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WCDMA Power Control Principle: Huawei Confidential. All Rights Reserved
WCDMA Power Control Principle: Huawei Confidential. All Rights Reserved
Downlink channel power control is to overcome fast fading and the interferences
of adjacent cells.
Power control must be used in CDMA system to ensure every user transmit
by minimum power and the network capacity can get maximum.
The purpose of inner loop power control of the WCDMA system is to maintain
a certain signal-to-interference ratio of transmission signal power when the
signals reach the receiving end.
Power control can well overcome the influences of unfavorable factors such as
fast fading, slow fading on radio channels
In a word, the purpose of power control is to ensure the QoS with minimum
power in the CDMA system.
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Power control classification
Purpose
Under the FDD mode, fast fading of the uplink channel is unrelated to
fast fading of the downlink channel.
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Open Loop Power Control Overview
In the range of a cell, signal fading caused by fast fading is usually more
serious than that caused by propagation loss. Therefore, open loop
power control is applied only at the beginning of connection setup,
generally in setting the initial power value.
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Open Loop Power Control of PRACH
The random access procedure of PRACH is shown in above figure: UE transmit a
preamble using the selected uplink access slot, signature, and preamble transmission
power. After that ,UTARN will response AI if the preamble is received. Then the UE will
transmit the message part if the AI is received. But, if UE does not receive the AI from
UTRAN in p-p period, a next preamble will be transmitted. The process wont stop until
the AI received by UE.
AICH access
slots RX at UE
PRACH access
slots TX at UE
One access slot
t
p-a
t
p-m
t
p-p
Pre-
amble
Pre-
amble
Message part
Acq.
Ind.
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Open Loop Power Control of PRACH
The initial value of PRACH power is set through open loop power control
Preamble_Initial_Power = PCPICH DL TX power CPICH_RSCP + UL
interference + Constant Value
Parameters explanation
The power ramp step could be greater so that the possibility which the
preamble message can be received correctly will be higher
Parameters explanation
Comments
Because there is not power ramp in the initial DL DPCCH, the initial power
should be satisfied with the requirements. Therefore, this value can be
greater than the one from simulation to ensure the success ratio
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Open loop power control of DL DPCCH
Application scenarios
1. CCCH : RRC Connection Request
Open loop power
control of DPCCH
5. Downlink Synchronisation
UE
Node B
Serving RNS
Serving
RNC
DCH - FP
Allocate RNTI
Select L1 and L2
parameters
RRC RRC
NBAP NBAP
3. Radio Link Setup Response
NBAP NBAP
2. Radio Link Setup Request
RRC RRC
7. CCCH : RRC Connection Set up
Start RX
description
Start TX
description
4. ALCAP Iub Data Transport Bearer Setup
RRC
RRC
9. DCCH : RRC Connection Setup Complete
6. Uplink Synchronisation
NBAP
NBAP
8. Radio Link Restore Indication
DCH - FP
DCH - FP
DCH - FP
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Open loop power control of UL DPCCH
References explanation
Comments
the open loop power control can decided the initial power, but its still inaccurate
For WCDMA-FDD system, the uplink fading is not related to the downlink
one because of the big frequency interval of them
Therefore, the path loss and interference estimated by downlink can not reflect
the one in uplink completely. But, the close loop power control can solve this
problem
Can convergence the transmission power of uplink and downlink very fast, and
decrease interference in system.
The receiver which get the TPC will adjust the transmission power by
algorithms. The inner loop power control can convergence the
estimated SIR to SIR target
The principle for I nner-loop power control
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Inner-loop power control
No soft handover
Soft handover
Comments
in the last situation, the PCA decides how the TPC_cmd are combined.
The PCA has two methods. UTRAN decides which one is used.
TPC
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Uplink-inner loop power control
If TPC0TPC_cmd= -1
If TPC1TPC_cmd= 1
PCA1
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Uplink-inner loop power control
Comments
If one Wi is 0, TPC_cmd is -1
Only one TPC is received in one time slot. The power control can be done once by
each 5 time slots. Each frame is divided 3 groups with 5 time slots. In the first 4
time slots, the TPC_cmds are 0, which means the power does not change. In the
5th time slot, the TPC_cmd can be achieved by the following rules:
If all the TPC are 0, the TPC_cmd is -1 and the transmission will decrease 1dB;
If all the TPC are 1, the TPC_cmd is 1 and the transmission will increase 1dB;
Otherwise, TPC_cmd=0.
TPC RX TPC_cmd
0000 0 0000 -1
1111 1 0000 1
else 0000 0
PCA2
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Uplink-inner loop power control
Assume the each final TPC_cmd from N RLS are TPC_tempii = 1,2......N
the TPC_cmd in fifth time slot can get by the following ruls
Mathematic average for N TPC_temps. If it is greater than 0.5,
TPC_cmd=1. If it is less than -0.5, TPC_cmd=-1, otherwise TPC_cmd=0
PCA2
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Uplink-inner loop power control
Application scenarios
Then, UE can generate TPC by comparing the estimated SIR to target SIR
If the estimated SIR is greater than the target one, TPC is 0 (decrease power)
If the estimated SIR is less than the target one, TPC is 1 (increase power)
When UE is in soft handover, two power control modes can be used, which
is decided by DPC_mode:
DPC_MODE1UE will transmit the same TPC in every three time slot
As for responding to the receiving TPC, UTRAN will adjust the downlink
power of DPCCH/DPDCH. But the transmission power can not higher than
Maximum_DL_Power, and not less than Minimum_DL_Power neither.
Power control in different state
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Downlink Power Balance
Therefore, the outer-loop power control can adjust the SIR to get a stable
BLER in the changeable radio environment
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Uplink outer loop power control
NodeB UE
Transmit TPC
Measure and compare SIR
Inner-loop
Set SIRtar
get the good quality
service data
Out loop
RNC
Measure received
data and
compare BLER in
the TrCH
Set BLERtar
10-100Hz
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NodeB
set SIRtar
Transmit TPC
Measure and compare SIR
Measure and compare BLER
Outer loop
Inner loop
L1
L3
10-100Hz
1500Hz
Downlink outer loop power control
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outer loop power control
SI R target adjustment step
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et BLERt
et BLERt BLERmeas
tep SIRAdjustS oefficient SIRAdjustc SIRtar
arg
arg
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Outer loop power control
Uplink outer loop power control command transmit to NodeB through DCH-FP
Node B SRNC
OUTER LOOP PC
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