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Throughput Optimization.
If you are going to ask this question from an academic or researcher.
You would receive one of the two responses below.
1. Maximize SINR available
2. Reduce Network Load
Those are rationally and scientifically proven facts.
However, if you are performance engineer when you see Throughput Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) are getting degraded ?
What do you do ?
In a live network. Do you always have a choice to perform either of the above two
steps ? If yes, you can start from scratch.
Otherwise, below are the quick steps you can take note of and start investigating when
it comes to improving LTE Throughput
Optimization.
Throughput Optimization
In LTE, end user quality of service is impacted by the cumulative effect of various nodes
and interfaces. There is not one factor, but a number
of contributing factors which affect the end user throughput.
PREREQUISTE : General
Guidelines Before diving into
Throughput Investigation:
1. One of the first things to do is: confirm parameter settings, system configuration
and RF environment.
2. KPIs co-relate and depend on each other. Therefore knowledge of other KPIs
such as Accessibility, Retainability , Mobility etc. is helpful to know , how they are
performing . For example if Accessibility and Retainiabilty KPIs are bad, this will directly
influence the throughput and end user QoS.
3. Do a site hardware audit (including jumpers, cables, connectors, antennas etc.)
4. Investigation of RF environment is a good idea to perform such as SINR,
antenna types and planning.
Cumulative Effect on
Throughput
The main factors which have a cumulative effect on throughput are shown in the figure
below.
Throughput is a cumulative of Whole Network health
The above diagram shows us, how various nodes and factors can affect the user
throughput.
As an RF Performance engineer, you need to have knowledge of what counters do you
need to take a look at in order to improve throughput?
Different vendors can have different names for the same counters.
Question:
What counters to look for when looking for Throughput improvement in LTE ?
Answer: It is better to understand the behavior of a certain part of the network. After
that you can always figure out, where to go and look for counters. (Find the exact
counter name in the documentation of the specific vendor)
Scheduling:
For Downlink
In this case, look for counter which keeps track of UEs in Active mode at cell level. Also
counters, which keep track of UEs which are being scheduled in the DL.
For Uplink :
In this case, look for counter which keeps track of UEs in Active mode at cell level in
Uplink. Also counters, which keep track of UEs which are being scheduled in the UL.
Conclusion:
The above list is not exhaustive. However it gives the starting pointers in order to
investigate whenever you are faced with Throughput Optimization in LTE from Access
Network perspective.