HSPA (HSDPA/HSUPA) Optimization
- Overview
- Introduction to WCDMA and HSPA
- Main parameters
- Spreading, OVSF codes, and code tree
- Power control
- Soft handover
- Retransmissions
- HSDPA
- Principles
- Targets and characteristics
- Changes compared to Rel 1999
- New channels
- Multi code operation
- Basic operation
- Setup
- RRC states
- Disadvantages
- Applications
- Examples and guided self-assessment exercises
- HSDPA Enhancement and Extensions
- Propagation control plane
- User plane
- Node B
- Packet scheduling
- HSDPA Physical Layer
- HS-SCCH frame structure
- HS-PDSCH frame structure
- HS-DPCCH frame structure
- Timing relationships
- CQI
- AMC
- HARQ
- Examples and guided self-assessment exercises
- HSDPA Mobility
- Serving HS-DSCH cell
- Event 1d
- Intra/Inter-node B
- HSDPA Data Rates and Performances
- Terminal capability
- Retransmission
- Throughput (cell/user)
- TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Tools
- Test Scenarios
- Latency
- File upload and Download
- Web browsing
- HSDPA Logfile Analysis
- Terminal capability analysis of logfiles from test lab and commercial networks
- Description of test set-up
- Analysis of key RRC messages including new information elements
- CQI, Ack/Nack reporting and retransmission rate in a live network
- FTP upload and download
- Ping delay
- Performance under different radio conditions
- Impact of changing serving HS-DSCH cell on throughput
- HSUPA
- Introduction
- Targets and characteristics
- Changes compared to Rel 1999
- New channels
- Basic operation
- Applications
- Mobility (soft handover)
- Terminal capability
- Handset availability
- Wrap-up: Course Recap, Discussion, and Evaluations
