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Affordable LTE network benchmarking based on transport fleets
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Abstract(s)
To gain competitive advantage in today’s mobile
market, cellular network testing, monitoring and improving
customer experience is crucial. Today independent benchmarking
companies are hired by mobile operators to run drive tests in
a certain geographical areas. The high cost for running these
tests results in a low frequency of execution, typically this
benchmarking is executed no more than two or three times
per year, which is not sufficient to follow the dynamics of
an LTE network in a dense urban area. The majority of the
drive testing costs come from the car, driver, and the in-car
technician. Another approach is to take advantage of existing
transportation companies to carry on network benchmarking
services to Mobile Network Operators. Unattended measurement
nodes can be deployed in existing transportation fleets without
the need for dedicated field personnel, reducing the cost of testing
up to 70%. This demo uses nodes placed in buses, available in
several cities in Europe, to create and validate an automatic
LTE network benchmark. The tool allows an easy comparative
analyses of mobile network quality of Service and quality of
experience parameters based on the operators raw data.
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Keywords
Benchmark tool KPI LTE network QoE QoS
Citation
R. DIONÍSIO [et al.] (2017) - Affordable LTE network benchmarking based on transport fleets. In Experiment@International Conference, 4, Faro, 6-8 Junho - exp.at'17 : Book of Abstracts. [S.l.] : IEEE. p. 115-116. DOI 10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984387
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers