WCDMA RAN

RAN15.0

Dynamic Power Sharing Among Carriers

Feature Parameter Description
Issue

01

Date

2013-04-28

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Contents
1 About This Document
1.1 Scope
1.2 Intended Audience
1.3 Change History

2 Technical Description
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Power Sharing Mode

3 Related Features
4 Network Impact
5 Engineering Guidelines
5.1 Requirements
5.2 Activation
5.3 Activation Observation
5.4 Deactivation
5.5 Performance Monitoring
5.5.1 Positive Gains
5.5.2 Negative Gains

6 Parameters
7 Counters
8 Glossary
9 Reference Documents

1 About This Document

1.1 Scope
This document describes the feature WRFD-020116 Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers
which is also called dynamic power sharing among carriers. It describes how to share the power
among carriers, and furthermore provides parameter descriptions.

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for personnel who:
Are familiar with WCDMA basics
Work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on 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 dynamic power sharing among carriers feature of
a specific product version.
Editorial change: refers to a change in wording or the addition of the information that was
not described in the earlier version.

Document Versions
01 (2013-04-28)
Draft A (2013-01-30)

01 (2013-04-28)

This is the first commercial release of RAN15.0. Compared with Draft A (2013-01-30) of
RAN15.0, 01 (2013-04-28) includes the following changes.

Change Type

Change Description

Parameter Change

Feature change

None

None

Editorial change

Added 3 Related Features

None

Added 4 Network Impact

None

Added CME configuration

guide in 5.2 Activation and 5.4
Deactivation.

None

Draft A (2013-01-30)

This is the draft of the document for RAN15.0.

Compared with issue 01 (2012-11-30) for RAN14.0, Draft A (2013-01-30) for RAN15.0
includes the following changes.

Change Type

Feature change

Editorial change

2 Technical Description
2.1 Introduction
Along with the wide use of the WCDMA system, more and more hot areas use multi-carrier power
amplifiers. When traffic cannot be evenly distributed to different carriers, the requests for downlink
power resources are unbalanced. In this case, dynamic power sharing among carriers can be used
to balance the requests between the carriers and increase the throughput. For asymmetrical power
configuration, the carrier with higher emitting power cannot share the unused power resource of the
carrier with lower emitting power.
In dynamic power sharing among carriers, a carrier that carries the HSPA service can dynamically
use the idle power resource of another carrier that only carries the R99 service, thus improving the
power usage and the HSPA service rate.
The current version only supports power sharing between an R99 carrier and an HSDPA carrier.
Therefore, the following description takes an R99 cell and an HSDPA cell as an example. In this
case, the HSDPA cell can determine the available power according to the power usage of the R99
cell, as shown in Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1 Dynamic power sharing between an R99 cell and an HSDPA cell

2.2 Power Sharing Mode

Assume that the NodeB is configured with a power sharing group by running the ADD
NODEBPAGRP command. In addition, assume that the source cell is an R99 cell, which is
specified by the SLOCELL parameter; the target cell is an HSDPA cell, which is specified by the

DLOCELL parameter. In such a case, the algorithm periodically calculates the maximum power of
the source cell that can be shared by the target cell according to the following formula:
Psource-share = Max{0,{Min(Pmax - Pcurrent, Pmax x Rmax-share) - Pmax x Rshare-margin}}
Psource-share denotes the maximum power of the source cell that can be shared by the target
cell.
Pmax denotes the maximum power configured for the source cell. It is specified by the
MaxTxPower(BSC6900,BSC6910) parameter.
Pcurrent denotes the power currently used by the source cell.
Rmax-share denotes the maximum ratio of the idle power that can be shared to the maximum
power configured for the source cell. It is specified by the MAXSHRTO parameter.
Rshare-margin denotes the ratio of the idle power reserved for the source cell to the maximum
power configured for the source cell. It is specified by the SHMGN parameter.
The target cell assigns power to its HSDPA users based on the sum of the maximum power
configured for the target cell and the maximum power of the source cell that can be shared by the
target cell.
Figure 2-2 shows the power of the source cell that can be shared by the target cell.
Figure 2-2 Power of the source cell that can be shared by the target cell

3 Related Features

Prerequisite Features
WRFD-010610 HSDPA Introduction Package

Mutually Exclusive Features

None

Impacted Features
None

4 Network Impact
The analysis of network impactis based on this scenario: One power is configured with mutiple
frequencies. F1 is configured with R99 only. F2 is configured with R99 and HSDPA.

System Capacity
After deploying this feature, the capacity of F2 in the busy hours increases by 5% to 6%. In the idle
hours, this feature significantly increases the HSDPA user throughput of F2. The increased
percentage depends on the parameter configuration.

Network Performance
After deploying this feature, the available HSDPA power of F2 increases and the HSDPA coverage
of F2 is improved. But the Ec/N0 of P-CPICH deteriorates which affected the coverage of F2 and
the intra-frequency cells of F2. The deteriorated coverage causes the cell edge users to hand over
to Inter-frequency cells or 2G cells and increases the call drop ratio.
The parameter configuration needs to avoid the impact on user experience of F1 and F2 and cell
coverage of F2.

5 Engineering Guidelines
This section describes how to activate, verify, and deactivate the optional feature WRFD-020116
Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers.

5.1 Requirements
Dependencies on Hardware
This feature does not depend on the hardware.
Dependencies on Other Features
This feature does not depend on other features.
License
The license for Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers has been activated on the
NodeB side. For details about how to activate the license, see License Management
Feature Parameter Description.
Table 5-1 lists the license information for Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers.

Table 5-1 License information for Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers

Feature ID

WRFD-020116

Other Prerequisites
The NodeB software version should be no earlier than RAN11.0.

5.2 Activation
Activation Using MML Command
Run the NodeB MML command ADD NODEBPAGRP to add a power sharing group and set the
related parameters Destination Local Cell ID, Max Sharing Power Ratio, Sharing Power
Margin, Source Local Cell ID.
NOTE:
Dynamic spectrum sharing cannot be configured with dynamic power sharing.
A power sharing group consists of a source local cell and a destination local cell.
The source local cell must support only R99 services, and the destination local cell must
support HSDPA services.
The source local cell and the destination local cell must use the same RF module and be
configured with the same maximum power.
The maximum rate of idle power that the source local cell is allowed to share with the
destination local cell is recommended to set to default value. This rate is based on the
configured maximum transmit power of the source local cell.
The rate of idle power that must be reserved for the source local cell. This rate is based on
the configured maximum transmit power of the source local cell. Reserving the idle power
for the source local cell helps avoid power fluctuation in the source local cell caused by
power sharing that is not timely.

MML Command Example

ADD NODEBPAGRP: SLOCELL=1, DLOCELL=2, MAXSHRTO=50, SHMGN=10;

Activation Using CME

NOTE:

When configuring the 4C-HSDPA feature on the CME, perform a single configuration first, and then
perform a batch modification if required.
Configure the parameters of a single object before a batch modification. Perform a batch
modification before logging out of the parameter setting interface.
1. Configure a single object (such as a cell) on the CME.

Set the parameters described in Table 5-2 on the CME. For instructions on how to
perform the CME single configuration, see CME Single Configuration Operation
Guide.
2. (Optional) Modify objects in batches on the CME. (CME batch modification center)

To modify objects in batches, click

on the CME to start the batch modification wizard.
For instructions on how to perform a batch modification through the CME batch
modification center, press F1 on the wizard interface to obtain online help.
Table 5-2 Configuring parameters on the CME

SN

MO

NODEBPAGR

NE

NodeB

Parameter
Name

Parameter ID

Configurable
in CME Batch
Modification
Center

Source Local
Cell ID

SLOCELL

No

Destination
Local Cell ID

DLOCELL

No

Max Sharing
Power Ratio

MAXSHRTO

No

Sharing Power SHMGN

Margin

5.3 Activation Observation

No

Before verifying the feature, ensure that a power sharing group is available, which consists of a
source local cell and a destination local cell.
1. Deactivate HSDPA for the destination local cell and then configure the power sharing
group.
2. Run the NodeB MML command STR DLSIM to increase the load on the destination local
cell to 90% by means of load simulation.
3. Activate HSDPA for the destination local cell.
4. Use two HSDPA-capable UEs of CAT 10 or 14 to download data at a high rate in the
destination local cell. Check the HSDPA throughput of the destination local cell, which is
indicated by the VS.DataOutput.UserData counter.
5. Activate the Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers feature.
6. Check the HSDPA throughput of the destination local cell. If the HSDPA throughput
increases, the feature has taken effect.
For details about how to activate or deactivate HSDPA, see HSDPA Feature Parameter Description.

5.4 Deactivation
Deactivation Using MML
Run the NodeB MML command RMV NODEBPAGRP. In this step, set the Destination Local Cell
ID to remove the cell from the power sharing group.

MML Command Example

RMV NODEBPAGRP: DLOCELL=2;

Deactivation Using CME

NOTE:
When configuring the 4C-HSDPA feature on the CME, perform a single configuration first, and then
perform a batch modification if required.
Configure the parameters of a single object before a batch modification. Perform a batch
modification before logging out of the parameter setting interface.
1. Configure a single object (such as a cell) on the CME.

Set the parameters described in Table 5-3 on the CME. For instructions on how to
perform the CME single configuration, see CME Single Configuration Operation
Guide.
2. (Optional) Modify objects in batches on the CME. (CME batch modification center)

To modify objects in batches, click

on the CME to start the batch modification wizard.
For instructions on how to perform a batch modification through the CME batch
modification center, press F1 on the wizard interface to obtain online help.
Table 5-3 Configuring parameters on the CME

SN

5.5 Performance Monitoring

5.5.1 Positive Gains
Check the value of the VS.DataOutput.UserData counter, which indicates the average cell
throughput when at least one HSDPA user has data to transmit in the queue buffer. If this counter
value increases after the Dynamic Power Sharing of Multi-Carriers feature is activated, this feature
has brought positive gains.

5.5.2 Negative Gains

This feature affects the cell coverage performance if the HSDPA cell transmit power exceeds the
maximum transmit power. As a result, the call drop rate increases and the access success rate
decreases for the cell.
The call drop rate is indicated by CS Service Drop Ratio and PS Call Drop Ratio.
The access success rate is indicated by CS RAB Setup Success Ratio and PS RAB Setup
Success Ratio.

6 Parameters
Table 6-1 Parameter description

Parameter
ID

SLOCELL

NE

BTS3900

MML
Command

Feature ID

ADD
WRFDNODEBPAGRP 020116
MOD
NODEBPAGRP

Feature
Name

Dynamic
Power
Sharing in
MultiCarriers

Description

Meaning:Indicates
the Source Local
Cell ID.
GUI Value

Parameter
ID

NE

MML
Command

Feature ID

Feature
Name

LST
NODEBPAGRP

Description

Range:0~268435455
Unit:None
Actual Value
Range:0~268435455
Default Value:None

DLOCELL

BTS3900

ADD
WRFDNODEBPAGRP 020116
RMV
NODEBPAGRP

Dynamic
Power
Sharing in
MultiCarriers

LST
NODEBPAGRP

Meaning:Indicates
the Destination Local
Cell ID.
GUI Value
Range:0~268435455
Unit:None
Actual Value
Range:0~268435455
Default Value:None

MaxTxPower BSC6900

ADD
UCELLSETUP
MOD UCELL

WRFD020501

Open Loop
Power
Control

Meaning:Sum of the
maximum transmit
power of all DL
channels in a cell.
For detailed
information of this
parameter, see
3GPP TS 25.433.
GUI Value
Range:0~500
Unit:0.1dBm
Actual Value
Range:0~50
Default Value:430

Parameter
ID

NE

MaxTxPower BSC6910

MML
Command

ADD
UCELLSETUP

Feature ID

WRFD020501

Feature
Name

Open Loop
Power
Control

MOD UCELL

Description

Meaning:Sum of the
maximum transmit
power of all DL
channels in a cell.
For detailed
information of this
parameter, see
3GPP TS 25.433.
GUI Value
Range:0~500
Unit:0.1dBm
Actual Value
Range:0~50
Default Value:430

MAXSHRTO BTS3900

ADD
WRFDNODEBPAGRP 020116
MOD
NODEBPAGRP
LST
NODEBPAGRP

Dynamic
Power
Sharing in
MultiCarriers

Meaning:Indicates
the maximum
proportion of the
available power that
can be shared. The
proportion is the ratio
of the available
power shared by the
source local cell with
the target local cell
to the maximum
transmit power of the
source cell.
GUI Value
Range:1~80
Unit:%
Actual Value
Range:1~80
Default Value:50

Parameter
ID

SHMGN

NE

BTS3900

MML
Command

Feature ID

ADD
WRFDNODEBPAGRP 020116
MOD
NODEBPAGRP

Feature
Name

Dynamic
Power
Sharing in
MultiCarriers

LST
NODEBPAGRP

Description

Meaning:Indicates
the Sharing Power
Margin. If power
sharing is delayed,
the margin meets
R99 UEs' power
demands that are
dynamically
changing.
GUI Value
Range:1~80
Unit:%
Actual Value
Range:1~80
Default Value:10

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

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

9 Reference Documents
1. License Management Feature Parameter Description