BSC3153 Nokia GSM/EDGE BSS, Rel. BSS13, BSC and TCSM, Rel. S13, Product Documentation, v.

AMR Progressive Power Control

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Contents
Contents 3 1 2 3 4 Overview of AMR Progressive Power Control 5 Technical description of AMR Progressive Power Control 7 Functionality of AMR Progressive Power Control 9 User interface of AMR Progressive Power Control 13

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Overview of AMR Progressive Power Control

With the current power control algorithm, voice quality and dropped call rate cannot be optimised at the same time. This means that the received signal quality (RXQUAL) thresholds have to be selected so that a trade-off between voice quality and system capacity is achieved. AMR Progressive Power Control (PPC) provides a mechanism to change the RXQUAL thresholds for AMR calls depending on the used power level. In other words, it is possible to favour power increase with low power levels and avoid it with higher power levels, thereby reducing overall interference. AMR PPC (BSS20776) is a licence-based application software product that consists of two separately controlled functionalities:
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AMR PPC for MS power control (uplink) AMR PPC for BTS power control (downlink)

If the licence expires, the normal power control algorithm is used also for AMR calls. Benefits of AMR Progressive Power Control
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reduced interference in the network because of better power distribution better speech codec distribution because of better quality distribution reduced dropped call rate

Related topics
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Functional descriptions . Radio network performance

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RF Power Control and Handover Algorithm

Feature descriptions . Radio network performance . Enhanced Speech Codecs: AMR and EFR Install and upgrade . Software . Licensing in BSC Test and activate . Radio network performance . Activating and Testing BSS20776: AMR Progressive Power Control Reference . Commands . MML commands . EE - Base Station Controller Parameter Handling in BSC . Counters/performance indicators . Call control measurements (CS) . 111 AMR PPC Measurement . Parameters . BSS Radio Network Parameter Dictionary

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Technical description of AMR Progressive Power Control

Software requirements

Table 1.

Required software Software release required

S13 No requirements. No requirements. No requirements. No requirements. Not supported. No requirements. No requirements. OSS4.2

Network element
BSC Nokia Flexi EDGE BTSs Nokia UltraSite EDGE BTSs Nokia MetroSite EDGE BTSs Nokia Talk-family BTSs Nokia InSite BTSs MSC/HLR SGSN Nokia NetAct

Table Required software shows the earliest version that supports AMR Progressive Power Control (PPC). Hardware requirements

Table 2.

Required hardware Hardware requirements

No requirements. No requirements. No requirements. No requirements.

Network element
BSC BTS TCSM SGSN

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Frequency band support The BSC supports AMR Progressive Power Control on the following frequency bands:
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GSM 800 GSM 900 GSM 1800 GSM 1900

End-user equipment AMR Progressive Power Control requires an AMR-capable MS. Interworking

AMR Full Rate (FR) and AMR Half Rate (HR)

Either AMR FR or AMR HR or both must be activated before it is possible to define the AMR Progressive Power Control parameters for AMR FR or AMR HR calls.

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Functionality of AMR Progressive Power Control

AMR Progressive Power Control (PPC) enables you to define four different power level points in which the quality thresholds are changed compared to the ones used in the existing power control algorithm for AMR calls. The threshold changes are fixed as follows:
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-2 between minimum output power and point 1 -1 between points 1 and 2 +1 between points 3 and 4 +2 between point 4 and maximum output power

You can define these points separately for AMR FR and AMR HR, and in the downlink and uplink direction.

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Quality
Rxqual 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 BER% <0.2 0.2-0.4 0.4-0.8 0.8-1.6 1.6-3.2 3.2-6.4 6.4-12.8 >12.8

-2 -1 -2 -1

Decrease Power
+1 +2

Increase Power
X1 15 30 14 28 13 26 12 24 X2 11 22 10 20 9 18 8 16 7 14 6 12 5 10 X3 4 8 3 6 pc upper threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (UDRF) pc lower threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (LDRF) optimum quality, no need to change transmitting power X1 X2 X3 X4 amrPpcDIFrLowerThreshold1 amrPpcDIFrLowerThreshold2 amrPpcDIFrLowerThreshold3 amrPpcDIFrLowerThreshold4

+1 +2
X4 2 4 1 2 0 0 Output Power Power level Attenuation dB

Figure 1.

AMR Progressive Power Control

Using AMR FR in the downlink direction as an example, the algorithm for defining the lower threshold with the four relevant AMR PPC parameters and the current pc lower threshold DL Rx qual AMR FR (LDRF) parameter is as follows:
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If the measured BTS transmitting power is smaller than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 1 (LDF1), the power control quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by two (LDRF - 2)

OR
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If the measured BTS transmitting power is smaller than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 2 (LDF2), the power control quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by one (LDRF - 1)

OR
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If the measured BTS transmitting power is greater than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 4 (LDF4), the power control quality threshold for AMR FR is increased by two (LDRF + 2)

OR

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If the measured BTS transmitting power is greater than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 3 (LDF3), the power control quality threshold for AMR FR is increased by one (LDRF + 1)

Note that the power control quality threshold values are only changed within the algorithm during an AMR call. The values of the actual parameters, such as LDRF are not changed. With AMR PPC, the BSC uses the same Px and Nx values and averaging windows as with the normal power control algorithm. For more information, see RF Power Control and Handover Algorithm under Functional descriptions/Radio network performance in the PDF view.

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User interface of AMR Progressive Power Control

MMLs
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Base Station Controller Parameter Handling in BSC (EE)

The following commands are used for handling AMR Progressive Power Control: EEO, EEX

Licence and Feature Handling (W7)

Parameters The following BSC radio network object parameters are used for handling AMR Progressive Power Control:

AMR FR in the downlink direction:

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AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 1 (LDF1) AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 2 (LDF2) AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 3 (LDF3) AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 4 (LDF4) AMR PPC DL FR Upper Threshold 1 (UDF1) AMR PPC DL FR Upper Threshold 2 (UDF2) AMR PPC DL FR Upper Threshold 3 (UDF3) AMR PPC DL FR Upper Threshold 4 (UDF4)

AMR HR in the downlink direction:

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AMR PPC DL HR Lower Threshold 1 (LDH1) AMR PPC DL HR Lower Threshold 2 (LDH2)

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AMR PPC DL HR Lower Threshold 3 (LDH3) AMR PPC DL HR Lower Threshold 4 (LDH4) AMR PPC DL HR Upper Threshold 1 (UDH1) AMR PPC DL HR Upper Threshold 2 (UDH2) AMR PPC DL HR Upper Threshold 3 (UDH3) AMR PPC DL HR Upper Threshold 4 (UDH4)

AMR FR in the uplink direction:

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AMR PPC UL FR Lower Threshold 1 (LUF1) AMR PPC UL FR Lower Threshold 2 (LUF2) AMR PPC UL FR Lower Threshold 3 (LUF3) AMR PPC UL FR Lower Threshold 4 (LUF4) AMR PPC UL FR Upper Threshold 1 (UUF1) AMR PPC UL FR Upper Threshold 2 (UUF2) AMR PPC UL FR Upper Threshold 3 (UUF3) AMR PPC UL FR Upper Threshold 4 (UUF4)

AMR HR in the uplink direction:

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AMR PPC UL HR Lower Threshold 1 (LUH1) AMR PPC UL HR Lower Threshold 2 (LUH2) AMR PPC UL HR Lower Threshold 3 (LUH3) AMR PPC UL HR Lower Threshold 4 (LUH4) AMR PPC UL HR Upper Threshold 1 (UUH1) AMR PPC UL HR Upper Threshold 2 (UUH2) AMR PPC UL HR Upper Threshold 3 (UUH3) AMR PPC UL HR Upper Threshold 4 (UUH4)

Counters 111 AMR Progressive Power Control Measurement contains the counters related to AMR Progressive Power Control.

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There are two Rx quality sum counters for all transmitting power classes (0-15), one for uplink and one for downlink Rx quality. Every Rx quality sum counter has a denominator counter that indicates the number of times the RX quality class sum counter is sampled. Together these counters can be used to calculate the average Rx quality for each transmitting power class.

Table 3. Counter

Counters of 111 AMR Progressive Power Control Measurement Counter number

111000 111001 111002 111003 111004 111005 : 111062 111063 111064 111065

FREQUENCY GROUP ID RX TRX IN EXTENDED AREA UL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 0 UL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 0 DENOMINATOR DL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 0 DL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 0 DENOMINATOR : UL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 15 UL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 15 DENOMINATOR DL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 15 DL RX QUALITY FOR POWER CLASS 15 DENOMINATOR

For more information, see 111 AMR Progressive Power Control Measurement under Reference/Counters/performance indicators in the PDF view.

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