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1.1.1 GBFD-117001 Flex MAIO
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS7.0.
Summary
When this feature is enabled, the channels with less interference are
preferentially selected during channel assignment. If there is interference in
the selected channel, the MAIO with the minimum interference is assigned to
the channel.
Benefits
This feature provides the following benefits:

Reduces the adjacent-channel and co-channel interference in the GSM
system.

Achieves tight frequency reuse within the BTSs and thus improves the
system capacity.
Description
Under the BTSs with large capacity, adjacent-channel or co-channel
interference is likely to occur among channels because the frequency
resources are insufficient and tight frequency reuse is adopted. For example,
when some frequencies in the MA list are adjacent, adjacent-channel
interference occurs if the channels with the same timeslot number but on
different TRXs use adjacent MAIOs and are occupied at the same time.
When dynamic MAIO is enabled, the MAIO value is dynamically adjusted
according to the current interference and the MAIO value with the minimum
interference is assigned to the channel. Thus, the call has the minimum
interference from the perspective of the entire network. Huawei BSS
equipment records the interference on each timeslot and updates the record
during each channel activation or channel release.
Enhancement
None.
Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware
None.
Impacts on the BTS hardware
Please refer to the BTS Dependency of feature list.
Dependency on other features of the GBSS
This feature depends on the following features:

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GBFD-113701 Frequency Hopping (RF hopping, baseband hopping)
This feature and the following feature are mutually exclusive:
GBFD-117002 IBCA (Interference Based Channel Allocation)
Dependency on other NEs
None.


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1.1.2 GBFD-118001 BCCH Dense Frequency Multiplexing
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS8.0.
Summary
This feature allows the operator to adopt the tight frequency reuse pattern for
the frequencies of the BCCH carriers.
Benefits
This feature provides the following benefits:

The number of frequencies occupied by the BCCH carriers reduces, thus
improving the frequency usage. In addition, the number of frequencies
available for the TCHs and the number of frequencies participating in FH
on the TCH increase, thus increasing the system capacity and reducing
the costs of adding sites and cells.

The TCHs on BCCH carriers are assigned to only the MSs near the BTS,
thus improving the voice quality because of less uplink interference.
Description
Each cell is configured with a BCCH carrier, and timeslot 0 on the BCCH
carrier is used to carry the BCH and CCCH. This timeslot continually sends
messages to all the MSs camping on the cell. The messages include the
synchronization message, system information, paging message, and
assignment message, which are directly related to cell selection, cell
reselection, call initiation, and paging response. Therefore, the BCCH
becomes the most important channel in GSM communications.
Generally, the 4x3 pattern is adopted for the BCCH frequencies. This can
ensure a high carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) between BCCH carriers. In
this pattern, however, the BCCH carriers occupy 12 frequencies. In a network
with tight frequency reuse and limited frequency resources, if the 3x3 pattern
is used for the BCCH frequencies, the interference to the TCH on the BCCH
carrier increases and the performance degrades to an unacceptable level.
This feature enables the BCCH frequencies to adopt the tight frequency reuse
pattern. In this way, in the network with limited frequency resources, the
number of frequencies occupied by the BCCH carriers decreases and the
number of frequencies available for the TCHs increases, thus increasing the
system capacity without adding hardware and reducing the costs of adding
sites.
This feature regards a cell as two logical layers: TCH layer on BCCH carriers
and FH layer on other carriers.
The FH layer serves the entire system and covers the entire network,
including the MSs at the boarder of a cell. The TCH layer on the BCCH
carrier, however, provides limited coverage to ensure the performance of call
access. The interference in the area near the BTS is smaller than that in the
area far from the BTS and at the edge of the cell. Therefore, the TCH layer on
the BCCH carrier provides the coverage only for the MSs near the BTS.

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During the initial access and channel assignment triggered by handover
(non-BCCH tight frequency multiplexing), the system preferentially assigns
TCHs on the non-BCCH carriers to ensure the access performance. If a call is
assigned a TCH on a non-BCCH carrier in the cell, the BCCH Dense
Frequency Multiplexing feature has less impact on the call if the MS is near
the BTS. The system then hands over the call to a TCH on the BCCH carrier
and reserves the channels on the non-BCCH carrier to ensure the access
performance of other calls.
Enhancement
None.
Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware
None.
Impacts on the BTS hardware
Please refer to the BTS Dependency of feature list.
Dependency on other features of the GBSS
This feature and the following feature are mutually exclusive:
GBFD-113201 Concentric Cell
GBFD-114501 Co-BCCH Cell
GBFD-114401 Multi-band Sharing One BSC
GBFD-114402 Enhanced Dual-band Network
Dependency on other NEs
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1.1.3 GBFD-116401 End-to-End MS Signaling Tracing
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS6.1.
Summary
This feature enables you to collect the information about the specified MS if
required and then collect the traced faults in a specific network element using
only a few system resources. In this manner, you can rectify the faults
effectively.
Benefits
It is difficult to locate the service faults in MSs because the communications
network becomes increasingly complicated. You can detect the section where
the fault occurs only when the information about the whole process of one MS
is collected. By using the end-to-end MS signaling tracing feature, you can
completely record the service activities of an MS and then locate the section
where the fault occurs. The recorded information covers all the network
elements involved in the service of the MS. If the traced MS is reasonably
defined, the valid location information can be obtained without using a large
amount of processing and transmission resources of the system in the whole
tracing process.
Description
With this feature, you can create or delete a tracing task in the HLR. The HLR
sends the tracing activation message to the MSC/VLR where the MS is
located. When the traced MS initiates services, the MSC notifies the BSC to
perform tracing. When the MS is switched over to a new MSC, location
update is initiated. Then the HLR sends a tracing activation message to the
new MSC/VLR and the tracing task of the original MSC is complete.
When receiving the message of starting a tracing task from the MSC, the BSC
traces information about all the interfaces and then saves the information to
the BAM. The information is saved as a .tmf file, which is used for interface
tracing on the BSC6000 LMT. The file can be browsed through the function
of interface tracing review on the BSC6000 LMT. When browsing the
information about a traced MS, you can choose a time segment and choose the
message field to be viewed through a message filter window.
The BSC6000 supports a maximum of 64 tracing tasks (including single-MS
signaling tracing, interface signaling tracing, and end-to-end MS signaling
tracing tasks). There should be at least 16 end-to-end MS signaling tracing
tasks. If the number of existing end-to-end MS signaling tracing tasks reaches
or exceeds 16, determine whether the total number of tasks reaches the upper
threshold when creating an end-to-end MS signaling tracing task. If the total
number does not reach the upper threshold, you can create more tasks. If the
total number reaches the upper threshold, task creation fails.
Enhancement
None.

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Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware
None.
Impacts on the BTS hardware
Please refer to the BTS Dependency of feature list.
Dependency on other features of the GBSS
None.
Dependency on other NEs
This feature should be supported by M2000 and CN.


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1.1.4 GBFD-115701 TFO
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS6.1.
Summary
With this feature, the TFO frames are transparently transmitted and
encoding/decoding is bypassed through the bit stealing scheme between the
TCs at two ends. Thus, the process of encoding/decoding is reduced once.
Benefits
The speech signals are deteriorated with each encoding/decoding. Thus, using
TFO to bypass encoding/decoding can improve the voice quality. In the case
of encoding/decoding of lower rate, the voice quality is more evidently
improved.
Description
For traditional mobile network system without TFO, the voice signal is
encoded by the MS on one side and transmitted over the radio interface. The
signal is then decoded by the first TC unit. The decoded PCM data flow is
transmitted to the second TC unit through the 64 kbit/s transmission link for
encoding. After being encoded, the data is transmitted to the MS on the other
side over the radio interface for decoding. During the whole conversation, the
speech is transcoded two times, which is called tandem operation.


The TFO feature can reduce the speech signal degradation caused by tandem
operation, thus improving the voice quality. When the calling MS and the
called MS use the same speech version, the TFO link is established through
the in-band signaling negotiation. In addition, the least significant bit (or the
second least significant bit) is stolen to seize the 8 kbit/s (or 16 kbit/s) sublink
of the PCM transmission link for transparent transmission of TFO frames and
bypass TC encoding/decoding. In this manner, the speech signal is encoded at
the MS initiating the call and decoded at the MS terminating the call for only
once. Thus, the degradation of the speech signals due to tandem operation is
reduced and the voice quality is improved. This process is called tandem free
operation (TFO).
MS/UE MS/UE
PLMN A PLMN B
Transcoding
Function
Encoding Decoding Decoding Encoding
Compressed Speech Compressed Speech ITU-T G.711 A-Law/-Law
Transcoding Functions
Transcoding
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Enhancement
GBSS 8.1
The AMR TFO is supported.
GBSS9.0
Conversion between the FR and HR in the TFO: During the negotiation of the
TFO, if the channel (FR or HR) used by the called party is different from the
channel (HR or FR) used by the calling party, the call is handed over from the
FR channel to an HR channel before the TFO. This feature improves the voice
quality of the HR call.
Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware
None.
Impacts on the BTS hardware
Please refer to the BTS Dependency of feature list.
Dependency on other features of the GBSS
When a call using TFO feature, the following features can't be used
together:
GBFD-115601 Automatic Level Control (ALC)
GBFD-115602 Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC)
GBFD-115603 Automatic Noise Restraint (ANR)
GBFD-115703 Automatic Noise Compensation (ANC)
GBFD-115704 Enhancement Packet Loss Concealment (EPLC)
Dependency on other NEs
None.

Transcoding
Function
Transcoding
Function
Transcoding Functions Bypassed
MS/UE MS/UE
PLMN A PLMN B
Encoding Decoding
Compressed Speech

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1.1.5 GBFD-115522 Dynamic HR/FR Adaptation
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS8.1.
Summary
With this feature, the established calls can be handed over between half-rate
channels and full-rate channels based on the usage of channel resources. In
this manner, the balance between the network quality and the cell capacity is
maintained.
Benefits
This feature has the following benefits:

When the traffic volume is low, calls are handed over from half-rate
channels to full-rate channels, thus improving the voice quality.

When the TCHs in a cell are insufficient, calls are handed over from
full-rate channels to half-rate channels, thus increasing the cell capacity.
Description
During call establishment, the network assigns a half-rate or a full-rate
channel to the call based on the usage of the cell resources. In the case of a
long-duration call, the usage of the cell resources may change: During the call
establishment phase, if the TCH seizure rate is high, a half-rate channel is
assigned to the call. After the call lasts for a period, many calls are released
and the TCH seizure rate decreases. In this case, TCHs in the cell are
sufficient and a full-rate channel can be assigned to the call to improve the
voice quality. If the TCH seizure rate is low during the call establishment, a
full-rate TCH may be assigned to the call. After the call lasts for a period,
many calls access the cell and the TCH seizure rate increases. In this case, the
available TCHs in the cell are insufficient.
If the dynamic adjustment between full-rate and half-rate channels is enabled,
the half-rate/full-rate channels of established calls can be adjusted based on
the usage of cell resources. When the TCHs in a cell are sufficient, full-rate
channels are preferably assigned to new calls and calls with poor
communication quality can be handed over from half-rate channels to full-rate
channels, thus improving the communication quality. When the TCHs in a cell
are insufficient, half-rate channels are preferably assigned to new calls and
calls with good communication quality may be handed over from full-rate
channels to half-rate channels, thus increasing the cell capacity.
When this feature is enabled, the half-rate speech feature needs to be enabled
at the same time.
Enhancement
None.

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Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware
None.
Impacts on the BTS hardware
Please refer to the BTS Dependency of feature list.
Dependency on other features of the GBSS
None.
Dependency on other NEs
None