demands for high-speed railway mobile communication system are put forward. As the next generation wireless communication technology of 3GPP, Long Term Evolution for railway, known as LTE-R, is proposed to provide railway communication services including railway control, passenger services, wireless surveillance video, etc. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the detailed performance of LTE-R on the WINNER D2a channel model which has been presented as an appropriate choice for the wireless channel model in high-speed scenario, and implement a LTE-R transceiver based on LabVIEW software and National Instruments Universal Software Radio Peripheral 2920 (NI USRP2920) platform for further research. The experimental results show that LTE-R has promising potential to be used in high-speed railway scenario.