GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing

SRAN5.0
Feature Parameter Description

Issue 01

Date 2010-10-15

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Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Technical Description ..............................................................................................................2-1

2.1 Power Sharing ............................................................................................................................... 2-1
2.2 Power Retrieval ............................................................................................................................. 2-4

3 Parameters .................................................................................................................................3-1
4 Counters ......................................................................................................................................4-1
5 Glossary ......................................................................................................................................5-1
6 Reference Documents .............................................................................................................6-1

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GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing 1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the GSM and UMTS dynamic power sharing feature (corresponding to feature
MRFD-211801 GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing(GSM), or MRFD-221801 GSM and UMTS
Dynamic Power Sharing(UMTS)) supported by the GSM and UMTS (GU) multi-mode base station
(MBTS). This feature is applicable to the scenario where the GSM carrier and UMTS carrier use the
same power amplifier (PA). When this feature is enabled, the HSDPA cell can share the carrier power
provided by the GSM BTS. In the case of GSM traffic burst, the GSM BTS can retrieve the carrier power
shared by the UMTS cell.

In this document, the GSM BTS refers to the MBTS performing the functions of a GSM base station, the UMTS NodeB
refers to the MBTS performing the functions of a UMTS base station.

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:
 Personnel who are familiar with GSM and WCDMA basics
 Personnel who need to understand GSM and UMTS dynamic power sharing
 Personnel who work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:
 Feature change: refers to the change in the GSM and UMTS dynamic power sharing feature.
 Editorial change: refers to the change in wording or the addition of the information that was not
described in the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:
 01 (2010-10-15)
 Draft (2010-05-15)

01 (2010-10-15)
This is the document for the first commercial release of SRAN5.0.
Compared with issue Draft (2010-05-15) of SRAN5.0, this issue optimizes the description.

Draft (2010-05-15)
This is the draft of the document for SRAN5.0.
This is a new document.

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2 Technical Description
When the GSM carrier and UMTS carrier of a GU MBTS use the same PA, the HSDPA cell can share
the idle power of the GSM carrier through this feature. This helps improve the power usage efficiency
and the quality of the GSM network and UMTS network when busy hours of these two networks fall in
different periods of a day or the traffic of these two networks is not evenly distributed. In the case of GSM
traffic burst, the GSM BTS can retrieve the power shared by the UMTS cell.

2.1 Power Sharing

When the parameter GUPWRSHARESWITCH is set to YES and power sharing is allowed, the GSM BTS
determines whether the power can be provided for the HSDPA cell every power sharing period of 4.8
seconds during the time of each day when GU power sharing is enabled. Figure 2-1 shows the
procedure of GU power sharing.

The time of each day when GU power sharing is enabled is set through the MML command SET BTSGUPWRSHRFP.

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Figure 2-1 Procedure of GU power sharing

1. When the parameter GUPWRSHARESWITCH is set to YES, the GSM BTS determines whether power
sharing is allowed. If yes, the procedure proceeds to 2. Otherwise, the procedure ends.
Power sharing is allowed when the following conditions are met:
− The GSM carrier and UMTS carrier use the same PA.
− The number of GSM non-BCCH carriers >= GUPWRSHARETRXNUM.
− The UMTS carrier is the HSDPA carrier.
2. The power sharing period of 4.8 seconds starts.
3. The GSM BTS determines whether the carrier power in the current power sharing period meets the
requirements for power sharing. If yes, the procedure proceeds to 4. Otherwise, the GSM BTS
performs the actions described in Table 2-1.
The requirements for power sharing are as follows:

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− The load of the GSM carrier power in the current power sharing period (GSMCurPowLoad) < GSM
Power Load Threshold for GU Power Sharing (GUPWRSHAREPWRLOAD).
− The remaining power of the GSM carrier in the current power sharing period is sufficient to support
power sharing.
Table 2-1 Actions performed when the load of the GSM carrier power in the power sharing period does not
meet the requirements for power sharing
If... Then...
There is no remaining power of the GSM carrier that The procedure goes back to 2.
can be shared by the UMTS cell in the current period,
GSMCurPowLoad > GUPWRSHAREPWRLOAD, The GSM BTS instructs the UMTS cell to return all
shared power.
The remaining power of the GSM carrier in the current The GSM BTS instruct the UMTS cell to return
power sharing period is insufficient to support power partial shared power.
sharing,
The GSM carrier did not provide power for the UMTS Power retrieval need not be performed. In such a
cell to share in the previous period, case, the GSM BTS waits for the next power
sharing period to start.

4. The GSM BTS notifies the UMTS cell of the power that will be shared in the current period.
Meanwhile, the GSM BTS updates the total available carrier power.

The increased GSM carrier power for sharing in each power sharing period must not exceed
GUPWRSHAREURCVPWRPD, and the accumulated power of the GSM carrier that can be shared by the UMTS cell
must not exceed GUPWRSHAREURCVPWR.
5. The UMTS NodeB determines whether to accept the carrier power provided by the GSM BTS. If yes,
the procedure proceeds to 6. Otherwise, the GSM BTS updates the total available carrier power.
6. The UMTS NodeB updates the maximum transmit power of the UMTS cell that shares the GSM
carrier power. This finalizes the procedure of GU power sharing.

 Power sharing is not applicable when MIMO is applied.

 Power sharing is not applicable when GSM dynamic transmit diversity is applied.
 It is not recommended that the baseband frequency hopping (FH) function and GU power sharing function be
concurrently enabled.
 GU power sharing and multi-carrier dynamic power sharing cannot be concurrently enabled. For information on
multi-carrier dynamic power sharing, see the Dynamic Power Sharing Among Carriers Feature Parameter Description
of RAN.

After the HSDPA cell shares the carrier power provided by the GSM BTS, the transmit power on the
HSDPA channel increases. The increased power leads to deterioration of signal quality of the Common
Pilot Channel (CPICH) of UEs at the edge of the UMTS cell. This further causes the coverage of the UMTS
cell to shrink. In such a case, blind areas may occur, and the call drop rate of UEs at the edge of cell may
rise. To solve this problem, it is recommended that the UEs served by the UMTS cell be handed over to
the inter-frequency UMTS cells or neighboring GSM cells through parameter setting. To ensure that
there is sufficient time for the inter-frequency or inter-RAT handovers, the per-period increment of the
UMTS maximum transmit power needs to be set to a proper value through the parameter
GUPWRSHAREURCVPWRPD, so that the signal quality of the CPICH will deteriorate gradually instead of
sharply.

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2.2 Power Retrieval

When the capacity of the PA cannot meet the requirement of the GSM traffic burst for power or the GSM
traffic burst causes the power load to become high, the GSM BTS retrieves the carrier power shared by
the UMTS cell.
After the GSM BTS provides carrier power for the UMTS cell to share, the GSM BTS determines
whether to retrieve the shared power before signals are transmitted over the current timeslot.
 The GSM BTS determines whether the total available carrier power in the current period is lower than
the power required by the timeslot. If yes, the GSM BTS retrieves the shared power. As shown in
Figure 2-2.
 If P out of N timeslots meet the requirement for power retrieval, the GSM BTS retrieves the shared power,
as shown in Figure 2-2. N, specified by the parameter GUPWRSHAREN, is the number of timeslots
(including the current timeslot) that involve in the determination. P, specified by the parameter
GUPWRSHAREP, is the number of timeslots that meet the requirement for power retrieval.
The GSM BTS retrieves the shared power when P timeslots all meet either of the following
requirements:
− The remaining power of the GSM carrier is insufficient.
− There is no idle channel on the current timeslot.
Figure 2-2 Timeslot-triggered power retrieval during the period of 4.8 seconds

In the case of GSM traffic burst, the GSM BTS retrieves the power shared by the UMTS cell during the
power sharing period, as shown in Figure 2-3.

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Figure 2-3 Procedure of power retrieval

1. In the case of the UMTS cell sharing power with the GSM BTS, the GSM BTS determines whether to
retrieve the shared power before the signals are transmitted over the timeslot. If yes, the procedure
proceeds to 2. Otherwise, the procedure of power sharing proceeds as normal.
2. The GSM BTS notifies the UMTS NodeB of the power that will be retrieved.
3. The GSM BTS receives a message from the UMTS NodeB indicating that the UMTS cell agrees to
return the power.
4. The GSM BTS updates the accumulated carrier power that can be shared in the current power
sharing period. The UMTS NodeB updates the maximum transmit power of the UMTS cell that
shares the GSM carrier power.

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5. The UMTS NodeB notifies the GSM BTS that the power is successfully returned.
6. The GSM BTS updates the total available carrier power.
7. The next power sharing period of 4.8 seconds starts.

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GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing 3 Parameters

3 Parameters
Table 3-1 Parameter description
Parameter ID NE MML Description
GUPWRSHARESWITCH BSC6900 SET Meaning: GU dynamic power
BTSRXUBP(Optional) sharing enables the power sharing
between GSM and UMTS networks
when the traffic of the two networks
are not in balance. In this manner,
the power usage and the network
quality are improved. This
parameter specifies whether to
enable the GU dynamic power
sharing.

GUI Value Range: NO(NO),

YES(YES)
Actual Value Range: NO, YES
Unit: None
Default Value: NO
GUPWRSHARETRXNUM BSC6900 SET Meaning: Minimum Number of
BTSRXUBP(Optional) Non-BCCH TRXs in GSM for GU
power sharing.To enable GU power
sharing, the number of non-BCCH
TRXs in the GSM network must be
greater than the value of this
parameter because the BCCH TRX
cannot be used for power sharing.

GUI Value Range: 1~255

Actual Value Range: 1~255
Unit: None
Default Value: 2
GUPWRSHAREURCVPWRPD BSC6900 SET Meaning: Maximum power that the
BTSRXUBP(Optional) UMTS network can accept in each
period in power sharing.
In each GU power sharing period,
the GSM network checks whether
there is any power that can be
shared with the UMTS network.

GUI Value Range: 0~15

Actual Value Range: 0~15
Unit: W
Default Value: 5

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Parameter ID NE MML Description

GUPWRSHAREURCVPWR BSC6900 SET Meaning: Maximum accumulated
BTSRXUBP(Optional) power that the UMTS network can
accept in power sharing according to
the configuration specification of
UMTS TRXs
The accumulated power shared by
GSM with UMTS cannot exceed the
value of this parameter.

GUI Value Range: 0~15

Actual Value Range: 0~15
Unit: W
Default Value: 15
GUPWRSHAREPWRLOAD BSC6900 SET Meaning: GU power sharing can be
BTSRXUBP(Optional) enabled only when the power load of
the GSM network is lower than this
threshold. This ensures that GU
power sharing is performed only
when the GSM network is in low
traffic.

GUI Value Range: 0~100

Actual Value Range: 0~100
Unit: %
Default Value: 70
GUPWRSHAREN BSC6900 SET Meaning: After the GSM network
BTSRXUBP(Optional) shares power with the UMTS
network, the GSM network checks
the requirements for retrieving the
shared power before sending each
timeslot.
If P out of N timeslots meet the
requirements for retrieving the
shared power, the GSM network
retrieves the power. That is, this
parameter specifies the value of N in
the P/N criterion.

GUI Value Range: 0~255

Actual Value Range: 0~255
Unit: None
Default Value: 8

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Parameter ID NE MML Description

GUPWRSHAREP BSC6900 SET Meaning: After the GSM network
BTSRXUBP(Optional) shares power with the UMTS
network, the GSM network checks
the requirements for retrieving the
shared power before sending each
timeslot.
If P out of N timeslots meet the
requirements for retrieving the
shared power, the GSM retrieves
the power. That is, this parameter
specifies the value of N in the P/N
criterion.

GUI Value Range: 0~255

Actual Value Range: 0~255
Unit: None
Default Value: 6

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GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing 4 Counters

4 Counters
For the counters, see the BSC6900 GU Performance Counter Reference.

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GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing 5 Glossary

5 Glossary
For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see the Glossary.

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GSM and UMTS Dynamic Power Sharing 6 Reference Documents

6 Reference Documents
[1] Dynamic Power Sharing Among Carriers Feature Parameter Description of RAN

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