High Speed Downlink Cell FACH

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Contents

RRC States

Channel Mapping

Different Tasks Through RRC States.

How the feature works.

Benefits of the Feature.

Parameters associated with the feature.

Counters associated with the feature.

RRC States

RRC States (Continued)

CELL_DCH:
1. Characterized by the allocation of DCH or E-DCH and by the allocation of
HS-DSCH to the UE.
2. The DCCHs are used for control signaling and DTCHs are used for user data
transmission..

CELL FACH:
1. Used for small data transmission.
2. In transport layer ,RACH is mapped for UL and FACH is mapped for DL.
3. In logical layer, following channels are used:
a) DCCH: Sending dedicated control message to a UE.
b) CTCH: Common user data in transparent and unacknowledged mode.
c) DTCH: Data Transmission.
4. A maximum of 32 kbps is available on FACH in DL for user data
transmission.

RRC States (Continued)

CELL_PCH:
1. If the transmission pause is long enough, UE moves into CELL_PCH or
URA_PCH state.
2. UE has at least one PDP context active, but does not any physical channel
resources available.

Channel Mapping

Different Tasks Through RRC states

Different Tasks Through RRC states (Continued)

Different Tasks Through RRC states (Continued)

Problems Associated with FACH State

In Release 5 & 6, introduction of HSDPA and EUL solves the problem of high
data rate.

This change applies to CELL_DCH state only .

But other states (CELL_FACH, CELL_PCH/URA_PCH) stills operates in R99 mode.
That results:
1)Low data transfer rates.
2)High latency.
3)In efficient code usage.
4) Absence of fast power control.

To overcome the problems associated with other states in RRC, High Speed
Downlink Cell FACH / Enhanced Cell FACH feature has been introduced in
Release 7.

How the Feature Works

In normal case, in CELL_FACH state,. Following channels have been used :

With the introduction of High Speed DL Cell FACH, High speed shared channel
will be used instead of FACH.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

This is dependent on the activation of following features:

a) HSDPA Introduction.
b) Enhanced Layer 2.

This feature is dependant on UE capability. (UE Category 1-4 and 11 do not

support this).

After enabling High Speed DL Cell FACGH, additional System Information (SI) is
transmitted in SIB 5.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

CELL_DCH and CELL_FACH use dedicated HSDPA Radio Network Temporary

Identity (H-RNTI) in this feature. They will share H-RNTIs from a pool of 254
H_RNTIs.

One H_RNTI is reserved for BCCH transmission whereas another is common

H_RNTI.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

For HS, HS-DPCCH is the channel to report ACK/NACK/DTX and CQI (Channel
Quality Indicator), but for CELL_FACH there is no such channel.

Absence of HS-DPCCH obstructs AMC (Adaptive Modulation and Coding)

scheme in CELL_FACH state.

But with this feature.AMC is done in CELL_FACH state, but in a slow rate.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

High Speed DL Cell FACH ensures seamless transmission in CELL_PCH state

and reduces latency. In pre release-7 state, where cell update and confirm is
required in transition.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

But with Enhanced CELL FACH, when data transmission resumes, UTRAN can
directly send the data on HS-DSCH in Cell_PCH.

As soon as the UE detects the data on HS-SCCH/HS-PDSCH with the dedicated

H-RNTI the UE will move from Cell_PCH to Cell_FACH state and seamlessly
continues with the data transmission.

How the Feature Works (Continued)

In Enhanced Cell FACH,; BCCH,PCCH and CCCH is mapped into HS-DSCH. As a

result, system information can be conveyed through it for specific H-RNTIs.

Benefits of the Feature

Improved operator capacity as users stay in CELL_FACH state when using

applications with low to medium data requirements, for example, social media
applications.

DL bandwidth higher than the current 32 kbps for UEs in CELL_FACH state
(more than 10 times increase of bandwidth is expected).

Slightly faster up switch from CELL_FACH state to CELL_DCH state and from
URA_PCH state to CELL_DCH state by approximately 50 ms in both cases.

Lower latency in CELL_FACH state, which reduces the Round Trip Time (RTT) by
at least 40 ms for small ping.

Enabler for the Battery Efficiency for High Speed FACH feature, which enables
UEs in CELL_FACH state to save battery power by not having to decode the HSSCCH channel continuously.

Enabler for the Enhanced Uplink for FACH feature, which uses the E-DCH
transport channel for the UL when the UE is in Idle Mode, URA_PCH and
CELL_FACH states.

Parameters Associated with the Feature

RBS Level Parameter

Parameter Name

Description

licenseStateHsFach (read only)

Indicates the license state for the licensed feature High Speed
Downlink for FACH.

featureStateHsFach

Defines the feature state for the licensed feature High Speed
Downlink for FACH.

extraCompHsFach
extraHsScchCompHsFach
extraCompForSigHsFach
extraHsScchCompForSigHsFac
h
throughputPqxHsFach
defaultCqiHsFach

Defines the additional compensation applied to the converted CQI

value used for TFRC selection when data for the HS-FACH user is
transmitted.
Defines the additional power compensation applied to the HSSCCH power calculated with the converted CQI value when data
for the HS-FACH user is transmitted.
Defines the additional compensation applied to the converted CQI
value used for TFRC selection when the signaling data for DCCH
and CCCH for the HS-FACH user is transmitted.
Defines the additional power compensation applied to the HSSCCH power calculated with the converted CQI value when the
signaling data for DCCH and CCCH for the HS-FACH user is
transmitted.
Defines the throughput bandwidth set for the common priority
queues for user data traffic, defined for each SPI (the first value in
the sequence is for SPI 0 and the last one is for SPI 14).
Sets the CQI value used for the transmission of the BCCH specific
H-RNTI.

Parameters Associated with Feature (Continued)

RNC Level Parameter

Parameter Name

Description

hsFachEnabled

Enables or disables the HS-FACH feature on RNC level.

hsFachSupport (read only)

Indicates whether or not the cell supports HS-FACH.

hsFachQosLevel

Sets the QoS-level used by HS-FACH for this CELL_DCH SPI value.

hsFachQueueSpi

Defines the SPI-values used for the common queues used for user
data traffic.

dlRlcBufUpswitchHsFach

Defines the downlink RLC buffer threshold for triggering an upswitch

from CELL_FACH to CELL_DCH, for UEs that have support for HSFACH when they are in a cell where Hsdsch: :hsFachSupport=ON.
When the RLC buffer load in the downlink exceeds this threshold, an
upswitch request is issued.

rachMeasCompLimitHsFach

Defines the total amount of compensation for the RACH Measurement

Result during the CELL_FACH state, for HS-FACH.

Counters Related with the Feature

Counters

Robi Network Condition

Ratio of DL FACH Volume/ Total DL Traffic
0.800%
0.750%

Percentage

0.700%
0.650%
0.600%
0.550%
0.500%
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