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Adaptive Interference Rejection (RAN18.1 - 02)
Adaptive Interference Rejection (RAN18.1 - 02)
Issue 02
Date 2016-03-28
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Contents
2 Overview......................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Background.....................................................................................................................................................................4
2.2 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Benefits........................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3 Technical Description...................................................................................................................6
3.1 Characteristics of Interference Sources.......................................................................................................................... 6
3.2 Technical Principles........................................................................................................................................................6
3.3 Interference Suppression Process................................................................................................................................... 7
3.4 Adaptive Interference Suppression.................................................................................................................................8
4 Related Features...........................................................................................................................10
5 Network Impact........................................................................................................................... 12
6 Engineering Guidelines............................................................................................................. 14
6.1 When to Use Adaptive Interference Rejection............................................................................................................. 14
6.2 Required Information................................................................................................................................................... 14
6.3 Deployment.................................................................................................................................................................. 15
6.3.1 Requirements............................................................................................................................................................. 16
6.3.2 Precautions.................................................................................................................................................................17
6.3.3 Data Preparation and Feature Activation...................................................................................................................18
6.3.3.1 Data Preparation..................................................................................................................................................... 18
6.3.3.2 Using MML Commands......................................................................................................................................... 18
6.3.3.3 MML Command Examples.................................................................................................................................... 18
6.3.3.4 Using the CME....................................................................................................................................................... 19
6.3.4 Activation Observation..............................................................................................................................................19
6.3.5 Deactivation...............................................................................................................................................................19
6.3.5.1 Using MML Commands......................................................................................................................................... 20
7 Parameters..................................................................................................................................... 22
8 Counters........................................................................................................................................ 25
9 Glossary......................................................................................................................................... 29
10 Reference Documents............................................................................................................... 30
1.1 Scope
This document describes the WRFD-181219 Adaptive Interference Rejection (Trial) feature,
including its technical principles, related features, network impact, and engineering
guidelines.
This document applies to the following NE types.
NE Type Model
the current version. Huawei reserves the rights to convert trial features into commercial
features in later R/C versions. If trial features are converted into commercial features in a later
version, customers shall pay a licensing fee to obtain the relevant licenses prior to using the
said commercial features. If a customer fails to purchase such a license, the trial feature(s)
will be invalidated automatically when the product is upgraded.
RAN18.1 02 (2016-03-28)
This issue includes the following changes.
RAN18.1 01 (2016-02-29)
This document is created for RAN18.1.
2 Overview
2.1 Background
UMTS networks are interference-limited. If external interference or interference from
neighboring cells is strong, uplink UTRAN cell capacity is noticeably reduced. On live
networks, UMTS 900 MHz networks receive strong interference from GSM networks
(repeaters), creating a bottleneck in commercial use of UMTS 900 MHz.
Huawei's WRFD-181219 Adaptive Interference Rejection (Trial) feature counteracts strong
external wideband interference on the UMTS frequencies 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz,
and 2100 MHz, improving uplink coverage performance.
2.2 Introduction
The Adaptive Interference Rejection feature allows a NodeB to:
l Scan the frequency spectrum within the UMTS carrier bandwidth to rapidly identify
stable and strong wideband interference (12 dB stronger than the noise floor).
l Decorrelate the interference signals between antennas.
This feature increases the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) at the receiver.
A correlation coefficient indicates the relationship between two interference signals. The
more similar two signals, the closer correlation between them.
Figure 2-1 shows three pairs of interference signals from left to right in a descending order of
correlation coefficients.
NOTE
The horizontal axis and vertical axis indicate signal 1 and signal 2, respectively. The narrower the image,
the closer the correlation and more correlated the two signals; The rounder the image, the weaker the
correlation and less correlated the two signals.
2.3 Benefits
This feature provides benefits when all the following conditions are met:
l The total interference bandwidth of an uplink receive carrier is greater than 400 kHz.
l The daily proportion of times the VS.StrongColouredInf.Ratio counter value is above
70% remains greater than 50% in one week. The VS.StrongColouredInf.Ratio counter
measures the proportion of strong colored interference in a cell.
l The value of interference divided by the noise floor is greater than 12 dB (interference
from repeaters).
The benefits include:
Uplink interference with the strength between 12 dB and 30 dB reduces by about 2
to 21 dB.
Uplink coverage performance improves. Specifically, the received signal code
power (RSCP) on access at 5% in the CDF diagram decreases by about 2 to 21 dB.
NOTE
Strong colored interference indicates that interference signals between antennas are closely correlated.
3 Technical Description
This feature slightly reduces desired signals but minimizes strength of interference signals,
therefore increasing the SINR.
NOTE
For details about the maximum SINR principle, see Interference Rejection Combining Feature
Parameter Description.
If SW is set to OFF, the NodeB assumes that CSUSERNUM and PSUSERNUM are 5
and 10, respectively.
The NodeB checks whether interference suppression is enabled for the previous day and
takes actions based on the check result. Details are shown in Figure 3-3.
NOTE
Interference suppression adjustment introduces changes in uplink signal processing delay. The
online UEs are likely to experience service drops and a sharp decrease in data rates. Therefore,
interference suppression adjustment is performed during off-peak hours to minimize the impact.
l Once the Adaptive Interference Rejection feature is deactivated, adaptive interference
suppression is disabled accordingly.
4 Related Features
Prerequisite Features
Feature ID Feature Name Description
NOTE
The Adaptive Interference Rejection feature changes the method of combining signals on two antennas,
decreasing the value of the VS.HSUPA.Ic.MeanEff counter.
Impacted Features
Feature ID Feature Name Description
5 Network Impact
System Capacity
Activating this feature reduces uplink interference by about 2 to 21 dB and decreases RSCP
on access at 5% in the CDF diagram by 2 to 21 dB, increasing uplink coverage performance,
when all the following conditions are met:
l The total interference bandwidth of an uplink receive carrier is greater than 400 kHz.
l The daily proportion of times the VS.StrongColouredInf.Ratio counter value is above
70% remains greater than 50% in one week. The VS.StrongColouredInf.Ratio counter
measures the proportion of strong colored interference in a cell.
l The value of interference divided by the noise floor is greater than 12 dB (interference
from repeaters).
The improvements provided by this feature decrease if the average uplink service load is
heavy and external interference reduces.
If multiple interference sources are present and there is no main interference source, the
interference signals are less correlated, decreasing improvements.
Network Performance
l Interference identification and suppression in the frequency domain introduces a delay of
hundreds of microseconds in uplink signal processing. If there is no strong interference,
activating the Adaptive Interference Rejection feature decreases uplink cell throughput
by 5% to 10%. When there is no strong interference, interference suppression will be
automatically deactivated, reducing uplink processing delay to be less than 100
microseconds and keeping uplink cell throughput loss within 2% to 4%.
l Intra-frequency cells served by the same NodeB experience softer handover combination
gains. However, combination will not be performed due to a delay of hundreds of
microseconds. Therefore, it is recommended that the Adaptive Interference Rejection
feature be activated for intra-frequency cells served by a NodeB. If interference
suppression remains effective in all the cells, they experience the same delay. After
interference suppression is dynamically deactivated for interference-free cells, softer
handovers can succeed because of the difference in delay between the interference-free
cells and interference-present cells. Throughput of UEs located in the softer handover
areas decreases by 5% to 10%.
l Uplink signals from UEs with high data rates are strong. In interference suppression,
their signals reduce and data rates decrease by 15% to 30%.
6 Engineering Guidelines
After this feature is activated, uplink delay increases. If this feature is not activated on a per
carrier basis, combination gains decrease for softer handovers within the same carrier.
Therefore, it is recommended that this feature be activated for cells working on the same
frequencies as the cells experiencing interference.
NOTE
After this feature is activated, strong interference will significantly reduce and the value of the
VS.StrongColouredInf.Ratio counter will decrease but not necessarily to 0.
This feature brings about significant improvements if the interference bandwidth of an uplink
receive carrier is greater than 400 kHz. Therefore, it is recommended that interference types
be identified using any of the following methods:
l For to-be-deployed UMTS networks, in the presence of GSM networks (working on
frequencies adjacent to those of the UMTS networks), GSM frequency scanning is
performed to scan interference on the GSM frequencies, facilitating identification of
possible interference types.
l For existing UMTS networks, frequency scanning is performed using the WebLMT
compatible with RAN14.0 or later. The scanning result is then analyzed to identify
interference types.
l For existing UMTS networks experiencing interference from repeaters, repeater
interference scanning is performed using the WebLMT to identify the percentage of
interference from the repeaters. This function is supported only by RRUs V3 of
RAN17.1 and later versions.
Obtain the value of the following counter to evaluate the improvements provided by this
feature.
After this feature is activated, the RSCP on access at 5% in the CDF diagram of
VS.RRC.Access.RSCP.x decreases by about 2 to 21 dB, indicating that coverage
performance improves.
6.3 Deployment
6.3.1 Requirements
Other Features
The prerequisite features have been configured. For details about the prerequisite features, see
4 Related Features.
Hardware
This feature depends on the UBBP board. Specifically, at least one UBBP board must be
configured as the interface board. This board may not be configured in the uplink resource
group serving the cell. The uplink resource group serving the cell must not contain WBBP
boards but at least one UBBP board working only in UMTS mode.
This feature consumes NodeB hardware resources (number of cells and CE resources) for
interference identification and suppression. Therefore, activating this feature decreases the
number of cells, HSUPA UEs, and CEs supported by the boards in the uplink resource group
serving the cell. For details about cell specifications, see Table 6-4. For details about CE and
HSUPA UE specifications, see Table 6-5.
For cells working on the carrier of the cell with strong broadband interference, you are
advised to establish them in one uplink resource group. All boards in this resource group must
be UBBPd and UBBPe boards and at least one UBBPd or UBBPe board working only in
UMTS mode must be configured as the interface board. This interface board may not in the
uplink resource group.
UBBPd1 6 6 3
UBBPd3 6 6 3
UBBPd2 6 6 3
UBBPd4 6 6 3
UBBPd5 6 6 3
UBBPd6 12 6 6
UBBPe1 6 6 3
UBBPe2 6 6 3
UBBPe3 12 6 6
UBBPe4 12 6 6
UBBPe5 12 6 6
UBBPe6 12 6 6
Table 6-5 Changes in the number of CEs and HSUPA UEs supported
License Management
This feature is not under license control.
6.3.2 Precautions
l Reconfiguring the parameters controlling the Adaptive Interference Rejection feature
causes resource adjustment in the uplink resource group serving the cell, leading to
service drops for some UEs. Therefore, it is good practice to reconfigure the parameters
during off-peak hours (when the number of online UEs is less than 10).
l When the interference suppression function is switching between enabled and disabled
states, the date rates sharply decrease due to prolonged uplink processing delay and will
return to normal within 2s.
l If the Uplink Baseband Equipment Work Mode parameter is set to AIR, the boards in
the uplink resource group cannot be added to other uplink resource groups. This limit
prevents board resource fluctuation, eliminating ping-pong switching between feature
activation states and preventing service drops from increasing.
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NOTE
When configuring the feature on the CME, perform a single configuration first, and then perform a batch
modification if required.
Configure the parameters of a single object before a batch modification. Perform a batch modification
before logging out of the parameter setting interface.
To modify objects in batches, click on the CME to start the batch modification wizard.
For instructions on how to perform a batch modification through the CME batch modification
center, press F1 while running the wizard to obtain online help.
To check whether a parameter supports batch modification, see the Remarks column in the
table in "Data Preparation" section.
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6.3.5 Deactivation
The following table provides the parameters used to deactivate the AIR feature.
Step 2 Run the NodeB MML command MOD ULOCELL with AIR set to FALSE(FALSE) for the
desired cell.
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NOTE
Reconfiguring the parameters controlling the Adaptive Interference Rejection feature causes resource
adjustment in the uplink resource group serving the cell, leading to service drops for some UEs.
Therefore, it is good practice to reconfigure the parameters during off-peak hours (when the number of
online UEs is less than 10).
NOTE
In interference-free scenarios, balance is achieved between uplink and downlink cell coverage. If strong
uplink interference occurs, uplink coverage is limited and RSCP on access is high. After the Adaptive
Interference Rejection feature takes effect, uplink coverage performance improves and RSCP on access
decreases.
More samples of admitted UEs in the cell lead to higher CDF reliability. In low-traffic
scenarios, it is good practice to increase the measurement period for these counters to ensure
sufficient samples and reliable CDF curves.
If this feature is effective, observe the values of the following counters to check interference
suppression performance.
7 Parameters
ULBAS BTS390 ADD WRFD- Adaptiv Meaning: Indicates the working mode of the uplink
EBAND 0, NODEB 181219 e baseband equipment.
EQMW BTS390 BASEB Interfere GUI Value Range: NORMAL(Normal), AIR(Adaptive
ORKM 0 ANDEQ nce Interference Rejection)
ODE WCDM MPARA Rejectio
A n Unit: None
MOD
NODEB Actual Value Range: NORMAL, AIR
BASEB Default Value: NORMAL(Normal)
ANDEQ
MPARA
LST
NODEB
BASEB
ANDEQ
MPARA
AIR BTS390 ADD WRFD- Adaptiv Meaning: Indicates whether the cell supports the
0, ULOCE 181219 e Adaptive Interference Rejection feature.
BTS390 LL Interfere GUI Value Range: FALSE(FALSE), TRUE(TRUE)
0 MOD nce
WCDM Rejectio Unit: None
ULOCE
A LL n Actual Value Range: FALSE, TRUE
CSUSE BTS390 SET None None Meaning: Indicates the threshold for the number of CS
RNUM 0, NODEB users. If the number of CS users in the downlink
BTS390 RESAL resource group is smaller than or equal to the
0 LOCRU threshold, cells are reestablished automatically.
WCDM LE GUI Value Range: 0~65535
A LST Unit: None
NODEB
RESAL Actual Value Range: 0~65535
LOCRU Default Value: 0
LE
PSUSE BTS390 SET None None Meaning: Indicates the threshold for the number of PS
RNUM 0, NODEB users. If the number of CELL_DCH PS users in the
BTS390 RESAL downlink resource group is smaller than or equal to
0 LOCRU the threshold, cells are reestablished automatically.
WCDM LE GUI Value Range: 0~65535
A LST Unit: None
NODEB
RESAL Actual Value Range: 0~65535
LOCRU Default Value: 0
LE
SW BTS390 SET None None Meaning: Indicates the automatic cell reestablishment
0, NODEB switch.
BTS390 RESAL GUI Value Range: ON(ON), OFF(OFF)
0 LOCRU
WCDM LE Unit: None
A LST Actual Value Range: ON, OFF
NODEB Default Value: OFF(OFF)
RESAL
LOCRU
LE
BgnAbn BSC690 ADD WRFD- Load Meaning: Threshold for the abnormal background
ormalTh 0 UCELL 020102 Measure noise used in the automatic background noise update
d CAC WRFD- ment algorithm. This parameter is used to prevent excess
MOD 020101 Admissi fluctuation of the background noise if the background
UCELL on noise provided by the auto-adaptive background noise
CAC Control update filter is abnormal. The RNC does not update
the background noise based on this parameter when
either of the following conditions is true: (1) The
difference between the unfiltered background noise
and the current background noise is greater than the
threshold for the abnormal background noise. (2) The
difference between the filtered background noise and
the configured value of the "BackgroundNoise"
parameter is greater than or equal to the threshold for
the abnormal background noise.
GUI Value Range: 1~400
Unit: 0.1dB
Actual Value Range: 0.1~40
Default Value: 100
BgnAbn BSC691 ADD WRFD- Load Meaning: Threshold for the abnormal background
ormalTh 0 UCELL 020102 Measure noise used in the automatic background noise update
d CAC WRFD- ment algorithm. This parameter is used to prevent excess
MOD 020101 Admissi fluctuation of the background noise if the background
UCELL on noise provided by the auto-adaptive background noise
CAC Control update filter is abnormal. The RNC does not update
the background noise based on this parameter when
either of the following conditions is true: (1) The
difference between the unfiltered background noise
and the current background noise is greater than the
threshold for the abnormal background noise. (2) The
difference between the filtered background noise and
the configured value of the "BackgroundNoise"
parameter is greater than or equal to the threshold for
the abnormal background noise.
GUI Value Range: 1~400
Unit: 0.1dB
Actual Value Range: 0.1~40
Default Value: 100
8 Counters
9 Glossary
10 Reference Documents