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In CAPITALS
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Load Sharing
Direct UEs to other carriers or GSM for capacity
reasons
Patrik Persson
Senior Specialist
WCDMA RAN System Management
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Load sharing features
1
st
carrier
2
nd
carrier
GSM
Directed retry to GSM
(speech)
Inter-frequency
load sharing
Load sharing is triggered at
connection establishment
and is based on DL
transmitted carrier power
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IF Load Sharing between co-located cells

Redirections between cells with overlapping coverage, at RRC connection
setup
Load sharing neighbors are configured using the parameter
loadSharingCandidate
If a redirection is to be made, the UE will be told to scan for a suitable cell
in the frequency of the target cell

Load sharing candidates
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Triggering of IF Load Sharing
pwrAdm
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Candidate cell Source cell
IFLS
pwrAdm
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Candidate cell Source cell
IFLS
Power usage
loadSharingMargin
>20%
%: relative to pwrAdm
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Directed retry to GSM
At RAB establishment for speech calls
(Multi RAB calls are not subjected to GSM directed retry)
Redirection is blind (no UE measurements), only load sharing to cells
covering the same area
One GSM target cell can be defined for each WCDMA cell by using the
parameter directedRetryTarget
Triggering
pwrAdm
loadSharingGSMThreshold
(75%)
Directed Retry
loadSharingGsmFraction:
Defines the percentage of speech calls that can be directed to GSM

Power usage
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Summary
Two types of load sharing, based on transmitted carrier
power usage:
Inter-frequency load sharing between two UMTS carriers
Directed retry to GSM

IF load sharing
At RRC connection setup
Conditions on source and target cells

Directed retry to GSM
Speech only
At RAB establishment

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