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B9 Parameter Workshop
Part 3: 2G-3G interworking aspects
Presentation to T-Mobile, Bonn, 11 Oct 2005
Alcatel-PCS
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Agenda
2G-3G interworking aspects

Improved 3G cell reselection
Load based 3G HO filtering and related parameters
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Improved 3G cell reselection
Possible usage of SI2quater on BCCH or Extended BCCH.
The SI2quater message conveys:
3G cell description including
UTRAN frequencies,
Scrambling codes,
diversity (optional)

3G measurement parameters which include
Qsearch_I: threshold for 3G cell search
Qsearch_C_Initial: Qsearch initially used in connected mode
FDD_Qoffset: offset added to the serving GSM cell
FDD_Qmin: Minimum threshold for Ec/No

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Improved 3G cell reselection
GPRS 3G measurement parameters (used when there is no PBCCH)
Qsearch_P: threshold for 3G cell search: Qsearch_P = Qsearch_I =
Qsearch
3G_SEARCH_PRIO: Indication whether 3G cells shall be searched when
BSIC decoding is required

SI2quater is applied under the following conditions :
EN_2G_TO_3G_CELL_RESELECTION is set to Enabled with 3G
search activated while the UE/MS is in GMM ready state or Enabled
with 3G search deactivated while the UE/MS is in GMM ready state
There is at least one UTRAN FDD neighbour frequency to describe.
The cell is Evolium.

The existence and the position of SI2quater is defined in
SI3.
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Agenda
2G-3G interworking aspects

Improved 3G cell reselection
Load based 3G HO filtering and related parameters
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Load based 3G HO filtering
Principles :
Regarding the current load in the target 2G cell, the BSS may reject
an external handover coming from the UTRAN, provided the
handover has not been triggered by an emergency cause.

if the handover is supposed to be due to a different cause from an
emergency cause, the load of the target 2G cell will be compared with
the threshold THR_CELL_LOAD_3G_REJECT.

In case the load of the target 2G cell is higher that this threshold, the
hand-over is rejected because of high load and a BSSAP 0808
Handover Failure with the RR Cause no radio resource available
and inter-system information is sent to the MSC.

Note: inter-system information is a BSSAP IE which is defined in Rel-
5


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Load based 3G HO filtering
Inter-System Information :
Inter-System Information is provided as a general container for
passing RNC specific information transparently through the core
network from a BSS to an RNC. It contains the Cell Load Information
which is the load information of a specific (serving or target) cell for
either the Downlink or the Uplink and the Cell Capacity Class.

Downlink Cell Load Information and Uplink Cell Load Information
have the same value that is computed as follows :
AV_TRAFFIC_LOAD * 100
With the last computed value of AV_TRAFFIC_LOAD

Cell Capacity Class is provided according to the O&M parameter Cell
Capacity Class



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Load based 3G HO filtering
Cell capacity class :
The O&M parameter Cell Capacity Class is to be tuned on a linear
scale, ranging from 1 to 100.

Alcatel recommends the following rule to tune this parameter :


Where N
TCH
is the number of all TCH channels in the cell

The OMC does not manage this recommended rule : as seen by the
OMC, the parameter Cell Capacity Class has a fixed default value.

( )
|
.
|

\
|
+ = 1 1
125
99
int _ _
TCH
N Class Capacity Cell
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HMI name Definition Sub-
system
Inst
ance
OMC-R
access
Type Def
value
Range Unit
NEW :
THR_CELL_LOAD_3G
_REJECT
Load threshold determining
whether a 3G to 2G
handover request shall be
rejected in load situation.
The feature is deactivated
by setting THR_CELL_
LOAD_3G_REJECT to its
maximum value 100%.

BSC cell Change
able
Perce
ntage
100 [0,100] %
NEW : Cell Capacity
Class
Capacity class of the cell,
measured on a linear scale,
ranging from 1 to 100.
BSC cell Change
able
Perce
ntage
100 [0,100] %
Load based 3G HO filtering
Related Parameters :
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