ZXUR 9000 UR13 GSM Dimension Principle

ZXUR 9000 GSM Dimension
Principle
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ZXUR 9000 GSM Dimension Principle
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Purpose .................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Scope ..................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 GERAN Software Package Version ....................................................................... 4
2 ZXUR 9000 Dimension Input ............................................................................... 4

2.1 Traffic Profile .......................................................................................................... 4
2.1.1 Cell Number............................................................................................................ 5
2.1.2 CS Erlang ............................................................................................................... 5
2.1.3 PDCH Number........................................................................................................ 5
2.1.4 PS Data .................................................................................................................. 5
2.1.5 eBHCA.................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Transmission Type ................................................................................................. 7
2.3 Default Parameter .................................................................................................. 7
3 ZXUR 9000 Hardware ........................................................................................... 8

3.1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet ............................................................................................... 8
3.2 ZXUR 9000 Shelf.................................................................................................... 9
3.3 ZXUR 9000 Board ................................................................................................ 10
4 ZXUR 9000 Hardware Dimension ..................................................................... 12

4.1 Shelf Dimensioning............................................................................................... 12
4.2 Process Board Dimension .................................................................................... 12
4.2.1 UMP...................................................................................................................... 12
4.2.2 USP ...................................................................................................................... 13
4.3 Switch Board ........................................................................................................ 14
4.3.1 EGBS.................................................................................................................... 14
4.3.2 EGFS .................................................................................................................... 14
4.4 Bandwidth of Interface .......................................................................................... 15
4.4.1 Abis Interface........................................................................................................ 15
4.4.2 A Interface ............................................................................................................ 16
4.4.3 Ater Interface ........................................................................................................ 16
4.4.4 Gb Interface .......................................................................................................... 17
4.5 Interface Board Dimension ................................................................................... 17
5 Summary............................................................................................................. 18
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FIGURES
Figure 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet ............................................................................................. 9

Figure 3-2 ZXUR 9000 Shelf (Front, Rear and Flank) ......................................................... 10
Figure 3-3 ZXUR 9000 GSM Boards Overview ............................................................... 10
TABLES
Table 2-1 GSM Traffic Model ................................................................................................. 4

Table 2-2 GSM Control Plane Traffic Mode ........................................................................... 6
Table 2-3 GSM Transmission Type ....................................................................................... 7
Table 2-4 GSM Default Parameters ...................................................................................... 8
Table 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Board List ......................................................................................... 10
Table 4-1 ZXUR 9000 Process Board Dimension Principles ............................................... 12
Table 4-2 Capacity of USP .................................................................................................. 13
Table 4-3 Capacity of ETCB ................................................................................................ 13
Table 4-4 ZXUR 9000 Switch Board Configuration Principles ............................................. 15
Table 4-5 Interface Board Capacity ..................................................................................... 17

1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
The purpose of this document is to represent a suitable model for ZXUR 9000 GSM
dimensioning. It is noted that the document is a “living” document and shall be continually
updated to reflect any changes/outputs/adjustments throughout the course of the ZXUR
9000 GSM capacity design, implementation, hardware configuration modification and
software upgrade provided by operator.
1.2 Scope
The documentation presents the ZXUR 9000 GSM hardware architecture, traffic profile
analysis, board’s processing capability, and principles for board dimensioning.
1.3 GERAN Software Package Version
The dimensioning in this document is suitable for software version UR13, and will change
due to software version upgrade.
2 ZXUR 9000 Dimension Input
2.1 Traffic Profile
The ZXUR 9000 dimension is based on the traffic profile from the operator. The following
are the essential requirements for the ZXUR 9000 dimension, and can be considered as
the input of the dimension.
Table 2-1 GSM Traffic Model
Parameters Provided by Operator Abbreviation Value

Parameters Provided by Operator Abbreviation Value

Number of Erl N_Erl
Number of PDCH N_PDCH
Number of TRX N_TRX
Number of BTS N_Site
Number of Cell N_Cell
Number of equivalent BHCA (K/Busy hour) N_eBHCA
2.1.1 Cell Number
The definition of cell in GSM is sector.
2.1.2 CS Erlang
CS Erlang means the traffic in CS domain for voice call.
2.1.3 PDCH Number
PDCH number means the number of PS channel, which is calculated from the
requirement of PDCH channel per cell or per TRX by the operator.
2.1.4 PS Data
PS data means the traffic in PS service, decided by the PDCH number and the code rate.
2.1.5 eBHCA
In telecommunications, busy hour call attempts (BHCA) is a telephone traffic engineering

measurement used to evaluate and plan capacity for telephone networks. Generally,
BHCA is the number of telephone calls attempted at the busiest hour of the day (peak
hour), and the higher the BHCA, the greater the pressure on the network processors.
The concept of BHCA in ZXUR 9000 is different from its general idea, and named by
eBHCA (Equivalent BHCA). In this document, eBHCA is a comprehensive consideration
of all traffics and signal messages in busy hour. The eBHCA contains not only CS/PS call,

but also other signaling requirements, such as handover, update and etc. Different
signaling consumes different resources of ZXUR 9000.
Normally eBHCA is calculated based on the following messages combination. Each item
can be measured in live network, and the example date is recommended value by ZTE.
Table 2-2 GSM Control Plane Traffic Mode
Example of Convert
Signaling Model (per user) Unit
Requirements Coefficient
1 Erl/ Subscriber 0.03 Erl 6300%
2 MOC/ Subscriber 1.2 Times /Busy hour 100%
3 MTC/ Subscriber 1.1 Times/Busy Hour 137%
4 LOC/ Subscriber 2 Times/Busy Hour 31%
5 SMS / Subscriber 0.7 Times/Busy Hour 28%
Intra-BSC HO/
6 1 Times/Busy Hour 40%
Subscriber
7 HO-Inter/ Subscriber 0.2 Times/Busy Hour 46%
8 TBF/ Subscriber 8 Times/Busy Hour 20%
9 Paging/ Subscriber 1.1 Times/Busy Hour 17%
In which:
MOC: mobile originated call
MTC: mobile terminated call
LOC (LAU): Number of Location Area Update
SMS-MT: mobile terminated SMS
Intra-BSC HO: intra BSC handover
HO-Inter: Inter BSC handover
TBF: Temporary Block Flow

The idea behind the busy hour is that the traffic is not leveled throughout the day. There
are some peak hours in a day which are busy and have more traffic than normal hours.
During these hours traffic is at maximum level, and generally is used for network
planning and dimensioning. The traffic in busy hour is calculated up to operator, and
normally 4 hours per day are recommended.
Convert Coefficient is related to CS call that, how much capacity is occupied to process
other signaling.
And, Equivalent BHCA per BSC= (0.03×63+ 1.2×1 + 1.1×1.37 + 2×0.31 + 0.7×0.28 +
1×0.40+ 0.2×0.46 + 8× 0.20+ 1.1*0.17) * user number per BSC
The data of “Example of Requirements” in Table 2-2 are default traffic profile, which
should be modified according to the requirements of operator. Consider the redundancy
of the gap of the different network, the default value of equivalent BHCA per user is 9-10.
2.2 Transmission Type
According to the requirements from the operator, the transmission interface type for
ZXUR 9000 will be listed in Table 2-3 and Table 2-4 below:
Table 2-3 GSM Transmission Type
Item Transmission Type
Abis interface
A interface
Gb interface
2.3 Default Parameter
There are some other default parameters used in the ZXUR9000 hardware dimension,
the value of the default parameters is based on ZTE’s mode, shown in the following
table:

Table 2-4 GSM Default Parameters
Default Parameters Abbreviation Default Value
Average Rate of FR voice V_CS 13.2Kbps
Average Rate of HR voice V_CS 5.6Kbps

(1)
Average Rate of PDCH V_PDCH 50Kbps
Voice Active Factor VAF 1

(2)
Transmission redundancy RelayT 20%
Process redundancy(2) RelayP 10%
Notes:
(1) The default value of Rate of PDCH is based on MSC9.
(2) The transmission redundancy and process redundancy can be changed by operator.
3 ZXUR 9000 Hardware
3.1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet
The ZXUR 9000 is a standard 19-inch built-in cabinet, the height* width* depth of which
is 2200* 600* 800 (mm).
The ZXUR 9000 supports maximum configuration in 1 rack.

Figure 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet
3.2 ZXUR 9000 Shelf
The cabinet of ZXUR 9000 has 3 shelves. Each shelf has 28 slots (1-14 in front and
15-28 in rear).
ZXUR 9000’s shelves are logically classified into two types:
Master shelf is mandatory, and at least one master shelf needs to be configured. It has
the master clock distribution function and located at the bottom of cabinet.
Slave shelf is optional, and 0 to 2 slave shelves can be configured, which are regarded
as the capacity expansion of master shelf, and the first slave shelf is suggested to be
configured at the top of the rack.

Figure 3-2 ZXUR 9000 Shelf (Front, Rear and Flank)
3.3 ZXUR 9000 Board
Based on the functionality, the boards are classified into three types such as process
boards, interface boards and switch boards.
The following figure shows ZXUR 9000 GSM board overview.
Figure 3-3 ZXUR 9000 GSM Boards Overview
Interface Unit
10GE O&M Unit
EXGB1b Switch Unit
FE/GE
EGPB
UMP
IP E1 EGBS
EDTI
IP CSTM1
ESDTI
Processing Unit
TDM E1
EDTT
TDM CSTM1
ESDTT EGFS USP
TDM CSTM1
ESDTG
In ZXUR 9000, process boards are responsible for the control plane and user plane
processing. Interface boards are responsible for the transmission interface and protocol
processing. Switch boards provide system control, data switch, system operation and
maintenance.
Table 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Board List
Backup
ERS Board Full Name Function
Principle

Backup
ERS Board Full Name Function
Principle
Provides global
Universal
management
UMP Management Process 1+1 backup
processing and
board
maintenance
Process
1+1 backup
board Universal Service Fulfills service
USP and load
Process board processing function
sharing
Enhanced Trans Fulfills transcode load

ETCB
Coder Board function sharing
Enhanced GE Base the switch board of Load

EGBS
Switch Switch board control plane sharing
board Enhanced GE Fabric the switch board of user Load
EGFS
Switch board plane sharing
Enhanced Digital
Provides the TDM E1 Load
EDTT Trunk board TDM
interface sharing
version
Enhanced SDH 1+1 backup

Provides the TDM
ESDTT Digital Trunk board and load
CSTM1 interface
TDM version sharing

Provides the TDM
ESDTG Digital Trunk board and load
CSTM1 interface
GSM version sharing
Enhanced Digital 1+1 backup

Interface Provides the IP E1
EDTI Trunk board IP and load
board interface
version sharing

Provides the IP CSTM1
ESDTI Digital Trunk board IP and load
interface
version sharing
1+1 backup
Enhanced GE Provides the IP GE/FE
EGPB and load
Process Board interface
sharing
1+1 backup
Enhanced XGE Provides the IP 10GE
EXGB1b and load
Process Board 1b interface
sharing

4 ZXUR 9000 Hardware Dimension
4.1 Shelf Dimensioning
Each shelf has 28 slots, 14 slots in front and 14 slots in rear. Interface boards and switch
boards locate at the rear and the process boards locate at the front.
N_Shelf = Roundup (Max (N_IB/10, N_PB/14), 0)
In which:
 N_Shelf: Number of ZXUR 9000 shelf
 N_IB: Number of interface board
 N_PB: Number of process board
There are 14 slots in rear, and 4 slots are mandatory for EGBS and EGFS. Only 10 slots
available for interface boards. And all slots in front can be used for service board, and the
O&M board is included in the number of service board.
4.2 Process Board Dimension
4.2.1 UMP
UMP provides global management processing and maintenance function.
The number of UMP is fixed for 4, 2 for OMM and 2 for OMP. The slot number for OMM is
5-6, and for OMP is 7-8 in master shelf.
Table 4-1 ZXUR 9000 Process Board Dimension Principles
Board Name Dimension Principle

UMP 4 pieces per ZXUR 9000.

4.2.2 USP
The process board can be divided into USP and ETCB. USP fulfills control plane and
user plane processing, for A interface adopting IP Ethernet transmission type, USP
processes CS and PS service; for A interface adopting TDM transmission type, USP only
processes PS service, with the CS service processed by ETCB; for TC remote, USP is
responsible for PS service and another NE named iTC fulfills the transcode function.
According to the board capacity, the number of processing board is calculated. The
capacity of processing board for GSM is listed in the Table 4-2:
Table 4-2 Capacity of USP
Index Code Capacity

USP (IP A) USP (TDM A or TC remote)
PDCH N_PDCH_USP 3584 2688
CS Erl N_Erl_USP 6144 -
eBHCA (K) N_eBHCA_USP 1400 2100
TRX N_TRX_USP 1024 1536
Cell N_Cell_USP 512 768
Table 4-3 Capacity of ETCB
Index Code Capacity

CS Erl N_Erl_ETCB 4800
N_USP= EVEN (MAX (N_USP_CP, N_USP_UP))
N_USP_CP= ROUNDUP (MAX (N_eBHCA/ N_eBHCA_USP, N_TRX/ N_TRX_USP,

N_Cell/ N_Cell_USP)/ (1-RelayP), 0)* 2
N_USP_UP= ROUNDUP (N_PDCH/ N_PDCH_USP+ N_Erl/ N_Erl_USP)/ (1-RelayP),

0)
N_ETCB= MAX (2, ROUNDUP (N_Erl/ N_Erl_ETCB / (1-RelayP), 0))
In which:

 N_USP: Number of USP
 N_USP_CP: Number of USP decided by control plane
 N_USP_UP: Number of USP decided by user plane
 N_ETCB: Number of ETCB
 *2: means 1+1 backup
 Considering the reliability, configure at least 2 pieces of the boards.
4.3 Switch Board
The switch board provides large-capacity and non-blocking switch function for system
control management, communication between service processing boards and traffic
connection among multiple access units.
The switch board includes:
4.3.1 EGBS
EGBS is the switch board of control plane, and 2 pieces EGBS provide intra-shelf (52G)
and inter-shelf (4G) control plane switch channel. The slot number for EGBS is 19-20.
EGBS in the master shelf is also in charge of the control plane channel between slave
shelves and master shelf.
4.3.2 EGFS
EGFS is the switch board of user plane, and 2 pieces EGFS provide intra-shelf (68G)
and inter-shelf (20G) user plane switch channel. The slot number for EGFS is 21-22.
EGFS in the master shelf is in charge of the user plane channel between slave shelves
and master shelf.
EGFS in master shelf also works as a clock board, which is responsible for the clock
supply and external synchronization.

The configuration principles for the switch boards are described in Table 3-1:
Table 4-4 ZXUR 9000 Switch Board Configuration Principles
Board Name Dimension Principle

EGBS 2 pieces per shelf. Load sharing
EGFS 2 pieces per shelf. Load sharing
4.4 Bandwidth of Interface
Generally, the bandwidth of PS is larger in the downlink compared with the uplink, in
order to simplify the calculation, only the downlink bandwidth is calculated in this
document, and assumption the bandwidth of uplink is equal to downlink.
4.4.1 Abis Interface
 TDM Abis
TS_Abis=ROUNDUP (N_PDCH + N_Erl* R_FR/ 4+ N_Erl* R_HR/ 8+ B_AbisSig/ 64, 0)
In which:
 TS_Abis: Total TS of Abis interface
 The formula has not yet considered the transmission redundancy (RelayT),
same as the following calculation of other interface.
 IP Abis
B_Abis= (B_AbisCS + B_AbisPS + B_AbisSig)
B_AbisCS= T_CS_FR/ (1-C_Abis_FR)+ T_CS_HR/ (1- C_Abis_HR)
B_AbisPS = N_PDCH* V_PDCH/ (1- C_Abis_PS)
In which:

 B_Abis/ B_AbisCS/ B_AbisPS/ B_AbisSig: Bandwidth of Abis interface/ Abis

interface CS service/ Abis interface PS service/ Abis interface signaling
 N_PDCH: Number of PDCH
 V_PDCH: Average rate of PDCH
 C_Abis_FR/ C_Abis_HR/ C_Abis_PS: Transmission overhead for Abis

interface CS or PS service
4.4.2 A Interface
 TDM A
TS_A= (N_Erl+ N_Erl* B_No7_Erl/ 64)
In which:
 TS_A: Total TS number of A interface
 B_No7_Erl: Bandwidth of A interface signaling
 IP A
B_A= (T_CS_FR/ (1-C_A_FR)+ T_CS_HR/ (1- C_A_HR)+ N_Erl* B_No7_Erl)
In which:
 B_A: Bandwidth of A interface Signaling
 C_Abis_FR/ C_Abis_HR: Transmission overhead for A interface CS service
4.4.3 Ater Interface
TS_Ater= (N_Erl* R_HR/ 8+ N_Erl* (1- R_HR)/ 4 + TS_AterNo7)
In which:
 TS_Ater: Total TS Number of Ater interface
 R_HR: the ratio of HR voice

 TS_AterNo7: Total TS Number of Ater interface signaling
4.4.4 Gb Interface
B_Gb= N_PDCH *V_PDCH/ (1- C_Gb)
In which:
 B_Gb: Bandwidth of Gb interface
 C_Gb: Transmission overhead for Gb
4.5 Interface Board Dimension
Each interface board has the limitation such as throughput capacity, Erl capacity, and the
BTS number in Abis interface. With the requirements of the network, the interface board
number can be calculated. Interface boards limitations are shown in the following table.
Table 4-5 Interface Board Capacity
Interface Interface BTS Timeslot

Capacity
Board Port Number Number
Abis: 992 TS
EDTT 32 E1 128 - A: 992 TS
Ater: 700 TS
ESDTT 4 CSTM-1 - - A: 7812 TS
Abis: 3906 TS
ESDTG 4 CSTM-1 512 - A: 7812 TS
Ater: 2800 TS
120 PS: 55Mbps (DL)

EDTI 32 E1 -
(MLPPP) CS: 3650HR Erl/ 2350 FR Erl
AbisPS: 440Mbps(DL)
256
ESDTI 4 CSTM-1 Gb: 256Mbps(DL) -
(MLPPP)
CS: 11000Erl

Interface Interface BTS Timeslot

Capacity
Board Port Number Number
AbisPS: 1400Mbps(UL+DL)
400
EGPB 4 GE Gb: 1900Mbps(UL+DL) -
(1588V2)
CS:10000Erl
AbisPS: 3500Mbps(UL+DL)
1000
EXGB1b 2* 10GE Gb: 4900Mbps(UL+DL)
(1588V2)
CS:25000Erl
The default capacities of EGPB and EXGB1b are based on the average packet length of
each interface.
5 Summary
This document describes the dimension principles that define the inputs for the
dimension of interface bandwidth and the ZXUR 9000 hardware, as well as the
dimension methodology.

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ZTE Confidential Proprietary 1

2 ZXUR 9000 Dimension Input ............................................................................... 4

3 ZXUR 9000 Hardware ........................................................................................... 8

4 ZXUR 9000 Hardware Dimension ..................................................................... 12

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Figure 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet ............................................................................................. 9

Table 2-1 GSM Traffic Model ................................................................................................. 4

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1.3 GERAN Software Package Version

2 ZXUR 9000 Dimension Input

2.1 Traffic Profile

Table 2-1 GSM Traffic Model

Parameters Provided by Operator Abbreviation Value

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Parameters Provided by Operator Abbreviation Value

Number of PDCH N_PDCH

Number of TRX N_TRX

Number of BTS N_Site

Number of Cell N_Cell

Number of equivalent BHCA (K/Busy hour) N_eBHCA

2.1.1 Cell Number

The definition of cell in GSM is sector.

CS Erlang means the traffic in CS domain for voice call.

2.1.3 PDCH Number

In telecommunications, busy hour call attempts (BHCA) is a telephone traffic engineering

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Table 2-2 GSM Control Plane Traffic Mode

2 MOC/ Subscriber 1.2 Times /Busy hour 100%

3 MTC/ Subscriber 1.1 Times/Busy Hour 137%

4 LOC/ Subscriber 2 Times/Busy Hour 31%

5 SMS / Subscriber 0.7 Times/Busy Hour 28%

7 HO-Inter/ Subscriber 0.2 Times/Busy Hour 46%

8 TBF/ Subscriber 8 Times/Busy Hour 20%

9 Paging/ Subscriber 1.1 Times/Busy Hour 17%

MOC: mobile originated call

MTC: mobile terminated call

LOC (LAU): Number of Location Area Update

SMS-MT: mobile terminated SMS

Intra-BSC HO: intra BSC handover

HO-Inter: Inter BSC handover

TBF: Temporary Block Flow

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2.2 Transmission Type

Table 2-3 GSM Transmission Type

Item Transmission Type

2.3 Default Parameter

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Table 2-4 GSM Default Parameters

Default Parameters Abbreviation Default Value

Average Rate of FR voice V_CS 13.2Kbps

Average Rate of HR voice V_CS 5.6Kbps

Voice Active Factor VAF 1

Process redundancy(2) RelayP 10%

(1) The default value of Rate of PDCH is based on MSC9.

3 ZXUR 9000 Hardware

3.1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet

The ZXUR 9000 supports maximum configuration in 1 rack.

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Figure 3-1 ZXUR 9000 Cabinet

3.2 ZXUR 9000 Shelf

ZXUR 9000’s shelves are logically classified into two types: