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RF Link Budget for Long Term Evolution Network
Chee Yen Leow

Abstract This document summarises the MET 1423 assignment on RF link budget for Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Students play the role of RF engineers of a network operator in Malaysia and work in a team of four to come out with a RF link budget study report for LTE. The deliverable has to be submitted by 19th November 2012.

I. ROLE P LAY You are recently recruited by a major network operator in Malaysia as an RF engineer. The network operator is planning to roll out the next generation cellular network known as LTE in several major cities in Malaysia. The company has assigned you in a group of four RF engineers to involve in the initial RF planning stage for LTE network. Specifically, your team is required to determine the RF link budget for LTE network. The main purposes for establishing the RF link budget are 1) to establish the system design assumptions for all gains and losses at the eNodeB, user equipment (UE), along with the RF path between the eNodeB and UE for both uplink and downlink transmissions. 2) to determine the maximum allowable path loss (MAPL) in the LTE system. 3) to estimate the maximum coverage area based on a realistic propagation model appropriate for the site of interest. The service provider is recently granted a license by the regulator MCMC to operate LTE network in 3GPP Band 7, 2600 MHz. The LTE service is expected to begin its operation in year 2013. II. D ELIVERABLE Each team is required to submit a technical report for the assigned task by 0:00 (GMT+8), 19th November 2012 (Mon). The format of the report should comply to IEEE transactions article format as stated in the following link http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html . The page count of the report should not exceed 5 double-column pages. The content of the report shall include the Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussions, Conclusion and List of References. The document file should be in the format of .doc . The submission must be uploaded to www.turnitin.com . You must enroll in the class MET 1423 with Class ID: 5689395 and enrollment ID: MET1423 before you can upload the submission. III. M ARKING S CHEME This assignment contributes a 15% of your subject score. The marking scheme scheme is according to Appendix I. Late submission will be penalised depending on the number of days D the submission is late for. The total mark will decrease exponentially according to the following formula, P = max(15 − 2D , 5). (1) Submission after the 4th day from the due date will only get a maximum of 5% mark. The originality of the submission is of great importance. Before your document is marked, it will go through the similarity check by turnitin. The similarity percentage of your submitted document should be less than 30%. Otherwise, the document will be considered a plagiarised work and will not be graded.
Chee Yen Leow is with the Wireless Communication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.