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5 AUTHORS, INCLUDING:
Bo Hagerman
Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, 164 80 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: bo.hagerman@ericsson.com
Fredrik Gunnarsson
Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, 58117 Linköping, Sweden
Email: fredrik.gunnarsson@ericsson.com
Hideshi Murai
Nippon Ericsson K.K., Tokyo 112-0004, Japan
Email: hideshi.murai@ericsson.com
Mioko Tadenuma
Nippon Ericsson K.K., Tokyo 112-0004, Japan
Email: mioko.tadenuma@ericsson.com
Jonas Karlsson
Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, 164 80 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: jonas.b.karlsson@ericsson.com
Interference cancellation (IC) is one identified key technology to enhance WCDMA uplink performance. The goal of this contri-
bution is to highlight the relative uplink system capacity improvement available for WCDMA, especially in realistic typical urban
radio environments when employing receiver implementations including realistic channel estimation, searcher, and so forth. The
performance of the selected limited-complexity parallel IC receiver is first evaluated with link-level simulations in order to pro-
vide input to system-level simulations. The system-level methodology is explained and a 40% system-level uplink capacity increase
compared to utilizing the conventional RAKE receiver is found. The limited-complexity parallel IC receiver is then evaluated in
a single-cell field trial. The trials show that both the mean and the variance of the outer-loop power control is reduced, which
implies an overall increased capacity and an increased battery life of the terminals. Furthermore, the observed capacity gains are
in accordance with system simulations.
Keywords and phrases: CDMA, field trials, interference cancellation, link-level simulations, system-level simulations.
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been less thoroughly covered in the literature. These types and field measurements prerequisites are presented, and the
of components are important to model, analyze, and under- trial system performance is evaluated, followed by some con-
stand how to utilize IC in systems to ensure the UL/DL ca- clusive remarks.
pacity balance and improve the robustness of realistic system
implementations.
This paper investigates system-level performance of in- 2. PARALLEL IC ALGORITHM
terference cancellation for the WCDMA uplink [11] by A PIC consists mainly of several cascaded detection units
means of simulations and measurements from a prototype (e.g., RAKE receivers) for each user, see Figure 1, where
PIC implementation. The prototype PIC test system devel- each detection unit after detection regenerates a replica of
opment and the field trial were performed in collaboration the signal based on the detected symbols, estimated chan-
between Ericsson, China Academy of Telecommunications nel responses, and the user’s spreading codes. These detec-
Technology (CATT), and Datang Telecom Technology Co. tion units, denoted by interference cancellation units (ICUs)
Ltd. The field measurements were performed at the north- shown in Figure 2, receive as input all the other active users’
west part of urban Beijing, China. signal replicas from the previous stage in the cascaded chain
The link-level simulator employs a realistic COST 259 of ICUs. As is visible in Figure 1, the original total received
channel model [10] and a complete WCDMA receiver in- signal is also one input to the ICU.
cluding searcher, channel estimation, coding, and so forth Within the ICU, the replicas are subtracted from the orig-
in addition to IC functionality. The system-level simulator inal total received signal and a tentative symbol decision
models user dynamics such as power control, mobility, soft is formed using a standard RAKE receiver and channel re-
handover, and so forth. The test system utilizes a proto- sponse estimator. The channel response estimator averages
type PIC multiuser receiver implementation integrated into a the pilot symbols from two consecutive slots of the WCDMA
commercial Ericsson RBS 3202 WCDMA radio base station. uplink signal in order to form an estimate. The ICU out-
The PIC simulator model has been carefully designed to be put consists of the tentative symbol decision together with
equivalent to the prototype implementation. a weighted form of the replica signal.
This paper has been organized as follows. First an algo- Three cascaded ICU stages have been selected for the PIC
rithm description segment with PIC algorithm details and algorithm investigated in this paper as well as for the proto-
a description of IC interaction with a multicell system are type implementation. The weighting factor utilized for each
presented. Then, the simulation workflow is described as an stage should reflect the confidence in the tentative decision
iterative procedure of link and system simulations, together [12, 13]. No replica is generated in the third stage, and there-
with simulated capacity results. Finally, test system details fore there is no weighting factor. A 2D search, using link-level
WCDMA UL PIC: System Simulations and Prototype Field Trials 1727
N 1 − L 1 − M/M p
(b) p m gm
γm = ⇐⇒ pm gm = Pγm . (3)
P
Figure 3: Two slices of the 2D search for optimal weighting factors Hence, (2) and (3) yield
are presented. (a) shows the block error rate (BLER) as function of
weighting factor 1 when weighting factor 2 is set to 0.625. (b) shows
M
the BLER as a function of weighting factor 2 when weighting factor P 1
P=P γm + N ⇐⇒ = M , (4)
1 is set to 0.375. m=1
N 1 − m=1 γm
which provides the fractional load L in (1), see also [15]. The
simulations, was done in order to find the optimal weighting dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) is transmitted at
factors. The optimal weighting factors for the first and sec- a fixed power offset β to the DPCCH power. Therefore, both
ond stages were found to be 0.375 and 0.625, respectively; these channels contribute to the fractional load:
see Figure 3.
M
L= γm (1 + β). (5)
3. PIC INTERACTION WITH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE m=1
All users will, dependent on their service, have a qual- The interference cancellation capacity gain can be described
ity requirement on the dedicated communication link. In by comparing the average fractional load for the same num-
WCDMA, the control mechanism to ensure the fulfillment ber of UEs, M, using either RAKE or PIC. Utilizing the aver-
of the quality requirement is mainly power control (PC). The age load for the two different receiver schemes,
WCDMA PC is performed on two levels, the inner-loop and
outer-loop PC. The inner-loop PC operates at 1500 Hz to fol- M M
low fast channel variations. The outer-loop PC evaluates the LRAKE = , LPIC = , (6)
MPRAKE MPPIC
service quality on higher layer (i.e., on a longer time scale)
and sets the target for the inner-loop PC accordingly. the average pole capacity gain is related via (6) by the average
In a multiple-cell deployment, interference is generated load for equal number of UE’s as
both from users in surrounding cells (intercell interference)
as well as from users in the own cell (intracell interference). LRAKE RAKE
The PIC algorithm is of course effective only towards intra- MPPIC = M . (7)
LPIC P
cell interference. Thus, the PIC will reduce the impact of the
intracell interference compared to a conventional RAKE re- Figure 4 illustrates the relation between the number of
ceiver and thereby via the PC reduce the required output users and noise raise on average for both conventional RAKE
power of the UEs to maintain the service quality. and PIC. Furthermore, it is emphasized how the perfor-
The typical uplink radio interface load measure is the mance gain can both be seen as a capacity improvement given
noise rise, that is, the ratio between total received wideband a fixed noise rise, or a coverage improvement due to a lower
power at the base station P and the noise power N. A popular noise rise with PIC given a fixed number of users.
1728 EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
0.6
BLER is not satisfied. Reasons behind outages could typically
be insufficient UE power to overcome the uplink interfer-
0.4 ence. An outage probability (fraction of unsatisfied users) at
5% is considered acceptable, and the corresponding number
0.2 of users in the system is therefore the system capacity. The
system capacity in Figure 8 is normalized to the system ca-
0 pacity when the conventional RAKE receiver with realistic
30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 channel estimates is used in the system (Figures 8a and 8b
Instantaneous CIR (dB) leftmost curve).
Using the above described quality measures, it can be
(a)
concluded from Figure 8b that PIC is supporting approxi-
0.12
mately a 40% uplink system capacity increase compared to
utilizing the conventional RAKE receiver in this simulated
realistic multiple-cell typical urban radio environment. Note
0.1
that the PIC is carefully modeled in the simulations reflecting
the limited-complexity implementation of realistic searcher,
0.08 channel estimation, and so forth. In an equivalent single-
Probability
100 100
Outage Prob.
Outage Prob.
10−1 10−1
10−2 10−2
10−3 10−3
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Normalized capacity Normalized capacity
RAKE RAKE Ideal IC
PIC PIC
(a) (b)
Figure 8: Simulated system performance relative to the performance with a conventional RAKE for (a) a single-cell scenario and (b) a
multiple-cell scenario.
Figure 9: Modified Ericsson RBS 3202 hardware integrating mul- Figure 11: Antenna installation northwest Beijing, China.
tiuser PIC functionality.
10
12
8 10
Time delay (µs)
6
4
4
2
2
0 0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 0 50 100 150
Time (s) Time (s)
(a) (b)
−80 −80
−85 −85
−90 −90
−95 −95
RSCP (dBm)
RSCP (dBm)
−100 −100
−105 −105
−110 −110
−115 −115
−120 −120
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 0 50 100 150
Time (s) Time (s)
(c) (d)
Figure 12: (a) and (b) Impulse responses and (c) and (d) received code power along the measurement routes in areas 2 and 3, respectively.
received code powers are presented when transmitting at a Figure 14 to Figure 16, a scenario with four communicating
fixed UE power level (24 dBm). The impulse response for UEs were used. In the execution for the different scenarios,
area 2 (Figure 12a) has mainly one dominating path while for the environment and service quality requirements resulted in
area 3, multiple paths are dominating. The measured impulse different quality settings (Target CIR) from the layer 3 outer-
responses for the selected test system coverage area show that loop power control algorithm used per UE in the tests.
the trial environment can be classified as typical urban from Each test scenario was set up and executed in an identi-
a radio propagation modeling perspective. cal fashion twice. Between the executions, the only difference
The network integrated single-cell system performance being that the PIC prototype test system was configured for
test scenarios were conducted with different sets of multiple- utilizing either the conventional RAKE or the PIC receiver.
user traffic and the results indicated that the implemented Figure 13 shows, for both test occasions, the outer-loop
prototype PIC system provides performance (service qual- power control target CIR commands (the RNC layer 3 algo-
ity, required UE power level, and so forth) and behavior im- rithm decisions) for the two active UEs when moving along
provements in accordance with expectations. the test route. Observe that a point-by-point comparison of
To exemplify the behavior improvement, results are the measurement values may not be valid even though the
shown in Figure 13 to Figure 16 from live on-the-air test sce- test setup and completion has been performed as similar as
narios with walking users in confined area 3. In Figure 13, possible for the two test occasions. However, comparing the
a scenario with two communicating UEs was used, and in overall statistics, relative differences in the behavior can be
WCDMA UL PIC: System Simulations and Prototype Field Trials 1733
−10 −10
UE 1
−15
−12 −20
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
Time (s)
−14
Target CIR (dB)
MS1 (a)
−16
−10
UE 2
−15
−18
−20
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
−20 Time (s)
MS2
(b)
−22
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Time (s) −10
UE 3
−15
Conventional RAKE
−20
PIC 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
Time (s)
Figure 13: RNC (layer 3) target CIR commands when either con-
ventional RAKE or PIC receiver is utilized for users 1 and 2. (c)
−10
UE 4
−15
found. When examining and comparing the specific mea- −20
sured scenario in Figure 13, the measurement results imply 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
that the PIC receiver improves the control process stability Time (s)
compared to a system configuration utilizing the conven-
(d)
tional RAKE receiver. The statistics for the two cases show
a reduction in mean and standard deviation of the SIR tar-
get. For UE 1, the mean values are reduced from 3.43 dB to Figure 14: RNC (layer 3) target CIR commands with conventional
3.3 dB and the standard deviation from 0.938 dB to 0.601 dB RAKE.
when the PIC is active. For UE 2, the mean values are re-
duced from 1.08 dB to 0.499 dB and the standard deviation
gain can be evaluated as in (7):
from 0.802 dB to 0.677 dB when the PIC is active. For this
measured scenario, this implies an overall increased capacity
(less interference generated) and an increased battery life of mean LRAKE
Capacity gain : ≈ 1.65. (10)
the UE terminal. Since the outer-loop power control is mea- mean LPIC
suring and controlling the service quality over all 3 layers in
This is in accordance with observations from the realistic
the radio access network (RAN) and adjusts the targets, the
simulations in Section 5.
decrease in standard deviation indicates a stabilizing effect
on the system.
Figures 14 and 15 illustrates the outer-loop power control 7. CONCLUSION
target CIR commands (the RNC layer 3 algorithm decisions) The main conclusion that can be drawn from the extensive
for the active UEs when moving along the test route during work that has been carried out, involving link- and system-
call setup with four UEs. The setup phase is selected to illus- level simulations and field trials, is that there are major up-
trate the improved power control stability due to PIC. Essen- link performance gains achievable even so for interference
tially, the target CIR variations are related to the uplink load, cancellation base station architectures of rather limited com-
and therefore, the load reduction due to PIC also improves plexity. This is primarily due to the known nature of the in-
system stability. This is evident from Figure 16, which pro- herent intracell interference generated in WCDMA networks,
vides cumulative distribution functions of the uplink load for which can be exploited by the IC technology to offer a large
RAKE and PIC, respectively, for the case of four active UEs. theoretical uplink gain.
Clearly, PIC implies a more stable system. The limited-complexity PIC receiver supports a 40% up-
Corresponding system load as defined by (1) and com- link network capacity increase for walking speech users in
puted in (5) for single-cell networks is used to compare the the simulated realistic typical urban radio environment. In
resulting load in the two tests (RAKE and PIC, respectively) the simulations, the PIC is carefully modeled to reflect re-
when all UEs are connected. Then the estimated capacity alistic implementations of searcher, channel estimation, and
1734 EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
1
−10
UE 1
−15 0.8
CDF (LRAKE )
−20 0.6
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
0.4
Time (s)
0.2
(a) 0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
Uplink load L
−10
UE 2
−15 (a)
−20
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 1
Time (s) 0.8
CDF (LPIC )
(b) 0.6
0.4
−10 0.2
UE 3
−15 0
−20
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Uplink load L
Time (s)
(b)
(c)
Figure 16: CDF comparison of the uplink load for (a) RAKE and
−10 (b) PIC.
UE 4
−15
−20
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 magnificent fruitful cooperation. Furthermore, we are also
Time (s) very grateful to all the other persons that has been involved
for critical support from various organizations and places:
(d)
Ericsson Research in Tokyo, Linköping, Jorvas, Budapest,
and Kista; Ericsson R&D in Beijing, Mölndal, Kista, and En-
Figure 15: RNC (layer 3) target CIR commands with PIC. schede; TietoEnator in Göteborg, Karlstad, and Umeå.
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the Senior Specialist in the area of advanced antenna systems.
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