Dc-Hsdpa Shared With GSM (Ran22.1 - 01)
Dc-Hsdpa Shared With GSM (Ran22.1 - 01)
Dc-Hsdpa Shared With GSM (Ran22.1 - 01)
Issue 01
Date 2020-04-07
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Contents
1 Change History.........................................................................................................................1
1.1 RAN22.1 01 (2020-04-07).................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 RAN22.1 Draft A (2020-01-20).......................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Overview....................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Background................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
3.2 Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.3 Benefits....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.4 Scenario...................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
5 Parameters.............................................................................................................................. 46
6 Counters.................................................................................................................................. 47
7 Glossary................................................................................................................................... 48
8 Reference Documents...........................................................................................................49
1 Change History
Technical Changes
Change Description Parameter Change Site Type
Editorial Changes
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This document only provides guidance for feature activation. Feature deployment and
feature gains depend on the specifics of the network scenario where the feature is
deployed. To achieve the desired gains, contact Huawei professional service engineers.
Software Interfaces
Any parameters, alarms, counters, or managed objects (MOs) described in Feature
Parameter Description documents apply only to the corresponding software
release. For future software releases, refer to the corresponding updated product
documentation.
3 Overview
3.1 Background
DC-HSDPA allows a UE to transmit data over dual carriers, thereby increasing
network throughput and improving user experience. This multi-carrier technology
increases the single-user throughput by about 100% compared with the use of a
single carrier. The throughput improvement is noticeable even at the cell edge.
However, some operators need to cope with insufficient 900 MHz spectrum and
continued existence of GSM users, making it unable to implement direct GSM-to-
UMTS evolution. Specifically, DC-HSDPA cannot be directly deployed on the UMTS
low-frequency band to deliver better data service experience for UEs. To address
this issue, the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature is introduced.
3.2 Introduction
The DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature allows an operator having a contiguous
8.8 MHz or larger spectrum to deploy GSM cells and UMTS DC-HSDPA cells in the
contiguous spectrum without GSM frequency release. The secondary carrier of DC-
HSDPA can completely share the spectrum with GSM cells.
Sharing the spectrum between GSM cells and the secondary carrier of UMTS DC-
HSDPA increases the inter-RAT interference. This feature requires coordination
between the GSM and UMTS networks to minimize inter-RAT interference. It
ensures specified UMTS capacity without compromising uplink and downlink GSM
performance stability. For details, see 4.1 Principles.
3.3 Benefits
● Simplifying dual-carrier UMTS deployment
● Improving UMTS data service rates and user experience
● Ensuring stable GSM performance and capacity
3.4 Scenario
The typical application scenarios of the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature are
as follows:
● An operator has a contiguous spectrum of 10 MHz or larger. In this scenario,
the GSM S3/3/3 network can be deployed continuously, as shown in Figure
3-1.
If the total bandwidth is 8.8 MHz, the UMTS primary carrier occupies 5 MHz,
and the GSM TRX occupies 3.8 MHz, the following two networking modes are
available:
– Mode 1: The central frequency spacing is 3.8 MHz between two UMTS
carriers.
Figure 3-4 3.8 MHz central frequency spacing between two UMTS
carriers
– Mode 2: The central frequency spacing is 4.4 MHz between two UMTS
carriers.
Figure 3-5 4.4 MHz central frequency spacing between two UMTS
carriers
Mode 1 and mode 2 use different center frequencies for the UMTS
secondary carrier. If NONSTABANDDLFILTEROPT is set to 3800, mode 2
takes effect. If this parameter is set to 5000, mode 1 takes effect.
4.1 Principles
4.1.1 Overview
Sharing the spectrum between GSM cells and the secondary carrier of UMTS DC-
HSDPA increases the inter-RAT interference. Therefore, the GSM and UMTS
networks must be coordinated to mitigate the inter-RAT interference, boosting the
capacity of UMTS networks without compromising GSM network stability.
In DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM, interference between GSM and UMTS networks
falls into the following types:
● Interference from UEs to BTSs
● Interference from NodeBs to MSs
● Interference from MSs to NodeBs
● Interference from BTSs to UEs
Figure 4-1 shows the inter-RAT interference in DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM.
Interference from UMTS side: mobility policy optimization policies are used.
UEs to BTSs UEs are not allowed to camp on, be handed over to, or
be switched through DRD to a cell enabled with the DC-
HSDPA Shared with GSM feature. For details, see 4.1.2
UE-to-BTS Interference Control.
GSM side: After the UMTS solution is implemented, UEs
do not establish the uplink on the secondary carrier of
DC-HSDPA. Therefore, no handling is required on the
GSM side.
Interference from UMTS side: downlink adaptive band-pass filter and auto
NodeBs to MSs configuration of downlink adaptive band-pass filter are
used. For details, see 4.1.3 NodeB-to-MS Interference
Control.
GSM side: GBFD-191205 GU@5MHz Joint Scheduling is
used. For details, see the GBSS Feature Documentation.
Interference from A cell enabled with the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM
MSs to NodeBs feature carries only radio links (RLs) of the DC-HSDPA
secondary carrier, which does not involve the uplink
because only the uplink channel in the primary carrier is
available for UEs to send uplink data. Therefore, uplink
interference from MSs to NodeBs does not need to be
processed.
For details, see 4.1.4 MS-to-NodeB Interference
Control.
● For LTE and GSM cells, the frequency of the secondary carrier cell is not
configured and the secondary carrier cell is not configured as the target cell
for reselections, redirections, and handovers; otherwise, such reselections,
redirections, and handovers fail.
● For UMTS cells on other frequencies, the frequency of the secondary carrier
cell is not configured and the secondary carrier cell is not configured as the
Figure 4-3 200 kHz comb filter in the downlink adaptive band-pass filter
function
Compared with GU@5 MHz, this feature requires that a co-coverage GSM cell be
configured as a blind neighboring cell for the DC-HSDPA primary carrier cell, but
not for the DC-HSDPA secondary carrier cell.
A GSM cell provides the same coverage as a UMTS cell if it meets all the following
conditions:
● The GSM cell is a neighboring cell of the UMTS cell for blind handovers.
● BlindHoFlag is set to True.
● BlindHOPrio is set to the highest priority.
● In the downlink, a UE can receive different data over HS-DSCHs in these cells.
● In the uplink, the UE transmits data only in the primary carrier cell.
Therefore, the uplink interference from MSs to NodeBs does not affect UMTS
services. Due to the absence of uplink UE access in the cell enabled with the DC-
HSDPA Shared with GSM feature, reporting of the following alarms and event is
affected.
The secondary carrier cell receives interfering signals from MSs in the uplink and therefore
has a high RTWP, which is represented by RTWP-related counters and the corresponding
uplink LDR/OLC counters.
A cell enabled with the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature does not report
alarms listed in Table 4-2.
ALM-28205 Cell Output The cell output power is reduced due to full filtering.
Power too Low This alarm is no longer reported.
4.2.1 Benefits
This feature offers the following benefits:
UMTS counters for evaluating the network capacity changes after feature
deployment are as follows:
4.2.2 Impacts
System Capacity
● In this feature, the primary carrier cell and the secondary carrier cell work in
DC-HSDPA mode to improve user experience. Based on the GSM service
status, the secondary carrier cell adaptively enables or disables the band-pass
filter for shared frequencies spaced less than 2.5 MHz from the UMTS center
frequency, improving downlink UMTS capacity.
Network Performance
● The percentage of low-quality downlink GSM services does not rise
significantly.
● New sites have a less than 5% impact on GSM network KPIs in the concerned
area.
● The RTWP of the primary carrier cell increases by about 1 dB, because DC-
HSDPA adds the uplink feedback messages of the secondary carrier.
● This HSDPA inter-cell power sharing function increases the average cell load
by 2% to 10%. Due to increased downlink cell load and increased downlink
inter-cell interference, any of the following KPIs may deteriorate: Ec/No, CS
call drop rate, PS call drop rate, CS RAB setup success rate, and PS RAB setup
success rate.
4.3 Requirements
4.3.1 Licenses
Feature Feature License Control License NE Sales Unit
ID Name Item ID Control Item
Name
4.3.2 Software
Before activating this function, ensure that its prerequisite functions have been
activated and mutually exclusive functions have been deactivated. For detailed
operations, see the relevant feature documents.
Prerequisite Features
Feature ID Feature Name Description
WRFD-170108 Hitless Cell This feature and Hitless Cell Rehoming are
Rehoming mutually exclusive.
WRFD-010692 HSUPA FDE This feature and HSUPA FDE are mutually
exclusive.
Impacted Features
Feature ID Feature/ Description
Function Name
4.3.3 Hardware
Downlink adaptive band-pass filter in this feature has the following hardware
requirements on the base station controller:
Auto configuration of downlink adaptive band-pass filter in this feature has the
following hardware requirements on the base station controller:
Version information of the SAU board can be queried by running the RNC MML command
DSP SAU.
Downlink adaptive band-pass filter in this feature has the following hardware
requirements on the base station:
● The BTS3900/BTS3900A/BTS3900C/BTS3900L/BTS3900AL/DBS3900/BTS5900
supports this feature.
● The BBU3900/BBU3910/BBU3910A/BBU5900/BBU5900A supports this feature.
● At least one UBBP board is required, and downlink services must be set up on
the UBBP board. Uplink access resources cannot be set up on the WBBPa
board.
● When the concurrent deployment of UMTS and LTE is configured on the
baseband processing unit, some UMTS and LTE resources are shared to
support DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM. Therefore, RAN21.1 or later must be
used.
● This feature depends on the UMPT and supports co-MPT or separate-MPT
GSM/UMTS mode. In separate-MPT GSM/UMTS scenarios, the GSM
maintenance mode must be set to Single OM.
● Only the following RF modules support this feature: MRFU V2a, MRFU V6,
MRFUd, MRFUe, RRU3926, RRU3928, RRU3929, RRU3936, RRU3938,
RRU3942, RRU3952, RRU3953, RRU3959, RRU3961, and RRU3971.
● When this function is enabled, the slots that can house a BBP providing
optical connections must house a UBBP board containing the UMTS mode,
and the BBP that provides optical connections must be a UBBP board. If
multiple BBPs provide optical connections, one of them must be a UBBP
board containing the UMTS mode. If the RF module serving the cell uses the
inter-board cold backup ring topology, the BBP that is connected to the RF
module over an optical fiber must be a UBBP board containing the UMTS
mode.
● A cell enabled with DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM requires 2.2 times as much
CPRI bandwidth as a common UMTS cell does in the downlink. Therefore,
prepare sufficient optical modules and CPRI bandwidth before activating the
feature.
● The base stations must support one of the following clock synchronization
methods:
– GPS synchronization: To support GPS synchronization, the main control
board of the base station must be a UMPT board that is equipped with a
satellite card. If the main control board is not equipped with a satellite
card, a USCU board can be added to implement GPS synchronization.
– Soft-Synchronized Network
– IEEE1588 V2 synchronization, which requires that IPCLK3000 be installed.
For details about the maximum number of UMTS cells and CEs supported by a
baseband processing unit, see BBU Technical Specifications in 3900 & 5900 Series
Base Station Product Documentation.
The number of cells using DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM varies among baseband
processing units.
● A baseband processing unit supporting six UMTS cells can serve three or
fewer cells using DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM.
● A baseband processing unit supporting 12 UMTS cells can serve 6 or fewer
cells using DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM.
● The following table lists other specifications.
The following table lists the number of DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM cells
supported by different types of baseband processing units when the working
mode is UO.
The following table lists the number of DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM cells
supported by different types of baseband processing units when the working
mode is GU.
The following table lists the number of DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM cells
supported by different types of baseband processing units when the working
mode is UL.
The following table lists the number of DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM cells
supported by different types of baseband processing units when the working
mode is ULM.
The following table lists the number of DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM cells
supported by different types of baseband processing units when the working
mode is GUL.
UBBP/BBU Type Number of Supported UMTS Cells
4.3.4 Networking
If this feature needs to be activated after GSM/UMTS frequency replanning,
contact Huawei technical support for the replanning.
This feature has the following requirements on network planning:
● The GSM and UMTS cells enabled with this feature must be co-sited on the
network in a 1:1 ratio. The co-coverage GSM and UMTS sites must share one
antenna system (with the same azimuth, downtilt, and antenna port). It is
recommended that the involved base stations provide contiguous coverage.
● The transmit power used in GSM cells (typically, 20 W) must be 3 dB less than
that in UMTS cells (typically, 40 W).
● After this feature is enabled, a 4x3 GSM frequency reuse pattern for the BCCH
is recommended on the shared spectrum. If a tighter reuse pattern is used,
GSM KPIs will become less robust. As listed in specifications, a maximum of
three frequency hopping groups can be configured on the GSM side, and the
number of frequencies in each group cannot exceed 10. Otherwise, the UMTS
side cannot filter GSM cell frequencies. In this case, frequency replanning
needs to be performed on the GSM side.
● The base stations must support one of the following clock synchronization
methods:
– GPS
– Soft-Synchronized Network
– IEEE 1588v2
In separate-MPT scenarios, the NodeB locks the reference clock source from the BTS to
achieve synchronization between the GSM and UMTS networks.
● Transmission over the Iur-g interface must satisfy QoS requirements listed in
the following table.
4.3.5 Others
RF Requirements
Based on the operator's spectrum information, obtain the available spectrum
bandwidth of a cell to be enabled with DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM and
determine the GSM and UMTS frequency planning solution. When planning
frequencies for GSM and UMTS cells, it is good practice to adhere to the following
rules:
● If the GSM spectrum is on both sides of the UMTS spectrum, frequency
replanning is required on the GSM side and the primary carrier on the UMTS
side to ensure that two consecutive UMTS carriers can be accommodated.
Before frequency replanning on the GSM side:
● Preferentially space BCCH frequencies of a GSM cell 1.9 MHz away from the
UMTS center frequency of a cell enabled with the DC-HSDPA Shared with
GSM feature.
● Plan a maximum of 25 GSM frequencies spaced less than 2.5 MHz from the
UMTS center frequency.
● GSM indoor distributed base stations cannot use frequencies spaced less than 2.5 MHz
from the UMTS center frequency. Otherwise, severe interference will arise.
● For details about how to conduct frequency replanning on GSM networks, contact
Huawei technical support.
Others
● Table 4-4 lists the information required for determining whether this feature
can be deployed.
Whether GSM and The GSM and UMTS networks must be deployed
UMTS networks are by the same operator using Huawei equipment.
deployed by the same
operator using Huawei
equipment
Whether the GSM and The GSM and UMTS networks must be deployed
UMTS networks share in a 1:1 ratio using Huawei equipment.
the same site
Inter-site distance This feature can be enabled only when the inter-
site distance is less than 30 km.
External GSM cell All GSM cells in the feature deployment areas
configurations must be correctly configured and added to the
external GSM cell list of the RNC to be enabled
with this feature.
Whether the power After the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature is
specifications of the enabled, the GSM TRX power must be 3 dB lower
RF modules on the than the power of the UMTS DC-HSDPA secondary
live network meet the carrier.
power requirements
after the DC-HSDPA
Shared with GSM
feature is enabled.
Whether GSM and The GSM and UMTS networks must share the
UMTS networks share antenna system.
the antenna system
Whether the following If they are disabled, enable them before feature
features have been deployment. The GBFD-510902 High-Precision TA
enabled on the GSM feature is required only when the GBFD-118201
network: Soft-Synchronized Network feature has been
● GBFD-191205 enabled.
GU@5MHz Joint
Scheduling
● GBFD-510902
High-Precision TA
Whether any mutually If they are enabled, disable them before feature
exclusive feature has deployment.
been enabled on the
UMTS network. For
details, see 4.3.2
Software.
Whether GSM The subscription must have been enabled for the
measurement reports cell to be enabled with this feature. If no
have been subscribed subscription is available, enable the subscription
to before feature deploymenta.
If other cells are set up on the UBBP board, run the MML command STR
REALLOCLOCELL to re-establish local cells and re-allocate the board
resources.
● GSM frequencies that are spaced less than 2.5 MHz from the UMTS center
frequency must be configured as frequencies to be filtered in UMTS cells by
running the ADD UEXT2GCELL or MOD UEXT2GCELL command. Missing
configurations in frequency filtering will make GSM cells vulnerable to UMTS
interference.
● When running the ADD M3LNK command to add M3UA links over the Iur-g
interface, ensure that:
– When the BSC6910 is used, the number of SCTP links in the M3UA link
set is derived from (150 + CELL.KPI.TCH.TRAF.ERL.TRA/60)/1000.
– When the BSC6900 is used, the number of SCTP links in the M3UA link
set is derived from ROUNDUP [(50 + CELL.KPI.TCH.TRAF.ERL.TRAF/60)/
1000].
● To balance CPU load between SPU subsystems, allocate the SCTP links over
the Iur-g interface to multiple SPU subsystems. Transmitting 100 messages
per second over one SCTP on the Iur-g interface to the interface board will
increase the CPU usage of the system by approximately 2.5%.
● Parameters NBscIndex under the MO UEXT2GCELL and NBscIndex under the
MO UIURGCONN must be assigned the same value other than 0. Otherwise,
the Iur-g interface will become unavailable.
● After the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature is enabled, the base station
preferentially sets up the cells using the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature
on the UBBP board. If the UBBP board has insufficient cell resources,
ALM-28206 Local Cell Capability Decline is reported for cells set up on this
board and enabled with features WRFD-010696 DC-HSDPA and
WRFD-160209 192 HSPA Users per Cell.
● After this function is enabled, the output power of UMTS cells in the output
power monitoring results (choosing Monitor > Common Monitoring >
Output Power Monitoring on the Web LMT) may be higher than the actual
value. N/A is displayed if full filtering is performed.
● Activating the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature increases the CPRI
bandwidth consumption. Each UMTS carrier requires contiguous CPRI
bandwidth, and the DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM feature may cause CPRI
bandwidth chunks, causing UMTS cell derating or unavailability. To avoid such
problems, re-allocate CPRI resources among all concerned UMTS cells to
ensure optimal CPRI bandwidth allocation.
● The NodeBs detect interference generated by MSs and therefore the uplink
RTWP and bit error rate are relatively higher than those in common cells.
● For details about the precautions for the auto configuration of downlink
adaptive band-pass filter function, see "Auto Configuration of Downlink
Adaptive Band-Pass Filter > Requirements > Others" in GU@5 MHz Feature
Parameter Description in RAN Feature Documentation.
A cell enabled with DC-HSDPA Shared with GSM does not serve common R99 and SC-
HSDPA users and carries only the RLs of the DC-HSDPA secondary carrier. Therefore, the
cell parameters related to common channels except the pilot signals can be set to the
minimum values to ensure that more power resources are used by HSDPA services.
▪ If any of the counters returns a value greater than 0, the feature has
taken effect.
▪ If both counters return value 0, this feature does not take effect.
When full filtering is performed on the 5 MHz bandwidth,
VS.CombFilter.FreqNum.Mean, VS.CombFilterExtend.FreqNum.Mean,
and VS.CombFilter.Freq1 to VS.CombFilter.Freq25 provide the number
of actually filtered GSM frequencies.
– Observe the following counters to determine whether DC-HSDPA has
taken effect:
● VS.HSDPA.NotAllowSchedule.FreqShare
After this feature is enabled, the total throughput of the DC-HSDPA primary and
secondary carrier cells increases compared with the single-cell throughput before
the feature is enabled. After this feature is enabled, the throughput of DC-HSDPA
UEs increases compared with the average HSDPA throughput of UMTS UEs before
the feature is enabled.
After the feature is activated, the GSM performance slightly deteriorates. The
following table lists GSM performance counters to be monitored after the feature
is activated.
5 Parameters
There are no specific parameters associated with this feature in this RAT.
6 Counters
There are no specific counters associated with this feature in this RAT.
7 Glossary
8 Reference Documents