Title
Experiments on HSDPA Throughput Performance in W-CDMA Systems
Abstract
In this paper, we present laboratory and field experimental results using High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) test-beds in order to reveal the actual HSDPA performance based on key technologies such as base station (BS) scheduling, adaptive modulation and coding, hybrid automatic repeat request, and advanced receiver design. First, this paper evaluates the effects of advanced user equipment capabilities such as the maximum number of multi-codes, transmit diversity, receive diversity, and a chip equalizer. Increases in throughput of 60% and 85% due to using 10 and 15 codes were observed compared to 5 codes, respectively. The gain of 22% was obtained by applying closed-loop transmit diversity to the HSDPA network. Receive diversity improves the throughput in the region from low to high signal-to-interference ratio, and the gain of 45% was obtained by applying receive diversity to the conventional RAKE receiver. A throughput gain of approximately 17% due to the use of the chip equalizer was obtained and it was observed mainly in the high Ior/Ioc region and under multi-path conditions. Second, field experiments are conducted to elucidate the effects of multi-user diversity using a BS scheduling algorithm, and reveal that proportional fairness scheduling provides both the increase in sector throughput of 18% and a sufficient degree of fairness among users. The transmit control protocol (TCP)-level throughput performance is also investigated in order to reveal the actual end-user throughput. The results show that the throughput rate of approximately 90% of the throughput of the MAC-hs layer is achieved in the TCP layer in the laboratory experiments and in the field experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.7.1903
IEICE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
hsdpa throughput performance,hsdpa network,sector throughput,throughput rate,w-cdma systems,multi-user diversity,actual end-user throughput,level throughput performance,chip equalizer,field experiment,throughput gain,bs scheduling algorithm,hsdpa
Hybrid automatic repeat request,Throughput (business),Link adaptation,Rake receiver,Scheduling (computing),Theoretical computer science,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Maximum throughput scheduling,Throughput,Mathematics,Transmit diversity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E89-A
7
0916-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.56
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroyuki Ishii120.89
Tomoki Sao220.56
Shinya Tanaka3136.51
Shinsuke Ogawa420.89
Yousuke Iizuka521.57
Takeshi Nakamori6133.68
Takehiro Nakamura796975.38