Nov.

2011

Huawei eRAN6.0
Adaptive ICIC Feature Introduction

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 Basic ICIC Concepts
Power Power
• In LTE system, main interferenc
Frequency Frequency e comes from neighboring cells,
Cell 2
as resource orthogonality insid
Cell 1
e a cell,
• Cell edge users (CEU) are more
likely to cause high interference
or be interfered
• Soft Frequency Reuse (SFR) is
a typical ICIC scheme in industr
Cell 3
y
Power

Frequency

In LTE system, ICIC is an approach to improve the coverage performance

while may be at the cost of losing capacity performance to some extent.

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 Adaptive ICIC

New Node
added

eCoordinator
eNB
1. Decide the
network level
UE 1. Deal with ICIC switch
RSRP 2. Update the
Measure 2. Generate network level
and report and report NRT
RSRP NRT 3. Reuse pattern
3. Fast self- self-configuration
optimization 4. Slow self-
optimization

eCoordinator centralized control and eNB distributed

control without X2 signalling greatly improve the
stability and convergence of network.

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 Two-step reuse pattern configuration
Primary
mode
Secondary
mode

• 6 Basic SFR reuse patterns generated from 3 SFR reuse patterns

• All cells will be configured with a primary SFR reuse pattern. Some cells can be configured with a
secondary SFR reuse pattern.
• The reuse pattern can be changed according to interference and cell load distribution

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 eRAN6.0 – Main Functionalities
• Adaptively switch on ICIC at cluster level
Self- • Avoid ICIC performance loss at low interference/load scenarios (e.g. initial network launch)
or noise-dominant scenarios (e.g. rural areas, large ISD), etc
Adaptation • Based on long term cell load, long term mutual interference level(reflecting) network
topology), etc

• Adaptively assign/update SFR reuse pattern to each cell

• Two-step SFR reuse pattern configuration
• First step achieves reuse 3 (applicable for both UL and DL )
Self- • Second step achieves reuse 6 (applicable for DL only)
• Adapt to the change of the mutual inter-cell interference caused by long term change of
Configuration network topology and UE distribution
• Cells with low cell edge load or low interference for a long term may fall back to reuse 1
• Based on cell load, UE/traffic distribution, mutual interference level

• Slow Optimization (eCoordinator)

• SFR reuse pattern optimization, self transition between reuse1, reuse 3 and reuse 6
Self- • Adapt to the change of mutual interference at hour level (e.g. busy hour or spare
hour may have different interference situations)
Optimization • Fast Optimization(eNodeB)
• Classify high power and low power users according to reported interference
• Scheduling high power users at cell edge band and lower users at cell center band

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 Adaptive ICIC for Uplink
• Uplink aICIC follows the configuration and optimization result of
downlink.
• Because LTE uses Single Carrier - Frequency Division Multiple Access
(SC-FDMA) in the UL, UEs can work only on continuous UL bands. To
prevent the UL band from being too fragmented, a cell cannot use the
Reuse6 mode in the UL. Uplink only supports Reuse1 and Reuse3
adaptation.

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Key Parameters in eCoordinator

Id Name Description Range Recommend MML

ed Value

Icic_task_ul_m ULICICBandMode Uplink Adaptive ICIC switch Off, On Off None

ode

Icic_task_dl_m DLICICBandMode Downlink Adaptive ICIC switch Off, On Off None

ode

Icic_task_peri ICIC task period ICIC task optimization period 15min, 30min, 1hour, 6hours, 7days None
od 12hours, 1day, 3days, 7days,
14days

There is no parameter in eNB for Adaptive ICIC.

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Simulation Scenarios
 Assumptions
 Cellular Layout: 19×3 Case1 defined by 3GPP
 10MHz system bandwidth
 User distribution: uniform and non-uniform
 Uniform: 10 users distributed in every cell
randomly
 Non-uniform: 5 users with G-factor lower than 0dB
and 5 with G-factor higher than 0dB distributed
in 19 cells, 1 users with G-factor lower than 0dB
and 9 with G-factor higher than 0dB distributed
in other 38 cells
 Traffic: Non-GBR, fullbuffer
 CQI feedback: PUCCH 1-0 (5ms)/2-0 (2ms)

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 Simulation Results – 19x3 Case1
 Uniform user distribution
　 Adaptive ICIC OFF Adaptive ICIC ON
AVG UE Thput(Mbps) 1.88 1.97
5% UE Thput(Mbps) 0.60 0.81
AVG UE MCS 15.42 16.66
5% UE MCS 7.89 10.48 Adaptive ICIC Gain
AVG UE Thput Gain 0.00% 4.66% 35%
5% UE Thput Gain 0.00% 35.30%

 Non-uniform user distribution 30%

　 Adaptive ICIC Off Adaptive ICIC ON
5CEU Cell
AVG UE Thput(Mbps) 1.45 1.57 25%
5% UE Thput(Mbps) 0.51 0.65
AVG UE MCS 13.02 14.68
20%
5% UE MCS 6.57 9.09
AVG UE Thput Gain 0.00% 8.31%
5% UE Thput Gain 0.00% 26.38% 15%
1CEU Cell
AVG UE Thput(Mbps) 2.02 2.08
10%
5% UE Thput(Mbps) 0.67 0.87
AVG UE MCS 16.16 17.28
5% UE MCS 8.76 10.87 5%
AVG UE Thput Gain 0.00% 3.22%
5% UE Thput Gain 0.00% 29.86%
All Cell
0%
AVG UE Thput(Mbps) 1.83 1.91 Cell Average Cell Edge Thput
5% UE Thput(Mbps) 0.54 0.75
Thput
AVG UE MCS 15.11 16.41
5% UE MCS 7.53 9.90 • Comparing with A-ICIC off and FSS off
AVG UE Thput Gain 0.00% 4.56%
5% UE Thput Gain 0.00% 37.86%

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 Simulation Results – Self-Config

Reuse 3 Reuse 3 and 6

Adaptation
Results
• For London map, Self-config of reuse 3 automatically assign reuse pattern to neighbor cells, however, due to
more complex network topology, reuse 3 is not enough to avoid conflict pairs
• By introducing reuse 3 and 6 adaptation in eRAN 3.0, most of the conflict problems are solved by giving
new reuse pattern. Meanwhile, for those cells without conflict problems, can also maintain 1/3 of the system
bandwidth as their edge band

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