Dual-cell HSDPA

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

Introduction
Dual Cell allow 2 adjacent channels to be combined
to generate an effective HSDPA channel bandwidth
of 10 MHz
Dual Cell Approach

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

DC-HSDPA Principles

DC-HSDPA provides greater flexibility to the HSDPA Scheduler, i.e. the scheduler can allocated resources
in the frequency domain as well as in the code and time domains

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

Example from DT
HSDPA Throughput enhanced after DC HSDPA activated as below

Before

After

Before

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After

Max

18400 KB/S

24955 KB/S

Aver

4932 KB/S

8768 KB/S

Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

DC-HSDPA: UE Cat & Requirements

DC-HSDPA & 64QAM enable DL 42 Mbps peak rates

UE categories for DC-HSDPA support: Cat. 21, 22, 23 & 24
optional feature:
requires long term RNC license for specific number of cells ( Already Installed in All RNCs )

following features must be enabled on the 2 Carriers :

HSDPA (HSDPAEnabled)
HSUPA (HSUPAEnabled)
HSDPA 15 codes (HS-PDSCHcodeset)
HSDPA 14 Mbps per User (HSDPA14MbpsPerUser)
HSDPA64QAMallowed (good channel conditions required to apply / take benefit of 64QAM CQI >= 26)
DCellHSDPAEnabled
DCellHSDPAFmcsId

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

DC-HSDPA & LCG

DC
HSDPA
2 LCG

1 LCG

DC HSDPA Enabled after New

Splitting (must be per sector
not per carrier)

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DC HSDPA Enabled Direct after the

previous Features enabled without

any other action

Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

DC HSDPA Activation On 2 LCG

We must make LCG Splitting per Sector

I.

To make LCG Splitting ( 2 HSDPA & HSUPA PSs or more ) must be in The site

II. each cell belonging to the same sector must be in The Same LCG & have the same Tcell value

III. We divide the Sectors in 2 LCG based on the traffic per Cell
IV. Tcell values belonging to different sectors must belong to different Tcell groups in the same LCG

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

LCG Splitting Configuration needed to activate DC HSDPA

Parameter name

Family Name

Defination

Comment

listId

A_WBTSF_LCELGW_LCELIDLIST

Cell ID no of In LCG

Must be sorted from smallest to largest In

Every LCG from 1 to 12

lCelIdList

A_WBTSF_LCELGW_LCELIDLIST

LCR ID In LCG

Must take the same LCR ID of the cell

lCelGwId

A_WBTSF_LCELGW_LCELIDLIST

Cell group identification.

hsdpaThroughputStep

A_WBTSF_BTSSCW_HSDPASCHEDLIST

Defines the scheduler inside local cell group

Maximum throughput for HSDPA scheduler

sched

A_WBTSF_BTSSCW_HSDPASCHEDLIST

Defines the scheduler inside local cell group.

accessBbCapacity

A_WBTSF_LCELGW

Defines the access to Baseband HW capacity

for each local cell group.

Must equal shareOfHSUPALicences

dedicatedBbCapacity

A_WBTSF_LCELGW

Defines the quarantined Baseband capacity

for each local cell group

Must equal 0

shareOfHSDPAUser

A_WBTSF_LCELGW

defines how many licensed HSDPA users

belongs to certain LCG

Must equal 0

shareOfHSUPALicences

A_WBTSF_LCELGW

defines how many HSUPA licenses belongs

to certain LCG. No common pool.

Divided based on the percentage of the

traffic of the cells in every LCG

MaxNumberEDCHLCG

A_WBTS

the maximum number of E-DCH allocations in

the BTS specific local cell group

Multiply in the percentage of

shareOfHSUPALicences

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

By default it was 3 But we Change it to 6 if

there is HSDPA PSs type 3 to reach to 42 M
DL rate

DC HSDPA Counters

M5000C329 / SUM OF ACTIVE DC HSDPA USERS WITH ONE CARRIER

M5000C328 / SUM OF ACTIVE DC HSDPA USERS WITH TWO CARRIERS.
M5000C330 / SUM OF CAPABLE DC HSDPA USERS. . . . . . . . . . . .

M5000C331 / TTI SCHEDULED DC HSDPA USER FOR PRIMARY CARRIER WITH ONE CARRIER
M5000C332 / TTI SCHEDULED DC HSDPA USER FOR SECONDARY CARRIER WITH ONE CARRIER
M5000C333 / TTI SCHEDULED DC HSDPA USER FOR PRIMARY CARRIER WITH TWO CARRIER.
M5000C334 / TTI SCHEDULED DC HSDPA USER FOR SECONDARY CARRIER WITH TWO CARRIER.

There is report already created with the above Counters

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015

Enjoy & Thank You

Ahmed Hakiem

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Author Ahmed Hakiem / Date 10 Dec 2015