Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target

Retransmissions
RAN14.0

Feature Parameter Description

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Date

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Contents

Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Overview .....................................................................................................................................2-1
3 Technical Description ..............................................................................................................3-1
4 Related Features .......................................................................................................................4-1
4.1 Required Features ........................................................................................................................ 4-1
4.2 Mutually Exclusive Features ......................................................................................................... 4-1
4.3 Affected Features .......................................................................................................................... 4-1

5 Impact on the Network ............................................................................................................5-1

6 Engineering Guidelines...........................................................................................................6-1
6.1 When to Use HSUPA Small Target Adaptive Retransmissions ..................................................... 6-1
6.2 Feature Deployment ...................................................................................................................... 6-1
6.3 Performance Monitoring ................................................................................................................ 6-1

7 Parameters .................................................................................................................................7-1
8 Counters ......................................................................................................................................8-1
9 Glossary ......................................................................................................................................9-1
10 Reference Documents .........................................................................................................10-1

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1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions in
terms of how the feature works, how to set parameters for it, how it relates to other features, and what
impact it has on the network. This document also provides engineering guidelines for this feature.
This feature is known as WRFD-140222 Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions
(Try) in presale activities.
You are advised to read HSUPA Feature Parameter Description before reading this document.

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:

Personnel who are familiar with WCDMA basics

Personnel who need to understand Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions

Personnel who work with Huawei WCDMA products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information about the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:

Feature change: refers to a change in the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target
Retransmissions.

Editorial change: refers to a change in wording or the addition of information that was not described in
the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issue is as follows:

Draft A (2012-02-15)

Draft A (2012-02-15)
This is the first draft of the document for RAN14.0.
This is a new document.

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2 Overview

2 Overview
The hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity for High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is
located on the NodeB side and used to receive MAC-e protocol data units (PDUs). When a cell cannot
correctly receive MAC-e PDUs from a UE, the HARQ entity requires the UE to retransmit MAC-e PDUs.
The average number of retransmissions on the NodeB side needs to converge to a target number of
retransmissions on the RNC side. This target number on the RNC side is dynamically adjusted by the
feature HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission.
With the HSUPA adaptive retransmission feature, a small target number of retransmissions is used
under normal circumstances. When the uplink load or the UE transmit power is limited, one UE is
selected to use a large target number of retransmissions during each period. Without this feature, a
small target number of retransmissions is always used. For details about the HSUPA adaptive
retransmission feature, see HSUPA Feature Parameter Description.
In versions earlier than RAN14.0, the small target number of retransmissions is specified by the
EdchTargetLittleRetransNum parameter and cannot be adaptively adjusted. When the uplink load is
limited, a small target number of retransmissions will require a high signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) on
the Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH), and the DPCCH must have a higher power. This
leads to decreased available power on the Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) and
Enhanced Dedicated Physical Data Channel (E-DPDCH), a lower UE throughput, and a lower cell
throughput. To address these problems, RAN14.0 introduced the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA
Small Target Retransmissions. This feature supports an alternative small target number of
retransmissions for each typical type of service. The actual small target number of retransmissions can
dynamically shift between the original fixed number and the alternative number based on the cell uplink
load and UE rates, which are configured by the EdchTargetLittleRetransNum and
EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum parameters, respectively. This improves the system capacity when the
uplink load is limited.
Figure 2-1 shows the relationship between the features HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission and Adaptive
Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions.
Figure 2-1 Relationship between the features HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission and Adaptive Adjustment of
HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions

The features HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission and Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target
Retransmissions are independent of each other. With the HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission feature, only

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2 Overview

one UE is selected to use the large target number of retransmissions during each period. With the
Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions feature, when the uplink load is limited,
multiple UEs are selected for adjustment to the small target number of retransmissions. This further
improves the cell throughput.

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3 Technical Description

3 Technical Description
Without the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions, the RNC sets
different target numbers for different typical types of services through the EdchTargetLittleRetransNum
parameter. This feature is intended to further improve the cell throughput. An alternative small target
number of retransmissions is available for each typical type of service. This alternative small number is
configured by the EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum parameter. The original small number is configured by
the EdchTargetLittleRetransNum parameter. The small target number of retransmissions dynamically
shifts between EdchTargetLittleRetransNum and EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum.
Figure 3-1 shows the procedure for dynamically adjusting the small target number of retransmissions.
Figure 3-1 Procedure for dynamically adjusting the small target number of retransmissions

As shown in Figure 3-1, the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions
dynamically adjusts the small target number of retransmissions for each single BE service over HSUPA.
When the UE attempts to access the network, the larger value between EdchTargetLittleRetransNum
and EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum is used as the small target number of retransmissions if
PC_HSUPA_LITRETNUM_INIT_SEL_SWITCH under the PcSwitch parameter is selected, or

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3 Technical Description

EdchTargetLittleRetransNum is used if PC_HSUPA_LITRETNUM_INIT_SEL_SWITCH under the

PcSwitch parameter is not selected.
After the UE accesses the network, the following rules apply if
PC_HSUPA_LITRETNUM_AUTO_ADJUST_SWITCH under the PcSwitch parameter is selected:

If the UE rate is above the upper threshold and the uplink load of the cell has not reached
MaxTargetUlLoadFactor multiplied by RelRatioforUlRTWP, the RNC adjusts the small target
number of retransmissions to the smaller one between EdchTargetLittleRetransNum and
EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum in order to raise the UE throughput. The upper threshold equals the
minimum bit rate (MBR) of uplink services multiplied by an unconfigurable factor.

If the UE rate is below the lower threshold and the uplink load of the cell has reached
MaxTargetUlLoadFactor multiplied by TrigRatioforUlRTWP, the RNC adjusts the small target
number of retransmissions to the larger one between EdchTargetLittleRetransNum and
EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum in order to raise the cell throughput on the uplink. The lower threshold
equals the MBR of uplink services multiplied by an unconfigurable factor.

In other cases, the RNC does not make any adjustments.

Table 3-1 lists the unconfigurable factors for different MBRs.

Table 3-1 Unconfigurable factors for different MBRs
MBR (Mbit/s)

Unconfigurable Factor for the

Upper Threshold

Unconfigurable Factor for the

Lower Threshold

<1

90%

60%

1, excluding the
following:Services with
Quadrature Phase Shift
Keying (QPSK) modulation
and a 5.44 Mbit/s MBR

90%

70%

5.44 (QPSK modulation)

75%

70%

11.52 (16QAM modulation)

75%

70%

Services with 16QAM

modulation and an 11.52
Mbit/s MBR

If the features HSUPA Adaptive Retransmission and Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target
Retransmissions are both enabled and the air interface resources or UE transmit power on the uplink is
limited, the Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions feature selects one UE to use
the large target number of retransmissions during each period. If the selected UE later meets the
conditions for using the small target number of retransmissions, the larger one between
EdchTargetLittleRetransNum and EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum is used. For details about these
conditions, see the HSUPA Feature Parameter Description.

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4 Related Features

4 Related Features
4.1 Required Features
This feature depends on WRFD-010612 HSUPA Introduction Package.

4.2 Mutually Exclusive Features

A cell can be simultaneously configured with the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target
Retransmissions and the feature DC-HSUPA. However, if DC-HSUPA is enabled for a UE, Adaptive
Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions will not work for this UE.

4.3 Affected Features

None

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5 Impact on the Network

5 Impact on the Network

Impact on System Capacity
When the uplink load of the cell is limited, the feature Adaptive Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target
Retransmissions increases system capacity.

Impact on Network Performance

None.

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6 Engineering Guidelines

6 Engineering Guidelines
6.1 When to Use HSUPA Small Target Adaptive
Retransmissions
This feature is recommended if HSUPA is deployed.

6.2 Feature Deployment

For details about how to activate, verify, and deactivate this feature, see Configuring Adaptive
Adjustment of HSUPA Small Target Retransmissions.
When configuring the parameter EdchAltTarLittleRetransNum, the default value for this parameter is
recommended. An inappropriate value for this parameter may lead to decreased cell throughput. For
services with a 5.44 Mbit/s MBR and a 2 ms transmission time interval (TTI), this parameters default
value is 0.02. For other services with a 2 ms TTI, this parameters default value is 0.01. For services with
a 10 ms TTI, this parameters default value is 0.1.

6.3 Performance Monitoring

When the uplink load is limited and there are multiple HSUPA UEs, this feature improves the cell
throughput. To verify the effect of this feature, check the value of the counter
VS.HSUPA.MeanChThroughput.TotalBytes, which indicates the number of packets received in the
HSUPA MAC-d flow in a cell. With the traffic pattern unchanged, this feature is supposed to increase the
value of this counter.

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7 Parameters

7 Parameters
Table 7-1 Parameter description
Parameter ID

NE

MML Command

EdchAltTarLittleRetrans BSC6900
Num

Description

ADD UTYPRABOLPC Meaning: Alternative target number of times

MOD UTYPRABOLPC that the MAC-ES flow carrying a service is
retransmitted in the small retransmission
state. This parameter, when used with
"EdchTargetLittleRetransNum", increases
throughput of a single UE or cell throughput.
GUI Value Range: 0~15000
Actual Value Range: 0~15, step: 0.001
Unit: None
Default Value: None

EdchTargetLittleRetran BSC6900
sNum

ADD UTYPRABOLPC Meaning: Target number of E-DCH PDU

MOD UTYPRABOLPC retransfer when small probability
retransmission is applied to this service. The
small probability retransmission is used to
improve the throughput of a single UE when
the cell load is in the normal state.
GUI Value Range: 0~15000
Actual Value Range: 0~15, step: 0.001
Unit: None
Default Value: None

MaxTargetUlLoadFacto BSC6900
r

ADD UCELLHSUPA

Meaning: The parameter specifies the target

MOD UCELLHSUPA value of the uplink load. HSUPA power
control on the NodeB side keeps uplink load
close to the target value. For details about
this parameter, refer to 3GPP TS 25.433.
GUI Value Range: 0~100
Actual Value Range: 0~1
Unit: %
Default Value: 75

RelRatioforUlRTWP

BSC6900

ADD UCELLLDM
MOD UCELLLDM

Meaning: UL load restricted release

threshold ratio.If the state of the load for the
TTI switchover algorithm is restricted and
the realtime uplink load factor of cell is
smaller than the product of "Maximum
Target Uplink load Factor" and "UL load
restricted release threshold ratio", then the
state of the load for the TTI switchover
algorithm is set to normal.
GUI Value Range: 0~100
Actual Value Range: 0~1
Unit: %

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Parameter ID

NE

MML Command

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Description
Default Value: 60

TrigRatioforUlRTWP

BSC6900

ADD UCELLLDM
MOD UCELLLDM

Meaning: UL load restricted trigger

threshold ratio.If the state of the load for the
TTI switchover algorithm is normal and the
realtime uplink load factor of cell is greater
than the product of "Maximum Target Uplink
load Factor" and "UL load restricted trigger
threshold ratio", then the state of the load for
the TTI switchover algorithm is set to
restricted.
GUI Value Range: 0~100
Actual Value Range: 0~1
Unit: %
Default Value: 73

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8 Counters

8 Counters
There are no specific counters associated with this feature.

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9 Glossary

9 Glossary
For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see the Glossary.

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10 Reference Documents

10 Reference Documents
[1] HSUPA Feature Parameter Description

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