Layering Strategy and Mobility Handling

NSN NPO team

2nd August 2011
Prepared By: Mohab Alaa

CONTENTS

Mobility with DC-HSDPA layer

Layering strategy and traffic balancing

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Mobility and Handover Strategy

U2100 F2

U2100 F2

U2100 F1

U2100 F1

U900

U900
CELL 1

CELL 1

U2100 F2

U2100 F2

U2100 F1

CELL 3

SITE A

U2100 F1

U2100 F1

U900

U900

U900

GSM (SITE A)

GSM (SITE A)

GSM (SITE B)

GSM-GSM
GSM-U900
GSM-U2100
3

CELL 2

U2100 F2

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U2100-U2100
U900-U900
U900-U2100

U2100-U900
Not Allowed

CELL 3

SITE B

CELL 2

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U900 from Site B not to be defined as Neighbors to U2100 F1 & U2100 F2 of Site
A. Only Intra Site U900 to U2100 to be defined.

U2100 are defined to the GSM only for Intra Site only.

GSM Neighbors (900 & 1800) are defined to U2100 but for 1st tier only.

U2100 From Site B to be defined as Neighbours to U2100 of Site A, Only if Site B

is in the 1st tier of Site A.

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CONTENTS

Mobility with DC-HSDPA layer

Layering strategy and traffic balancing

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Layering strategy (I)

U2100_F3

f3 (DC HSDPA/HSUPA/F-DPCH)
Qqualmin= -18dB
Qrxvlevmin= -93dBm
Sintersearch = -8 dB
SsearchRAT= -12 dB
HHoEcNoThreshold/Cancel = -12/-9
HHoRSCPThreshold/Cancel = -93/-89
IFHO Triggering causes: RSCP, DL Tx Pwr, UL Tx Pwr

2Cells of:
- Adj UARFCN.
The same sector id.

Dual Cell

The same Tcell.

- DCellHSDPAEnabled=1

U2100_F2

f2(DC HSDPA/HSUPA/F-DPCH)
DirectedRRCEnabled: Enabled
DRRC for HSDPA Layer : Enabled
DirectedRRCForHSDPALayerEnhanc: Enabled
HSDPALayeringCommonChEnabled: Enabled
DRRCForHSDPALayerServices : Interactive, Background,
Inter-RAT, Registration, High Priority Sig.

U900_F1

f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)

Qqualmin= -18 dB
Qrxvlevmin= -115 dBm
Sintersearch = -10 dB
SsearchRAT= -14 dB
HHoEcNoThreshold/Cancel = -12/-9 RT, -16/-12 NRT
HHoRSCPThreshold/Cancel = -105/-99 RT, -112/-109 NRT

IFHO Triggering causes: None

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f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)

f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)
UEs is Freely camping,
and can move from F1
to F2 or F3 using the
DRRC Features

Layering strategy (II)

U2100_F2

f2(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA/)

Qqualmin= -18dB
Qrxvlevmin= -93dBm
Sintersearch = -8 dB
SsearchRAT= -12 dB
HHoEcNoThreshold/Cancel = -12/-9
HHoRSCPThreshold/Cancel = -93/-89
IFHO Triggering causes: RSCP, DL Tx Pwr, UL Tx Pwr

U900_F1

f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)

DirectedRRCEnabled: Enabled
DRRC for HSDPA Layer : Enabled
DirectedRRCForHSDPALayerEnhanc: Enabled
HSDPALayeringCommonChEnabled: Enabled
DRRCForHSDPALayerServices : Interactive, Background,
Inter-RAT, Registration, High Priority Sig.

f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)

f1(R99/HSDPA/HSUPA)

Qqualmin= -18 dB
Qrxvlevmin= -115 dBm
Sintersearch = -10 dB
SsearchRAT= -14 dB
HHoEcNoThreshold/Cancel = -12/-9 RT, -16/-12 NRT
HHoRSCPThreshold/Cancel = -105/-99 RT, -112/-109 NRT
IFHO Triggering causes: None

GSM_F0

GSM

FddQMin= -10 dB
FddRscpMin= -100 dBm
MinEcNoThr= -15 dB
QSearchI= 7
QSearchP= 7
ISHO Triggering causes: EcNo, RSCP
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GSM

GSM

Layering strategy & Load Balancing

3G is having higher priority than 2G, so the UE in 2G is always searching for a good 3G

candidate to reselect (QSearchI & QSearchP =7) according to the EcNo and RSCP
thresholds defined.
U900 Neighbors are defined to the 2G cells for the reselection and ISHO, and U2100
Neighbors are only defined to the Intra site 2G cells.
ISHO from 2G to 3G is according to the EcNo & RSCP(License).
UE in 3G is Freely camping, and can move from F1 to F2 or F3 using the DRRC Features.
If there are several possible target cells, the load balancing between the target cells is based
on existing HSDPA load balancing approach.
(HSDPALayerLoadShareThreshold) is the RNC Parameter used to define the threshold
(number of HSDPA users) for load sharing between HSDPA layers.

Before the threshold is reached in any of the cells in the same sector, the HSDPA UEs that

are establishing the RRC connection and changing the state from Cell_FACH to Cell_DCH
are directed to same layer. This is done by comparing the cell weights. UEs is directed to the
cell that has the greatest cell weight. If the cell weights are equal, the UEs are directed to the
cell that has the Least number of HSDPA users.

When the threshold is reached in any of the cells in the same sector, the HSDPA load

sharing between layers is done. The load sharing decision making is based on the weight
(CellWeightForHSDPALayering ) or Based on weight and power, but we disabled the power
(DisablePowerInHSDPALayeringDecision).

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