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Date

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Library Overview

This Library Overview for LTE eRAN 6.0 Feature Documentation presents the customer product
information for LTE eRAN features. The information is structured as an overview intended for
a general understanding of eRAN features.
Topic

Document

Description

Library
Informatio
n

Library Overview

Describes an overview of the LTE Feature library.

Library Changes

Describes the changes of the LTE Feature library.

Introductio
n to LTE
Feature

Basic Feature

Guides the customers to quickly find the basic in the

commercial release of the eRAN Feature Documentation.

Optional Feature

Guides the customers to quickly find the optional features

in the commercial release of the eRAN Feature
Documentation.

Multi-mode
Feature

Guides the customers to quickly find the multi-mode

mptional features in the commercial release of the eRAN
Feature Documentation.

LTE-A Feature

Guides the customers to quickly find the LTE-A features

in the commercial release of the eRAN Feature
Documentation.

LTE-A TRY
Feature

Guides the customers to quickly find the LTE-A TRY

features in the commercial release of the eRAN Feature
Documentation.

License Control
Item Lists

Descriptions of license control items include the feature

IDs, feature names, names of license control items, IDs of
license control items, and related NEs.

Descriptio
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>Voice
and
Services

CMAS

This document describes the key techniques used in the

commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) feature and how
to implement this feature.

CS Fallback

This document describes the principles and procedures for

circuit switched fallback (CSFB) to universal terrestrial
radio access network (UTRAN) or GSM/EDGE radio
access network (GERAN). It elaborates the functions
provided by Huawei E-UTRAN NodeBs (eNodeBs)
during CSFB procedures. This document also provides
engineering guidelines for setting the essential parameters
related to CSFB. For details about CSFB to CDMA2000
1x Radio Transmission Technology (1xRTT), see LTECDMA2000 CS Service Interworking Feature Parameter
Description.

Emergency Call

This document describes the emergency call procedures

and emergency call-related E-UTRAN NodeB (eNodeB)
functions, including identification of UEs in emergency
calls (referred to as emergency UEs in this document),
broadcast of emergency call indicators for UEs in limited
service state, admission control for emergency calls, and
load balancing for emergency calls. In addition, this
document provides engineering guidelines.

ETWS

This document describes the key techniques used in the

Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS)
feature and how to implement this feature.

LCS

This document describes the location services (LCS)

feature in terms of concepts, principles, feature
relationships, impact on the network, and engineering
guidelines.

LTE-CDMA2000
CS Service
Interworking

This document describes circuit switched (CS) service

interworking between the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and
Code Division Multiple Access 2000 1x radio
transmission technology (CDMA2000 1xRTT) networks,
involving voice calls and short message services (SMSs).
This document includes implementation principles,
parameter adjustments, feature dependencies, network
impact, and engineering guidelines.

MIMO

This document describes the principles, key techniques,

application scenarios, and configuration methods of
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO).

ROHC

This document describes the robust header compression

(ROHC) feature in terms of the ROHC entity, state, mode,
and ROHC parameter negotiation process.

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and
Performan
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SRVCC

This document describes the single radio voice call

continuity (SRVCC) feature from the following aspects:
implementation principles, parameter adjustments, feature
dependencies, network impact, and engineering
guidelines. The SRVCC end-to-end procedure involves
the E-UTRAN NodeB (eNodeB), evolved packet core
(EPC), IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), and network
elements (NEs) in the universal terrestrial radio access
network (UTRAN) or GSM/EDGE radio access network
(GERAN). This document focuses on the eNodeB
functions for SRVCC and the basic SRVCC algorithm that
Huawei eNodeB uses.

VoIP

This document describes voice over IP (VoIP) in terms of

basic principles, key technologies, feature dependencies,
network impact, and engineering guidelines.

800 MHz Selfinterference

Cancellation

This document describes the 800 MHz self-interference

cancellation feature in terms of how it works, how it relates
to other features, and how it affects the network. This
document also provides engineering guidelines for this
feature.

Admission and
Congestion
Control

This document describes the admission and congestion

control feature of the Long Term Evolution (LTE)
network. This feature is implemented through load
monitoring, admission control, and congestion control.

AQM

This document describes the active queue management

(AQM) feature, including implementation principles and
engineering guidelines.

Cell Management

This document describes the technical principles of cell

management in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.
It also provides engineering guidelines for cell
management.

Compact
Bandwidth

This document describes the LOFD-001051 Compact

Bandwidth feature, which is a solution of Long Term
Evolution (LTE) implementation under non-standard
bandwidths. This document describes the feature
principles, parameter adjustments, feature dependencies,
network impact, and feature implementation.

Connection
Management

This document describes connection management in terms

of random access, signaling connection management, and
radio bearer (RB) management. It also provides
engineering guidelines for connection management.

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DRX and
Signaling Control

This document describes features involved in

discontinuous reception (DRX) and signaling control from
the following aspects: implementation principles,
parameter adjustments, feature dependencies, network
impact, and engineering guidelines.

Extended Cell
Range

This document describes key techniques involved in the

extended cell range feature and provides engineering
guidelines for this feature.

Extended CP

This document describes the normal cyclic prefix (CP) and

extended CP, including implementation principles,
parameter adjustments, feature dependencies, network
impact, and engineering guidelines.

Flexible User
Steering

This document describes flexible user steering and

provides engineering guidelines.

High Speed
Mobility

This document describes how to implement the High

Speed Mobility feature in E-UTRAN NodeBs (eNodeBs)
and how to configure parameters related to this feature.

ICIC

This document describes the Inter-Cell Interference

Coordination (ICIC) feature regarding key techniques,
procedures, and engineering guidelines.

Idle Mode
Management

This document describes the technical aspects of idle mode

management, such as camping on a cell, cell selection, cell
reselection, system information broadcast, and paging. In
addition, this document provides engineering guidelines.

LTE-CDMA2000
PS Service
Interworking

This document describes packet switched (PS) service

interworking between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and
Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA2000)
networks. It includes implementation principles,
parameter adjustments, feature dependencies, network
impact, and engineering guidelines.

MIMO

This document describes the principles, key techniques,

application scenarios, and configuration methods of
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO).

MLB

This document explains the principles and procedures for

mobility load balancing (MLB) between cells, including
air interface load monitoring, inter-cell load information
exchange, and load transfer. In addition, this document
describes the parameters and implementation for MLB.

Mobility
Management in
Connected Mode

This document describes mobility management in

connected mode, including the principles and engineering
guidelines.

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Description

Physical Channel
Resource
Management

This document describes resource management for

physical channels in the Long Term Evolution (LTE)
system and provides engineering guidelines.

Power Control

This document describes features related to power control

in terms of implementation, parameters involved, feature
relationships, network impact, and engineering guidelines.

QoS Management

This document describes the key techniques and

implementation of the quality of service (QoS)
management feature.

Receiver
Technologies

This document describes the implementation principles,

parameter adjustments, feature dependencies, and network
impact related to receiver technologies.

Scheduling

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) system adopts sharedchannel transmissions in which time-frequency resources
are dynamically shared by user equipment (UEs). EUTRAN NodeBs (eNodeBs) perform scheduling to
allocate time-frequency resources for uplink (UL) and
downlink (DL) transmissions. This document describes
the eNodeB features related to scheduling in terms of the
principles, parameters involved, feature relationships,
network impact, and engineering guidelines.

SCTP Congestion
Control

This document describes the basic feature LBFD-002033

SCTP Congestion Control, including implementation
principles and engineering guidelines.

TPE

This document describes the feature LOFD-001026 TCP

Proxy Enhancer (TPE), including basic concepts,
technical principles, and engineering guidelines.

UL CoMP

This document describes the application scenarios,

principles, key technologies, related features, and
engineering guidelines for uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint (CoMP).

Adaptive ICIC

This document describes the Adaptive Inter-Cell

Interference Coordination (ICIC) feature, including a
technical description, related features, network impact,
and engineering guidelines.

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ANR
Management

This document describes the Automatic Neighbor

Relation (ANR) management feature in terms of
implementation principles, parameter adjustments, feature
dependencies, network impact, and engineering
guidelines. This document describes the following
optional features: l LOFD-002001 Automatic Neighbour
Relation (ANR) l LOFD-002002 Inter-RAT ANR l
LOFD-002004 Self-configuration LOFD-002002 InterRAT ANR described in this document refers only to ANR
of evolved universal terrestrial radio access networks (EUTRANs) with universal terrestrial radio access networks
(UTRANs) or GSM/EDGE radio access network
(GERAN). For details on ANR of E-UTRAN with
CDMA2000, see LTE-CDMA2000 ANR Management
Feature Parameter Description.

Automatic
OMCH
Establishment

This document describes the Automatic OMCH

Establishment feature, including its implementation
principles, procedures, and requirements for NEs. This
document applies to IP-based base stations.

LTE-CDMA2000
ANR
Management

This document describes Automatic Neighbor Relation

(ANR) of evolved universal terrestrial radio access
network (E-UTRAN) with CDMA2000 in terms of
implementation principles, parameter adjustments, feature
dependencies, network impact, and engineering
guidelines. LTE-CDMA2000 ANR management is
described in the optional feature LOFD-002002 InterRAT ANR. For details about ANR of E-UTRAN with
universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) or
GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN), see ANR
Management Feature Parameter Description.

M2000 Feature
Description
About Cell
Outage Detection
and Recovery

This document describes the Cell Outage Management

feature, including principles and functions. It also
describes how to configure related parameters.

MRO

This document describes the principles and engineering

guidelines for the feature LOFD-002005 Mobility Robust
Optimization. This feature is optional and licensecontrolled.

PCI Conflict
Detection and
Self-Optimization

This document describes the LOFD-002007 PCI Collision

Detection & Self-Optimization feature in terms of how it
works, how it relates to other features, and how it affects
the network. This document also provides engineering
guidelines for this feature.

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ng and
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Description

RACH
Optimization

This document describes the key techniques and

engineering guidelines for the optional feature
LOFD-002015 RACH Optimization. RACH is short for
random access channel. For the procedure of random
access and the concepts of random access preambles, see
Connection Management Feature Parameter Description.

Sleeping Cell
Detection

This document separately explains the principles and

functions of sleeping cell detection. It also describes how
to configure related parameters.

CPRI
Compression

This document describes the common public radio

interface (CPRI) compression feature, including
implementation principles, related features, network
impact, and engineering guidelines.

CPRI Sharing

This document describes the technical principles of

common public radio interface (CPRI) sharing in the Long
Term Evolution (LTE) system. It also provides
engineering guidelines for CPRI sharing.
CPRI sharing involves the LOFD-003032 Intra-BBU
Baseband Sharing (2T) feature.

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Ethernet OAM

This document describes the Ethernet Operations,

Administration and Maintenance (OAM) feature Ethernet
OAM is based on the IEEE 802.3ah, IEEE 802.1ag, and
ITU-T Y.1731 protocols. This feature provides detection,
notification, verification, and locating functions for
detectable hard faults (such as link disconnection) or
undetectable soft faults (such as damages in memory
bridges).

IP Performance
Monitor

This document describes the IP Performance Monitor (IP

PM) feature, including its technical description, related
features, network impact, and engineering guidelines.

IPv6 Transport

This document describes the principles of and engineering

guidelines for IPv6 and IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.

RAN Sharing

Radio access network (RAN) sharing enables multiple

operators to partially or entirely share a RAN. Available
types of RAN sharing include RAN sharing with common
carriers and RAN sharing with dedicated carriers. This
document describes the principles of RAN sharing and
provides engineering guidelines for configuring this
feature.

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S1X2OM
Channel
Management

This document describes the generic transport protocol

stack, networking solutions, and functions used to enhance
the transmission reliability of S1, X2, and operation and
maintenance (OM) channels in a Long Term Evolution
(LTE) system. This document also provides engineering
guidelines for managing these channels.

Single Frequency
Network

This document describes the LOFD-003029 SFN feature

regarding the principles, related features, network impact,
and engineering guidelines.

Synchronization

This document provides the information about frequency

synchronization for frequency division duplex (FDD) EUTRAN NodeBs (eNodeBs).

Time
Management

By reading this document, you can learn: l Information

about a base station time source, time zone, and daylight
saving time (DST). l The basics, process, and initial
configuration of NTP time synchronization. l The basics,
process, and initial configuration of SNTP time
synchronization. The base stations mentioned in this
document refer to 3900 series base stations.

Transmission
Efficiency
Improvement

This document describes the Transmission Efficiency

Improvement feature, including implementation
principles, parameter adjustments, feature dependencies,
network impact, and engineering guidelines.

Transport
Resource
Management

This document describes the transport resources and

quality of service (QoS) objectives of the Long Term
Evolution (LTE) system. This document also provides
principles, algorithms, and engineering guidelines for
transport resource management (TRM).

Access Control
based on 802.1x

This document describes the Access Control based on

802.1x feature, including its basic principles, engineering
guidelines, and parameters. Access Control based on
802.1x prevents unauthorized users or devices from
accessing the network, which ensures transport network
security.

Base Station
Equipment and
OM Security

This document describes features about base station

equipment and O&M security, including related concepts,
implementation principles, and engineering guidelines.
This document applies to eGBTSs, NodeBs, eNodeBs,
separate-MPT multimode base stations where eGBTS is
used on the GSM side, and co-MPT multimode base
stations. For details about equipment and O&M security
for separate-MPT multimode base stations where GBTS
is used on the GSM side, see GBTS Equipment and O&M
Security Feature Parameter Description.

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Description

Dopra Linux OS
Security

This Document describes the security of Dopra Linux

Operation System.

IPsec

This document describes the Internet Protocol Security

(IPsec) feature for Huawei SingleRAN networks,
including IPSec working principles, Internet Key
Exchange (IKE) working principles, IPSec reliability,
IEEE 1588v2 over IPSec, IPSec application, and
engineering guidelines. The IPSec feature applies to
Huawei GBTSs, eGBTSs, NodeBs, eNodeBs.

PKI

This document describes the public key infrastructure

(PKI) feature for base stations, including PKI architecture,
certificates and files used by network elements (NEs), how
certificates are used, CMPv2-based certificate
management, and engineering guidelines.

Radio Security

This document describes security measures on the radio

interface (the Uu interface) between each E-UTRAN
NodeB (eNodeB) and user equipment (UE). Threats to
radio security include disclosure of information and
corruption or modification of information. These threats
can be eliminated using integrity protection and ciphering
on the radio interface.

Security
Overview

This document describes security solutions for Huawei's

SingleRAN products in IP networking, including
equipment, operation and maintenance (O&M),
transmission, and radio security features.

SSL

This document describes SingleRAN Security Socket

Layer (SSL), including its basic principles, related
features, network impact, engineering guidelines, and
parameters.

Transmission
Security
Overview

This document describes transmission security, including

transport network overview and transmission security
solutions and features.

eNodeB
Reliability

This document describes eNodeB reliability in terms of

key techniques and engineering guidelines. The key
techniques are cold backup of main control boards, intraLTE baseband processing unit (LBBP) resource pool,
inter-LBBP redundancy, and remote radio unit (RRU) or
radio frequency unit (RFU) channel cross-connection
under multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO).

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Saving

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>Site
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Flow Control

This document describes the objectives and principles of

and overload monitoring methods for flow control. Flow
control is classified into control-plane, user-plane,
operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) data
flow control, and uplink synchronized UE number control.

S1-flex

This document describes the basic concepts and functions

of the S1-flex feature. It also provides the engineering
guidelines.

Energy
Conservation and
Emission
Reduction

This document describes the energy conservation and

emission reduction features of Huawei E-UTRAN
NodeBs (eNodeBs). In addition, this document provides
technical principles and engineering guidelines for these
features.

RRU PA
Efficiency
Improvement

This document describes the RRU PA Efficiency

Improvement feature, including its technical description,
related features, network impact, engineering guidelines,
and parameters. This feature improves the efficiency of the
PA by adopting a new-generation PA and a highercomplexity PA pre-distortion software algorithm.

Carrier
Aggregation

This document describes carrier aggregation (CA), which

is designed for Long Term Evolution - Advanced (LTEAdvanced) networks. Specifically, this document covers
implementation principles, related features, network
impact, and engineering guidelines of CA.

TDM eICIC

This document describes time-domain enhanced inter-cell

interference coordination (TDM eICIC) between intrafrequency macro and micro cells. This document includes
implementation principles, parameter adjustments, feature
dependencies, and network impact.

ALD
Management

This document describes antenna line device (ALD)

management and provides engineering guidelines. ALD
management involves two GSM basic features, three
UMTS basic features, and one LTE optional feature.

Base Station
Cabinets and
Subracks
(Including the
BBU Subrack)
Configuration

This document describes which cabinets and subracks are

required for different base station models and how to
configure them. This document also describes how to
configure and maintain boards in a baseband unit (BBU)
subrack.

BBU
Interconnection

This document describes the BBU Interconnection feature,

including its implementation principles, network impact,
and engineering guidelines.

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CPRI MUX

This document describes the working principles and

engineering guidelines of the CPRI MUX feature.

Monitoring
Management

This document describes the principles and engineering

guidelines for the 3900 series base station monitoring
management feature. The 3900 series base station
monitoring management feature involves two basic LTE
features, LBFD-004012 Environment Monitoring and
TDLBFD-004012 Environment Monitoring. In GBSS,
RAN, and SRAN, the 3900 series base station monitoring
management is a basic feature and involves no feature ID.

Power Supply
Management

This document provides information about features related

to power supply management, including feature
implementation and engineering guidelines.

RF Unit and
Topology
Management

This document describes the RF Unit and Topology

Management feature.

Bandwidth
Sharing of
Multimode Base
Station CoTransmission

This document describes the Bandwidth Sharing of

Multimode Base Station Co-Transmission feature,
including the bandwidth sharing mechanism,
recommended transmission configuration strategies,
application scenarios, related features, network impact,
and engineering guidelines. This feature applies to GSM/
UMTS, GSM/LTE, UMTS/LTE, and GSM/UMTS/LTE
multimode base stations in co-transmission scenarios.

Common Clock

This document describes the Common Clock feature,

which applies to the scenario in which baseband unit
(BBU) sharing is implemented on a multimode base
station. Common clocks in multimode base stations can be
classified into: GSM/UMTS common clock GSM/LTE
common clock UMTS/LTE common clock

Common
Transmission

This document describes the common transmission (cotransmission) solutions on the multimode base station
controller (MBSC) and multimode base station sides and
provides engineering guidelines.

GSM and LTE

Buffer Zone
Optimization

This document describes the MRFD-231808 GSM and

LTE Buffer Zone Optimization (LTE FDD) feature,
including implementation principles, related parameters,
feature dependencies, network impact, and engineering
guidelines.

GSM and LTE

Dynamic Power
Sharing

This document describes the GSM and LTE Dynamic

Power Sharing feature, including implementation
principles, parameter adjustments, feature dependencies,
network impact, and engineering guidelines.

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Delta
Informatio
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Network Impact
Report

This document describes the impact of new and enhanced

eRAN6.0 features on eRAN3.0 and provides required
information that network planning personnel and
operation and maintenance (OM) personnel need to
prepare for upgrades to eRAN6.0.

Operation
and
Maintenan
ce

Configuration
Management

This document describes SingleRAN configuration

management function, including implementation
principles and basic architecture.

Fault
Management

This document describes SingleRAN fault management

function, including implementation principles and basic
architecture.

Inventory
Management

This document describes the principle, applications and

benefits of inventory management. It also provides
engineering guidelines for this feature.

License
Management

This document describes the different types of E-UTRAN

NodeB (eNodeB) licenses and their contents in addition to
providing related engineering guidelines.

Performance
Management

Performance management is a part of GSM/UMTS/LTE

network operation and maintenance (OM). This document
describes the architecture and basic concepts of
performance management, the performance counter
statistical methods and measurement process, the M2000
northbound performance file interface, and the schemes
for adding and deleting performance counters.

Glossary

This document provides LTE terms, acronyms, and

abbreviations.

Glossary

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