Physical Layer Performance Evaluation of LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast and ATSC 3.0 Systems

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© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permissíon from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertisíng or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.[EN] This paper provides a detailed performance analysis of the physical layer of two state-of-the-art point-to-multipoint (PTM) technologies: evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) and Advanced Television Systems Committee - Third Generation (ATSC 3.0). The performance of these technologies is evaluated and compared using link-level simulations, considering relevant identified scenarios. A selection of Key Performance Indicators for the International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020) evaluation process has been considered. Representative use cases are also aligned to the test environments as defined in the IMT-2020 evaluation guidelines. It is observed that ATSC 3.0 outperforms both eMBMS solutions, i.e., MBMS over Single Frequency Networks (MBSFN) and Single-Cell PTM (SC-PTM) in terms of spectral efficiency, peak data rate and mobility, among others. This performance evaluation serves as a benchmark for comparison with a potential 5G PTM solution.This work was supported in part by the European Commission through the 5GPPP project 5G-Xcast (H2020-ICT-2016-2) under Grant 761498. The views expressed in this contribution are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the project.Fuentes, M.; Mi, D.; Chen, H.; Garro, E.; Carcel, JL.; Vargas, D.; Mouhouche, B.... (2019). Physical Layer Performance Evaluation of LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast and ATSC 3.0 Systems. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 65(3):477-488. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBC.2018.286677847748865