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Introduction
LTE eNB Equipment Setup
LTE Coverage Plots
LTE Mobility Tests
LTE Stationary Tests
Introduction
Following the completion of LTE tests in the Vodacom Test Exchange, NSN installed two LTE eNBs in
the Germiston area. The aim was to setup two live sites that will allow for drive test measurements to be
collected from a real network environment.
The following requirements had to be met during site selection:
1. The LTE sites were to share the 2100Mhz 3G RF spectrum and so the chosen site locations, as
well as the immediate surrounding sites, should currently not be using the 3 rd 3G frequency
band (i.e. only existing 1/1/1 and 2/2/2 sites could be chosen)
LTE would be configured to run on the third 5Mhz band (in the Vodacom Test Exchange the LTE eNBs
were setup to run with 20Mhz bandwidth)
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Because the LTE sites would be co-located with existing 3G hardware, RF combining would not
be possible within the BTS RF amplifiers. Instead RF combining would need to be done using
external MIMO combiners, or a separate antenna would have to be installed for the LTE signal
It was decided that separate antennas would be used and so the chosen sites would need
to have enough free tower capacity to accommodate the weight of the additional antennas
It should be noted that RL20 is available as a commercial release since February 2011
Two sites were identified in the Germiston area that met the requirements; Primrose and Driehoek.
The following report provides a summary of the results from drive tests performed between February and
March 2011.
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Rx3*
Tx2/Rx2
Div
Rx2
Rx4*
Tx1/Rx1
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Quarry/Dump Site
Hill
Hill
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Hill
Hill
Quarry/Dump Site
Hill
Hill
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Quarry/Dump Site
Hill
Hill
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Low throughput
at cell edge
Throughput frequently
between 25-31Mbps
Low throughput
due to poor RSRP
Low throughput
due to poor RSRP
Low throughput
due to poor RSRP
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Serving Physical Cell Identities representing Inter and Intra eNodeB Handover locations
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Tests at an RSRP of -115 to -120dBm achieve an average of 3-5Mbps in DL. The upload reduces to
200Kbps or lower (limited by UE power output) and also RTT increases (mainly due to higher
packet loss and re-transmissions in these conditions). In WCDMA we reach the noise floor at 112dBm, i.e. absolutely no calls possible. LTE is able to provide 3-5Mbps DL on 5Mhz in
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conditions well below
the 3G cell-end.
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