Huawei RAN16.

0 Solution Overview
UMTS MO
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Key Value 1: MBB Visualization for Best User Experience

ROI
Business
Business

MBB Visualization
New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience
PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy
PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

Experience

Introduced
in RAN16.0

to
to Guarantee
Guarantee Good
Good KQI
KQI

Capacity
to
to Keep
Keep KPI
KPI Good
Good

Capacity & KPI Insight

Resource Bottleneck Monitoring
KPI: Admission Rejection Rate < 2%

Coverage & KPI Insight

Coverage
to
to Provide
Provide Good
Good KPI
KPI

Coverage Probability >95%

KPI: Access Success Rate > 95%

MBB Visualization makes precise investment drived by good user experience

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

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Introduced
in RAN15.0

Key Value 2: Achieving MBB Network Foundation

Capacity

Capacity

Coverage

Experience

Connection Number

Cell Throughput (UL/DL)

Cell-edge Rate (UL/DL)

Speech MOS

+20%
Key Solutions

Basic Function

Connection Storm

Traffic Storm

Hetnet

HD Voice
KQI improvement

Big Events

KPI Improvement

+10%

+60%/10% +45%/20%

Combined service KPI is optimized

UMTS

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Access Success Rate +10%

Call Drop Rate

-10%

LTE

Key Value 3: Powerful SON

MLB

Maximize network utilization

CCO

Optimize antenna intelligently

ANR

Stabilize KPI in multi-RAT network

Adaptive

RACH

Improve cell throughput by 10%

MRO

Improve inter-frequency HOSR

ACH

Save OPEX & provide customizable parameters

All above included in RAN16.0 SON solution

SON maximizes network performance and efficiency

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Key Value 4: Investment on UMTS is that on LTE

Co-Baseband
achieved in RAN16.0

Software Defined Radio

GUL in One Radio

Software Defined BBU

GULT in One BBU

Co-Baseband in UBBP
issued in RAN16.0

RF
Blade RRU

Co-Control in UMPT
issued in RAN15.0

BBU
BBU

AAU

Multi-RAT
Hardware
Software Defined Controller
For BSC/RNC Convergence

RNC

SRC
(Single Radio Controller)

OSS

One OSS Platform

One Interface, One Experience

Co-Baseband for 4 RATs

Multi-RAT in One Hardware

Powerful Capacity

Investment Protection

High Integration

Smooth Evolution

iManager U2000

UBBP board smoothes UL co-building. UMTS today is for LTE tomorrow

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RAN16.0 Solution Highlights (1/2)

Ranking Solution Feature ID
TOP 1

MBB
Visualization

TOP 2

Connection
Storm

TOP 3

Traffic Storm

TOP 4

TOP 5

TOP 6

HD Voice

Big Events

SON

New/

Feature Name

Enhanced

New RNC Counters

Function

3Gto2G back-flow & 2Gto3G User Migration Visualization

WRFD-160201
WRFD-160213
WRFD-160202
WRFD-151201
WRFD-151202
WRFD-150246
WRFD-160253
WRFD-160214
WRFD-151201
WRFD-151205
WRFD-151207
WRFD-01061203
WRFD-160250

Bottleneck shown at grid level Visualization

CCPIC Phase 3
Turbo IC Phase 2
Flexible Power Control for ULDRT
Adaptive RACH
FACH Pool
SS & Load Sharing in CELL_FACH
Automatic Congestion Handler (ACH)
Load-based Intelligent State Transition
Adaptive RACH
Uplink CoMP
HetNet Uplink CoMP
HSUPA Power Control
Interference Rejection Combining (IRC)

WRFD-160204

Optional/
Basic/
Trial

N
N

B
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
T
O
B

CS Voice Precise Power Control

N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
E
N
N

WRFD-160106

Fast Radio Bearer Setup

WRFD-160102

Garbled Noise Detection and Correction

WRFD-020701

AMR/WB-AMR Speech Rates Control

WRFD-160271

Ultra-Flash CSFB

WRFD-160206

RB Parking

WRFD-151203

Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event

WRFD-151201

Adaptive RACH

WRFD-151202

FACH Pool

WRFD-151203

Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event

WRFD-160253

Automatic Congestion Handler

Refer to SONmaster

MLB, ANR, MRO, CCO & PSC Self Optimization

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Scenario
Precise planning based on user experience
3G to 2G back-flow
2G to 3G migration

Many connections with small package services

per cell

Not many connections but at high speed

transmission

Excellent speech experience on demand

Big event scenarios such as parade, vocal

concert, stadium

All

Benefit
Service & xMbps demand, Traffic, Terminal,
Capacity & Coverage gap are visualized

+20%
in connections

+60%/10%
in (UL/DL) cell throughput

+10%
in speech MOS

Keep KPI normal

90%
Workload is saved
+10%
in network capacity

RAN16.0 Solution Highlights (2/2)

Ranking Solution

TOP 7

TOP 8

TOP 9

TOP 10

NodeB Capability
Improvement

RNC in Pool

HetNet

KQI Improvement

TOP 11

KPI Improvement

TOP 12

OM Efficiency
Improvement

Feature ID

Feature Name

New/
Enhanced

Optional/
Basic/
Trial

Hardware
Function
WRFD-160205
WRFD-151210

UBBP board/BBU3910
12 cells resource pool
CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
Inter-Dependence of BBU Uplink Resource

N
N
N
N

B
O
O

WRFD-160208

160 HSPA Users per Cell

192 HSPA Users per Cell

WRFD-160209

WRFD-150211

RNC in Pool Load Sharing

WRFD-150212
WRFD-150240

RNC in Pool Node Redundancy

RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs

E
E

O
O

WRFD-151205

Uplink CoMP

WRFD-151206

HetNet Uplink CoMP

WRFD-151207

Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU

WRFD-151208

Macro-Micro Multi RRUs in One Cell

WRFD-151209

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA

WRFD-150252

Video Service Rate Adaption

WRFD-150253

VoIP Application Management

WRFD-150254

Differentiated Service Based on Resource

WRFD-150255

Differentiated Service Based on Terminal

WRFD-01061006

HSDPA Mobility Management

WRFD-160270

Camp & Handover Based on SPID

Function

User experience improvement for combined services

Function

Traditional KPI optimization

Function

Combined service KPI improvement

Function

Rehoming Efficiency Improvement

Refer to Naster

Automatic Interference Detection

Scenario

Large capacity baseband board

UL co-building
CE Efficiency to be improved

GULT Co-Baseband
1024/1024 CE (UL/DL) per UBBP
2x CE efficiency of HUSPA 2ms

RNC expansion and redundancy

RNC in pool in UP
Redundancy in GU mode
3 6910+1 6910, 4690+2 6910

Big events scenarios, such as stadium with

multiple RRU connected to 1 BBU
Complex coverage

User experience to be improved by

differentiated service
Many combined services

+45%/20%
in (UL/DL) cell-edge rate
15%/7%
Up in (UL/DL) cell throughput

Experience guaranteed for VIP users or

important services

Benchmark and swap

Traditional KPI is optimized;

Combined service KPI is improved

Cell & NobeB rehoming

Interference detection

Rehoming efficiency is improved

20x interference detection efficiency

RAN16.0 includes 12 solutions, high value inside

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Benefit

Contents
Motivation of RAN16.0
RAN16.0 Solution
Summary

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UMTS is the Foundation of MBB Network in Coming Years

LTE Terminal Penetration Ratio

UMTS Smartphone Penetration Ratio

Average

60%
Average

China

Middle East

India

Africa

Asia Pacific CA SA

W Rus
E

Latin America

China

Middle East

India

Africa

Asia Pacific CA SA

10%

Latin America

W Rus
E

Source: 2013, Huawei commercial networks

Terminal Penetration
100%

GSM as Foundation
UMTS Developing

UMTS as Foundation
LTE Developing

GSM

Terminal and mobile network

development indicate UMTS

UMTS
50%

is

the foundation of MBB

LTE

network in coming years

2003

2012

2019

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Year

User Experience is the Key to Success

Choice depends on user experience

Income depends on user experience

Slow speed is the main complaint in MBB era

Cause of Complaint %
Carrier B
Carrier D
Carrier F
Carrier T
Carrier R
Carrier T
Carrier O
Carrier S
Carrier N

Slowing search results by just 0.4s will

reduce 8000K searches per day

1 second web page delay, potentially lose

up to $1.6B/year

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Speed

Drop Rate

80%

57% subscribers quit the website if not

loaded within 3 seconds

Subscribers leave
because having bad
experience

Source: Public news

others

72%
Subscribers stay for the
good experience
Source: Huawei MI

In MBB era, network investment should be oriented by user

experience
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Connection Storm is Happening

DCH+FACH+PCH Connections per Cell

450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Max Cell

Mean (Top10% Cells )

Mean (All Cells )

Source: 2013, Huawei commercial networks

Connections per cell is up to 400. Connection Storm is happening all

over the world
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Big Events We Have to Deal with

3,400,000 people, Hajj, Saudi Arabia

150,000 people, railway

station, Spring festival, China

1,000,000 people, Parade, France

100,000 people, the World

Cup stadium, S. Africa
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55,000 people, concert,

Singapore

90,000 people, Super Bowl

stadium, USA

SON is on Urgent Demand

Network Architecture More Complex

Network Operation More Difficult

6 Nodes from UE to Internet

WiFi

2G 3G 4G

WLAN GW

PS Core

Internet

Video TCP
Opt
Opt
Service Aware

$1.5B Loss Yearly to Network Outages

1.5%~ 5% of Annual Revenue of Operator

Firewall

Outage occurs in Avg

From Operator T

5 times yearly

Source: Light Reading and outage Analyzer

Neighbor Configuration Complex

18x

6
2G

10x

108

25%
Power
Problem

60
2G/3G

Configuration

15%

Network
Outage
Reason

Physical
Line
problem

Multivendor

10%
MultiNodes

Lack of
Unified Tool

Network Bottleneck
Invisible

50%

2G/3G/4G

Source: Heavyreading 2013

SON is required to improve network performance and

efficiency
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MBB One Network Needs Software Defined Hardware

UMTS/LTE should 1:1 Co-site with G

More Sites Need to be Deployed

for 1Mbps/5Mbps Anytime Anywhere

for 1:1 co-siting with G

Inter-site Distance in Dense Urban (km)

100%
80%

LTE800 Edge Rate 5Mbps per 20MHz

60%

UMTS 900 Edge Rate 1Mbps per 5MHz

GS M900 Voice

40%

U/G%

20%

L/G%

0%
0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.2
Source: Huawei mLAB 2013Q2

G/U/L Co-sited with software defined hardware is the most economic strategy

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Contents
Motivation of RAN16.0
RAN16.0 Solution
Summary

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RAN16.0 Solution

Experience
MBB Visualization
HD Voice
KQI Improvement

Efficiency

Capacity &
Connection Storm
C overage
Traffic Storm

Evolution

SON

NodeB Capability Improvement

OM Efficiency Improvement

RNC in Pool
KPI Improvement

Big Events
HetNet

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Experience
MBB Visualization Solution
New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience
PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy
PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

HD Voice Solution
Precise Power Control, Voice MOS: +5%
Garbled Voice Correction, Voice MOS from 1 to 3

Experience

Ultra-Flash CSFB Further Reduces Delay by 4s

KQI Improvement Solution

Video Service Rate Adaption, Video Startup Time: <4s

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Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience

New RNC Counters
RNC

Counter 26: times of actual user speed > xMbps

Counter 25: times of requested speed > xMbps

Performance
Statistics

Counter 25 & 26 measured in RNC at cell level

xMbps Fulfillment Ratio = Counter 26 / Counter 25
x can be defined in RNC LMT

Short
Video Startup
Time

xMbps

Smooth
Video
Playing

EExx UU
ppee ssee
rriiee rr
nncc
ee

Fast Web
Browsing

xMbps Fulfillment Ratio (x=2)

User Experience
all about Speed

Low Fulfillment Ratio

Bad Experience

Basic Function

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<10%
<10%
10-30%
10-30%
30-50%
30-50%
50-70%
50-70%
>70%
>70%

xMbps Anytime Anywhere = xMbps at 95% Area, 90%

Time = 85% (95%*90%) of xMbps Fulfillment Ratio

Evolution
Evolution

Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy

1. Terminal Distribution
Analysis

PRS
Actions

2. Root Cause Analysis

3G users
3G fall back UsersA

Load Problem

B
2G Users with 3G terminal
Depending on PRS
issued in Dec 2014

3. Address information in
grid geo-map

high PS traffic 2G

Weak Coverage

usersC

A-class User
B-class user
C-class User

Pilot Pollute

Low PS traffic 2G
users
4. Coverage Optimization & Improvement

Further
Actions

11

GUL interoperation
optimization

22

RF optimization

33

Coverage
Enhancement

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5. Capacity Improvement
after 2G users migration
number and
11 User
capacity forecast
capacity forecast

22

Expanding &
planning to add
new sites

Evolution
Evolution

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

Cells of Fall Back

Cells Near by Railway Station

Reason

Inter-RAT Load Handover

Further Analysis

Grid-level Coverage
Capacity Visualization/KPI Insight
Depending on PRS issued in Dec
2014

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Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Precise Power Control, Voice MOS: +5%

Inner loop power control

Outer loop power

control

SIR
Multipath
Search Estimation

BLER
Control

Normal
Power Control

The Lower BLER

The Higher MOS

3.1

+5%
New
SIR
Multipath
Estimatio
Search
n
Enhanced
Enhanced

DTX
Control

BER
Control

3.0

BLER
Control

Precise
Power Control

Normal Precise Normal Precise

(Lower BLER)

BLER

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WRFD-160204

MOS

Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Garbled Voice Correction, Voice MOS from 1 to 3

Challenge: Garbled Voices in 22% of
Complaints

Garbled Voice Correction, 80% Corrected

UE Ciphering
at HSN

6% 6%

22%

35%

31%

Single Pass &

Mute

Garbled
Voice

RNC Ciphering at HSN1

due to too big RF delay
RNC

Noise
Garbled Voice
Call Drop
Other

UE Ciphering
at HSN

Correction: RNC
Ciphering at HSN1+1

HSN: Hyper Frame

Number

WRFD-160102

Corrected
Voice

Garbled Voice

MOS

Voice After Correction

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MOS

Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Ultra-Flash CSFB Further Reduces Delay by 4s

48% latency reduced

600ms Saved by Flash CSFB

4.2s

MME

Ultra Flash CSFB

4s
RAN16.0

LTE
RIM
procedure

7.6s

UMTS

Flash CSFB

0.6s
RAN14.0

MSC

UE synchronization time saved in UMTS

8.2s

RIM : RAN Information

Exchanging

CSFB
Scenario: LTE user call LTE user

4s Saved by Ultra Flash CSFB

MME
LTE

SRVCC
procedure

WRFD-160271 Ultra-Flash CSFB

Trial Feature

Depending on Huawei MME & MSC and UEs support of SRVCC

UMTS

Minor impact for existing network, no need for IMS server.

MSC

Smooth evolution for VoLTE.

Resource allocation time saved in UMTS

SRVCC: Single Radio Voice Call Continuity

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Experience
Experience

Coverage
Coverage &
&
Capacity
Capacity

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Video Service Rate Adaption, Video Startup Time: <4s

Challenge: Bad Video Experience

Without Adaption

Slow startup

Not smooth playing

Mbps

Startup

Playing

0.5
Time

Slow

Not Smooth

Mbps

With Adaption

Fast startup (<4s )

Smooth playing

WRFD-150252
Depend on NIUa/eNIUa Board

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Speed on demand guaranteed

based on service awareness

1
4s
Fast

Time

Smooth

Capacity & Coverage

Connection Storm Solution
CCPIC Phase 3 Increases Connection by 20%
Flexible Power Control Increases Connections by 5%~20%
Turbo IC Phase 2 Doubles Connections of HSUPA 2ms TTI
Users
FACH Pool Improves FACH Efficiency by 40%

Traffic Storm Solution

Capacity &
Coverage

ACH Solution: Operator Predefined Actions for Unplanned

Events
Load-based Intelligent State Transition Increases Capacity
by 5%~20%
Adaptive RACH Improves
Cell Solution
Throughput by 10%
Big Events
Smartphone Parking Increases Capacity by 30%
Automatic Camping Strategy Switch is Effective for Big
Events

HetNet Solution

Uplink CoMP Improves both Coverage and Capacity

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA: 2X User Rate or Penetrate 1 More Wall
Macro-Micro Multi RRUs Deals with Complex Coverage Scenario

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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

CCPIC Phase 3 Increases Connections by 20%

CCPIC 3: +20% Connections

Challenge: Control Channel in 69% Load

Connections / Cell

Uplink Load Distribution

31%

29%

40%

HS-DPCCH & EDPCCH

55

65

78 +20%

93

Control Channel
CCPIC 1:
DPCCH IC in 1
base-band board

DPCCH
RAN6.0

CCPIC

in 1 cell

RAN10.0

CCPIC 2:
DPCCH IC in 1 UL
resource Group

CCPIC 3:
HS-DPCCH & EDPCCH IC

RAN14.0

RAN16.0

DPDCH &E-DPDCH Demodulation &

Decoding

With
CCPIC
Without
CCPIC

Separate & Take out

CCPIC: Control Channel Parallel Interference Cancellation

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Higher
SIR

SIR

SIR: Signal to Interference Radio

WRFD-160201

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Flexible Power Control Increases Connections by 5%~20%

SIR Target

< 40kbps 40~120kbps

Low Data Rate

State

Medium Data
Rate State

Connections/Cell

>120 kbps
High Data Rate
State

Befor
e

5%~20%

RTWP: -1dB when

user No. >20

80~8
5

Afte
r
Before

Set big retransmission

times and big HARQ
Offset

70~7
4

Afte
r

Before

The lower SIR target

the less load per
service the bigger
capacity

After

WRFD-160202

Suitable to scenario where ROT > 6dB and HSUPA UE number >
20
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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Turbo IC Phase 2 Doubles Connections HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

Throughput

Traditional schedule:
Strong interference happens
randomly
Strong interference if
transmitting in the same 2ms

UE No. of HSUPA 2ms TTI

After

Before

40

New schedule with Single HARQ Process

:
Limit UE transmitting in 1TTI(2ms) per
16ms;
Schedule 8 UEs transmitting
separately;
Reduce inference from No
9th interference
and after UEs
with TurboTurbo
IC. th IC
due to
for 9 UE
transmitting in
separate 2ms

20

Before

UE9

UE8
UE7

After

WRFD-160213 Turbo IC Phase 2

Scenario:

UE6
UE5

Lots of HSUPA 2ms TTI terminals;

UE4

Low service average rate, i.e. <40kbps;

UE3

Depending on WBBPf or UBBP board.

UE2
UE1
2ms

Time

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HARQ: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

FACH Pool Improves FACH Efficiency by 40%

Challenge to Preference Camping

FACH Pool Benefit

Mode

Balance the FACH resource within the same sector.

FACH Efficiency: +40%

FACH in congestion in preference camping cell (F1)

FACH in free in non-preference camping cell (F2, F3)

F2

F1

FACH
Pool

FACH in
Free

After

Before

FACH Load

F3

Threshold

FACH in
Free

40
%

Average utilization

FACH in
Congestion

F1

F3
F2

F1

F2

F3

Trigger: when UE state from PCH to FACH

Action: Redirect users to FACH in free
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WRFD-151202

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

ACH Solution: Operator Predefined Actions for Unplanned

Events
ACH: Automatic Congestion Handler
Operator Pain points: unplanned event
Can happen anywhere, anytime
RNC

No way to forecast, no time to prevent

Real time
Cell load
monitor

HSPA user number

Non HSDPA power
RTWP

Predefined
actions pool

Predefined
load criteria
Light congestion
Heavy congestion

Timers
Parameters
Optional features

WRFD-160253 Automatically Congestion Handler

Relieving
Relieving O&M
O&M workload
workload

Relieving
Relieving congestion
congestion in
in unplanned
unplanned events
events Automatically
Automatically

Improving
Improving system
system stability
stability

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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Load-based Intelligent State Transition Increases Capacity

by 5%~20%
Busy Hour

Non-Busy Hour
T: D2F Timer

T is fixed

Traditional

Low Experience
in non-busy hour

Packet

Small Capacity
in busy hour

DCH state

FACH state

T1: D2F Timer

T1

T2

T2

T1&T2

based

on load & user

Load-based
Intelligent
State
Transition

behavior

High Experience in
non-busy hour

T1>T for longer DCH state

High Experience
Mode

T2<T for faster transition to

FACH

Big Capacity Mode

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Big Capacity in
busy hour
WRFD-160214

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Adaptive RACH Improves Cell Throughput by 10%

Avg. throughput [MB] / site /hour

Non-busy Hours

80
60
40
20
0
06:00-08:00
08:00-10:00
hots pot
10:00-12:00
12:00-14:00
dens e urban
14:00-16:00
18:00-20:00
urban
20:00-22:00
22:00-24:00
rural

Holiday

Big power climb step

Big Initial power
Short access time for good user experience

Short access time due to big power climb step & big initial
power
Strong impact on RTWP

10%

due to small power climb step

Small power climb step

Small Initial power
Long access time

Less Impact on RTWP in Busy Hours

After

WRFD-151201 Adaptive RACH

Benefit
Cell throughput in busy hours
increases by 10% due to less

Access Time

Before

Access success

Access Time

Short Access Time in Non-busy Hours

Cell throughput in busy hours

RTWP

Access success

Busy Hours

80
60
40
20
0
06:00-08:00
08:00-10:00
hots pot
10:00-12:00
12:00-14:00
dens e urban
14:00-16:00
18:00-20:00
urban
20:00-22:00
Lessrural
impact on RTWP for big
22:00-24:00

capacity
Holiday

UE transmitting Power

UE transmitting Power

RTWP

Strong impact on RTWP

result from big power climb
step

Avg. throughput [MB] / site /hour

Less impact on RTWP due to small power climb step & small initial
power
Long access time (still in normal range)

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impact on RTWP
User experience in non-busy hours
is better (short access time)

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Smartphone Parking Increases Capacity by 30%

Huawei Smartphone Parking Solution

In big event call success rate is very low

WRFD-160206 RB Parking

Scheduling window
UE in Cell_DCH
Scheduling
UE in Cell_FACH

Auto retry generate RRC storm

Service Rejected

All UEs accepted to Cell_FACH, but with 0Kbps.

Timely scheduling, to avoid crash of system.
Retry

30% RRC messages reduced

30% capacity increased

NodeB

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Experience

Capacity
Capacity&&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Automatic Camping Strategy Switch is Effective for Big Events

F4

PS Prefer when Access

F3

PS Prefer when Access

When Big Events

Automatic Switch

Not in Big Events

F2

PS Prefer when Access

F1

All camping in F1
CS Prefer when Access

When Not in Big Events

All camping & access

at Random

F3

All camping & access

at Random

F2

All camping & access

at Random

F1

Big
Capacity

High
Experience

Mode for

Big Events

100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%

Before: F1 load is too high in big events

F4

Random camping

Preference camping Mode

for

100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%

All camping & access

at Random

After: F1, F2, F3 and F4 loads are balanced in big events

WRFD-151203 Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event

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Capacity
Capacity&&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Uplink CoMP Improves both Coverage and Capacity

Before

No Uplink CoMP

Soft
combination

Macro-Micro

Micro-Micro

Soft
No Soft
combination

combination

Uplink CoMP

User Rate

Macro-Macro

No Uplink CoMP

Macro F1
High Power RRU

Micro F1
Low Power RRU

Softer
combination

combination

WRFD-151205 Uplink CoMP, for Macro-Macro, Micro-Micro 1 3

WRFD-151206 HetNet Uplink CoMP, for Macro-Micro
2
WRFD-151207 Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU, for BTSs not in 1 BBU.
The features above depend on WBBPf or UBBP board

Macros and Micros should connect to 1 BBU, otherwise the feature

of Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU should be introduced.

20%

Cell-edge User Rate

After

Uplink CoMP

Softer

Softer
combination

Scenario:

Micro-Micro

45%

Soft

1 3

No Soft

Softer
(Uplink CoMP)

Macro-Macro
Macro-Micro
Micro-Micro

Coverage Improved by 20%~45

Uplink CoMP Improves Cell-edge User Uplink
Rate by 20%~45%

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1
3

Scenario:

Macro-Macro
Micro-Micro

10%

Before

After

Cell Throughput

Macro-Micro

Cell Throughput

Macro-Macro

Macro-Micro

15%

Before

After

Capacity Improved by 10%~15%

Uplink CoMP Improves Cell Throughput by
10%~15%

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA: 2X User Rate or Penetrate 1 More Wall

F1 & F2 in the same band
F1

F2

5MHz

5MHz

With Macro-micro DCHSDPA

With Macro-micro DCHSDPA
Without Macro-micro DC-HSDPA

6
0

Penetration Loss (dB)

Cell-edge User Rate

Link Budget in Dense Urban

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA

1Mbps

26

2Mbps

20

1Mbps

20

12
10

6dB
6dB

25
15

20

25

30

Penetration Los s

Micro F2
Low Power RRU

Macro F1

Without Macromicro DC-HSDPA

1Mbps

1X

With Macro-micro
DC-HSDPA

1M+1M=2Mbps

2X

High Power RRU

WRFD-151209 Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA

The features depends on WBBPb or WBBPd or WBBPf or UBBP board

With Macro-micro
DC-HSDPA

0.5M+0.5M=1Mbps

1X

6 dB

Macros and Micros should connect to 1 BBU or be defined in the same resource
group.

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA doubles user downlink rate (especially at cell edge), or penetrate 1 more wall
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Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Macro-Micro Multi RRUs Deals with Complex Coverage Scenario

Macro-Micro Multi RRUsin One Cell

BBU

WRFD-151208 Macro-Micro Multi RRUs in One Cell

Macro RRUs + Micro RRUs <= 6
Macros and Micros should connect to 1
BBU

Macro

Micro

High Power
RRU 1

Low Power
RRU 2

Micro
Low Power
RRU 3

Micro
Low Power
RRU 4

One Logical Cell

Fiber

Max down
by 30 dB RTWP

RTWP

The features depends on WBBPb or WBBPd or WBBPf or UBBP board

Benefits

Macro
RRU1

Micro
RRU2

Micro
RRU3

Before

Micro
RRU3

Macro
RRU1

Micro
RRU2

Micro
RRU3

After

Micro
RRU3

4 NOs: No handover, No overshooting, No polit pollution, No

interference between each other in one logical cell;

Easy Deployment in complex coverage scenario, 2 hours saved

per RRU.

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Efficiency
SON Solution
Multi-RAT ANR Saves 90% Neighbor Configuration
Workload
MRO Saves Handover Optimization Workload
PSC Self Optimization Saves PSC Optimization Workload
CCO Saves Coverage Optimization Workload
MLB Saves Load Balance Parameter Optimization

Efficiency

High Efficient Operation Solution

Workload
Interference Detection Efficiency is Improved by 20
Times
RNC Rehoming Efficiency is Improved

ANR: Automatic Neighbor Relations

MRO: Mobility Robustness Optimization

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Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

ANR Saves 90% Neighbor Configuration Workload

More neighboring cells, modes and frequencies

Multi-RAT ANR :
MR

108

18x

Generate neighboring cell

SONMaster relations automatically

60

10x

G-Cell A

U-Cell 1

L-Cell B

U-Cell 1

L-Cell B

G-Cell A
L-Cell B

LTE
UMTS

GSM

GSM/UMTS

GSM

GSM/UMTS/LTE

Number of faults generated by neighboring cells:

30%
GSM/UMTS

More

G-Cell A

The percentage
data of efficiency improved isU-Cell
from lab
1 testing

Unique bi-directional inter-RAT ANR in telecom

industry

GSM/UMTS/LTE

Industry
1st commercial
ANR (German
Operator)
ANR: Automatic
Neighbour Relations;
MR: Measurement
Report

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This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

MRO Saves Handover Optimization Workload

Abnormal Handover Scenarios

Handover too early

Handover too late

MRO adjusts parameters according to handover statistics

automatically.
Benefits:

Ping-pong handover

Value

unnecessary HO Rate

Resolve handover failures;

Reduce call drop rate;
Save workload for handover
optimization.

MRO: Mobility Robustness Optimization

Before adopt MRO

This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

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After adopt MRO

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

PSC Self Optimization Saves PSC Optimization Workload

PSC Conflict Detection

PSC Self Optimization

Benefit

Scenarios

high

Network Commissioning

high

Network Expansion

Reduce Access Failure

Reduce Handover Failure

low

low

Inter-RAT Deployment
Access
Failure

PCI=31
PCI=32

Handover
Failure

Access
Failure

PSC=10

PCI=32

Handover
Failure

PCI=30
PSC=10
PSC=11

PSC=11
PSC=13

PSC=11

PSC=12

PSC=12

PSC: Primary Scrambling Code

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This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

CCO Saves Coverage Optimization Workload

Coverage Problems:

Coverage

SONMaster

Hole

Weak

Detect coverage problem and

adjust RF parameters
automatically

Coverage

Overshooting

Weak

Overshootin
g

BTS

BTS

AAU

Hole

Tilt

Power

This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

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E-Tilt

CCO: Coverage and Capacity Optimization

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

MLB Saves Load Balance Parameter Optimization Workload

Load

Intra-UMTS MLB
After

Before

Threshold

UMTS Cell

Average
load

System capacity
up by10%

Automatically Control
Cell1

Connection state: handover

Idle state: cell reselection

Cell2

Cell1

Cell2

Load

Inter-RAT MLB
LTE Cell

Reduce call drop rate and handover failure

rate
MLB: Mobility Load Balancing

This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster The

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Before

UMTS

LTE

After
Threshold

UMTS

LTE

percentage data of cell throughput gain is from lab simulation

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Interference Detection Efficiency is Improved by 20 Times

Interference
Detection
Procedure

Data collection

Interference
Locating

Report Output

Analysis
Data collection

Frequency point, bandwidth,

Interference of each cell

Report output

strength of interference in each cell

interference

Manual
Method

0.25 Day

Chart output

displayed on map
Locating with geographic

Time interval of

Interference
Detection

Step 4

Step 2
Frequency Domain Analysis

Cells with strong inference

Automatic

Step 3

Step 1
Time Domain

0.4 Day

info.

0.2 Day

0.15 Day

This feature belongs to service solution depending on NASTAR server. All the procedures are automatic except for some
confirmation operations.

5 Days

4 Days

8 Days

1 Days
20X
20X

3 Days
20 Days

This method involves lots of manual operations with basic tools, such as Excel, Mapinfo.
Note: the days above are manual intervention
time

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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

Cell & NodeB Rehoming Efficiency is Improved

Period NodeB Rehoming

Real-time Cell Rehoming

Loa
d

80%

Burst traffic

60%

CELL. 3

40%

Cel l 1
CELL.

20%

Sub system 0%
1

Sub
system 2

100%
80%

20%
0%

Time

WRFD-141103 Automatic NodeB and Cell Allocation in the RNC (Enhanced in RAN16.0)

Cell Rehoming can balance SPUs CPU load based on burst

traffic .

One-Command NodeB Rehoming

60%
40%

Sub
system2

CELL. 2

75%

20%

Sub system
1

Sub
System
1

40%

45%

More
than
20
MML
s

Sub system
2

WRFD-141103 Automatic NodeB and Cell Allocation in the RNC (Enhanced in RAN16.0)

User mobility results in CPU load unbalance.

NodeB rehoming can balance CPU load based on user distribution

Saving 95% or more

workload
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WRFD-160107 Swap Efficiency Improvement

for Intra-RNC NodeBs

Evolution
NodeB Capability Improvement Solution
UBBP, Co-Baseband for 4 RATs
BBU3910, Well-prepared for Future Evolution
CE Efficiency is Improved by 100% for HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

RNC in Pool Solution

UP Load Sharing Added, Logical RNC Capacity up to 1.9X
RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 3+1 6910

Evolution

RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 4 6900 + 2 6910

KPI Improvement Solution

Basic Performance is Improved inside RAN16.0
Combined service KPI is optimized
Access Success Rate +10%
Call Drop Rate -10%

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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

UBBP, Co-Baseband for 4 RATs

Co-Baseband in
UBBP in RAN16.0

-50%

-40%

Software Defined BBU

-50%

Co-Control in UMPT
in RAN15.0

Single Mode
Multi Mode

Board saving Power saving

Multi-RAT in One Hardware

Spare Part
saving

Smooth Evolution

Software configurable for any RAT of GSM,

UMTS and LTE FDD/TDD

Smooth evolution for UMTS/LTE refarming

Investment Protection

Multi-RAT concurrency (GU, GL, UL or GUL)

Common Hardware to simplify spare management

Powerful Capacity
UMPT support 1500 CNBAP/s signaling process
UBBP support up to 1024 CE and 768 HSPA users
UBBP support Resurece Group of 12 Cells for Uplink

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High Integration
Board number & power consumption save by
40%~50%

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

BBU3910, Well-prepared for Future Evolution

Performance Improved

CPRI
Interface
36
+200%

BBU3900

Backplane
Switch
+100%

12

CPRI interface number increases by

200%: provide more CPRI interface for 4-mode co-BBU
Backplane switch capacity increases
by 100%: support feature evolution in the future

Configuration Simplified

BBU3910

Use any BBP slot for CPRI connections.

No need to adjust the BBP position in
BBU when supporting new feature.

BBU3900
BBU3910
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Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

CE Efficiency is Improved by 100% for HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

CE consumption
Rate

Service

Instant rate is very

high in 2ms TTI
although average
rate is low

20kbps service
on 2ms TTI bearer

for HSUPA 2ms TTI terminal

with service average rate <= 20kbps
Single HARQ Process Schedule:
Limit UE transmitting in 1TTI(2ms) per
16ms ;
Reduce the peak to average ratio;
Smooth low rate data transmission.

1 CE

20k of
average rate
2ms

Before

16ms

Time

After

CE
High instant CEs
used results in high
average CEs usage

CE

Before

WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency
Improvement for HSUPA TTI
2ms

100%
Average
CEs used

After

WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI

2ms

Scenario:
CE Efficiency improved by

2 CEs
0 CEs

2 CEs

due to smooth data rate

by Single HARQ
CEs used
Time

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Lots of HSUPA 2ms TTI terminals;

Service average rate <= 20kbps;
Depending on WBBPf or UBBP board.
HARQ: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

UP Load Sharing Added, Logical RNC Capacity up to 1.9X

Max Capacity
of Logical
RNC

CN
Iu
Logical RNC

UP load
sharing
added
CP load
sharing
added

1.9X 1.9X

1.6X

Iur-p
Master
RNC

Overflow
RNC

Iub

1X

1X

CP

UP

RAN14.0
CP
UP

1X

CP

UP

RAN15.0

CP

UP

RAN16.0

WRFD-150211 RNC in Pool Load Sharing

RAN16.0 vs RAN15.0

NodeB

Max capacity of CP of Logical RNC from 1.6X up to 1.9X.

RAN15.0 supports control plane (CP) load sharing.

RAN16.0 supports user plane (UP) load sharing.

Feature
Enhancement

(due to CP & UP both being shared resulting in less

signaling interaction);
Max capacity of UP of Logical RNC from 1X up to 1.9X.

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Evolution
Evolution

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 3+1 6910

RAN16.0

RAN15.0

3 BSC6910 + 1 BSC6910

3 BSC6900 + 1 BSC6910
BSC6910

BSC6910

lR
ca
gi
Lo
NC

BSC6900

Logical RNC

Lo
g
ic
a

NC

lR
N
C

lR
ca
gi
Lo

Logical RNC

Lo
g
ic
al
R
N
C

Feature
Enhancement

BSC6900
BSC6900

BSC6910
Load Sharing or Redundancy

WRFD-150240 RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs

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BSC6910
BSC6910

Experience
Experience

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 4 6900 + 2 6910

RAN15.0

RAN16.0

2 BSC6900 + 1 BSC6910

4 BSC6900 + 2 BSC6910

g
Lo

ica

lR

NC

2
NC

WRFD-150240 RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs

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lR

Load Sharing or Redundancy

ica

Lo
gi

NC

Feature
Enhancement

g
Lo

Logical
RNC 1

BSC6900

BSC6910
NC

al
R

BSC6900

BSC6900

Lo
g

BSC6910

ica
lR

BSC6900

Logical
RNC 1

BSC6900

BSC6910

Logical
RNC 4

gi
Lo

Lo
g

R
al

ic a

NC

lR

NC

BSC6900

Capacity
Capacity &
&
Coverage
Coverage

Experience
Experience

Efficiency
Efficiency

Evolution
Evolution

KPI Improvement in RAN16.0

Call Drop
No.

Rate:

Feature

Access Success Rate: +10%

-10%
Benefit

Links reconstructions CS/PS call drop rate

principle optimization improves 5%.

Links reconstructions CS/PS call drop rate

rate improvement
improves 5%

Basic procedure
optimization

PS common channel
Common channel call
call drop rate improves
drop rate optimization
10%

NO.

CS/PS call drop rate

improves 3%

State transmission
call drop rate
optimization

Procedures backward
PS call drop rate
in turn principle
improves 5%
optimization

PS call drop rate

improves 10%

Feature

Benefit

In the weak coverage

Slim the signaling of air
area:
interface(RB setup, RB
1. RAB setup
RECFG, Cell Update
success rate
Confirm) to improve the
improves10%.
correct reception rate in
2. RRC setup
weak coverage area.
success rate
improves 30%.
3. F2D state
Cell Update access rate
transition
optimization, idle state
success rate
transition optimization
improve 5.9%
and RRC message
4. P2D state
retransmission interval
transition
optimization
success rate
improves about
0.45%
5. Cell Update
Cell Update statistic
absolute success
principle optimization
rate improves
about 0.6%

Multi
NO.

RABs

Improvement

Feature

Benefit

PS initial rate dynamic

1 configuration when CS
setups

CS with higher priority in

multi-RAB
1.CS call drop rate
improves 2%~5%.

CS KPI guarantee in
multi-RAB: independent
3 threshold of PS
increasing rate and
trigger time.
4

2. improve PS data rate

, avoiding sudden low
rate, improving users
experience.

Multi-RAB inter-RAT
handover optimization

Multi-RAB in compress
5 mode, PS maintain in
low speed or 0Kbps
The improvement above is basic
function in RAN16.0, no depending
on hardware

Basic Function
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Contents
Motivation of RAN16.0
RAN16.0 Solution
Summary

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RAN16.0 the Key of UMTS Golden Age

1

Better Experience
MBB Visualization, HD Voice, KQI Improvement

Larger Capacity & Deeper Coverage

Connection Storm, Traffic Storm, Big Events, HetNet

Higher Efficiency
SON, OM Efficiency Improvement

Smooth Evolution
NodeB Capability Improvement, RNC in Pool, KPI Improvement

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