New Performance Features

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Agenda
Introduction and overview
1) RU20 RECAP
2) RU30 Feature overview

Features enhancing already existing concepts

3) HSDPA enhancement
4) HSUPA enhancement
5) Hardware enhancement

Introducing of new concepts

6) State machine concepts
7) Mobility concepts
8) Enhanced HSPA concepts

Performance features
9) New PM features
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New Performance Features

Periodic measurements
Automatic object list update in RNC measurements
End user experienced throughput
Bandwidth utilization class counters for IP and Ethernet

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New Performance Features

Periodic measurements
Automatic object list update in RNC measurements
End user experienced throughput
Bandwidth utilization class counters for IP and Ethernet

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RU20 Event Based Reporting

UE measurements
Reported only in case of certain events, i.e. in SHO or HHO area
SHO events
1A cell added to active set
1B cell dropped from active set
1C active cell replaced by another one
HHO events
1F active cell below HHO EC/I0 or RSCP threshold
1E active cell above HHO EC/I0 or RSCP threshold
6A UE power above threshold
6B UE power below threshold
SHO triggered

Ec/Io
Add. Win.

SHO executed

CPICH 1

Add. Time Reports

CPICH 2
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time

RU20 Event Based Reporting

BTS measurements
Reporting according slow cycle = 10 * radio resource indication period, if
there is no event
Reporting according fast cycle = radio resource indication period, if there is
one of the following events
Transmitted carrier power TCP exceeds threshold (20% load)
Received total wideband power RTWP exceeds threshold (20% load)
Change of TCP exceeds threshold (0.5 dB)
Change of RTWP exceeds threshold (0.2 dB)
RRIndPeriod; WBTS; 200..2000 ms; 100 ms; 400 ms

RADIO RESOURCE MEASUREMENT REPORT

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Reporting
period
10 * Reporting
period

RU30 Periodic Reporting

UE measurements
RU30 provides periodic reporting like in GSM, independent from the situation on the
air interface
The following properties already known from RU20 can be reported periodically for
HSPA calls (not R99 ones)
EC/I0 (any visible cell)
RSCP (any visible cell)
UE power
The following new properties introduced by RU30 can be reported periodically for any
call
Rx-Tx time difference (active cells only)
UE measurements:
- CPICH Ec/No
- CPICH RSCP
- UE Tx Power
- UE Rx-Tx

RNC
500
ms

500
ms

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500
ms

500
ms

RU30 Periodic Reporting

BTS measurements
RU30 provides periodic reporting, independent from the load situation
The following properties already known from RU20 can be reported
Transmitted carrier power (per cell)
R99 power (per cell)
Received total wideband power (per cell)
Radio link power (per link)
The following new properties introduced by RU30 can be reported also
Round trip time (per link)
BTS measurements:
- DL RL power
- UL RTWP
- DL Total Carrier Power
- DL R99 power
- RTT

500
ms
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500
ms

500
ms

500
ms

RNC

RU30 Periodic Reporting

Configuration
Periodic reporting can be activated per
Measurement type
RAB type
Cell
The reporting period is configurable with values between 0.5 (default) and 10 s

No information about the feature related parameters given by

NSN yet

- Report period configurable 0.5-10s

- Cells
- Measurements
- RAB traffic classes
- UE amount selection
- RB type: R99/HSDPA/HSUPA

RNC

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RU30 Periodic Reporting

Role of ICSU load
With periodic reporting higher ICSU load
Number of UEs for which periodic reporting can be provided simultaneously
depends on reporting period
Long period More UEs can be handled
Short period Less UEs can be handled
If the ICSU load exceeds 90%, periodic reporting is disabled

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Benefits
Network monitoring
More information about air interface coverage, quality and load
Better counter statistics
More options to find out the causes of call drops
Positioning of UEs to locate e.g. handover events, handover failures, call
drops
Usage of ordinary UEs as drive test equipment

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Benefits
UE positioning (sub-feature CI)
Rx-Tx time difference + round trip time distance from BTS
If known for at least 3 BTS position
No information about propagation conditions needed
But active set with 3 cells belonging to 3 different BTS needed

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Benefits
UE positioning (sub-feature CI+)
Propagation delay for initial cell + RSCP propagation model
RSCP + propagation model distance
Just 3 visible cells belonging to 3 different BTS needed
But detailed information about propagation conditions needed

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New Performance Features

Periodic measurements
Automatic object list update in RNC measurements
End user experienced throughput
Bandwidth utilization class counters for IP and Ethernet

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RU20 Measurement Administration

If the transport network is modified, the list of objects handled by the
following measurements must be updated manually
RNC transport measurements
RNC hardware measurement
RNC transport / HW measurements
RU20
ZT2 command group
MML

NE Measurement
Explorer

Update manually list of VP, VC, IP

links, HW units etc. to be monitored
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RU30 Measurement Administration

If the transport network is modified, the list of objects handled by the
following measurements is updated automatically
RNC transport measurements
RNC hardware measurement
The feature is part of basic RU30 implementation, no license is needed

RNC transport / HW measurements

RU30
ZT2 command group
MML

RNW Measurement
Management

Start measurements with all objects

option to monitor all objects
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Related Measurements
Transport and HW measurements
Computing
unit

ATM/IP
transport
VPC
VCC
AAL2 paths
IP routes

RNC resources

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Transmission
quality
Packet delay
Packet loss

Signaling
SAAL
AAL2

Transport
network
resource
AAL2 CAC
AAL2 resource reservation
IP CAC

Related Measurements
Measurement Group

ID

Measurement Name

ATM transport measurements

M529

ATM Virtual Path Connection

ATM transport measurements

M530

ATM Virtual Channel Connection

Signaling measurements

M546

SAAL signaling protocol at UNI

Signaling measurements

M548

AAL2 signaling protocol at UNI

Transport network resource

measurements

M550

AAL2 path CAC resource

ATM transport measurements

M553

AAL2 Scheduling Performance in

RNC

IP transport measurements

M568

IP Based Route measurement

Transport network resource

measurements

M800

AAL2 Resource Reservation

RNC resource measurements

M803

RNC RTP/RTCP

RNC IP CAC measurement

M804

RNC IP CAC

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Feature Implementation
The feature does not need any operator intervention, it operates
autonomously
No activation
No configuration
Common statistics software in IP/ATM platform does per hour
Check whether new objects are available in RNC configuration
Updates object list for measurements, if necessary

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New Performance Features

Periodic measurements
Automatic object list update in RNC measurements
End user experienced throughput
Bandwidth utilization class counters for IP and Ethernet

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RU20 and RU30 HSDPA Throughput per Cell

RU20
Information about throughput available per scheduling priority indicator, i.e. per
service class
Counters M5002C5..C20 consider throughput for SPI 0..15
Information about number of users available per cell only, not per service class
Counters M1000C167..C175, M1000C240..C247, M1000C314..C317 and
M1000C390..C393 consider time the total number of HSDPA users is within certain
interval
One cannot determine the throughput experienced by users with a specific service
class

RU30
New counters considering the number of HSDPA users per service class
One can determine the throughput experienced by users with specific service class

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Feature Implementation
There are the following requirements for the feature
RAN 1262 QoS Aware HSPA Scheduling
WBTS R7
New counters for number of active HSDPA users
M5002C58..C73
number per SPI 0..15
M5002C74
total number
M5000C75..C90
number of samples taken for number per SPI 0..15
M5002C91
number of samples taken for total number
New counters for number of allocated HSDPA users
M5002C58..C73
number per SPI 0..15
M5002C74
total number
M5000C75..C90
number of samples taken for number per SPI 0..15
M5002C91
number of samples taken for total number

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Average Number of Users

Counters are updates every 100 ms
Counters indicating number of users are cumulative (e.g. M5002C58)
Counters indicating number of samples are incremented by 1 (e.g. M5002C75)
Number of 100
ms periods
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

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Real number of Cumulative number Real number of

allocated
of allocated HSDPA active HSDPA
HSDPA users
users
users
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
3
1
2
5
2
2
7
1
2
9
2
5
14
5
3
17
3
6
23
5
1
24
1
3
27
2
1
28
1

Cumulative
number of active
HSDPA users
0
0
0
1
2
4
5
7
12
15
20
21
23
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Average Number of Users

To calculate the average number of users, samples indicating 0 users are ignored,
e.g.
12 samples considered for allocated users (not 14)
11 samples considered for active users (not 14)
Number of 100
ms periods
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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Real number of Cumulative number Real number of

allocated
of allocated HSDPA active HSDPA
HSDPA users
users
users
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
3
1
2
5
2
2
7
1
2
9
2
5
14
5
3
17
3
6
23
5
1
24
1
3
27
2
1
28
1

Cumulative
number of active
HSDPA users
0
0
0
1
2
4
5
7
12
15
20
21
23
24

Average Number of Users

The average number of users now is calculated as follows

Cumulative_Number_Of_Users
Average_Number_Of_Users
Number_Of_Samples_NOT_Indicating_0

Average_Number_Of_Allocated_HSDPA_Users

28
2.333
12

24
Average_Number_Of_Active__HSDPA_Users
2.182
11

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Average Throughput per User

The average throughput per user per service class follows from
Throughout from counters M5002C5..C20 (e.g. 10200 Kbps)
Average number of users as just discussed

Throughput

Total acknowledged data in MAC - HS PDUS

[kbps]
Average number of HSDPA users

Throughput_of allocated HSDPA users

10200
4372.053[kbps]
2.333

10200
Throughput_of active HSDPA users
4674.610[kbps]
2.182

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New Performance Features

Periodic measurements
Automatic object list update in RNC measurements
End user experienced throughput
Bandwidth utilization class counters for IP and Ethernet

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RU20 IP Route Based Measurement

For each IP route, counters M568C0 to M568C9 give information about

IP datagram volume sent and received

Configured bandwidth
Minimum, average and maximum bandwidth reserved by IP CAC
Minimum, average and maximum number of IP/UDP connections reserved by IP
CAC

IP data volume
IP bandwidth

RNC

IP/UDP connections

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RU30 IP Route Based Measurement

New counters M568C10 to M568C17 give information about
Utilization clearer picture about congestion situations
Bandwidth used for shaping
Outgoing and incoming peak throughput
The features requires WBTS Rel.7

IP utilization
Traffic as % of configured bandwidth

RNC

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Handling of Utilization Counters

The utilization counters M568C0 to M568C4 give the % of samples indicating
a utilization of
0-25 %
26-50 %
51-75 %
76-87 %
88-100 %
The utilization is checked every 5 s
Number of
samples
M568C0

M568C2

M568C1

M568C3 M568C4

Utilization
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25%

50%

75%

87%

100%

Handling of Utilization Counters

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