The demands of packet data communication and applications have resulted in several improvements over the original WCDMA Release 99. The downlink was improved in Release 5 with high speed packet data access (HSDPA), which provided high speed shared channel with fast link adaptation and scheduling, hybrid ARQ, and a short 2 ms transmission time interval (TTI). The corresponding uplink enhancements were done in Release 6 with high speed packet data access (HSUPA), which allow node B controlled scheduling of the uplink transmission, Hybrid ARQ, short 2 ms TTI, and fast inter-cell interference suppression. A combination of HSDPA and HSUPA is referred to as HSPA (high speed packet access). Thus, HSPA is designed to provide a number of significant benefits that enable the new service to provide a far better performance for the user. The objective of this study is twofold: (1) to typify the HSPA mobile technology at a glance in the downlink and uplink directions; (2) to appraise mean user data throughput performance of a commercial 3G UMTS network operator with upgraded HSPA technology. The achieved mean user throughput performance of HSDPA and HSUPA is also compared and reported at the cell cluster level. Our results can be useful to the telecom network operators for effective planning and optimising wireless cellular data networks. Keywords: Mean data throughput, HSPA mobile communication technology, measurement survey and performance evaluation at cell cluster levelCite this Article Joseph Isabona. Mean User Data Throughput Assessment from a Public UMTS/HSPA Network. Recent Trends in Electronic and Communication Systems. 2015; 2(2): 1–6p.
