Patrick Leary, Telrad
727-501-3735

Dan, your understanding is exactly correct. The same setting existed in WiMAX. 
The general name for these are "fairness" algorithms. Equal rate is okay when 
the sector is under-loaded. It will add time slots for edge users to guarantee 
them equal capacity. As loading increases, one really has 2 options: add 
capacity (another base station) or switch to equal time, which as you note will 
lower capacity of edge users, but keep close in users running higher.

In any rate, these were algorithms added to technologies designed for long 
outdoor connections. Wi-Fi-based systems are hampered because the design intent 
is to serve close together WLAN users, so there is no need to engineer around 
the near/far problem experienced when making Wi-Fi do what it is inherently not 
intended to do.

- Patrick
Telrad

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Dan Petermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> LTE can be set for equal time or equal rate. Equal rate will drag down 
> the
thruput of all users. 
> 
> Equal time will only impact the user with a poor signal. If everyones
signal is great and one users radio signal is bad, that user only gets the 
thruput that can be crammed into his timeslot because his modulation is low.
Everyone else continues as normal.
> 
> At least that is my understanding.
> 
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> ....any system with 20mhz channels + two chains + 256QAM can claim
100mbps.
>> Getting past that is going to be carrier aggregation (bigger 
>> channels)
and MU-MIMO.
>> 
>> 5x20mhz channels aggregated = 500mbps.
>> 
>> MU-MIMO can theoretically double capacity.  So there's your 1gig.
>> I'm not clear on how far you can count on MU-MIMO.  In theory it 
>> sounds
promising.
>> 
>> ....and yes, one person at MIMO-A QPSK is going eat up many times the
capacity of a person at 256QAM MIMO-B no matter what wireless system you're 
using.  The best defense against that will be don't install bad connections.
Nothing new there.
>> 
>> If you're going to use 100mhz, you could of course install 5 AP's of 
>> your
choice and claim you have a 500mbps system.
>> 
>>> On 11/12/2015 4:47 PM, Matt wrote:
>>> Hear talk of these 50 - 100+ mbps speeds per user and eventually 1 
>>> gbps.  How can LTE do that in 10 to 20 mhz of spectrum?  I assume if 
>>> you are offering 50 mbps package in a sector its safe to assume at 
>>> prime time there are going to be at the very least 10 people using 
>>> it in that sector at the same time?  Also assume some have less then 
>>> perfect connections to the tower using more air time.
> 


 
 
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