Huawei RAN16.

0 Solution Overview
UMTS MO
www.huawei.com

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Key Value 1: MBB Visualization for Best User Experience

MBB Visualization
ROI • New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience
Business • PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy
• PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

Experience Introduced
in RAN16.0
to Guarantee Good KQI
KQI

Capacity & KPI Insight

Capacity • Resource Bottleneck Monitoring
to Keep KPI Good • KPI: Admission Rejection Rate < 2%

Coverage & KPI Insight

Coverage • Coverage Probability >95%
Introduced
to Provide Good KPI • KPI: Access Success Rate > 95% in RAN15.0

MBB Visualization makes precise investment drived by good user experience

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 Key Value 2: Achieving MBB Network Foundation

Capacity Capacity Coverage Experience

Connection Number Cell Throughput (UL/DL) Cell-edge Rate (UL/DL) Speech MOS

+20% +60%/10% +45%/20% +10%

• Connection Storm • Traffic Storm • Hetnet • HD Voice

Key Solutions
• Big Events • KQI improvement

Basic Function • Access Success Rate +10% • Call Drop Rate -10%
KPI Improvement • Combined service KPI is optimized

UMTS LTE

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Key Value 3: Powerful SON

MLB Maximize network utilization CCO Optimize antenna intelligently

Adaptive
ANR Stabilize KPI in multi-RAT network Improve cell throughput by 10%
RACH

MRO Improve inter-frequency HOSR ACH Save OPEX & provide customizable parameters

All above included in RAN16.0 SON solution

SON maximizes network performance and efficiency

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 Key Value 4: Investment on UMTS is that on LTE
Co-Baseband
Software Defined Radio achieved in RAN16.0 Software Defined BBU
GUL in One Radio GULT in One BBU

Co-Baseband in UBBP
issued in RAN16.0

Co-Control in UMPT
issued in RAN15.0
RF BBU

Blade RRU AAU BBU

Co-Baseband for 4 RATs
Multi-RAT
Hardware
Software Defined Controller One OSS Platform
• Multi-RAT in One Hardware
For BSC/RNC Convergence
OSS One Interface, One Experience
• Powerful Capacity
RNC
• Investment Protection
• High Integration
• Smooth Evolution
SRC
iManager U2000
(Single Radio Controller)

UBBP board smoothes UL co-building. UMTS today is for LTE tomorrow

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RAN16.0 Solution Highlights (1/2)
Optional/
New/
Ranking Solution Feature ID Feature Name Enhanced
Basic/ Scenario Benefit
Trial
New RNC Counters N B • Precise planning based on user experience
MBB 3Gto2G back-flow & 2Gto3G User Migration Visualization N O • 3G to 2G back-flow Service & xMbps demand, Traffic, Terminal,
TOP 1 Function
Visualization • 2G to 3G migration Capacity & Coverage gap are visualized
Bottleneck shown at grid level Visualization N O
WRFD-160201 CCPIC Phase 3 N O
WRFD-160213 Turbo IC Phase 2 N O
WRFD-160202 Flexible Power Control for ULDRT N O Many connections with small package services
Connection +20%
TOP 2 WRFD-151201 Adaptive RACH N O per cell
Storm in connections
WRFD-151202 FACH Pool N O
WRFD-150246 SS & Load Sharing in CELL_FACH N O
WRFD-160253 Automatic Congestion Handler (ACH) N O
WRFD-160214 Load-based Intelligent State Transition N O
WRFD-151201 Adaptive RACH N O Not many connections but at high speed
+60%/10%
TOP 3 Traffic Storm WRFD-151205 Uplink CoMP N O transmission
WRFD-151207 HetNet Uplink CoMP N O in (UL/DL) cell throughput
WRFD-01061203 HSUPA Power Control E O
WRFD-160250 Interference Rejection Combining (IRC) N T
WRFD-160204 CS Voice Precise Power Control N O
WRFD-160106 Fast Radio Bearer Setup N B
+10%
TOP 4 HD Voice WRFD-160102 Garbled Noise Detection and Correction N B Excellent speech experience on demand
WRFD-020701 AMR/WB-AMR Speech Rates Control E O in speech MOS
WRFD-160271 Ultra-Flash CSFB N T
WRFD-160206 RB Parking N O Big event scenarios such as parade, vocal
TOP 5 Big Events Keep KPI normal
WRFD-151203 Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event N O concert, stadium
WRFD-151201 Adaptive RACH N O
WRFD-151202 FACH Pool N O 90%
Workload is saved
TOP 6 SON WRFD-151203 Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event N O All
+10%
WRFD-160253 Automatic Congestion Handler N O in network capacity
Refer to SONmaster MLB, ANR, MRO, CCO & PSC Self Optimization N O

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RAN16.0 Solution Highlights (2/2)
Optional/
New/
Ranking Solution Feature ID Feature Name Enhanced
Basic/ Scenario Benefit
Trial
Hardware UBBP board/BBU3910 N -
Function 12 cells resource pool N B
WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms N O • Large capacity baseband board • GULT Co-Baseband
NodeB Capability
TOP 7 N O • UL co-building • 1024/1024 CE (UL/DL) per UBBP
Improvement WRFD-151210 Inter-Dependence of BBU Uplink Resource • CE Efficiency to be improved • 2x CE efficiency of HUSPA 2ms
WRFD-160208 160 HSPA Users per Cell N O
WRFD-160209 192 HSPA Users per Cell N O
WRFD-150211 RNC in Pool Load Sharing E O • RNC in pool in UP
TOP 8 RNC in Pool WRFD-150212 RNC in Pool Node Redundancy E O RNC expansion and redundancy • Redundancy in GU mode
• 3 6910+1 6910, 4690+2 6910
WRFD-150240 RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs E O
WRFD-151205 Uplink CoMP N O
WRFD-151206 HetNet Uplink CoMP N O +45%/20%
• Big events scenarios, such as stadium with
in (UL/DL) cell-edge rate
TOP 9 HetNet WRFD-151207 Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU N O multiple RRU connected to 1 BBU
15%/7%
• Complex coverage
WRFD-151208 Macro-Micro Multi RRUs in One Cell N O Up in (UL/DL) cell throughput
WRFD-151209 Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA N O
WRFD-150252 Video Service Rate Adaption N O
WRFD-150253 VoIP Application Management N O
WRFD-150254 Differentiated Service Based on Resource N O
• User experience to be improved by
Experience guaranteed for VIP users or
TOP 10 KQI Improvement WRFD-150255 Differentiated Service Based on Terminal N O differentiated service
important services
• Many combined services
WRFD-01061006 HSDPA Mobility Management E O
WRFD-160270 Camp & Handover Based on SPID N O
Function User experience improvement for combined services N B
Function Traditional KPI optimization N B • Traditional KPI is optimized;
TOP 11 KPI Improvement Benchmark and swap
Function Combined service KPI improvement N B • Combined service KPI is improved

OM Efficiency Function Rehoming Efficiency Improvement N B • Cell & NobeB rehoming • Rehoming efficiency is improved
TOP 12
Improvement Refer to Naster Automatic Interference Detection N O • Interference detection • 20x interference detection efficiency

RAN16.0 includes 12 solutions, high value inside

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Contents

• Motivation of RAN16.0

• RAN16.0 Solution

• Summary

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UMTS is the Foundation of MBB Network in Coming Years

UMTS Smartphone Penetration Ratio LTE Terminal Penetration Ratio

Average 60%

Average 10%

China Middle East India Africa Asia Pacific CA SA Latin America WE Rus China Middle East India Africa Asia Pacific CA SA Latin America WE Rus

Source: 2013, Huawei commercial networks

Terminal Penetration GSM as Foundation UMTS as Foundation

100% UMTS Developing LTE Developing
GSM
Terminal and mobile network
UMTS
development indicate UMTS is
50%
LTE the foundation of MBB
network in coming years

Year
2003 2012 2019

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User Experience is the Key to Success

Income depends on user experience Choice depends on user experience

Slow speed is the main complaint in MBB era
Cause of Complaint %
Carrier B
Slowing search results by just 0.4s will Carrier D
reduce 8000K searches per day Carrier F
Carrier T
Carrier R
Carrier T
Carrier O
Carrier S
1 second web page delay, potentially lose Carrier N
up to $1.6B/year 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Speed Drop Rate others

57% subscribers quit the website if not 80% 72%

loaded within 3 seconds Subscribers leave Subscribers stay for the
because having bad good experience
experience
Source: Public news Source: Huawei MI

In MBB era, network investment should be oriented by user experience

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Connection Storm is Happening

DCH+FACH+PCH Connections per Cell

450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0

Max Cell Mean (Top10% Cells) Mean (All Cells)

Source: 2013, Huawei commercial networks

Connections per cell is up to 400. Connection Storm is happening all over the world

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Big Events We Have to Deal with

3,400,000 people, Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1,000,000 people, Parade, France 55,000 people, concert, Singapore

150,000 people, railway station, Spring 100,000 people, the World Cup 90,000 people, Super Bowl stadium,
festival, China stadium, S. Africa  USA 

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SON is on Urgent Demand
Network Architecture More Complex Network Operation More Difficult
6 Nodes from UE to Internet

WiFi
WLAN GW Video TCP Internet
Opt
$1.5B Loss Yearly to Network Outages
Opt
1.5%~ 5% of Annual Revenue of Operator
2G 3G 4G PS Core
Service Aware Firewall Outage occurs in Avg 5 times yearly
From Operator T Source: Light Reading and outage Analyzer

Neighbor Configuration Complex

18x
108 15%
25%
Configuration
Multi-
vendor
Network
10%
Power Physical
Outage Multi- Lack of

10x 60 Problem
Reason
Line
problem Nodes Unified Tool

6 Network Bottleneck
Invisible

2G 2G/3G 2G/3G/4G 50% Source: Heavyreading 2013

SON is required to improve network performance and efficiency

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MBB One Network Needs Software Defined Hardware

UMTS/LTE should 1:1 Co-site with G More Sites Need to be Deployed

for 1Mbps/5Mbps Anytime Anywhere
for 1:1 co-siting with G
Inter-site Distance in Dense Urban (km)
100%
LTE800 Edge Rate 5Mbps per 20MHz 80%
60%
UMTS900 Edge Rate 1Mbps per 5MHz 40% U/G%
20% L/G%
GSM900 Voice
0%
USA Latin West EU South East South Russia ME
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 Amercia Pacific Asia

Source: Huawei mLAB 2013Q2

G/U/L Co-sited with software defined hardware is the most economic strategy

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Contents

• Motivation of RAN16.0

• RAN16.0 Solution

• Summary

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RAN16.0 Solution

Experience Capacity & Coverage Efficiency Evolution

• MBB Visualization • Connection Storm • SON • NodeB Capability Improvement
• HD Voice • Traffic Storm • OM Efficiency Improvement • RNC in Pool
• KQI Improvement • Big Events • KPI Improvement

• HetNet

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Experience

MBB Visualization Solution

 New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience
 PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy
 PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

HD Voice Solution
 Precise Power Control, Voice MOS: +5%
 Garbled Voice Correction, Voice MOS from 1 to 3
 Ultra-Flash CSFB Further Reduces Delay by 4s

Experience KQI Improvement Solution

 Video Service Rate Adaption, Video Startup Time: <4s

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Evolution
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Capacity

New RNC Counters to Check MBB User Experience

New RNC Counters
• Counter 26: times of actual user speed > xMbps RNC
• Counter 25: times of requested speed > xMbps
Performance
• Counter 25 & 26 measured in RNC at cell level Statistics
• xMbps Fulfillment Ratio = Counter 26 / Counter 25
• “x” can be defined in RNC LMT

User Experience xMbps Fulfillment Ratio (x=2)

Fast Web all about Speed
Browsing
xMbps
<10%
<10%
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10-30%
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30-50%
ppee ssee

30-50%
50-70%
50-70%
EExx UU

Short Low Fulfillment Ratio

>70%
>70%

Video Startup Bad Experience

Time Smooth
Basic Function xMbps Anytime Anywhere = xMbps at 95% Area, 90%
Video
Time = 85% (95%*90%) of xMbps Fulfillment Ratio
Playing

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Experience Efficiency
Efficiency Evolution
Evolution
Capacity
Capacity

PRS Makes 2Gto3G User Migration Easy

1. Terminal Distribution Analysis 2. Root Cause Analysis 3. Address information in
grid geo-map

PRS 3G users
Actions 3G fall back Users A
Load Problem
2G Users with 3G terminal B
Weak Coverage A-class User
• Depending on PRS issued
high PS traffic 2G users C B-class user
in Dec 2014 Pilot Pollute
C-class User
Low PS traffic 2G users

5. Capacity Improvement
4. Coverage Optimization & Improvement
after 2G users migration

Further 11
GUL interoperation
User number and
optimization 11
capacity forecast
Actions
22 RF optimization
Expanding &
22 planning to add
Coverage
33 Enhancement new sites

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Capacity

PRS Clarifies Why 3G Users Back to 2G

Cells of Fall Back Reason Further Analysis

• Grid-level Coverage
• Cells Near by Railway Station • Inter-RAT Load Handover • Capacity Visualization/KPI Insight
• Depending on PRS issued in Dec 2014

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Capacity

Precise Power Control, Voice MOS: +5%

Inner loop power control Outer loop power control
The Lower BLER
The Higher MOS
Normal Power
Multipath SIR Estimation BLER Control
Search Control 3.1
+5%

New 3.0

Precise Power
Multipath SIR Control
Estimation DTX BER BLER Normal Precise Normal Precise
Search
Enhanced Control Control Control
Enhanced
(Lower BLER)
BLER MOS

• WRFD-160204

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Garbled Voice Correction, Voice MOS from 1 to 3

Challenge: Garbled Voices in 22% of Complaints Garbled Voice Correction, 80% Corrected

UE Ciphering at RNC Ciphering at HSN-1 Garbled

HSN due to too big RF delay Voice
6%
6% 35%
Single Pass & Mute
22% Noise
RNC

Garbled Voice • WRFD-160102

Call Drop UE Ciphering at

31% Correction: RNC Corrected
Other HSN Ciphering at HSN-1+1 Voice

HSN: Hyper Frame Number

3

Garbled Voice MOS Voice After Correction MOS

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Ultra-Flash CSFB Further Reduces Delay by 4s

48% latency reduced
600ms Saved by Flash CSFB
4.2s Ultra Flash CSFB
4s
MME
RAN16.0
LTE
RIM
procedure
7.6s Flash CSFB 0.6s
UMTS
RAN14.0
MSC
UE synchronization time saved in UMTS
8.2s CSFB
RIM : RAN Information Exchanging

Scenario: LTE user call LTE user

4s Saved by Ultra Flash CSFB
MME
Trial Feature
LTE • WRFD-160271 Ultra-Flash CSFB
SRVCC
procedure
UMTS  Depending on Huawei MME & MSC and UE’s support of SRVCC
 Minor impact for existing network, no need for IMS server.
MSC
Resource allocation time saved in UMTS  Smooth evolution for VoLTE.

SRVCC: Single Radio Voice Call Continuity

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Video Service Rate Adaption, Video Startup Time: <4s

Mbps
Challenge: Bad Video Experience Without Adaption Playing
Startup
 Slow startup
0.5
 Not smooth playing
Time

Slow Not Smooth

Mbps
Speed on demand guaranteed
3 based on service awareness
With Adaption
 Fast startup (<4s ) 1
 Smooth playing 4s
Time

• WRFD-150252 Fast Smooth

• Depend on NIUa/eNIUa Board

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Connection Storm Solution

 CCPIC Phase 3 Increases Connection by 20%
 Flexible Power Control Increases Connections by 5%~20%
 Turbo IC Phase 2 Doubles Connections of HSUPA 2ms TTI Users
 FACH Pool Improves FACH Efficiency by 40%

Traffic Storm Solution

 ACH Solution: Operator Predefined Actions for Unplanned Events
 Load-based Intelligent State Transition Increases Capacity by 5%~20%
 Adaptive RACH Improves Cell Throughput by 10%

Capacity & Coverage Big Events Solution

 Smartphone Parking Increases Capacity by 30%
 Automatic Camping Strategy Switch is Effective for Big Events

HetNet Solution
 Uplink CoMP Improves both Coverage and Capacity
 Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA: 2X User Rate or Penetrate 1 More Wall
 Macro-Micro Multi RRUs Deals with Complex Coverage Scenario

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CCPIC Phase 3 Increases Connections by 20%

Challenge: Control Channel in 69% Load CCPIC 3: +20% Connections
Connections / Cell 93
Uplink Load Distribution 78 +20%
55 65

31% 29% HS-DPCCH & E-DPCCH

Control Channel
DPCCH CCPIC 2:
CCPIC 1: CCPIC 3:
Traffic DPCCH IC in 1 DPCCH IC in 1 UL HS-DPCCH & E-
resource Group DPCCH IC
40% base-band board

RAN6.0 RAN10.0 RAN14.0 RAN16.0

DPDCH &E-DPDCH Demodulation & Decoding

CCPIC in 1 cell
Higher
With SIR
CCPIC

Separate & Take out

Without SIR
CCPIC

CCPIC: Control Channel Parallel Interference Cancellation SIR: Signal to Interference Radio • WRFD-160201

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Flexible Power Control Increases Connections by 5%~20%

SIR Target

< 40kbps 40~120kbps >120 kbps Connections/Cell

Low Data Rate State Medium Data Rate High Data Rate State
State
Before
5%~20% 80~85
RTWP: -1dB when user
No. >20

After

Set big retransmission times

Before and big HARQ Offset 70~74

After
Before After

The lower SIR target

the less load per service the • WRFD-160202
bigger capacity
 Suitable to scenario where ROT > 6dB and HSUPA UE number > 20

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Turbo IC Phase 2 Doubles Connections HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

UE No. of HSUPA 2ms TTI

Before After
Throughput 40
Traditional schedule: New schedule with Single HARQ Process :
• Limit UE transmitting in 1TTI(2ms) per 16ms;
Strong interference happens randomly
• Schedule 8 UEs transmitting separately;
• Reduce inference from 9th and after UEs with Turbo
Strong interference if IC. 20
transmitting in the same 2ms
Turbo IC for No interference due to
9th UE transmitting in separate
2ms

Before After
UE9
• WRFD-160213 Turbo IC Phase 2
UE8
UE7
UE6 Scenario:
UE5  Lots of HSUPA 2ms TTI terminals;
UE4
UE3  Low service average rate, i.e. <40kbps;
UE2  Depending on WBBPf or UBBP board.
UE1
2ms Time
HARQ: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

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FACH Pool Improves FACH Efficiency by 40%

Challenge to Preference Camping Mode FACH Pool Benefit
 FACH in congestion in preference camping cell (F1)  Balance the FACH resource within the same sector.
 FACH in free in non-preference camping cell (F2, F3)  FACH Efficiency: +40%

Before After

FACH Load
F3 FACH in
Free Threshold

F2 40%
FACH in Average utilization
Free

F1 FACH in
F1 F2 F3 F2
Congestion F1 F3

FACH Trigger: when UE state from PCH to FACH • WRFD-151202

Pool Action: Redirect users to FACH in free

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ACH Solution: Operator Predefined Actions for Unplanned Events

ACH: Automatic Congestion Handler
Action1 Action2 Action3
Operator Pain points: unplanned event   




  
Can happen anywhere, anytime

RNC

No way to forecast, no time to prevent Real time Predefined Predefined

Cell load load criteria actions pool
monitor
• Light congestion • Timers
• Heavy congestion • Parameters
• HSPA user number
• Optional features
• Non HSDPA power
• RTWP

• WRFD-160253 Automatically Congestion Handler

○
○ Relieving
Relieving O&M
O&M workload
workload
○
○ Relieving congestion
Relieving
congestion in
in unplanned
unplanned events
events Automatically
Automatically
○
○ Improving
Improving system
system stability
stability

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Load-based Intelligent State Transition Increases Capacity by 5%~20%

Non-Busy Hour Busy Hour

T: D2F Timer T T T
T is fixed
• Low Experience in
Packet non-busy hour
Traditional
• Small Capacity in
busy hour
DCH state FACH state

T1: D2F Timer T1 T2 T2 T1&T2 based on

Load-based load & user behavior
• High Experience in
Intelligent State
non-busy hour
Transition
• Big Capacity in busy
hour
T1>T for longer DCH state T2<T for faster transition to FACH
High Experience Mode Big Capacity Mode • WRFD-160214

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Adaptive RACH Improves Cell Throughput by 10%

A v g . t h r o ug h p u t [M B] / sit e /h o ur
A v g . t h r o u g h pu t [M B] / sit e /h o u r

Busy Hours
Non-busy Hours Cell throughput in busy hours

80 80
60 60 10%
40 40
20 20
0 0
ho ho
06: 08: ts 06: 08: ts
00- 00- 10: 1 2: depo 00- 00- 10: 12: de
08: 10: 00- 0 0- 14: 18: ur 08: 10: 00- 00- 14: 18: Less impact onpo
ur RTWP for big capacity
20: ba n t 20: ba n t
00 00 12: 1 4: 00- 00- 22: ru 00 00 12: 14: 00- 00- 22: ru
due to small power climb step
00 0 0 16: 20: 00- 00- … Hol raln 00 00 16: 20: 00- 00- … Hol raln
00 00 22: 24: Strong ida
impact on RTWP 00 00 22: 24: ida
00 00result from
y big power climb step 00 00 y

RTWP

RTWP
Before After
UE transmitting Power

UE transmitting Power
Access success Access success
Big power climb step Small power climb step • WRFD-151201 Adaptive RACH

Big Initial power Small Initial power

Short access time for good user experience Long access time Benefit
 Cell throughput in busy hours increases by
10% due to less impact on RTWP
Access Time Access Time
 User experience in non-busy hours is better
Short Access Time in Non-busy Hours Less Impact on RTWP in Busy Hours
 Short access time due to big power climb step & big initial power  Less impact on RTWP due to small power climb step & small initial power (short access time)
 Strong impact on RTWP  Long access time (still in normal range)

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Smartphone Parking Increases Capacity by 30%

Huawei Smartphone Parking Solution
In big event call success rate is very low • WRFD-160206 RB Parking

Scheduling window

UE in Cell_DCH

Scheduling
UE in Cell_FACH
Auto retry generate RRC storm
Service Rejected

•All UEs accepted to Cell_FACH, but with 0Kbps.

•Timely scheduling, to avoid crash of system.

Retry NodeB
30% RRC messages reduced
30% capacity increased

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Automatic Camping Strategy Switch is Effective for Big Events

All camping & access F4
F4 When Big Events
PS Prefer when Access at Random

All camping & access F3

F3 PS Prefer when Access at Random
Automatic Switch All camping & access
F2 F2
PS Prefer when Access at Random

All camping in F1 All camping & access F1

F1 at Random
CS Prefer when Access When Not in Big Events

Random camping Mode for

Preference camping Mode for Big Events
Not in Big Events
High Experience Big Capacity
100% 100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
40% 40%
20% 20%
0% 0%

Before: F1 load is too high in big events After: F1, F2, F3 and F4 loads are balanced in big events
• WRFD-151203 Camping Strategy Switch for Mass Event

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Uplink CoMP Improves both Coverage and Capacity

Macro-Macro Macro-Micro Micro-Micro Uplink CoMP

User Rate
No Uplink CoMP
No Uplink CoMP

Soft
Before

Soft No Soft
combination
combination
combination 3
1 2
Macro F1
High Power RRU
Micro F1
Low Power RRU

Macro-Macro Macro-Micro Micro-Micro Scenario: Scenario:

Cell Throughput
Cell Throughput
20% 1 Macro-Macro
2

Cell-edge User Rate

Macro-Micro
Softer 3 Micro-Micro
Uplink CoMP

Softer
After

combination
Softer
3
combination 45%
combination 10% 15%
1 2

• WRFD-151205 Uplink CoMP, for Macro-Macro, Micro-Micro 1 3 Soft No Soft Softer

Before After Before After
(Uplink CoMP)
• WRFD-151206 HetNet Uplink CoMP, for Macro-Micro 2 1 3 2
• WRFD-151207 Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU, for BTSs not in 1 BBU. Macro-Macro Macro-Micro
Micro-Micro
The features above depend on WBBPf or UBBP board
Coverage Improved by 20%~45 Capacity Improved by 10%~15%
Macros and Micros should connect to 1 BBU, otherwise the feature Uplink CoMP Improves Cell-edge User Uplink Uplink CoMP Improves Cell Throughput by
Rate by 20%~45% 10%~15%
of Uplink CoMP Based on Coordinated BBU should be introduced.

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Coverage
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Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA: 2X User Rate or Penetrate 1 More Wall

Link Budget in Dense Urban Cell-edge User Rate Penetration Loss (dB)
Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA
With Macro-micro DC-HSDPA 1Mbps 26
6dB
6dB
F1 & F2 in the same band With Macro-micro DC-HSDPA 2Mbps 20
Without Macro-micro DC-HSDPA 1Mbps 20
F1 F2 f
Indoor Wall 6 dB 12
5MHz 5MHz External Wall
Concrete Structure
dB 25
dB
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Penetration Loss

Micro F2
Low Power RRU Without Macro-micro 1Mbps 1X
Macro F1 DC-HSDPA
High Power RRU
With Macro-micro 1M+1M=2Mbps 2X
DC-HSDPA
• WRFD-151209 Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA With Macro-micro 0.5M+0.5M=1Mbps 1X
The features depends on WBBPb or WBBPd or WBBPf or UBBP board DC-HSDPA

Macros and Micros should connect to 1 BBU or be defined in the same resource group.
6 dB

Macro-Micro DC-HSDPA doubles user downlink rate (especially at cell edge), or penetrate 1 more wall

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Macro-Micro Multi RRUs Deals with Complex Coverage Scenario

Macro-Micro Multi RRUsin One Cell
• WRFD-151208 Macro-Micro Multi RRUs in One Cell

BBU  Macro RRUs + Micro RRUs <= 6

 Macros and Micros should connect to 1 BBU

Macro Micro Micro Micro

High Power Low Power Low Power Low Power
RRU 1 RRU 2 RRU 3 RRU 4

One Logical Cell

Fiber
RTWP Max down
by 30 dB RTWP
The features depends on WBBPb or WBBPd or WBBPf or UBBP board

Benefits ：
• 4 NOs: No handover, No overshooting, No polit pollution, No interference
Macro Micro Micro Micro Macro Micro Micro Micro
RRU1 RRU2 RRU3 RRU3 RRU1 RRU2 RRU3 RRU3
between each other in one logical cell;
• Easy Deployment in complex coverage scenario, 2 hours saved per RRU.
Before After

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SON Solution
 Multi-RAT ANR Saves 90% Neighbor Configuration Workload
 MRO Saves Handover Optimization Workload
 PSC Self Optimization Saves PSC Optimization Workload
 CCO Saves Coverage Optimization Workload
 MLB Saves Load Balance Parameter Optimization Workload

High Efficient Operation Solution

Efficiency  Interference Detection Efficiency is Improved by 20 Times

 RNC Rehoming Efficiency is Improved

ANR: Automatic Neighbor Relations

MRO: Mobility Robustness Optimization

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ANR Saves 90% Neighbor Configuration Workload

 More neighboring cells, modes and frequencies  Multi-RAT ANR :

MR Generate neighboring cell relations

108 SONMaster automatically
18x
60
10x G-Cell A U-Cell 1 L-Cell B
6
U-Cell 1 … …
LTE
L-Cell B G-Cell A G-Cell A
UMTS
GSM … 　 L-Cell B 　 U-Cell 1 　
GSM GSM/UMTS GSM/UMTS/LTE

Number of faults generated by neighboring cells: The percentage data of efficiency improved is from lab testing

More  Unique bi-directional inter-RAT ANR in telecom industry

30%
 Industry 1st commercial ANR (German Operator)
GSM/UMTS GSM/UMTS/LTE ANR: Automatic Neighbour Relations; MR: Measurement Report

• This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

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MRO Saves Handover Optimization Workload

Abnormal Handover Scenarios

Handover too early Handover too late Ping-pong handover

MRO adjusts parameters according to handover statistics automatically. unnecessary HO Rate

Value

Benefits:
• Resolve handover failures;
• Reduce call drop rate;
• Save workload for handover optimization. Before adopt MRO After adopt MRO

MRO: Mobility Robustness Optimization • This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

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PSC Self Optimization Saves PSC Optimization Workload

PSC Conflict Detection PSC Self Optimization

Scenarios Benefit
 Network Commissioning high high  Reduce Access Failure
 Network Expansion  Reduce Handover Failure low low
 Inter-RAT Deployment
Access Handover
Access Handover
Failure Failure
PCI=31 Failure Failure

PCI=30
PSC=10
PCI=32 PSC=10 PCI=32

PSC=11 PSC=11
PSC=11 PSC=13
PSC=12 PSC=12

PSC: Primary Scrambling Code • This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster

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CCO Saves Coverage Optimization Workload

Coverage Problems:
Detect coverage problem and adjust RF
 Coverage Hole SONMaster
parameters automatically
 Weak Coverage
 Overshooting

BTS BTS AAU

Weak Hole

Tilt Power E-Tilt

Overshooting
• This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster CCO: Coverage and Capacity Optimization

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MLB Saves Load Balance Parameter Optimization Workload

Intra-UMTS MLB

Load
Before After
Threshold
UMTS Cell
Average load System capacity up
by10%

Automatically Control
Connection state: handover Cell1 Cell2 Cell1 Cell2
Idle state: cell reselection
Inter-RAT MLB

Load
After
Before
LTE Cell Threshold

Reduce call drop rate and handover failure rate UMTS LTE UMTS LTE

MLB: Mobility Load Balancing • This feature belongs to OSS SON, depending on SONMaster The percentage data of cell throughput gain is from lab simulation

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Interference Detection Efficiency is Improved by 20 Times

Interference Detection
Procedure Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
Time Domain Analysis Frequency Domain Analysis Interference Locating Report Output
• Data collection • Data collection • Interference of each cell displayed • Chart output
• Cells with strong inference • Frequency point, bandwidth, strength of on map • Report output
• Time interval of interference interference in each cell • Locating with geographic info.

0.25 Day 0.4 Day 0.2 Day 0.15 Day

Automatic 1 Days
Interference Detection
This feature belongs to service solution depending on NASTAR server. All the procedures are automatic except for some confirmation operations.
20X
20X

5 Days 8 Days 4 Days 3 Days

Manual 20 Days
Method
This method involves lots of manual operations with basic tools, such as Excel, Mapinfo.
Note: the days above are manual intervention time

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Cell & NodeB Rehoming Efficiency is Improved

Period NodeB Rehoming Real-time Cell Rehoming
80% Load Burst traffic
Sub System Sub
60% CELL. 3 1 system2

40% 75% CELL. 2

20%
20% Cel l 1
CELL.
Sub system 1 0% Sub system 2 Time
• WRFD-141103 Automatic NodeB and Cell Allocation in the RNC (Enhanced in RAN16.0)

 Cell Rehoming can balance SPU‘s CPU load based on burst traffic .
100%
80%
60% One-Command NodeB Rehoming
40% 45%
40%
20%
More
Sub system 1 0% Sub system 2 than
20
MMLs
• WRFD-141103 Automatic NodeB and Cell Allocation in the RNC (Enhanced in RAN16.0)

 User mobility results in CPU load unbalance.

• WRFD-160107 Swap Efficiency Improvement
 NodeB rehoming can balance CPU load based on user distribution  Saving 95% or more workload for Intra-RNC NodeBs

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NodeB Capability Improvement Solution

 UBBP, Co-Baseband for 4 RATs
 BBU3910, Well-prepared for Future Evolution
 CE Efficiency is Improved by 100% for HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

RNC in Pool Solution

 UP Load Sharing Added, Logical RNC Capacity up to 1.9X
 RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 3+1 6910

Evolution  RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 4 6900 + 2 6910

KPI Improvement Solution

 Basic Performance is Improved inside RAN16.0
 Combined service KPI is optimized
 Access Success Rate +10%
 Call Drop Rate -10%

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UBBP, Co-Baseband for 4 RATs

Co-Baseband in UBBP in
RAN16.0 -40%
-50%
-50%
Single Mode
Software Defined BBU
Co-Control in UMPT in Multi Mode
RAN15.0
Board saving Power saving Spare Part saving

Multi-RAT in One Hardware Smooth Evolution

 Software configurable for any RAT of GSM, UMTS
 Smooth evolution for UMTS/LTE refarming
and LTE FDD/TDD
 Multi-RAT concurrency (GU, GL, UL or GUL)
Investment Protection
Powerful Capacity  Common Hardware to simplify spare management
 UMPT support 1500 CNBAP/s signaling process
 UBBP support up to 1024 CE and 768 HSPA users High Integration
 UBBP support Resurece Group of 12 Cells for Uplink  Board number & power consumption save by 40%~50%

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BBU3910, Well-prepared for Future Evolution

Performance Improved

 CPRI interface number increases by 200%: provide

more CPRI interface for 4-mode co-BBU

 Backplane switch capacity increases by 100%:

CPRI Interface support feature evolution in the future

Backplane
36 Switch
+200% +100%
2× Configuration Simplified

12 1×  Use any BBP slot for CPRI connections.

 No need to adjust the BBP position in BBU when
supporting new feature.
BBU3900
BBU3910 BBU3900
BBU3910

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CE Efficiency is Improved by 100% for HSUPA 2ms TTI Users

CE consumption
Instant rate is very high in for HSUPA 2ms TTI terminal
Rate 2ms TTI although average with service average rate <= 20kbps
rate is low Single HARQ Process Schedule:
• Limit UE transmitting in 1TTI(2ms) per 16ms ; 2 CEs
Service • Reduce the peak to average ratio;
• Smooth low rate data transmission.

1 CE
20kbps service on 2ms 20k of average
TTI bearer rate

2ms 16ms Time

Before After Before After

CE
• WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency
High instant CEs used • WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
results in high average
CEs usage
Scenario:
CE CE Efficiency improved by 100% due to
smooth data rate by Single HARQ  Lots of HSUPA 2ms TTI terminals;
Average CEs
used
 Service average rate <= 20kbps;
2 CEs CEs used
0 CEs
 Depending on WBBPf or UBBP board.
Time
HARQ: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

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UP Load Sharing Added, Logical RNC Capacity up to 1.9X

UP load sharing
added
CN Max Capacity of
Logical RNC
Iu
CP load sharing 1.9X 1.9X
added
Logical RNC
1.6X
Iur-p

Master Overflow 1X 1X 1X
RNC RNC

CP UP CP UP CP UP

Iub RAN14.0 RAN15.0 RAN16.0

CP
• WRFD-150211 RNC in Pool Load Sharing
UP
NodeB RAN16.0 vs RAN15.0
 Max capacity of CP of Logical RNC from 1.6X up to 1.9X. (due to CP
RAN15.0 supports control plane (CP) load sharing. Feature
& UP both being shared resulting in less signaling interaction);
RAN16.0 supports user plane (UP) load sharing. Enhancement
 Max capacity of UP of Logical RNC from 1X up to 1.9X.

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RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 3+1 6910

RAN15.0 RAN16.0
3 BSC6900 + 1 BSC6910 3 BSC6910 + 1 BSC6910

BSC6910
BSC6910
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Feature
Enhancement

BSC6900 BSC6900 BSC6910 BSC6910

BSC6900 Load Sharing or Redundancy
BSC6910
• WRFD-150240 RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs

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RNC in Pool Topology Extends to 4 6900 + 2 6910

RAN15.0
2 BSC6900 + 1 BSC6910 RAN16.0
4 BSC6900 + 2 BSC6910
BSC6900
BSC6910
BSC6900 BSC6900
BSC6910 BSC6910
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BSC6900 Enhancement

BSC6900 BSC6900

Load Sharing or Redundancy

• WRFD-150240 RNC in Pool Multiple Logical RNCs

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KPI Improvement in RAN16.0

Call Drop Rate: -10% Access Success Rate: +10% Multi RABs Improvement
No. Feature Benefit NO. Feature Benefit NO. Feature Benefit
Links reconstructions CS/PS call drop rate In the weak coverage PS initial rate dynamic
1 Slim the signaling of air
principle optimization improves 5%. area: 1 configuration when CS
interface(RB setup, RB
1. RAB setup setups
Links reconstructions CS/PS call drop rate RECFG, Cell Update
2 1 success rate
rate improvement improves 5% Confirm) to improve the
improves10%.
correct reception rate in CS with higher priority in
2. RRC setup
Basic procedure CS/PS call drop rate weak coverage area. 2
3 success rate multi-RAB 1.CS call drop rate
optimization improves 3% improves 30%. improves 2%~5%.
3. F2D state
Cell Update access rate transition CS KPI guarantee in 2. improve PS data rate
PS common channel
Common channel call optimization, idle state success rate multi-RAB: independent , avoiding sudden low
4 call drop rate improves
drop rate optimization transition optimization 3 threshold of PS rate, improving users
10% 2 improve 5.9%
and RRC message 4. P2D state increasing rate and experience.
retransmission interval transition trigger time.
State transmission
PS call drop rate optimization success rate
5 call drop rate Multi-RAB inter-RAT
improves 10% improves about 4
optimization handover optimization
0.45%
Procedures 5. Cell Update
PS call drop rate Cell Update statistic absolute success Multi-RAB in compress
6 backward in turn 3 5 mode, PS maintain in
improves 5% principle optimization rate improves
principle optimization low speed or 0Kbps
about 0.6%

The improvement above is basic function in

Basic Function RAN16.0, no depending on hardware

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• Motivation of RAN16.0

• RAN16.0 Solution

• Summary

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RAN16.0 ， the Key of UMTS Golden Age

Better Experience
1 MBB Visualization, HD Voice, KQI Improvement

2 Larger Capacity & Deeper Coverage

Connection Storm, Traffic Storm, Big Events, HetNet

3 Higher Efficiency
SON, OM Efficiency Improvement

4 Smooth Evolution
NodeB Capability Improvement, RNC in Pool, KPI Improvement

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