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Engineering Guidelines: Interactions With Other Features
Engineering Guidelines: Interactions With Other Features
The desired power regulation performance can be achieved through a well balanced
combination of the following:
the MS Power Control parameters SSDESUL and QDESUL that set the limits
for how close to the noise floor (how low rxlev) and how high in interference
(how high rxlev) MS down regulation can be performed.
the AMR Power Control parameters SSDESULAFR and QDESULAFR, or
SSDESULAHR and QDESULAHR set the limits for how close to the noise
floor (how low rxlev) and how high in interference (how high rxlev) AMR MS
down regulation can be performed.
the AMR-WB Power Control parameters SSDESULAWB and QDESULAWB
set the limits for how close to the noise floor (how low rxlev) and how high in
interference (how high rxlev) AMR-WB MS down regulation can be performed.
the quality compensation factor QCOMPUL and the pathloss compensation
factor LCOMPUL that determine the angles of inclination of plan 3 in Figure
3.
the intracell handover area defined by QOFFSETUL, QOFFSETULAFR and
QOFFSETULAWB(Reference [8]).
the threshold triggering bad quality urgency handovers, QLIMUL,
QLIMULAFR and QLIMULAWB(Reference [9] ).
the length of the locating quality filter QLENSD (Reference [9] ), and the
Power Control quality filter, QLENUL .
4.2 Recommendations
4.2.1 General
The recommended strategy (see Figure 3) is a good parameter setting that is not
particularly aggressive according to any regulation strategy. By changing the parameters,
the regulation can be made more aggressive towards quality or signal strength or
combinations depending on the needs of the customer.
Generally for up regulation, the MS Power Control quality filter QLENUL can be set to a
value between 2 or 5 (note that these values are based on assumptions/simulations and
have not been live tested). This is fairly uncritical since instability in the control loop has
not shown to be a problem with this control strategy. Therefore it is better to have a
short power control quality filter since the response to bad quality then becomes quick. It
is not useful to set QLENUL = 1. This would only lead to extremely nervous behaviour
resulting in less average down regulation.
In order to avoid unstable behaviour, the down regulation must be slow. This would
result in an even more cautious behaviour. The filter length on the down regulation is
determined by parameters QLENUL and UPDWNRATIO. UPDWNRATIO sets how
much longer the down regulation filter is compared to the up regulation filter in percent.
As an example of how the system reacts to bad quality, see Figure 4.
Example:
This gives a 3 SACCH periods filter length for up regulation and 3*300% = 3*3 = 9
SACCH periods filter length for down regulation.
An example of how the system reacts to low signal strength, see Figure 5.
Figure 5 Step Response to Low Signal Strength. Parameter Setting SSLENUL = 3 and
UPDWNRATIO = 300 Was Used. Note the Logarithmic Behaviour of the Down Regulation.
Reduced Power Level After Handover is mainly intended for interference limited parts of a
network, i.e. hot spots with high frequency load. Using the feature in such areas in live
network has shown performance improvements in the radio network. The improvements
seen are due to reduced interference, since with Reduced Power Level After Handover
less power is transmitted in the radio network.
Figure 6 Example of Reduced Power Level After Handover parameter settings for a hot
spot and the surrounding cells.
To achieve best possible improvement within a hot spot it is recommended to use a fairly
aggressive parameter setting for Reduced Power Level After Handover, i.e. a small
positive setting of MSRPWROFFSET. During live tests MSRPWROFFSET=2dB has
shown to be a reasonable value. When doing this, the potential impact from surrounding
cells shall be considered. Hence, to minimize incoming interference to the hot spot from
surrounding cells, it is recommended to activate Reduced Power Level After Handover in
a number of guard cells as well using the same offset as in the hot spot.
To minimize the impact on the guard cells from the rest of the network, it is beneficial to
use Reduced Power Level After Handover for the cells surrounding the guard cells as well,
but with a less aggressive parameter setting. For an example of parameter settings see
Figure 6. This will give a smooth transition between the areas where Reduced Power
Level After Handover is used and the surrounding network. If after activation some
specific cells are suffering from interference, this can be handled by using a higher offset
in these specific cells.
It is foreseen that the used frequency plan will have an impact on to what extent
Reduced Power Level After Handover will influence radio network performance. The
tighter frequency reuse, the higher potential for Reduced Power Level After Handover. As
a consequence highest gain from Reduced Power Level After Handover is expected in FLP
1/1 networks.
When Reduced Power Level After Handover in uplink is used in an area where there is a
mix of cells equipped with TMA and cells without TMA, it is recommended to carefully
monitor the uplink quality in the cells lacking TMA. The reason for this is that in cells with
TMA the uplink signal is amplified, which influences the Dynamic MS Power Control
algorithm. During an inter-cell handover where the originating cell is equipped with TMA
and the target cell is not, the initial power to be used in the target cell might be too low
to secure good uplink quality if Reduced Power Level After Handover is used without
considering the TMA. This can be handled by a suitable setting of MSRPWROFFSET, i.e.
an increased MSRPWROFFSET value in the cells with no TMA.