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1.Overview 2.2G Refarming 3.Tight Frequency Reuse
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Document Version: 1.0 Issue Date: November 12, 2010 Document Owner: Ville Salomaa SOFTWARE RELEASE: GBSS9.0 SCOPE: 2G Refarming Tight frequency reuse CONVENTION: Raw counters are marked in BLUE Formulas are marked in GRAY Parameters are marked in RED MML commands are marked in GREEN
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1.Overview 2.2G Refarming 3.Tight Frequency Reuse
Overview
A UMTS network can be constructed in the 900 MHz frequency band at a lower cost with better coverage than a UMTS2100 network. At the same time demands for mobile broadband services are ever increasing. According to radio wave propagation features, radio signals are transmitted farther at a lower carrier frequency and allow one site to cover a wider area. This makes the UMTS900 an excellent wide coverage solution. Therefore, investment for mobile networks goes down as wider coverage per site means fewer sites. Second, the UMTS900 network is better for indoor coverage and has better network coverage performance. Low-frequency carrier signals suffer less loss when penetrating building walls. Thus, with a UMTS900 network, Quality of Service is improved and better user experience enabled. However, due to limited spectrum resources on the GSM900 band, most operators cannot provide a complete 5MHz frequency band to build the UMTS network. This is why the GSM/UMTS 900MHz refarming solution was proposed in order to allocate part of the existing GSM900/1800 spectrum to 3G services.
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1.Overview 2.2G Refarming 3.Tight Frequency Reuse
2G Refarming
Since 2G networks still carry large amounts of voice and data traffic, releasing 2G spectrum for 3G services raises various issues for operators: Which part of the 900/1800 MHz band to refarm for 3G service How to carry the remaining 2G traffic over the reduced frequency band more efficiently. How to migrate the 2G traffic onto new 3G 900 network (handset replacement, etc.) How to minimise the cost of migration (number of replacement sites required, number of sites needing hardware upgrades, labour costs, etc.) How to minimize the interference between GSM and UMTS networks. The present document focuses on the first 2 points above.
f1 and f2 are equal. For frequency gaps f1 and f2, minimum bandwidth is 2.4 MHz in urban and 2.2 MHz in rural.
Frequency (MHz) UL 890 ~ 915 880 ~ 915 1710 ~ 1785 DL 935 ~ 960 925 ~ 960 1805 ~ 1880
According to sandwich-type allocation that was described in the previous slide, the UMTS carrier spectrums can be placed anywhere within the spectrum of the operator (not necessarily in the center of the spectrum). This can be determined based on the operators strategy, e.g. plans for future 2nd carrier in the 900 or 1800 MHz bands.
- Select an ARFCN in the ARFCN Utilization dialog box, and right-click the selected ARFCN to save the check result in .txt format.
Contents
1.Overview 2.2G Refarming 3.Tight Frequency Reuse
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Technical description
When BCCH dense frequency multiplexing is adopted, a cell is classified into two logical layers: TCH layer on the BCCH TRX and FH layer: - The FH layer serves and covers the entire network, including cell edges. - The TCH layer on the BCCH frequency, however, covers only the MSs near the BTS to guarantee call access and to reduce interference near the BTS.
BCCH Frequency coverage area Limit to move to hopping layer Limit to move to BCCH
The impact of BCCH dense frequency multiplexing on other features is as follows: - Concentric cells do not support dense BCCH frequency multiplexing. - Multiband networks do not support dense BCCH frequency multiplexing. 5. Impact on System Performance
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Prerequisites
- To enable the IBCA algorithm, two XPUa/XPUb boards should be added to the BSC. The two boards are used to estimate the interference experienced by each idle channel in every channel assignment procedure and estimate the interference of this new call to established calls on the same timeslot in the IBCA neighboring cells. - To enable the inter-BSC IBCA algorithm (i.e. the situation that an IBCA cell group has external neighbours), the FG2a/FG2c board should be added to the BSC. This board is used to carry the inter-BSC communication links that transfer the information related to the IBCA algorithm.
Flex MAIO feature works as follows: - The BSC estimates the interference between FH channels based on the MAIOs of FH channels and updates the record of the interference of the current channel to other channels after assigning or releasing the channel. - During channel assignment, the BSC selects a timeslot, assigns the MAIO with the minimum interference to the timeslot, and then preferentially assigns the channel with the minimum interference. To prevent continuous adjacent-channel interference, the BSC dynamically changes the hopping sequence number (HSN) of the current channel to randomly distribute the interference of the channel to other channels. 3. Parameters
- FLEXMAIO: The switch that enables the function of Flex Mobile Allocation Index Offset.
The underlaid cell works in 900 band and the overlaid in 1800 band.
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