A common simulation platform design for the evaluation and development of TDD IMT-Advanced Wireless Technologies and their co-existence study

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One of the strongest driving forces for wireless technology evolution today is 4G (4th Generation), also known as IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications), which promises to encompass two main legacy technologies among others, namely cellular (i.e., 3GPP LTE-Advanced) and WLAN (i.e., IEEE 802.16m). 4G promises to deliver by 2015 high-speed wireless data transmission services at much lower costs and latencies while providing much higher rates, spectrum efficiencies and coverage. In order to ensure the most cost/spectrum-efficient deployment of these new-generation wireless technologies in a few years from now, their performance has to be reliably assessed by simulations in the more realistic way in order to identify i) areas where enhancements can be made, ii) introduce these enhancements and evaluate them, iii) support equipment manufacturers in their standardization effort to integrate these enhancements if deemed valuable, iv) compare the two most important 4G technologies (cf. above) due for deployment on a fair basis, using a common simulation platform, and assess the impact of their co-existence and the migration from one technology to another on operators. It is from this perspective, precisely, that Huawei Canada mandates the applicant's team to develop in the framework of this proposal, a novel common simulation platform design for the TDD (time division duplex) versions of next-generation 4G wireless technologies.