Coverage Enhancement Features

CHAPTER 9

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 Module Objectives
• Explain the motivation for ICE
• Discuss the handover mechanism between high and low power TRXs
• Demonstrate the difference between ICE and inverse ICE
• Discuss the handover mechanism between hopping and non hopping TRXs

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 Coverage Normal ICE
Enhancement
Features (Idea)

Low power TRX (no BCCH)

High power TRX (BCCH)

Hopping TRX's

Two layer network

Coverage layer = high power TRXs (BCCH)

Capacity layer = low power TRXs (no BCCH)

Basic parameters

superReuseEstMethod AVE, MAX, ICE, NONE must be set to ICE

trxFrequencyType 0..16 0 = coverage (BCCH) TRX
1..16 = capacity (non BCCH) TRX

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 Coverage Normal ICE
Enhancement
Features (Handover)
High power TRX
Low power TRX
- 70

- 80 call is handed over to low power TRX

- 90 superReuseGoodRxLevThreshold -110..-47 dBm

superReuseBadRxLevThreshold -110..-47 dBm

-100

call is handed over to high power TRX

-110

Handover

Threshold exceeded by at least Px of the last Nx average samples

-> intra cell handover from one layer to the other

Direct access

On the SDCCH, one average sample exceeds directAccessLevel

-> TCH taken directly from low power TRX

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 Coverage Inverse ICE
Enhancement
Features (Idea)

Non hopping TRX (BCCH)

Hopping
HoppingTRX (no BCCH)
TRX's

Two layer network

Coverage layer = hopping TRXs (no BCCH)

Capacity layer = at least one non hopping TRX (with BCCH)
Use of BCCH TRX inverse to normal ICE

Use of frequency hopping for coverage improvement

RF hopping required
Good frequency diversity gain for city environment (about 4 dB)

Basic parameters

superReuseEstMethod AVE, MAX, ICE, NONE must be set to ICE

trxFrequencyType 0..16 0 = coverage (no BCCH) TRX
1..16 = capacity (at least one with BCCH) TRX

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 Coverage Inverse ICE
Enhancement
Features (Handover)
Hopping TRX
Non hopping TRX
- 70

- 80 call is handed over to non hopping TRX

- 90 superReuseGoodRxLevThreshold -110..-47 dBm

Frequency superReuseBadRxLevThreshold -110..-47 dBm
-100 diversity gain

call is handed over to hopping TRX

-110

Call set up

SDCCH taken from BCCH TRX even at cell edge

Too high path loss -> TCH taken from hopping TRX

Handover

Threshold exceeded by at least Px of the last Nx average samples

-> intra cell handover from one layer to the other

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