[October 06, 2015]

Research and Markets: Chips and Salsa XIX: Carrier Aggregation Chipset Benchmark Study

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zchmdn/signals_ahead) has announced the addition of the "Signals Ahead - Chips and Salsa XIX: Carrier Aggregation Chipset Benchmark Study" report to their offering.

We provide the industry's first benchmark study of LTE (News - Alert)-Advanced carrier aggregation chipsets (Cat 4 - 10 MHz + 10 MHz).

The study was done in collaboration with Spirent Communications who provided its 8100 Test Platform and engineering support to conduct the tests.

Although carrier aggregation has been deployed since mid-2013, very few chipset suppliers fully support the feature while device availability is further concentrated on a single supplier. Thanks to some marquee wins, the status quo is quickly changing.

The results for the three vendor-supplied solutions that we tested (Intl, Qualcomm (News - Alert) and Samsung) were largely the same for many of the test cases - perhaps an indication that the industry needs to move away from conformance-based testing with static scheduling.

With more challenging conditions (lower SNR) the platform delivered measurably higher throughput but the performance advantage wasn't as great as we've observed in prior tests.

Results for the commercial smartphones that we tested were in-line with the vendor-supplied solutions but additional testing is required to ensure full consistency of results with the vendor-supplied solutions.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Executive Summary

2. Background

3. Detailed Results

3.1 Throughput Results by Fading Profile

3.2 Fixed Primary Carrier SNR with Varying Secondary Carrier SNR

3.3 Detailed Analysis for Select Test Cases

3.4 Sensitivity Studies for ETU300 Channel Model

3.5 Commercial versus Pre-Commercial Results

4. Test Methodology

5. Final Thoughts

Companies Mentioned

- Intel (News - Alert)

- Qualcomm

- Samsung

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zchmdn/signals_ahead

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