1. Tell us about LTE Frame Structure?

I find below table probably the best way to remember about LTE frame structure.

(TDD) Frame
Configuration (FDD)Frame Type 1
Type 2

Frame Length 10 ms 10 ms

Subframes per Frame 10 10

Subframe Length (ms) 1 1

Slots per Subframe 2 2

Symbols/Slot, normal CP 7 7

Symbols/Slot, extended CP 6 6

2.What are the Bandwidths used for LTE deployment?

We have following Bandwidths being used for LTE,

 1.4 MHz
 3 MHz
 5 MHz
 10 MHz
 15 MHz
 20 MHz

3.How Many subcarriers/RBs are there in 5/10/20 MHz channel?

1. Channel Bandwidth, MHz 1.4 3 5 10 15 20

 Subcarriers per Resource Block 12 12 12 12 12 12

Number of Resource Blocks 6 15 25 50 75 100

Total subcarriers 128 256 512 1024 1536 2048

Occupied Subcarriers 72 180 300 600 900 1200

4. What is Subcarrier Bandwidth in LTE?

15 kHz

5. How can we calculate LTE DL/UL throughput?

Note: Please see tables in Q.1 and Q.3 for relevant info provided in below answer.

 Lets’ assume we have 20 MHz channel bandwidth.

 we need to calculate the resource elements in a subframe for this band i.e.

12subcarriers x 7 OFDMA symbols x 100 resource blocks x 2 slots= 16800 REs per
subframe.

 Assume we have 64 QAM modulation and no coding, one modulation symbol will carry
6 bits.

16800 modulation symbols x 6 bits / modulation symbol = 100800 bits.

So, the data rate is 100800 bits / 1 ms = 100.8 Mbps.

 With 4×4 MIMO, the peak data rate goes up to 100.8 Mbps x 4 = 403 Mbps.
 Estimate about 25% overhead e.g. PDCCH, reference signal, sync signals, PBCH, and
some We get 403 Mbps x 0.75 = 302 Mbps.

6. What Maximum LTE throughput can be achieved in the field?

I have seen upto 70Mbps on TDD network with 20 MHz bandwidth channel.
 7. How many states a UE can have ?

There are 2 UE stats i.e. UE Idle and UE Connect.

UE can either be on Connected or on Idle state at a time.

Please note that UE Idle/Connected and RRC Idle/Connected means the same .

8. What is difference between Idle & Connected Mode

In LTE UE can either be on Connected or on Idle state.

Following diagram taken from (http://www.teletopix.org/4g-lte/state-of-rrc-in-lte/) shows

a better difference b/w these two states;

1. RRC Connected, when it has a RRC connection with a given eNB

2. RRC IDLE when it has no valid RRC link with any eNB.