3G Capacity Monitoring

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October 2012

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Contents

RF Power Capacity Upgrade Proposal

RF Code Capacity Upgrade Proposal

CE Capacity Upgrade Proposal

WBBP upgrade Proposal

Iub Capacity Upgrade Proposal

Paging Monitoring

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3G CAPACITY RESOURCE

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Power Utilization

Power is shared by all services in one cell

PS will use spare power apart from that be used by CS

HSDPA will use the spare power apart from that of R99

HSDPA throughput probably limited by power available during busy hour

Huawei current maximum PA is 80 W

Maximum recommendation power used by common channel around 20% from cell power
Power

3GPP Release 99

Power

Unused power

3GPP Release 5

HS-DSCH

Pmax-R99

Dedicated channels (power controlled)

Dedicated channels (power controlled)

Common channels

Common channels
t

Power usage with dedicated channels channels

HS-DSCH with dynamic power allocation

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Power Utilization Formula

Average Power Utilization Rate (%)

(10^(([VS.MeanTCP]-[MaxPowerPerCell])/10))*100

Note:
VS.MeanTCP: Mean Transmitted Power of Carrier for Cell (dBm)
MaxPowerPerCell: Maximum transmission power for cell (dBm)

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RF POWER UPGRADE PROCESS

Power Utilization target: 60%

Weekly Measurement

(OR)
Total TCP > 70%
Power Cong > 0.8%

No
End

Yes
2nd Carrier
Already ?

No
2nd Carrier Proposal

Yes
Max Tx Power ?
PA >= 460

No
PA Upgrade Proposal

Yes
F1/F2 HSDPA Load
Balancing Already ?

Yes

No

F1/F2 HSDPA Load

Balancing Proposal
Capacity New Site
Proposal
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RF POWER UPGRADE CRITERIA

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Performance indicator Impact to Power Utilization (1/3)

SHO Overhead

High SHO overhead means you have high SHO/single serving cell ratio. This is caused by insufficient down tilt on
the antennas or not optimized network design. Also is quite likely you have higher pilot pollution in the network.
Solution: analyze the cell coverage and try to limit the cell coverage to it's designated area. The smaller the
overlapping areas between the cells - the smaller SHO overhead. Normally SHO overhead around 30%

SHO has the following advantages:

SHO ensures the seamless cell change and increases the network coverage on the uplink link direction (UL).
The SHO combining gain mitigates propagation effects, such as fast fading and shadowing.
The SHO combining gain might lead to a transmit power reduction, which reduces the interference in the network
on the UL
On the other hand, SHO also has some disadvantages:
At each cell extra codes, hardware, and downlink (DL) power have to be allocated for the additional SHO links.
This leads to a higher outage probability and a decrease in the network capacity.
Especially the DL power is a very scarce resource, since it is shared by all MS in the cell. The trend for services
with asymmetrical data rates and HighSpeed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) intensifies the DL cell power
deficiency.

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Performance indicator Impact to Power Utilization (2/3)

SHO Overhead Formula:

This KPI is used to check the consumption of network resources due to soft handover in an
RNC or a Cell. It considered the radio link quantity during the soft handover.

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Performance Indicator Impact to Power Utilization (3/3)

Overshooting

Cell serve larger area than plan area. This condition can be checked from the propagation delay
statistic. We have to make sure that this cell serve larger area, not caused by problem on
the nearest site close to respective area

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RF Code & HSPDSCH Code Utilization

Each WCDMA cell consist of 16 SF16

RF code shared by R99 and HSPA services

HSPDSCH code will determine throughput RAB HSDPA

HSPDSCH code license shared by all cell in one node B

RF code utilization will be used for second carrier upgrade proposal, while HSDPSCH code
utilization used for HSPDSCH license code upgrade proposal

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RF CODE UPGRADE PROCESS

Weekly Measurement

Code Util > 80 %

OR
Code Cong > 0.8%

No

Code HSDPA Util >

70%

2nd Carrier
Already ?

2nd Carrier
Already ?

Yes

Yes
No

F1/F2 HSDPA Load

Balancing Already ?

End

Yes

Yes
No

No

No

HS Code/NodeB
< 45

No

HS Code/NodeB
< 30

No

Yes

Yes

Yes
2nd Carrier
Proposal

Capacity New
Site Proposal

F1/F2 Load
Balancing

HSDPA Code
Upgrade to 45

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HSDPA Code
Upgrade to 30

2nd Carrier
Proposal

RF CODE UPGRADE CRITERIA

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Iub Traffic Data

Input
Subscribers
Subs per NodeB

Iub Traffic

Total BW

CS Iub Bandwidth
Iub Bandwidth

CS Traffic
Voice Traffic
VP Traffic

GoS Requirements
PS Traffic
PS64 Throughput
PS128 Throughput
PS384 Throughput

PS Retransmission
HSPA Traffic

PS Iub Bandwidth
HSPA Iub
Bandwidth

Bandwidth for
Traffic
Common Channel
Bandwidth
Signalling
Bandwidth
O&M Bandwidth

Iub is shared among all traffic in one node B. PS and HSPA is best effort
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Iub Utilization Formula

Iub Over IP

Note: TX BW, RX BW Unit: Kbps

Iub Over ATM

Note: TX BW, RX BW Unit: Kbps

Conversion Formula: Number of E1 * 1904

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IUB UPGRADE PROCESS

Weekly Measurement

Iub E1 < 4E1?

< 8 Mbps

Yes

Upgrade Iub to 4 E1, 8

Mbps

No
OR
UL Iub Util > 70 %
DL Iub Util > 70 %
Iub Cong. >0.8%

Yes

Upgrade Iub

No

End

Iub Utilization target: 60%

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IUB UPGRADE CRITERIA

Its better to use monthly data, using average maximum weekly data. Maximum weekly data
taken from maximum hourly data among respective week
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Definition of Channel Element

A Channel Element is the base band resource required in the Node B to provide capacity
for one voice channel, including control plane signaling, compressed mode, transmit
diversity and softer handover.

DBS3900/BTS3900
Uplink:

Channel Elements for HSUPA

max. 1536 CE

HSUPA shares all the Uplink Channel Elements

Downlink: max. 1536 CE

Channel Elements for R99 Bearers

Resource with R99 services.

The Spreading Factor determines the Channel
Elements consumed by the HSUPA service.

Note: HSUPA 10 ms TTI

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Huawei Channel Elements Features

Channel Elements pooled in one NodeB

No need extra R99 CE resource for CCH

--- reserved CE resource for CCH

No need extra CE resource for TX diversity

No need extra CE resource for Compressed Mode

--- reserved resources for Compressed Mode

No need extra CE resource for Softer HO

HSDPA does not occupy R99 CE resource

--- separate module for HSDPA

HSUPA shares CE resource with R99 services

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Channel Elements for HSDPA

The Base Band resources for R99 and HSDPA are separate.

HS-DSCH does not consume R99 Channel Elements.

HS-SCCH does not consume R99 Channel Elements.

HS-DPCCH does not occupy R99 Channel Elements.

Downlink A-DCH does not occupy R99 Channel Elements.

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CHANNEL ELEMENT UPGRADE PROCESS

UPGRADE

CE Utilization target: 60%

End

Weekly Measurement

No
(OR)
CE UL Util > 70%
CE DL Util > 70%
CE Cong > 0.8%

Yes

No

CE UL Util < 20%

OR
CE DL Util < 20%

Yes
N=1

No

DOWNGRADE

HW CE > SW CE

CE SW Downgrade N.16
N=N+1

Yes
CE SW Upgrade
to N.384

CE UL Util > 40%

OR
CE DL Util > 40%

No

Yes
CE HW & SW Upgrade
to N.384

UL AND DL
CE HW CE SW
> 384

Yes

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CE SW Downgrade N.16
No
CE HW Downgrade 384

CHANNEL ELEMENT UPGRADE CRITERIA

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Channel Element Utilization Formula

UL CE Utilization (%)

100*VS.LC.ULMean.LicenseGroup.Shared/VS.LC.ULCreditAvailable.Shared

DL CE Utilization (%)

100*VS.LC.DLMean.LicenseGroup.Shared/VS.LC.DLCreditAvailable.Shared

Note:
VS.LC.ULMean.LicenseGroup.Shared: The Average number of shared UL CEs consumed
by an operator, or by HSUPA service.
VS.LC.DLMean.LicenseGroup.Shared: The Average number of shared DL CEs consumed
by an operator
VS.LC.ULCreditAvailable.Shared: The Configured UL CEs for the Shared Group
VS.LC.DLCreditAvailable.Shared: The Configured DL CEs for the Shared Group

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WBBP Upgrade proposal

WBBP is Huawei WCDMA baseband processing unit

Maximum 4 boards WBBP installed in BTS/DBS 3900

Combination with WMPT & UTRP will determine number of radio link can be supported by
node B

Monitoring capacity radio link can be supported, can be check from CNBAP utilization
formula

WBBP board upgrade also can be triggered by lack of channel element hardware

CNBAP Usage per

second

(VS.IUB.AttRLAdd+VS.IUB.AttRLSetup+(2*VS.IUB.AttRLRecfg))/3600

CNBAP Utilization (%)

100*CNBAP Usage per second/CNBAP Capacity

Note:
CNBAP Capacity refer to table board installed in each node B

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WBBP UPGRADE CRITERIA

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WBPP UPGRADE PROCESS

RNC CNBAP Congestion Counters

Weekly Measurement

VS.RRC.Rej.RL.Fail

No
CNBAP Utilization >
50 %

End

Yes
WBBP < 3

Yes
ADD WBBP

No

No
UTRP Already?

ADD UTRP

Yes
WBBP = 4

No
ADD WBBP

Yes
Split Node B

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Paging Monitoring

Paging is one of important performance indicator because it will impact to user perceived
especially A number.

LAC & RAC splitting should be consider in case paging congestion greater than 1% or
paging attempt greater than 500K/hour

PS paging is much more than CS paging, thats why RAC splitting more often choose than
LAC splitting

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Why Paging Utilization<100% but with Paging Congestion?

Paging Channel Specification
PCH channel support maximum paging 5 user with 1 TTI(Transmission Time Interval,
1TTI=10ms)

Maximum
Paging 5
UE per TTI

Paging Discard

Statistic
Period
Because the paging attempt is not stable within the statistic period, some times is higher, some
times is lower, so we will face the paging congestion while the PCH Utilization<100% .

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How big the PCH utilization will trigger paging congestion

Base on the Erlang B Table, if the Number of Channel is 5, and the GOS is 1%, it can bear
1.361 Erl traffic, in other words, the utilization is 27.22% (=1.361/5) while the GOS=1%
The PCH channel can support paging 5 user within 1 TTI,
We can assume the Number of Channel of 5, base on Erlang B table, when the the
utilization just 27.22%, GOS/Congestion Rate=1%.
Base on Erlang B table, the utilization=27.22% will trigger 1% congestion.

Erlang B Table
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Paging Attempt RNC Gayungan01

Paging Attempt all LAC RAC still less than 500K/Hour

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Paging Utilization (%) RNC Sawojajar01

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Paging Loss (%) RNC Gayungan01

Paging loss all LAC RAC still less than 1 %

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