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RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER

Introduction to the feature

The RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature allows the operator to define different BLER targets for:

HSUPA peak rates

HSUPA cell capacity

HSUPA user throughput at cell edge

RAN2302 Benefits

End-user benefits
With this feature, end user benefits from improved throughput on the cell edge.
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Operator benefits
Dynamic BLER improves HSUPA peak rates, HSUPA cell capacity, and HSUPA user throughput at the cell edge. HSUPA multi-
user cell capacity is expected to improve by up to 20% and HSUPA coverage by up to 2 dB.

RAN2302 Functional description

The RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature enables the dynamic adjustment of the block error ratio (BLER) target in the UL
outer loop power control (PC) for optimizing the operating point for the different conditions of the PS HSPA calls. BLER target is
automatically adjusted to achieve the best HSUPA peak data rates and optimize HSUPA cell throughput and coverage.

Operator can define different BLER targets for different conditions:

Low BLER target is applied for those PS bearers, that are able to achieve peak rate close to the bearer maximum.
Moderate BLER target is applied for those PS bearers, which average throughput is low because the application data is
transferred in bursts to minimize the latency in the data transmission.
High BLER target is applied for the PS calls, that are transmitting continuously with low bit rate, to optimize the cell capacity
and improve the end-user throughput on the cell edge.

Outer loop PC of RNC is able to switch between the three BLER target states in according to current bearer bit rate (whether it
is close to the peak rate, burst-like, or continuous low bit rate).

Note:
This feature might increase latency in transferring data when high BLER targets are used.

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For tuning the RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature the following enhancements can be configured:

Evaluation of the HSPA serving cell traffic load while configuring the outer loop PC for the Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature

When the HSPA traffic increases in the cell, it is recommended to stop separation between the bursts-like and the
continuous data and use the high BLER target value of the continuous data also for the bursts-like data. This function is
controlled by the 002:2110 RU40_MAINT_14 PRFILE parameter.

Bearer-specific throughput in the low traffic cell when the Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature is enabled

The high BLER target of the low bit rate continuous uplink data transmission is not used, until the HSPA traffic load is
increased to the high enough level in the cell. The high BLER target value of the continuous-like data transferring bearers is
replaced with the BLER target value used in general when the RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature is not enabled in
the RNC. This function is controlled by the 002:2103 RU40_MAINT_07 PRFILE parameter.

Enhancement of the Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature for the multi PS bearer connections

If this function is activated, the E-DCH bit rate is produced as the aggregated bit rate of the E-DCH MAC-d flows specific bit
rates. Outer loop power control controller decides from the measured E-DCH bit rate the BLER state change from the bursts
or continuous-like data transmission of the E-DCH MAC-d flows to the peak rate data transmission, enabling usage of the
high BLER target values for the E-DCH MAC-d flows. This function is controlled by the DYN_HSPA_BLER_MULTI_RAB
(002:2259) PRFILE parameter.

RAN2302 System impact

Interdependencies between features

This feature requires HSUPA functionality.

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Impact on interfaces
This feature has no impact on interfaces.

Impact on network and network element management tools

This feature has no impact on network management or network element management tools.

Impact on system performance and capacity

This feature has no impact on system performance or capacity.

RAN2302 Reference data

Requirements
Table: Software requirements

RAS IPA-RNC mcRNC Flexi Multiradio Flexi Lite BTS Flexi Multiradio
BTS 10 BTS

RU40 RN7.0 mcRNC3.0 Support not Support not Support not

required required required

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RAS IPA-RNC mcRNC Flexi Multiradio Flexi Lite BTS Flexi Multiradio
BTS 10 BTS

OMS NetAct MSC SGSN MGW UE

RNO 2.0 OSS5.4 CD 3 Support not Support not Support not Support not
required required required required

This feature requires no new or additional hardware.

Alarms
There are no alarms related to this feature.

Measurements and counters

There are no measurements or counters related to this feature.

Key performance indicators

There are no key performance indicators related to this feature.

Parameters

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Table: New parameters introduced by RAN2302

Full name Abbreviated name Managed object

HSUPA Dynamic BLER Enabled HSUPADynBLEREnabled RNFC

Layer1 Continuous BLER target for E-DCH TTI 2 L1ContBLERTrgtEDCH2 RNAC

ms

Retransmissions in Dyn HSUPA BLER for Cont DynHSUPABLERContDataRx2 RNAC

Data 2 ms TTI

Peak rate thr for cont data of Dyn HSUPA BLER 10 DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrC10 RNAC
ms TTI

Peak rate thr for cont data of Dyn HSUPA BLER 2 DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrC2 RNAC
ms TTI

Bursty Period for Dyn HSUPA BLER DynHSUPABurstyPeriod RNAC

Retransmissions in Dyn HSUPA BLER for Cont DynHSUPABLERContiDataRx10 RNAC

Data 10msTTI

Retransmissions in Dyn HSUPA BLER for Peak DynHSUPABLERPeakRateRx RNAC

data

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Full name Abbreviated name Managed object

Retransmissions in Dyn HSUPA BLER for Bursty DynHSUPABLERBurstDataRx RNAC

Data

Window size for FP Frames Measurement DynHSUPABLERFrameWinSiz RNAC

Layer1 Peak Data Rate BLER target for E-DCH L1PeakRateBLERTrgtEDCH RNAC

Layer1 Bursty Data BLER target for E-DCH L1BurstDataBLERTrgtEDCH RNAC

Layer1 Continuous BLER target for E-DCH TTI 10 L1ContBLERTrgtEDCH10 RNAC

ms

Peak rate threshold for bursty data of Dyn HSUPA DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrB RNAC
BLER

Time to trigger Dyn HSUPA BLER Algorithm DynHSUPABLERAlgTrgTime RNAC

Sales information
Table: Sales information

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BSW/ASW SW component License control in network element

BSW RAN -

Activating RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER

Purpose
Follow this procedure to activate this feature.

Before you start

A restart of the RNC and the BTS is not required after the activation of this feature.

This procedure does not cause downtime and the feature can be activated at any time of the day.

Make sure you have access to the following applications:

OMS Element Manager

Application Launcher

Man-machine interface (MMI)

This feature is a part of application software. Usage of the feature is trust based, therefore it is not under license control.

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Procedure

1 Open the OMS Element Manager.

2 Go to the Topology.

3 Expand the ROOT.

4 Expand the RNC object.

4.1 Expand the RNFCs folder.

4.2 Configure the RNFC object:

Select Edit Parameters from the RNFC object.

Enable the feature by setting the HSUPADynBLEREnabled parameter to Enabled.

4.3 Expand the RNACs folder.

4.4 Configure the RNAC object:

Select Edit Parameters from the RNAC object.

If required, define the L1 BLER target for E-DCH MAC-d flow of PS NRT service when TTI=2 ms by setting the
L1ContBLERTrgtEDCH2 parameter.

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If required, define the L1 HARQ retransmissions threshold for the outer loop power control entities dedicated to
the E-DCH 2 ms TTI MAC-d flows of the PS NRT RABs by setting the DynHSUPABLERContDataRx2
parameter.

If required, define the peak rate threshold in relation to UE max data rate when E-DCH TTI=10 ms by setting
the DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrC10 parameter.

If required, define the peak rate threshold in relation to UE max data rate when E-DCH TTI=2 ms by setting the
DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrC2 parameter.

If required, define the minimum period which the BLER state must be bursty before outer loop power control
state can be changed from the bursty BLER state to continuous BLER state, or from peak or continuous BLER
state to bursty BLER state by setting the DynHSUPABurstyPeriod parameter.

If required, define the L1 HARQ retransmissions threshold for the outer loop power control entities dedicated to
the E-DCH 10 ms TTI MAC-d flows of the PS NRT RABs by setting the DynHSUPABLERContDataRx10
parameter.

If required, define the L1 HARQ retransmissions threshold for the outer loop power control entities dedicated to
the E-DCH MAC-d flows of the PS NRT RABs by setting the DynHSUPABLERPeakRateRx and
DynHSUPABLERBurstDataRx parameters.

If required, define the size of the sliding averaging window for FP frames measurement of the E-DCH FP by
setting the DynHSUPABLERFrameWinSiz parameter.

If required, define the Layer1 Peak Data Rate BLER target for E-DCH by setting the
L1PeakRateBLERTrgtEDCH parameter.

If required, define the Layer1 Bursty Data BLER target for E-DCH by setting the
L1BurstDataBLERTrgtEDCH parameter.

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If required, define the Layer1 Continuous BLER target for E-DCH TTI 10 ms by setting the
L1ContBLERTrgtEDCH10 parameter.

If required, define the Peak rate threshold for bursty data of Dyn HSUPA BLER by setting the
DynHSUPABLERMaxRateThrB parameter.

If required, define the Time to trigger Dyn HSUPA BLER Algorithm by setting the
DynHSUPABLERAlgTrgTime parameter.

Further information:

This feature can be further tuned with the following PRFILE parameters:

002:2110 RU40_MAINT_14

Default value of this parameter is 0H.

Recommended value of this parameter is 47H, that is, the 1st bit is 1 and fro the bits from 2nd to 7th it is 23H.

002:2103 RU40_MAINT_07

Default value of this parameter is 0H.

Recommended value for this parameter is 6H.

DYN_HSPA_BLER_MULTI_RAB (002:2259)

The default value of this parameter is 0.

Recommended value of this parameter is 0.

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Note:
For more information on functions controlled by 002:2110 RU40_MAINT_14 , 002:2103 RU40_MAINT_07 , and
DYN_HSPA_BLER_MULTI_RAB (002:2259) PRFILE parameters, see RAN2302 Functional description.

Verifying RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER

Purpose
Follow this procedure to verify that this feature has been activated successfully.

Procedure

1 When feature is activated, then RRM will provide a set of HSUPA BLER Target values for the
following different conditions:

1.1 HSUPA peak rates

1.2 HSUPA cell capacity

1.3 HSUPA user throughput at cell edge to User Plane for Dynamic HSUPA BLER operation.

Testing the RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER

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Purpose

Note:
Follow the procedure below to verify that the activation of the RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER feature has been
successful.

Note:
This is an example of the verification. Do not use it for the feature as such in live network. The configuration and
parameter settings described are only examples and they can vary in different networks.

Required test environment and settings

1 RNC

1 NodeB

1 MGW

1 MSC/MSS

1 SGSN

1 GGSN
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3–10 UEs

Iub interface monitoring tool (optional)

Preconditions

Following optional feature and related licence keys need to be switched on in the RNC for the test case:

HSUPA feature

Parameter settings:

Set the value of the following RNFC parameter:

HSUPADynBLEREnabled = Enabled

Performance monitoring:

HSUPA peak rates

HSUPA cell capacity

HSUPA user throughput at cell edge

Optionally monitor:

UE´s throughput and UL Power during testing

UL BLER either from UE or Iub log

OLPC SIR target from Iub log

Procedure
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1 Establish several simultaneous UL FTP/UDP transfers (minimum 3).

When testing peak throughput, only one UE can also be used.

2 Monitor UE´s throughput and UL Power increase during testing.

3 Repeat test with Feature on/off and in good and bad radio coverage.

Note:
You can have some UE´s performing ping, RTT should stay the same when changing feature on/off.

4 Optionally monitor UL BLER either from UE or Iub log and OLPC SIR target from Iub log.

Expected outcome

HSUPA peak rates should increase based on UE throughput with feature on/off.

HSUPA cell capacity should increase according cell level counters with feature on/off.

HSUPA user throughput increase/decrease should be visible when compared feature on/off in bad and good radio
conditions.

Note:
Throughput can increase or decrease depending on parameterization and testing conditions.
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Optionally check also:

UL BLER from UE/Iub log. This should change according the UL BLER target parameterization.

OLPC SIR target from Iub log. BLER is handled with OLPC SIR target.

UE´s UL power. This can be monitored with RNW Online Monitor.

Deactivating RAN2302: Dynamic HSUPA BLER

Purpose
Follow this procedure to deactivate this feature.

Procedure

1 Open the OMS Element Manager.

2 Go to the Topology.

3 Expand the ROOT.

4 Expand the RNC object.

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5 Expand the RNFCs folder.

6 Configure the RNFC object:

6.1 Select Edit Parameters from the RNFC object.

6.2 Set the HSUPADynBLEREnabled parameter to Disabled.

Further information

Note:
A restart of the RNC and the BTS is not required after the deactivation of this feature.

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