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Issue 01
Date 2016-02-29
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Contents
2 Solution Overview........................................................................................................................ 2
2.1 Background.....................................................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Application Scenarios.....................................................................................................................................................4
2.3 Overall Solution..............................................................................................................................................................5
1.1 Overview
This document describes the RNC in Pool solution for different application scenarios.
It helps customers choose one or more features to better suit network deployment
requirements. The technical principles, deployment, and maintenance of each feature are
beyond the scope of this document. For details, see the corresponding feature parameter
description.
RAN18.1 01 (2016-02-29)
This issue does not include any changes.
2 Solution Overview
2.1 Background
The rapid development of mobile networks brings not only rapid business growth but also
unprecedented challenges for operators.
The smartphone penetration rate is increasing rapidly. As shown in Figure 2-1, from July
2011 to May 2013, the smartphone penetration rate increased by eight times. This increase
required operators to expand network capacity, especially signaling processing capabilities.
Operators have urgent requirements for sustainable RNC equipment expansion. Conventional
RNC splitting cannot meet operators' requirements and more effective capacity expansion
measures are required.
Mobile network services are interrupted in a large scale if an operator's equipment room
encounters disasters such as floods and earthquakes, which may cause equipment to power
off. The RNC is a service convergence node of the UMTS network and has high reliability
requirements. Service disruptions caused by RNC failures have severe impacts.
To meet the preceding requirements, Huawei has developed the RNC in Pool solution. This
solution enables interconnected RNCs to form a resource pool and provides the following
benefits:
3. Planning the Iur-p interface parameters. Compared with the Iu interface parameter
configuration, the Iur-p interface parameter configuration is simpler. Activate the RNC
in Pool Load Sharing feature during off-peak hours.
When RNC capacity expansion is performed using the RNC in Pool feature, the following
operations do not need to be performed:
Operation and maintenance costs are greatly reduced since the preceding operations are not
required. RNC capacity expansion using the RNC in Pool feature enables smooth RNC
capacity expansion and postpones or even avoids RNC splitting.
If the average SPU load of an RNC is greater than 45%, the operator can implement load
sharing among multiple BSC6900s and one BSC6910 to improve network reliability and
prevent the impact of burst signaling or data traffic on the RNC. The load sharing solution
prevents KPI deterioration caused by a continuous increase in CPU load and improves
hardware usage.
Currently, an RNC upgrade may interrupt services provided by the RNC for several minutes.
During the upgrade, idle UEs are out of service and online users experience call drops. If an
operator requires a smooth RNC upgrade and wants to prevent upgrade impacts, the RNC in
Pool Node Redundancy feature can be used. The feature ensures that idle UEs are not out of
service during the upgrade and limits any interruption of services experienced by online users
to less than 20s. If the RNC in Pool Node Redundancy feature is enabled before the RNC
upgrade, services are switched over to the backup RNC and therefore not affected during the
upgrade. After the upgrade, services are switched back to the master RNC. This process is
called hitless upgrade.
NOTE
The RNC in Pool Load Sharing and RNC in Pool Node Redundancy features can be used together if the
preceding two scenarios co-exist.
through the communication between RNCs in the pool (through Iur-p interface
communication).
WRFD-150211 RNC in Pool Load Control plane load RNC in Pool Feature
Sharing sharing is introduced in Parameter
RAN15.0, and user Description
plane load sharing is
introduced in RAN16.0.
Load sharing has no impact on other NEs except RNCs in the pool.
Figure 3-3 BSC6910 carrying multiple logical RNCs and sharing load with multiple
BSC6900s (n + 1, n = 3)
Figure 3-4 BSC6910 carrying multiple logical RNCs and sharing load with multiple
BSC6910s (n + 1, n = 3)
3.1.4 Implementation
The RNC in Pool Load Sharing feature does not affect other NEs except RNCs in the pool.
The CME automatically synchronizes the parameter settings of the logical RNCs in a pool
from the master RNC (BSC6900 or BSC6910) to the overflow RNC (BSC6910). You do not
need to manually synchronize parameter settings on the two RNCs.
The signaling of a UE whose load is shared between RNCs is transmitted over the Iur-p
interface. Therefore, transmission delay and QoS over the Iur-p interface must meet the
specified requirements. Otherwise, call signaling processing causes call loss. For this sake, it
is recommended that RNCs in the same equipment room form a pool for load sharing.
For details about transmission requirements and feature deployment, see RNC in Pool Feature
Parameter Description.
The RNC in Pool Load Sharing feature does not provide load sharing for cell signaling
processing capabilities. If the cell signaling processing load of some CPU subsystems in a
BSC6900 is high, the CPU load may not decrease after the RNC in Pool Load Sharing feature
is enabled. Base stations and cells must be adjusted among the CPU subsystems of the RNC
to balance the cell signaling processing load.
The RNC in Pool Load Sharing feature is used to reduce and balance the average CPU load of
RNCs. It cannot be used to balance the load between the subracks, boards, and CPU
subsystems within an RNC.
The RNC in Pool Node Redundancy feature does not have any impact on the neighboring cells of
neighboring NEs. After services on the backup RNC are recovered, the RNC ID and neighbor
relationships remain unchanged. The backup Iu/Iur/Iub links must be configured on the backup
RNC. Related interface data must be configured on the CN and neighboring RNC.
Figure 3-7 BSC6910 carrying multiple logical RNCs and providing node redundancy for
multiple BSC6900s (n + 1, n = 3)
Figure 3-8 BSC6910 carrying multiple logical RNCs and providing node redundancy for
multiple BSC6910s (n + 1, n = 3)
3.2.4 Implementation
The CME automatically synchronizes the parameter settings of the logical RNCs in a pool
from the master RNC (BSC6900 or BSC6910) to the backup RNC (BSC6910). You do not
need to manually synchronize parameter settings on the two RNCs.
After the master RNC becomes faulty and services are resumed on the backup RNC, logical
RNC parameter modification on the backup RNC cannot be automatically synchronized to the
master RNC. Therefore, you need to record the modification and manually change the logical
RNC parameters on the master RNC after the master RNC recovers. This ensures that the
same parameter modifications are made on the master RNC.
The node redundancy solution should be planned based on the actual networking scenarios.
Generally, it is recommended that the master RNC and backup RNC be located in different
places (remote disaster recovery) to avoid simultaneous master and backup RNC failures.
If the RNC switchover mode is set to manual mode, the maintenance personnel need to
observe whether an RNC is faulty based on device alarms and then determine whether to
trigger an RNC switchover. An RNC switchover will lead to call drops of all online users.
Therefore, exercise caution when performing this operation.
If the RNC switchover mode is set to automatic mode, the system automatically detects
whether an RNC is faulty and triggers an RNC switchover. In addition, the system can check
the status of the Iu interface according to data configurations. If the Iu interface status is
abnormal, the system triggers an RNC switchover.
For details about feature deployment, see RNC in Pool Feature Parameter Description.
In the case of hitless upgrade, switch services of the master RNC to the backup RNC before
upgrading the master RNC. After the upgrade is complete, switch services back to the master
RNC. In this way, two RNC switchovers are performed.
If the operator has high reliability requirements for RNCs, multiple RNCs among N+1 RNCs
may require node redundancy. In this case, the sum of the capacity of N RNCs must be
planned on the backup RNC.
When upgrading the R version of the RNCs in a pool, you do not need to upgrade all RNCs in
a day, but you need to disable the automatic synchronization function. During the period when
the RNCs in a pool have different R versions, you need to manually synchronize parameter
updates between the master and backup RNCs.
WRFD-150211 RNC in Pool Load Control plane load RNC in Pool Feature
Sharing sharing is introduced in Parameter
RAN15.0. Description
User plane load sharing
is introduced in
RAN16.0.
CP Control Plane
UP User Plane
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