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Issue 01
Date 2021-03-05
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Contents
1 Change History.........................................................................................................................1
1.1 GBSS23.1 01 (2021-03-05).................................................................................................................................................. 1
1.2 GBSS23.1 Draft A (2020-12-29)......................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Overview....................................................................................................................................4
4 GU@5MHz Joint Scheduling................................................................................................. 5
4.1 Principles.................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
4.2 Network Analysis..................................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.2.1 Benefits.................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.2.2 Impacts.................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.3 Requirements............................................................................................................................................................................ 7
4.3.1 Licenses................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.3.2 Software.................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
4.3.3 Hardware.............................................................................................................................................................................. 10
4.3.4 Networking.......................................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.3.5 Others.................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.4 Operation and Maintenance............................................................................................................................................. 12
4.4.1 Required Information....................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.4.2 Data Configuration........................................................................................................................................................... 15
4.4.2.1 Data Preparation............................................................................................................................................................ 15
4.4.2.2 Using MML Commands............................................................................................................................................... 17
4.4.2.3 Using the MAE-Deployment...................................................................................................................................... 18
4.4.3 Activation Verification..................................................................................................................................................... 18
4.4.4 Network Monitoring......................................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Parameter................................................................................................................................20
6 Counters.................................................................................................................................. 21
7 Glossary................................................................................................................................... 22
8 Reference Documents...........................................................................................................23
1 Change History
Technical Changes
Change Description Parameter Change
Editorial Changes
● Changed BTS GPS Synchronization to BTS GNSS Synchronization.
● Revised some descriptions.
This document only provides guidance for feature activation. Feature deployment and
feature gains depend on the specifics of the network scenario where the feature is
deployed. To achieve optimal gains, contact Huawei professional service engineers.
Software Interfaces
Any parameters, alarms, counters, or managed objects (MOs) described in Feature
Parameter Description documents apply only to the corresponding software
release. For future software releases, refer to the corresponding updated product
documentation.
3 Overview
In GSM/UMTS 5 MHz spectrum sharing (GU@5 MHz for short) scenarios, GSM
and UMTS networks share spectrum resources. In this situation, uplink and
downlink UMTS signals cause severe interference to GSM networks. This feature
sends information about GSM network interference, number of times that the
receive level is low and receive quality is poor, neighboring cell frequency and
interference matrix information, and channel usage to UMTS networks for rise
over thermal (RoT) control and comb filtering on the UMTS side. This mechanism
helps reduce the interference created by the uplink and downlink UMTS signals on
GSM networks, ensuring stable uplink and downlink GSM network performance.
4.1 Principles
This feature sends GSM information about neighboring cell interference matrix
(obtained based on MRs) and frequencies, cell interference (obtained based on
the interference band), number of times when the receive level is low and receive
quality is poor, and channel usage to UMTS networks for uplink RoT control and
downlink comb filtering on the UMTS side. This mechanism helps reduce the
interference created by UMTS signals on GSM networks, ensuring stable uplink
and downlink GSM network performance.
● Downlink comb filtering: When GCELLBASICPARA.DLCombFilterSw is set to
ON(On), the GSM network sends the resource occupation information of the
cells on the frequencies within the UMTS 3.8 MHz bandwidth to the UMTS
network immediately when the frequencies are occupied or periodically when
the frequencies are released. When GCELLBASICPARA.DLCombFilterOptSw is
set to ON(On), the GSM network sends the resource occupation information
of the corresponding cells to the UMTS immediately when calls are released.
When BSCEXSOFTPARA.DLCombFilterSelfOptSw is set to ON(On), the GSM
cell sends the information about interference matrix and frequencies of its
neighboring cells to the UMTS network. The UMTS network uses downlink
comb filtering to filter out the frequencies used by the GSM network,
minimizing the interference to the GSM network.
A cell center user is switched to a non-cell center user under the following
condition: Post-filtering downlink quality >
GCELLBASICPARA.CellCenterUsrDLQualityThld +
GCELLBASICPARA.CellCenterUsrDLQuaOffset.
4.2.1 Benefits
In GSM/UMTS 5 MHz spectrum sharing or WRFD-210203 DC-HSDPA Shared with
GSM scenarios, this feature ensures stable uplink and downlink GSM network
performance while increasing UMTS network capacity.
4.2.2 Impacts
Network Impacts
Enabling the GBFD-191205 GU@5MHz Joint Scheduling feature in GU@5 MHz
scenarios ensures that uplink and downlink GSM network performance maintains
stable after the UMTS network is deployed.
When the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature is enabled, the proportion of MRs
with downlink quality levels 6 and 7 to all MRs decreases by 10-30% on the GSM
side after the UMTS network is deployed.
After the cell center user identification function is enabled in GU@5 MHz or DC-
HSDPA Shared with GSM scenarios, the XPU subsystem load increases by within
1% because the BSC identifies GSM cell center users by checking every MR log of
users.
Function Impacts
None
4.3 Requirements
4.3.1 Licenses
For details about how to activate the license, see "License Management" in GBSS
Feature Documentation.
An RF module serving cells enabled with this feature requires the following
hardware licenses to be activated:
4.3.2 Software
Before activating this function, ensure that its prerequisite functions have been
activated and mutually exclusive functions have been deactivated. For detailed
operations, see the relevant feature documents.
Prerequisite Functions
RAT Function Function Reference (GBSS Description
Name Switch Feature
Documentation)
4.3.3 Hardware
Base Station Models
GU@5MHz √ √ √ √
Joint
Scheduling
NOTE
● √ indicates that the NE supports this feature. × indicates that the NE does not support
this feature.
● Only 3900 series base stations and 5900 series base stations support this feature. The
BTS3900B and BTS3900E do not support this feature.
● The BBU3910C does not support this feature.
Boards
Before enabling this feature, ensure that the following hardware planning
requirement is met:
Power specifications of RF modules used on the live network must meet GSM and
UMTS RF module power requirements after feature activation. GSM RF module
power is 3 dB lower than UMTS RF module power after this feature is enabled.
For the GBTS, the main control board supports only the GTMUb or GTMUc board.
For the eGBTS, the main control board supports only the UMPT board.
RF Modules
Except MRFU_V1/RRU3908_V1/MRFU_V2/MRFU_V2a/RRU3908_V2/MRFUd/
MRFUe/RRU3942/RRU3938/RRU3929/RRU3928/RRU3936/RRU3926/RRU3961, all
RF modules supporting UMTS and GSM support this function.
Cells
This feature is used with the GU@5 MHz Introduction Package feature. Before
enabling this feature, obtain the available spectral bandwidth of cells working in
GU@5 MHz scenarios based on the operator spectrum information, and determine
the GSM frequency planning solution based on spectral bandwidths. It is
recommended that GSM cell frequency planning obey the following principles:
● GU frequencies are allocated in a "sandwiched" manner, that is, slices of
UMTS spectrum are interleaved with layers of GSM spectrum.
● GSM cell frequencies are placed away from the UMTS center frequency.
● If network frequency spectrum is higher than 5 MHz, ensure that the BCCH
frequency of a GSM cell is placed outside the UMTS 5 MHz bandwidth.
● If the network frequency spectrum is 5 MHz, a maximum of 14 GSM
frequencies can be placed within the UMTS 5 MHz bandwidth, and a
maximum of 8 of them can be placed within the UMTS 3.8 MHz bandwidth.
NOTE
1. Frequencies of a GSM indoor distributed BTS cannot be placed within the UMTS 5 MHz
receive frequency band. Otherwise, severe interference may occur.
2. To perform GSM frequency refarming, contact Huawei technical engineers.
3. For details about RF planning on the UMTS side, see GU@5 MHz.
4.3.4 Networking
To enable this feature, ensure that the following networking requirements are
met:
● The GSM and UMTS cells enabled with this feature must be co-sited on the
network in a 1:1 ratio. The co-coverage GSM and UMTS sites must share one
antenna system (with the same azimuth and downtilt and sharing the same
antenna port). It is recommended that the involved base stations provide
continuous coverage. It is strongly recommended that base station coverage
be continuous, with no other types of sites added, in the areas to deploy this
feature.
● A single UMTS cell can have the same coverage with only one GSM cell.
● GSM and UMTS networks are provided by the same operator and use Huawei
equipment.
● The Iur-g interface must be configured on an IP interface board between the
RNC and the BSC and the QoS of transport networks using this interface must
meet the requirements listed in Table 4-2.
Table 4-2 QoS requirements of the Iur-g interface for transport networks
4.3.5 Others
The GBFD-191205 GU@5MHz Joint Scheduling feature must be enabled if
operators have used the WRFD-191209 GU@5 MHz Introduction Package feature.
Item Purpose
Item Purpose
Table 4-3 lists the GSM performance counters to be collected before this feature is
deployed. These counters can be used for helping observe GSM counter changes
after this feature is deployed.
The following table describes the parameters used for function optimization.
On the BSC LMT, trace Iur-g interface messages. Uplink RoT control has been
activated if the messages shown in the following figure are traced.
On the BSC LMT, trace Iur-g interface messages. Downlink comb filtering self-
optimization has been activated if the messages shown in the following figure are
traced.
5 Parameter
There are no specific parameters associated with this feature in this RAT.
6 Counters
There are no specific counters associated with this feature in this RAT.
7 Glossary
For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see "Glossary" in GBSS
Feature Documentation.
8 Reference Documents