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The first phase of Multi-Carrier HSPA (MC-HSPA) based on 3GPP R8 Technical

Specifications (TSs) uses two consecutive carriers in the downlink to transmit data
for one subscriber and named as Dual Carrier HSDPA (DC-HSDPA). The 3GPP R9
and beyond TSs specify the use of more than two carriers for a single subscriber
without the restrictions on the use of same frequency band.

DC-HSDPA allows a UE to set up HSDPA connections with two inter-frequency

synchronous cells that have the same coverage. In the downlink, the UE can
receive different data through HS-DSCHs from the two cells simultaneously. In the
uplink, however, the UE sends data only through its primary cell.

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In RAN12.0, non-equivalent deployment is not supported.

Within equivalent mode, both of anchor and supplementary cells are configured
with all the physical channels, within non-equivalent mode, only some of physical
channels are configured in supplementary cell. Please refer to next page for more
info.

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DC-HSDPA depends on the two features, HSDPA and downlink enhanced L2.

The anchor-carrier cell and the supplementary-carrier cell must belong to the
same NodeB and must be inter-frequency same-coverage neighboring cells with a
frequency spacing of 5 MHz. In addition, they use different downlink scrambling
codes.

Tcell is configured in each cell, this parameter could be modified by RNC

command MOD UCELLSETUP.

DL enhanced L2 could be activated by RNC command ADD/MOD

UCELLALGOSWITCH. ( RNC license required )

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Parameter

RNC command

PS_STREAMING_ON_HSDPA_SWITCH

SET UCORRMALGOSWITCH.

DL streaming threshold on HSDPA

DL BE traffic threshold on HSDPA

SET UFRCCHLTYPEPARA

MIMO_64QAMorDC-HSDPA

SET UFRC

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During RB setup or state transition from CELL_FACH to CELL_DCH, the RNC makes
DRDs to select a DC-HSDPA cell group and then select a primary-carrier cell for
the UE.

The procedure is as follows:

1. The RNC selects a set of candidate cells that meet the DRD quality conditions.
For details, see the Directed Retry Decision Feature course.

2.

From the candidate cell set, the RNC selects a DC-HSDPA cell with the HSPA+
technologies ranked first. The RNC finds the corresponding DC-HSDPA cell group
of this cell. If the other cell in this group is also in the candidate cell set, the RNC
takes this group as the candidate DC-HSDPA cell group and performs step 4.

The RNC selects a set of candidate DC-HSDPA cell groups as follows:

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The RNC select a DC-HSDPA cell group as follows



If there are multiple such DC-HSDPA cell groups and the

ServiceDiffDrdSwitch is on, the RNC selects a group with the highest
service priority.


If different DC-HSDPA cell groups support the same HSPA+

technologies, these groups are ranked on the basis of their service
priorities.
The service priority of a DC-HSDPA cell group is determined by the
highest service priority of the two cells in the group.

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If there are multiple DC-HSDPA cell groups with the same highest service

priority, the RNC selects a group based on DL load balancing between these
groups.

If the ULLdbDRDSwitchDcHSDPA switch is turned on, the RNC selects a primarycarrier cell based on UL load balancing between the two cells.
If the ULLdbDRDSwitchDcHSDPA switch is turned on, the RNC determines the
primary-carrier cell based on UL load balancing between the two cells.
If the current serving cell is not in the target DC-HSDPA cell group, the RNC select
a primary cell with lower load. Otherwise the RNC checks whether the remaining
UL load resource of the serving cell is lower than or equal to the value of
ULLdbDRDLoadRemainThdDCHSDPA:


If the condition is met, the RNC selects the serving cell as the
primary-carrier cell because its UL load is lower.
If the condition is not met, the RNC calculates the difference
between the UL load margin of the serving cell and that of the
target cell. Then,
If the difference is greater than the value of
ULLdbDRDOffsetDcHSDPA, the RNC selects the target cell as
the primary-carrier cell because its UL load is lower.
Otherwise, the RNC selects the serving cell as the primarycarrier cell.

b) If the ULLdbDRDSwitchDcHSDPA switch is turned off, the RNC selects the cell
which is selected through DRD sequences in step 2 as primary-carrier.

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Pmax: maximum DL power of a cell

Pnon-HSPA: DL power used for non-HSPA UEs in a cell

GBPSC-H: DL power required by the HS-PDSCHs to provide GBRs for SC-HSDPA

UEs in a cell.

GBPDC-H: DL power required by the HS-PDSCHs to provide GBRs for the DCHSDPA UEs in the DC-HSDPA cell group.

For a DC-HSDPA UE, the RNC performs the CAC based on the total DL power
margin of the DC-HSDPA cell group because the UE can use the DL power margin
of any of the two cells after the admission.

For a non-DC-HSDPA UE, the RNC performs the CAC based on the total DL power
of the serving cell minus the DL power used for the existing non-DC-HSDPA UEs in
this cell. If the admission is successful, the RNC continues to perform the CAC
based on the total DL power margin of the DC-HSDPA cell group.

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When receiving a measurement report indicating that the signal quality of a DCHSDPA cell is better than that of the serving cell (a DC-HSDPA cell), the RNC
decides whether to perform a DC-HSDPA handover to the target cell:


If the admission to the target cell is allowed and the corresponding

configuration is successful, the RNC performs the handover.
If the admission to the target cell is allowed but the corresponding
configuration is unsuccessful, the RNC reconfigures the service on SCHSDPA and then performs an SC-HSDPA handover.
If the admission to the target cell is not allowed, the RNC reconfigures the
service on DCH and performs a DCH handover:


If the DCH handover is allowed, the RNC performs the handover.

Otherwise, the RNC does not perform the handover.

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When receiving a measurement report indicating that the signal quality of a nonDC-HSDPA cell is better than that of the serving cell (a DC-HSDPA cell), the RNC
reconfigures the service to DCH or HSDPA and continue handover procedure.

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When receiving a measurement report indicating that the signal quality of a DCHSDPA cell is better than that of the serving cell (a non-HSDPA cell), the RNC
performs a handover after which the HSPA+ technologies supported by both the
source cell and the target cell are used in the target cell. If such HSPA+
technologies are ranked lower than some HSPA+ technologies supported by both
the target cell and the UE, the ChannelRetryHoTimerLen timer is started after the
handover. When the timer expires, the RNC tries to reconfigure the traffic radio
bearer (TRB) and signaling radio bearer (SRB) to enable them to support the
higher-ranked HSPA+ technologies.

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The NodeB selects the first cell from the two cells to perform the scheduling
process first.



The NodeB selects a cell based on the cell power load of each cell.
The NodeB selects the cell with lower cell power load for scheduling. If the
cell power loads of the two cells are identical or too high, the NodeB
performs the next step.
The NodeB selects a cell based on the number of SC-HSDPA UEs in each
cell.
The NodeB selects the cell with the smaller number of SC-HSDPA UEs for
scheduling. If the numbers of SC-HSDPA UEs in the two cells are identical,
the NodeB selects a cell for scheduling according to the Round Robin (RR)
strategy.

If the first cell is not capable of transmitting all the data of a UE, the NodeB
selects the second cell to provide service.

After determining the cell, the NodeB needs to determine the queuing of this UE
and other UEs in this cell.


The calculation of the scheduling priority of a DC-HSDPA queue needs to

consider the different CQIs and Uu rates of the two carriers. In the
proportional fair (PF) algorithm and enhanced proportional fair (EPF)
algorithm, R/r used for DC-HSDPA is different from that used for SC-HSDPA:
For SC-HSDPA, R represents the throughput corresponding to the CQI
reported by the UE for this carrier, and r represents the throughput
currently achieved by the UE. A greater R/r value indicates a higher
scheduling priority.
For DC-HSDPA, R represents the throughput corresponding to the CQI

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According to the scheduling algorism, each of the DC cells could be scheduled

independently.

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GUI Value

Actual Value

Recommended

Range

Range

Value

Impact RNC
Command

ON, OFF

ON, OFF

ON

RNC

ULLdbDRDSwitchDc
HSDPA

ON, OFF

ON, OFF

ON

RNC

ULLdbDRDLoadRem
ainThdDcHSDPA

0~100

0~1

25

RNC

0~1

10

RNC

MIMO_64Q

DC-HSDPA

RNC

Parameter
DCHSDPASwitch

ULLdbDRDOffsetDcH
0~100
SDPA
MIMO64QAMorDCH
MIMO_64Q
SDPASwitch
AM, DCHSDPA

AM, DCHSDPA

SET UFRC

SET UDRD

SET UFRC

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User rate is doubled in DC-HSDPA cells compared to SC-HSDPA cell because of the
full use of resources in two cells.

DC-HSDPA has gain of 2 times anywhere while MIMO causes obvious gain in cell
center only.

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When mono-user is in DC cell, the gain is significant at the cell edge, which is 50%.

When multi-users are in DC cell, transfer time is improved by 50% with DC-HSDPA
for as long as the air interface is not congested.

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The less the user number is, the larger the sector throughput gain.

DC-HSDPA can make full use of the radio resource by joint scheduling.

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System Simulation for full buffer service with 64QAM



In case of plenty of traffic volume, the capacity of system with MIMO is

larger than that with DC-HSDPA because the spectrum efficiency is
improved more by MIMO

The throughput of 10% best users in MIMO cells is 6% more than that in
DC-HSDPA cells

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The DC-HSDPA is recommended to implement in the Non-Capacity Limitation

Scenarios, for example, the some of Urban, Sub-Urban and part of rural and if
the characteristics of the commercial networks Traffic-Mode approach to the
Burst Service, the DC-HSDPA will contribute higher gain to the Cell throughput
and the QoS.

In the other side, the Capacity Limitation Scenarios, such as Dense Urban, some of
Urban/ Rural, the MIMO is recommended to enhance the spectrum efficiency and
achieve higher cell throughput.

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