The resource pool can improve the hardware reliability of (ode%s. There is no impact when $A( sharing isintroduced.

Softare "icense !ased Resource Pool

The baseband resource is license managed. The resources of one e#ui$alent %&.& 'bit(s A)R $oice*including
+., 'bit(s -CCH* consumed in baseband processing is defined as one channel element license.
" / -" Channel Element Concept:
There are two *inds of Channel &lements C&s! one is uplin* C& for uplin* service and the other is downlin* C&
fordownlin* service. The C& calculation is based on the "# regardless of the type of radio lin*, sector, and
fre)uency.Therefore uplin* C& and downlin* C& form a resource pool based on licenses.The number of C&
licenses configured must be within the baseband hardware capacity. If the number of consumedC&s reaches the
configured number of C& licenses, an alarm is generated, which indicates the need to epandoperator licenses.The
resource pool based on licenses can fleibly evolve to meet the re)uirements of $A( sharing.5hen $A( sharing is
introduced, C& licenses can be fleibly partitioned into several C& license groups. Thesummed groups must be
within the baseband hardware capacity. &ach group is managed by one license. Thehardware capacity can be
shared by all the groups.The baseband processing resources used by various traffic types are always normali6ed to
the 02.2 *bit7s voicechannels. "ince the number of the voice channel is epressed in
Channel Element
C&!, capacity of the trafficchannels supported by the (ode% is also epressed in C&s

Consumption of Credit on DCHConsumption of Credit on HSUPA (E-DPDCH)

The reason why + credit consumption 8 2 9 + C& consumption for the same data rates and services is that 0.:C&s
are consumed by + ;" 12 *bps. <nly an integer value can be supported in
E$*+CE $T,T+$N.C,T*N
over the Iub interface. During implementation, + credit are provided by multiplying + C& by 2. #oreample, in a
standard low capacity license of D4=7+4=, the digitals are channel elements and the correspondingcredits are
D4= and +>?.The amount of credit consumed by the &-D;CC' e)uals one. Moreover, certain credit are reserved for
'"D;A$A%@ so credit admission for '"D;A is not needed.

HSDPA/HSUPA service utiliation wit! respect to Credit "esources

For the network elements and the terminal itself the use of HSDPA and HSUPA causes a lot ofchanges, especially on the
physical layer as well as on the MAC and !C layers" From the #C pointof $iew there is an impact which is due not only to
the already mentioned flow control %ut also, onthe other hand, to the changes in M"Mo%ility e$ents cause some
changes in addition to the opportunity to share &u% resourcesdynamically %etween all users" Further, the data rates
increase from the practical ma'imum of ()*k%ps for elease ++ de$ices up to *M%ps also cause change in &u%
utili-ation"
5ith the ;D; Contet Activation Accept message, the ""( signals to the +& that thedesired ;" connection isnow
available. Independent from this (A", the signalling $(C initialises another measurement procedure in
the +&.&specially the capacity allocation procedure contains important performance-related parameters. "ince '"D"C'resources are controlled by (ode %, the $(C as*s for provision of necessary transport resources using the #; '"D"C' capacity re)uest message. In the capacity allocation message (ode % signals what was granted. $C
;D+stransmitted for this specific call are prioriti6ed using a priority indicator that has a value in the range from 3 to 0:
0:indicates highest priority!. The credit information element represents the number of $C ;D+s that the $(C
isallowed to transmit within a certain time interval. The interval is a multiple of the TTI used in the '"-D"C', a typicalTTI
value is 2 ms. 5hen performance-related data from (ode % is available together with the data captured by thelub
porbes, it can be proved that there is a linear correlation between CBI sent by +& on radio interface to theserving '"D"C' cell and the credits sent by the cells (ode % to the "$(C. 'ence, evaluation of credits allows toestimate values of
CBI although CBI is not transmitted via lub interface. After all data has been transmitted by the$(C, (ode % will send
anther capacity allocation message that starts the net se)uence of D data transfer andthis procedure will continue
in the same way as long as '"-D"C' is used by a +&. Data transmission starts aftereach capacity allocation on Iub
uplin* data is transported in the Iub physical transport bearer of the DC' and

downlin* I; data is transmitted in the AA2 "C of MAC-d flow, which will be multipleed onto the '"-D"C' by(ode %.