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Power Control Feature Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Feature Attributes.............................................................................................. 7
2 Overview ............................................................................................................ 7
2.1 ZWF21-04-008 Downlink Power Balance ............................................................. 8
2.2 ZWF21-04-009 Power Control ............................................................................. 8
2.3 ZWF21-04-024 User Differentiated Power Control ............................................... 9
2.4 ZWF23-04-005 Power Allocation for HSDPA ..................................................... 10
2.5 ZWF25-04-006 Power Allocation for HSUPA ..................................................... 11
2.6 ZWF25-04-009 HSUPA Adaptive Transmission ................................................. 12
2.7 ZWF21-04-015 Power Control Algorithm Enhancement ..................................... 12
2.8 ZWF23-01-015 HSDPA CQI Adjustment ............................................................ 12
2.9 ZWF21-41-010 Common Channel Power Optimization ...................................... 13
4.12 Related Parameters of Load based CQI Feedback Cycle and CQI Repetition
Factor .............................................................................................................. 175
4.12.1 List of Related Parameters of Load based CQI Feedback Cycle and CQI
Repetition Factor ............................................................................................. 175
4.12.2 Configuration of Related Parameters of Load based CQI Feedback Cycle and
CQI Repetition Factor ...................................................................................... 175
4.13 Related Parameters of Common Channel Power Optimization ........................ 177
4.13.1 List of Related Parameters of Common Channel Power Optimization .............. 177
4.13.2 Configuration of Related Parameters of Common Channel Power Optimization177
FIGURES
TABLES
1 Feature Attributes
System version: [RNC V3.12.10/V4.12.10, the Node B V4.12.10, OMMR V12.12.41,
OMMB V12.12.40]
Involved NEs:
UE Node B RNC MSCS MGW SGSN GGSN HLR
√ √ √ - - - - -
Note:
*-: Not involved.
*√: Involved.
Dependency: [None]
Note: [None]
2 Overview
The uplink of the WCDMA system is interference limited, the transmit power of all other
user equipment (UE) acts as interference for a mobile station (MS). This is because the
MSs are distributed randomly in a cell, some being far and some being near to the Node
B. If all MSs transmit with the same power, the high-power signals received closer to the
Node B will cover up the low-power signals received far from the Node B, and many
errors occur affecting the subscribers far from the Node B, hence the far-near effect. In
addition, the radio channel used for mobile communication has a wide-band dynamic
frequency, which is usually affected by various Doppler fast fading effects along the radio
link. Therefore, a fast and accurate power control mechanism is necessary to ensure the
quality of service for all subscribers.
There are many power control algorithms: uplink open loop power control, downlink open
loop power control, uplink inner loop power control, downlink inner loop power control,
uplink outer loop power control, downlink outer loop power control, and downlink power
balancing. Through the functional evolution of WCDMA, power control can be classified
into R99, HSDPA, HSUPA and MBMS types.
During the soft handover or macro diversity status, UE can communicate with all cells in
the active set. The UE sends the same TPC command to the cells in the active set. But
as each link travels through different transmission paths, errors are produced in the TPC
command and some Node Bs receive the wrong TPC command. As a result, some Node
Bs increases transmit power and some Node Bs decreases transmit power, hence power
drifting. Power drifting is usually eliminated through the power balancing approach.
Downlink power balancing is originated by the RNC. It allocates a power benchmark for
reference or common reference for each radio link in the active set. The Node B
calculates the power value of each link adjusted as a result of power balancing and adds
the value into the current power value used for downlink inner loop power control. By
using this method, power drifting is prevented on the radio link.
This feature is implemented by the RNC and Node B and used together with the inner
loop power control.
Power control comprises uplink power control and downlink power control. Uplink power
control is used to eliminate far-near effect to ensure system capacity and user QoS.
Downlink power control is used to improve system capacity on the condition that the user
QoS is guaranteed. Power control comes in three types in two directions: open loop
power control, outer loop power control and inner loop power control.
Open loop power control sets the initial transmit power of the physical channel. Inner
loop power control is the major part of power control and is used to overcome the fast
fading along the radio path. Both open and inner loop power control are realized on the
physical layer of the Node B and UE. The parameters of inner loop power control are
configured through the RNC. Outer loop power control is used to ensure the quality of the
radio link by setting the SIRtarget value as needed by the inner loop power control. Uplink
outer loop power control is realized through the RNC and downlink outer loop power
control is realized through the UE.
Inner loop power control is usually used on the dedicated physical channel. It adjusts the
transmit power to make the SIR of RX power reach a target value so that the problem of
channel fading is solved. The principle of uplink inner loop power control is: The Node B
compares the received uplink SIR against the target SIR (SIR target) and then sends the
power control command to the UE to adjust the transmit power, so that the SIR value
changes quickly to approach the target SIR value. If the measured SIR is lower (higher)
than the target SIR, the Node B uses the power control command to notify the UE to
increase (decrease) its transmit power. The downlink power control is the same as uplink
power control, except that the power control command is sent by the UE and executed in
the Node B. Inner loop power control has a higher precision than open loop power control
and is the most fundamental power control.
Open loop power control is used to determine the initial transmit power level of various
physical channels.
The purpose of outer loop power control is to adjust the SIRtarget used by inner loop power
control based on the quality of service, thus adjusting the subscriber’s transmission
power. Here the quality of service is evaluated through the check code of the CRC
carried in the frame protocol (FP). If the quality of the radio channel deteriorates when a
subscriber is making a call, outer loop power control can trace the quality status quickly
and ensure the subscriber’s call quality. If the quality of the radio channel becomes very
good, that is, even better than the BLERtarget required by the service, outer loop power
control can decrease SIRtarget so that the subscriber’s transmit power is decreased and
system capacity is enhanced. With outer loop power control, the transmission power of a
subscriber in the process of ongoing communication is adjusted to be as much as the
BLERtarget required by the service, no radio resource is wasted while the quality of service
is guaranteed.
When the UEs are using the same service, user differentiated power control can grant
different basic priority level UEs different maximum uplink or downlink DPCH
transmission power levels. This is achieved by using a method that adds the maximum
allowed uplink or downlink DPCH transmission power based on service and a power
offset based on the basic priority. The higher the basic priority of the UE, the larger the
power offset, so that a larger actual maximum allowed uplink or downlink DPCH
transmission power level of the higher priority UE when all UEs are using the same
service is ensured.
The power control of HSDPA includes the total power allocation of HSDPA and
configuration of the HS-PDSCH measurement power offset.
The allocation of HSDPA total power is performed in two modes: dynamic allocation by
the RNC and free allocation by the Node B.
Dynamic allocation by the RNC means that the RNC dynamically adjusts the maximum
transmission power usable by HSDPA. In the following three cases, the RNC is triggered
to re-allocate the total power of the HSDPA.
Free allocation by the Node B: The Node B allocates power to HSDPA service
dynamically and quickly depending on the power occupied by the R99 service.
The HS-PDSCH measurement power offset is used for the UE to calculate the CQI value
for feedback. The RNC can be configured with a reasonable HS-PDSCH measurement
power offset based on the total power of a cell.
HSUPA power control includes uplink open loop power control, uplink outer loop power
control and downlink open loop power control.
The uplink open loop power control of HSUPA refers to determining the E-DCH MAC-d
flow power offset and the power offset (PO) corresponding to the reference E-TFC and
reference E-TFC.
The E-DCH MAC-d flow power offset is used to reflect the quality differences among
varying services. For example, the power offset of a higher-priority service can be
configured to be higher than that of a lower-priority service, so that the quality of the
higher-priority service is better. Therefore, different E-DCH MAC-d flow power offsets are
configured for different services to reflect differentiated services for configuration of the
E-DCH MAC-d Flow Power Offset.
The principle of uplink outer loop power control of HSUPA is similar to that of outer loop
power control of R99, that is, the SIRtarget used by inner loop power control is adjusted in
light of service quality to adjust a subscriber’s transmit power. The difference being that
the service quality here is evaluated by the retransmission attempts of FP frames. That is,
the more times the FP frame is retransmitted, the worse the channel quality is. In this
case, a higher SIRtarget is needed to increase the transmit power; otherwise, a lower
SIRtarget is needed to decrease the transmit power.
In the downlink of HSUPA, the information of E-DCH AG, RG and ACK/NACK is sent to
the UE. To make sure that the UE receives such control information correctly, a
reasonable E-AGCH/E-RGCH/E-HICH power offset should be configured for these
physical channels.
For HSUPA service, lower HARQ retransmission is good for service quality, but for the
system, HARQ retransmission of the HSUPA service has retransmission gain,
appropriate HARQ retransmission can improve system capacity. This algorithm can
configure OLPC parameters adaptively based on the cell load. In this way, when the cell
load is low, the number of HARQ retransmissions will be decreased, and the service
quality will be increased. When the cell load is high, the number of HARQ
retransmissions will be increased, and the system capacity will be increased.
ZTE RAN improves the OLPC algorithm continuously. In order to improve the initial SIR
target convergence speed, the algorithm “SIR target rapid convergence” is introduced, it
makes the initial SIR target convergence to the target SIR based on the BLER target
rapidly, and this avoids the problem of system capacity being reduced by slow
convergence. In order to make the power control response to radio conditions change
rapidly, and set the BLER of the R99 service closer to the BLER target and the NHR of
the HSUPA service closer to the NHR target, the algorithms “BLER target based OLPC”
for R99 and “NHR target based OLPC” for HSUPA are introduced, the new algorithms
are excellent for controlling service quality. In addition, for the traditional OLPC which can
only suit the condition when there are a lot of TBs, the “period BER based OLPC” is
introduced for improving the performance under the condition where no TBs or few TBs
exist.
The HSDPA CQI information is reported over a period, so when the cell uplink load is
heavy and there are a lot of HSDPA users, the periodic CQI report will result in an uplink
load increase, and it will affect the uplink coverage, so ZTE introduced the HSDPA CQI
adjustment algorithm. When the load is low, the short CQI feedback cycle is used to suit
the radio condition change and improve the efficiency of HSDPA scheduling. Also, when
the load is heavy, the long CQI feedback cycle is used to reduce the load and improve
the capacity. For the CS and PS multi-services user, in order to reduce the effect to the
CS service, the long CQI feedback cycle is used. In order to adjust the CQI feedback
cycle, the CQI repetition factor also needs to be adjusted accordingly.
In order to reduce the power consumption to support more R99 and HSDPA users, the
Node B optimizes the PICH and SCCPCH power transmission. When there is no PI(PI =
0) or no data, the Node B reduces or closes the transmission power of the channel and
while there is PI(PI = 1) or any data, the Node B resumes the transmission power
configured by the RNC.
3 Technical Descriptions
3.1.1.1 Uplink open loop power control of the R99 common channel
Algorithm
The uplink open loop power control of a common channel mainly refers to determining
the PRACH transmit power level.
In the FDD mode, the UE performs the following operations before it transmits signals to
PRACH.
1 The UE obtains “Primary CPICH DL TX Power” and “Constant Value” from System
information Block type 6 (or System information Block type 5 if type 6 is not
broadcast). The UE obtains “UL Interference” from System information Block type 7.
2 The UE measures and obtains CPICH_RSCP, the channel code power of CPICH.
3 The UE calculates the transmit power of the first preamble using the following
formula:
Where,
If the parameters in the system’s broadcast information change, the UE calculates the
initial transmit power again and submits the result to the physical layer.
When the physical random access process gets started, the UE sets the preamble
transmit power as Preamble_Initial_Power. If the value of Preamble_Initial_Power
exceeds the allowed maximum power MaxRACHTxPwr, the UE sets the preamble
transmit power as the allowed maximum power. If no response (+1 or -1) of AICH is
received after the preamble composed of the selected signature and scramble is sent out,
PRACH selects a new signature in the next timeslot, uses it to form a preamble together
with the scramble and sends the preamble again. Next, PRACH increases the preamble
transmit power by the Power Ramp Step [dB]. If the transmission counter is 0, the access
process exists. If a positive response is received from AICH, the random access
message is transmitted. The power of the control part of the random access message is
the last transmit power of the preamble plus the offset P p-m [dB].
From the preceding description we get to the formula for calculating the transmit power
of the control part of the PRACH message:
Where,
Power Ramp Step (PRStep) is the power offset between two continuous
preambles.
Pp_m is the power offset between the control channel and the last preamble of
the message part, its value is 2dB.
In addition, RACH is similar to the uplink DPCH. That is, its data domain and control
domain are sent out after being multiplexed with I and Q channels and then added by
control channel and data channel of the message part) also need to be determined. Here,
c is 11, and
d is 15.
UL interference can be updated in SIB 7 in two ways, which can be selected with the
parameter SIB7Originator.
If SIB7Originator takes the value of the RNC, the Node B reports the common
measurement report of RTWP to RNC. When RNC detects that the change of
RTWP is no less than the uplink interference update threshold (1dB), it
broadcasts it to the UE through the broadcast channel.
Uplink open loop power control of the dedicated channel refers to determining the initial
As required by the related standard, the UE should start uplink inner loop power control
according to the following power level when the first DPCCH is being set up:
Where,
The value of CPICH_RSCP is the CPICH channel code power obtained by the
UE through measurement.
(3.1-4)
Where,
2 How c and d (gain factor of uplink control / data physical channel) are determined
and configured:
Different strategies are adopted depending on the features of a single service and
mixed services:
TFC Format c d
TFC Format c d
TFC Format c d
TFC Format c d
TFC Format c d
0×336, 0×144 15 1
1×336, 0×144 15 14
2×336, 0×144 11 15
4×336, 0×144 8 15
0×336, 1×144 15 8
1×336, 1×144 14 15
2×336, 1×144 10 15
4×336, 1×144 8 15
TFC Format c d
0×336, 0×144 15 1
1×336, 0×144 15 14
2×336, 0×144 11 15
4×336, 0×144 8 15
8×336, 0×144 6 15
0×336, 1×144 15 9
1×336, 1×144 14 15
2×336, 1×144 10 15
4×336, 1×144 8 15
8×336, 1×144 6 15
Table 3-5 c and d Values for the UL PS384k and services with higher rates streaming/
interactive/background Service
TFC Format c d
0×336, 0×144 15 1
1×336, 0×144 11 15
2×336, 0×144 8 15
4×336, 0×144 8 15
8×336, 0×144 6 15
12×336, 0×144 5 15
0×336, 1×144 15 8
1×336, 1×144 10 15
2×336, 1×144 8 15
4×336, 1×144 8 15
8×336, 1×144 6 15
12×336, 1×144 5 15
For mixed service, the c and d values are calculated by the RNC and configured for
UE.
If service A and service B are mixed (including signaling): (1) For the transmission
combination (TFCmulti) when service A and B are being combined, the number of bits per
frame mapped to the transport channel by each service is calculated according to the
transmission format indication (TFI_i) of each service corresponding to TFCmulti. (2) The
service with the most bits transmitted in a frame is selected as the reference service, and
the service corresponding to the TFI that corresponds to TFCmulti is selected as the
reference service. (3) c and d corresponding to TFCsingle (formed by TFI_i of the
selected reference service) are taken as the reference c and d. (4) The following
formula is used to calculate and obtain the c and d corresponding to this TFCmulti.
d ,ref Lref Kj
Aj
c ,ref Lj K ref
(3.1-5)
d , j 1.0 c, j
If Aj > 1, make , is the maximum quantified value that satisfies the
c, j
condition of <= 1 / Aj.
c, j c, j
Note: If =0 is obtained, then =1/15.
d , j
If Aj <= 1, then is the minimum quantified value that satisfies the condition of
d , j c, j 1.0
>= Aj, while .
Where,
- c,ref and d,ref are the gain factors corresponding to the above mentioned
TFCsingle; c,j and d,j are the gain factor corresponding to the j type of TFCmulti.
th
- Lref is the number of dedicated physical channels needed by the number of bits
to be sent out in the case of TFCsingle.
- L,j is the number of dedicated physical channels needed by the number of bits
to be sent out in the case of TFCmulti.
K ref RM i N i
- i
Where: RMi is the semi-static rate matching factor of transport channel i in the
TFCsingle combination; Ni is the number of bits mapped from transport channel i to a
radio frame before rate matching is performed; ∑ refers to summing up all transport
channels in the TFC.
K j RM i N i
i
Parameters in this formula take the same meanings as those in the previous
formula. But ∑ refers to summing up all transport channels in the TFCj (TFCmulti).
4 To ensure that the power of the data channel reaches the required value before data
is transmitted, the power control preamble is sent before data transmission on the
uplink dedicated channel. In addition, closed loop power control is already being
performed while the power control preamble is sent out. Length of the preamble
depends on DpcchPcpLen (or dpcchPcpLenQChat for Qchat users). At the same
time, while starting to send uplink DPDCH data, no signaling ranging RB0~RB4 is
included in the first several frames. The number of delayed signaling frames
depends on SrbDelay (or srbDelayQChat for Qchat users).
The gain factors c,C,j and d,C,j corresponding to a certain TFC used by the compressed
frame while in the compressed mode are obtained from c and d used by radio frames in
normal mode. The formula for the calculation is as follows:
15 N p ilo t,C
AC , j Aj
Nslo ts,C N p ilo t, N
(3.1-6)
Where,
Npilot,C is the number of pilot bits per timeslot in the compressed frame in
compressed mode
Nslots,C is the number of timeslots used for data sending in the compressed
frame in compressed mode.
AC,j is obtained with the previous formula when the current frame is compressed. The
following rules are then used to obtain the values of d,c,j and c,C,j.
d ,C , j 1.0 c , C , j
If AC,j > 1, then , is of the maximum quantified value
c ,C , j c ,C , j
that satisfies the condition <= 1 / Aj . Note: If = 0 is obtained,
c ,C , j
then make = 1/15.
d , j
If AC,j <= 1, then is of the minimum quantified value that satisfies the
d , j c, j 1.0
condition >= Aj, while .
In the downlink direction, the initial transmit power of P-CPICH, S-CPICH, P-CCPCH,
SCH, AICH, PICH and S-CCPCH should be configured. These channels are downlink
common physical channels.
As the physical channel S-CCPCH bears the transport channel of PCH and FACH, and
the number of FACH channels is variable, the transmit power (PchPower) of each PCH
and the maximum transmit power (MaxFachPwr) allowed for each FACH borne by a
certain S-CCPCH is specified in the related protocol. As the data rate of PCH is
invariable, the transmit power of PCH is determined by a fixed rate. The transmit power
of FACH is determined by the maximum data rate borne by this FACH. For different rates,
the transmit power can be measured in the actual environment. The transmit power of
the data domain of S-CCPCH depends on the PCH transmit power and the maximum
value of the maximum transmit power of FACH borne on S-CCPCH. The transmit power
of the TFCI domain and Pilot domain of S-CCPCH are indicated respectively by the
offsets (PO1 and PO3) as opposed to the transmit power of the data domain.
The transmit power of the downlink dedicated physical channel is related to the load of
the cell, interference, path losses, and rate of the bearer service. In the related protocol,
the initial transmit power of a specific dedicated channel is for the physical channel.
Therefore, the initial transmit power should be calculated separately for single services
and mixed services. At present, the estimation power algorithm based on CPICH Ec/N0
is adopted for calculating the initial transmit power.
P
min max Lmin PowerOffse
tx ,CPICH
Ptx ,in it k1
Ptx , to ta l t
PG Ec cp ich
N0 1 k 10 k2
(3.1-7)
Where,
PG is the service processing gain, that is, W/R, W being 3.84M while R being
the bit rate of the service.
Ptx ,CPICH
is transmission power of the CPICH (dBm).
Eccp ich
N 0 is CPICH Ec/No(dB) reported by the UE (for blind handover based
cell is the same as that of the source cell) reported from the UE. UE-reported
CPICH Ec/No is stored in RNC and valid within 65535s; if a valid CPICH Ec/No
min is the lower limit of the downlink orthogonal factor (MinOrthogFactor). Its
description and value can be found in the ZTE UMTS Admission Control
Feature Guide.
The rule for obtaining L from the measurement result reported from the UE as
following.
Ptx,total is the total transmit power of a cell before a subscriber accesses the cell.
It is obtained from the common measurement report: TCP- Transmitted Carrier
Power. Note: for an HS cell, Ptx,total is the valid load of TCP, and obtained
DL 64K(PS Conversational
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i. Add RL in SRNC.
Situation of Adding RL in SRNC PowerOffset
Call Setup POSetup
iii. For radio link reconfiguration, if need to calculate the initial power again, the
PowerOffset is 0.
To calculate the transmit power of a downlink dedicated physical channel for mixed
j
services, first obtain the transmit power (data part) DPCH_POWER needed to transmit
each service with the calculation method used for a single service. Next calculate the
initial transmit power of DPCH for mixed services based on the transmit power needed
for each service. The formula is given as follows:
N
DPCH _ Initial _ Power j DPCH _ Power
j 1
(3.1-8)
On the DPCH, the bits of TFCI, TPC and PILOT are also multiplexed besides the data
bits because the information carried by these bits is important. Therefore, the needed
power is also a little higher than that of the data domain. The power value depends on
the offset as opposed to the power of the data domain and is indicated with PO1
(DpchPO1), PO2 (DpchPO2) and PO3(DpchPO3) respectively.
Under the condition that the dynamic update PO2 switch (DynaUpdtPO2Sw) is turned on,
dynamically update the PO2 as the following: Get the PO2(DpchPO2)value based on the
DPCH data rate and traffic class, if DPCH bears multi-services, get the DpchPO2 value
respectively for each service, and then get the minimum value. The DpchPO2 value is
then sent to the Node B through the control frame. If the DPCH data rate is changed,
then get the new PO2, and send the new PO2 to the Node B. In this way, PO2 dynamic
update is completed.
2 Related Measurement
TCP: Transmitted Carrier Power. The internal measurement value of the Node B is
obtained from the public measurement report and reported to the RNC. The
measurement is started after the cell is set up and the public transport channel of the cell
is set up, and ended after the cell is deleted.
CPICH Ec/N0 is the SNR for reception of CPICH. When a service is set up, the
measurement result carried in the RRC connection request is used. In the case of
handover, the measurement result of the intra-frequency or inter-frequency
measurement report is used.
As the adjustment proportion of DPDCH transmit power is the same as that of the control
domain for the downlink compressed mode, it is unnecessary to change the values of PO1,
PO2 and PO3. That is, the power offset between the control part and data part in the
compressed mode is the same as that in normal mode.
3GPP TS 25.214 specifies the following methods for calculating inner loop power control.
At the receiving end, first, the SIR measurement (SIR=Eb/No) is done for each
received radio link. Next, the measurement result is compared with the target
SIR (SIRtarget) required by the service.
If SIR < SIRtarget, a TPC command whose bit value being 1 is returned through
the downlink control channel to the sender.
This section discusses how to select the proper inner loop power control algorithm, as
the principles of inner loop power control between uplink and downlink are the same.
Description of TPC: When the UTRAN and UE setup the first radio link, before uplink
synchronization, UTRAN could not work out the TPC using the normal process. So
UTRAN sent a fixed TPC pattern in the TPC bit of the downlink DPCH. The TPC pattern
shall consist of DlTpcN instances of the pair of TPC commands ("0", "1"), followed by one
instance of TPC command "1". The TPC pattern continuously repeats but shall be forcibly
re-started at the beginning of each frame where CFN mod 4 = 0. And the TPC pattern shall
There are two uplink inner loop power control algorithms (UlIlPcAlg), which are described
as follows.
With algorithm 1, the transmit power of the sender can be adjusted in every timeslot.
Each timeslot, the UE judges whether to increase or decrease the transmit power of
the UE depending on the received TPC command.
Suppose the TPCs of all radio link sets are 1, then TPC_cmd=1 (to increase
transmit power).
Suppose one TPC coming from any radio link set is 0, then TPC_cmd=-1 (TPC
being 0 indicates the transmit power should be decreased).
With algorithm 2, the transmit power of the sender is adjusted once every five
timeslots. Rules for the UE to combine TPC commands are (when single TPC or
several TPCs are received in one timeslot):
When a single TPC is received: Transmit power is not adjusted during the first four
th
timeslots (TPC_cmd=0). When the TPC command of the 5 timeslot is received, a
soft decision is made: TPC_cmd=1 if all five received TPC commands are 1;
TPC_cmd=-1 if all five received TPC commands are 0; TPC_cmd=0 in other cases.
When several TPCs are received: Transmit power is not adjusted during the first
th
four timeslots of the five continuous timeslots (TPC_cmd=0). At the 5 timeslot, first
determine TPCi (i=1,2,…,N, N is the number of radio link TPC commands from
different radio link sets). Next, combine the TPC command respectively as when a
single TPC is received to obtain N number of temporary TPC commands
(TPC_temp). Finally, combine TPC_cmd using the following rule:
1 N
TPC _ tempi 0.5
If N i 1 , then TPC_cmd =1.
TPC _ tempi
If any of is -1, then TPC_cmd = -1.
Algorithm 1 performs inner loop power control at each timeslot, while algorithm 2
performs inner loop power control only once every five timeslots. That is, the
frequency is higher to perform inner loop power control in algorithm 1. When the
mobile communication environment is quite unfavorable and the channel fades very
quickly, algorithm 1 helps to converge the transmit power quickly to meet the
service quality requirement.
With algorithm 2, the inner loop power control is performed every five timeslots, that
reduces the frequency required to perform inner loop power control. So algorithm 2
is applicable when the mobile communication environment is quite favorable (the
MS is or will be in static state, for instance) and the channel fades slowly or hardly
fades.
With algorithm 1, when the TPC command is received, the transmit power is either
increased or decreased. With algorithm 2, the transmit power is increased,
decreased or not changed after a soft decision is made for the TPC command at
five different timeslots. In this respect, algorithm 1 is more applicable in the case
when the channel needs the transmit power to be increased or decreased quickly
since it is fading fast.
In cases when the channel fades rather slowly, algorithm 2 is more applicable
because the BLER is good enough over an extended period even if the transmit
power is not changed during this period and the measured SIR changes very little
as opposed to the target SIR.
Description:
When uplink inner loop power control is being performed, the transmit power
calculated by the UE can exceed the maximum transmit power of the uplink DPCH
(USrvDivPc.maxUlDpchPwr). In this case, the UE can only transmit with this
configured maximum transmit power. In order to show the differentiation of different
basic priority users, the actual maximum allowed uplink DPCH transmission power
is configured specifically for different users with different basic priority levels, refers
to section “3.1.8 User Differentiated Power Control”.
The principle of inner loop power control in compressed mode is the same as that in
normal mode. That is, the serving cell (a cell in the active set) estimates the received
SIRest of uplink DPCH, and one TPC command is produced and sent in each timeslot
except the downlink transmission gap according to the following rules. The rules are: If
SIRest > SIRcm_target, then the TPC command is 0; if SIRest < SIRcm_target, then the TPC
command is 1. SIRcm_target is the target SIR value during the period when the compressed
mode is adopted.
Where,
Npilot,curr_frame is the number of pilot bits per timeslot in the current uplink link
frame.
Npilot,N is the number of pilot bits per timeslot in normal mode without
transmission gap.
If the current uplink link frame contains the start of the first transmission gap of
the “transmission gap pattern”, then: ΔSIR1_coding = DeltaSIR1 (2.3dB).
If the current uplink link frame contains the next frame to the start of the first
transmission gap of the ”transmission gap pattern”, then: ΔSIR1_coding =
DeltaSIRafter1 (0.3dB).
If the current uplink link frame contains the start of the second transmission
gap of the ”transmission gap pattern”, then: ΔSIR2_coding = DeltaSIR2 (0dB).
If the current uplink link frame contains the next frame to the start of the
second transmission gap of the ”transmission gap pattern”, then:
ΔSIR2_coding = DeltaSIRafter2 (0dB).
As one TGPS (transmission gap pattern sequence) can have only one measurement
value but the UE can measure several values at the same time, multi compressed modes
can be activated at the same time in one radio frame. In this case, the ΔSIR1_coding and
ΔSIR2_coding corresponding to each compressed mode can be calculated first and then
summed up to obtain the final available ΔSIR1_coding and ΔSIR2_coding.
N
SIR1 _ coding SIR1 _ coding, i
i 1
N
SIR2 _ coding SIR2 _ coding, i
i 1
Where: N is the type of compressed modes activated at the same time in one radio frame.
Because no TPC command is sent in the timeslot of the transmission gap in the downlink
compressed frame, the UE sets TPC_cmd to 0 in the corresponding receiving timeslot.
power of the pilot signals, the transmit power of the uplink DPCCH should be changed.
Therefore, at the start of each timeslot, the UE calculates the power adjustment volume
PILOT.
If the number of pilots per timeslot of the uplink DPCCH is different from that already sent
in the previous timeslot, then PILOT (dB) is obtained using the following formula:
Where,
In the case of downlink inner loop power control, the UTRAN adjusts the current downlink
power P(k-1) to the new transmit power level P(k) according to the following formula
th
when it estimates the k number of the TPC command.
Where,
th
PTPC(k) is the k number of power adjustment volume in the process of inner
loop power control.
Mode 1: The UE sends a TPC command at each timeslot. The UTRAN adjusts the
Mode 2: The UE sends the same TPC command for three timeslots. The UTRAN
adjusts the transmit power once every three timeslots according to the TPC
command.
If there is a need to consider the requirement of power increase limits at the same time
for downlink inner loop power control. The value of PTPC(k) is determined according to
the following principle:
Where,
TPC is the power adjustment step (TpcDlStep), and Power_Raise_Limit is 8dB,
For the algorithm of downlink inner loop power control, the transmit power is also
adjusted once for one or three timeslots, and the selection of this algorithm also depends
on the channel fading status. That is, algorithm 1 is for fast channel fading and algorithm
2 for slow channel fading. The reason for such a selection principle is similar to that of
uplink inner loop power control. At present, the ZTE RNC only supports the UE sending a
TPC command at each timeslot.
The inner loop power control of the UE in compressed mode works in the same way as
that in normal mode, except that both downlink DPDCH and DPCCH stop transmission
during the transmission gap of compressed frames.
The transmit power of the first timeslot after the transmission gap of DPCCH is the same
as that of the timeslot prior to the transmission gap.
During the period when the compressed mode is adopted, the UTRAN adjusts the current
downlink transmit power P(k-1) [dB] of each timeslot except the downlink transmission
gap to a new power value P(k) [dB] based on the TPC command received at the number
th
k-1 timeslot and the following formula.
Where,
th
PTPC(k) is the k time of the power adjustment value according to inner loop
power control.
th
PSIR(k) is the k time of the power adjustment value used for the reason that in
compressed mode, the downlink SIRTarget changes as opposed to that in normal
Because of the existence of a transmission gap in uplink compressed frames, the uplink
TPC command may fail to be received. In this case, the Node B sets PTPC(k) as 0.
Otherwise, PTPC(k) is calculated in the same way as that in normal mode except that ΔTPC
is replaced with ΔSTEP in the formula.
During the recovery period (RPL number of timeslots) of the transmission gap, the
common power transmission control algorithm is adopted but ΔSTEP ΔRP-TPC. In a
non-recovery period, ΔSTEP = ΔTPC.
Where,
RPL is the length of the recovery period that is expressed in the number of
timeslots. RPL=minimum (out of the transmission gap length, 7). If the next
transmission gap starts again before the recovery period ends, then the
recovery period ends at the start of the next transmission gap. RPL depends on
ΔRP-TPC is the step (dB) of power control during the recovery period. ΔRP-TPC
=minimum (3dB, 2ΔTPC).
Power offset PSIR(k) = δPcurr - δPprev, δPcurr and δPprev respectively indicate the δP value of
the current timeslot and the latest transmission timeslot. The formula for calculating δP is
as follows:
Where: n is the type of TTI length of all TrCHs multiplexed to a CCTrCH. ΔP1_coding
and ΔP2_coding are obtained from the uplink parameters, including DeltaSIR1,
DeltaSIR2, DeltaSIRafter1 and DeltaSIRafter2, which are informed by the upper level
and also according to the following relations:
If the current frame contains the start of the first transmission gap, then
ΔP1_coding = DeltaSIR1 (2.3dB).
If the current frame is next to the frame that contains the start of the first
transmission gap, then ΔP1_coding = DeltaSIRafter1 (0.3dB).
If the current frame contains the start of the second transmission gap, then
ΔP2_coding = DeltaSIR2 (0dB).
If the current frame is next to the frame that contains the start of the second
transmission gap, then ΔP2_coding = DeltaSIRafter2 (0dB).
When several compressed modes are used at the same time, the δP of each compressed
mode is calculated separately. The δP adopted for the current frame is the summation of
all δP values.
No transmit power of any timeslot in compressed mode can be higher than the allowed
maximum transmit power or lower than the allowed minimum transmit power.
ΔPi_compression is used to offset the influence of the high SIR needed by the rate
increase of the transmission bit in compressed mode.
Outer loop power control differs between the uplink and downlink directions. The
downlink outer loop power control is performed in the UE and it is unrelated to the RNC.
This section describes the uplink outer loop power control algorithm in the UTRAN only.
The principle is: The initial SIRTarget value (USrvDivPc.uLInitSIR) is determined upon
service access, and the quality information (such as CRCI, BER and BLER) is obtained
from the measurement report, the SIRTarget adjustment decision command is produced
based on the service quality. If adjustment is necessary, SIRTarget is adjusted slowly and
the signaling OUTER LOOP PC is used to notify the Node B. the Node B compares the
SIR in the dedicated measurement report with the latest SIR Target and makes the single
link SIR approach to SIRTarget through inner loop power control. In this way, the service
quality will not fluctuate drastically in a changing radio environment.
There are two uplink OLPC algorithms for R99 named “CRC based OLPC algorithm” and
“BLER target based algorithm”. When the parameter OlPcAlg=0, the BLER target
algorithm is used, and when OlPcAlg=1, the CRC-based outer loop power control
algorithm is used.
The CRC based OLPC algorithm adjusts the SIR target based on the number of errors
and total TBs. Some sub-algorithms are introduced in order to optimize the CRC-based
OLPC algorithm.
The principle of the CRC-based outer loop power control algorithm is: The number of
error blocks is counted according to the CRC result of the transport channel. In addition,
the total number of transmitted data blocks is also counted (referred to as error block
tolerance counter).
Principle for SIRTarget increase: When the tolerance BLER period (USrvPc.blerAccpPeriod)
(with its unit being number of data blocks, instead of a time measurement unit) has not
expired yet, but the number of error blocks has already exceeded the error transport block
number threshold (USrvPc.errorThresh), increase SIRTarget (meanwhile, clear the error
As the loop delay is at least 4~5 frames, the effect of any increase will be shown after
4~5 frames. Therefore, if a CRC indication error occurs again in 4~5 frames after the
increase, no error block is counted (a shield period (CoverPrd) is used here to shield out
the adjustment function). If the CRCI indication error occurs again after the shield period
expires, the error blocks are counted again.
Where,
deltaStep1 is an additional increase step size when the SIRTarget increases are
caused by consecutive error TBs. If there are at least two consecutive error TBs
which cause SIRTarget increase, the deltaStep1 is SirUpAddStep. Else, the
deltaStep1 is 0.
deltaStep2 is another additional increase step size when the SIRTarget will be
increased continuously. If the last SIRTarget adjustment command is increase and the
following SIRTarget increase has happened during the period indicated by
ValidTimTbCovPrd which is after the shield period, then the deltaStep2 for the
following SIRTarget increase should be calculated with the following formula:
where,
i. ErrTbNumInCovPrd is the error TB number in the shield period after the last
SIRTarget increase.
ii. ErrTbNumOutCovPrd is the error TB number out the shield period after the last
SIRTarget increase.
Principle for SIRTarget decrease: When the error block tolerance counter is no less than
the tolerance BLER period (USrvPc.blerAccpPeriod), (1)decrease SIRTarget if the received
number of error blocks is less than the error transport block number threshold
(USrvPc.errorThresh), (2)keep the SIRTarget the same if the received number of error
blocks equals the error transport block number threshold (USrvPc.errorThresh). After
SIRTarget is decreased, it is necessary to clear the error block counter and error block
tolerance counter to 0.
When the switch of SIR target adaptive down step size is off
(USrvPc.swchAdaptiveStep=0), the step for decreasing SIRTarget is
USrvPc.ulSirTargDnStep. When the switch of SIR target adaptive down step size is on
(USrvPc.swchAdaptiveStep=1), the step for decreasing SIRTarget is determined as
following.
ii When the last SIR target adjustment command is decrease, the following SIR
target adjustment command also is down, and there is no error TB, the current
step for decreasing SIRTarget would be the result of the last step for decreasing
SIRTarget adding 0.1dB. If the last step for decreasing SIRTarget had been the
biggest value (USrvPc.maxSirTargDnStep), the current step for decreasing
SIRTarget would come back to the initial value (USrvPc.ulSirTargDnStep).
iii When the last SIR target adjustment command is increase or keep, or the last
and current SIR target adjustment command both are decrease, but there is
error TB during the current SIR target adjustment period, then the current step
for decreasing SIRTarget would come back to the initial value
(USrvPc.ulSirTargDnStep).
To prevent that SIRTarget is increased or decreased too much, the maximum value
(USrvDivPc.uLMaxSIR) and minimum value (USrvDivPc.uLMinSIR) of SIRTarget is
configured in the OMMR. If the calculated SIRTarget is bigger than USrvDivPc.uLMaxSIR,
USrvDivPc.uLMaxSIR will be taken as a result. And if the calculated SIRTarget is smaller
than USrvDivPc.uLMinSIR, USrvDivPc.uLMinSIR will be taken as a result.
In the CRC-based OLPC, SIRTarget can be decreased only when the TB number is no less
than USrvPc.blerAccpPeriod, so the SIRTarget is decreased slowly, it will affect the system
capacity. In order to increase the system capacity, the BER-based OLPC is introduced.
The principle of physical channel BER-based OLPC is as the following: in the valid time
window of the data block statistic (8s), if the consecutive physical channel BER are all
smaller than the physical channel BERtarget (USrvPc.qePhyBerTarSil), and the number of
the consecutive physical channel BER reaches the threshold USrvPc.qeCntThres, then
the SIR should be decreased. After SIRTarget is decreased, it is also necessary to clear all
the OLPC counters to 0.
The common outer loop power control algorithm described above is designed for one
transport channel. For mixed services (that is, several transport channels that are
multiplexed to one CCtrCH), some special treatment is needed for the outer loop power
control algorithm.
First, for BER-based OLPC, BER-based OLPC can be run only when all the BER-based
OLPC switches (USrvPc.ulOlPcQESwchSil) of the mixed services are on. The BER
target should be the minimum value of USrvPc.qePhyBerTarSil of all the services.
Second, the SIRTarget adjustment actions of different services should be combined
together. For mixed services (that is, several transport channels are multiplexed to one
CCtrCH), if any one service type fails to satisfy the service quality requirement, SIR Target
is increased. SIRTarget is not decreased unless all services valid for statistics indicate to
decrease SIRTarget. Services invalid for statistics are excluded from the combination of
power control. Services invalid for statistics are those services that cannot serve as the
reference for SIRTarget adjustment because their data volume is not enough. If a service
does not have enough data volume, it means the total number of packets received in the
valid time window (8s) is smaller than the error block tolerance period for the service.
RNC calculates single step adjustment quantity for every scheduling cycle based on
USrvPc.blerTarget and the number of total TBs and error TBs:
ZY
ΔSIRtarget SirStep 1
(1) USrvPc.blerTarget≤50%: Z1 BLERtarget
Y
ΔSIRtarget SirStep 1
(2) USrvPc.blerTarget>50%: Z BLERtarget
Z and Y indicate the number of total TBs and error TBs in a scheduling cycle, SirStep is
the SIRTarget adjustment step indicated by USrvPc.ulSirStep.
The RNC will only update the SIRtarget when the single step adjustment quantity is equal
to or greater than 0.1dB,
For the sudden strong interference scenario, the SIRTarget is easy to be overregulated
according to the algorithm mentioned above. In view of this situation, a shield period is
introduced. Under the condition that the switch (ShieldPeriodSwch) is turned on, RNC
preserves the output adjustment quantity in a slide window, the length of which is
For multi-services users, when more than one service meets the output conditions
simultaneously, the maximum adjustment quantity is used.
The downlink outer loop power control is performed in the UE. RNC provides
USrvPc.blerTarget to the UE.
For F-DPCH, the TPC command error rate target (TpcErrTarget) should be provided,
which is used for adjusting the SIR target of F-DPCH.
In the soft handover or macro diversity status, a UE can communicate with all cells in the
active set. With downlink inner loop power control, the UE sends the same TPC
command to the cells in the active set. But because each link is available with a different
transmission path, errors will be produced in the TPC command and some cells will
receive the wrong TPC command. As a result, some cells increase downlink
transmission power and some cells decrease downlink transmit power, hence the drifting
power effect. Power drifting is usually eliminated through the downlink power balancing
approach.
The purpose of downlink power balancing is to balance the downlink transmit power of
one or more radio links used by the Node B of the related RRC connection. In the case
where a single link is involved, the downlink average power will be insensitive to the
central value of a power control range if the downlink power control balancing is used. In
the case that several links are involved, power balancing can help overcome power
drifting.
Where,
Pinit is the code power of the last timeslot in the previous adjustment period. If
the last timeslot in the previous adjustment period is included in the
transmission gap (in compressed mode), then Pinit equals to the code power of
the timeslot prior to the transmit gap.
The downlink transmit power of each radio link, needed for calculating DL Reference
Power, can be obtained indirectly from the Transmitted code power (TCP: transmit power
of PILOT domain of DPCH) periodically reported by the Node B using the following
formula:
j
PDPDCH (dBm) TCP PO3
(3.1-14)
Where,
j th
PDPDCH is the downlink transmit power of the j radio link;
PO3 is the power offset between the DL DPCH PILOT domain and the DPCH
data domain (DpchPO3);
th
The downlink reference power of the i radio link is:
j
DL _ Re fer _ Power(dB) j PDPDCH P _ CPICH _ Power
(3.1-15)
Next, RNC takes the average value of the reference power for each radio link as the DL
Reference Power needed:
j 1
j
DL _ Re fer _ Power
DL _ Re fer _ Power
N (3.1-16)
The dedicated TCP values of all links are obtained from the dedicated
measurement report. The DL Reference Power is obtained by computing the
reported values.
When the absolute value of the difference between the DL Reference Power
obtained in the new adjustment period and that obtained in the previous period
exceeds the downlink reference power adjustment threshold (2dB) , the signaling of
the DL Power Control Request message which contains the information of DL
Reference Power sent to the Node B.
The Node B uses this value to implement link balancing through the inner loop
power control algorithm.
AdjType is used to select whether to perform the downlink power balancing adjustment
and the adjustment type. Power Adjustment Type can take the value of “None” or “Common”.
When the value of AdjType is “None”, it means that the Node B does not need to balance
the DL power.
When the value of AdjType is “Common”, it means the Node B balances the DL power
but the balanced radio links use common reference power.
Adjustment Period:
The value of the adjustment period is 50 frames. It is a value determined through actual
tests.
Adjustment ratio is 0.96 by default. The smaller the value of the adjustment ratio is, the
quicker the offsets of transmit power of base stations are converged to be as the power
offset as opposed to the common pilot channel of cells. However, as the adjustment
volume of power balancing is limited by the maximum adjustment step, the value of
convergence is also limited.
Max adjustment step defines a time period, in terms of the number of slots; its value is 8
slots, in which the Node B can make power adjustment for balancing purpose by no more
than 1dB.
Note: When the ZTE RNC is DRNC, whether to use DL POWER CONTROL REQUEST
information in the Iur interface to control power balancing is determined by the switch
IurPwrCtlReqSwch. When IurPwrCtlReqSwch = 1, DRNC sends the DL POWER
CONTROL REQUEST information to the Node B which is the same as the DL POWER
CONTROL REQUEST information send by SRNC through the Iur interface. When
IurPwrCtlReqSwch = 0, DRNC would discard the DL POWER CONTROL REQUEST
information sent by SRNC through the Iur interface.
The measurement of TCP (transmit code power) is reported periodically. The “report
periodicity value” is UNbDedMeas.rptPrd, and the “choice report periodicity scale”
is UNbDedMeas.rptPrdUnit.
The measurement of TCP gets started after the UE changes status from macro
diversity to non-macro diversity, and is terminated after the UE changes status from
non-macro diversity to macro diversity.
When the UEs are using the same service, user differentiated power control can grant
different basic priority UEs different maximum allowed uplink or downlink DPCH
transmission power levels. This is achieved by using a method that adds the maximum
allowed uplink or downlink DPCH transmission power based on service and a power
offset based on basic priority.
When the function switch is on (ImeiPcFunSwitch = 1), for the UE whose IMEI is
identified, and the IMEI based power control switch of this IMEI is on (ImeiPcSwitch = 1),
the related power control parameters are determined as the following:
1. The maximum SIR target and the minimum SIR target will add an offset
(ImeiULMaxSirOffset, ImeiULMinSirOffset) respectively. At the same time the
restriction between the maximum SIR target, the minimum SIR target and the initial
SIR target will be ensured, which is the minimum SIR target <= initial SIR target <=
the maximum SIR target. The result is as the following:
i. The initial SIR target is USrvDivPc.uLInitSIR. (Note: when the switch of the
SIR target rapid convergence is on, refer to the section 3.7 “SIR Target
Rapid Convergence”, the initial SIR target is USrvDivPc.initSirAdd +
USrvDivPc.initBlerSIR.)
USrvDivPc.uLMaxSIR + ImeiULMaxSirOffset).
Notes: When the IMEI utility switch for considering load when configuring power
control parameters is on (ImeiUtilityExt:bit0 = 1) , if the cell uplink load is at a high
level, and the value of ImeiULMaxSirOffset (or ImeiULMinSirOffset) is positive, then
the maximum SIR target (or the minimum SIR target ) will not add this offset.
2. The maximum DL power and the minimum DL power will add an offset
(ImeiMaxDlDpchPO, ImeiMinDlDpchPO) respectively. After adding this offset (and
the maximum DL power needs to add the basic priority based power offset), the
restriction between the maximum DL power and the minimum DL power will be
ensured, which is the minimum DL power <= maximum DL power. The result is as
the following:
Notes: When the IMEI utility switch for considering load when configuring power
control parameters is on (ImeiUtilityExt:bit0 = 1) , if the cell downlink load is at a high
level, and the value of ImeiMinDlDpchPO (or ImeiMaxDlDpchPO) is positive, then
the minimum DL power (or the maximum DL power ) will not add this offset.
The uplink and downlink load state of the cell is referred to “ZTE UMTS Load Adaptive
Power Control Feature Guide”. Note: When the load based BLER switch is on
(BlerLoadSwitch=1), the load is the real load, otherwise, the default load level
(DefaultLoadLevel) is used.
The HSDPA-related power control involves two aspects: (1) RNC performs total power
allocation for HSDPA; and (2) power calculation of physical channels, including
HS-PDSCH, HS-SCCH and HS-DPCCH. These physical channels are useful only when
subscribers are allocated with HS-DSCH resources and data transmission occurs.
The power of HS-SCCH can be determined using either of the following two methods:
The power of HS-SCCH is determined with the HS-SCCH power offset provided by
the RNC.
The second method is used by ZTE, and in this way, HS-SCCH power is calculated by
the Node B, the Method to determine the HS-SCCH power is not described in this article.
HS-DPCCH carries the ACK, NACK and CQI information, its power control works in the
way as that of UL DPCCH except that the power gain factor β hs is different.
In normal mode, βhs is inferred by the UE according to ∆ACK, ∆NACK and ∆CQI using the
following formula:
HS DPCCH
h s c 10 20
(3.2-1)
When HS-DPCCH is activated, each slot of the HS-DPCCH, ∆HS-DPCCH is set with the
following methods:
HS DP CCH
20
The value range of ∆ACK, ∆NACK and ∆CQI is from 0 to 9. If Ahs = 10 , then the relation
between ∆ACK, ∆NACK, ∆CQI and Ahs is shown in Table 3-6.
Table 3-6 Quantified Amplitude Relation between ∆ACK, ∆NACK, ∆CQI and Ahs
9 38/15
8 30/15
7 24/15
6 19/15
5 15/15
4 12/15
3 9/15
2 8/15
1 6/15
0 5/15
Meanwhile, as the power offset of HS-DPCCH is based on DPCCH, DPCCH has soft
handover gain in the macro diversity status and HS-DPCCH exists only in the serving cell.
When DPCCH decreases the transmit power due to the soft handover gain, the single
link configuration will affect the correct reception probability of HS-DPCCH. That is,
configurations should be set differently between the cases of macro diversity and
non-macro diversity. ∆ACK takes the values of UHspa.ackPwrOffset and InterAckPwrOfst
respectively in non-macro diversity and macro-diversity cases. ∆NACK takes the values of
UHspa.nackPwrOffset and InterNackPwrOfst respectively in non-macro diversity and
macro-diversity cases. ∆CQI takes the values of UHspa.cqiPwrOffset and InterCqiPwrOfst
respectively in non-macro diversity and macro-diversity cases.
In addition, RNC needs to configure the CQI feedback cycle (UHspa.cqiCycle) and times
of repeated CQI transmission, that is, the CQI repetition factor (UHspa.cqiRepFactor) so
that CQI feedback can be performed. RNC should also configure the ACK-NACK
repetition factor (UHspa.anackRepFactor) so that ACK-NACK feedback can be
performed.
The parameters described above are obtained and optimized through tests according to
the performance indexes for certain reception success probability.
HS-PDSCH uses the adaptive modulation coding (AMC) scheme and HARQ, instead of
closed loop power control, to improve link performance. For the physical channel of the
HS-PDSCH, RNC should configure the measurement power offset for the Node B and
the UE.
When measuring CQI, the UE supposes the power of the HS-PDSCH is:
Where,
PHSPDSCH is the total receiving power evenly distributed on the HS-PDSCHs that
perform CQI measurement and evaluation.
Based on the above mentioned receivable power and the benchmark of BLER =10% of
the quality of received data, the UE determines the CQI and reports it to the Node B.
Based on the relation between the UE-reported CQI and the measurement power offset,
the Node B determines the power that can be allocated to the UE and transmittable
number of bits.
DC-HSDPA in the cell. The value of the measurement power offset is obtained
in the following ways: First, obtain the used HS-PDSCH measurement power
offset profile (refUMPOProfile) from the configuration item UUtranCellFDD.
Next, obtain the instance of the object UMPOProfile in the used HS-PDSCH
measurement power offset profile UMPOProfile, and then obtain the
sub-object UMPO. Finally, obtain the measurement power offset indexed by
app64QamInd, appMimoInd, and appDcHsdpaInd in the sub-object UMPO.
When the serving cell is changed, the measurement power offset should be
determined according to the new serving cell. If the value of the measurement
power offset is changed, the measurement power offset should be
reconfigured.
When the serving cell is not changed but the actual use of 64QAM, MIMO and
DC-HSDPA is changed, the measurement power offset should be determined
according to the UE’s actual use of 64QAM, MIMO and DC-HSDPA in the cell.
If the value of the measurement power offset is changed, the measurement
power offset should be reconfigured.
HS DPCCH
N pilot ,C
hs c ,C , j 10 20
N pilot , N
Where,
c,C , j
When at least one DPDCH is configured, is the gain factor of the uplink
c,C , j
mode. For calculation of , refer to the uplink open loop power control of
c,C , j
configured, can be configured as described in Section 5.1.2.5C of
c,C , j
3GPP TS 25.214, that is, =1.
The total power occupied by HSPA can be assigned by the RNC, and the Node B is
notified of the value with the HS-PDSCH, HS-SCCH, E-AGCH, E-RGCH and E-HICH
Total Power message of PHYSICAL SHARED CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION
REQUEST. Hence when power is being allocated, the Node B will ensure that the power
used by HSPA (HS-PDSCH, HS-SCCH, E-AGCH, E-RGCH and E-HICH Total Power)
will not exceed the configured value of the signal cell. The RNC can configure this power
value in a dynamic way. The RNC may also leave the HSPA power not specified so that
the Node B will allocate the power freely according to the actual availability status of the
resource.
The system determines which allocation method applies according to the parameter
HsdschTotPwrMeth configured in OMMR. The two methods, dynamic allocation by the
RNC and dynamic allocation by the Node B, are described in the following.
The allocated
power for cell
Dynamic power allocation by the RNC refers to the process: (1) Initial HS-PDSCH,
HS-SCCH, E-AGCH, E-RGCH and E-HICH total power (HspaPwrRatio) are configured
in the OMMR according to the number of the HS-PDSCH, HS-SCCH, E-AGCH, E-RGCH
and E-HICH physical channels configured for the cell. (2) During the system operation,
the software algorithm has the HSPA total power dynamically adjusted according to the
following triggering condition and principle. Figure 3-2 shows the strategy of the
adjustment:
Power adjustment is described as follows (Note: The variables used in this section are
measured in percentages).
1 HSPA total power is adjusted dynamically along with the system’s all non-HSPA
Because DPCH and HSPA users use the allocated power independently, rather
than the non-HSPA physical channel taking priority to use the power resource, the
condition for making a HSPA total power decrease decision can be set to:
P r io rity
(MinHspaPwrRto, HS-DSCH Required Power)), some power allocated
to the HSPA physical channel can be given to be used by the non-HSPA
physical channel. (The NodeBSafeThr is equivalent to CellMaxPower -
NoHsHysA in the preceding diagram).
ii. If there are HSPA users, the minimum total power of HSPA is subject to Max
P r io rity
(MinHspaPwrRto, HS-DSCH Required Power); otherwise the minimum
P r io rity
total power of HSPA is not subject to Max (MinHspaPwrRto, HS-DSCH
Required Power).
P r io rity HS-DSCH Required Power), the adjustment quota is: AdjustP =
HSPATotalPower - ((NodeBSafeThr-3%) - allnonHSPAPower).
Otherwise, HSPATotalPower = Max (MinHspaPwrRto, P r io rity HS-DSCH
Required Power).
Another important purpose for HSPA is to make full use of cell power, that is, when
the non-HSPA physical channel needs little power, the power of HSPA can be
increased as much as possible to improve the system’s throughput. Method to
If there are HSPA users, some power of the non-HSPA physical channel can
be given to the HSPA physical channel as the non-HSPA physical channel
does not need all the power allocated to it. The quota of adjustment is: AdjustP
= (NodeBSafeThr-3%) - allnon-HSPAPower - HSPATotalPower. If AdjustP < 0,
no adjustment is performed. After any adjustment, it should be guaranteed that
HSPATotalPower ≤ MaxHspaPwrRto.
When the power resources of HSPA users are limited, the dynamic adjustment of
HSPA power is triggered.
Now the HSPA total power is increased with the principle that the available
maximum power of a cell reaches the overload recovery threshold. The
adjustment quota AdjustP = (NodeBSafeThr-3%) - allnon-HSPAPower -
HSPATotalPower, but after the adjustment, it should be guaranteed that
HSPATotalPower ≤ MaxHspaPwrRto.
When the total HS-DSCH required power reported by the Node B is detected to
exceed HSPA total power configured by the RNC to the Node B, the HSPA total
power can be adjusted dynamically to guarantee the QoS of real-time services.
The adjustment principle is also that the available maximum power of a cell
reaches (NodeBSafeThr-3%). The adjustment quota AdjustP =
3 When there is no HSPA user, HSPA total power can only be decreased (not
increased) along with the power change of non-HSPA.
The uplink E-DPCCH open loop power control of HSUPA is provided by setting a
reasonable E-DPCCH power offset relative to that of DPCCH.
The E-DPCCH power offset relative to that of DPCCH should satisfy the BER
requirement of E-DPCCH control signaling. The power offset value is obtained through
emulation or test and configured in OMMR (UHspa.edpcchPOTti2 or
UHspa.edpcchPOTti10, depending on different TTIs). According to 25.214, the gain
factor βec of E-DPCCH is calculated using the following formula in non-compressed mode:
Where,
βc is the gain factor of the uplink dedicated control physical channel of R99.
For the configuration details of βc, refer to Section 3.1.1.2.
Aec is obtained from the E-DPCCH power offset (∆E-DPCCH) that is configured at
the high level and then mapped in 0.
∆E-DPCCH can be configured for the UE through the radio bearer establishment message,
or configured again through the radio bearer re-configuration message. It is generally not
dynamically updated after being configured for the first time. Table 3-7 lists the relation
between Aec and ∆E-DPCCH.
8 30/15
7 24/15
6 19/15
5 15/15
4 12/15
3 9/15
2 8/15
1 6/15
0 5/15
The power of E-DPCCH is configured once and for all and does not need dynamic
adjustment, so it is relative simple. E-DPCCH can use different TTIs (2ms, 10ms) for
transmission. If the 10ms TTI is used, the content of the first 2ms timeslots is repeatedly
transmitted for four times to improve uplink reception performance. The power
configuration of this channel is similar to that of the downlink physical channel except
that different TTI applications should be differentiated.
As many types of E-TFC exist in the TB SIZE of E-DCH, and RNC cannot notify the Node
B and the UE of the βed corresponding to each type of E-TFC, 3GPP specifies that RNC
notifies the UE and the Node B of a group of reference E-TFC and the corresponding
E-DPDCH power offset relative to DPCCH, to be used by the UE and the Node B to
calculate the power needed by other non-reference E-TFC.
RNC needs to determine which group of E-TFCs as the reference for other E-TFCs.
Principle for determining the reference E-TFC is as follows:
The E-TFC types that have the same combination feature of SF and number of code
channels are taken as a group before the position where both the physical channel and
SF turns transient is. The largest E-TFC is selected as the reference. The E-DPDCH
power offset at the reference E-TFC point can be obtained and optimized through tests
while other values can be obtained through formula-based calculation. This is a practical
approach to the selection of reference E-TFC.
βed,ref is the reference gain factor of the reference E-TFC, and for each reference E-TFC,
the βed,ref can be calculated using the following formula.
ed ,ref c Aed
(3.3-2)
Where,
βc is the gain factor of the uplink dedicated control physical channel of R99.
For the configuration details of βc, refer to Section 3.1.1.2.
Aed is obtained from the E-DPCCH power offset (∆E-DPCCH) that is configured at
the high level and then mapped in Table 3-8.
29 168/15
28 150/15
27 134/15
26 119/15
25 106/15
24 95/15
23 84/15
22 75/15
21 67/15
20 60/15
19 53/15
18 47/15
17 42/15
16 38/15
15 34/15
14 30/15
13 27/15
12 24/15
11 21/15
10 19/15
9 17/15
8 15/15
7 13/15
6 12/15
5 11/15
4 9/15
3 8/15
2 7/15
1 6/15
0 5/15
Note:
The selection of reference E-TFC and corresponding PO values vary with different
TTIs and TB SIZE tables.
For 2ms E-TTI and Table0, E-DPDCH puncturing limit is 56%, set of reference
E-TFCIs is [1, 26, 39, 45, 51, 70, 79, 122], and the power offset of reference
E-TFCIs is [9, 12, 13, 13, 13, 12, 13, 16].
For 2ms E-TTI and Table1, E-DPDCH puncturing limit is 56%, set of reference
E-TFCIs is [1, 3, 16, 36, 62], and the power offset of reference E-TFCIs is [7,
10, 12, 12, 13].
For 10ms E-TTI and Table0, E-DPDCH puncturing limit is 64%, set of
reference E-TFCIs is [1, 12, 48, 60, 77, 88], and the power offset of reference
E-TFCIs is [3, 6, 12, 13, 15, 16].
For 10ms E-TTI and Table1, E-DPDCH puncturing limit is 64%, set of
reference E-TFCIs is [1, 5, 19, 41, 55, 71, 98], and the power offset of
reference E-TFCIs is [3, 6, 11, 13, 15, 13, 14].
th
Make E-TFCIref,m indicate the E-TFCI of the number m reference E-TFC. Here
m=1,2,…,M, where M is the number of reference E-TFCs for signaling notification
and E-TFCIref,1 < E-TFCIref,2 < … < E-TFCIref,M. Make E-TFCIj indicate the E-TFCI of
th th
number j E-TFC. For the number j E-TFC:
th
If E-TFCIj >= E-TFCIref,M, then the reference E-TFC is the m reference E-TFC.
If E-TFCIj < E-TFCIref,1, then the reference E-TFC is the first reference E-TFC.
th
If E-TFCIref,1 <= E-TFCIj < E-TFCIref,M, then the reference E-TFC is the m
reference E-TFC that satisfies E-TFCIref,m <= E-TFCIj < E-TFCIref,m+1.
The gain factor of E-DPDCH is defined as βed, which can have a different value for each
E-TFC and HARQ offset. With the reference E-TFC and corresponding power offset sent
by the RNC and the information related to the HARQ offset, the UE and the Node B can
calculate βed of other non-reference E-TFCs, and in turn the power of related E-DPDCHs.
Make Le,ref indicate the number of E-DPDCHs used by the reference E-TFC. Make Le,j
th
indicate the number of E-DPDCHs used by the number j E-TFC. If SF2 is used, Le,ref
and Le,j are the equivalent numbers of physical channels of the supposed SF4. Make
Ke,ref indicate the number of data bits of the reference E-TFC. Make Ke,j indicate the
th th
number of data bits of the number j E-TFC. For the number j E-TFC, the gain factor
βed,j,harq of the related E-DPDCH can be calculated using the following formula.
harq
Le ,ref Ke, j
ed , j ,harq ed ,ref 10 20
Le , j K e ,ref
(3.3-3)
Where: HARQ power offset ∆harq has the value configured by cell E-DCH HARQ power
offset FDD (USrvPc.edchHarqPOFdd). ∆harq is configured through the radio link
establishment request or radio link increase request, and re-configured through the radio
link re-configuration request.
The power of E-DPCCH is configured once and for all and does not need dynamic
adjustment. E-DPCCH can use different TTIs (2ms, 10ms) for transmission. If the 10ms
TTI is used, the reception performance is different and in cases where different TB SIZE
tables are used, the number of E-TFCIs and TB SIZE tables are also different. To
improve uplink reception performance, different TTI and TABLE applications should be
differentiated.
Note:
When MAC-e PDU does not include MAC-d PDU, the UE uses the configured
scheduling information power offset (UHspa.scheInfoPOTti2 or
UHspa.scheInfoPOTti10, depending on different TTIs) as the HARQ power offset to
calculate E-DPDCH transmit power.
In the case that MAC-e PDU is not decoded, the Node B uses the quantified value
(UHspa.edchRefPO) of the E-DCH reference power offset configured by the RNC to
estimate the E-DPDCH power of E-TFCI.
Downlink open loop power control is to configure or re-configure the power offset of
physical channels such as E-AGCH, E-RGCH and E-HICH. The power offset is relative
to the DL DPCH pilot domain. The Node B uses the offset and the inner loop power
control of DPCCH to dynamically adjust the transmit power of these physical channels.
The following factors should be considered when the power offset is being configured.
In the event of soft handover, the reception performance of E-RGCH and E-HICH is
better by a gain of about 7~14 dB than the E-AGCH without soft handover.
The required decoding error probability of the information carried by these channels
is usually 0.1~0.01. The power should be configured to a suitable value to meet the
error probability requirement so power configuration should never be too large or
too small.
E-AGCH transmission only in the serving cell, the E-AGCH performance requirement in
single RL condition and DCH macro diversity condition is the same, so when
EagchPOUptSwch = 0, E-AGCH power offset is EagchPOTti2 (2ms TTI) or
EagchPOTti10 (10ms TTI) for both single RL condition and DCH macro diversity
condition. But E-AGCH power offset is relative to the DPCH pilot domain, and DPCH
have macro diversity gain in the DCH macro diversity condition, so when
EagchPOUptSwch = 1, different E-AGCH power offset is configured for different
scenarios as the following:
Scenario TTI Single RL DCH Macro Diversity Status
2ms TTI EagchPOTti2 EagchPOTti2 + MacroDivGain
Where, MacroDivGain is the macro diversity gain of downlink dedicated channel, its
value is 0dB.
E-HICH and E-RGCH can be transmitted in both the serving RL and non-serving RL.
According to the simulation result described in 3GPP 25.101, the performance
requirement of E-HICH and E-RGCH is different under different conditions, so the
E-HICH power offset and E-RGCH power offset should be configured respectively under
different conditions.
consecutive slots (10ms TTI). So the E-HICH power offset is configured for different
scenarios as the following:
Scenario E-DCH Single E-DCH Serving RLS E-DCH Non-serving
TTI RL RLS
E-RGCH power offset should be configured for E-DCH single RL status, E-DCH serving
RLS, and E-DCH non-serving RLS in E-DCH macro diversity status respectively. Only in
E-DCH single RL status or E-DCH serving RLS in E-DCH macro diversity status,
E-RGCH can transmit relative scheduling grant using 3 consecutive slots (2ms TTI) or
12 consecutive slots (10ms TTI). For E-DCH non-serving RLS in E-DCH macro diversity
status, E-RGCH can only transmit relative scheduling grant using 15 consecutive slots
(10ms TTI). Therefore, E-RGCH power offset is configured according to the following
different scenarios:
Scenario E-DCH Single E-DCH Serving RLS E-DCH Non-serving
TTI RL RLS
The principles for configuring E-AGCH power offset, E-RGCH power offset and E-HICH
power offset are described as follows.
The configuration of the power offsets in OMMR are related to different services.
When the control plane detects changes (establishment, addition, deletion and
modification) in the sub-services carried by DPCH, the new power offset is obtained
from the database according to the number of sub-services and then configured
again.
In the DCH macro diversity status, the E-AGCH power offset update is controlled by
the switch EagchPOUptSwch. When EagchPOUptSwch = 1, in order to save power
and guarantee the channel quality of E-AGCH at the same time, the E-AGCH power
offset is adjusted when changes of UE status (macro diversity and non-macro
diversity) is detected. For single RL condition, the E-AGCH Power Offset takes the
value as configured in OMMR, it is EagchPOTti2 (2ms TTI) or EagchPOTti10 (10ms
TTI). For the DCH macro diversity condition, it is EagchPOTti2 (2ms TTI) +
MacroDivGain or EagchPOTti2 (2ms TTI) + MacroDivGain, where, MacroDivGain is
the macro diversity gain of the downlink dedicated channel, its value is 0dB. When
EagchPOUptSwch = 0, in order to reduce the reconfiguration in the Iub interface,
E-AGCH Power Offset in single radio link condition or in DCH macro diversity
condition is the same, and it is EagchPOTti2 (2ms TTI) or EagchPOTti10 (10ms
TTI).
In the E-DCH macro diversity status, the E-HICH power offset and E-RGCH power
offset are updated. When the conversion between E-DCH macro diversity status
and E-DCH single RL status happened, or serving RLS changed, the E-HICH power
offset and E-RGCH power offset should be updated according to the RL situation
whether it is in E-DCH single RL status, or E-DCH serving RLS or E-DCH
non-serving RLS in E-DCH macro diversity status.
With DPCH carrier mixed services, the TTI used by the E-DCH should be
determined first. Then, the E-AGCH power offset, E-RGCH power offset and
E-HICH power offset (each power comes with several offsets) corresponding to the
TTI are obtained respectively according to the different services carried on the
DPCH. Finally, from several corresponding offsets, the minimum offset values Min
(E-AGCH Power Offset), Min (E-RGCH Power Offset) and Min (E-HICH Power
Offset) are selected as the power offsets of the E-AGCH, E-RGCH and E-HICH
respectively. (If both UE and serving cell supports 2ms TTI, the 10ms TTI is used as
long as one service uses 10ms TTI, otherwise the 2ms TTI is used )
Note:
i. The above description is based on downlink F-DPCH not being configured. This
time the E-AGCH power offset, E-RGCH power offset and E-HICH power offset are
relative to the power of the downlink DPCH pilot domain, and determine the value
based on the service over DPCH. However, if downlink F-DPCH is configured, the
E-AGCH power offset, E-RGCH power offset and E-HICH power offset are relative
to the power of the downlink F-DPCH TPC domain, and determine the value based
on the service type of F-DPCH (USrvPc.srvType=7).
During the compressed frame period, the gain factor βec of the E-DPCCH when E-DCH
TTI is 2ms can be calculated using the following formula.
E DPCCH
N p ilo t,C
ec c,C , j 10
20
N p ilo t,N
Where,
c ,C , j
When at least one DPDCH is configured, is the gain factor of the uplink
dedicated control physical channel of R99 for a specific TFC in compressed mode. For the
c,C , j
calculation of , refer to the uplink open loop power control of R99 in compressed
c,C , j
mode as described in Section 3.1.1.3. If no DPDCH is configured, can be
c ,C , j
configured as described in Section 5.1.2.5C of 3GPP TS 25.214, that is, =1.
Npilot,C is the number of pilot bits per slot on the DPCCH in the compressed
frame.
Npilot,N is the number of pilot bits per slot on the DPCCH in the non-compressed
frame.
During the compressed frame period, the gain factor βec of E-DPCCH when E-DCH TTI is
10ms can be calculated using the following formula.
E DPCCH
15 N p ilo t,C
ec c,C , j 10
20
N slo ts,C N p ilo t,N
Where, Nslots,C is the number of non DTX slots in the compressed frame.
After the introduction of E-DCH, uplink outer loop power control is still needed in some
cases although RNC has configured the power offset for the E-DPDCH. For example,
although the current outer loop power control is stable, and the SIR is basically
converged to SIRtarget through inner loop power control, but the user plane of the Node B
still sends a HARQ failure indication to the RNC through data frames because of the
unreasonable PO or unreasonable maximum retransmission times. In this case, the
failure indication and the number of HARQ retransmissions (NHR) can be used to trigger
uplink outer loop power control to guarantee the QoS of E-DCH. The outer loop power
control algorithm after the introduction of E-DCH will affect the current outer loop power
control algorithm to some extent and hence coupling treatment is necessary.
There are two uplink OLPC algorithms for HSUPA named “NHR-based outer loop power
control algorithm” and “NHR target based outer loop power control algorithm”. When the
parameter OlPcAlg=0, NHR based outer loop power control algorithm is used, and when
OlPcAlg=1, the NHR target based outer loop power control algorithm is used.
1 In the ZTE RNC, HSUPA OLPC is based on NHR and HARQ failure indication.
When the number of HARQ failure indications is larger than the threshold
(USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti2 or USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti10), the SIRtarget should be increased.
At the same time, the SIRtarget can be increased or decreased based on NHR.
The principle of SIRtarget adjustment based on NHR is as the following: The service
quality is evaluated on the basis of the NHR carried by the FP frame transferred by the
Node B to RNC. The greater the NHR is, the poorer the quality of the channel is and
hence it is required to increase SIRtarget for higher transmit power, otherwise decrease
SIRtarget for lower transmit power. Steps for making the decision are:
NHRi
as the retransmission times carried by each FP. i is the number i FP
th
Set
i I I
frame ( =1… , is the maximum number of FPs). When the HARQ failure indication
is received, the NHR of the data block transmission is converted to an approximate value.
The formula for converting the HARQ failure indication to an NHR is as follows.
NHR= 3 * MaxRetransEdch;
To better reflect the channel quality, the average NHR value during a statistical period is
usually taken as the basis for the decision. The average NHR (average retransmission
times of each FP frame) during a statistical period is defined as NumReTransDiffAve=
I
NHR / I
i 1
i
.
Once outer loop power control is started for a service, the number of received FP frames
and NHR are counted within the valid statistical time window of the NHR (1s for 2ms TTI,
and 8s for 10ms TTI). The threshold of the sample number to adjust SIRtarget upward
(USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti10 for 10ms TTI, or USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti2 and the
threshold of sample number to adjust SIRtarget downward (USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti10
for 10ms TTI, or USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti2 for 2ms TTI) are respectively configured.
When the received number of FP frames reaches the minimum number of FP frames that
allows SIRtarget adjustment, compare the average NHR (NumReTransDiffAve) within the
statistical period with the NHR threshold for SIRtarget increase(USrvPc.nhrThrUpTti10 for
10ms TTI, or USrvPc.nhrThrUpTti2 for 2ms TTI), and the NHR threshold for SIRtarget
decrease(USrvPc.nhrThrDownTti10 for 10ms TTI, or USrvPc.nhrThrDownTti2 for 2ms
TTI) respectively, and then judge whether to adjust SIR target, and how to adjust it.
2 The following describes the details of HSUPA OLPC for a single service:
SIRtarget increase :
If the number of HARQ failures ≥ the threshold of the HARQ failure number
to increase the SIRtarget (USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti2 or USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti10),
increase SIRtarget by one adjustment step. The increase step = basic step (that
is, USrvPc.ulSirTargUpStep of R99);
SIRtarget decrease :
If the counted number of FP frames < the threshold of the FP number to adjust
SIRtarget, which is Minimum (USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti10,
USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti10) for 10ms TTI or Minimum
(USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti2, USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti2) for 2ms TTI, this
indicates the data volume of the service is quite small and the counted NHR is
not enough to serve as the basis for making a SIRtarget adjustment decision.
Now the channel is in a status of invalid NHR count.
When the time is more than the NHR valid statistical time window after service setup, the
schematic diagram of “SIRtarget increase”, “SIRtarget decrease”, “SIRtarget keep” and “NHR
invalid” states as the following:
Figure 3-3 Schematic Diagram of “SIRtarget increase”, “SIRtarget decrease”, “SIRtarget keep”
and “NHR invalid” based on NHR statistical
Average NHR
FP number
Threshold of Sample Threshold of Sample
Number to Adjust SIR Number to Adjust SIR
Target Upward Target Downward
Note:
When the statistical time reaches the NHR valid statistical time window, and if
SIRtarget is not adjusted, then the slide window statistics are started. That is, an
outer loop power control decision is made whenever the slide window slides
for one step. To reflect the channel quality in due time, the slide step is usually
short. It is 20ms by ZTE RNC. Figure 3-4 shows a schematic diagram of the
slide window statistics:
Every time after making a decision to adjust SIRtarget, the number of FP frames,
NHR statistics and the number of HARQ failure should be cleared to 0 and
new statistics are generated again.
SIRtarget is not decreased unless all services with valid NHR statistics indicate
to decrease SIRtarget. Services with invalid NHR statistics are excluded from
the combination of power control.
Some services need to decrease SIRtarget while some others need SIRtarget to
remain the same, in this way SIRtarget is not adjusted to guarantee QoS of all
services.
RNC calculates the single step adjustment quantity for every scheduling cycle:
(1) fpTargError≤50%:
ΔSIRtarget SirStep
NHR≤USrvPc.targetRetranNum:
1
ΔSIRtarget SirStep
1
1
fpTargError
(2) fpTargError>50%:
1
ΔSIRtarget SirStep 1
fpTargError
NHR≤USrvPc.targetRetranNum:
ΔSIRtarget SirStep
The RNC will only update the SIRtarget when the single step adjustment quantity is equal
or greater than 0.1dB.
For the multi-services user, when more than one service meets the output condition
simultaneously, the maximum adjustment quantity is adopted.
3.3.5.3 Adjust HSUPA OLPC parameters adaptively according to the cell uplink
load.
Most of the HSUPA OLPC parameters and E-DCH HARQ Power Offset are cell load and
user priority related, including USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti2, USrvPc.thrHarqFailTti10,
USrvPc.nhrThrUpTti10, USrvPc.nhrThrDownTti10, USrvPc.nhrThrUpTti2,
USrvPc.nhrThrDownTti2, USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti10, USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti10,
USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti2, USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti2, USrvPc.targetRetranNum,
USrvPc.ulSirStepTti2, USrvPc.ulSirStepTti10, USrvPc.fpTargErrorTti2,
USrvPc.fpTargErrorTti10, USrvPc.edchHarqPOFdd, these parameters are designed as
9-element arrays, each element corresponding to a cell load and user priority condition.
When the E-DCH service is setup or E-DCH MAC-d flow reconfiguration, the parameter
value is obtained based on the cell load and the user priority (ARP), details refer to
“ZTE UMTS Load Adaptive Power Control Feature Guide”. And when the cell load level
is changed, these HSUPA OLPC parameters would be adjusted adaptively, in this way
the average HARQ retransmission number will be adjusted adaptively, it can improve the
system capacity.
3.3.5.4.1 Coupling of the NHR based HSUPA algorithm and CRC based R99 algorithm
As the outer loop power control event algorithm of E-DCH introduced, it may affect the
current outer loop power control algorithm in some cases. For example, at some TTI, the
decisions of outer loop power control between the HSUPA and R99 are different. In this
case, a final decision should be made by the RNC.
The following table shows the coupling result of outer loop adjustment of the DCH and
E-DCH.
↑ ↑ 1 ↑
↑ ↓ 2 ↑
↓ ↑ 3 ↑
↑ - 4 ↑
- ↑ 5 ↑
↓ - 6 -
- ↓ 7 -
- - 8 -
↓ ↓ 9 ↓
↑ × 10 ↑
↓ × 11 ↓
× ↑ 12 ↑
× ↓ 13 ↓
- × 14 -
× - 15 -
In the above table, ↑ indicates increase, ↓ for decrease, - for no adjustment (remain
unchanged), × for invalid statistics.
Increase the SIRtarget as long as either DCH or E-DCH meets the condition for
triggering increase SIRtarget.
Decrease the SIRtarget immediately if both DCH and E-DCH meet the condition
for triggering decrease SIRtarget.
NO
Configure the up link DPDCH
channel?
YES
3.3.5.4.2 Coupling of the NHR target based HSUPA OLPC and BLER target based R99
algorithm
For the situation that R99 and HSUPA algorithms meet the output condition
simultaneously, the maximum adjustment quantity is used.
The technical description of MBMS power control is given in the ZTE UMTS MBMS
Feature Guide.
ii. When the IE “ACK-NACK and CQI Capable” in the Node B audit response, and the
ACK/NACK/CQI Support on HS-DPCCH Indicator in UL Enhanced CELL_FACH
State AckNackCqiSupInd has the value “True”, the RNC needs to configure the
Measurement Power Offset (MPOEFach) for HS-DSCH in uplink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
iii. For uplink channel power control, the SIR target is SIRtargetCEdch. The uplink
inner loop power control algorithm in the uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state is
determined by the parameter UlIlPcAlgEFach, and the step size of uplink inner loop
power control in uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state is TpcStepSizeEFach.
iv. The power calculating formula for the first preamble of the Common E-DCH is the
same with that of PRACH, it is as the following:
Where,
(The formula is the same with the PRACH control part initial power calculation.)
Where,
Power Ramp Step (PRStep) is the power offset between two continuous
preambles.
Power offset Pp-e (POPpe) is the power offset between the last preamble and
the initial power of the DPCCH in uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state.
configured for CCCH, DCCH and DTCH respectively. For CCCH, the E-DCH
MAC-d flow identity is 7, which is described in 3Gpp. Considering the QoS quality
requirement of the DCCH and DTCH is different, different E-DCH MAC-d flow
identity is configured for DCCH and DTCH individually, they are as fixed as 6 and 0.
For each MAC-d flow, the E-DCH MAC-d flow power offset (E-DCH HARQ Power
Offset FDD) can be set respectively, and it also can be set differently for different
TTI conditions. When TTI is 2ms, for CCCH, DCCH and DTCH, the E-DCH MAC-d
flow power offset (E-DCH HARQ Power Offset FDD) is CEdchHarqPOTti2[1],
CEdchHarqPOTti2[2] and CEdchHarqPOTti2[3] respectively. When TTI is 10ms, for
CCCH, DCCH and DTCH, the E-DCH MAC-d flow power offset (E-DCH HARQ
Power Offset FDD) is CEdchHarqPOTti10[1], CEdchHarqPOTti10[2] and
CEdchHarqPOTti10[3] respectively.
In the situation that data quantity of the traffic is very low, SIRtarget adjustment may be not
timely according to the existing OLPC algorithm. In this case the period BER based
OLPC algorithm is introduced:
Node B reports DPCCH BER periodically to the RNC. Under the condition that the switch
(OlpcBerSwitch) is turned on, RNC preserves the number of TTI with data in a slide
window, the length of which is indicated by TimWinSize. The uplink BER algorithm is
opened when the number of TTI with data for all services is less than
TtiNumThreshOpen.
RNC will do a first-order filter processing of the BER reported by the Node B. The filter
coefficient is BerFilterCoeff. When BER is continuously greater than the threshold
USrvPc.berTargetUpThres for USrvPc.berCntThres times, the SIRtarget adjustment
quantity is USrvPc.ulSirTargUpStep; When BER is continuously less than the threshold
USrvPc.berTargetDnThres for USrvPc.berCntThres times, the SIRtarget adjustment
quantity is -USrvPc.ulSirTargDnStep.
The period BER based algorithm is closed when the number of TTI with data of at least
one service is greater than TtiNumThreshCls.
Note: The period BER based algorithm can be opened only when all RLs for a UE
support a BER report. The capability of the Node B under SRNC is indicated in AUDIT
RESPONSE message. The capability of the Node B under DRNC is indicated by the
parameter RncFeatSwitchBit26.
Combination strategy for period BER based algorithm and other OLPC algorithms:
The period BER based algorithm can be used together with CRC-based algorithm and
BLER target algorithm. And the maximum adjustment quantity is adopted.
In the condition without this algorithm, in order to ensure better performance in the
beginning, the service setup success rate for example, a big value of the initial SIR target
will be configured. It will need more time for the SIR target convergence to the needed
SIR target based on the target BLER, and it affect the system capacity. So the SIR target
rapid convergence algorithm is introduced.
The SIR target rapid convergence algorithm is controlled by the switch SirRapidConvSwi.
When SirRapidConvSwi = 1, the SIR target will be divided into two parts:
Where,
1. SIRtargetBLER is the SIR target that satisfies the service requirement of the BLER
target. This part is the result of the quality information based OLPC, for R99 service,
it can be determined by the CRC based OLPC or BLER target based OLPC, for
HSUPA service, it can be determined by NHR based OLPC or NHR target based
OLPC, and the algorithm is determined by the parameter OlPcAlg, For details refer
to the section 3.1.5 “Uplink Outer Loop Power Control of R99” and the section 3.3.5
“HSUPA Uplink Outer Loop Power Control”.
Notes:
i. Here, all algorithms in the section 3.1.5 “Uplink Outer Loop Power Control of
R99” and section 3.3.5 “HSUPA Uplink Outer Loop Power Control” can be used.
The period BER based OLPC described in the section 3.7 also can be used.
2. SIRtargetAdd is the part to meet the need of better performance in the beginning. In
this way, SIRtargetBLER does not need to be configured with a larger value than the
BLER requirement, and configuring SIRtargetAdd with a value larger than zero can
meet the need, To make the SIR target convergence to the needed SIR target
based on the BLER target, it is only required to make the SIRtargetAdd decrease to
zero rapidly. Here, the SIRtargetAdd is decreased over a period, the period is 100ms,
and the step of decreasing is USrvPc.addiSIRDownStep.
The service quality or channel quality based OLPC is named normal OLPC in the ZTE
RAN, which is described in the section 3.1.5 “Uplink Outer Loop Power Control of R99”,
section 3.3.5 “HSUPA Uplink Outer Loop Power Control” , section 3.7 “Period BER based
OLPC ” and section 3.8 “SIR Target Rapid Convergence”.
There is some condition that SIR cannot converge to SIRTarget, it means the absolute
value of the SIR error is larger than a threshold. If it continues to do the normal OLPC
based on the service quality under this condition, the absolute value of the SIR error will
be larger, after the radio condition recovers to the normal level, a too big absolute value
of SIR error will require a long time to complete SIR convergence to SIRTarget, this will
affect the service quality or the system capacity. So, the ZTE RNC introduces an OLPC
based on SIR error, which is named “high priority OLPC”.
The high priority OLPC is based on the SIR error measurement event. The SIR error
measurement event includes event E1, E2, F1, F2. When the event E1 or F1 is reported,
it means the absolute value of the SIR error is larger than the related threshold, and it is
required to trigger the higher priority OLPC and stop the normal OLPC. When the event
E2 or F2 is reported, it means the absolute value of the SIR error is smaller than the
related threshold, and it is required to recover to the normal OLPC.
The thresholds for each SIR error measurement event as the following:
SIRerror
Event E1 Threshold
(evtEfSirEThrd1)
Event E2 Threshold
(evtEfSirEThrd2)
Event F2 Threshold
(evtEfSirEThrd2)
Event F1 Threshold
(evtEfSirEThrd1)
When the event E1 or F1 reported, it triggers the higher priority OLPC and stops the
normal OLPC, while at the same time, it determines whether to adjust the SIRTarget
according to the compared results between BLER and USrvPc.blerTarget of the service.
1. When high priority OLPC is triggered by event E1, SIR is larger than SIRTarget.
If USrvPc.blerTarget / BLER < 3, it indicates the SIR is not too big, and the SIR Target is
small, so SIRTarget can be increased by a step of |0.5*SIRerror|.
If USrvPc.blerTarget / BLER >= 3, it indicates the SIR is too big, and the SIR Target does
not need to be adjusted.
2. When high priority OLPC is triggered by event F1, SIR is smaller than SIRTarget.
If BLER / USrvPc.blerTarget >1.2, it indicates the SIR is too small, and the SIRTarget does
not need to be adjusted.
If BLER / USrvPc.blerTarget <=1.2, it indicates the SIR is not too big, and the SIR Target is
big, so the SIRTarget can be decreased by a step of |0.5*SIRerror|.
Notes:
i. For HSUPA services, if high priority OLPC is triggered, the SIRTarget will be fixed.
The uplink load can be decreased effectively by using long CQI feedback cycle when
there are a lot of HSDPA users in the cell. And when the cell uplink load is low, the short
CQI feedback cycle still can be used for the better service quality purpose.
When the switch of CQI Feedback Cycle and CQI Repetition Factor adjustment based on
load is on (cqiFeedbaLoadSwi = 1), the IE CQI Feedback Cycle (UHspa.cqiCycle) and
CQI Repetition Factor (UHspa.cqiRepFactor) are configured based on the actual
synthesize uplink and downlink cell load level as the following:
The Synthesize Uplink and CQI Feedback Cycle k CQI Repetition Factor
Downlink Cell Load Level
The synthesize uplink and downlink cell load level is the lower level of uplink load level
and HSDPA user number level.
Where,
1. The uplink load level is based on the uplink RoT and the number of uplink equivalent
AMR user. The details refer to the uplink load level described in “ZTE UMTS Load
Adaptive Power Control Feature Guide”. Note: there is no relationship between the
load level here and the switch of load based BLER function ( BlerLoadSwitch).
The sample of the HSDPA user number is HsdpaNumSample, and the filter
formula is:
HsdpaNum (i) = β* HsdpaNumSample + (1-β)*HsdpaNum(i-1)
The HSDPA user number level is determined according to the compare between the
filter result HsdpaNum(i) and the threshold as following table:
HSDPA User Number Level HsdpaNum
Notes:
ii. When cqiFeedbaLoadSwi = 0, all users use the low load level configuration
UHspa.cqiCycle[0] and UHspa.cqiRepFactor[0] as default.
iii. For uplink enhanced CELL_FACH users, the low load level configuration
UCommEdch.cqiCycle[0] and UCommEdch.cqiRepFactor[0] always are used.
The uplink enhanced CELL_FACH refers to “HSPA evolution - enhanced
FACH&RACH Feature Guide”.
Because the idle time is longer than busy time for the PICH and SCCPCH, the Node B
will modify the transmission power of the PICH and SCCPCH according to whether there
is data on the channels.
For PICH, the Node B decides on each PICH frame, when there is a paging (PI=1) then
transmits the symbols with normal power, when there is no paging (PI=0) then reduces
transmission power by the pichDtxPO.
For SCCPCH, the Node B decides on each SCCPCH frame, when there is no data and
basicPwrOptSwitch is ON then performs DTX on the channel including all control fields.
When basicPwrOptSwitch is OFF, the Node B transmits the symbols with normal power,
UUtranCellFDD.primaryCpic
P-CPICH Power
hPower
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Parameter configuration
RNC originate SIB7 is based on the common measurement reported by the Node B,
so it is not in time and exactly. When the Node B originates SIB7, the RTWP
updating is more in time and exactly.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too big, the initial PRACH transmission power might be too
big, it would generate unnecessary power waste and affect the cell capacity, but the
access process would be short.
If the parameter value is too small, the initial PRACH transmission power would be
more reasonable, but it would have more preambles for power ramp, it would make
the access process longer.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too big, the initial PRACH transmission power might be too
big, it would generate unnecessary power waste and affect the cell capacity, but the
access process would be short.
If the parameter value is too small, the initial PRACH transmission power would be
more reasonable, but it would have more preambles for power ramp, it would make
the access process longer.
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Parameter configuration
The Larger this parameter is, the larger the uplink PRACH coverage is.
Smaller this parameter is, smaller the uplink PRACH coverage is.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too small, the PCPICH coverage would be so small that
the UE's probability of right receiving would be bad when UE is in the edge of the
cell.
If the parameter value is too large, it would increase the unnecessary interference,
and waste the downlink power and decrease the downlink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SCPICH transmission power in non MIMO cell (cell
portion).
The value of this parameter is based on the requirement of cell portion coverage.
The larger this parameter is, the bigger coverage is, but a too much larger S-CPICH
power will generate unnecessary interference, and reduce the capacity. The
smaller this parameter is, the smaller coverage.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SCPICH transmission power offset for MIMO. This
parameter is the offset relative to the PCPICH power.
The value of this parameter is based on the requirement of MIMO cell coverage.
The larger this parameter is, the bigger coverage is, but a too much larger S-CPICH
power will generate unnecessary interference, and reduce the capacity. The
smaller this parameter is, the smaller coverage.
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Parameter configuration
The parameter value is configured to make sure the UE in cell edge receive the
PICH rightly and avoid generating unnecessary power waste.
If the parameter value is too small, the paging information cannot be correctly
received when a UE is at the edge of the cell, it might make the UE read the PCH
channel by mistake, and it would reduce the downlink coverage.
If the parameter value is too big, it would increase the unnecessary interference to
other common channel, and waste the downlink power, it would reduce the cell
capacity.
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Parameter configuration
The parameter value is configured to make sure the UE in cell edge receive the
AICH rightly and avoid generating unnecessary power waste.
If the parameter value is too small, the AI information might cannot be rightly
received when UE in the edge of the cell, it would reduce the downlink coverage.
If the parameter value is too big, it would increase the unnecessary interference to
other common channel, and waste the downlink power, it would reduce the cell
capacity.
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Parameter configuration
The parameter value is configured to make sure the UE in cell edge receive the
FACH with the biggest data rate rightly and avoid generating unnecessary power
waste.
If the parameter value is too small, the FACH channel coverage will be so small that
the UE's receiving quality will be bad when it is in the edge of the cell.
If the parameter value is too large, it will increase the interference unnecessary,
waste the downlink power and decrease the downlink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too small, the BCH coverage will be so small that the UE's
probability of right receiving will be bad when it is in the edge of the cell.
If the parameter value is too big, it will increase the unnecessary interference, waste
the downlink power and decrease the downlink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too small, the PSCH coverage will be so small that the UE
cannot search the cell when it is in the edge of the cell.
If the parameter value is too large, it will increase the interference unnecessary,
waste the downlink power and decrease the downlink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too small, the SSCH coverage will be so small that the UE
cannot search the cell when it is in the edge of the cell.
If the parameter value is too large, it will increase the interference unnecessary,
waste the downlink power and decrease the downlink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
For PCH channel, the date rate is fixed, so the power should ensure the PCH date
rate at the cell margin. Too big PCH power is waste power, and too small PCH
power cannot ensure the UE be paged at the cell margin.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should ensure the DPDCH power is suitable at the
beginning of the DPDCH transmission. If this parameter is too big, the DPDCH
transmission is not start while the DPCCH power is already in a suitable level, it
waste power. If this parameter is too small, it might begin DPDCH transmission at a
low power, and it might make the BLER high in the beginning of DPDCH
transmission. But ZTE RNC has configured the parameter of SrbDelay, it can run
power control to several RFs before transmitting signaling, that improve the radio
link quality and increase the successful receive rate of signaling.
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should ensure the DPDCH power is suitable at the
beginning of the DPDCH transmission for Qchat users. If this parameter is too big,
the DPDCH transmission is not start while the DPCCH power is already in a
suitable level, it waste power. If this parameter is too small, it might begin DPDCH
transmission at a low power, and it might make the BLER high in the beginning of
DPDCH transmission.
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should ensure the DPDCH power is change to a
suitable level before sending RB0~RB4 message. If this parameter is too small, it
might begin to send RB0~RB4 message at a low power, and it might make
message be decode mistakenly.
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should ensure the DPDCH power is change to a
suitable level before Qchat users sending RB0~RB4 message. If this parameter is
too small, it might begin to send RB0~RB4 message at a low power, and it might
make message be decode mistakenly.
4.1.2.21 Power Offset of the Maximum Downlink DPCH Showing Different Basic
Priority
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Parameter configuration
4.1.2.22 Power Offset of the Maximum Uplink DPCH Showing Different Basic
Priority
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
It is relative to the parameter TimeDelay, The value of CoverPrd must larger than
the round-trip time. It means that the value of CoverPrd must larger than double of
the TimeDelay. If parameter is too big, it will waste the time of SIR target adjustment,
and make SIR target adjust too slowly. And if parameter is too small, it might be
smaller than the double of TimeDelay, the result of SIR target adjustment last time
had not been reflected in.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter is used to ensure the TPC command is "0" and "1" by turns before
the uplink is synchronized when first radio link is setup, it avoid the power be
adjusted by mistake. The larger this parameter is, the longer initial power be kept.
The smaller this parameter is, the shorter initial power be kept, and higher
probability of the power be affect by error TPC.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates whether the cell is high load cell or not. The parameter
should be set according to the load condition of the cell.
If the cell always in high load condition, set this parameter with the value "1: High
Load Cell", else the value of this parameter should be "0: Normal Load Cell".
UNbDedMeas.rptTyp
Report Characteristics
e
UNbDedMeas.rptPrd
Choice Report Periodicity Scale
Unit
UNbDedMeas.measF
Measurement Filter Coefficient
ilterCoeff
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Configuration->Iub Link
Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter is based on whether need to balance power, and the
purpose of power balancing.
"Common" indicates to balance the DL power but the balanced radio links use the
same reference power. It can resolve the "power drifting" problem when the UE in
macro diversity status.
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Parameter configuration
When the switch is on, DRNC send the DL POWER CONTROL REQUEST
information to the Node B which is the same with the DL POWER CONTROL
REQUEST information sent by SRNC through Iur interface.
When the switch is off, DRNC would discard the DL POWER CONTROL REQUEST
information sent by SRNC through Iur interface.
If the quality of the radio link in DRNC is bad for using the downlink power balancing
parameters from SRNC, even make call drop rate rise, then this switch can be
turned off.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the function, purpose etc. of the dedicated measurement
parameters indicated by the configuration index.
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Parameter configuration
Configuration rule: according to the measurement type and event of the dedicated
measurement.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
Configuration Rule: According to the contribution to the system load and the
timeliness of the measurement report.
The larger the value, the more contribution to the system load but the less timely of
the measurement report; the smaller the value, the less contribution to the system
load but the more timely of the measurement report.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the time unit of measurement report transmitted by the
Node B.
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Parameter configuration
The involved factor for setting this parameter: the smoothness and real-time of
measurement report value.
Influence of this parameter: the less of the value, the less fluctuate of the
measurement report value; the larger of the value, the more real-time of the
measurement report value.
USrvPc.ulSirTargUpSt
Uplink SIR Target Up Step Size
ep
USrvPc.ulSirTargDnSt
Uplink SIR Target Down Step Size
ep
USrvDivPc.maxDlDpch
DPCH Maximum DL Power
Pwr
USrvDivPc.minDlDpch
DPCH Minimum DL Power
Pwr
USrvDivPc.dpcchPilotE
DPCCH Pilot Field Eb/N0
bN0
USrvDivPc.maxUlDpch
Maximum Allowed Uplink DPCH Transmission Power
Pwr
USrvPc.blerAccpPerio
Tolerance BLER Period
d
USrvPc.maxSirTargDn
Uplink SIR Target Maximum Down Step Size
Step
USrvPc.swchAdaptive Uplink Outer Loop PC SIR Target Adaptive Down Step Size
Step Switch
USrvPc.ulOlPcQESwc
Uplink Outer Loop PC QE Switch For Silent Mode
hSil
USrvPc.qePhyBerTarS
Physical Channel BER Target For Silent Mode
il
USrvPc.maxSirTargUp
Uplink SIR Target Maximum Up Step Size
Step
USrvPcProfile.intialloa
Initial Load Scenario
dscene
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
The "algorithm 1" suit for the quick channel fading wireless scenario.
The "algorithm 2" suit for the slow channel fading wireless scenario.
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Parameter configuration
The value is meaningful only if 1 is selected for the uplink inner loop power control
algorithm. The greater the adjustment step is, the SIR is calculated to converge
faster to approach SIR target and the adjustment is done faster.
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Parameter configuration
The greater the parameter is, the larger the increase step will be when the increase
decision is output and SIR target is increased faster. This parameter can be queried
by the current uplink sub-service type.
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Parameter configuration
The smaller the parameter is, SIR target is decreased more slowly when the
decrease decision is output. This parameter can be queried by the current uplink
sub-service type
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Parameter configuration
This parameter is usually configured as a small value for stable channel conditions,
or as a large value for bad radio environment.
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Parameter configuration
The configuration of this parameter is based on whether the transmit diversity mode
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Parameter configuration
The configure principle is to ensure the power satisfy the minimum requirement for
the UE in the margin of the cell, it means that it can conquer the maximum path
loss.
If the maximum power of the service is too big, the power of this service can get a
very high power when the radio condition is bad, and it will reduce the capacity of
the cell.
If the maximum power of the service is too small, the power of the service might not
satisfy the requirement in different condition.
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Parameter configuration
If the value of the parameter is too big, it will make the power cannot be decrease to
If the value of the parameter is too small, it will increase the call drop rate. Decrease
the power too much may make the power cannot return to normal level, so the call
drop happened.
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Parameter configuration
It is required to consider the service quality and cell capacity. The control domain is
the foundation to demodulate the data domain, so the power of control domain is
usually relatively higher than data domain.
If the power of TFCI domain is too small, TFCI cannot be demodulated correctly, it
would affect the service quality.
If the power of TFCI domain is too large, it will waste power, and affect the cell
capacity.
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Parameter configuration
It is required to consider the service quality and cell capacity. The control domain is
the foundation to demodulate the data domain, so the power of control domain is
If the power of TPC domain is too small, TPC cannot be demodulated correctly, it
would affect the service quality.
If the power of TPC domain is too large, it will waste power, and affect the cell
capacity.
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Parameter configuration
It is required to consider the service quality and cell capacity. The control domain is
the foundation to demodulate the data domain, so the power of control domain is
usually relatively higher than data domain.
If the power of PILOT domain is too small, PILOT cannot be demodulated correctly,
it would affect the service quality.
If the power of PILOT domain is too large, it will waste power, and affect the cell
capacity.
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Parameter configuration
The larger this parameter is, the larger the power of the service, it will reduce the
capacity of the cell.
The smaller this parameter is, the smaller the power of the service, it will affect the
quality of the service.
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Parameter configuration
It is required to consider the service quality and cell capacity. The value of this
parameter should ensure the uplink coverage.
If too small of this parameter, it will reduce the quality of uplink services.
If too bigger of this parameter, it might increase the uplink interference and reduce
the capacity.
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Parameter configuration
It is required to consider the uplink synchronization and cell uplink capacity. Initial
SIR target of the service should near the normal level of the SIR target, this can
make the initial convergence of the SIR target rapidly.
If the value of this parameter is too big, it would make the power be increased too
much in the initial period after service setup, and it would reduce the capacity of the
cell.
If the value of this parameter is too small, it would make the power too low in the
initial period after service setup, and it would cost long time to complete uplink
synchronization, even make uplink synchronization failure.
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Parameter configuration
If this parameter is too big, it might make the SIR target too big, and make the uplink
power too big, it would affect the cell capacity.
If this parameter is too small, it might make the power too small to satisfy the
requirement of uplink receiver demodulation, and it would affect the service quality
and uplink coverage.
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Parameter configuration
If this parameter is too big, it might make the SIR target cannot be decreased to a
suitable value, and make the power cannot be decrease to a suitable level, it would
affect the cell capacity.
If this parameter is too small, it might need long time to increase the SIR target from
the minimum value to normal working level, and affect the service quality.
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Parameter configuration
Bigger value of this parameter, the harder to increase SIR target. And if this
parameter is too big, it will reduce the service quality. Smaller value of this
parameter, the easier to increase SIR target. And if this parameter is too small, it will
waste power.
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Parameter configuration
The parameter is bigger, it is more difficult for the UE to decrease the SIR target and
accordingly easier to waste power resource. The parameter is smaller, it is easier
for the UE to decrease the SIR target and accordingly easier to affect service
quality.
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Parameter configuration
Turn on this switch, system capacity can be optimized, but it is required to add an
additional Iub control FP (RADIO INTERFACE PARAMETER UPDATE).
Turn on this switch, DPCH TPC domain might waste power, but it doesn't need to
add an additional Iub control FP (RADIO INTERFACE PARAMETER UPDATE).
This function can be turned on when the capacity of the cell is limited by downlink
power.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter is TPC error rate used for F-DPCH OLPC. If the parameter value is
too large, the performance requirement of the control channel might not be meet. If
the parameter value is too small, it would be very difficult to meet this TPC error
target, and generate unnecessary waste power.
4.3.2.22 Power Offset for Downlink DPCH Initial Power Calculation when Call Setup
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Parameter configuration
Bigger this parameter is, bigger the initial power when call setup.
If this parameter is too big, the initial power when RAB or SRB setup would be too
big, it could have high rate of success RAB or SRB setup, but it would reduce the
system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the initial power when RAB or SRB setup would be too
small, it would reduce the rate of success RAB or SRB setup.
4.3.2.23 Power Offset for Downlink DPCH Initial Power Calculation when Soft or
Softer Handover
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Parameter configuration
Bigger this parameter is, bigger the initial power when soft or softer handover.
If the parameter is too big, the initial power when soft or softer handover would be
too big, it would make high rate of new radio link downlink successful
synchronization, but it also make the power waste and reduce the cell capacity.
If the parameter is too small, the initial power when soft or softer handover would be
too small, it would make low rate of new radio link downlink successful
synchronization.
4.3.2.24 Power Offset for Downlink DPCH Initial Power Calculation when RAB Hard
Handover
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Parameter configuration
Bigger this parameter is, bigger the initial power when RAB hard handover.
If this parameter is too big, the initial power when RAB hard handover would be too
big, it could have high rate of RAB success hard handover, but it would reduce the
system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the initial power when RAB hard handover would be
too small, it would reduce the rate of RAB success hard handover.
4.3.2.25 Power Offset for Downlink DPCH Initial Power Calculation when SRB Hard
Handover
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Parameter configuration
Bigger this parameter is, bigger the initial power when SRB or F-DPCH hard
handover.
If this parameter is too big, the initial power when SRB or F-DPCH hard handover
would be too big, it could have high rate of SRB or F-DPCH success hard handover,
but it would reduce the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the initial power when SRB or F-DPCH hard handover
would be too small, it would reduce the rate of SRB or F-DPCH success hard
handover.
4.3.2.26 Power Offset for Downlink DPCH Initial Power Calculation when RAB
Re-Establishment
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Parameter configuration
Bigger this parameter is, bigger the initial power when RAB re-establishment.
If this parameter is too big, the initial power when RAB re-establishment would be
too big, it could have high rate of success RAB re-establishment, but it would
reduce the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the initial power when RAB re-establishment would be
too small, it would reduce the rate of success RAB re-establishment.
Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is too large, the uplink SIR target decreasing accuracy will be
too low. Accordingly it will affect the demodulation performance, and it will affect the
service quality.
If the parameter value is too small, the uplink SIR target decreasing rate will be too
slow. Accordingly it will affect the system capacity.
4.3.2.28 Uplink Outer Loop PC SIR Target Adaptive Down Step Size Switch
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Parameter configuration
If the switch is on, SIR target decrease would be rapidly when service quality is
good, and system capacity would be increased.
If the switch is off, SIR target decrease step is fixed, and service quality is relative
good.
Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should consider the service quality and system
capacity.
Turn on this switch, when TB number is less then USrvPc.blerAccpPeriod, the SIR
target can be decreased based on the physical channel BER, so the SIR target can
be decreased rapidly, and the system capacity can be increased, but the service
quality will be affected.
Turn off this switch, he SIR target can be decreased only when TB number is reach
USrvPc.blerAccpPeriod and error TB number is less then USrvPc.errorThresh, so
the SIR target can be decreased slowly, and the system capacity will be less, but
the service quality will be better.
Adjustment suggestion: When system uplink capacity is limit, this function can be
open.
4.3.2.30 The Number Threshold of Physical Channel BER Less Than or Equal BER Target
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should consider the service quality and system
capacity.
If the parameter value is larger, it is more difficult to decrease the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is easier to decrease the SIR target. Accordingly,
it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter should consider the service quality and system
capacity.
If the parameter value is larger, it is easier to decrease the SIR target. Accordingly,
it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is more difficult to decrease the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
4.3.2.32 The Offset of CPICH Ec/No in Iur Interface Relative to the UE Measurement
Result
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the offset of CPICH Ec/No in Iur interface relative to the
CPICH Ec/No of measurement result. The CPICH Ec/No in Iur interface is
calculated by the CPICH Ec/No of UE measurement result minus this offset.
If this parameter is too small, the initial power of the radio link in DRNC will be too
big, it is a power wasting.
If this parameter is too big, the initial power of the radio link in DRNC will be small, it
might affect the service quality.
Adjustment suggestion: If there are some problems, such as call drop, which
are because the initial power of radio link in DRNC is too small, then this
parameter can be configured with a bigger value.
4.3.2.33 Additional Size for Uplink SIR Target Increasing When Consecutive Error
TB Occurs
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the additional size for uplink SIR target increasing when
If the parameter value is larger, the SIR target will be increased more rapidly when
consecutive error TB occurs. Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but
affect the system capacity.
If the parameter value is smaller, the SIR target will be increased more slowly when
consecutive error TB occurs. Accordingly, it will improve the system capacity but
affect the service quality.
Adjustment Suggestion:
If there is no need to increase the SIR target increasing step size when consecutive
error TB occurs, this parameter can be set to 0.
If there is need to increase the SIR target increasing step size when consecutive
error TB occurs, this parameter can be set to 0.1dB (or else value).
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the maximum step size of increasing the uplink SIR target.
If the parameter value is too large, the SIR target increasing step size will be too big
when consecutive error TB or consecutive SIR target increasing occurs. Accordingly,
it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
If the parameter value is too small, the SIR target increasing step size will be not big
enough when consecutive error TB or consecutive SIR target increasing occurs.
Accordingly, it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the valid time window for TB in the shield period.
If the parameter is too big, even if the time between two SIR target increasing is too
long, the SIR target increasing step size in the second time will be increased, it will
affect the system capacity.
If the parameter is too big, only when the time between two SIR target increasing is
very short, the SIR target increasing step size in the second time could be increase,
it will affect the service quality.
Adjustment Suggestion:
If there is no need to increase the SIR target increasing step size when consecutive
SIR target increasing occurs, this parameter can be set to 0.
If there is need to increase the SIR target increasing step size when consecutive
SIR target increasing occurs, this parameter can be set to 40 (it means 400ms) or
else value.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the initial load scenario for the parameters in
USrvPcProfile, and this parameter cannot be modified.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the sub service type, used for numbering for each sub
service. 0...5 are used for signaling, 6...250 are used for service. Odd number is
configured for downlink service; even number is configured for uplink service.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI based power control function switch. When
this switch is on, some power control parameters can be configured based on
IMEI.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI utility switch for power control.
When this switch is on, the power offset parameters related to the IMEI is
effective.
When this switch is off, the power offset parameters related to the IMEI is not
effective.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI related offset of uplink maximum SIR target.
For the UE, whose IMEI is indicated in UImeiBlkLis and with imeiPcSwitch = 1,
the uplink maximum SIR target need to add this offset.
If this parameter is too big, it might make the SIR target too big, and make the
uplink power too big, it would affect the cell capacity.
If this parameter is too small, it might make the power too small to satisfy the
requirement of uplink receiver demodulation, and it would affect the service
quality and uplink coverage.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI related offset of uplink minimum SIR target.
For the UE, whose IMEI is indicated in UImeiBlkLis and with imeiPcSwitch = 1,
the uplink minimum SIR target need to add this offset.
If this parameter is too big, it might make the SIR target cannot be decreased to
a suitable value, and make the power cannot be decrease to a suitable level, it
would affect the cell capacity.
If this parameter is too small, it might need long time to increase the SIR target
from the minimum value to normal working level, and affect the service quality.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI related offset of downlink maximum DPCH
power. For the UE, whose IMEI is indicated in UImeiBlkLis and with
imeiPcSwitch = 1, the downlink maximum DPCH power need to add this offset.
If the parameter is too big, the power of this service can get a very high power
when the radio condition is bad, and it will reduce the capacity of the cell.
If the parameter is too small, the power of the service might not satisfy the
requirement in different condition.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the IMEI related offset of downlink minimum DPCH
power. For the UE, whose IMEI is indicated in UImeiBlkLis and with
imeiPcSwitch = 1, the downlink minimum DPCH power need to add this offset.
If the value of the parameter is too big, it will make the power cannot be
decrease to a suitable level, and it will reduce the capacity of the cell.
If the value of the parameter is too small, it will increase the call drop rate.
Decrease the power too much may make the power cannot return to normal
level, so the call drop happened.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter used for IMEI Utility Extension. The bit0 of this parameter
indicates the IMEI utility switch for considering load when configure power
control parameters, bit0=0 means switch off, and bit0=1 means switch on.
If bit0=1, the power offset parameter related to the IMEI should not be used
when the cell load is high and the power offset parameter is positive.
If bit0=0, the power offset parameters related to the IMEI should be used and
not considering the cell load.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates which outer loop power control algorithm is used. 0:
BLER Target Algorithm; 1: CRC-based OLPC algorithm
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SIR target up step size for R99(2ms E-TTI). This
parameter can be queried by the current uplink sub-service type.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the shield period switch. The shield period algorithm is
used to control the speed of SIRtarget increase, so the system capacity is
improved, but the service quality might be affected.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the time window size of opening shield period. The
greater this parameter is, the easier shield action is triggered.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the threshold of opening shield period. The smaller
this parameter is, the easier shield action is triggered.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the shield period. The greater this parameter is the
longer shield action is continued.
UHspa.anackRepFact
ACK-NACK Repetition Factor
or
profileId
HS-PDSCH Measurement Power Offset Configuration Index
(UMPOProfile)
4.4.2.1 HS-DPCCH ACK Power Offset for Single Radio Link or Intra-NodeB
Handover
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH ACK domain relative to
DPCCH when UE has a single link or is in the intra-the Node B handover.
If the parameter value is too large, it would waste the uplink power, increase the UL
interference and reduce the UL capacity of cell.
If the parameter value is too small, it would affect the receiving quality of the
HS-DPCCH ACK domain.
4.4.2.2 HS-DPCCH NACK Power Offset for Single Radio Link or Intra-NodeB
Handover
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH NACK domain relative to
DPCCH when UE has a single link or is in the intra-the Node B handover.
If the parameter value is too large, it would waste the uplink power, increase the UL
interference and reduce the UL capacity of cell.
If the parameter value is too small, it would affect the receiving quality of
HS-DPCCH NACK domain.
4.4.2.3 HS-DPCCH CQI Power Offset for Single Radio Link or Intra-NodeB
Handover
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH CQI domain relative to
DPCCH when UE has a single link or is in the intra-the Node B handover.
If the parameter is configured too large, more interference will be generated and the
capacity will be reduced.
If the parameter is configured too small, the quality of the receiving will be bad.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH ACK domain relative to
DPCCH when UE is in inter-the Node B handover.
If the parameter value is too large, it would waste the uplink power, increase the UL
interference and reduce the UL capacity of cell.
If the parameter value is too small, it would affect the receiving quality of the
HS-DPCCH ACK domain.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH NACK domain relative to
DPCCH when UE is in inter-the Node B handover.
If the parameter value is too large, it would waste the uplink power, increase the UL
interference and reduce the UL capacity of cell.
If the parameter value is too small, it would affect the receiving quality of
HS-DPCCH NACK domain.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset of HS-DPCCH CQI domain relative to
DPCCH when UE is in inter-the Node B handover.
If the parameter is configured too large, more interference will be generated and the
capacity will be reduced.
If the parameter is configured too small, the quality of the receiving will be bad.
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Parameter configuration
Configure CQI Feedback Cycle according to the impact to downlink throughput and
uplink interference because of different CQI Feedback Cycle. CQI Feedback Cycle
and CQI Repetition Factor determine the time of same CQI to be feedback.
If the CQI Feedback Cycle is too big, UE would wait long time to send the new CQI,
the HSDPA scheduling would be not exact, and it would affect the downlink
throughput.
If the CQI Feedback Cycle is too small, the CQI would more likely to reflect the
actual quality of the channel, and the HSDPA scheduling would be more exact, but it
would generate more uplink interference.
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Parameter configuration
CQI Feedback Cycle and CQI Repetition Factor determine the time of same CQI to
be feedback. The bigger the CQI Repetition Factor is, the longer time to wait to
send the new CQI, the less exact of the scheduling, and less system capacity. But
the smaller the CQI Repetition Factor is, the less probability of CQI been decoded
rightly.
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Parameter configuration
The bigger the ACK-NACK Repetition Factor is, the less ACK or NACK of new data
would be feed back to network, the less system capacity. The smaller the
ACK-NACK Repetition Factor is, the less probability of ACK or NACK been
decoded rightly.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the allocation method for HSPA total power.
RNC dynamic assigning mode is a method of assigning HSPA total power by the
RNC, and the Node B does not need to allocate the power itself.
the Node B assigning mode can make full use of power resource with best effort.
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Parameter configuration
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "RNC
dynamic assigning mode", if this parameter is too small, the HSPA total power
would be too small, and it might reduce the quality and capacity of HSPA service. If
this parameter is too big, the HSPA total power would be too big, and it might
reduce the quality and capacity of R99 service.
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "the Node B
Assigning Mode", this parameter is invalid.
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Parameter configuration
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "RNC
Dynamic Assigning Mode". Larger value of this parameter, more power can be used
by HS subscriber, easier to trigger the rate decrease of R99 subscriber, so the KPI
of DCH subscriber is bad. But if the value of this parameter is set too small, the
power allocated to HSPA subscriber is less, it will affect the throughput of HSPA
subscriber when the resource is little.
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "the Node B
Assigning Mode", this parameter is invalid.
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Parameter configuration
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "RNC
Dynamic Assigning Mode", if this parameter is too small, the HSPA total power
would be too small, and it might reduce the quality and capacity of HSPA service. If
this parameter is too big, the HSPA total power would be too big, and it might
reduce the quality and capacity of R99 service.
When the HSPA total downlink power is allocated used the method of "the Node B
Assigning Mode", this parameter is invalid.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
The principle is to control the CQI in the range from 1 to 30. If this parameter is
configured too big, the service might get big CQI, and get big power, but it will
reduce the cell capacity. But if this parameter is configured too small, it might not
satisfy the requirement of CQI.
4.4.2.16 Actual Configuration of the HSDPA Evolution Function of the UE in the Cell
(64QAM)
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Parameter configuration
4.4.2.17 Actual Configuration of the HSDPA Evolution Function of the UE in the Cell
(MIMO)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates whether MIMO is used in the configuration of MPO, which
is just for showing in screen and cannot be reconfigured.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the safe threshold of the HSDPA power, that is, the
maximum HSDPA power when the Node B is in free mode. In any case, HSDPA
power must not exceed this threshold.
If this parameter is too small, the total HSDPA power would be too small, and it
would affect the throughput of the HSDPA service.
If this parameter is too big, the total power of the Node B would be too big, and it
would affect the system stability.
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Parameter configuration
If this parameter is too big, E-DPCCH power would be too big, miss detect rate
would be small, but it would generating unnecessary interference, and reduce the
system capacity.
If the parameter is too small, E-DPCCH power would be too small, the miss detect
rate will be too big, service quality requirement cannot be satisfied.
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Parameter configuration
If this parameter is too big, E-DPCCH power would be too big, miss detect rate
would be small, but it would generating unnecessary interference, and reduce the
system capacity.
If the parameter is too small, E-DPCCH power would be too small, the miss detect
rate will be too big, service quality requirement cannot be satisfied.
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter is used to ensure the 2ms TTI scheduling information
be demodulated rightly, and avoiding unnecessary power waste. If this parameter is
too big, it will waste power, and reduce the system capacity. If this parameter is too
small, the scheduling information will not be demodulated, and affect the service
quality.
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Parameter configuration
The value of this parameter is used to ensure the 10ms TTI scheduling information
be demodulated rightly, and avoiding unnecessary power waste. If this parameter is
too big, it will waste power, and reduce the system capacity. If this parameter is too
small, the scheduling information will not be demodulated, and affect the service
quality.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is larger, it is more difficult to increase the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is easier to increase the SIR target. Accordingly,
it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is larger, it is easier to decrease the SIR target. Accordingly, it
will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is more difficult to decrease the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is larger, it is more difficult to increase the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is easier to increase the SIR target. Accordingly,
it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the parameter value is larger, it is easier to decrease the SIR target. Accordingly, it
will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
If the parameter value is smaller, it is more difficult to decrease the SIR target.
Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the E-DCH HARQ power offset FDD, which is used to
compute the quantized gain factor βed of E-DPDCH.
If the parameter value is larger, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be larger.
Accordingly, it will improve the service quality but affect the system capacity.
If the parameter value is smaller, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be smaller.
Accordingly, it will improve the system capacity but affect the service quality.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-AGCH power (for 2ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-AGCH detection (BLER equal or below 1%
in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-AGCH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-AGCH power (for 10ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-AGCH detection (BLER equal or below 1%
in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-AGCH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.12 E-RGCH Power Offset for TTI 2ms in Single Link Condition
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-HICH power (for 10ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal or below 1% in
3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.13 E-RGCH Power Offset for TTI 10ms in Single Link Condition
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-HICH power (for 10ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal or below 1% in
3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.14 E-HICH Power Offset for TTI 2ms in Single Link Condition
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-HICH power (for 2ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal or below 1% in
3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.15 E-HICH Power Offset for TTI 10ms in Single Link Condition
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the E-HICH power (for 10ms TTI) large enough to
satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal or below 1% in
3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter is used to estimate the uplink load increase caused by the MAC-e
PDUs which is not decoded. The bigger this parameter is, the bigger E-DPDCH
power, and less system capacity. The smaller this parameter is, the smaller
E-DPDCH power, and lower quality of the service.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
Outer loop power control run in the principle of rapidly increase and slowly decrease
the uplink SIR target. So usually USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti10 is bigger than
USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti10. The parameter is bigger, it is more difficult to
decrease the SIR target and easier to waste power. The parameter is smaller, it is
easier to decrease the SIR target and to affect the service quality.
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Parameter configuration
Outer loop power control run in the principle of rapidly increase and slowly decrease
the uplink SIR target. So usually USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti10 is bigger than
USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti10.
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Parameter configuration
Outer loop power control run in the principle of rapidly increase and slowly decrease
the uplink SIR target. So usually USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti2 is bigger than
USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti2.
The parameter is bigger, it is more difficult to decrease the SIR target and easier to
waste power.
The parameter is smaller, it is easier to decrease the SIR target and to affect the
service quality.
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Parameter configuration
Outer loop power control run in the principle of rapidly increase and slowly decrease
the uplink SIR target. So usually USrvPc.dwThrSampNumTti2 is bigger than
USrvPc.upThrSampNumTti2.
The parameter is bigger, it is more difficult to increase the SIR target and affect the
service quality, easier to waste power.
The parameter is smaller, it is easier to increase the SIR target and easier to waste
power.
4.5.2.22 Threshold of HARQ Failure Indication Number to Adjust SIR Target Upward
(2ms E-TTI)
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Parameter configuration
Bigger the number of HARQ failure threshold for increasing SIR target, harder to
increase SIR target. And if this parameter is too big, it will reduce the service quality.
Smaller the number of HARQ fail threshold for increasing SIR target, more easy to
increase SIR target. And if this parameter is too small, it will waste power.
4.5.2.23 Threshold of HARQ Failure Indication Number to Adjust SIR Target Upward
(10ms E-TTI)
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Parameter configuration
Bigger the number of HARQ failure threshold for increasing SIR target, harder to
increase SIR target. And if this parameter is too big, it will reduce the service quality.
Smaller the number of HARQ fail threshold for increasing SIR target, easier to
increase SIR target. And if this parameter is too small, it will waste power.
4.5.2.24 Power Offset Relative to E-HICH in Single Link Condition for E-HICH of
Serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (2ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of serving E-DCH RLS E-HICH (for 2ms
TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal
or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system
capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.25 Power Offset Relative to E-HICH in Single Link Condition for E-HICH of
Serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (10ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of serving E-DCH RLS E-HICH (for 10ms
TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK equal
or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system
capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.26 Power Offset Relative to E-HICH in Single Link Condition for E-HICH of
Non-serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (2ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of non-serving E-DCH RLS E-HICH (for
2ms TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK
equal or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the
system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.27 Power Offset Relative to E-HICH in Single Link Condition for E-HICH of
Non-serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (10ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of non-serving E-DCH RLS E-HICH (for
10ms TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-HICH (MISS ACK
equal or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the
system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-HICH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.28 Power Offset Relative to E-RGCH in Single Link Condition for E-RGCH of
Serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (2ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of serving E-DCH RLS E-RGCH (for 2ms
TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-RGCH (MISS UP equal
or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system
capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-RGCH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.29 Power Offset Relative to E-RGCH in Single Link Condition for E-RGCH of
Serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition (10ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of serving E-DCH RLS E-RGCH (for 10ms
TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-RGCH (MISS UP equal
or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider the system
capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-RGCH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
4.5.2.30 Power Offset Relative to 10ms TTI E-RGCH in Single Link Condition for
E-RGCH of Non-serving RLS in Macro Diversity Condition
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Parameter configuration
This parameter should ensure the power of non-serving E-DCH RLS E-RGCH (for
10ms TTI) large enough to satisfy the minimum requirement for E-RGCH (MISS
DOWN equal or below 5% in 3GPP 25.101 protocol). It is also required to consider
the system capacity.
If this parameter is too small, the minimum requirement for E-RGCH performance
could not be satisfied.
If this parameter is too big, it would waste the power, and affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SIR target up step size for HSUPA (2ms E-TTI). This
parameter can be queried by the current uplink sub-service type.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SIR target up step size for HSUPA (10ms E-TTI). This
parameter can be queried by the current uplink sub-service type.
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Parameter configuration
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the target percentage of frames that have a number of
HARQ retransmissions great than USrvPc.targetRetranNum. If the parameter is too
big, it might affect the service quality. If the parameter is too small, it might affect the
system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
If the
This parameter indicates the target percentage of frames that have a number of
HARQ retransmissions great than USrvPc.targetRetranNum. If the parameter is too
big, it might affect the service quality. If the parameter is too small, it might affect the
system capacity.
Refer to MBMS Feature Guide for details of related parameters of MBMS power control.
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Parameter configuration
The larger of this parameter, the better QoS of the traffic in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state, and the lower of cell capacity in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
The smaller of this parameter, the worse QoS of the traffic in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state, and the larger of cell capacity in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
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Parameter configuration
CELL_FACH state, it is a power offset relative to the P-CPICH power in the cell.
The larger of this parameter, the better QoS of the traffic in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state, and the lower of cell capacity in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
The smaller of this parameter, the worse QoS of the traffic in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state, and the larger of cell capacity in downlink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the initial F-DPCH power in uplink enhanced CELL_FACH
state. The largest value in the value range is used to indicate that the RNC do not
need to configure it in PHYSICAL SHARED CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION
REQUEST, and the power of F-DPCH is decided by the Node B.
Bigger this parameter is, bigger initial power of F-DPCH for common E-DCH
transmission, and too big initial power will affect the system capacity. But the
biggest value 15.1dB means the initial power of F-DPCH is determined by the Node
B. The initial power of F-DPCH determined by the Node B will be more accurately.
Smaller this parameter is, smaller initial power of F-DPCH for common E-DCH
transmission, and too small initial power will affect the service quality.
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Cell->EFACH Configuration
Parameter configuration
"0: Not Supported" means ACK/NACK and CQI are not supported on HS-DPCCH in
uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state, it reduce the HS-DPCCH information in the Iub
and Uu interface.
"1: Supported" means ACK/NACK and CQI are supported on HS-DPCCH in uplink
enhanced CELL_FACH state, the Node B schedule HS-PDSCH power based on
ACK/NACK and CQI will be more accurately.
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Parameter configuration
If this parameter is configured too big, the service in enhanced CELL_FACH state
might get big CQI, and get big power, but it will reduce the cell capacity.
If this parameter is configured too small, it might not satisfy the requirement of CQI.
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Cell->EFACH Configuration
Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the SIR target of the common E-DCH in uplink enhanced
CELL_FACH state.
Bigger this parameter is, higher power of the UE in CELL_FACH state, but too big
this parameter will waste power.
Smaller this parameter is, lower power of the UE in CELL_FACH state, but too small
this parameter will not satisfy the QoS need.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates which uplink inner loop power control algorithm is used in
uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state.
For algorithm 1 inner loop power control is done every time slot, so it can response
to radio condition change rapidly.
For algorithm 2 inner loop power control is done every 5 time slots, it is suit for radio
condition change smoothly.
4.8.2.6 Step Size of Uplink Inner Loop Power Control in Uplink Enhanced
CELL_FACH State
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Cell->EFACH Configuration
Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the TPC step size for uplink inner loop power control in
uplink enhanced CELL_FACH state.
If this parameter is 1dB, the transmit power will be adjust more smoothly. The power
will be decreased too slowly to waste the power resource affecting the system
capacity and the power will be increased too slowly to affect the service quality.
And if this parameter is 2dB, the transmit power will be adjust more rapidly. The
power will be decreased too lower to affect the service quality and the power will be
increased too higher to waste the power resource affecting the system capacity.
4.8.2.7 Power Offset between the Last Preamble and the Initial Power of the
DPCCH in Enhanced Uplink CELL_FACH Sate
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the power offset between the last transmitted preamble
and the initial power of the DPCCH transmission in the Enhanced Uplink in
CELL_FACH state.
4.8.2.8 HARQ Power Offset for Common E-DCH MAC-d Flow (2ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the HARQ power offset for common E-DCH MAC-d flow
when 2ms TTI is used.
If the parameter value is too large, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be too
large to increase the uplink interference unnecessary and decrease the system
capacity.
If the parameter value is too small, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be too
small to affect the probability of right receive.
4.8.2.9 HARQ Power Offset for Common E-DCH MAC-d Flow (10ms TTI)
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the HARQ power offset for common E-DCH MAC-d flow
when 10ms TTI is used.
If the parameter value is too large, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be too
large to increase the uplink interference unnecessary and decrease the system
capacity.
If the parameter value is too small, the E-DPDCH transmission power will be too
small to affect the probability of right receive.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the switch of period BER based OLPC algorithm. This
algorithm is applied in the situation that traffic data quantity is low.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the BER target up threshold in period BER based OLPC
algorithm. This parameter can be queried by the current uplink sub-service type.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the BER target down threshold in period BER based
OLPC algorithm. This parameter can be queried by the current uplink sub-service
type.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the length of slide window in period BER based OLPC
algorithm. The less of this parameter, the easier this algorithm is opened.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the TTI threshold of opening period BER based Algorithm.
The greater of this parameter, the easier this algorithm is opened.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the TTI threshold of closing period BER based Algorithm.
The less of this parameter, the easier this algorithm is closed.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the BER first-order filter coefficient. It is used to prevent
excessive BER fluctuation.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the number threshold of triggering SIR target adjustment
in period BER based algorithm. It is used to prevent the frequent adjustment
because of BER fluctuation.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates whether the Node B under DRNC support BER report. 0:
Not Support; 1: Support.
Configuration Rule: This parameter is configured "support" when all the Node Bs
under DRNC support DPCCH BER report and the parameter OlpcBerSwitch is
configured "support".
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Parameter configuration
When the switch is on, the SIR target can be decreased rapidly to the SIR target
based on the service BLER, so the system capacity is improved, but the service
quality in the beginning might be affected.
Adjustment Suggestion: When system uplink capacity is limit, this function can be
open.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the additional SIR target down step size of the SIR target
rapid convergence function.
If the parameter is too big, the SIR target will be decreased too rapidly, it might
affect the service quality.
If the parameter is too small, the SIR target will be decreased too slowly, it might
affect the system capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the initial value for BLER based SIR target in the SIR
target rapid convergence function.
If the value of this parameter is too big, it would make the power be increased too
much in the initial period after service setup, and it would reduce the capacity of the
cell.
If the value of this parameter is too small, it would make the power too low in the
initial period after service setup, and it would cost long time to complete uplink
synchronization, even make uplink synchronization failure.
Adjustment Suggestion: Initial SIR target based on BLER of the service should near
the normal level of the SIR target which meet the need of service BLER target.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the initial value for additional SIR target in the SIR target
rapid convergence function.
If the value of this parameter is too big, it would make the power be increased too
much in the initial period after service setup, and it would reduce the capacity of the
cell.
If the value of this parameter is too small, it would make the power too low in the
initial period after service setup, and it would cost long time to complete uplink
synchronization, even make uplink synchronization failure.
Adjustment Suggestion: Initial value for additional SIR target of the service can be a
little big when the call setup success rate is low.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the switch for priority outer loop power control.
When the switch is on, if the windup happen, which indicated that the SIR
cannot reach the SIR target, the priority outer loop power control can be
triggered based on the SIR error event F, it avoid the SIR target being increased
too much, so it can reduce the time for SIR target decreasing after the radio
condition become good. In this way, the system capacity can be improved.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the threshold 1 used for triggering event E, F for SIR
Error measurement.
Configuration Rule: Considering whether it can correctly and timely reflects the
condition when SIR cannot converge to the SIR target because of deterioration
of radio condition.
The smaller of the absolute value of the parameter is, the easier for event E and
F of SIR error to report. But if it is too small, it will influence the normal OLPC so
as to influence service quality or system capability finally.
The bigger of the absolute value of the parameter is, the harder for event E and
F of SIR error to report. But if it is too large, it will influence the SIR convergence
speed when radio condition recovers SIR has converges to SIR error so as to
influence service quality or system capability finally.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the threshold 2 used for triggering event E, F for SIR
Error measurement.
Configuration Rule: Considering whether it can correctly and timely reflects the
condition when SIR cannot converge to the SIR target because of deterioration
of radio condition.
The smaller of the absolute value of the parameter is, the harder for event E
and F of SIR error to report. But if it is too small, when SIR can converge to the
SIR target normally, SIR target keeps fixedly so as influencing service quality or
system capability finally.
The bigger of the absolute value of the parameter is, the more easily for event E
and F of SIR error to report. But if it is too large, when SIR can converge to the
SIR target normally, SIR target keeps rising so as to influence service quality or
system capability finally.
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Parameter configuration
The larger this parameter is, the more difficult to trigger the measurement
event.
4.12.1 List of Related Parameters of Load based CQI Feedback Cycle and
CQI Repetition Factor
Abbreviated Name Parameter Name
4.12.2.1 The Switch of CQI Feedback Cycle and CQI Repetition Factor Adjustment
Based on Load
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the switch of CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor
adjustment based on load.
If the switch is on, the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor is configured
based on uplink load and HSDPA user number, and it can improve the uplink
capacity.
If the switch is off, the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor is fixed, it might
affect the uplink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the threshold of low HSDPA user number level. When the
HSDPA user number is smaller than this threshold, it is in low HSDPA user number
level.
Bigger this parameter is, easier the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor for
low load is used.
Smaller this parameter is, harder the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor
for low load is used.
Usually the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor for low load is configured
to improve the HSDPA service quality, but it might affect the uplink capacity.
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Parameter configuration
This parameter indicates the threshold of high HSDPA user number level. When the
HSDPA user number is no smaller than this threshold, it is in high HSDPA user
number level.
Smaller this parameter is, easier the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor
for high load is used.
Bigger this parameter is, harder the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor
Usually the CQI feedback cycle and CQI repetition factor for high load is configured
to improve the uplink capacity, but it might affect the HSDPA service quality.
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Parameter configuration
The parameter indicates the power shifting when PICH is without radio frame of
paging.
The bigger this value is, the less power is consumption when PICH is without
paging
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Parameter configuration
The parameter decides whether to disable the SCCPCH transmission when there is
no data in channel.
When the switch is on, SCCPCH transmission power consumption is less when
there is no data.
6 Glossary
A
ACK Acknowledge
NACK No Acknowledge
TB Transmission Block
UE User Equipment