HSPA+ Throughput Improvement Solution and

Implementation
Abstract This article presents a solution to improve HSPA+ throughput which
is consisted of RTWP optimization, Radio Resource Allocation and Adoption of New
Features. Compared with the historical optimization practice, the solution herein
outruns the improvement by more than 10 times for UL throughput and doubles the
DL throughput at the same time. The solution in this article already applied in the
other project and it is worthy of transplanting into more mobile networks for similar
optimization purpose.
HSPA+ supports UL 5.76Mbps/ DL 21Mbps and above throughput theoretically
which is rather high for the actual application requirement currently. But the
throughput in field test in many countries is far below the theoretical peak
throughput, esp. for HSUPA. For instance, UL HSPA+ throughput remains at 70kbps or
so in I country, similar as the performance in TD network in China Mobile. In the past
therere few optimization cases in this field in our company. One case in country M
achieved 15% improvement for UL throughput to reach about 100kbps or so. In
summary, HSPA+ throughput field test result is only close to 1% of the theoretical
peak throughput. It makes the operator undervalue the investment for HSPA+; and
the end user expect to enjoy better perception for HSPA+ service. The author
combines many technical methods to improve the UL throughput by 2 times to even
more than 10 times, and doubles the DL throughput during optimization solution
bidding for a large scale network. Finally we get the PO and implement the solution
in whole network. The solution also transplanted into the other network in country P.
I am honored to share my ideas herein first and expect everyone share better ideas
to all.