Delay and throughput of Long Term Evolution under TCP traffic

With an increasing use of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in mobile networks, it is necessary to evaluate its performance. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for mobile networks under Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic. We evaluate the performance of LTE for TCP traffic for both the directions uplink as well as downlink. During the evaluations, we focus on the following performance parameters: average delay, average throughput and jitter. We evaluate the effect of the link bandwidth, number of active subscribers, and packet size on the performance parameters using simulations.