Annex.

2 Frequency Hopping influence on PCHO process

(1/4)

Signal decoding process

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- ENCODER

RXQUAL Frame Erasure Rate

Air Inside the mobile station

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Quality impact of frequency hopping on the reception chain

In non-hopping networks, the RXQUAL and voice quality are

correlated

In hopping networks, the voice quality is sooner correlated

to the FER. This is due to interferer averaging and due to

the non-linear mapping of BER to RXQUAL values.

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Quality impact of frequency hopping on the reception chain

FER is improved when frequency hopping is activated
(cyclic or random)
RxQual is not impacted whereas the speech quality is better

Average (RxQ & FER) RxQ Average

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Conclusion (4/4)

Conclusion
When frequency hopping is activated
We can accept in Power Control and Handover
processes, a threshold increase:
OFFSET_HOPPING_PC and
OFFSET_HOPPING_HO

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Annex.3 Load & Traffic evaluation

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Frequency hopping influence on PCHO process
Load & Traffic evaluation
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Cell TCH radio resource evaluation usage

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Load evaluation (1/5)

medium term measurement of the load of a cell

corresponds to function AV_LOAD(cell)
a new sample of the “Nb free TCH” in the cell is available
every TCH_INFO_PERIOD seconds
AV_LOAD() is a non-
sliding window load average from Nb free TCH samples
updated every LOAD_EV_PERIOD x TCH_INFO_PERIOD
sec

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Load evaluation (2/5)

AV_LOAD(cell n) calculated from N Nb free TCH samples

available during LOAD_EV_PERIOD x TCH_INFO_PERIOD sec
Nsamples
1 Nb free TCH (n)
AV_LOAD(n) = (1 − ) * 100
Nsamples i =1 Nb Tot TCH (n)

LOADfactors and FREEfactors also determined from Nb

free TCH samples every TCH_INFO_PERIOD seconds
(short term evaluation)
LOADlevels are boundaries of load intervals associating a
LOADfactor (db) to a Nb of free TCH samples
FREElevels are boundaries of Nb of free TCH intervals
associating a FREEfactor (db) to a Nb of free TCH samples

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LOADfactor determination:

t = ( - Nb free TCH/Total Nb TCH) x LOADfactor

t <= LOADlevel_ LOADfactor_
LOADLevel_ < t <= LOADlevel_ LOADfactor_
LOADLevel_ < t <= LOADlevel_ LOADfactor_
LOADLevel_ < t <= LOADlevel_ LOADfactor_
LOADLevel_ < t LOADfactor_

LOADlevel in %
LOADfactor in dB

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FREEfactor determination:

Nb free TCH FREEfactor

t <= FREElevel_ FREEfactor_
FREELevel_ < t <= FREElevel_ FREEfactor_
FREELevel_ < t <= FREElevel_ FREEfactor_
FREELevel_ < t <= FREElevel_ FREEfactor_
FREELevel_ < t FREEfactor_

FREElevel in absolute number of TCH

FREEfactor in dB

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