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Flex Abis
Feature Parameter Description
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4 Engineering Guidelines...............................................................4-1
4.1 Configuration of the Cascaded BTSs........................................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Configuration of BTS combined cabinets and cabinet groups......................................................4-1
4.3 Other Suggestions on the Configuration......................................................................................4-1
5 Parameters................................................................................ 5-1
6 Counters...................................................................................6-1
7 Glossary.................................................................................... 7-1
8 Reference Documents................................................................8-1
1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the Flex Abis networking, establishment of Abis transmission links, and
algorithm for half-rate channel allocation triggered by Abis overload. (GBFD-117301 Flex Abis)
Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:
01 (2010-06-30)
Draft (2010-03-30)
01 (2010-06-30)
This is the first release of GBSS12.0.
Compared with issue draft (2010-03-30) of GBSS12.0, issue 01 (2010-06-30) of GBSS12.0
incorporates the changes described in the following table.
Draft (2010-03-30)
This is the draft release of GBSS12.0.
GSM BSS
Flex Abis 2 Overview of Flex Abis
0 0
clock clock
Fixed Dynamic
10
TRX1 0 10
1
11 11
12 2
12
13 3
13
20 4 20
5
21 21
6
22 22
7
23 23
0
30 TRX2 30
1
31 31
2
32 32
3
33 33
40 4
40
41 5 41
42 6 42
43 7 43
50 5 0
Occupied Idle
The Flex Abis resource pool consists of all the Abis interface transmission resources, excluding the
static PDCH, semipermanent connection timeslots, monitoring timeslots, signaling link timeslots, Abis
transmission timeslots in fixed allocation mode, and idle timeslots. The Flex Abis resource pool is
shared by the CS service and PS service (including the idle timeslots) among different cells and BTSs.
GSM BSS
3 Technical Description Flex Abis
The timeslots in the Flex Abis resource pool are allocated to the TCH and PDCH. The full-rate TCH and
PDCH are allocated 16 kbit/s timeslots; whereas the half-rate TCH is allocated the 8 kbit/s timeslot. For
details, see Channel Management Parameter Description and GPRS/EGPRS Channel Management
Parameter Description. When the transmission resources are insufficient, the CS service can preempt
the timeslots of the PS service.
You are advised to enable Flex Abis in the following scenarios to make better use of the Abis interface
transmission resources.
Transmission resources are limited, and the rent for them is very high, for example, in satellite
transmission mode.
The traffic volume in actual situation is far lower than that in the channel resource planning.
The cells that share Abis interface transmission resources have different traffic peak hours.
The proportion of PS service users in the cell is high.
B PoolB1 B B
S T T T
Pool 0
Pool 1
C S S Pool 2 S
0 1 2
When a channel on BTS2 is allocated, the BSC must dynamically allocate the Abis interface
transmission resources to Link1, Link2, and Link3 for the channel, and instruct BTS0, BTS1, and BTS2
to establish transmission links for the channel, as shown in Figure 3-3. Therefore, the Extended
Signaling Link (ESL) must be configured for each Flex Abis capable BTS to carry the signaling. In 64
kbit/s multiplexing mode, the ESL and Operation and Maintenance Link (OML) must be physically
multiplexed on the same 64 kbit/s E1 timeslot. To increase the number of ESLs, you are advised to
reduce the number of Radio Signaling Links (RSLs) multiplexed with the OML to two by setting the
parameter MPMODE.
Figure 1.1 Working principle of Flex Abis
Pool 2
BTS 2
Link 3
Pool 1
BTS 1
Link 2
BSC Link 1
Pool 0
BTS 0
Congestion threshold is set for controlling usage of the transmission bandwidth. When the threshold is reached, the
following methods of load control can be applied.
PSDOWN(PS Downspeeding): PS service rate decrease
CSPH(CS Preference TCHH): Allocation of half-rate channels to newly-accessed MSs requesting CS services
AMRC(AMRC): Limited AMR rate for MSs in CS services
CSFHHO(CS TCHF-TCHH HO): Handover of MSs in CS services from the full-rate channel to the half-rate channel
The execution sequence of PSDOWN(PS Downspeeding), AMRC(AMRC), CSPH(CS Preference TCHH), and
CSFHHO(CS TCHF-TCHH HO) is specified by the parameters LDRFST, LDRSND, LSRTRD, and LDRFOUH.
When all the Abis interface transmission resources are occupied, the new CS service can preempt the
Abis interface transmission resources of the PS service. For details, see Abis Resources of the PS
Service Preempted by the CS Service.
After Flex Abis is enabled, the Abis interface transmission resources can be dynamically allocated without configuring the
static PDTCH and TSCOUNT if the actual traffic volume is far lower than the estimated value in network planning. That
is, the primary link and secondary link are dynamically allocated to the PS service.
If the traffic volume of the PS service remains low, the configuration of static PDTCH and TSCOUNT is
not required. When the CS traffic is heavy, all Abis interface transmission resources may be occupied.
In this case, no Abis resource is available for the subsequent PS service. Therefore, when the CS traffic
is heavy, some static PDTCHs should be reserved. In addition, the parameter TSCOUNT should be
configured to preserve dedicated timeslots for the PS service so that the GPRS or EGPRS service can
still be normally processed.
CSPH, CSFHHO
Unit: None
Default Value: AMRC
LSRTRD BSC6900 SET Meaning: Third action taken for load control
LDR(Option
al) GUI Value Range: CLOSE(Close), PSDOWN(PS
Downspeeding), AMRC(AMRC), CSPH(CS Preference
TCHH), CSFHHO(CS TCHF-TCHH HO)
Actual Value Range: CLOSE, PSDOWN, AMRC,
CSPH, CSFHHO
Unit: None
Default Value: CSPH
LDRFOUH BSC6900 SET Meaning: Fourth action taken for load control
LDR(Option
al) GUI Value Range: CLOSE(Close), PSDOWN(PS
Downspeeding), AMRC(AMRC), CSPH(CS Preference
TCHH), CSFHHO(CS TCHF-TCHH HO)
Actual Value Range: CLOSE, PSDOWN, AMRC,
CSPH, CSFHHO
Unit: None
Default Value: CSFHHO
TSCOUNT BSC6900 SET Meaning: Number of idle timeslots. You can configure
BTSIDLETS up to 128 idle timeslots for the BTS at a time. A BTS
(Mandatory) can be configured with up to 512 idle timeslots.