At which point the LTE throughput is measured ? At UE handset or Enodeb Antenna port or somewhere else?

Question

While deploying or making lab setup what all things need to be taken into account ? In other words, how interference from neighboring cells can be minimized ? What all configuration values can create high interference between two LTE neighboring cells ?

Answer 1

Whenever any technology claims a particular number as throughput, it is considered w.r.t to end user. It is about end user who experiences the better throughput in terms of better service response. When the data is pushed to any system with a particular rate and the data rate end user receive, the difference shows the performance of a system.
If you are pumping data with x bits/second and you are getting x bits/second at UE then your system is not a bottle neck but sometimes the same level of throughput is not achieved.
As per my experience, data throughput is tested at each node individually and when end to end system is integrated it is verified end to end.

Answer 2

I think , LTE throughput shall be measured at Mac layer of both ue and eNb. Transport block size table is also defined in 36.213 with no of prb Vs TBS index.