CE Dimensioning for TEF

01 Apr, 2011


CE Definition
One Channel Element is the base band resources
required in the Node-B to provide capacity for one
voice channel including control plane signaling,
compressed mode, transmit diversity.

ZTE Channel Elements Features

Channel elements are pooled in one NodeB.
CE for CCH are reserved.
ZTEs BPC board can support 192CE for uplink and downlink respectively.
This year BPK may be used instead of BPC. BPK has 384 instead of 192 by
BPC. This is only for R99. For HSDPA special equipment is reserved.
ZTEs baseband processing board has special chip to handle the traffic of
HS-PDSCH and HS-SCCH. So HSDPA downlink traffic will not consume CE.
HSUPA shares CE resource with R99 services


Summary of ZTE BPC
process capability

Traffic Type
User
Number/throughput
BPC
12.2k 192
MBMS 3*4*256Kbps,
3*16*64Kbps
HSPA users 144HSDPA/96HSUPA
Cells supported 6Cell
HSDPA 43.2Mbps
HSUPA 15Mbps


CE Dimensioning Procedure
Subscribers per NodeB and traffic model will be the input of CE dimensioning.
For CS service, CE number is calculated by using ErlangB model.
Soft handover are considered.


CE Mapping of Different Bearer Types
Different Bearer Types
CE Factor
BPC(192CE)
Uplink Downlink
R99
AMR12.2K 1 1
CS64K 2.5 1.8
PS64K 2.5 1.8
PS128K 5 3
PS384K 10 6
SF Bearer Rate
Uplink CE
Factor
64 12~17.2kbps 2
32 18.6~37.2kbps 3.3
16 52.2~70.8 kbps 4
8
85.8~154.8
kbps
4.8
1*4 169.8~711 kbps 5.7
2*4
742.8~1448.4
kbps
11
2*2
1455.6~2883
kbps
28
2*2+
2*4
2970~5742
kbps
39
R99 CE Factor Table HSUPA Factor Table
Reserved 43Mbps for HSDPA, HSDPA
downlink traffic channel will not consume
CE. Only associated signaling channel costs
0.3CE in downlink.

Dimensioning Assumption
Traffic Model Proposed by ZTE
City
Smart phone Data Card Total
Guayaquil
57440 57492 114936
Per site 57440/132=435 57492/132=435 870
Subscriber distribution
Bearer Types Unit
Traffic Model per Subs
@Busy Hour
Penetration
Ratio
Uplink Downlink
AMR12.2K Erlang 0.03 0.03 50%
CS64K Erlang 0.003 0.003 50%
PS64K/64K kbps 32 32 2%
PS64K/128K kbps - - -
PS64K/384K kbps - - -
HSDPA/HSUPA kbps 400 600 2% 1%
Please refer to planning proposal for traffic calculation details
3G sites: 132

Calculation Process-1
Total traffic of AMR 12.2K per site = 870 * 0.03*50% = 13Erl
According to Erlang-B model, simultaneous link number is 20.
CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
AMR AMR UL
20 1 20
2 . 12 2 . 12 _

Total traffic of CS64Kusers per site = 870 * 0.03*50% = 1.3Erl
According to Erlang-B model, simultaneous link number is 5.
CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
AMR AMR DL
20 1 20
2 . 12 2 . 12 _

CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
K CS UL K CS UL
5 . 12 5 . 2 5
64 _ 64 _

CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
K CS DL K CS DL
5 . 4 8 . 1 5 . 2
64 _ 64 _

Total uplink throughput of PS64K users per site = 870 * 32 *2% = 557kbps
Downlink throughput of PS64K users per site = 870*32*2% = 557kbps

CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
K PS UL K PS UL
21 5 . 2 ] 64 / 557 [
64 _ 64 _

CE CEfactor LinkNumber CE
K PS DL K PS DL
16 8 . 1 ] 64 / 557 [
64 _ 64 _


Calculation Process-2
CE Consumed by HSUPA
If we assume that HSUPA throughput is 400kbps per user online. Then ZTEs base
processing unit will consume 5.7*870*1% = 50CE.
If it is 3.4K signalling for HSUPA downlink and uplink associated signalling channel.
CE_DL signalling = 870*1%*0.3 = 3CE
CE_UL signalling = 870*1%*0.3 = 3CE
So total CE consumed by HSUPA will be 53CE@UL and 3CE@DL.
CE Consumed by HSDPA
For HSDPA service, ZTE base band processing board has special chip to handle the traffic
of HS-PDSCH and HS-SCCH. So traffic consumes no CE in downlink.
If it is 3.4K signalling for HSDPA downlink associated signalling channel.
CE_DL signalling = 870*2%*0.3 = 6CE
CE_DL signalling = 870*2%*0.3 = 6CE
So total CE consumed by HSDPA will be 6CE@DL and 6CE@UL

Total Required CE
If consider 30% SHO Ratio
Total Uplink CE = (20+12.5+21+53+6)*1.3=150 CE
Total Uplink CE = (20+4.5+16+3+6)*1.3=52 CE
Limited by uplink, Total CE required is 150 CE.
ZTEs BPC board can hardware support 192CE. So the base band processing resource
can meet the requirement.