(E)GPRS Network Infrastructure

MS BSC MSC PSTN SS7 Network SGSN SGSN Nokia Security GW EIR SMS-GMSC BTS

HLR/AuC
CG DNS

Nokia Security GW
Router

Router
STM-1

Nokia IP650 sec GW

Router
LAN SWITC H

LIG GGSN

GPRS IP Backbone Network

GGSN
Router
STM-1

Nokia IP650 sec GW Corporate 1 Intranet

Router

Nokia IP650 sec GW

MODEM POOL FOR DIALUP

Nokia Security GW Nokia Security GW

MODEM POOL FOR DIALUP

Internet

Corporate 2 Intranet

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ELECTRICAL ET

Metro BSC GB LINK Hub

GB LINK

SGSN

GGSN
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NSEI PLANNING
NSEI 1
NSEI 2

NSEI 3

NSEI 4

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Network Element and Configuration Audit - Summary

BTS GPRS territory BTS HW considerations (TRX & BB-card) BTS SW (EPCR) MS/Client parameters GPRS/EDGE capability and release Multislot support RF BTS BSC Abis Gb 2G SGSN BSS HLR TC HLR/ AC/ EIR MSC/VLR SGSN QoS profile GPRS settings

PCU variant & dimensioning

PCU strategy in mixed configuration BSS SW and features

TCSM

Unit capacity (PAPU etc.)

BSS Gb Flow control

Gs IP/MPLS/IPoATM backbone Gn Gi Application Applicatio Servers n Servers (colocated Server load settings (Linux/Win)

GGSN

RF interface Coverage

C/I
Capacity Traffic volume Mobility

Gb interface Abis interface EDAP size / dimensioning # of E1/T1s Bearer size IP v.s. FR Dimensioning

GPRS/EDGE traffic
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INPUT GIVEN FOR THE GPRS PLANNING

No. of time slot required for the GPRS territory : CDED=1 and CDEF=1 No. of BTS per EDAP i.e the No. of sectors prevalent : 3 No. of time slot used for EDAP on Abis (64 Kbps) : 3 Time slot % of upgrade is the Teritory upgrade for the future perspective : 10 % No. Of sites planned per BSC : 100 Access rate (CIR) is the speed required at the GB interface : 256 Kbps

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OUTPUT REQUIRED
No. of sites per NSEI required No. of NSEI required in BSC No. of PCU or No. Of BCSU required No. Of Gb Link required No. of E1 required from the BSC to Metro Hub

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How to calculate what

No. of EGPRS resources used in 1 sector * No. of sectors : 2 x 3 No. of time slot/sector * no of time slot used for EDAP :- 2 * 3 = 6 So total time slots per site 6 + 6 = 12 1 NSEI support 256 time slot with upgrade % as 10 so total no of time slots which can be equipped is 256 - 10% of 256 = 230.4 ~ 230 So no. of sites per NSEI is 230/12 = 19.16 ~ 19 So no NSEI required / BSC : 100 / 19 = 5.2 +1 (for future use) ~ 6 2 NSEI supports 1 BCSU so no. of PCU required : 6/2 = 3 No. of NSEI required is equivalent to the no. of Gb link = 3 On 1 E1 we can get 31x64 = 1984 , so access rate can be given by 1 E1 = 1984/ access rate (256) = 1984 / 256 ~ 7

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Transmission requirement for EGPRS coding schemes in Abis interface

Coding scheme MCS-1 MCS-2 MCS-3 MCS-4 MCS-5 MCS-6 MCS-7 MCS-8 MCS-9 Company Confidential
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Data rate

Abis PCM allocation (fixed + pool)

8.8 kbit/s 11.2 kbit/s 14.8 kbit/s 17.6 kbit/s 22.4 kbit/s 29.6 kbit/s 44.8 kbit/s 54.4 kbit/s 59.2 kbit/s

EDGE modulations

Scheme

Modulatio n 8PSK

Maximum rate [kb/s]

MCS-9 MCS-8 MCS-7 MCS-6 MCS-5 MCS-4 MCS-3 MCS-2 MCS-1

59.2 54.4 44.8 29.6 / 27.2 22.4 17.6 14.8 / 13.6 11.2 8.8

GMSK

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GPRS & EGPRS coding schemes

MCS-1

GPRS has four coding schemes, CS-1...4. All use GMSK. EDGE has nine modulation and coding schemes, MCS-1...9. MCS-1...4 use GMSK, MCS-5...9 use 8-PSK modulation Operator can set the MCS to start with E.g. always start with MCS-9

22 MCS-2 28 MCS-3 37 MCS-4 44 MCS-5 56

RLC/MAC block (radio block)

redundancy from channel coding RLC data block, number of octets

CS-1 20 CS-2 30 CS-3 36 CS-4 50

MCS-6 74 MCS-7 56 MCS-8 68 MCS-9 74 74 68 56

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EDGE link performance

In RLC layer (kbit/TSL)
GPRS with re-transmission with same coding scheme Retransmissions with EDGE can be sent with the new scheme Bit Error Probability (BEP) is a new MS quality measurement introduced In general, a higher coding scheme has higher coding rate, and consequently higher peak throughput, but it also tolerates less noise or interference. New parameters

Ideal Link Adaptation

60

50

Max BLER for Ack and Non-Ack modes

Can be used to tune to use more higher MCSs Mean BEP offset for GMSK and 8-PSK Set threshold for MCS change The figure shows throughput vs. C/I of EGPRS coding schemes in TU50iFH, without incremental redundancy.

40

MCS-1 MCS-2 MCS-3 MCS-4 MCS-5 MCS-6 MCS-7 MCS-8 MCS-9

30

20

10

0 0
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10

15

20

25

30

C/I

GPRS: territory (S9-10)

TRX 1 TRX 2
CCCH TS TS TS TS TS TS TS

Circuit Switched Territory Packet Switched Territory

The following are the operator configurable parameters for territory management: GPRSenabled (BTS-level) GENA GPRSenabledTRX (TRX-level) DefaultGPRScapacity (BTS-level) PreferBCCHfreqGPRS (BTS-level) DedicatedGPRScapacity (BTS-level)

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

The main principle is that GPRS (PS) uses the capacity that remains from the CS traffic. Given as % over dual TCH tsls of GPRS enabled TRXs. Includes dedicated time slots. Rounded downwards.

Additional GPRS Capacity

Default GPRS Capacity

Dedicated GPRS Capacity

GTRX CDED CDEF BFG GTUGT

Circ ui
Territory border moves Dy n a m i c a l l y based on Circuit Switched traffic load

t Sw itche by in not affecd capac ity trod ucin ted g GP RS

TerritoryUpdateGuardTimeGPRS (BSC-level)

Circuit Switched traffic has priority In each cell Circuit Switched & Packet Switched territories are defined Territories consist of consecutive timeslots
CDEF CDED Used capacity for GPRS
PEAK GPRS CHANNELS /c2063(S9) peak_gprs_channels AVG. AVAILABLE DEDICATED GPRS CHANNELS ava_17 (S9) ave_GPRS_channels_sum/ave_GPRS_channels_den PEAK DEDICATED GPRS CHANNELS /c2066(S9) peak_permanent_gprs_ch

Used capacity for speech

UNAVAILABLE TCH c2040

AVG. AVAILABLE TCH in CS territory ava_15 (S9) ave_avail_TCH_sum/ ave_avail_TCH_den

AVG. AVAILABLE GPRS CHANNELS in PS territory ava_16 (S9) ave_GPRS_channels_sum/ave_GPRS_channels_den

ADDIT.GPRS CH USED ach_1

Allocated resources Availability ava_1d

AVG. BUSY TCH = CS traffic trf_12b ave_busy_tch/ res_av_denom14

Free capacity

AVG. TSL used for UL GPRS trf_78b AVG. TSL used for DL GPRS trf_79b

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Used resources

DL Data Scheduling Example No need to share case

There are enough EDAP resources to handle adequately all the TBFs and MCS requests. (e.g PS Active EGPRS ch < EDAP resources)
TRX 1
RTSL 0

CS-2
2

MCS-1 MCS-9 MCS-7 MCS-1 MCS-7

3 4 5 6 7

Requests

PCM subTSL 1 2 3 4 PCM TSL 8 9 10 11 5 4 7 2 5 4 7 5 4 7 4 -

CS-2

MCS-1 MCS-9 MCS-7 MCS-1 MCS-7

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DL Data Scheduling Example (sharing case)

Because EDAP is a shared resource between a higher number of EGPRS TSL it is possible to encounter the situation where there are not enough EDAP resources to handle adequately all the TBFs (e.g PS Active EGPRS ch > EDAP resources)
TRX 1
RTSL 0 1 CS-2 MCS-5 MCS-9 MCS-8 MCS-1 MCS-7 2 3 4 5 6 7

Requests

PCM TSL

PCM subTSL 1 2 3 10 11 12

4 3 -

5 4 2

5 4 7

5 4 7

PCU-TRX 0

CS-2 MCS-5 MCS-7 MCS-7 MCS-1 MCS-6

Grants

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EDAP utilization
6 EGPRS RTSLs (Dedicated + Default territory) 50 % utilization assumed (3 Data Erlangs traffic) On average 3 RTSLs used

TRX 1 TRX 2

TS TS BCCH PBCCH TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

Dedicated EGPRS TSL Default territory EGPRS TSL

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

TS

RTSLs use MCS7 (44.8 kbit/s) with average C/I=13dB and throughput 30kbit/s Effective data rate factor excluding retransmissions over the air-interface is 30/44.8 ~ 0.7

Slave group utilization is 0.7*0.5= 0.35

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PLAN A
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PLAN B

SNO

PLAN A

PLAN B

Both Non BCCH and BCCH Trx can access the EDGE Facility
If the BCCH TRX goes faulty then also the EDGE users can access the N/W since the 2nd TRX has been defined on the EDAP Pool Using this plan we can change the BFG priority depending on the Interference in the N/W In case of extending the time slot of EDGE in Non BCCH TRX also can be done if congestions is observed in the Site While expanding the N/W from the 222 to 332 configuration we need to Modify the EDAP pool

Only BCCH TRX can access the EDGE facility

If BCCH TRX goes faulty then The EDGE Service can not be accessed since the 2nd TRX has not been defined on the EDAP POOL

We can not change the BFG unstill and unless the EDAP pool need to be redesigned

We can not extend the Non BCCH TRX time slot during the congestion since that TRX is not mapped on the EDAP Pool

Need not to modify the EDAP pool since only BCCH TRX is being mapped

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Conclusion
The No. of sites per NSEI depend on the EDAP pool size and no. of time slot used for the GPRS territory Beside if we need to extend the resourced at ABIS end we need to defince the EDAP pool If we require the Speed at GB we need to go to higher CIR

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