A Semi-Analytical Macroscopic MAC Layer Model for LTE Uplink

This paper proposes a semi-analytical medium access control (MAC) layer model for the macroscopic analysis of long term evolution (LTE) uplink. The model takes into consideration the expected number of retransmissions arising from channel disturbances and the number of allocated resources so that to satisfy a required packet delay budget. The former is computed in terms of the mean bit error probability while the latter is calculated through a...