Typhoon13 @ 03/19/19, 20:07
4x2 configuration - 4 streams for reception and 2 for transmission or only 2 there and there
In order not to be confused, it is better to pay attention to the name, “signature” for this value on the NSG screen - “Ant. ENB Tx / Dev. Rx”.
That is, 4x2 here "literally" means that at the BS, 4 antennas are currently used for transmitting this carrier, and 2 antennas are used for receiving it at the phone. All this information relates only to this direction of data transmission - the station transmits, the device receives, i.e. to the downlink.
The use of two or more streams on uplink has not yet been implemented in practice, and I have not heard of plans for such yet.
And the actual number of streams used for data transmission at the moment, NSG displays as a value of Rank. Naturally, also for downlink. For uplink, the number of threads is always 1, so there’s no point in displaying it.
In turn, the number of antennas that the terminal uses to receive the carrier is dynamically selected. Even if the terminal has 4x4 support for the selected range, the receive mode with 4 antennas is activated by a command from the station only when it can transmit data with more than 2 streams. the station does not support more than 2 streams at all, it is equipped with only 2 antennas. This situation is displayed in the NSG as "Ant. ENB Tx / Dev. Rx" = 2x4. In this case, two additional antennas are used in approximately the same mode as the second antenna in RX diversity mode in UMTS networks. Simultaneous reception of the same signal to two antennas, using appropriate mathematical processing, can theoretically improve its quality at the receiver input. In practice, however, the effect of such a decision is virtually invisible. The reason for this is the same, for which 4x4 on mobile terminals like a smartphone works inefficiently: the insufficient mutual distance between the antennas, determined by the dimensions of the case.
Posted 03/19/2019 20:45: PRubinkk @ 03/19/19, 20:27
on an ordinary device with 64qam
Well, in 2019, a phone without the support of 256QAM is no longer an “ordinary device”. It is, rather, a "cheap", "budget", "entry-level" apparatus ... or how is it used to call such devices?