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Course Content
Radio Resource Management Overview
Parameter Configuration
Common Channels & Power Control
Load Control
Admission Control
Packet Scheduling
Handover Control
Resource Manager
HSPA
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Module Objectives
At the end of the module you will be able to:
Describe the difference between controllable and non-controllable loads
Describe the difference between preventive and overload threshold
Describe the relationships of Load Control with Admission Control and Packet Scheduler
Name and describe summarily the main RAN parameters related to load control
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Load Control
Load Control Functions
Radio Interface Load
Power based Radio Resource Management
Throughput based Radio Resource Management
Planning thresholds for cell loading
BTS Measurements and Reporting
Common Measurements
Dedicated Measurements
Filtering of Measurements
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Load Control Functional Overview
RRM in RNC
LC
AC
PS
Load change
estimations
Load change
estimations
Scheduling
period
PRACH load
measurement
WBTS NB/RS
NBAP-PRIVATE:
RRIndPeriod or
3GPP NBAP :
COMMONMEASUREMENT
REPORT
Dedicated
measurement reporting
parameters
parameters
measurements
estimations
when
changed Load change info
Load status request
Load status
NRT load
measurements
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BTS Measurements sent to CRNC
Common Measurements from Cell
WBTS RADIO RESOURCE MEASUREMENT REPORT (private part)
NB/RS COMMON MEASUREMENT REPORT
Dedicated Measurements from active users in Cell_DCH
WBTS NB/RS DEDICATED MEASUREMENT REPORT
IuB
C - NBAP
D - NBAP
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Load Control
Load Control Functions
Radio Interface Load
Power based Radio Resource Management
Throughput based Radio Resource Management
Planning thresholds for cell loading
BTS Measurements and Reporting
Common Measurements
Dedicated Measurements
Filtering of Measurements
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Load Estimation Methods
Actual prevailing load in the cell depends on multiple factors
Number of active connections
Properties of the connections
Bit rate
Eb/No requirement
BLER requirement
Propagation channel conditions (speed, multipath profile etc.)
SHO condition
Activity
Different methods can be applied to measure/estimate prevailing load conditions,
e.g.
Throughput Based Load Estimation
Power Based Load Estimation
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UL power based load measurement
P
Rx_Own
P
RxTotal
= P
Rx_Own
+ P
Rx_Other
+ P
Noise
= P
Rx_NRT
+ P
Rx_RT
+ P
Rx_Other
+ P
Noise
= P
Rx_NRT
+ P
Rx_NC
P
Rx_Other
i
UL
= P
Rx_Other
/ P
Rx_Own
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DL power based load measurement
P
Tx_Own
P
TxTotal
= P
Tx_Own
= P
Tx_NRT
+ P
Tx_RT
+ P
Tx_Common
= P
Tx_NRT
+ P
Tx_NC
P
Tx_Common
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Rx_Own_DL
P
Rx_Other_DL
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DL
= P
Rx_Other_DL
/ P
Rx_Own_DL
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Radio Interface Load
The BTS measures the total received power (PrxTotal) and the total transmitted power
(PtxTotal) on cell basis
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The BTS reports PrxTotal and PtxTotal of each cell to the RNC
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LC updates
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Cell load status for each cell based on RADIO RESOURCE INDICATION
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Non-controllable UL (PrxNC) and DL (PtxNC) load in cell
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Semi-controllable UL (Prx_SC) and DL (Ptx_SC) load in the cell (related to PS Streaming)
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AC and PS algorithms work on the current cell load status provided by LC
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Denying call admission (AC) and throttling back NRT traffic (PS) are the overload actions
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After scheduling PS provides LC with PrxNRT, PtxNRT & L
NRT
estimates
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After admitting RT RAB, AC provides LC with NC load increase estimate
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System Noise
System noise (WCEL: PrxNoise) is the sum of all stationary noises;
thermal noise
interference caused by spurious emissions of other systems,
noise caused by additional equipment such as repeaters
PrxNoise can vary place to place and even time to time
PrxNoise is a RNP parameter whose setting affects the capacity of cell
PrxNoise too low: overestimation of cell load and can lead to unnecessary call blocking
PrxNoise too high: underestimation of cell load and can lead to overload situation
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PrxNoise Autotuning Algorithm
RNC provides tools to measure unloaded system noise, PrxUnloaded, and tools to adjust
PrxNoise parameter based on these measurements
PrxTotal = PrxUnloaded when own cell is considered unloaded (or very low load);
Own Cell;
L
RT
s

Unloaded
RT
and
L
NRT
s

Unloaded
NRT
and no EDCH users in the cell
Unloaded
RT
and Unloaded
NRT
are RNC parameters (values for NRT: 1 %, RT: 2 %)
L
RT and
L
NRT
are UL load factor for own cell RT (AC estimates) & PS users (PS estimates)
RNC calculates averaged PrxUnloaded values using a mean filter to remove temporary
interference peaks
PrxNoise is updated by the autotuning algorithm based on PrxUnloaded
PrxNoise autotuning step size is limited by PrxNoiseMaxTuneAbsolute parameter
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UL Preventive & Overload Thresholds
Prx Target [dB]
PrxTarget [dB] + PrxOffset
[dB]
load factor q
Range [0..1]
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Overloaded Area
Marginal Load Area
Feasible Load Area
WCEL:PrxTarget (030dB)(0.1dB)(4dB)
WCEL:PrxOffset (06dB)(0.1dB)(1dB)
( ) | | dB Log q 1 10
10
PrxTarget =
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DL Preventive & Overload Thresholds
Ptx Target [dBm]
Ptx Target [dBm] + PtxOffset
[dB]
load factor
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Overloaded Area
Marginal Load Area
Feasible Load Area
Cell Maximum
WCEL:PtxTarget (-1050dBm)(0.1dBm)(40dBm)
WCEL:PtxOffset (06dB)(0.1dB)(1dB)
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Load Control
Load Control Functions
Radio Interface Load
Power based Radio Resource Management
Throughput based Radio Resource Management
BTS Measurements and Reporting
Common Measurements
Dedicated Measurements
Filtering of Measurements
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NB/RS situation
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Measurements taken and reported by NB/RSxxx
Periodical reporting every 800ms or slower
TCP Transmitted Carrier Power
Periodic and Event E reporting for non HSDPA cells
Periodic for HSDPA cells
Transmitted Code Power of all codes not used for HSDPA
Periodic and Event E reporting for non HSDPA cells
RTWP Received Wideband Wideband Power
Periodic and Event E reporting for non HSDPA cells for non-HSUPA cells
Event E reporting for HSUPA cells
RSEPS Received Scheduled E-DCH Power Share
Periodic and Event E reporting for HSUPA cells
Acknowledged PRACH preambles
Periodic reporting is used
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Dedicated Measurements in BTS
Transmitted Code Power
WBTS and NB/RSxxx send periodic measurement reports with code power
measurement results from all Radio Links (UEs in Cell_DCH)
Depending on allocated service type WBTS applies different reporting frequency
CS Services and SRB
WBTS: DedicatedMeasRepPeriod Range and Step [0.5..5 s, step 0.5 s], step 0,5 sec
Default = 2.5 sec
CS Data Services
WBTS: DediMeasRepPeriodCSdata Range and Step [0.5..5 s, step 0.5 s], step 0,5 sec
Default = 1.5 sec
PS Data Services
WBTS: DediMeasRepPeriodPSdata Range and Step [0.5..5 s, step 0.5 s], step 0,5 sec
Default = 0.5 sec
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Dedicated Measurements in BTS
Uplink SIR Error
HSPA Serving cell change feature makes use of UL SIR quality measurements to
check the quality for HS-DPCCH reception
UEhas RRCconnect ion est ablished
HS-DSCH channel t ype i s select ed
AS>1
NBAP: Dedicat ed Measurement Ini ti at ion
NBAP: Dedicat ed Measurement Report
NBAP: Dedicat ed Measurement Report
NBAP: Dedicated Measurement Report
NBAP: Dedi cat ed Measurement Report
Reporting frequency can be controlled:
RNC: HSDPASIRErrorReportPeriod
Range and Step: 0..10 sec, step 1 sec
Value 0 means switched off
Default: 0.5 sec
Measurement Filtering can be controlled:
RNC: HSDPASIRErrorFilterCoefficient
Range and Step: 0 (100 %), 1 (71 %), 2 (50 %), 3 (35 %),
4 (25 %), 5 (18 %), 6 (13 %), 7 (9 %), 8 (6 %), 9 (4 %), 11 (2 %)
Default: 5 (18%)