LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation Network Performance Study

LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation Network Performance Study
LTE Advanced Network Drive Test – Gangnam Style! As The Carrier Aggregation World Turns
10/23/2013 | 62 pages
Price: $1,800.00
Analysis of LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation
This 62-page report is specifically tailored to those operators and other entities who are interested in understanding the performance characteristics of carrier aggregation when it comes to downlink throughput versus a wide assortment of other network parameters and how these characteristics impact the user experience while performing various mobile data applications, including web browsing, video telephony, VoLTE, Skype Voice/Video, Google Play and 1080p video.
Key questions that we address in this 62-page report include the following:
- What is the overall downlink performance of carrier aggregation and how do the primary and secondary carriers individually contribute to the total performance?
- How does the simultaneous use of a high-band and a low-band carrier translate into actual performance, including other KPIs, such as resource block allocations, SINR and RSRP, throughout the cell grid?
- Other than basic throughput, what other carrier aggregation attributes impact the user experience and to what degree and under what conditions?
- What impact does carrier aggregation have on the user experience for basic mobile data applications, such as web browsing, Skype Voice/Video, VoLTE, Video Telephony and 1080p video?
- How does the use of two simultaneous carriers vary as a function of the transport block size (TBS)?
- How does the TBS differ between web browsing on a notebook computer versus a smartphone browser?
- How does the uplink performance (throughput, transmit power, transmit power per RB) in Seoul compare with the LTE TDD and LTE FDD networks that we recently tested in Japan?
- How much incremental performance gain does a Category 4 device deliver versus a Category 3 device and how often is this gain realized?
- What are the network resource requirements for various applications, including VoLTE, Skype Voice/Video, Video Telephony and 1080p video?
- What is the aggregate throughput of a Release 10 and Release 8 modem running in parallel and what is the difference in between the two modems?