HSDPA Inter-Frequency Load Sharing

This feature allows to divide HS users between several HS carriers based on number of HS users on each carrier MultiCarrier, MIMO and EUL capabilities are considered in the loadsharind decision The feature is triggered when going from a non-HS configuration to an HS configuration both at RAB establishment and Channel Upswitch

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Change in Parameters
It is possible to define up to 5 coverageRelations out from each utranCell The coverageRelation MO is extended with 3 on/off parameters:
hsCellSelection: indicates if the coverageRelation can be used for HS cell selection (can be set to ON in max. one coverageRelation per utranCell) hsLoadSharing: indicates If the coverageRelation can be used for HS loadsharing dchLoadSharing: indicates if coverageRelation can be used for DCH loadsharing

The hsPathlossThreshold parameter in coverageRelation is replaced with a pathlossThreshold parameter in utranCell

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HSDPA IFLS Sequence (1/2)

1. Trigger point at RAB Establishment or Channel Upswitch (for applicable transitions) 2. Feature licence check and feature active check (hsIflsThreshUsers > 0 in current cell) 3. HSDPA IFLS coverageRelation and band filtering check: There must be at least one HSDPA inter-frequency loadsharing candidate cell defined out from the current cell in a frequency band supported by the UE

If conditions 1-3 are fulfilled the feature HS IF loadsharing replaces the HS cell Selection feature If conditions 1-3 are not fulfilled the feature HS IF loadsharing is not triggered and HS cell Selection may still be triggered
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HSDPA IFLS Sequence (2/2)

4. PathLoss check: If the initial state is on SRB or DCH (i.e. not FACH) then a pathloss check must be passed before a blind IFHO can be triggered.
If the pathloss is too high then RAB setup (or channel upswitch) continues in the current cell

4. Target cell is selected from a set of appropriate candidate cells 5. If the selected target cell is different from the current cell then a Blind IFHO or a reconfiguration from FACH is performed 6. RAB Establishment or Channel Upswitch continues in target cell
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Triggering Control
The HSDPA inter-frequency load sharing feature can be triggered when going from a non-HS configuration (and also from SRB on HS) to an HS configuration at either RAB establishment or Channel Upswitch The HSDPA IFLS is not triggered at RRC setup The decision on when to perform load sharing is controlled by the iflsMode Cell parameter which can have any of the following settings:
RAB_EST: Trigger at RAB establish only UPSWITCH_ATT: Trigger at upswitch attempts from URA/FACH or DCH caused by channel switching. RAB_EST_OR_UPSWITCH_ATT (Default): Trigger both a RAB establishment and at upswitch attempts.
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Target cells for HSDPA IFLS

The initial set of cells to be considered for the HS RAB Est. or Upswitch will be those (source cell and HS IFLS coverage related) with the highest capability (HS/EUL/MIMO/MC) that the UE supports (source cell might thus be excluded at this step) From that initial set, the following coverage related candidates will be excluded:
Those in frequency bands not supported by the UE Those in HS-DSCH congested state Those for which no_of_HS_users >= hsdpaUsersAdm Those for which no_of_serving_cell_EUL_users >= eulServingCellUsersAdm when target configuration includes EUL
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If the resulting set is empty the connection continues in current cell

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Target Cell Selection

a) b) If the source cell is the only remaining candidate in the list then the connection continues in that cell If the source cell is not the only remaining candidate but the number of serving cell HSDPA users in the current cell is lower than a configurable threshold then the connection continues in the current cell. Otherwise the coverage related cells can be considered
hsIflsThreshUsers (0 to 100 %, eg. 50 %) Source (f1) no_of_HS_users (eg. 6) no_of_HS_users (6) > 5 => consider coverage related cells hsdpaUsersAdm (0 to 1000, eg.10)

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If the source cell does not remain in the list then a coverage related cell is selected regardless of the source cell load.
If a coverage related cell is they only remaining candidate then that cell is selected as target cell

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Target Cell Selection

When several cells can be considered for target cell then decision is based on the available resources on each of them:
RR = hsdpaUsersAdm no_of_HS_users (hsIflsMarginUsers/100 * hsdpaUsersAdm) Where hsIflsMarginUsers can be used to to balance the load between cells

no_of_HS_users (eg. 6)

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hsIflsMarginUsers (0 to 100 %, eg. 25 %)

Cells with RR <=0 are excluded and If the source cell is still among the considered cells then the list is further filtered excluding coverage related cells that do not fulfill the load hysteresis condition: (RR in candidate cell) > (1 + iflsHyst/100) * (RR in current source cell) If no cell remains the connection continues in current cell. Otherwise the cell among the remaining candidates with the highest RR is selected as target cell for the new configuration
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HS IFLS Considerations
If the blind IFHO attempt is blocked by admission control or fails and the UE returns to the source cell without dropping, the RAB reconfiguration that triggered the loadsharing continues in the source cell. Only one attempt to do blind IFHO is made When the UE has been redirected to the new carrier retry cases for lower rates can be triggered if blocked by admission control. These retries do not trigger any new loadsharing attempts Inter-frequency loadsharing relations should only be defined between cells that have the same coverage or from a smaller to a larger cell Loadsharing only applies to Ues in SRNC cells since cell load information cannot be read over Iur (3GPP). For Iur case HS cell selection is triggered HS Loadsharing is not performed when SRB-on-HS is setup from idle (trigger only at RAB establishment or Channel Upswitch)
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