What is "hpue"

High Power User Equipment (HPUE) is a special class of user equipment for the LTE cellular network.

In Release 11 of the LTE standard, 3GPP proposed so called High Power User Equipment (HPUE) for band 14 (700 MHz). While off-the-shelf UE is only allowed to transmit at a maximum output power of 23 dBm, the HPUE are allowed to transmit with an output power of up to 31 dBm. Since the transmission range depends on the transmit power, the cell range can be increased from 4 km to 8 km, leading to higher coverage with the same amount of eNB.

The first HPUE has been presented by the Finnish company Elektrobit, together with Rohde & Schwarz at Mobile World Congress 2014. They implemented the test cases of 3GPP, to show that the use of HPUE does indeed not interfere with adjacent commercial LTE networks.