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A QoE-Based Method for Quantifying and Comparing LTE Coverage

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Author(s)

Wesley Garey, Yishen Sun, Richard Rouil

Abstract

To determine the coverage of an LTE system, measurements such as the Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), and Signal to Interfer-ence and Noise Ratio (SINR) are often used. However, RSRP and RSRQ are only relevant to LTE, and all three measurements are representative of signal quality but not user experi-ence. In this paper, we propose a method that relates signal quality to Quality of Experi-ence (QoE) using simulation. With this method, the coverage of an LTE system is quantified using speech intelligibility which is agnostic to an underlying technology making it possi-ble to compare different technologies while also allowing users to directly relate speech intelligibility scores to sampled audio. In addition to the proposed method, this paper also describes an implementation of the method, a case study of the method using drive test data, and validation of the proposed method.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8566
Report Number
8566
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8566
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Keywords

Long Term Evolution, LTE, simulation, modeling, ns-3
Wireless (RF)

Citation

Garey, W. , Sun, Y. and Rouil, R. (2025), A QoE-Based Method for Quantifying and Comparing LTE Coverage, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8566, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=959601 (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created March 11, 2025
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