DPCH Power Control to Improve HSDPA

Throughput

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Contents

1. HSPA Overview
1.1 Why HSDPA.
1.2 HSDPA Channels.
2. Methods to improve HSDPA Throughput

1.1 IuPSRelNoRABTmr Timer.

1.2 Fast HSDPA Service Cell Change.
1.3 DPCH Power Control.

1. HSDPA Overview:

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1.1 Why HSDPA?

HSDPA can provide speeds up to 14 Mb/s; this is achieved by the following:

 HARQ: The main purpose of introducing HARQ is to reduce the

retransmission delay and improve the retransmission efficiency. HARQ
enables fast retransmission at the physical layer. Before decoding, the
UE combines the retransmitted data and the previously received data,
thus making full use of the data transmitted each time. In addition,
HARQ can fine-tune the effective rate to compensate for the errors
made by TFRC section.
 Fast Scheduling: Fast scheduling introduced into the NodeB
determines the UEs for data transmission in each TTI (2 ms) and
dynamically allocates resources to these UEs. It improves the usage of
system resources and increases the system capacity.
 MAC-hs: MAC-hs scheduling is used to coordinate the Uu resources,
user experience, and system capacity. It is implemented at the NodeB
MAC-hs.

1.2 HSDPA Channels

2. Methods to improve HSDPA Throughput

2.1 IuPSRelNoRABTmr:

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If CN doesn’t send IU_RELSEASE_COMMAND message, DCH user without RAB will use the
resource for long time, so we set such protect mechanism by the timer. If timer expires, RNC
will send IU_RELEASE_REQUEST message to CN.

After this change it was found that the non-HSPA power decreased and the HSDPA mean
channel throughput increased, as shown below:

Parameter description:

Timer for not releasing signaling over the Iu-PS interface when no PS RAB is set up. After this
timer expires, the RNC sends a RANAP IU RELEASE REQUEST message to the CN.

If the value of this parameter is too large, the radio resource usage increases and currently it
is set to 300s. We suggest reducing the value of this parameter so that more resources
become available to the users faster.

MML Command:
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SET USTATETIMER: IuPSRelNoRABTmr =10;

2.2 Fast HSDPA Service Cell Change:

FAST_HSDPA_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_SWITCH

During an HSDPA serving cell change, the RNC sets the activation time for the HSDPA
serving cell change to 1s and includes this activation time in the Uu interface configuration
message sent to the UE.
The UE is handed over to the target cell at this activation time. However, the signal quality of
the source serving cell may deteriorate during the activation time, which reduces the HSDPA
throughput.

When the FAST_HSDPA_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_SWITCH is set ON the RNC includes the

IE Delay restriction flag in the HSDPA serving cell change message.
After receiving this message, the UE immediately returns to the RNC an HSDPA serving cell
change complete message.

The intention was to avoid reception gaps (up to 2.56 seconds long) in case a reconfiguration
message has been received by the UE after its activation time.
With the introduction of this delay restriction flag, the network can order the UE to chose an
activation time T as soon as possible, therefore the UE will avoid to wait until the next
occurrence of the CFN
(Connection Frame Number is an indicator as to which radio frame the first data was received
on uplink or shall be transmitted on downlink. It can have a value of 0-255 and is 8 bits long)

The fast HSDPA serving cell change function has been introduced. This function significantly
shortens the HSDPA serving cell change delay and improves the HSDPA throughput.
The delay is the duration between the time the RNC sends a PH CH RECFG message and
the time the RNC receives a PH CH RECFG CMP message from the UE.

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H_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_MSG_OPT_SWITCH

When the H_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_MSG_OPT_SWITCH is set to ON, the size of the

“HSDPA serving cell change” message is reduced.
This shortens the delay of the HSDPA serving cell change message and improves the
success rate of HSDPA serving cell change.

MML Command:

SET URRCTRLSWITCH: OptimizationSwitch3=

FAST_HSDPA_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_SWITCH-1;
SET URRCTRLSWITCH: OptimizationSwitch3=
H_SERV_CELL_CHANGE_MSG_OPT_SWITCH-1;

2.3 DPCH Power Control

RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCLOADSTAT

Feature description:

In a network with a high penetration rate of intelligent terminals, there are a large number of
online users. In this case, the A-DPCH, mainly for signaling transmission and power control,
consumes most downlink power.
Therefore, it is necessary to decrease the A-DPCH transmit power to save the non-HSPA
power in a cell to increase the downlink service capacity.

This feature controls the A-DPCH transmit power based on the channel quality indicator (CQI)
of UEs in high downlink load scenarios.
A larger CQI indicates better UE signal quality and lower A-DPCH transmit power. A smaller
CQI indicates worse UE signal quality and higher A-DPCH transmit power.

A-DPCH transmit power can be restricted for the serving link and non-serving link to reduce
non-HSPA power consumption of a cell, and to provide sufficient power resources for UEs
performing data transmission, thereby improving the downlink cell capacity.

This feature can decrease A-DPCH transmit power regardless of whether there is signaling
transmission on the A-DPCH. This feature applies only to HSDPA users performing non-voice
services and whose downlink DPCH only carries the 3.4 kbit/s SRB. This feature does not
take effect for UEs in compressed mode.

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RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCLOADSTAT

Parameter description:

This parameter determines when to trigger the DPCH power control algorithm based on load
state. The lighter the load state specified by this parameter, the higher the probability of
triggering the DPCH power control algorithm based on radio quality.
This parameter will be set to trigger DPCH power control algorithm at DlLoadedState
(indicates the downlink resource light congestion state threshold 50%)

RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCPO

Parameter description:

A larger value of this parameter indicates a higher transmit power allowed for the DPCH. This
reduces the call drop rate but does not conserve downlink non-HSPA power, causing HSDPA
throughput to deteriorate.

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A smaller value of this parameter indicates a lower transmit power allowed for the DPCH and
a higher probability of conserving downlink non-HSPA power. This improves HSDPA
throughput but causes more PS service drops.

MML Command:

SET ULOCELLALGPARA: ULOCELLID=<             >,

RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCSW=ON,
RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCLOADSTAT=DLLOADEDSTATE,
RADIOQUALITYDPCHPCPO=50;

Risks: Activating this feature may increase PS CDR therefore we suggest to try this feature
on selected cells and monitor the effect on

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