CE Dimensioning for TEF

01 Apr, 2011


CE Definition

One Channel Element is the base band resources

required in the Node-B to provide capacity for one
voice channel including control plane signaling,
compressed mode, transmit diversity.


ZTE Channel Elements Features

Channel elements are pooled in one NodeB.

CE for CCH are reserved.
ZTEs BPC board can support 192CE for uplink and downlink respectively.
This year BPK may be used instead of BPC. BPK has 384 instead of 192 by
BPC. This is only for R99. For HSDPA special equipment is reserved.
ZTEs baseband processing board has special chip to handle the traffic of
HS-PDSCH and HS-SCCH. So HSDPA downlink traffic will not consume CE.
HSUPA shares CE resource with R99 services
User
Traffic Type Number/throughput
BPC
12.2k 192
MBMS 3*4*256Kbps,
Summary of ZTE BPC 3*16*64Kbps
HSPA users 144HSDPA/96HSUPA
process capability Cells supported 6Cell
HSDPA 43.2Mbps
HSUPA 15Mbps



CE Dimensioning Procedure

Subscribers per NodeB and traffic model will be the input of CE dimensioning.
For CS service, CE number is calculated by using ErlangB model.
Soft handover are considered.


CE Mapping of Different Bearer Types

R99 CE Factor Table HSUPA Factor Table
CE Factor Uplink CE
SF Bearer Rate
Different Bearer Types BPC(192CE) Factor
Uplink Downlink 64 12~17.2kbps 2
AMR12.2K 1 1 32 18.6~37.2kbps 3.3
CS64K 2.5 1.8 16 52.2~70.8 kbps 4
R99 PS64K 2.5 1.8 85.8~154.8
8 4.8
PS128K 5 3 kbps
PS384K 10 6 1*4 169.8~711 kbps 5.7
742.8~1448.4
2*4 11
kbps
1455.6~2883
Reserved 43Mbps for HSDPA, HSDPA 2*2 28
kbps
downlink traffic channel will not consume
2*2+ 2970~5742
CE. Only associated signaling channel costs 2*4 kbps
39
0.3CE in downlink.


Dimensioning Assumption
Traffic Model Proposed by ZTE
Traffic Model per Subs
Penetration
Bearer Types Unit @Busy Hour
Ratio
Uplink Downlink
AMR12.2K Erlang 0.03 0.03 50%
CS64K Erlang 0.003 0.003 50%
PS64K/64K kbps 32 32 2%
PS64K/128K kbps - - -
PS64K/384K kbps - - -
HSDPA/HSUPA kbps 400 600 2% 1%

Subscriber distribution 3G sites: 132

City Smart phone Data Card Total
Guayaquil 57440 57492 114936
Per site 57440/132=435 57492/132=435 870

Please refer to planning proposal for traffic calculation details



Calculation Process-1
Total traffic of AMR 12.2K per site = 870 * 0.03*50% = 13Erl
According to Erlang-B model, simultaneous link number is 20.
CEUL _ AMR12.2 LinkNumber CEfactorAMR12.2 20 1 20CE
CEDL _ AMR12.2 LinkNumber CEfactorAMR12.2 20 1 20CE
Total traffic of CS64Kusers per site = 870 * 0.03*50% = 1.3Erl
According to Erlang-B model, simultaneous link number is 5.
CEUL _ CS 64 K LinkNumber CEfactorUL _ CS 64 K 5 2.5 12.5CE
CEDL _ CS 64 K LinkNumber CEfactorDL _ CS 64 K 2.5 1.8 4.5CE
Total uplink throughput of PS64K users per site = 870 * 32 *2% = 557kbps
Downlink throughput of PS64K users per site = 870*32*2% = 557kbps
CEUL _ PS 64 K LinkNumber CEfactorUL _ PS 64 K [557 / 64] 2.5 21CE
CEDL _ PS 64 K LinkNumber CEfactorDL _ PS 64 K [557 / 64] 1.8 16CE


Calculation Process-2
CE Consumed by HSUPA
If we assume that HSUPA throughput is 400kbps per user online. Then ZTEs base
processing unit will consume 5.7*870*1% = 50CE.
If it is 3.4K signalling for HSUPA downlink and uplink associated signalling channel.
CE_DL signalling = 870*1%*0.3 = 3CE
CE_UL signalling = 870*1%*0.3 = 3CE
So total CE consumed by HSUPA will be 53CE@UL and 3CE@DL.
CE Consumed by HSDPA
For HSDPA service, ZTE base band processing board has special chip to handle the traffic
of HS-PDSCH and HS-SCCH. So traffic consumes no CE in downlink.
If it is 3.4K signalling for HSDPA downlink associated signalling channel.
CE_DL signalling = 870*2%*0.3 = 6CE
CE_DL signalling = 870*2%*0.3 = 6CE
So total CE consumed by HSDPA will be 6CE@DL and 6CE@UL
Total Required CE
If consider 30% SHO Ratio
Total Uplink CE = (20+12.5+21+53+6)*1.3=150 CE
Total Uplink CE = (20+4.5+16+3+6)*1.3=52 CE
Limited by uplink, Total CE required is 150 CE.
ZTEs BPC board can hardware support 192CE. So the base band processing resource
can meet the requirement.