Impact of Control Channel Limitations on the LTE VoIP Capacity

Abstract

In this paper, we present a fully dynamic simulative analysis of the Downlink (DL) Voice-over-IP (VoIP) performance in 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE) with both Uplink (UL) and DL control channel constraints. In UL the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) capacity affects the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) resolution and in DL the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) capacity has an impact to the amount of multiplexed users per Transmission Time Interval (TTI). The results indicate that with realistic control channel assumptions, semi-persistent packet scheduling outperforms dynamic packet scheduling.