Empirical Study on Performance Evaluation Between Long Term Evolution (LTE), Third Generation (3G) and TV White Space Availability for Wireless Campus Network

Abstract

University campuses are increasingly relying on wireless communication as the preferred media to access the web. Hence, there is a need to conduct on site performance evaluation on the existing wireless standards with the view of analyzing their expected and actual performance. In this paper, a drive-test was performed on three (3) wireless standards of LTE Release 8, 3G and Television White Space (TVWS). The drive-test was performed in both in-building and outdoor environments in a sub-urban campus settings. Results from LTE Release 8, 3G indicate that user mobility affects the received user throughput and Reference Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). The test cases are executed by using a real LTE user equipment, equipped with ASCOM's TEMS software on a live 3G and 4G mobile networks for the both Malaysian mobile service providers; Maxis and Celcom. The results showed sufficient coverage within the campus area from both operators. On the other hand, results from field experiment indicate that TVWS is available on the campus. TVWS presents significant new opportunities within the context of emerging 4G networks for deploying new wireless access technology capable of meeting students expectation in terms of throughput and increasing broadband access for the fraction when the legacy 4G networks experience coverage blackout.

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“…Others apply custom performance measurement tools that better fit their research aims [40,41]. The MBB data measurement can be conducted in indoor environments [42,43], within university campuses [44][45][46][47], along roads [48,49], in different locations of the same city [41,50], in several cities [6,51], in different countries [52] or at specific large-scale events [53]. To preserve the privacy of the measurement analysis outcomes, the names of MBB service operators may be coded to conceal their identities [44], while others choose to surprisingly declare the findings of operators' measurement results, as in [45,46], or as by Ofcom in the United Kingdom (UK) [6].…”

Performance Analysis of Mobile Broadband Technologies and 5G Trends and Beyond Networks in Malaysia

“…Apart from these studies, literature contains many research studies that have determined the MBB performances of Second Generation (2G), 3G and 4G networks [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Researchers have performed these studies with the help of diverse systems under different environments.…”

Performance Analysis of Mobile Broadband Technologies and 5G Trends and Beyond Networks in Malaysia

“…Apart from these studies, literature contains many research studies that have determined the MBB performances of Second Generation (2G), 3G and 4G networks [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Researchers have performed these studies with the help of diverse systems under different environments.…”