Wcdma Network Planning and Optimization
Wcdma Network Planning and Optimization
Aircom International
Robert Joyce
August 2006
▪ 12.00 Lunch
UMTS R5 HSDPA
3.6Mbps
UMTS R99
384kbps
GSM Phase1
CS 9.6kbps
Time
1978 1992 2000 2001 2006
HSUPA*
HSDPA
WCDMA
EDGE
GPRS
GSM
3 sector
NodeB
3.6 Mbps
10 codes HSDPA
384 kbps
5 codes HSDPA
R99
AIRCOM International 2006
HSDPA – benefits
Benefits towards Customers Benefits towards Operator
pushes existing services due to increased customer satisfaction
improved user perception increased total NW throughput
increased peak & average data rate reduced cost per bit
reduced round trip delay
fast scheduling,
multi-user diversity
2 ms
P
Node B
RNC
Scheduler
t
feedback on channel
quality for selection of
t code rate and
modulation
Uplink
High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel
HS-DPCCH SF=256
HS-DPCCH Carries H-ARQ ACK/NACK, Channel Quality
HS-DPCCH
Information (CQI)
HS-DPCCH It can only exist with UL DPCH
1 code with SF 1
2 codes with SF 2
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
HSDPA reservation
e.g. 5 codes here
▪ Once reserved for HSDPA these codes and all below are
dedicated for HSDPA use and cannot be used for R99 radio
bearers
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
HSDPA reservation
5 codes gives max 3.6Mbps to a single user
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
HSDPA reservation
10 codes gives max 7.2Mbps to a single user
No R99 DL
channels possible
SF 4
SF 8
SF
16
HSDPA reservation
15 codes gives max 10.8 (14.4) Mbps to a single user
UE 1 UE 23
UE UE31
UE UE 1 UE 23
UE UE31
UE
UE 2 UE 2 Time
0
TTI 0 TTI 1 TTI 2 TTI 3 TTI 4 TTI 5 etc
2ms
5
UE 1 UE 1
UE31
UE UE31
UE
UE 2 UE 2
UE 23
UE UE 23
UE UE 23
UE UE31
UE
UE 23
UE
UE 1 Time
UE31
UE UE 2
UE 2 UE31
UE
0 UE 2
TTI 0 TTI 1 TTI 2 TTI 3 TTI 4 TTI 5 etc
2ms
Spreading
Spreading
▪ 16 QAM will only be possible for users within a limited radius of the
NodeB (<20 % of the cell area ?)
t
5
QPSK 16 QAM UE 2
QPSK 16 QAM 16 QAM UE 2
QPSK Time
0
TTI 0 TTI 1 TTI 2 TTI 3 TTI 4 TTI 5 etc
2ms
HSDPA UE category and network capabilities limit the Peak data rate
HS-DSCH Max. nb. of Max user
Category bit of rate
HSDPA TB [Mbps]
per TTI
6 7298 3.36 (3.6)
2ms TTI
time
RF conditions (C/I) Rel.99 traffic has HSDPA resources code- and time multiplexed
priority over HSDPA by all active HSDPA user
Single user
mean data rate
3.6 Mbps
Single user data rate ≈
available HSDPA capacity
shared by several HSDPA users
limited by user C/I
Mean rate for
single user ‘A’
Uplink
High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel
HS-DPCCH SF=256
HS-DPCCH Carries H-ARQ ACK/NACK, Channel Quality
HS-DPCCH
Information (CQI)
HS-DPCCH It can only exist with UL DPCH
CQI
1 Report
UE Signal Modul
Quality ation
4 1 Good 16QA
16QAM
M
QPSK 2 Very Good 16QA
M
3 Medium QPSK
4 Poor AIRCOM International
QPSK 2006
Hybrid ARQ Scheme
▪ Transmit with higher code rates as possible (weaker error
correcting code) and hope data transmission is successful
▪ If transmission fails: request for repetition (MAC-hs)
▪ Receiver combines all transmission attempts
▪ Minimisation of redundancy
▪ Chase Combining:
▫ each re-transmission is an identical copy of the first transmission;
▫ maximum-ratio-combining done at the UE
▪ Incremental redundancy:
▫ each re-transmission contains additional redundancy that has not
been sent before
▫ code-combining done at the UE
R99
HSDPA
R99
HSDPA
▪ HSDPA is similar
▫ Number of codes supported
▪ Nokia 5
▪ Huawei 15
▪ Alcatel 15
▫ Same carrier supported
▪ Nokia Now
▪ Huawei Now
▪ Alcatel Q4 2007
▪ The consumer devices should help drive “consumer” high bit rate
services such as
▫ MP3 download
▫ Movie clip DL
▫ Audio streaming
▫ Video streaming
▪ Samsung SGH-ZX20
Iub
requirements
Commercial Launch
HSDPA Optimisation
Optimisation
- Use of RanOpt Guidelines
(Coverage, Neighbours
etc.)
Commercial Launch
Layer 3 Messaging
-12 -10dB
-10
Ec/Io (dB)
-8
-6
A -100 dBm D
0
99.7% 0.0%
2
0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -50 -60 -70 -80 -90 -100 -110 -120
RSCP (dBm)
400
350
300
FTP Throughput (kbps)
250
Uplink Transfers
200
Dow nlink Transfers
150
100
50
0
1 11 22 32 43
FTP Transfer
▪ HSDPA finally brings High Speed Data to the mobile user … and
with it a number of issues to be addressed by the operator
deploying it