How To Investigate and Optimize LTE Throughput in 5 Steps
How To Investigate and Optimize LTE Throughput in 5 Steps
How To Investigate and Optimize LTE Throughput in 5 Steps
Throughput in 5 Steps ?
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Lets talk about Throughput Optimization.
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
The above diagram shows us, how various nodes and factors
can affect the user throughput.
Question:
Throughput:
Look for Throughput counters for a specific vendor in
Downlink and Uplink.
Counters such as which show , how much data is there in
PDCP , or how much data volume was accumulated in the
last Transmission Time Interval (TTI) .
Also the counter which keeps track of how throughput is
being estimated for the UE is important to know.
Interference :
In Downlink (DL) ,
PUCCH
PUSCH
SINR Distribution on PUCCH
SINR Distribution on PUSCH
In Downlink (DL):
QPSK
16-QAM
64-QAM
16- QAM
QPSK
Using the above counters, you can identify BLER for UL case
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.