HSPA Inter-RNC Mobility

Introduction
Objective
Improve HSPA end-user experience at inter-RNC borders

Improvement Strategy
Introducing continuous inter-RNC HSPA mobility Improved end-user experience by maintaining high HSPA data rates at RNC borders

Increase capacity gain at RNCs borders and directly reducing CAPEX

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Details
Parameters
HSPAInterRNCMobility - Enable HSDPAMobility - Enable RelocationSupport - Supported NRncVersion Rel6 NRncRelocationSupport - Supported HSDPADRNCEcnoOffset 3dB HSDPAServCellWindow 2dB

Expected Improvement
Higher end-user data rates at RNC border Increase in HSPA traffic at RNC border cells

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Drive Test Results (Data Rates)

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HSDPA Inter-RNC Disabled: Zero data rates of around 10 seconds observed during inter-RNC handover. It is also observed that HSDPA service is degraded to R99 after the handover

HSDPA Inter-RNC Enabled: Continuous data rates observed during inter-RNC handover. However there is a slight degradation in data rate during the short handover instant

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Statistical Traffic Performance

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HSPA Traffic Statistics

Comparison
Comparison period is done between 16th-18thMarch and 23rd-25thMarch Inter-RNC HSPA Disable is between 16th-18thMarch (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) Inter-RNC HSPA Enable is between 23rd-25thMarch (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) The comparison is taken from inter-RNC border cells. 18 cells from RNC101 and 17 cells from RNC103 Selected cells list is in the attachment

Statistics
HSDPA traffic maintained with increased in RNC101 but decreased in RNC103 HSUPA traffic increased by 14.52% with both RNCs registered increment in HSUPA traffic HSDPA (GB) HSUPA (GB)

RNC
101 103 Total

Disable
12.01 28.52 40.53

Enable Different Disable

13.12 27.03 40.15 9.24% -5.22% -0.94% 1.02 7.38 8.40

Enable Different
1.35 8.27 9.62 32.35% 12.06% 14.52%

This statistical comparison should only be taken as a reference as inter-RNC HSPA traffic is only a minor subset of the total traffic of the inter-RNC border cells.
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Conclusions
With more new RNCs are integrated, inter-RNC border is expanding hence more subscribers will be affected by the RNC capacity expansion Drive test results show that data subscribers located at RNC borders will have a better user experience by maintaining high data rates during inter-RNC handover period

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