OLPC Enhancement For RTWP Improvement

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 INTRODUCTION
Outer loop power control is a part of the closed loop power control, used to maintain the communication quality at the level required
by the service bearer through adjustment of the SIRtarget.
The SIRtarget needs to be adjusted according to BLER when the UE speed or the multi-path propagation environment changes, so that
the communication quality can remain unaffected. The OLPC method is improved by activating OLPC Enhanced Feature.

Outer Loop Power Control Enhancement:

Legacy Outer Loop Power Control algorithm allows the SIRtarget to quickly increase but slowly decrease when the target BLER is
low. When the channel conditions deteriorate, a large number of consecutive error blocks may occur, and the SIRtarget and
RTWP will increase abruptly. When channel conditions become satisfactory, the SIRtarget decreases slowly. As a result, the cell
uplink power remains high for a long time, wasting uplink power and reducing cell uplink capacity.

Outer Loop Power Control enhancement allows a quick increase or decrease in the SIRtarget, In this case, the enhanced feature
reduces the uplink power waste thus improving RTWP.

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 Trial Benchmark

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 RTWP IMPROVEMENT
After the feature activation, the rate of duration with the Max value of SIR Target Measurement for Different Services(in OLPC)
has decreased. This indicates that the UE transmit power has been reduced.

This results in considerable improvement in the RTWP of the RNC. The overall RTWP on the RNC level is improved by around
1dB.

We have taken Post Eid period for benchmark of the Trial as traffic trend was different before that due to Ramadan.

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 TRAFFIC(CS/PS)
The CS traffic is stable and around the same whereas PS Traffic is on a rising trend since Eid Holidays.

We have taken Post Eid period for benchmark of the Trial as traffic trend was different before that due to Ramadan.

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 CDR(CS/PS)
Improvement observed in the Call Drop Rate(CS/PS) of the RNC after the feature activation.

KPI Pre Post Delta Percentage Improvement

CDR CS 0.35% 0.32% -0.03% -9.04%
CDR PS 0.36% 0.33% -0.02% -6.43%

Stats of 30th/31st July were excluded from Pre Calculations as there was operational issue in Haripur city resulting in degraded KPIs.

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 CSSR(CS/PS)
Improvement observed in the Call Drop Rate(CS/PS) of the RNC after the feature activation.

We have taken Post Eid period for benchmark of the Trial as traffic trend was different before that due to Ramadan.

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 THROUGHPUT(HSxPA)
Improvement observed in the throughput of the RNC especially HSUPA after the feature activation.

We have taken Post Eid period for benchmark of the Trial as traffic trend was different before that due to Ramadan.

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 MOBILITY(HSR) KPIs
The Mobility KPIs(CS IRAT HSR & Soft HO SR) are following stable trend.

We have taken Post Eid period for benchmark of the Trial as traffic trend was different before that due to Ramadan.

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 CELL LEVEL BENCHMARK

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 CELL LEVEL BENCHMARK
The improvement in terms of RTWP/CDR brought about this feature is more visible if we check the cell level KPIs(check b/m 2
cases of ISB city as a reference).

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 CONCLUSION
As seen from the above presentation, the enhancement in Outer Loop Power Control is really useful from optimizing RTWP point
of view. The overall RNC improved by around 1dB whereas the impact is more visible on cell level and varies from case to case. The
decrease in RTWP has a corresponding improvement in other KPIs like CDR/Throughput aswell.

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 Thank You

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