RSRP, EPRE, Total Power

We often use different concept of power definition depending on situations and we

often get confused by these different power concept. So it is important to have clear
understanding on those different definition.
When you use various test equipment, there are cases where different equipment use
different power concept. For example, some equipment would request you to specify
the power in EPRE (power/15 Khz) and some equipment would request you to specify
the total power (total power across all the allocated RBs).

Some of the most confusing power concepts are RSRP, EPRE and total power.
Definition and Differences among these powers can be illustrated as follows. For the
simplicity, I use the structure of only one RB and TM1 (Single Antenna)

Directly or indirectly from this illustrations, you can infer some additional facts as
follows :
  EPRE indicate power for one resource element (RE). This can be used for any
channel (e.g, Reference Signal, PDSCH etc). This value does not vary with
system bandwidth or number of RBs.
 RSRP is an averaged value for all the Resource Elements for Reference Signal
within a symbol. Since this is the averaged value, the value would be similar to
EPRE value you set for the Reference Signal. If there is no noise at all, RSRP
would be same as EPRE you set for Reference Signal.
 Total Channel Power is summed value of all EPREs within a symbol. This value
may vary with different symbols since each symbol may have different channel
combination (e.g, Symbol 0 in first slot is made up of multiple component -
PCFICH, HICH, RS. Symbol 4 is made up of PDSCH and Reference signal).
For simplicity, if we take the symbol which is made up of only PDSCH (e.g, Symbol
3,5,6) we may come out with the following formula. For different symbols, you may
have a little bit different values depending on P-a, P-b configurations. But you can
apply this formula for other symbols if you can tolerate around +/- 1dB differences.
Total Power of PDSCH (in linear scale )
= EPRE for PDSCH x Number of PDSCH RE
= EPRE for PDSCH x Number of RB x 12 (assuming for the
symbol with no Reference Signal)

Total Power of PDSCH (in dB/dBm scale )

= EPRE for PDSCH (in dBm) + 10 Log(Number of PDSCH RE)
= EPRE for PDSCH + 10 Log(Number of RB x 12)

Total Power is not affected by the system bandwidth, it is affected by number of RBs
being used at the specific moment of the calculation.

For example, if you allocated -90 dBm/EPRE for PDSCH and allocated 100 RBs for the
PDSCH, the Total Power of PDSCH become as follows.
Total Power of PDSCH (in dB/dBm scale )
= EPRE for PDSCH + 10 Log(Number of RB x 12)
= -90 + 10 Log(100 x 12)
= -90 + 30.8
= - 59.2 dBm