CE Utilization Calculation

Content

 CE Definition
 CE Ladder of DPDCH and E-DPDCH in RAX2 and
RAX2e
 CE usage in HSPA
 Getting Hardware Config using Moshell
 Calculating CE Utilisation using TrgAcc & TrigScan
Counters
 Calculating CE Utilisation using pdf Counter
 Summary

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CE Definition
 Channel Elements is measure of board capacity resources for handling of user
dedicated data channel and dedicated signaling channel
 Normalization of 1 CE:
• Downlink (DL): One AMR 12.2 kbps with SF=128
• Uplink (UL): One AMR 12.2 kbps with SF=64
 Net CE: Dedicated Channel (DCH) resources available in the system
 Gross CE: Resources available in the system including Dedicated Channel (DCH),
Common Channel (CCH) and Softer Handover
 UL and DL are on separate boards (TX Boards for DL and RAX Board for UL)

Uplink, RAX (R1) Uplink, RAX (R2e) Downlink, TX (R1/R2)

128 Nett CE (176 Gross) 228 Nett CE
16 Nett CE
Downlink, TX (R3)
Uplink, RAX (R2) 64 Nett (92 Gross) CE
32 Nett (64 Gross) CE 128 Nett (172 Gross) CE
64 Nett (96 Gross) CE 256 Nett (344 Gross) CE
128 Nett (176 Gross) CE
Downlink, HS-TX
128 Nett (172 Gross)
384 Nett (516 Gross)
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CE Ladder of RAX R2 - DPDCH

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CE Ladder of RAX R2 – E-DPDCH
(10 ms TTI)

Default : ROJ 119 2187/1, /2 and /3 only support this CE Ladder for E-DPDCH.
ROJ 119 2187/1 can handle up to 40, /2 up to 20 and /3 up to 10 E-DPDCH.

Optional : Change to the optional CE Ladder for E-DCH is done with SW feature FAJ 121
1157 “Channel Element Ladder for E-DCH with RAX R2”.

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CE Ladder of RAX R2e - DPDCH

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CE Ladder of RAX R2e – E-DCH

Only Supported with

2 ms TTI

Optional : Change to the improved CE Ladder for E-DCH is done with SW feature FAJ 121
1334 “Improved Channel Element Ladder for E-DCH”.

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CE Ladder of TX-R1/R2 - DPDCH

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CE Ladder of TX-R3 - DPDCH

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CE Ladder of HS-TX - DPDCH

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HSDPA CE USAGE

 HS-DSCH does not consume channel elements

 DL A-DCH does not consume channel elements from
normal SW licensed pool
 UL A-DCH consumes channel elements from normal
SW licensed pool and has to be considered in
calculations
 HSDPA 64/HS consumes 4 CE in UL per connection
 HSDPA 384/HS consumes 16 CE in UL per connection

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HSUPA CE USAGE

 E-DCH connections consume CEs from SW licensed

CE pool
 Certain amount of CEs is used for several bit rates
offered by E-DCH
 The resources for E-DCH are controlled by EUL
scheduler located in the RBS (not RNC)
 When EUL connection is accepted, each E-DCH user
has a minimum CE allocated to make it possible to
send non-scheduled data (e.g signaling and rate
request)

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HSUPA CE USAGE

 Additional CEs re-scheduling in the RBS

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Notes on HSDPA/EUL CE usage

 EUL can only be used by connections that use HS-

DSCH in the DL
 Not all HSDPA terminals/UEs are EUL capable

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How to Calculate CE Utilisation ?

TrigAcc & TrigSCAN Pdf Counter

Counter

Calculating CE Usage Calculating mean

Divide by HW Capacity Mean CE Utilization

CE Utilization

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Moshell Command to Get Installed
Boards

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Moshell Command to Get Hw and Sw
Active CE Capacity

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Statistic Measurements – TrigAcc & TrigSCAN
Counters
 Calculating CE Usage
Counter Used :
pmSumDlCredits/pmSumUlCredits (MO Class : Iublink, Type: TrigAcc)
Aggregate of total consumed RBS DL/UL credit measurements (in credits).

pmSamplesDlCredits/pmSamplesUlCredits (MO Class : Iublink, Type: TrigSCAN)

Number of samples in pmSumDlCredits (that is, pmSamplesDlCredits =pmSamplesDlCredits +1,
whenever pmSumDlCredits is to be updated).
Reset at each ROP period.

Formula : CE Usage = pmSumDlCredits / pmSamplesDlCredits (DL)

CE Usage = pmSumUlCredits / pmSamplesUlCredits (UL)

 Calculating CE Utilisation
Example:
HW installed 2 ROJ 119 2187/14 ( RAX R2e type) containing 128 CE
pmSumUlCredits = 136575
pmSamplesUlCredits = 900
Uplink CE Usage = 136575/900 = 151.75
CE Utilization = 151.75 / 256 = 59,28 %
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Statistic Measurements – pdf Counter

 If Hardware capacity is unknown, there’s another way to calculate CE Utilisation :

using pdf counter
 Counter Used : pmUlCredits (UL) / pmDlCredits (Dl)
[MO Class :Iublink)]

pmUlCredits:
The total consumed RBS UL credits, as a percentage. Stored in percentage,
according to the intervals below:
– [0] : 0 <= x < 25
– [1] : 25 <= x < 50
– [2] : 50 <= x < 60
– [3] : 60 <= x < 70
– [4] : 70 <= x < 75
– [5] : 75 <= x < 80
– [6] : 80 <= x < 85
– [7] : 85 <= x < 90
– [8] : 90 <= x < 95
– [9] : 95 <= x

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Statistic Measurements – pdf
Counters
pmUlCredits
[1] : 25 <= x < 50 %

[2] : 50 <= x < 60 %

[3] : 60 <= x < 70 %

[4] : 70 <= x < 75 %

[5] : 75 <= x < 80 %

[6] : 80 <= x < 85 %

[7] : 85 <= x < 90 %

[8] : 90 <= x < 95 %

[[0] : 0 <= x < 25 %

[9] : 95 <= x
Range

Mid Value

12.5% 37.5% 55.0% 65.0% 72.5% 77.5% 82.5% 87.5% 92.5% 97.5%
Samples
0 1 19 149 115 78 53 30 5 0

CE Utilzation mean = pmUlCreditsmean

= 0*12,5% + 1*37,5% + 19*55% + 149*65% + 115*72,5% + 78*77,5% + 53*82,5% + 30*87,5% + 5*92,5% +
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0*97,5%

450
= 72.47%
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Comparison of Measurements (1)
CE Utilization

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60.00%
Utilization (%)

Using Utilization Counter

50.00%
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Comparison of Measurements (2)
CE Utilization

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CE Utilization in Relation to
pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest
CE Utilization Vs pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest

100.00% 1400

90.00%

UlHwAdm=85 1200

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Count of pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest
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CE Utilization in Relation to
pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest – Cont’d
Samples of [85%<=pmUlCredits<100%] Vs pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest

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[7] : 85 <= x < 90 % [8] : 90 <= x < 95 % [9] : 95 <= x pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest

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Summary

1. There are two ways to measure CE utilisation :

Using TrigAcc & TrigSCAN Counter
– Calculating CE Usage and then divide by HW capacity to
get CE Utilization
– Calculating mean value to get mean CE utilization

Using pmUlCredits/pmDlCredits pdf counter

– Calculating mean value to get mean CE utilization

2. Pdf counter can show instantaneous CE usage in ranges

which can not be observed by TrigAcc & TrigScan counters

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References

 WCDMA Radio Capacity, Jun Jack Yong, N&TC/GSDC

Malaysia
 RBS 3000 Baseband Product Description,1/221 01-
FGC 101 811 Uen Rev S
 Channel Elements Dimensioning, Ante Tomljanovic

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