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LTE Spectral Efficiency AMX

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LTE RADIO Presentation AMX

Table of contents DRAFT 1.0

Introduction

Spectral Efficiency

Annex

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Introduction
Ericsson Market MX - R9
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Definition
DL Spectral Efficiency

DL Spectral Efficiency 1 : Cell Throughput DL Active / [% PRB Util x 180 KHz x Total PRB]

From average SINR values: Annex Table 1.

From the modulation = [2 percentage of QPSK+4 percentage of 16-QAM+6 percentage

of 64-QAM] coding rate . Annex MCS Curves.

From MCS values: We can estimate the average DL efficiency from the MCS PDF by taking the
MCS percentile. Annex MCS Table
the average spectral efficiency of QPSK modulation=0.5697
the average spectral efficiency of 16QAM modulation=1.9323
the average spectral efficiency of 64QAM modulation=4.1914
Eff _ MCS=0.5697 (sum (MCS0:MCS9)+MCS29)+1.9323 (sum (MCS10:MCS16)+MCS30)+4.1914 (sum
(MC17:MCS28)+MCS31)

Spectral Efficiency : Total amount of transmitted data and the RB utilization rate how much
data traffic a network can support
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Introduction
Questions
Try to find Impacts!!!!:

Traffic Profile : User Behavior + APP UE Behavior?.

Low MIMO utilization rates : wont use MIMO unless there is a sufficient amount of data that
needs to be transmitted?.

Mobile data traffic that has very low bandwidth requirements (Low efficiency Low MCS Low
data required)

Smartphones make poor use of MIMO ? Or Low RF conditions?

Chatty traffic impacts Spectral Efficiency DL ?

Signaling impact in MME ? RRC users?

How impacts Traffic Profile in Load (Max Cell Throughput) and spectral efficiency ?
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Arieso GEO LTE or another tool

Study
Typical user experience

Individual mobile device peak and median data rates as a function of network loading to
determine what, if any, impact network loading was having on user data rates?

Chatty Traffic? Facebook Whatsapp - Viber . % of user w/ Chatty Traffic.

Low throughput (Low MIMO % - Low MCS low lot of data to tx) in good conditions?
RSRP/SINR

Max Median Number User connected.

The higher MCS values are only used when favorable network conditions exist and when the
eNB has enough data to send to the mobile device!!!!
Applications running in the background Worst UE LTE?

Load impacts User Throughput but the final user is impacted ? According to User/App
Behavior?
Typical mobile device interaction with the network doesnt require a lot of bandwidth ?
Poor RF conditions impacts performance network quality?
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Spectral Efficiency
Results
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Mexico R9 AMX
4 to 8 November 2014 Ericsson Market

Total Cells: 4519

Only 4% of total Cells > 400 RRC user avg.
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Cell Throughput x RRC Users

Formulas

Trend only with cellls thats reach at less 100 Usr & Avg.Efficiency > 1.29
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Cell Throughput x RRC Users

Formulas

Trend only with cellls thats reach at less 100 Usr & Avg.Efficiency < 1.19
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Cell Throughput x RRC Users

Formulas

Cell with less 100 RRC user Max cell throughput 2 Mbps.
Cells > 100 RRC & Efficiency < 1.19 has positive trend up to 200 users.
Cells > 100 RRC & Efficiency > 1.29 has positive trend up to 350 users
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DL Spectral Efficiency
RRC >100 & cell efficiency > 1.29

DL Eff 1 : Cell Throughput DL Active / [% PRB

Util x 180 KHz x Total PRB]
Eff _ 2 : 0.5697 (QPSK)+1.9323 (
(16QAM)+4.1914 (64QAM) using 3GPP MCS x Eff.

DL Eff 1

Eff _ 2

Similar trend between Efficiency DL 1 and Efficiency DL 2 since RRC users 300.
Efficiency DL 2 show more optimistic values for highest RRC usr (1.32 for 600 RRC usr agains
Eff. 1 = 1.19 w/ 600 users and 92% PRB PDSCH Util.)
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DL Spectral Efficiency
RRC >100 & Avg. Efficiency Cell > 1.29

Low RRC usr CQI = 12 - RI1 38% (RI2 = 58%!!!!) but 75% of QPSK %(User Profile? Low
amount of data).
600 RRC user 88% PRB Util 54% of RI1 and 64% QPSK %
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DL Spectral Efficiency
RRC >100

Compares between Cells with High Efficiency (Avg > 1,29) and Cells with Low Efficiency (Avg
< 1,19)
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Annex
Tables
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CQI Table
Table 1

3GPP TS
Max Theoric Spectral Efficiency = 5.55
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Throughput x SNR
MCS

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MCS Table
3GPP

TPUL(kbps) = (1 BLER) (168 24) MCS

NRB

TPDL(kbps) = (1 BLER) (168 36 12)

MCS NRB DL MimoGain

BLER 10%!!!

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Spectral Efficiency x SINR

Estimation

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Spectral efficiency
Throughput per RB versus DL SINR

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