LSTI –

Boosting LTE for Mobile Broadband Deployment

Christian Kuhlins, Ericsson AB Remi Thomas, FT Orange

Chairman LSTI IOT Activity Group Director of the LTE EPC Programme at France Telecom
christian.kuhlins@ericsson.com remi.thomas@orange-ftgroup.com

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42 Members Boosting The LTE/SAE Ecosystem

2007 2008 2009 2010

The Journey From Testing Prototypes
To Testing Real Products

Interoperability Testing
IOT
Interoperability Development EPC
Testing - IODT
EPC S1 S1
eNB eNB eNB
Uu
X2

Uu

Standard compatible Standard compatible product

prototypes platforms to reach the market
First LTE Devices And Networks Interoperating

IOT Uu
”Vendor A
to report: EPC
successful test
eNB S1 S1 eNB
with two
Vendor A Vendor A
different Ue
vendors B&C!” X2

Uu

Ue
Vendor B & C
 Multi-Vendor Network Configurations Interoperating

”Vendor A ”Vendor A
to report: to report:
successful test successful test
with another EPC with another eNB
vendor B!” vendor B!”

IOT S1 IOT X2
EPC EPC
Vendor B
eNB eNB eNB eNB
Vendor A S1 S1 Vendor A Vendor A S1 S1 Vendor B

X2 X2

Uu Uu
 LTE/SAE -
Becoming A Mature Technology For Mobile Broadband
…to Commercial Rollout
From Standardisation…

Proof of Concept Proof of Concept completed

IODT: Close to completion

Interoperability IOT: First results for Air Interface
and S1&X2 interface delivered

Active Trials
Friendly Customer Trials delivering first results
LSTI Friendly Customer Trials (FCT)
Consolidated Test Methods For LTE

• Common recommendations for set-up of Trial Networks

• Common definition of Key Performance Indicators
• Common generic procedures for Trial Configuration
• 42 test specifications grouped in 13 testing domains

• Set of methodologies according to NGMN Field Trial

Requirements
• LSTI FCT split in 2 Trial Phases:

• Radio Access testing allowing non-commercial or

simulated EPC solutions

• Integration with EPC & E2E using fully “commercial”

network platform
LSTI Trials started:

10 Operators perform LSTI Trials

Architecture Of A Typical Trial Network

EPC

MME HSS PCRF

S1-MME
Serving PDN
Gateway Gateway

S1-U Application Servers

Fiber Video
WEB FTP/UDP
Streaming
SGi

UE
Protocol eNB Performance OAM
Analyzer traces Monitoring
Mobile trace tool
7 Operators Already Delivering Trial Results

Test cases:
• Latency
• StateTransitions
• Throughput
• Cell Capacity /
Cell Load
First Results Meet Expected Performance Levels
Latency First LSTI FCT Trials
U-Plane: Measured Round Trip Times (32Byte) demonstrate that LTE can
deliver a very low latency
experience; this enables
PoC Results
even the most demanding
Trial Results
applications such as online
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 ms
Non-scheduled
gaming.
EPC Application Server

eNB

UE
End – End
ping Measured Round Trip Times
First Results Meet Expected Performance Levels
Throughputs

• The measured peak rates for FDD & TDD normalized to

20 MHz meet or exceed the NGMN Field Trial expectations
of at least 100 Mbps for downlink & 30-50 Mbps on uplink.

• The throughput depending on radio link quality (single UE

testing) indicates a good alignment between 6 different
trials.
Plans Are Defined For E2E Performance Testing

• Both Radio Access testing and End to End testing

phases are planned throughout 2010 for most of LSTI
Operators.

• On a test domain per test domain basis, the LSTI FCT

group will analyse detailed results and elaborate an
explicit message to the industry.

• Performance levels and main relating testing conditions

will then be displayed for sustaining the LTE-EPC
ecosystem.
 Thank You

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