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Hi Siobhan
There are two basic limiting factors determining the capacity of a Node B:
? Channel Elements (CE)
? The Air Interface Interference and power
The channel data rate will have an impact on both of these.
Channel Elements (CE) Capacity
To simplify this I will take the case of a voice service rate (12.2 kbps).
This service requires 1 CE and since the latest version of the Ericsson Node B c
ontains 768 CEs, this number of voice connections could be supported.
What must be remembered is that a connection in soft handover will require CEs o
n each node B involved in the connection, so the amount of soft handover in the
network will have an impact on this. Latest figures suggest an overhead of 30% f
or soft handover, which will reduce this figure to 537.
The latest documents suggest Circuit Switched 64kbps (CS64) and Packet Switched
64/64 kbps (PS64/64) uses 2 CE in the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL). Packet Swit
ched 64/384 kbps (PS64/384 - 64 kbps in the UL and 384 kbps in the DL) will use
2 CEs in the UL and 8 CEs in the DL.
Air Interface Capacity
This is a much more complicated issue that is dependent on many factors, for exa
mple, uplink interference, downlink power, location of the Mobiles etc. In fact,
it is hard to think of something that does not influence this!
There are various formulae to calculate the theoretical maximum number of simult
aneous connections possible (Mpole or Mmax). The result will be dependent on the
service data rate. For example, typical figures for voice are approximately 100
. This amount of connections would represent a 100% load on the Node B, which is
not practical. The best place to look for practical values is in an operation W
CDMA network.
To the best of my knowledge there are two (non-trial) WCDMA networks in the worl
d, NTT DoCoMo in Japan and Manx Telecom in the Isle of Man-although I am not ent
irely convinced this is not a trial system. Since neither is using an exclusive
Ericsson Radio Access Network, they might not be willing to release this informa
tion to us!
For this reason, I suggest looking at Qualcomm s IS-95 network, which has strong s
imilarities to the WCDMA Air Interface. They quote in the region of 18 simultane
ous connections (just one service is available voice) per RF carrier. Since the
bandwidth of WCDMA is approximately three times that of IS-95, I imaging WCDMA c
ould support (18X3) 54 simultaneous voice connections.
The latest RBS3000 can support a maximum of six RF carriers configured as a thre
e-sector site. The total Node B capacity would therefore be (54 x 6) 324. This i
s well within the Channel Element limit, even with soft handover.
Again, the service rate will have an impact on this. To simplify this the load g
enerated by each service is equated to speech using units called Air Interface S
peech Equivalents (ASEs).
The latest figures I have available for these are:
? CS 64 uses 4 in the UL and DL.
? PS 64/64 uses 2.16 in the downlink and 0.3 in the uplink*
? PS 64/384 uses 2.19 in the uplink and 0.3 in the downlink*
* The values for the packet services are low because the activity factor is take
n into account.
Eddie Mc Connell
Hi,
The traffic in a 3G RBS is dependent on RBSs´ output power, amount of channel elem
ents (HW), interference in the channel and how the users are distributed in the
cell. All this terms are dependent of each others as well.
Some examples:
1. If we have a base station with high power it means more power in the air result
ing more interference for neighbor cells.
2. If most of users are at the cell border this means they need more power to se
nd with, that results more interference for neighbor cells and less power left f
or new users in own cell.
3. If a cell has too much traffic this means more interference for neighbor cell
s resulting less available capacity in the neighbor cells.
4. Different users need different amount of resources (speech, 64 kbps, 128 kbps
, 384 kbps).
All these show that Design and cell planning of the network is very important fo
r the traffic handled by the cell.
After all if you know your load limit (ex. 60% in down link) and you know your u
sed services then you can calculate your theoretical capacity for one carrier by
the formula (Please see guidelines):
Loading = (M1/Mpole,1) + (M2/Mpole,2) + (M3/Mpole,3) + ...
Arshad
The traffic the RBS can carry is in principle limited by the number of channel
elements available. However, for practical dimensioning you need to take blockin
g probabilities and traffix mixture into account. Also, the traffic is more like
ly to be limited by the air interface rather than the hardware configuration (if
properly dimensioned). In that scenario you therefore need to specify all relev
ant parameters such as traffic mix, blocking probabilities planned for, channel
models, maximum load planned for etc.
al - check alarms
cabx - check board status
lt all ; kget - take a parameter dump
lgo - view parameter change log
cabr - view all board restarts
cvls - list of CVs on node including loaded / executing
hc - health check (includes all error logs)
Note,
We will here log on to the TMA/ASC.
``To exit the process write exit``
1: $ lhsh 010600
Welcome to OSE Shell OSE4.4.1.
2: 010600> ps port*
pid name tpr block own status
000300eb port_0_dev_17/ose_sh ph CXC1323891%1_R14 0 -
000100e4 port_0_dev_17/tmaCdc ph CXC1323891%1_R14 0 -
000100e3 port_0_dev_17/tmaSbc ph CXC1323891%1_R14 0 -
000200e1 port_0_dev_17/XcbcSe ph CXC1323891%1_R14 0 -
Total 4 processes
4: If you want to see all the commands for the asc write like bellow.