LR15.

2 feature 111583 Dual Carrier HSUPA

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Agenda
Feature Overview
What Spec says ?
Feature Technical Description
Feature Implementation in ALU
Drawbacks and Recommendations
Customer Requirements
EPIC

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Feature Overview
Rel8 feature co-existing with DC HSDPA in DL
2 E-DCH carriers 1) Primary and 2) Secondary carriers
UL data transmitted in 2 adjacent 5 MHz carriers Dual cell operation
Data rate gets doubled as Bandwidth is doubled (10MHZ)
Always in dedicated mode for PS
Independent E-DCH scheduling
Rel8 UE with one or two amplifiers accordingly
High data rates and capacity gain

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What Spec says ?

Physical layer configuration

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Physical layer configuration Cont.

Support of 2ms TTI
DL and UL Power control performed on each carrier
HS-DPCCH present only on Primary carrier
For corresponding UL, there exists E-AGCH, E-RGCH, E-HICH and FDPCH in DL
Each E-DCH transport channel has its corresponding UL and DL signaling
HS-SCCH orders are used to ACT/DACT Secondary in both UL and DL
and are mutually exclusive

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MAC and RLC Layer configuration

Mac-i/is supported
In UE, MUXing and TSN are common to both the carriers except HARQ
Mac-I does HARQ, De-MUX in nodeB while Mac-is does Re-ordering
Flexible RLC is supported in UL and DL

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Scheduling mechanism
Scheduled transmissions can be sent on both the UL carriers
Resources allocation is done on both the carriers through AG and RG
One primary E-RNTI and one Secondary E-RNTI per configured Freq
Happy bits are transmitted per ACT. UL Freq
TSIG and T_SING timers are used by UE during Periodic Scheduling
UE shall not hold the AG/RG once the secondary carrier is DACT

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RRC layer configuration

Both carriers maintain an Independent E-DCH Active set and R99 Active
set as well
UE shall perform the Intra frequency measurements with events
1A,1B,1C, 1D etc
Both the carriers should belong to the same nodeB
RL failure and Physical channel failure are dealt as in Rel8 and secondary
carrier is deactivated up on encountering this

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Feature Implementation in ALU

Baseband board: eCEM or eCEM-U with schedulers being hosted in the
same board
Controller board: xCCM/E1 MDA or xCCM/GE MDA or eCCM
NIP Iub is the first priority, Hybrid Iub is the second priority, pure ATM
interface is not required
RF : same as DC-HSDPA in 2100 MHz band
RNC : DCPS or eDCPS
Available on both MBA (3C-HSDPA) and SBA (Modem capable of
supporting 2 carriers)
In MBA, DL can be either 3C or DC, but in UL there is a restriction for DCHSUPA w.r.t UL Max Bitrates. If the usage is below the threshold, DC UL
cant be sued
Users are selected based on TC/ARP/THP

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Drawbacks and Recommendations

Drawbacks:
Doubles the Baseband consumption in terms of CE and E-DCH
connections
Throughput degradation at Cell-Edge
Cell radio capacity decrease due to power overhead induced by
secondary carrier
Higher control plane load induced at RNC and NodeB due to independent
E-DCH active set on both carriers

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Drawbacks and Recommendations cont.

Recommendations:
Limit the no. of secondary carriers per user (configurable N<=4)
Secondary activated only if the UE has higher UL activity and is not
power limited
Serving NodeB initiates secondary cell activation or deactivation by
making use of HS-SCCH orders which ensures 15 DC HSUPA calls can
be configured with DC-HSUPA per eCEM with atmost 4 being given
secondary carrier
RNC has no view of resource allocation till LR15. So RNC gets an error
from NodeB if it tries to allocate resources for more than 15 DC HSUPA
calls per modem

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Customer Requirements
Requirement

ALU Response

Support of 15 DC-HSUPA calls with 4 secondary carriers per

eCEM

Partially
compliant

NodeB and RNC should support required configuration in

2100MHZ band

Compliant

User regression TPUT and Cell radio capacity decrease should

be prevented when the UE is power limited

Dynamic
HS-SCCH
ACT/DACT not
done in PH1

Cell capacity optimization by ACT/DACT of Dual carrier

Dynamic
HS-SCCH
ACT/DACT not
done in PH1

2 E-DCH connections should be considered for UE configured

with DC-HSUPA i.e., in MBA, one E-DCH resource taken from
each modem

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Compliant

General Requirement

ALU Response

Mobility procedures w.r.t iMCTA, Reconfigurations (DC <-> SC)

during SHO

Compliant

User priority based on TC/ARP/THP and UL MBR

Compliant

Soft Congestion interaction

Dependency on
the same

3C-HSDPA interaction

Not considered
in PH 1

Performance and capacity Requirement

ALU Response

TPUT in case of Single user and multi users (to be completed)

in good radio conditions

Compliant

TPUT in case of single user in Live Environment with no traffic

load and at the cell centre

Compliant

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EPIC
Priority

EPIC name

P0

DC-HSUPA support on both MBA and SBA

P1

Dynamic activation and de-activation of Dual carrier

P1

Access to DC-HSUPA according to user priority

P2

DC-HSU / Soft congestion interworking

P3

DC-HSU / 3C-HSDPA interworking

P4

Lower priority DC-HSUPA scenarios

a)Hybrid IuB
b)DC-HSUPA specific iMCTA
c)Incoming relocation in DC-HSUPA
d)RRE in DC-HSUPA

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