CBCCH

Common BCCH
Benefits
Improved trucking gain, (improve blocking probability) Reduced frequency used Reduced number of cell, reduced LAC, reduced paging Reduced neighboring cells, improve performance due to decreased handover

Restrictions
BCCH on Comon BCCH system must be the same band throughout the whole network There can be only 31 frequency in adjacent cell and BA list Only 5 strongest neighbours are included in the adjacent cell measurement Initial SDCCH channel for call setup is always allocated in the BCCH segment, since FACCH setup take place as a response to an SDCCH allocation request, FACCH has the same restriction as SDCCH Dynamic SDCCH can be utilised only in the BCCH frequency band.

Problem on CBCCH
GSM DCS

difference radio attenuation between DCS & GSM

Difference cell coverage

Problem on CBCCH
GSM DCS

CCCH problem

Parameter_1 (NBL)

DCS

GSM

NBL = NonBCCH Layer offset Suggested value = 10

Parameter_2 (LAR)

DCS

GSM

LAR = non BCCH layer access threshold Average_Rxlev_DL NBL >= LAR

Parameter_3 (LER)
DCS GSM

LER = non BCCH layer Exit threshold

Parameter_4(LSEG)
20 % 60 %

TCH allocation priority to DCS

Handover triggered
80 %

Example : BTSloadInseg GSM = 20 BTSloadInseg DCS = 80

BTSloadInseg + ( (100 BTSloadInseg ) / 2 ) = HO triggered

Parameter_5 (extend SD)

ISS = guard time for attempting an SDCCH handover from the BCCH BTS resource layer to another resource layer in a segment. (BSC level)

ESD = enable SDCCH handove (BTS level)

Thank you

by dimas