Mobile data usage is growing exponentially, driven by more connected devices, applications, and user expectations of unlimited high-speed connectivity everywhere. Network operators face massive capacity challenges to meet this escalating demand. Techniques like small cells, carrier Wi-Fi, interference reduction, LTE broadcast, and carrier aggregation can help operators gain significantly higher throughput, serve high-density hotspots, and meet data needs in both urban and remote locations. Gains of up to 3x capacity are possible with the right technologies.
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Today’s world means a mobile lifestyle
More devices, more apps, more Machine to Machine
communications and more connected end-users are
consuming more data and capacity than ever before.
We now want unlimited capacity everywhere. We want our home
wherever we go and to be online at high speeds even in our cars.
experience
Upload social content,
watch movies and videos,
browse, mobile gaming
from anywhere.
Connected car
Mobile command and
entertainment center -
navigation updates,
geo-localized weather alerts,
in-vehicle Wi-Fi hotspots,
streaming video
entertainment.
U/L and D/L presentations,
video clips, graphics and
apps in the cloud and
customer databases,
Screensharevideocalls.
CCO
Coverage and Capacity
Optimization
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ACTIVE WIRELESS
CONNECTED
DEVICES IN 2020.
MORE THAN
DOUBLE 2014
MASSIVE
CAPACITY
CHALLENGE
Connected life is placing
ever increasing capacity
demand on networks.
So how do mobile
operators keep up?
Mobile subscribers have
higher expectations,
demanding more speed and
more capacity all the time.
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MOBILE DATA
GROWTH
BETWEEN 2013
AND 2018
GAIN HIGHER THROUGHPUT
BY REDUCING INTERFERENCE
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80% of mobile data usage occurs indoors but coverage can be
poor due to signal loss. Operators can increase in-building
performance using small cells to bring the cellular signal indoors
and further boost capacity with carrier Wi-Fi that also gives
users a choice - add 1 small cell - increase the average
throughput by up to 3X and add carrier Wi-Fi - gain 2X capacity.
Users close to the radio enjoy a better experience to those at
the edge as inter-cell interference causes drops in performance.
But using certain techniques, operators can reduce interference
dramatically and improve the user experience.
Large venue, users outweigh capacity
• Large venues with thousands of users never have enough capacity
• Deploy LTE Broadcast to give users capacity to do what they want
• There is always enough capacity since eMBMS uses the same amount
of resources whether serving one or hundreds of subscribers
Urban hotspot, high density data usage
• Locate hotspots where you know capacity is being used
90% of data consumed by 10% of users
• Build a HetNet using small cells in hotspots
Increase the average throughput by up to 3X with the addition
of just one small cell per marco
• Manage interference with eICIC and supercharge your HetNet
30% capacity gain with eICIC
• Use carrier aggregation to increase capacity to users
Up to 3X capacity increase with 3 carriers
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Remote location – mines, oil rigs, campsites
• Data-hungry subscribers are not just in urban areas
• They’re also in villages, campsites and working in remote locations
• Serve subscribers and M2M communications in remote locations
cost-effectively with small cells
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For more information visit
www.alcatel-lucent.com/solutions/4g-lte
References: ABI Research, Alcatel-Lucent, Bytemobile, Digi
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