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1. GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................................... 3 2. REFERENCE ................................................................................................................................... 3 3. SCOPE............................................................................................................................................. 4 4. INTRODUCTOIN ............................................................................................................................. 5 5. TERMINOLOGY .............................................................................................................................. 7 6. A-BIS RESOURCE SHARING PRINCIPLES................................................................................... 7 7. STATISTICAL GCH MULTIPLEXING.............................................................................................. 9 7.1 7.2 Basic technical principles....................................................................................................... 9 Beneficial effects.................................................................................................................... 9 7.2.1 7.2.2 Less A-bis nibbles consumption ............................................................................... 9 Better A-bis efficiency ............................................................................................. 10
8. DETAILS ON A-BIS DYNAMIC ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS ..................................................... 11 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Target number of GCH ........................................................................................................ 11 Transmission resource allocation at TBF establishment..................................................... 11 Regular transmission resources adaptation ........................................................................ 12 Order of selection of A-bis nibbles....................................................................................... 12 Size of the TRX Packet Pipe in case of A-bis congestion ................................................... 13 Minimum number of GCH per TRX ..................................................................................... 13
9. DETAILS ON GCH STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING ..................................................................... 14 10. A-TER ASPECTS .......................................................................................................................... 16 11. HW ASPECTS ............................................................................................................................... 17 12. O&M PARAMETERS ..................................................................................................................... 17
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1. GLOSSARY
BSS CS DL E-GPRS GCH GPRS GPU GMM GSM MS OMC-R MCS PDCH PS RA TBF UL
Base Station Subsystem Circuit-Switched / Coding scheme Downlink Enhanced GPRS GPRS channel General Packet Radio Service GPRS Processing Unit GPRS mobility Management Global System for Mobile communications Mobile Station Operation and Maintenance Centre,Radio part Modulation and Coding Scheme Packet Data Channel Packet Switched Routing Area Temporary Block Flow Uplink
2. REFERENCE
[1) 3DC 21144 0050 TQZZA: FFD EDGE and GPRS CS-3/CS-4 in Release B8
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3. SCOPE
The present functional feature description provides detailed information concerning to the handling of transmission resources for GPRS/EDGE traffic in the Alcatel BSS B9 release. More particularly the following features are described:
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Important note: Due to the early availability of this edition, the final content of the B9 release on the described features could be slightly different on some details. If it would happen a new edition of this document would be issued.
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4. INTRODUCTION
The deployment of EDGE and GPRS CS-3/CS-4 coding schemes allows reaching very high throughput on the air interface (up to 59.2 kbits/s for EDGE MCS-9 and 20 kbits/s for GPRS CS-4). When such high coding schemes are used, it is then no more possible to convey the packet traffic of one radio timeslot on a single 16 kbit/s Abis channel. For example one MCS-9 radio timeslot may require five 16 kbit/s A-bis channels. Additional transmission resources have to be configured on A-bis, but five 16 kbit/s Abis channels are not affordable for all radio timeslots: too high transmission costs shall be avoided through a flexible allocation of A-bis transmission resources to the radio timeslots. This concern is already taken into account since the B8 release through the notion of TRX class (see ref. [1]) for more details on packet transmission handling in the B8 Release): each TRX is associated a TRX class (from 1 to 5), the highest class allowing the highest throughput but consuming the highest number of A-bis timeslots. On the contrary, if in some areas lower throughputs are acceptable, then it is possible to use lower TRX classes to reduce the A-bis resource consumption. The generalization of the high GPRS and EDGE coding schemes in relation with the progressive increase of the packet traffic requires improvements of the A-bis efficiency. In the B8 release, the number of additional A-bis timeslots (called extra A-bis timeslots) is derived from the number of TRX of each class. With B9 the notion of TRX class disappears: the number of extra A-bis timeslots is determined by the Operator based on the overall expected packet traffic in each BTS and, inside each BTS the A-bis dynamic allocation algorithms allocate the transmission resources to each TRX depending on the actual radio traffic that it carries. Thanks to the A-bis dynamic allocation feature the number of extra A-bis timeslots can be significantly reduced. - Indeed the BSS is no more configured with the number of A-bis timeslots needed to carry the packet traffic generated when all the RTSs of all the packet TRX of the BTS use the highest coding scheme. - On the contrary, the Operator can configure the A-bis transmission for the nominal overall traffic in a BTS. In those conditions there is no A-bis congestion and all users can benefit from the maximum possible throughput. - When the packet traffic exceeds the nominal situation (e.g. when the traffic is extended to many cells simultaneously) A-bis congestion can be entered. In those cases the A-bis dynamic feature applies a fair bandwidth reduction to all the TRXs.
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On top of the dynamic A-bis feature, and as a key differentiator, Alcatel has developed the GCH Statistical Multiplexing feature. The basic principle is that transmission resources given to a TRX by the A-bis dynamic feature are gathered inside a kind of common transmission pipe, shared by all the PDCHs established on a TRX. This results in many advantages, which are detailed in the following sections. Two of them can be already distinguished here: - Additional A-bis gains on top of A-bis dynamic ones: even more A-bis timeslots are saved, - Instantaneous reaction to radio variations inside a TRX. For example as soon as a packet transfer ends, the other packet users connected to the same TRX can instantaneously benefit from a higher bandwidth. To preserve the voice QoS the dynamic A-bis feature is not applied to CS traffic. Like in previous releases, CS traffic is conveyed over the 16 kbit/s A-bis channel statically associated to each radio timeslot (its basic nibble).
As a sum up: - The operator has full flexibility to define by himself the number of transmission resources devoted to packet service. He can easily control the trade-off between throughput and transmission expense. - In most cases high packet throughput can be offered without adding a second A-bis link to the BTSs, even for large BTSs. - Voice Qos is not degraded. Also, thanks to the reduction of the number of needed extra A-bis timeslots, the impact of the introduction of the high GPRS/EDGE coding schemes on the G2 BSC TRX connectivity is much reduced: one TRX connectivity can be recovered when 2 A-bis timeslots are saved.
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5. TERMINOLOGY
- One A-bis timeslot or one Ater timeslot is made of four 16 kbit/s nibbles. - There are three kinds of A-bis nibbles: - The Basic nibbles, each of them being associated to a radio timeslot for voice traffic. They can also carry packet traffic. - The Extra nibbles, which come from additional A-bis timeslots used only to carry packet traffic. Their number is determined by the Operator. - The Bonus nibbles correspond to BCCH or SDCCH radio timeslots. They are free unless used to carry TRX and O&M signaling links (this is the case when the feature statistical multiplexing on 16 kbit/s channel is activated, see 15 11 40).
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Definition of the different kinds of A-bis nibbles - A transmission channel established for carrying (E)GPRS traffic is called a GCH (GPRS channel). It is established between the BTS and the PCU function and results from the switching of one A-bis nibble to one A-ter nibble by the BSC.
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The number of A-bis nibbles allocated to each TRX depends on its transmission needs, which in turn depends on the traffic on the air interface.
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This beneficial effect is also obtained when MS using different (M)CS share the same TRX packet pipe. Indeed if we consider the downlink traffic of one EDGE MS at MCS-9 on 4 radio timeslots and one GPRS MS at CS-3 on 4 RTS, 4.39x4 + 1.22x4 = 22.44 thus 23 GCH will be needed instead of 5x4 + 4x2 = 28 in a classical implementation. 7.2.2 Better A-bis efficiency As explained above, with GCH Statistical Multiplexing less transmission resources are needed. But this is not the only beneficial effect of the feature, as moreover those transmission resources are used in a more efficient way. Instantaneous reaction to radio variations inside a TRX Thanks to the pooling effect at TRX level, the impact of A-bis congestion situations is much reduced. The periods of times when all the users connected to the TRX do not have something to send at the same time are not wasted: this freed bandwidth is used by the remaining users having something to transmit. When one user suspends its packet transfer (Real transfer end, Delayed Downlink phase, Extended UL TBF Release phase, PDCH inactivity phase) or needs less radio throughput (because of radio fluctuations), this results in freed transmission bandwidth. As all the PDCHS of a TRX have access to all the A-bis nibbles allocated to this TRX, the other users connected to the same TRX benefit from this freed bandwidth and thus experience higher throughput, and this instantaneously. As a sum up, the feature allows taking full benefit from the burstiness of the GPRS traffic. (M)CS reduction is avoided When the packet traffic varies, the A-bis dynamic allocation algorithms reduce or increase the number of A-bis nibbles allocated to each TRX. In case of reduction, A-bis congestion may be reached. However this situation does not necessarily imply (M)CS changes. On the contrary, and thanks to the basic principle of the feature itself, a simple adaptation of the TBF scheduling inside the TRX packet pipe is sufficient most of the time: TBFs are scheduled more or less often depending on the size of the TRX packet pipe. This is an important advantage of the Alcatel solution as the detrimental step effect of (M)CS reduction is avoided.
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Decorrelation between uplink and downlink As an example lets consider 2 MSs, the first one performing an uplink transfer, the other performing a downlink transfer on the same TRX (but on different radio timeslots). Both MS can benefit from the whole TRX bandwidth, rather than half of it.
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If the target number of GCHs is reached, all the PDCHs of the TRX will be used at full speed. On the contrary there will be a potential throughput reduction.
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In this example we can see that the EDGE and the GPRS TBFs are selected alternatively to fill the TRX pipe. In the end there are only 3 remaining GCHs, which are not enough to schedule the EDGE TBF once more. Then to avoid transmission losses the GPRS TBF is scheduled again instead of the EDGE TBF. Then at the end of the 20 ms period: - The GPRS TBF got the maximum possible bandwidth (4 x 14.4 = 57.6 kbit/s) has it has been possible to schedule it 4 times (so on 4 PDCHs). - The EDGE has been scheduled 3 times corresponding to a 3 x 59.2 = 177.6 kbit/s bandwidth. - Only 2 GCHs have been unused.
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11. HW ASPECTS
The Abis dynamic and GCH Statistical Multiplexing features are supported by all the BSC and MFS generations. They are supported by all the BTS generations except the G1/G2 BTSs. For the G1/G2 BTSs static transmission principles continue to apply.
Name
Meaning
Instance
Available since
Highest usable CS (GPRS) Highest usable MCS (EDGE) Maximum number of PDCHs that can be allocated to PS traffic when the CS traffic is high
B8 B8 B6
EN_FAST_INITIAL_GPRS_ACCESS Enables/disables the GPRS Resource anticipation feature T_GCH_INACTIVITY T_GCH_INACTIVITY_LAST Inactivity timer value Inactivity timer value to be used for the last remaining GCHs allocated to a cell N_ATER_TS_MARGIN_GPU Number of free A-ter TS kept free per GPU to avoid cell famine N_EXTRA_ABIS_TS Number of extra 64 kbit/s A-bis timeslos per BTS
Cell
B8
BSS BSS
B9 B9
BSS
B9
BTS
B9
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