Admission Control

Admission Control is invoked whenever new or additional dedicated resources are required; such as an access attempt, a soft handover request, or a radio bearer reconfiguration request. In either of these cases, the Admission Control algorithm must confirm there are adequate system resources available to support this new request. Examples of these resources include codes, power and channel elements. The following sections will describe the different aspects of the Admission Control algorithm, and the parameters and counters associated with them. The counters described in this section include some of the more important counters related to Admission Control. Figures below provide a three part flowchart for the some of the counters related to Admission Control. The counters illustrated on the right side of Figure 1 include some of the level counters used by the Dedicated Monitored Resource Handling function (e.g. pmLevelSampAseUl, pmLevelSampAseDl, and pmLevelCompMode). These counters are incremented and decremented based on resource utilization and typically do not yield useful information from a statistical or troubleshooting perspective. On the other hand, the left side of Figure 1 provides the path for failed admission requests.

Figure 1 - Ericsson Admission Control Flowchart (1 of 3)

Continuing down the path for failed admission requests, figure below illustrates when non-handover related counters are incremented based on service type. If the failed admission attempt is for a new speech connection (non-handover), the counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedSpeech is incremented. For circuit switched data or circuit switched streaming admission requests, the counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedCs is incremented, for nonhandover scenarios.

Figure 2 - Ericsson Admission Control Flowchart (2 of 3)

The counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedInteractive is incremented if the failed admission request is for non-HS interactive packet switch RABs, while the counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedPsStreaming is pegged if the request was for a non-HS streaming packet switched RAB. If the failed streaming PS RAB request was specifically for a 128 kbps

bearer, the counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedPsStr128 would be incremented, along with pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedPsStreaming. High speed admission failures are also counted, as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3. The performance counter pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedHs is incremented when nonhandover, failed admission request occurs for HSDPA.

Figure 3 - Ericsson Admission Control Flowchart (3 of 3)