WCDMA Load Congestion

Control
By Ahmad Allam
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Load%

LCC (Load Congestion Control)

100%

Overload state: OLC will be

section A

THOLC

1
section B

THLDR

used
2

Basic congestion state:

LDR will be used

section C

Normal state: Permit entry

Times
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LDR (Load Reshuffling)

Reasons

When the cell is in basic congestion state, new coming

calls could be easily rejected by system

Purpose

Optimizing cell resource distribution

Decreasing load level, increasing admission successful

rate

Triggering of LDR

Power resources, code resource, Iub resources or Iub

bandwidth, NodeB Credit resource

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Parameters for LDR Algorithm

Switch

NBMLdcAlgoSwitch (Cell algorithm switch)

Value Range:

ULLDR, DLLDR, CELL_CODE_LDR, CELL_CREDIT_LDR

Default status: OFF

Most of the LDR actions (except inter-frequency load

handover) affect QoS

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Parameters for LDR Action

Sequence

UL (DL) LDRFIRSTACTION (UL/DL LDR First action) ~

UL (DL) LDRSIXTHACTION (UL/DL LDR Sixth action)

Value range: NOACT, INTERFREQLDHO, BERATERED,

QOSRENEGO, CSINTERRATLDHO, PSINTERRATLDHO,
AMRRATERED, MBMSDECPOWER, CODEADJ

Default value: UlLdrFirstAction or DlLdrFirstAction is

CODEADJ, UlLdrSecondAction or DlLdrSecondAction is
INTERFREQLDHO UlLdrThirdAction or DlLdrThirdAction
is BERATERED the other is NOACT

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Parameters for LDR Algorithm

Priority

Priority for load reshuffling

Value Range:

IUBLDR(Iub load reshuffling), CREDITLDR(Credit load

reshuffling), CODELDR (Code load reshuffling), UULDR (Uu
load reshuffling)

Default status:

LdrFirstPri = IUBLDR

LdrSecondPri = CREDITLDR

LdrThirdPri = CODELDR

LdrFourthPri = UULDR

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Turn on LDR algorithm switch

LDR Procedure

Mark "current LDR state = uncongested"

Start LDM congestion indication report

Mark "current action = first LDR action"

Clear "selected" mark of all UE LDR actions
Congestion
state indication

Wait for congestion indication

Current LDR state = congested?

Inter-freq
load handover
Code
reshuffling
BE rate
reduction
Sequence of
actions can be
configured
(current action
is taken firstly)

Inter-system
handover
in CS domain
Inter-system
handover
in PS domain

AMR rate
reduction

Succeed?

N
Succeed?

N
Succeed?

N
Succeed?

N
Succeed?

Mark
"current action
= successful
action"

N
Succeed?

QoS renogiation
on Iu interface

Succeed?

N
MBMS power
reduction

Succeed?

N
No related action can be found

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Mark "current action = first LDR action"

Wait time
for LDR
action duration

LDR Actions intended for different

resources

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LDR Actions - Code Reshuffling

Purpose

Cell load is decreased under basic congestion trigger

threshold

Sufficient code resources can be reserved for

subsequent service

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LDR Actions - BE Rate

Reduction

Candidate RABs

The data rate of BE service is larger than GBR

Target RABs

Rank the candidate RABs by the integrate priority, the

low priority RABs reduce BE rate first

Result

Cell load is decreased under basic congestion trigger

threshold

The BE service rate of low priority RABs is limited in GBR

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Parameters for Triggering Code

Reshuffling

CELLLDRSFRESTHD (Cell LDR SF reserved threshold)

Value Range:0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Physical value Range: SF4, SF8, SF16, SF32, SF128,

SF256

Recommended value: SF8

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Parameters for LDR Code

Reshuffling

MAXUSERNUMCODEADJ (Max user number of code

adjust)

Value range: 1 to 3

Recommended value: 1

LDRCODEPRIUSEIND (LDR code priority indicator)

Value range: FALSE, TRUE

Recommended value: TRUE

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Parameters for Triggering of Power Resource

LDR(1)

ULLDRTRIGTHD (UL LDR trigger threshold)

Value range: 0 to 100%

Recommended value: 55, namely 55%

ULLDRRELTHD (UL LDR release threshold)

Value range: 0 to 100%

Recommended value: 45, namely 45%

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Parameters for Triggering of Power Resource LDR

(2)

DLLDRTRIGTHD (DL LDR trigger threshold)

Value range: 0 to 100%

Recommended value: 70, namely 70%

DLLDRRELTHD (DL LDR release threshold)

Value range: 0 to 100%

Recommended value: 60, namely 60%

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