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Document Cover Sheet

Project Number PN-3-0062-RV2

Document Title 3G Mobile Data: Empirical Data Measurements

Source Alcatel-Lucent

Contact Les J. Wu

Alcatel-Lucent

600 Mountain Avenue

Room 2b-219

Murray Hill, NJ 07974

Phone: 908-582-4964

Fax: 908-582-4964 Email: [email protected]

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Abstract

Analysis and reporting of 3G Mobile data services and 4G requirements.

Telecommunications Industry Association TR-30.3/10-08-021Arlington, VA August 16 - 17, 2010

3G Mobile Data: Empirical Data Measurements

Les Wu

August 2010


1 Test setup


Test Setup

Client

Win7 netbook running Anue Profiler

Ping test to www.alcatel-lucent.com mirrored by Akamai

Wireless Devices

Cradlepoint/MiFi Device for USB data modems

Nexus 1 Phone


HTC Nexus 1 Phone

Goggle Android Development Phone now discontinued

Android 2.2 (Froyo)

Quadband GSM Phone

2 Radio Configurations for US Data Services

Native wireless and USB tethering

GPS Support

Apps:

iperf

Speedtest (from okla)

Antennas

RF Signal


Protocol

Generic

1350 byte ping test to www.acatel-lucent.com (mirrored by Akamai)

1 ping per second

15 minute duration

Mobile Tests

Drive tests taken over successive days and similar drive routes

GPS Routes captured where possible

Additional Ad Hoc Data

Bandwidth tests


2 3G Fixed Wireless


Geography

1 Hong Kong Service Provider

3 US Service Providers

www.alcatel-lucent.com served by Akamai


Tale of 4 3G Service Providers (Fixed Mobile)


PDV Comparison


And then there’s bandwidth

Notes:

US1-3 were conducted sequentially at a single location in Everett, WA. Signal strength appeared to be good for all carriers.

The US based Akamai server appears to be in Cambridge, MA

US1-3 was conducted during the afternoon of Saturday 7 Aug.

AP1 conducted on an ad hoc basis in Hong Kong. The Akamai server was apparently located in Dingxi, China


Same Location / Different Day

US1 US2 US3

Sat

7

Wed

12


PDV Comparisons


3 3G Mobile Characteristics


Tale of 2 Service Providers

• Run 17a / 2.8%

• Run 18a / 6.6%


RSSI Strength for 2 3G GSM Providers


Area Drive Test

1 256-byte ping every second to an

akamai server in Boston

First 5:00 were “fixed”

RF Map from a different carrier and

shows multiple drives including

current trace

Packet Loss of 6.2% over 25

minutes

Notice jump in delay from 125ms -

> 800ms


4 4G Requirements


Longer term 4G/LTE Standardized QCI characteristics

• Source: 3GPP TS 23.203 v9.3.0 table 6.1.7

• QCI = QoS class identifier

QCI Resource Type Priority Packet Delay Budget

(NOTE 1)

Packet Error Loss

Rate (NOTE 2)

Example Services

1(NOTE 3)

2 100 ms 10-2 Conversational Voice

2(NOTE 3) GBR

4 150 ms 10-3 Conversational Video (Live Streaming)

3(NOTE 3)

3 50 ms 10-3 Real Time Gaming

4(NOTE 3)

5 300 ms 10-6 Non-Conversational Video (Buffered Streaming)

5(NOTE 3)

1 100 ms 10-6 IMS Signalling

6(NOTE 4) 6 300 ms 10-6

Video (Buffered Streaming)TCP-based (e.g., www, e-mail, chat, ftp, p2p file sharing, progressive video, etc.)

7(NOTE 3)

Non-GBR7 100 ms 10-3

Voice,Video (Live Streaming)Interactive Gaming

8(NOTE 5) 8

300 ms 10-6

Video (Buffered Streaming)TCP-based (e.g., www, e-mail, chat, ftp, p2p file sharing, progressive video, etc.)

9(NOTE 6)

9


Except …

Access network separated from core network with a packet gateway as a

demarcation point

Radio network is VPN tunneled through the P-GW

There is additional magic in the LTE Network

Scheduling for eNodeB complex and proprietary

Healthy radio network is allegedly running at 10 -2 BER with retransmission

• IP Network• LTE Radio

Access Network


5 Backup Data


Data Files

anrfiles.zip

• Archive: anrfiles.zip

• Length Method Size Cmpr Date Time CRC-32 Name

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• 42560 Defl:X 18974 55% 08-14-2010 11:38 9bc1eaa6 us1a.anr

• 41902 Defl:X 18642 56% 08-14-2010 11:38 02719593 us2.anr

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