Impact of User Plane on baseband dimensioning

Maximum cell throughput per release:

Bandwidth

RL10

Max MCS 28 20 Max MCS 28 20

5 MHz 37
25 PRB

10 MHz 75
50 PRB

20 MHz 150
100 PRB

Peak L1 DL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s] Peak L1 UL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s] Bandwidth

8,5
20 PRB

19,1
45 PRB

40,6
96 PRB

RL20

3 MHz 22
15 PRB

5 MHz 37
25 PRB

10 MHz 75
50 PRB

15 MHz 110
75 PRB

20 MHz 150
100 PRB

Peak L1 DL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s] Peak L1 UL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s]

5,2
12 PRB

8,5
20 PRB

20,6
48 PRB

30,6
72 PRB

40,6
96 PRB

Bandwidth

RL15TD

Max MCS 28 20

10 MHz

20 MHz

10 MHz

20 MHz

(2DL:2UL)

(3DL:1UL)

Peak L1 DL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s] Peak L1 UL Throughput per cell [Mbit/s]
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40,3 7,9

82,3 16,1

55 3,8

112,5 7,9

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Number of Active users

Maximum number of active users per release (HW limit): Bandwidth FSME

RL10

5 MHz 200

10 MHz 400

20 MHz 800

Bandwidth

RL20

3 MHz
120 120 120

5 MHz
480 420 480

10 MHz
600 420 600

15 MHz
720 720

20 MHz
840 840

FSMD (2 sectors per site) FSMD (3 sectors per site) FSME Bandwidth FSME

RL15TD

10 MHz 200

20 MHz 400

The figures reflect the Flexi System Module design however, they clearly exceed the 'maximum no. of active UEs' figures that would be reasonably configured for user admission control.

As long as DRX is not supported (DRX: RL30/RL25TD), such high 'maximum no. of active UE' values would consume far too many UL resources for PUCCH (for scheduling request, CQI, HARQ ACK etc.). Typical values for RL10/RL20/RL15TD admission control would therefore be
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~80...120.

Number of actively scheduled users

Maximum number of actively scheduled users per release:
Bandwidth FSME

RL10

5 MHz 50

10 MHz 100

20 MHz 200

Bandwidth

RL20

3 MHz 40 40 40

5 MHz 192 125 192

10 MHz 240 125 240 20 MHz

15 MHz 240 240

20 MHz 250 250 10 MHz 20 MHz

(3DL:1UL)

FSMD (2 sectors per site) FSMD (3 sectors per site) FSME

Bandwidth

RL15TD

10 MHz

(2DL:2UL)

FSME

60 DL / 40 UL

120 DL / 80 UL

80 DL / 20 UL

160 DL / 40 UL

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Number of users
Recommended values of active users per release:

RL10/RL15TD:
min(Num of ActiveUsers_HW limit, admission control limit)
Bandwidth RL10 FSME 5 MHz 80 10 MHz 100 20 MHz 120 Bandwidth FSME

RL15TD

10 MHz 80

20 MHz 100

RL20:
min(Num of ActiveUsers_HW limit, Num of Actively scheduled users, admission control limit)
Bandwidth FSMD FSME

RL20

3 MHz 40 40

5 MHz 80 80

10 MHz 100 100

15 MHz 110 110

20 MHz 120 120

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