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More Battery Life With Lte Connected DRX
More Battery Life With Lte Connected DRX
cDRX - ON
cDRX - OFF
LG Optimus LTE
HTC Velocity 4G
March 2012
November 2011
April 2012
cDRX capability depends on modem chipset and its firmware version. Even devices with same chipset model can
have different support.
cDRX capability expected to improve in devices coming to market 2H2012.
160
2560
10
113,5
66,7
37,4
24,3
17,6
20
40
80
100
140,8
201,5
286,5
339,6
73,9
92,1
145
157,8
44,1
52
75,5
104,2
27,2
33,1
44,1
49,7
19,2
22,1
28
30,3
n/a
145,8
77,8
45,5
UE current
(mA)
Reference
measurements:
Idle 9,6 mA
(1280 ms paging)
No cDRX 352,4 mA
in practice
looks like a
noDRX
200
n/a
640 ms cDRX cycle together with 640 ms paging cycle provides energy savings with good latency
experience for best effort Internet apps
Take a picture
and upload to
Facebook.
1 min user
inactivity,
screen off
Send &
receive
emails
1 min user
inactivity,
screen off
Check
weather
1 min user
inactivity,
screen off
Browse
1 min user
inactivity,
screen off
Make a 1 min
Skype call
UE current
without DRX
342,70 mA
(time 8:20,88)
UE current
with DRX
300,86 mA
(time 8:22,70)
DRX inactivity 750 ms
DRX cycle 640 ms
DRX on duration 10 ms
00,864
00,691
00,518
00,346
Smart
phone
Whatsapp
service
00,173
00,000
Connected,
no DRX
Data
Ack
Idle
DRX
160 ms cycle
DRX
DRX
640 ms cycle 2560 ms cycle
Radio access
delay
Data
Ack
01,728
01,296
Data
Ack
00,864
00,432
00,000
Connected,
no DRX
Idle
DRX
160 ms cycle
DRX
DRX
640 ms cycle 2560 ms cycle
cDRX for different LTE services such as best effort Internet applications and VoLTE
cDRX performance analysis and comparison for different applications and devices
NSN Flexi Multiradio BTS LTE supports RRC connected state DRX since release RL30:
Enabling cDRX and optimizing cDRX settings for LTE apps and devices on the field