Reference Guide

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Apex Lifestyle Small Cell features

Reference Guide

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Scheduler features

The Medium Access Control (MAC) layer and the scheduler are critical in the

performance of any wireless system and especially for LTE in particular.

Stack MAC layer and its real-time LTE scheduler have been designed and developed

to fulfill the operator requirements with advanced scheduling and prioritization

algorithms.

The following scheduler features are supported by the Apex Lifestyle Small Cell:

• Advanced Scheduler support including Round Robin algorithms in time and

frequency domains

• QCI class aware scheduler

• CQI based MCS selection

• QoS aware scheduling based on QCIs

• Wideband CQI reporting

• Frequency Hopping

• Normal cyclic prefix

• Semi-Persistent Scheduling for VoIP

• Per bearer UL scheduling priority for multi bearer UE

• Delay and GBR aware scheduler for QCI=1-4 and custom GBR QCIs

• Periodic mode of CQI/RI/PMI reporting

• DRX in idle & connected mode with Measurement Gap support

• UL & DL RB Mask support

• Sub-band CQI reporting

• UL and DL Frequency Selective Scheduling

• Configurable Advanced Scheduler support including Proportional Fair algorithms

in time and frequency domains