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Transmission Resource
Management Feature
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For better understanding and continuity, this course covers some basic
concepts in V900R011 and V900R012.
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Objectives
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Contents
Key Concepts
FAQs
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Values of TRM
Network expansion and evolution gradually improve the air interface capacity of a system, creating an increasing
demand for transmission resources. Traditionally, transmission resources in a mobile network are configured only to
meet the requirements of CS domain services. Today these resources cannot meet the demands of data field
services. Investment of transmission resources has further increased in mobile network construction, requiring
network constructors to meet more business demands with fewer transmission resources. A flexible and efficient
solution on transmission resource has become the trend of a network solution.
Focused on various networking scenarios, TRM aims to improve system capacity using various algorithms, with the
QoS quality of services guaranteed. In addition, TRM provides differentiated services specifically for the BE service,
and improve data transmission utilization. Finally, TRM ensures system stability by avoiding board resetting caused
by overload of accessed users, and also ensures the availability of resource allocation using an algorithm for a
transmission link test.
Successful TRM requires you to manage the transmission resources on the Iu-CS, Iu-PS, Iur, lub, Abis, A, Ater and
Iur-g interfaces, with a uniform interface on management of services to remove the differences of transmission
modes such as ATM, IP and TDM.
With the highest transmission cost and complicated transmission networks, the lub interface affects the system
performance most greatly. In addition, the actual bandwidth of a 3G BE service varies greatly. Therefore, this
document focuses on the TRM algorithm on the lub interface.
The Radio Resource Management (RRM) algorithm that relates closely to the TRM algorithm includes air-interface
scheduling algorithm and air-interface load control algorithm. The algorithm policy of TRM must be consistent with
that of RRM.
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Packet loss ratio: The lowest packet loss ratio is preferred. Ideally
packets are not lost.
Reliability
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Equality: Among all subscribers with the same priority, the actual sending
rate is the same for users with sufficient data transmission requirements.
Firstly, you must guarantee the equality among users at a NodeB or BTS.
In addition, you must consider the equality among NodeBs in HUB
scenarios.
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Contents
Key Concepts
FAQs
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You must configure transmission resources from bottom to up, namely, the Physical
layer, the Link layer, and then the Network layer, as shown in the following figure.
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Service types, channel bearing types, and user priorities are the features of a service at the wireless layer. The QoS
requirements vary depending on service types. The TRM system must guarantee the QoS of these services, and
makes services different and reliable on this basis.
Types of GSM services include CS voice, CS data, PS high priority, and PS low priority.
Types of UMTS services (Traffic Type) include common public channels, MBMS public channels, common signaling,
IMS signaling, voices, flows, backgrounds, and interactive services (with three THP priorities: high, middle and low).
When judged from traffic features, UMTS services include RT services and BE services.
UMTS user priority (ARP) For easy implementation, a product has three priorities: first priority, second priority, and
third priority.
ARP priorities involve three aspects. Firstly, the priority level that reflects the priority of a request service; secondly, the
preemption capability of a request service that indicates whether this request can preempt the resources of another
request; thirdly, the preemption capabilities of a request service that indicates whether the request allows other
requests to preempt its resources after the access.
ARP reflects the priority of a user or even the type of a user request service. The purpose is to allocate resources
during a user request, and to preempt resources among various services when resources are limited. Description: The
number 0 indicates that a fault occurs, 15 indicates that priority is not considered, 1 indicates the highest priority, and
14 indicates the lowest priority.
UMTS channel types: DCH, HSDPA and HSUPA. The channel type E-FACH is introduced in RNC RAN11, and ERACH and E-PCH types are introduced in MBSC R13.
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In ATM networking, transmission resources include the BW, CID, and DSID
(index of a UOIP channel in a BSC).
In TDM networking, transmission resources include time slots (TS) and CIC
(A interface).
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The bandwidth of RT services must be strictly guaranteed. Packet loss, flow control, and much
cache data are not allowed for RT services. Otherwise, the service stops.
RT services are active and regular. With multiple RT services accessed, the total actual flows are
stable, and the access can be accurate.
BE services (NRT and non-realtime services)include background services and interactive services:
You do not need to strictly guarantee the bandwidth of BE services. When resources are
insufficient, you can reduce the throughput rate of a service for data caching, so that the
Application layer is adaptable.
BE services are not active or regular. With multiple BE services accessed, the total actual flows
fluctuates greatly. Therefore, you cannot accurately estimate the bandwidth that is applied in a
non-realtime service.
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For a BSC, two transmission bandwidths are available: the bandwidth on the transmission
layer and the bandwidth on the user plane.
During bandwidth access at the TRM transmission layer, the transmission layer bandwidth
at the layer is applied. With the current TRM access strategy, during service access, the
system allocates transmission resources for users according to the configured Guarantee
Bandwidth Rate (GBR) in a specified transmission channel. In addition, the system handles
congestions, queuing and preemption according to the configured congestion, LDR
parameters, and overload class (OLC). (In some feature description, the transmission
access is called control plane access.)
After the service setup, the actual flow of data transmitting and receiving is the bandwidth
of the user plane. For some services (such as PS services and BE services), the bandwidth
of the user plane is fluctuating, and the flow control is also performed.
The bandwidth that is queried using a DSP IP path is a bandwidth at the transmission layer.
By using the flow monitoring software, you can see that the traffic is calculated as the
bandwidth of the user plane.
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Definition: To ensure system stability and avoid congestion losses on a node or even on the entire transmission
link, perform the call admission control (CAC) for transmission resources before actually occupying transmission
resources. The purpose is to judge whether this user is allowed to access the neighboring node, and decide the
type of a transmission resource where this user connects to. An admission algorithm improves the utilization of
transmission resources, reflects variation (among different types of users) and guarantees the equality (among
the same type of users).
The admission bandwidth is the bandwidth of the transmission layer that a service requests from the TRM. It is
named the access bandwidth of the control plane. For a BSC6900, this access bandwidth equals to a reserved
bandwidth.)
Access bandwidth = (bandwidth of the Application layer + Transport layer header/bandwidth multiplexing) x
active factor
Active factor: Applied for calculation, indicating the proportion of the timeline of an actual transmitted and received packet. By setting
lower active factors, a user obtains a lower admission bandwidth for each service, therefore creating over transmission with more users
accessed; however, this may cause congestion on the user plane.
For RT services, the admission bandwidth is similar to the actual bandwidth; for BE services, the admission
bandwidth is small (GBR), but the actual bandwidth of data transmission may be great. For example, during 64
kbit/s GBR service admission, the admission bandwidth of the Transmission layer is about 70 Kbit/s; however,
the actual bandwidth of data transmission is 1 MB or higher.
Note: You must use the GBR admission of BE services in cooperation with the anti-pressure flow control on the user plane. Otherwise,
the user experience may drop.
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FAQs
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Admission Control
Admit bandwidth
management
Load Reshuffling
Over load Control
TRM
Differentiated Services
Traffic priority mapping on
transport
Reliability
IPPATH ping check
Realtime flux monitor
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In the scenario of the UMTS Iub two-way transmission (including ATM/IP dual stack
networking or hybrid IP networking), actual flow-based load balance (CR No.: CR
NP1399 dual path improvement) is added for the original load balance features. The
purpose is to improve the actual utilization of transmission resources.
The IP paths at the UMTS Iub interface and GSM Abis interface support the detection of
UDP Ping (OR No.: MBSCV9R13C00-OR-2118), so that it complements the original
ICMP Ping detection function. In some networking scenarios, UDP Ping is more reliable.
The UMTS Iub interface and GSM Abis interface support separation of logic port-based
operator transmission data, including admission, LDR, congestion alarms (feature ID:
GBFD-118704).
The UMTS introduces two types of bearing channels at the wireless layer: E-RACH and
E-PCH. Activation factors are configurable (feature ID: WRFD-010701 E-RACH/WRFD020134 E-PCH).
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FAQs
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Flexible configuration: Supports flexible mapping from service types on the wireless layer to queues on the
transmission layer, and the decoupling on the service layer and transmission layer, therefore making
network adjustment easier.
Differentiation: Supports the mapping configuration where different user priorities are transmitted to the
bottom layer, providing more flexible solutions for differentiated services.
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Load sharing: Used with load balancing features to enable load sharing of the service.
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Differentiated
Mapping S cripts
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1.4 FAQs
If any configuration errors occur, the service cannot be established. (See sections in FAQs).
It is difficult to troubleshoot TRMMAP configuration problems. Therefore, you must manually
analyze more than three MML commands. To solve this problem, an MML checking tool is
developed.
TNLMMLCheck.exe
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TRMMAP active/standby mapping. When a main path is congested, a standby path is idle.
In BE services, GBR admission makes a main path congested. The actual data transmission
rate is low, but the standby path is idle. This prevents full utilization of resources, creating poor
user experience.
This requires you to use a service bearing QoS strategy to adjust bandwidth utilization ratio
and fairness indexes. For example, for BE services, when the burden of a main path is
increased to a certain degree, properly share the burden to the standby path for load balance.
LOADEQ
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During the actual configuration, RT and BE services are mapped to the ATM and IP addresses
for two-way transmission.
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During the service access, check the load of the access bandwidth on an active/standby path (total access bandwidth/total
bandwidth of a path.
If the load of a main path is less than the Load Ratio Threshold on Primary Paths, access the service on a main path.
If the load of a main path is greater than the Loading Rate Threshold on Primary Paths, and the loading rate of an
active/standby path is less than the Loading Rate Threshold on Primary and Secondary Paths, access the service on a
standby path.
Load balancing refers to the adjustment of the admission sequence of an active/standby path according to the load of the
access bandwidth. The active/standby path is mapped by the TRMMAP.
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Report the actual flow according to the bottom layer (ATM cell layer or IP MAC
layer), and periodically update the actual flow load of an active/standby path.
If the actual flow load of an active path is less than the Primary Pass Realtime
Load Threshold for an Active Path, access BE services on an active path.
If the actual flow load of an active path is greater than the Primary Pass Realtime
Load Threshold, and the actual flow load of an active/standby path is less than the
Sec-Pri Path Realtime Load Ratio Threshold, access the BE services on an active
path.
In other cases, judge again according to the traditional load balance algorithm
(based on the access bandwidth).
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Run the ADD ADJMAP command to specify the load balance index for a neighboring node
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Transmission ports that support the feature (the bracket indicates the initiated version):
GSM
UMTS
ATM PORT(IMA/UNILINK/FRA)
NA.
NA.
IP LOGICPORT
ATM LOGICPORT
NA.
Phase II (RAN11)
Phase I:
Phase II:
The transmission supports complete sharing or isolation (plan of logical port isolation)
according to operator requirements
Phase II:
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Complete bandwidth separation: The bandwidths of many operators are not overlapped, and the sum of the
maximum bandwidths of all operators is equal to the total bandwidth.
Incomplete bandwidth separation: The bandwidths of many operators are overlapped, and the sum of the
maximum bandwidths of all operators is greater than the total bandwidth. For example, operator A accounts
for 60% of the maximum available bandwidth on a congestion node and operator B configures 70% of
the maximum available bandwidth. The sum of the two percentages is more than 100%.
3G Phase II plan: Only a Hub logic port or a leaf logical port directly carried on physical ports (including PPP
links) can be configured as independent modes. If a Hub logical port is in independent mode, all subordinate
logical ports inherit the mode, and cannot be configured as sharing mode. This mainly applies to the
networking scenario of PPP Hub NodeB.
2G Phase II plane: 2G networking requirements are different from that in 3G, and contain no networking
scenario of PPP Hub BTS. Therefore, a 2G logical port is configured as the independent mode, and a Hub
logical port or physical port is configured as sharing.
Phase III plan: Separation on the access layer, and sharing on the user plane, namely, each operator
controls the number of users according to bandwidth proportion; however, BE users after actual access
have access to the bandwidth that is more than GBR admission. This occupies the bandwidth of other
operators.
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BTS-BSC IP over E1
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IP over Ethernet networking (IPoE1 for the last kilometer from a BTS). More than one
operator separately uses the bandwidth of a congestion node (leaf node congestion).
Solution
Separate admission on the control plane,
and uniform flow control on the user plane
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A packet interacts with the peer end in the format of an ICMP frame (IUB/IUR/IU/ABIS/A)
You can configure BSC periodic packaging, packaging period, packet size, and times of expired
detections.
You can open a single IP path or close to auto Ping test (during initial BTS construction or relocation).
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If a subsequent Ping test detects that the failure times are more than the maximum number of
configurations, then the IP path is faulty. Report the IP path alarms.
If a subsequent Ping test detects that the success times are more than the maximum number
of configurations, then the IP path is resumed. Report the IP path alarms.
The service is released on the faulty IP path, and a new service cannot be accessed.
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To enable a UDP ping test on a BSC, the support features of the peer NE version are required.
A UDP Ping test shares the same detection processes and parameter configuration with an
ICMP Ping test.
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FAQs
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FAQs
1.
Two BTSs connect to the same BSC GE port (GOUc). Now the two BTSs independently
shares 20M bandwidth, without affecting each other.
A: You can configure independent IP logic ports for two BTSs, configure independent
bandwidths for two logic ports, and connect the BTSs to the two logic ports.
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Access a 64K PS service; however, the actual rate is as high as 1M after monitoring the
actual flows or referring to the Counter indexes on an IP path.
A: A UMTS PS service allows GBR admission by default. The 64 kbit/s bandwidth of GBR
access indicates the Transmission layer bandwidth; however, the traffic monitoring software
monitors the user plane bandwidth on the Link layer. If the transmission resource is
sufficient, and the rate during user registration is not less than 1 M, the actual rate of a user
is as high as 1 Mbit/s.
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FAQs
3. No voices are generated during service access (GSM)/FP synchronization fails (UMTS)/IUUP
synchronization fails (UMTS). Troubleshooting on transmission status of the IP path indicates that
the status is normal.
A: If a Ping test switch is disabled for an IP path, and the status of the interface board and port are
"UP". The status of an IP path is "UP" by default. At this time, both transmission admission and
transmission bearing setup succeed; however, as transmission is different, subsequent interaction
on the user plane fails. It is recommended to enable a Ping test.
4. During IP transmission on A or IU interface, the service setup fails. The BSC returns a cause value,
indicating that transmission bearer setup fails. (similar cause values)
A: The fault occurs due to failed admission of transmission resources. To solve this problem, use a
protocol message to query the IP address of the UMG/MGW user plane. This IP address is
specified by the Core. Then check BSC configuration to ensure that the A or IU interface is
configured to the IP address of the corresponding network segment. If it is configured, also confirm
that the status of the IP path is "UP". Finally, check the TRMMAP settings to confirm that the type of
the IP path mapped by service types is configured.
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FAQs
4. The number of accessed users increases rapidly due to unexpected causes; however, the
limited transmission bandwidth causes failed admission of some users.
A: You can refer to this step to temporarily avoid this fault. In this case, user admission is the
priority, but user experience may drop. Run the MOD TRMFACTOR command to reduce the
accessed activation factors of some service transmissions, so that the admission bandwidth is
reduced, and user capacity is improved. This method is only a temporary solution. To evaluate
the impact, refer to traffic models and network QoS.
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