12 - JIP Huawei - Small Cell Trial PDF

JIP Huawei – Small Cell Trial
3G trial phase 1 results

Maciek Urbanowicz – Krzysztof Konowalski – Sébastien Béchet –
Ferdinand Tra OLN/RNM
Major contribution : Wang Xuefeng (Huawei), Sergiu Voica (OMD),

Sergiu Mihailov (OMD), Sergiu Gorincioi (OMD), Vincent Diascorn (OLN),
Louis Lou (Huawei), Ruslan Vilcu (OMD), Sergiu Eni (OMD),
20th June 2013,

Agenda
Part 1 Trial presentation

Part 2 3G Trial results
Part 3 a focus on the offload
Part 4 Optimisation works
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Huawei 3G small cells trial starts in March 2013 in Chisinau
in Orange Moldova network
Main Objectives
– Evaluating small cell offload efficiency in a loaded area
– Evaluating the robustness of IuB architecture
– Studying macro-small cell interference & innovative solutions
– Comparing WiFi & 3G RF Performance
– Studying new wireless backhaul solutions (eband, sub 6GHz)
– Optimising the small cell offload efficiency thanks to parameter settings
– Assessing traffic geolocation tools interest
March April May June July August

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
Reference Period
Validation
3G trial & testings
3G optimisation
Bakchaul Testings
Geolocalisation Tools
Atomcell product

Huawei is able to provide Micro 3G based on IuB
architecture which technically copes with high capacity
needs
BTS 3902E
MaxPower : 5W per carrier
2 carrier supported (DC HSDPA)
Capacity : 192 CE / 128 HSPA users
no WiFi
Product available for deployment
Small Cell
Iub
Iub
4 Small Cell interne France Télécom - Orange

Two Area Chosen by OMD cope with objective, both clusters are loaded,
one cluster needs coverage improvement
‘Coverage’ Area
high indoor trafic inside
buildings, medium/bad
macro coverage
‘Offload’ Area
high indoor trafic inside
buildings, good macro
coverage
OMD : data hungry customers Macro networks is loaded

Traffic ID : Mobile for fixed internet congested cells examples on the target area
Indoor usage with USB dongle / Few mobility #HSPA user connected at BH : up to 45/47
Few DC HSDPA terminals U_CHI139_F3_S3 & U_CHI119_F2_S3

Two clusters of 16 small cells have been added in the area on top of existing
macro network (38 macrocells) in order to offload data & voice traffic
‘Coverage’ Cluster
4 Small cells with external Antenna used
at 9/10m heights
Small cell Max Tx Power: 33 dBm (2W)

1574 – Omni 2dBi
1575 – Omni 2dBi
1576 – Bi-Directionnal 15dBi (azimuth
235°)
1577 – Directionnal 6 dBi (azimuth 180 °)
‘Offload’ Cluster
4 Small cells with External Antenna used
at 9/10m heights
Small cell max Tx Power : 33dBm (2W)

1578 – Directionnal 6 dBi (azimuth 90°)
1579 – Omni 2dBi
1580 – Omni 2dBi
1581 – Omni 2 dBi
Agenda


Huawei BTS3902E was stable and confirms the robustness
of IuB architecture in shared frequencies configuration.
network configuration
cs/ps f3
IuB small cell seen as macro network extension
cs/ps (simple introduction strategy has been used)
cs/ps f2
small cells can be reselected
SHO between Small cells and macro vice versa
cs/ps cs/ps f1 No Load Balancing between Small cells and macro
Small cells QoS Macro cluster QoS equivalent after small

99.8% 99.9% cell introduction
99.5% 96.7%
0.2% sho ifho
isho
99.8% 99.4%
2G
sm sm
CSSR & DCR 0.2% 0.17%
Mobility Speech off on sm sm
Speech off on
No mobility issue with small cells Huawei product and good CSSR Speech DCR Speech
CS QoS (CSSR & DCR) which highlight good stability.
average value for a week of observation on 5 nodeB
DCR/CSSR averaged per cell per day
Small cells introduction enables better user experience in both clusters
thanks to load spread over more cells and radio condition improvement.
Average Drive Stats per cluster
off on off on
50% 70%
6 9 6 10
Mbps
Mbps
Mbps
Mbps FTP DL
Offload cluster Coverage cluster
-75
-72 -76 -70 CPICH
dBm dBm
Mbps dBm
RSCP
Improvement of CQI : +1.5

Lower UE Tx Power : +5 dB
Static Measurements on offload cluster (Max) HSDPA throughput KPIs

off on off on off on
280% 20% / by 9 2.2
26 3.6 176 1.6 1.7 Mbps
9 Mbps
3 Mbps ms 20 Mbps Mbps
Mbps Mbps ms
Macro Macro Small
FTP DL FTP UL ping rtt Only Only cells
daily stats for 2 weeks

By introducting Small cells inside macro network, UL-DL power imbalance
effect probability will increase severely. This phenomenon could degrade
overall UL performance & capacity (small cells & macros)
If the distance between macro & small cells is short (eg offload), high number of
terminals on small cells will create UL interference to macro.
Lots of macro terminal can be closer to small cells but not enought to trigger DL
mobility, this will create high UL interference to small cell

Having adaptive interference management solution to mitigate power
imbalance bad effect on performance is key. Static solution does not suit.
Huawei Interference Management solution :
– Adding UL Noise to small cell receiver to reduce coverage gap between UL & DL
– Pros : Less macro UEs will interfere the small cell receiver (high performance)
– Cons : All small cells UEs will transmit at a higher power potentially creating interference at macro
network
UE1 throughput UE1 throughput
(small cells) (small cells)
cell from UE2 -61% -32%
coverage UE1 3.6 3.4
Mbps 1.4 Mbps 2.3
clusters Mbps Mbps
wo with wo with
UE1 starts UL transfer UE2 UE2 UE2 UE2
UE2 starts UL transfer
Monitoring UE2 throughput 6dB Rx desensitisation
mitigates power imbalance effect
Power imbalance illustration : varying a lot, up to 20 dB power imbalance possible for

HSUPA services (for some specific radio conditions)
Side effect possible on HSDPA performance in SHO area (HS-DPCCH reception may
be affected by OLPC decrease order)
Agenda


Traffic in small cells are equally distributed which highlights that they have been position
at a optimised place. Macro cells have heterogeneous traffic distribution because part
of them are linked to coverage rather than traffic
Reference Macro Only : from 5 to 15th of

March
Reference Macro and Small: from 1 to 15th of
April
Traffic quite evenly distributed over all small
cells (e.g.no 2-3 cells that take 80% of traffic)
Huge difference in HSDPA traffic carried by
different macro cells included in the study

Small cells have offloaded about 20% of macrocell traffic. A traffic increase
has been noticed after the introduction of small cells (25%) which are linked to
coverage & quality improvement.
Daily stats confirm a certain shift

200 GB
of traffic from macro to small
cells (offload) and an increase the macro only
total traffic in the area !
Around 20% of the total traffic is

taken by small cells!, which is
quite a good result, considering
that there are 16 small cells and macro only
38 macro cells, the difference in

output power and antenna height

Special use case on 5 more offloaded cells : the use cases confirms a potential
deployment of small cells to offload macro cells
A decrease in traffic can be noticed on 5 (out of 38) macro
cells – these cells are offloaded by 50-60%
The TOP5 cells are not the most loaded cells through. At
BH they take around 0,5-1 Gbytes, while all 38 cells take 1.5 GB
around 30-40 Gbytes
macro only
Not only TOP5 cells got offloaded, however on the most
loaded cells % of offload is unnoticeable but can be seen in
the traffic taken by small cells
A slight increase in total traffic observed (especially daily)
Small cells introduced quality improvement in some
areas
Additional capacity has been provided
macro only

Performance improvement brought by small cell at busy hours is confirmed by
much better HSDPA user throughput achieved by small cells.
Performance of the small cells

much better than macro cells
Much better HSDPA throughputs
per user in small cells, possibly due
to:
Coverage improvement
Lower load
Significant offload can be noticed
on TOP5 cells – cell load from 25%
to 10%

Agenda


Introduction and trial objectives
Main goal is to improve the offload efficiency brought by small cells on

macro network
Try the different mechanisms available in Huawei solution to apply and

control offload of macro cells with small cells
Trial was planned in 4 phases including parameters changes, drive tests,

KPIs observations and parameters fine tunning

Optimisation trial phases
Phase 1: P-
P-CPICH power parameter setting
– Reduce the P-CPICH power to benefit from more power for data part
– Reduce the coverage of small cells in Downlink (for the signaling part) without
impact on performance
Phase 2: Disable the InterRAT mobility for PS on small cells
– Ensure that data traffic is maintained on 3G when you are under small cell
coverage
– Better data performance, in an area where macro network is here.
Phase 3: Balancing traffic to small cells thanks to idle mode parameters
– Artificially increase the EcNo level of small cells compared to macro cells to
favor reselection to small cells and disfavor to macro
Phase 4: Balancing traffic between small cells and macro cells thanks to connected mode
parameters with features DRD and LDR
– Activate in two steps offload mechanisms from small cells to macro cells (in
case too big traffic in small cells), and offload mechanisms from macro cells
to small cells.

Carriers and handovers strategy before optimisation phase
micro-cell as macro-cell – the same set of parameters

current OMD carriers strategy:
micro on F1+F2 (all carriers are shared between R99/HSDPA)
macro on F1 + F2 +F3 (all carriers are shared between R99/HSDPA)
The “preferred carrier” F1 and F2, F3 is barred.
Co-sector
Inter_freq HO (F1-
F2-F3)
F3 R99+HSPA
blind blind
F2 DRD based on ENU R99+HSPA R99+HSPA LDR based on ENU

blind No DRD , no LDR blind
LDR based on ENU
DRD based on Power
F1 R99+HSPA R99+HSPA
Intra_freq HO Co-sector
F1-F2 / F2-F2 Inter_freq
HO (F1-F2)
Co-sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2-F3) DRD

load balancing and LDR load HO
With blind HO = true
Intra-freq HO F1-F1, F2-F2

Carriers and handovers strategy after optimisation phase
micro-cell configured to maximise offload of macro layer
added interfreq relation between macro and micro layer with activated MBDR
(macro ->micro) and blind LDR (micro -> macro)
All carriers unbarred
Co-sector
Inter_freq HO (F1-
F2-F3)
F3 R99+HSPA
MBDR , LDR
blind blind
F2 DRD based on ENU R99+HSPA R99+HSPA LDR based on ENU

blind No DRD , no LDR blind
LDR based on ENU
DRD based on Power
F1 R99+HSPA R99+HSPA
Intra_freq HO Co-sector
F1-F2 / F2-F2 Inter_freq
HO (F1-F2)
Co-sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2-F3) blind

DRD load balancing and blind LDR
Inter -sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2 <->

F3) blind LDR micro->macro and
MBDR macro-> micro
Intra-freq HO F1-F1, F2-F2

Phase 1 – PCPICH power
Parameters changed
changed:
Parameter name Current value Proposed value Comments

actual) actual)
PCPICHPower -23dBm - 21dBm for small cells
These modifications done on 06/05 and drive test of the area of coverage of the small cell
to allow comparison of performance between -23 & -21dBm (need to do similar drive tests
compared to previous tests). Change was fallback to value 23dBm after drive test. As
showed on next slide due to worse coverage performance is a little bit decreased so in this
case of small cells implementation it’s not recommended.

Phase 1 – conclusions PCPICH 1/2
After change 23dBm->21dBm almost no impact. Based on drive test results only small
degradation for RSCP and EcNo in area of bad coverage
PCPICH_PWR=23dBm RSCP PCPICH_PWR=21dBm
Ec/No
Ec/No

Phase 1 – conclusions PCPICH 2/2
Small degradation of radio condition cause a bit worse throughput in the area of bad
covearge
PCPICH_PWR=23dBm PCPICH_PWR=21dBm

Phase 2 – interRAT mobility
Parameters changed
changed: Actions done 07/05
actual) actual)
INTERRATR99THD2DRSCP -112dBm -115dBm for small cells
INTERRATR99THD2FRSCP -109dBm -112dBm for small cells
USEDFREQR99THDRSCP -109dBm -112dBm for small cells
INTERRATHTHD2DRSCP -112dBm -115dBm for small cells
INTERRATHTHD2FRSCP -109dBm -112dBm for small cells
USEDFREQHTHDRSCP -109dBm -112dBm for small cells
INTERRATR99THD2DECNO -16dB -24dB for small cells
INTERRATR99THD2FECNO -14dB -22dB for small cells
USEDFREQHTHDECN0 -14dB -22dB for small cells
INTERRATHTHD2DECNO -16dB -24dB for small cells
INTERRATHTHD2FECNO -14dB -22dB for small cells
USEDFREQHTHDECN0 -14dB -22dB for small cells

Phase 3 – mobility in IDLE mode
Parameters changed
changed:
actual) actual)
IDLEQOFFSET2SN for small 0dB +6dB
cells in its relationship with
macro cells (intra and interfreq)
IDLEQOFFSET2SN for macro 0dB -6dB
cells in its relationship with small
cells (intra and interfreq)
Actions done 15/05: after change was discovered Ue instead of moving from Macro to
Micro it is going to GSM (due to SsearchRat = -14 dB, IdleSintersearch = -10dB
IdleQoffset2sn=-6). After investigation as second step, 18th of May SsearchRat was set to
0 to have QQualmeas <-18 to trigger measurement.
results presented on general KPIs at the end of presentations

Phase 4a - LDR activation micro -> macro
Parameters changed
changed 20/05

actual) actual)
Activation of Blind HO for No interfreq relation between Add interfreq relation micro->macro with
intersite LDR micro -> macro micro->macro specific settings:
BLINDHOFLAG=TRUE, MBDRFLAG=FALSE,
DRDORLDRFLAG=TRUE, INTERNCELLQUALREQFLAG=FALSE,
INTERFREQADJSQHCS=20, CLBFLAG=FALSE;
UCELLLDR: DLLDRFIRSTACTION=InterFreqLDHO,
UCELLLDR:
DLLDRSECONDACTION=CodeAdj,
DLLDRFIRSTACTION=CodeAdj,
DLLDRTHIRDACTION=BERateRed,
DLLDRSECONDACTION=BERateRed,
ULLDRFIRSTACTION=InterFreqLDHO,
DLLDRTHIRDACTION=InterFreqLDHOULLDR
ULLDRSECONDACTION=BERateRed,
FIRSTACTION=BERateRed,
ULLDRSECONDACTION=InterFreqLDHO,
No significant change observe due to lack of load on micro cell

Phase 4b – MBDR activation macro -> micro
Parameter changed 23/05 Impacted object
ADD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ: PSR99_INTERFREQ-1&PSHSPA_INTERFREQ-1 All MacrorFreq 3rd Carrier
SET UNBMPARA:PerfEnhanceSwitch=PERFENH_MBDR_LOADCOND_OPT_SWITCH-1 RNC
SET UCORRMPARA: PerfEnhanceSwitch=PERFENH_MBDR_TARCELLSEL_OPT_SWITCH-1 RNC
MOD UINTERFREQNCEL: MBDRFlag=TRUE All InterFreq neighb
SET UDRD: BasedOnMeasHRetryDRDSwitch=ON; RNC

SET UMCDRD: BlindDrdExceptHRetrySwitch=ON RNC
MOD UCELLACCESSSTRICT: IdleCellBarred=NOT_BARRED; Cell 31199

Phase 4b – MBDR activation macro -> micro
MOD UCELLALGOSWITCH: NBMUlCacAlgoSelSwitch=ALGORITHM_SECOND; Cell 31199
MBDR started finally after UL CAC activation – problem indicated to Huawei
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ: InterFreqUlMbdrTrigThreshold=10, InterFreqDlMbdrTrigThreshold=10; Cell 31199

MOD UCELLACCESSSTRICT :IdleCellBarred=NOT_BARRED; All Macro cells
ADD UCELLMCDRD: BlindDrdExceptHRetrySwitch=ON, TargetFreqThdRscp=-110, TargetFreqThdEcN0=-15; All Macro cells
MOD UCELLALGOSWITCH : NBMUlCacAlgoSelSwitch=ALGORITHM_SECOND; All Macro cells

Phase 4c – parameters fine tunning
ADD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ: InterFreqMeasQuantity=CPICH_RSCP Cell 31199

MOD UCELL: PCPICHPower=260 Cells 45791, 45794

MOD UCELL: PCPICHPower=260 All microcells Capacity
cluster

MOD UCELL: PCPICHPower=260 All Micro cells Coverage
cluster
MOD UINTERFREQNCELL: IdleQoffset2sn=9/IdleQoffset2sn=-9/9 All micro<>macro
neighbors
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ:, InterFreqUlMbdrTrigThreshold=10, InterFreqDlMbdrTrigThreshold=10; All macrocells
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ:InterFreqReportMode=PERIODICAL_REPORTING, Cell 31199

InterFreqMeasQuantity=CPICH_EC/NO

Phase 4c – parameters fine tunning - MBDR
MBDR Attempts and Success

Phase 4c – parameters fine tunning – IDLE
RRC Attempts and Success
HSDPA and DCH mean Ue

Phase 4c – parameters fine tunning step 2
Parameter changed 10/06 Impacted

object
ADD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ: InterFreqReportMode=EVENT_TRIGGER, InterFreqMeasQuantity=CPICH_RSCP Cell 31199
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ:InterFreqUlMbdrTrigThreshold=80, InterFreqDlMbdrTrigThreshold=80; most impacted
macro cells
Parameter changed 12/06 Impacted

object
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ:PSR99_INTERFREQ-1&PSHSPA_INTERFREQ-1 All macro cells
MOD UINTERFREQNCELL:MBDRFlag=NOT_SEND most impacted

neighbor relation
MOD UCELLMBDRINTERFREQ:InterFreqUlMbdrTrigThreshold=50, InterFreqDlMbdrTrigThreshold=50; All macro cells

Phase 4c – parameters fine tunning step 2
MBDR Attempts and Success

RAB Establishment failures MBDR Attempts and Success
Micro cluster KPIs analysis - traffic
interRAT Qoffset MBDR CPICH Final

off +/-6 26dBm, setting
qoffest
+/- 9

Micro cluster KPIs analysis – CSSR, DCR

qoffest
+/- 9

Micro cluster KPIs analysis – throughput/users

qoffest
+/- 9
Holidays in
Moldova

Optimisation works synthesis
Main issue: due to regulatory constraints radiated power from small cells in Moldova was not
high enough to cover significant number of users and offload of macro cells. Due to this fact
small cell locations seems to be crucial to use small cell in effective way. Offload efficiency
could have been significantly improved in a more congested cells.
Optimisation does not bring significant offload increase of the macro traffic in the meaning of
volume but for small cell cluster in percentage traffic increased by around 60% and number of
users by around 20%.
Performance KPI after optimisation is maintained on good level, DCR data is not degraded
even after aggressive changes of IDLE or MBDR parameters. During MBDR fine tunning
CSSR and traffic was impacted but solved at the end and restored to acceptable values.
Load balancing features operational usage confirmed in the field but with bugs for MBDR
indicated which will be passed to Huawei (activation of UL CAC needed or keeping RSCP for
interFreq measurements trigger).

Trial preliminary
conclusions & next steps
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Conclusions
This first phase trial highlights that small cells can be considered as one of the
solution to offload a part of data & voice services in the network.
Thanks to lower load, small cells user experience is 30% higher than on macro
network (this load is explained by coverage limited solutions). There is then a room
for optimisation to capture more traffic on small cells.
About 20% of 36 macrocells traffic (data) has been taking over by the 18 small
cells. This highlights that small cell can offload macro network if well positioned
IuB architecture enables simple introduction of small cells on the network with no
degradation of QoS for voice & data.
Phase 2 remains important to confirm first statement obtained in Ciocana area

environment (inbuilding traffic with very low mobility).

Next steps
ThisE2E activities on micro BTS3902e are still ongoing:

Wireless backhaul solution are on going (eband solution & radwin in
sub 6GHz)
Traffic geolocalisation tools will be technically assessed
Huawei is proposing new product (1W, WiFi integrated, active antenna)

which will be used in a second phase of the trial:
Focus on Active antenna will be done (possibility to choose antenna
beamwidth to be more or less directionnal)
3G tests will carry on to complete existing work on power imbalance
effects
SON testings will be performed (deployment easiness)
Wifi vs 3G coverage & performance comparison
additional optimisation works to confirm first conclusions

Thank you
Analysis QoS Voice at Busy Hour on macro & micro
Small cell cluster Offload cluster
CSSR Speech CSSR Speech
reference Trial observations reference Trial observations
DCR Speech DCR Speech
reference Trial observations reference Trial observations

Input data for the analysis of offload – two clusters of 16 cells are to offload some of 38
macro cells.
Cluster 1 (capacity)
– Small sites serving the cluster
– U_CHI_1578, U_CHI_1579, U_CHI_1580, U_CHI_1581
– Macro cells serving the cluster -table
Cluster 2 (coverage) Site
Small Cell Antenna Model
Antenna
Gain
SC Small
Cell SC Macro Cell Cell ID (MC) Cell ID (MC)
Cell ID
(MC)
272 31391 31394 31397
– Small sites serving the cluster 286 32302 32305 32308
U_CHI_1574 Kathrein-80010111 2 dBi 508 278 32301 32304 32307
– U_CHI_1574, U_CH 375 33841 33844 33845
288 31393 31396 31399
– I_1575, U_CHI_1576, U_CHI_1557
286 32302 32305 32308
– Macro cells serving the cluster - table 278 32301 32304 32307
U_CHI_1575 Kathrein-80010111 2 dBi 492
Reference Macro Only : from 5 to 15th of March 272
505
31391
31833
31394
31836
31397
31839
Reference Macro and Small: from 1 to 15th of April 272 31391 31394 31397
278 32301 32304 32307
Only HSDPA network has been taken into consideration to study the offload U_CHI_1576 Kathrein-742211 15.2 dBi 500
286
280
32302
31392
32305
31395
32308
31398
491 30121 30124 30127
Both capacity and coverage clusters were not studied separately 288 31393 31396 31399
There are 16 cells (8 sites) in the small cells clusters, 15 macro cells covering 288 31393 31396 31399
and 24 macro cells covering - the total number of macro cells is 38 U_CHI_1577 Kathrein-738445 6.5 dBi 504 278 32301 32304 32307
286 32302 32305 32308
272 31391 31394 31397
282 32972 32975 32978

272 31391 31394 31397
U_CHI_1578 Kathrein-738445 6.5 dBi 290
291 61191 61194 61197
283 31193 31196 31199
283 31193 31196 31199

291 61191 61194 61197
282 32972 32975 32978
272 31391 31394 31397
283 31193 31196 31199

280 31392 31395 31398
283 31193 31196 31199

U_CHI_1581 Kathrein-80010111 2 dBi 277 280 31392 31395 31398
291 61191 61194 61197
Additionally, cell 33847 appears to be impacted by the small cells.

5 cells significantly impacted (in terms of offloaded traffic in %) by
small cells:
31397
31398
31839
32307
33847
Power Imbalance effect illustrated
Methodology (which could be imp:

– Monitoring UE Tx Power over drive tests (macro+small cells) and take sample
before and after 1A event.
UE Tx power
event 1A Almost no measurable impact on
mobility KPIs
too high power rise : decrease of QoS
to high power decrease can lead to capacity
threat
time
Coverage cluster – UETxpower difference:
Micro to Macro mobility : from -20.5 dB to 19.4 dB (before and after 1A event)
Macro to Micro mobility : from -18.35 dB to 19 dB (before and after 1A event)
Offload cluster – UETxpower difference:
Micro to Macro mobility : from -12.5 dB to 0 dB (before and after 1A event)
Macro to Micro mobility : from -8 dB to 16 dB (before and after 1A event)

Effect of heterogeneous network on HSDPA Performance in SHO area
(small cells – macro). The impact will be evaluated in a second phase.
HS-DPCCH quality is key

to receive DL data
In SHO small cell & macro,

there is a risk on the
quality on HSDPCCH
linked that can affect DL
low throughput throughput
In SHO condition, UE will receive power up/down order from both macro & small cells. UE always takes the
best quality link and will adapt its power accordingly. When small cell UL quality is good, UTRAN will ask UE
to reduce its dpcch power. hs-dpcch power is linked with dpcch power (betahs gain factor). hs-dpcch needs
to be decoded by macro network while dpcch power decrease is linked to small cell. This behaviour can
affect strongly the HSDPA performance if UL/DL power imbalance between small cell & macro is high
(coverage extension use case typically)

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JIP Huawei – Small Cell Trial

3G trial phase 1 results

Major contribution : Wang Xuefeng (Huawei), Sergiu Voica (OMD),

20th June 2013,

Part 1 Trial presentation

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March April May June July August

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OMD : data hungry customers Macro networks is loaded

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Small cell Max Tx Power: 33 dBm (2W)

Small cell max Tx Power : 33dBm (2W)

Part 1 Trial presentation

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Small cells QoS Macro cluster QoS equivalent after small

Improvement of CQI : +1.5

Static Measurements on offload cluster (Max) HSDPA throughput KPIs

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Power imbalance illustration : varying a lot, up to 20 dB power imbalance possible for

Part 1 Trial presentation

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Reference Macro Only : from 5 to 15th of

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Daily stats confirm a certain shift

total traffic in the area !

Around 20% of the total traffic is

38 macro cells, the difference in

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Performance of the small cells

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Part 1 Trial presentation

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Main goal is to improve the offload efficiency brought by small cells on

Try the different mechanisms available in Huawei solution to apply and

Trial was planned in 4 phases including parameters changes, drive tests,

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micro-cell as macro-cell – the same set of parameters

F2 DRD based on ENU R99+HSPA R99+HSPA LDR based on ENU

Co-sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2-F3) DRD

Intra-freq HO F1-F1, F2-F2

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F2 DRD based on ENU R99+HSPA R99+HSPA LDR based on ENU

Co-sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2-F3) blind

Inter -sector Inter_freq HO (F1-F2 <->

Intra-freq HO F1-F1, F2-F2

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Parameter name Current value Proposed value Comments

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results presented on general KPIs at the end of presentations

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Parameter name Current value Proposed value Comments

No significant change observe due to lack of load on micro cell

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SET UNBMPARA:PerfEnhanceSwitch=PERFENH_MBDR_LOADCOND_OPT_SWITCH-1 RNC

SET UCORRMPARA: PerfEnhanceSwitch=PERFENH_MBDR_TARCELLSEL_OPT_SWITCH-1 RNC

MOD UINTERFREQNCEL: MBDRFlag=TRUE All InterFreq neighb