Interference impact on LTE from radiated emission limits

The society is becoming more and more dependent on Long Term Evolution (LTE-services) in a large variety of applications, which is why we must ensure it is secure and available when we need it. Like any wireless technology, it is vulnerable to radiated electromagnetic interference. In this paper, we show how the levels of standard radiated emission limits will affect the performance of LTE. The results show that the emission levels from EN 55022 can cause severe impact on co-location distances from approximately 20 meters and above. The levels of RE 102 in MIL-STD-461 will have impact at co-location distances in the order of one or a few meters.