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Figure 5Curves illustrating maximum datathroughput for MCS-4 and MCS-9 versusC/l.Figure 6Carrier throughput and spectral efficiencyfor three different frequency-reuse patterns.EDGE radio-link performanceEDGE radio-link performance has beenevaluated extensively by ETSI and UWCC.Figure 5 shows the throughput for onetimeslot as a function of the carrier-tointerferenceratio (C/I). The throughput isobtained from simulations of the IR LQCscheme. This radio-link simulation createsthe basis for all subsequent system simulationsdescribed in this article.Static system-level simulationsFigure 6 shows the maximum performanceof EDGE packet traffic channels for differ-ent frequency-reuse patterns (maximum inthe sense that channel utilization is 100%and all 8 TS are used for traffic). The resultsare based on static system-level simulationsand the radio-link simulations mentionedabove. As expected, a tighter frequencyreusepattern with higher interference reducesmean throughput per carrier. What isinteresting, however, is that the spectral efficiencyof EDGE increases with tighter frequencyreuse (that is, the smaller bandwidthrequired by tighter frequency reuse outweighsthe reduction in throughput). Thisconfirms EDGE's capacity to perform wellin situations characterized by high interference,such as in a 1/3 frequency-reuse pattern.One way of analyzing the system performanceof a packet-data network is to studythe average throughput per carrier. Figure7 shows the impact of channel utilization(traffic intensity) on this metric on the firstcarrier. The results are based on static system-levelsimulations and the radio-linksimulations described above, with 7 TS usedfor Classic and 6.67 TS for COMPACT datatraffic. As can be seen, performance in Classicmode with one carrier per sector does notdepend on traffic load. This is because thecarrier transmits constantly; that is, channelutilization on the first carrier is always100%. As expected, average throughput inCOMPACT mode for a particular carrier de-74 Ericsson Review No. 2,2000

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