Whats is Uplink RSSI in LTE?

Uplink RSSI is referred as the uplink Received Signal Strength Indicator of the totalwideband received power
within the entire channel bandwidth. Having too low or toohigh UL RSSI will contribute to poor quality in the
network. Too low RSSI could simplymean the cell is deaf and cannot listen to any UE. Possible reasons
arecomponents failure, incorrect parameter settings, incorrect equipment installation, etc.On the other hand,
too high RSSI is equally undesirable. This case is more often seen.Due to the high noise interference, it
could likely lead to frequent drop calls, call setupfailure and poor voice quality. Cells with UL RSSI > -90
dBm can be considered ashaving high UL interference.

There are no strict thresholds which would differentiate between quality service and definite KPI
degradation, but based on experience and cases that have been investigated it has been
established that whenever the UL RSSI for any cell -114 dBm, it get prone to KPI degradation,
primarily affects dropped calls.