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Dynamic BTS Power Control

Radio Network Features
Presentation


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Purpose
Decrease the overall downlink interference
This will increase the number of mobiles that will experience
good C/I

Reduce BTS battery consumption
If the power supply has been cut off and the BTS is working
on battery power)

Reduce the risk of MS receiver saturation/blocking
(and thus the risk of bad speech quality)

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General Comments
Power control is not performed on the BCCH carrier

Power control is performed on TCHs and SDCCHs
(SDCCHREG - switch)

BTS power control is performed on a time slot basis

The Resolution in output power is in step of 2dB

The maximum power order change is 30 dB, which is also the
maximum configurable dynamic power regulation

In R10 The Algorithm in MS Power Control and BTS Power
Control are the same.
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Regulation Area - BTS Power vs Path loss
Path loss
Output power
of the BTS
Maximum allowed power level
Minimum
allowed
power level
Regulation Area
Mobile Received
power
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Regulation Area - BTS Power vs Quality
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Procedure
Measurement preparation
Estimation of missing measurements
Decide whether full- or sub-set shall be used (DTX)

Filtering measurements
Eliminates variations of temporary nature to ensure that the
decision base for next power order is stable

Calculation of power order
Calculate power order to achieve desired signal strength/quality
Apply power order constraints
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Frequency Planning Aspects
It is always preferable to use a dedicated BCCH band
level of interference for all TCH carriers will reduce
BCCH carriers will experience less adjacent channel interference from
the down regulated TCH carriers
Contiguous vs Staggered BCCH band
For BTS PC, Contiguous band is better
BTS PC Recommendations
start with moderate setting
a good strategy is to down regulate many connections with a few dB
Tuning of algorithm is done by the combination of SSDESDL and
QDESDL
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RxLev
RxQual
Parameter Settings*
SSDESDL: -90
QDESDL: 30
LCOMPDL: 5
QCOMPDL: 55
* Recommended
parameter
settings
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Impact of RxQual & RxLev on BTS PC
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RxLev
RxQual
Parameter Settings
SSDESDL: -90
QDESDL: 20
LCOMPDL: 5
QCOMPDL: 55
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Only QDESDL
has changed
compared to the
recommended
settings.
Regulation is
less aggressive
in this example
Impact of Reducing QDESDL
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RxLev
RxQual
Parameter Settings*
SSDESDL: -90
QDESDL: 20
LCOMPDL: 5
QCOMPDL: 63
* Parameter
settings are
moderate and
more aggressive
towards down
regulation in
this example
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Impact of Increasing QCOMPDL
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RxLev
RxQual
Parameter Settings*
SSDESDL: -90
QDESDL: 40
LCOMPDL: 5
QCOMPDL: 55
* Parameter
settings are
aggressive
towards
Quality in this
example
(QDESDL
increased)
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Impact of Increasing QDESDL
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RxLev
RxQual
Regulation Towards Lower RxLev
Parameter Settings
SSDESDL: -97
QDESDL: 30
LCOMPDL: 5
QCOMPDL: 55
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Mobiles with low
signal strength
also get down
regulated in
case of good
quality
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RxLev
RxQual
Impact of Increased LCOMPDL
Parameter Settings*
SSDESDL: -90
QDESDL: 20
LCOMPDL: 10
QCOMPDL: 55
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settings are
very aggressive
towards down
regulation
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Filter Tuning
QLENDL (for up regulation)
determines the response time on high RxQual/interference
SSLENDL (for up regulation)
determines the response time for SS drop
QLENDL/SSLENDL and UPDWNRATIO
determined the response time for down regulation
e.g. QLENDL is 2, and UPDWNRATIO is 300, this gives 2 SACCH
periods filter length for up regulation and 2*300%=6 SACCH
periods filter length for down regulation

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Parameters Summary
SSDESDL is the desired signal strength at the outer rim of the
regulation area, set per subcell.

QDESDL is the desired quality level measured by the receiver
in the MS, set per subcell.

LCOMPDL determines how much of the path loss that shall be
compensated for in the algorithm that regulates towards
quality, set per subcell.

QCOMPDL determines the weight of the quality compensation,
set per subcell.

SSLENDL is the length of the stationary signal strength filter

QLENDL is the length of the quality filter, set per subcell


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Parameters Summary
REGINTDL is the regulation interval, set per subcell

SDCCHREG is a switch for the regulation of SDCCH
channels, set per subcell

BSTXPWR is the maximum allowed power level for BTSs
in the current subcell

BSPWRMIN is the minimum allowed output power for the
BTS on the non-BCCH frequencies, set per subcell.

UPDWNRATIO is a BSC exchange property and is the
ratio between the up- and down regulation speed.

STEPLIMDL is a BSC exchange property and is a switch
that makes it possible to limit the down regulation to 2 dB
per SACCH period

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Parameter Default Recommended Value Unit
Name Value Value Range
SSDESDL -70 -90 -110 to -47 dBm
QDESDL 20 30 0 to 70 dtqu
LCOMPDL 70 6 0 to 100 %
QCOMPDL 30 65 0 to 100 %
REGINTDL 5 1 1 to 10 SACCH Periods
SSLENDL 5 3 3 to 15 SACCH Periods
QLENDL 8 3 1 to 20 SACCH Periods
SDCCHREG OFF ON ON, OFF -
BSPWRMIN -20 -20 - 20 to +50 dBm
BSTXPWR - - 0 to 80 dBm
STEPLIMDL OFF OFF ON, OFF -
Parameter Ranges and Default Values