Performance Analysis of LTE in Rich Multipath and rural Environments for Wireless Communication in Smart Grid

Abstract

Smart Grid is a new standard or digital technology which allows both way of communication between utility and customers. Smart grid is also a framework of new equipment, technologies, automatic operations and controls which is very similar to the internet, however in this regard for rapidly changing loads the grid will be digitally reactive by combining these technologies. For digitalization of smart grid, a faster, and wireless but reliable communication is necessary. On that account LTE could be a better option. Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a new grade for faster and seamless communication for smart devices and data terminals. In this regard, different scheduling tackles are very helpful. This paper discusses about two very common scheduling algorithms and those are Best Channel Quality Indicator (Best CQI) and Proportional Fair (PF). From simulation it is possible to find out their throughput and BLER (Block Error Rate) by using Transmit Diversity (TxD) and Open Loop Spatial Multiplexing (OLSM). Each time cross relation can be carried out for better comparison experiments.