CJ Feature Optimization

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Background
Feature Phones
Data channel Control channel

Smartphones with Small Packet Services

Data channel Control channel

User Idle Status

Traditional Service RTWP

Smartphone Service on Frequent data transmission

Always

RTWP

Traffic channel load ROT Control channel load Thermal Noise Thermal ROT

Traffic channel load

Control channel load

Noise

PS payload and HSUPA payload increase more than 50% during 3 months, more and more smart phone inject into network ,so control channel load increased significantly.

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Indonesia Telkomsel Current UL Load Status

RNC 354 UL load proportion

Dynamic ROT activation

12.681% UL load is used by HS-DPCCH due to too many HSDPA users.

83.386% UL load is used by UL DPCCH due to too many CELL_DCH users.

Most UL load is consumed on control channel in current MIC; Only 4% UL Load(compare with control channel) is used by normal traffic;

6 features Solution can largely save control channel load which consumed the most UL resource
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Dynamic RoT Optimization

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SingleRAN UMTS

Dynamic RoT: Auto Threshold Adjustment

UL cell coverage is very well. Improve RoT to get more UL capacity

RoT 10dB 6dB

Capacity gain

RoT=6dB
ROT: Rise of Thermal noise

RoT=10dB

The system will automatically adjust the ROT according to Tx power of the user at cell edge, to get the dynamic balance between uplink capacity and coverage

30% UL capacity gain with ROT increased

1 ROT 10 log 10( ) 1

No coverage risk

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Dynamic Bler Optimization

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Load-based Uplink Target BLER Configuration

Benefit/Influence

Feature Theory

Save UE TX power of PS R99 user, decrease single user load factor, improve uplink cell capacity. PS R99 throughput will be degraded slightly.

UL Load Factor for 64kbps user in TU3 Scenario

1%BLER 10%BLER

If total uplink load is restricted and actual uplink service load is more than a threshold, RNC configure a larger target BLER, which corresponding to a low SIR, UE can send a lower power, cell capacity improved. Otherwise RNC configure a normal BLER to improve per user throughput experience.

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L o 100 a d 80 60 F a 40 c t 20 o r 0 % -20

10

20 User Number

30

40

Counter Monitoring
VS.MeanRTWP VS.HSUPA.MeanChThroughput VS.HSUPA.MeanChThroughput.TotalBytes

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AMR Voice Quality Improvement Based on PLVA

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Capacity

Experience

Reliability

AMR Voice Quality Improvement Based on PLVA: Background

Current Situation:

In UMTS, Convolutional Codes(CC) are used to perform channel coding and a power control mechanism is used to ensure voice quality. Viterbi algorithm is normally used for convolutional codes decoding. Viterbi algorithm cannot ensure the voice quality when UE power limitation, fast channel change, or strong interference.
UE
Uu

Node B
Iub

RNC
Iu

CN

AMR Speech Codec

Decoded data

AMR Speech Codec

CC Encoder

CC Decoder
CRCI

Power Transmitter

Inner-Loop
Power Power Control Target Commander SIR Measured SIR

Outer-Loop Power Control

Uplink

Purpose of PLVA Improving AMR Voice Quality

Huawei uses an enhanced Viterbi algorithm named PLVA to decode the Convolutional Codes to make the voice service more robust, especially in poor radio condition.
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Experience

Reliability

AMR Voice Quality Improvement Based on PLVA: Solution

VA (Viterbi Algorithm) Viterbi Decoder

(Produce 1-best Candidate)

CRC Check

VA Decoded Bits

Most vendors use the Viterbi algorithm to decode convolutional codes The Viterbi algorithm selects the optimal path based on the maximum likelihood theory.

Huawei uses the PLVA to decode convolutional codes in RAN14.0 The PLVA selects the top 4 optimal paths and performs CRC alternatively.

PLVA (Parallel List Viterbi Algorithm) Viterbi Decoder

(Produce 4best Candidate)

CRC Check

PLVA Decoded Bits

The PLVA outperforms the Viterbi algorithm:

When Viterbi CRCI is correct, the PLVA CRCI is always correct; but when PLVA CRCI is correct, the Viterbi CRCI is not necessarily correct.

Correct bits

Error bits

Based on Huawei self-designed chipset

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Capacity

Experience

Reliability

AMR Voice Quality Improvement Based on PLVA: Benefits

MOS Simulation Voice quality is inacceptable

Poor signal , BLER=10%

Voice quality is good

Gain=0.35 @BLER=10%

Benefits: Improves AMR voice quality up to MOS 0.35 in poor signal coverage. The feature is effective for both AMR-NB and AMR-WB

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