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Name: To improve capacity and solve DL power congestion by using 30W solution.
Phenonem In country M, operator M is facing serious DL power congestion issue. To solve this
a: issue, operator M agreed to conduct 30W trial to check the possibility of this solution
on solving DL power congestion issue. This trial will be separated into 2 parts, which
is 30W max power with 3W CPICH power and 30W max power with 2W CPICH
power.
The circled area showed a crowded housing area which was covered by nearby sites
GSTMMU and WMSEMU, both sites were having power congestion issue.
In both cases, NodeB will be required to restart before new power setting takes
effect, therefore command 1 is used to deactivate NodeB. Command 2 is then used to
change the maximum and minimum PCPICH threshold. Command 3 and command
4 are used to modify the Maximum transmit power and CPICH power setting on
both NodeB side and Cell side. After that, command 5 is being executed to reactivate
the local cell with new power setting.
will attract even more traffic due to coverage is larger with 3W CPICH power.
From above graph we can observe that 30W 3W setting is having more serious
power congestion problem than previous 20W 2W setting. The blocked call rate
VS.RAB.FailEstabCS.DLPower.Cong/VS.RAB.AttEstabCS.Conv * 100
Performance stats for site WMSEMU were collected over 3 days and looking at
the KPI table below, we could observe that although after using 30W and 3W
CPICH solution, AMR traffic and HSDPA user number had increased
significantly, but the rest of the KPI such as CSSR and DCR degraded very
capacity, but it was not a good solution to solve power congestion because it
would further degrade KPI very badly and caused congestion level to become
even worse.
setting we were able to remain same coverage area but with an larger capacity.
From the graph below, we could clearly see that with 30W and 2W CPICH
Looking on the KPI stats collected over 3days. We could observe a few
congestion had now been released. HSDPA Throughput had also observed
significant improvement.
number. It was due to the Ec/Io level had now became worse due to the huge
surrounding sites.
Ec/Io level can be further optimized with the parameter power margin in order
to limit the power available for PS. This could reduce the PS traffic level but it
would improve Ec/Io level and thus attract more CS traffic. Beware that the
the same time. Suggested power margin value is 23% based on general cases in
M country.
In conclusion, 30W and 2W CPICH power solution will be able to solve power
congestion issue but with a tradeoff in Ec/Io level. However, this tradeoff would
depend on site to site situation and could be optimized through changing power