SPA+ Throughput Improvement Solution and Implementation AbstractThis

article presents a solution to improve HSPA+ throughput which is consisted of

RTWP optimization, Radio Resource Allocation and Adoption of New Features.
Compared with the historical optimization practice, the solution herein
outruns the improvement by more than 10 times for UL throughput and doubles
the DL throughput at the same time. The solution in this article already
applied in the other project and it is worthy of transplanting into more
mobile networks for similar optimization purpose. KeywordsHSPA+, Throughput
Improvement, RTWP, Radio Resource Allocation 1. Preface HSPA+ supports UL
5.76Mbps/ DL 21Mbps and above throughput theoretically which is rather high
for the actual application requirement currently. But the throughput in field
test in many countries is far below the theoretical peak throughput, esp. for
HSUPA. For instance, UL HSPA+ throughput remains at 70kbps or so in I country,
similar as the performance in TD network in China Mobile. In the past
therere few optimization cases in this field in our company. One case in
country M achieved 15% improvement for UL throughput to reach about 100kbps or
so. In summary, HSPA+ throughput field test result is only close to 1% of the
theoretical peak throughput. It makes the operator undervalue the investment
for HSPA+; and the end user expect to enjoy better perception for HSPA+
service. The author combines many technical methods to improve the UL
throughput by 2 times to even more than 10 times, and doubles the DL
throughput during optimization solution bidding for a large scale network.
Finally we get the PO and implement the solution in whole network. The
solution also transplanted into the other network in country P. I am honored
to share my ideas herein first and expect everyone share better ideas to all.
2. Ideas of HSPA+ Throughput Improvement The solution is consisted of three
parts: RTWP Optimization Radio Resource Allocation Adoption of New
Features RTWP is consisted of UL payload, UL Signal and various of UL
interference. In UMTS, RTWP is tightly impacted the network KPI and UL/DL
throughput: the lower RTWP, the lower interference to network, and accordingly
the higher throughput. After reduces the RTWP, it provides the space to
relieve the negative impact upon KPI accompanied by the throughput. For the
operator, the higher UL Payload, the more income for them in most of the
cases; and its hard to eliminate various of interference esp. for a large
network. So it seems only one relatively simple way to decrease the RTWP
through decreasing the UL signal traffic. We integrate some methods with this
idea based on the practice in other UMTS networks. Radio Resource Allocation
is to optimize the associated threshold and priority of radio resource
allocation between HSPA+ and other services to enable HSPA+ subscriber utilize
more radio resource and own high priority than R99 PS under the prerequisite
that the user of other service perception maintains including KPIs. Considered
HSPA+ is of higher efficiency to consume the radio resource than that of R99
PS, it is therefore reasonable and profitable. Some new features have positive
gains for both UL and DL throughput theoretically. Considered the request of
presales team to package the solution to make it complex and valuable, we
introduce some new features into the solution: TTI Switch on BE Service
Based on Coverage License Adaptive Configuration of Traffic Channel Power
Offset for HSUPA

 CQI Adjustment Based on Dynamic BLER Target CE Overbooking HSDPA

Scheduling Based on UE Location HSDPA Scheduling Based on UE Location
During field test, after activates the new features above, UL throughput
slightly degrades, but UL throughput is more stable than ever before; and DL
throughput improves. Two new features are available starting from RAN 14.
Considers the network will upgrade to RAN14 in the near future, we integrate
them into the solution: 3Implementation of HSPA+ Throughput Improvement 31
Solution Details[1],[2] l RTWP Optimization[1],[5] RTWP Optimization herein
is to modify CQIFbCk, CQIFbCkforSHO,
CONSTANTVALUE,PREAMBLERETRANSMAX and POWERRAMPSTEP to decrease
the UL signal traffic but not produce negative impact upon network
performance.These methods are verified in other two large scale network in
the past with positive results, esp. for the cells in hot spot: MOD
UCELLHSDPCCH: CELLID=xxx,CQIFbCk=D8,CQIFbCkforSHO=D8; MOD
UPRACHUUPARAS: CELLID=xxx, PHYCHID=4,CONSTANTVALUE=30,PREAMBLERETRANSMAX=30, POWERRAMPSTEP=1; Several reserved
parameters below are profitable to maintain the KPI[5] hence we integrate
them into the solution as well: SET
UCORRMALGOSWITCH:ReservedSwitch0=RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT3-1; SET
UCORRMALGOSWITCH:ReservedSwitch0=RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT23-1; SET
URRCTRLSWITCH: RsvdPara1=RsvdBit1_BIT25-0; SET UCORRMALGOSWITCH:
PcSwitch=PC_HSUPA_DATA_CH_PO_ADAPTIVE_ADJ_SWITCH-1; l Radio
Resource Allocation[1],[3],[4] Radio Resource Allocation is dedicated to
change the thresholds associated with resource allocation to enable HSPA+
subscriber utilize more radio resource when in use; and use the resource with
a higher priority than that of the R99 PS user. Considered HSPA+ is of higher
efficiency to consume the radio resource than that of R99 PS, it is reasonable
and profitable to bear the data payload with HSPA+, instead of R99. After
HSPA+ subscriber completes the transmission, the resource is free for use by
other services. So the negative impact is acceptable in general which is
supported by the stable evolution of RNC level KPI. Associated settings are
listed below:
SET FRCCHLTYPEPARA: SrbChlType=HSUPA, SrbChlTypeRrcEffectFlag=FALSE;
ADD USPG:SPGID=2, PRIORITYSERVICEFORR99RT=1,
PRIORITYSERVICEFORR99NRT=2, PRIORITYSERVICEFOREXTRAB=1,
PRIORITYSERVICEFORHSDPA=1, PRIORITYSERVICEFORHSUPA=1; MOD
UCELLSETUP:CELLID=xx, SPGID=2; SET
UEDCHRATEADJUSTSET:EDCHRATEADJUSTSET= RATE_8KBPS-0&RATE_16KBPS0&RATE_32KBPS0&RATE_64KBPS-1&RATE_128KBPS-0&RATE_144KBPS0&RATE_256KBPS-0&RATE_384KBPS1&RATE_608KBPS-1&RATE_1280KBPS1&RATE_2048KBPS-1&RATE_2720KBPS0&RATE_5440KBPS1&RATE_11480KBPS-0; ADD UCELLALGOSWITCH:
CellId=xxx, NBMLdcAlgoSwitch=UL_UU_LDR-1; MOD UCELLLDM: CellId=xxx,

UlLdrTrigThd=50, UlLdrRelThd=45; MOD UCELLLDR: CellId=xxx,

UlLdrFirstAction=BERateRed; MOD UCELLCAC: CELLID=xxxx,
ULCELLTOTALTHD=83; DEA UCELLHSUPA: CELLID=xxx; MOD
UCELLHSUPA:CELLID=xxx, EAGCHCODENUM=2, ERGCHEHICHCODENUM=2,
MAXTARGETULLOADFACTOR=85; ACT UCELLHSUPA: CELLID=xxx; When
transplanting the solution, we can retune the above settings to adapt the
requirement and condition of each network, and not force to strictly follow
the settings listed above. All associated parameters are summarized below
Description Basic Requirement for HS Radio resource allocation Decrease RTWP
Traffic Balance Assign more resource for HS Service to improve HS throughput
Maintain KPI Parameters SrbChlTy`pe SrbChlTypeRrcEffectFlag
PRIORITYSERVICEFORR99NRT PRIORITYSERVICEFORR99RT PRIORITYSERVICEFORHSDPA
PRIORITYSERVICEFORHSUPA EDCHRATEADJUSTSET CQIFbCk CQIFbCkforSHO CONSTANTVALUE
PREAMBLERETRANSMAX NBMLdcAlgoSwitch UlLdrTrigThd UlLdrRelThd UlLdrFirstAction
ULCELLTOTALTHD EAGCHCODENUM ERGCHEHICHCODENUM MAXTARGETULLOADFACTOR DraSwitch
RetryCapability ReservedSwitch0:RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT5
ReservedSwitch0:RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT7 ReservedSwitch0:RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT3
ReservedSwitch0:RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT23 RsvdPara1 PcSwitch
l Adoption of New Features[1],[2],[3] E2D is applied in the current network
and produces slightly negative impact to throughput. After activates TTI
Switch for BE Services Based on Coverage License, we can deactivate E2D
solution because the two solutions cannot co-exist in an RNC and the gains of
E2D can be achieved by the previous feature: SET UFRC:
RetryCapability=TTI_2MS-0; SET UCORRMALGOSWITCH:
ReservedSwitch0=RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT5-0; SET UCORRMALGOSWITCH:
ReservedSwitch0=RESERVED_SWITCH_0_BIT7-0; The detailed configuration of
these features are documented in [3] SingleRAN Features Activation Guideline
(V900R013C00_09)(PDF)-EN, [4] SingleRAN Configuration
Guideline(V900R013C00_04)(PDF)EN 32 Impact upon Network During
implementation of the solution, KPI doesnt degrade that is worried by team
previously because usually throughput increment will produce negative impacts
to KPI. It shows the adoption of RTWP and other KPI optimization methods is
profitable in the solution. CS Call Drop Rate evolution can partially explain
it that is given below: Unfortunately some cells emerges high UL power
congestion appears in hot spot. After compares the parameter settings, an RNClevel parameter differs from the settings of normal functioned RNC:
BEHSUPA2MSTTIRATETHS. After unified it (SET UFRC:
BEHSUPA2MSTTIRATETHS=D1280), UL power congestion recovers to normal case. As
for the slight UL power congestion, CE congestion and Code congestion in few
cells in hot spot, we can take it for granted considers the HSPA+ throughput
improves tremendously. Some other actions can be applied to relieve the
congestion issue such as adding a new micro site, decreasing the power of
PCPICH, CE expansion, etc.