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•Local Cell Grouping allows splitting available baseband capacity into baseband pools responsible for processing traffic
from dedicated group of cells.
•Local Cell Grouping may be needed in case of BTSs with many cells, and can be used in Multi Operator RAN
(MORAN) case.
•When Local Cell Grouping is done – available BTS capacity is split among LCG according to BTS commissioning
settings. Baseband allocation to LCG is constant (recommissioning is needed to change LCG resources).
•With pure HW rel.2/rel.3 (RF + SM) a single LCG covers up to twelve cells. However, when 4-way Rx diversity is used,
up to six 4-way RX diversity cells can be dedicated to one LCG.
L LCG2
C
G
1 LCG3 LCG4
If frequency-layer-based LCG commissioning was selected, then all cells from frequency layer(s) must be dedicated to
the same Local Cell.
When at least one HW rel.1 is used (RF or SM) then up to 2 LCGs can be created (max 6 cells per LCG). In this case
fixed baseband pooling is possible – single LCG covers whole capacity of single System Module (e.g. LCG1: FSMD;
LCG2: FSME)
With pure HW rel.2/rel.3 configuration – flexible pooling is possible i.e the BB capacity can be freely dedicated among
LCGs (operators) by defining in commissioning the Access Baseband Capacity parameter.
LCG1:f1
LCG2:f2
RF Exemplary BTS
modules configuration with flexible
baseband pooling
LCG2
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Frequency based pooling Main Menu
Description
LCG1 LCG2
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
Commissioning parameter Access baseband capacity is used to define LCGs baseband capacity
For internal use
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Frequency BB pooling Main Menu
Requirements
Benefits/constrains:
• HSPA on both System Modules with more than one LCG
• LCG baseband capacity can be adjusted according to LCG need (flexible baseband pooling possible with HW rel.2/rel.3 only BTS)
• More HSUPA schedulers (one HSUPA scheduler per LCG)
• DC-HSDPA possible only when both DC carriers belong to same LCG .
• In RU30/40EP2, operator has a possibility to define Local Cell Groups in one of the two different
commissioning modes:
• Frequency layer based (traditional way - whole frequency layer dedicated to LCG);
• Sector based (whole frequency layer or part of frequency layer dedicated to LCG)
f1
f2
f3
f4
DC HSDPA
LCG1 FSM rel.2
FSM rel.3
LCG2 FSM rel.2
Benefits/constrains:
• HSPA on both System Modules with 2 LCGs
• More HSUPA schedulers (one HSUPA scheduler per LCG) and baseband capacity for HSPA traffic
• DC-HSDPA possible (DC sectors split between LCGs)
• Increase soft handover factor
•The operator has a possibility to define Local Cell Groups in one of the two different ways:
1
Frequency based Flexible baseband allocation / Fixed BB allocation due to
HW rel.1
f1 f1
f2 f2
f3 f3
f4 New name and new f4
capabilities
Whole carrier Carrier split
dedicated to LCG between LCG
2
Sector based Fixed baseband allocation
New
name
2 x SM rel.2 required + RF mod rel.2/3-> Fixed pooling 2 x SM rel.2 required + RF mod rel.2/3-> Fixed pooling
SM rel.3 support planned in RU50EP1 SM rel.3 support planned in RU50EP1
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Local Cell Grouping Main Menu
Description
Whole frequency layer must belong to LCG Pure SM rel.2/3 BTS: Frequency layer might be split among LCGs !!
Target dates:
2
Sector based Fixed baseband allocation
New
name
2 x SM rel.2 required + RF mod rel.2/3-> Fixed pooling 2 x SM rel.2 required + RF mod rel.2/3-> Fixed pooling
SM rel.3 support planned in RU50EP1 -> Fixed pooling (FSMF / FBBA / FBBA) SM rel.3 support planned in RU50EP1 -> Fixed pooling (FSMF / FBBA / FBBA)
Target dates:
SM rel.2 SM rel.3
RU30: WN7.0.2.3 RU50EP1
RU40: WN8.0.3.0
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Frequency Mapping to HW essentials
• Frequency mapping to HW allows to map whole frequency layer to given System Module. If some frequency layer
is mapped to a System Module, the selected System Module has to provide Common Control Channels,
HSUPA, and HSDPA processing resources (including A-DCH and SRB resources) for cells from the
assigned frequency layer. DCH users from the assigned frequency layer are also allocated at the selected
System Module, however, when the full System Module capacity is occupied, new DCH users can be allocated at
the second System Module.
• With Frequency mapping to HW it is possible to have HSPA on both System Modules with one LCG.
200/240 HSUPA
users per Extension
LCG1 f1
System Module
400/480 HSUPA users per LCG
f2
200/240 HSUPA
users per Master
System Module
For internal use Frequency mapping to HW can be used only with one LCG scenario
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Frequency mapping to HW Main Menu
Requirements
Benefits/constrains:
• HSPA on both System Modules with one LCG scenario
• More HSPA schedulers: Two HSUPA schedulers/four HSDPA schedulers
–> (240 HSUPA/480 HSDPA users per single System Module)
• More BB resources for HSPA -> (up to 15 subunits per single System Module (single
HSUPA scheduler) -> 2x15 = 30 subunits per BTS)
• Baseband pooling for R99 traffic (R99(f1) -> MSM or ESM; R99(f2) -> MSM or ESM)
f1
• Possible with multiple carriers f2
HSUPA HSDPA A-DCH DCH f3
MSM (f1,f2) (f1,f2) (f1,f2) (f1,f2,f3) MSM
Note: DC-HSDPA
requires both DC cells in
Frequency mapping to
HSPA (f1) R99 (f1,f2) HSPA (f1,f2) R99 (f1,f2,f3) HW used / one LCG
same LCG, served by
the same scheduler
HSPA (f2) R99 (f1,f2) HSPA (f3) R99 (f1,f2,f3)
Exemplary BTS
configuration:
- SM rel.2 + SM rel.2, 1LCG,
Frequency mapping to HW
DCH/A-DCH HSDPA DCH/A-DCH not used
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
Exemplary BTS
configuration:
- SM rel.2 + SM rel.2, 1LCG,
Frequency mapping to HW
R99 HSDPA HSUPA R99 not used
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
- AMR call is served with HSUPA resources (Rel.99 CE licenses not needed)
- if HSPA user = non-FDPCH user => no impact on baseband consumption
HSPA call - if HSPA user = FDPCH user => HSPA user should be treated (-> impact on HSUPA resources) as HSPA
(UL:HSUPA,
DL: HSDPA)
non-FDPCH user
HSPA call
(UL:R99,
- AMR call needs to be served at the same System Module as HSDPA
DL:
HSDPA)
- Additional R99 resources (UL/DL) needs to be allocated for AMR call (1 Rel.99 CE license needed)
• R99 baseband resources are allocated at HSPA System Module unless Frequency mapping to HW is used.
• With Frequency mapping to HW R99 carrier can be mapped to non-HSPA System Module
1 LCG
Not that CCCH processing resources are allocated at the same System Module as HSPA resources.
When Frequency mapping to HW is used then CCCH processing resources are on both System Modules
according to mapped cells.
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HSUPA Processing Sets distribution
• Available HSUPA BTS processing set resources needs to be distributed among HSUPA schedulers
• If HSUPA scheduler is present in both System Modules (same LCG), in this case BTS will allocate HSUPA
licenses proportionally to baseband capacity for traffic use of each System Module, with BTS processing set
granularity (see next slide).
• If Baseband pooling is used then BTS will divide HSUPA licenses between LCG’s according to
commissioned share (shareOfHSUPALicense). Sum of LCG shares is always 100%. HSUPA licence share is
performed with HSUPA BTS processing set licence granularity. If licenses cannot be share equally between
LCGs, in that case BTS will divide higher amount of licenses to LCG starting from lowest LCG number. E.g.:
if commissioned shares are 50% / 50% and there are 5 HSUPA licenses, then LCG1 gets 3 licenses and
LCG2 gets 2 licenses.
1 LCG
Total # of HSUPA Processing Sets
SM rel.2 SM rel.2
• The following principles are used to distribute HSUPA Processing Sets among 2 HSUPA schedulers (1 LCG):
HSUPA_SM1 = RoundDown { SM_1_subunits / (SM_1_subunits + SM_2_subunits) * Total_#_HSUPA_Processing_Sets }
HSUPA_SM2 = RoundDown { SM_2_subunits / (SM_1_subunits + SM_2_subunits) * Total_#_HSUPA_Processing_Sets}
where: SM_1_subunits – SM_1 amount of subunit for traffic use (after HSDPA scheduler(s), PIC and CCCH subunits allocation)
SM_2_subunits – SM_2 amount of subunit for traffic use (after HSDPA scheduler(s), PIC and CCCH subunits allocation)
Total_#_HSUPA_Processing Sets – total amount of available HSUPA Processing Sets
• The remaining licensed HSUPA Processing Set (if any) will be assigned to scheduler with lower number of HSUPA
Processing Sets. If both schedulers have the same amount of HSUPA Processing Sets, then remaining HSUPA
Processing Set will be assigned to the scheduler located at Master System Module.
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HSDPA license (users and throughput)
distribution
• Available HSDPA BTS processing set resources are distributed among HSDPA schedulers.
• Different rules are used for distribution of active users and throughput.
• Total licensed HSDPA users is controlled on BTS level and it can be divided between LCGs according to
commissioned shares.
• Commissioning share option (HSDPAusershare) defines the guaranteed HSDPA user capacity for each LCG.
• If commissioning is not done then user amount will be equally distributed among LCGs.
For example:
– 1 HSDPA BTS Processing Set 3 license was activated
It means that available user amount is 72 users. With one LCG created, 72 HSDPA users are available for LCG .
– 1 HSDPA BTS processing set 3 license was activated and two LCGs were configured.
• Operator can commission for example 20% of all available users to LCG1 and 40% to LCG2 and this mean that remaining 40% is common
for both LCGs and can be shared freely between them.
• In case when no commissioning is done, whole available amount of users is divided equally per each configured LCG.
HSDPA throughput
• Total HSDPA licensed throughput is distributed among the available HSDPA schedulers.
• When the maximum licensed HSDPA throughput per scheduler is calculated, it is distributed between HSDPA
schedulers proportionally to "Maximum Throughput per HSDPA” commissioned values (HSDPA Throughput Step)
• If there are only HSDPA Processing Set 1 licenses present in BTS, the division of licensed throughput will be done for
each scheduler according to the following formula:
Scheduler_licensed_throughput = Round_down { Number_of_HSDPA_Processing_Sets * ( Scheduler_HSDPA_throughput_step /
Total_number_of_HSDPA_throughput_step_per_BTS) } * 7,2 Mbps
• If there are only HSDPA Processing Set 2 and 3 licenses present in BTS, the division of licensed throughput will be
done for each scheduler according to the following formula:
Scheduler_licensed_throughput = Round_down { Number_of_HSDPA_Processing_Sets_ 2 + 4 *
Number_of_HSDPA_Processing_Sets_ 3) * ( Scheduler_HSDPA_throughput_step /
Total_number_of_HSDPA_throughput_step_per_BTS) } * 21 Mbps
HSDPA throughput
• If after calculations presented on previous slide, throughput for all schedulers is lower than total licensed, the
remaining throughput is distributed between schedulers with non-zero commissioned throughput. Schedulers are
prioritized in the following order:
• Scheduler with lowest value of licensed throughput divided by commissioned throughput;
• Master System Module is prioritized over Extension System Module
• Scheduler with lowest ID is prioritized
• System Module rel.2 HSDPA scheduler supports up to 6 cells and provide capacity of 240 HSDPA users.
• Single HSDPA scheduler can support cells from different LCGs (LCGs using System Module rel.2 baseband
capacity)
• A-DCH/SRB resources (Rel.99 CE) are allocated at the same System Module as HSDPA scheduler.
• Single HSDPA scheduler can schedule up to 12 HSDPA users per TTI (max 4 users per cell). When 2 Tcell groups
belonging to same scheduler are used, then up to 6 users per Tcell group per TTI can be scheduled.
• Up to 2 HSDPA scheduler can be activated with single System Module rel.2
• Tcell groups 1 and 3 are handled by the first scheduler in System Module Rel.2 and Tcell groups 2 and 4 are
handled by the second scheduler System Module Rel.2.
• The same TCell values can be used by different cells if those are allocated to different frequency layers.
• With Dual Cell HSDPA feature both cells from one sector must have the same Tcell value. Note that with the dual cell
feature, two cells from the same sector need to be served by the same scheduler and belong to the same LCG.
• One scheduler can handle up to two Tcell groups. If there is only one Tcell group used, six cells can be supported. If
there are two Tcell groups assigned to the same scheduler, up to three cells per Tcell group can be supported
(still up to six cells are supported totally).
• The principles of grouping (maximum four TCell groups per LCG are possible) are as follows:
f1 f1
f2 f2
RF RF * Conditions for DC
modules modules HSDPA not met e.g.
lack of DC HSDPA
license
System Module System Module
Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell = Tcell =
f1 0 1 2 3 4 5 f1 0 1 2 3 4 5
f2 Tcell =
0
Tcell =
1
Tcell =
2
Tcell =
3
Tcell =
4
Tcell =
5
f2 Tcell =
0
Tcell =
1
Tcell =
2
Tcell =
3
Tcell =
4
Tcell =
5
f1 f1
f1 Scheduler 1 Scheduler 2
f2 Tcell = Tcell = Tcell =
Tcell = Tcell = Tcell =
f2 0 1 6 f1
f3 3 4 5