CE Efficiency Improvement For HSUPA TTI 2ms (RAN16.0 - Draft A) PDF

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CE Efficiency Improvement for

HSUPA TTI 2ms Feature Parameter
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Date
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CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms Feature
Parameter Description
Contents
Contents
1 About This Document..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Scope..............................................................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Intended Audience..........................................................................................................................................................1
1.3 Change History...............................................................................................................................................................1
2 Overview.........................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Background.....................................................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................2
2.3 Benefits...........................................................................................................................................................................2
3 Technical Description...................................................................................................................3
3.1 Principles........................................................................................................................................................................3
3.2 Feature Impacts...............................................................................................................................................................4
3.2.1 CE-based Single HARQ Scheduling...........................................................................................................................4
3.2.2 Admission CE Consumption for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI.................................................................................5
4 Related Features.............................................................................................................................7
5 Network Impact.............................................................................................................................8
6 Engineering Guidelines.............................................................................................................10
6.1 When to Use CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms................................................................................10
6.2 Required Information...................................................................................................................................................10
6.3 Deployment..................................................................................................................................................................11
6.3.1 Requirements.............................................................................................................................................................11
6.3.2 Data Preparation........................................................................................................................................................12
6.3.3 Activation..................................................................................................................................................................12
6.3.4 Activation Observation..............................................................................................................................................13
6.3.5 Deactivation...............................................................................................................................................................13
6.4 Performance Monitoring...............................................................................................................................................14
6.5 Parameter Optimization................................................................................................................................................19
6.6 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................................19
7 Parameters.....................................................................................................................................20
8 Counters........................................................................................................................................22

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9 Glossary.........................................................................................................................................23
10 Reference Documents...............................................................................................................24

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1 About This Document
About This Document
1.1 Scope
This document describes the WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
feature, including the technical principles, related features, network impact, and engineering
guidelines.
1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for personnel who:
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Need to understand the features described herein
Work with Huawei products
1.3 Change History

This section provides information about the changes in different document versions. There are
two types of changes, which are defined as follows:
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Feature change
Changes in features of a specific product version
Editorial change
Changes in wording or addition of information that was not described in the earlier version
Draft A (2014-01-20)
This document is created for RAN16.0.

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2 Overview
Overview
2.1 Background
Channel element (CE) resources are NodeB resources. The number of CEs supported by a NodeB
indicates the capabilities of its baseband boards. Downlink CEs are used for coding, spreading,
and modulation. Uplink CEs are used for demodulation and decoding.
CE resources are crucial for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms transmission time interval (TTI) to
experience high rates and short service delay. An HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI consumes much
more uplink CE resources than an HSUPA UE with a 10 ms TTI. If CE resources are insufficient,
HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI cannot access the network unless they use a 10 ms TTI.
CE resource usage is somewhat low on live networks. This is because the traffic model has been
changed as a result of the increasingly high penetration rate of smartphones and therefore an
increased number of online HSUPA users. The data rate of these users is low (at around 20 kbit/
s), but they consume considerable CE resources. To improve CE efficiency to adapt to the reality,
Huawei introduces the WRFD-160205 CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
feature.
2.2 Introduction
This feature improves CE efficiency for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI. With this feature, an
HSUPA UE uses a single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process to transmit one Radio
Link Control packet data unit (RLC PDU) in each TTI. The active HARQ process consumes as
few as one CE for the UE to stay online at a minimum uplink rate of 20 kbit/s.
2.3 Benefits
This feature provides the following benefits when CE resources are insufficient:
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Allows more HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI to be admitted.
Increases the uplink throughput.

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3 Technical Description
Technical Description
3.1 Principles
With CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms, an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI uses
a single HARQ process to transmit one RLC PDU with a default size of 40 bytes in each TTI.
To implement this, the NodeB sends an absolute grant (AG) message to deactivate the other
seven HARQ processes. Figure 3-1 shows the technical principles.
Figure 3-1 Technical principles of CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
Figure 3-2 shows the CE resources consumed in each TTI before this feature is enabled. The
active HARQ processes uses spreading factor (SF) 4 and consumes eight CEs, while each the
other inactive HARQ process consumes one CE. The average number of CEs consumed by a
HARQ process is 1.875.
Figure 3-2 CE consumption before this feature is enabled
After this feature is enabled, each HARQ process (active or inactive) consumes only one CE,
as shown in Figure 3-3.

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Figure 3-3 CE consumption after this feature is enabled
NOTE
CE consumption of UEs not using the single HARQ process depends on the requirement of the SF used
by each TTI. For information about how to calculate CE consumption for such UEs, see CE Resource
Management Feature Parameter Description.
To enable this feature, run the NodeB MML command SET NODEBALGPARA with
CEIMPROVEMENT2MSSW set to ON(ON).
3.2 Feature Impacts

CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms affects dynamic CE scheduling and CE
admission algorithm as follows:
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In dynamic CE scheduling, the scheduler can configure HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI to
use a single HARQ process to transmit one RLC PDU in each TTI when,
Uplink date rate required by the UEs is 20 kbit/s or lower.
CE resources are insufficient.
Each HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI consumes only one admission CE.
3.2.1 CE-based Single HARQ Scheduling

The dynamic CE algorithm allocates CE resources to each HSUPA UE based on available CE
resources, UE's data transmission requirement, and user differentiation. When CE resources are
sufficient, more CEs are allocated to UEs that require rate upgrade. If CE resources become
insufficient, rate downgrade is performed. To ensure that a UE is online, the downgraded rate
must not be lower than 160 kbit/s, which is the minimum requirement when the UE uses all the
eight active HARQ processes to transmit one RLC PDU. When CE Efficiency Improvement for
HSUPA TTI 2ms is enabled, the minimum rate of an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI at the RLC
layer can be reduced from 160 kbit/s to 20 kbit/s, as such a UE can use a single HARQ process
to transmit one RLC PDU in each TTI.
CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms also increases differentiation between highpriority and low-priority UEs when CE resources are insufficient. High-priority HSUPA UEs
with a 2 ms TTI can enjoy a maximum rate of 5.44 Mbit/s at the RLC layer. Therefore, the rate
differentiation ratio between high-priority and low-priority UEs is increased from 34:1
(5440:160) to 272:1 (5440/20).
Figure 3-4 shows dynamic CE resource management when CE Efficiency Improvement for
HSUPA TTI 2ms is enabled.
NOTE
For information about CE consumption for a 2-ms-TTI HSUPA service, see Table 3-4 and Table 3-6 in
CE Resource Management Feature Parameter Description.

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Figure 3-4 Dynamic CE resource management when CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA
TTI 2ms is enabled
The InitSingleHARQSW parameter in the SET NODEBALGPARA command specifies

whether to enable HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI to use a single HARQ process to transmit data.
After the switch is enabled, the NodeB sends scheduling grant to all newly admitted HSUPA
UEs with a 2 ms TTI so that they use a single HARQ process to transmit one RLC PDU in each
TTI at 20 kbit/s. When CE resources are sufficient, the NodeB allows UEs that require higher
data rate to use all the eight HARQ processes to transmit data. The NodeB considers that a UE
requires higher data rate when the happy bit of the UE transmitted on the E-DCH Dedicated
Physical Control Channel (E-DPCCH) is "unhappy" and the value of Total E-DCH Buffer Status
(TEBS) in Segmentation Indication (SI) field is larger than or equal to 20 kbit/s. The UE then
uses all the eight HARQ processes to transmit data even when it no longer requires high rate.
This situation lasts until the CE resources become insufficient and the NodeB instructs the UE
to use a single HARQ process to transmit data.
This feature is recommended for NodeBs with insufficient CE resources and a large number of
UEs that require low data rate (20 kbit/s). Using this feature restricts the instantaneous rate of
UEs and therefore increases uplink delay.
3.2.2 Admission CE Consumption for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI

Table 3-1 describes admission CE consumption for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI.
Table 3-1 Admission CE consumption
Feature
Version
Number of
Required
Admission CEs
CE Consumption
Calculated Based on
No features applied
N/A
MBR
Dynamic CE Resource
Management
RAN10.0
MAX(GBR, Rateone RLC

PDU)

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Feature
Version
Number of
Required
Admission CEs
CE Consumption
Calculated Based on
CE Overbooking
RAN14.0
2-8
UE data rate and the

minimum number of CEs
for admitting UEs with a
2 ms TTI (specified by
the
CERSVFOR2MSUSER
parameter). The number
of consumed CEs must
not exceed the number
required for transmitting
one RLC PDU.
CE Efficiency Improvement
for HSUPA TTI 2ms
RAN16.0
Always uses one

admission CE.
NOTE
For information about the WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE Resource Management feature, see HSUPA
Feature Parameter Description. For information about the WRFD-140212 CE Overbooking feature, see
CE Overbooking Feature Parameter Description.
CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms requires CE Overbooking, which allows the
NodeB to calculate consumed admission CE resources of admitted UEs and report the calculated
results to the RNC through the common measurement report. The RNC then performs admissionCE-based call access control (CAC), load reshuffling (LDR), and TTI switching.
When CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms is enabled, HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms
TTI are not switched to use a 10 ms TTI when CE resources are insufficient because the number
of admission CEs is the same for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI and those with a 10 ms TTI.
Only the WBBPf and UBBPd boards support CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms.
Therefore, only UEs whose services are established on these boards during link setup or resetup
will not be switched to use a 10 ms TTI when CE resources are insufficient. The NodeB informs
the RNC that these UEs do not support admission-CE-based or CE-consumption-based TTI
adjustment using the private fields in the RL Setup Response, RL Reconfiguration Response
Ready, and RL Add Response messages.
For UEs whose services are not established on the WBBPf or UBBPd boards, admission CE
consumption is calculated based on the UE data rate and the minimum number of CEs for
admitting UEs with a 2 ms TTI (specified by the CERSVFOR2MSUSER parameter) or MAX
(GBR, Rateone RLC PDU). If CE resources are insufficient, these UEs will be switched to use a 10
ms TTI.

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4 Related Features
Related Features
Prerequisite Features
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WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE Resource Management
WRFD-140212 CE Overbooking
Mutually Exclusive Features

None
Impacted Features
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WRFD-010695 UL Layer 2 Improvement

When UL Layer 2 Improvement is enabled, the active HARQ process of a UE can use SF8
at most and the minimum RLC rate can be further reduced to 15 kbit/s.
Admission-CE-based dynamic TTI adjustment for a single BE service over HSUPA

When admission-CE-based dynamic TTI adjustment for a single BE service over HSUPA
is enabled, HSUPA UEs with a 10 ms TTI whose services are established on the WBBPf
or UBBPd board can be switched to use a 2 ms TTI if uplink CE resources become
insufficient. For HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI and newly admitted UEs whose services are
established on the WBBPf or UBBPd board, 2ms-to-10ms TTI switching is not performed
if uplink CE resources become insufficient.
This is because the minimum rate of an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI decreases from 160
kbit/s to 20 kbit/s at the RLC layer when CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
is enabled, while the minimum rate of an HSUPA UE with a 10 ms TTI is 32 kbit/s. Both
HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI and those with a 10 ms TTI consume one CE to transmit
data. As a result, it is not necessary to perform 2ms-to-10ms TTI switching when uplink
CE resources are insufficient.

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5 Network Impact
Network Impact
System Capacity
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Increased number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI

Compared with CE Overbooking, this feature further increases the number of HSUPA UEs
with a 2 ms TTI that need to continuously transmit a large amount of data by two to eight
times when CE resources are insufficient.
Higher HSUPA cell throughput

If you enable HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI requiring a low data rate to use a single HARQ
process from the beginning to transmit data in a normally loaded cell, UEs with data transfer
requirements can use more CE resources, which increases uplink throughput. The increased
uplink throughput depends on the number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI requiring a low
data rate and the number of such UEs that use a single HARQ process to transmit data.
Network Performance
Compared with CE Overbooking, this feature further decreases the amount of admission CE
resources consumed by HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI. Since an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI
uses only one admission CE, admission CE consumption for such UEs can now be precisely
evaluated based on the number of UEs on the live network. With CE Overbooking, admission
CE consumption for UEs with a 10 ms TTI can be precisely evaluated based on the rate required
for transmitting one RLC PDU. CE resources for R99 UEs are assigned and consumed in a fixed
manner.
If the uplink CE resources are insufficient and admission-CE-based dynamic TTI adjustment is
not enabled, using this feature allows more UEs to be admitted, increasing the cell access success
rate.
When this feature is enabled together with admission-CE-based and CE-consumption-based
dynamic TTI adjustment, if CE resources become insufficient, 2ms-to-10ms TTI switching is
not performed on HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI. As a result, a cell serves more HSUPA UEs
with a 2 ms TTI and the number of times TTI switching is triggered decreases.
When this feature is enabled, the number of times HSUPA UEs experience service drops due to
poor coverage may increase because 2 ms TTI provides weaker coverage than 10 ms TTI. You
are advised to enable coverage-based dynamic TTI adjustment to prevent this situation.

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5 Network Impact
Compared with an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI that uses all the eight HARQ processes to
transmit data, an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI that uses a single HARQ process has a lower peak
rate. Therefore, service delay of such UEs may be prolonged.

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6 Engineering Guidelines
Engineering Guidelines
6.1 When to Use CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI

2ms
This feature is recommended for NodeBs where,
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HSUPA UEs that support a 2 ms TTI account for more than 60% of all HSUPA UEs.
Admission-CE congestion occurs so that UE access requests are denied or switching to the
10 ms TTI is performed on UEs with a 2 ms TTI.
Admission-CE congestion is about to occur when consumed CE resources account for 70%
of all configured CE resources for the NodeB.
6.2 Required Information

You must collect the values of the counters listed in the following table.
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Collect the values of the following counters on the RNC:

VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT1.4: Average Number of HSUPA UEs with Category 1-4
in a Cell
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT5~VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT9: Average Number of
HSUPA UEs with Category 5 in a Cell~Average Number of HSUPA UEs with Category
9 in a Cell
HSUPA UEs that support a 2 ms TTI account for more than 60% of all HSUPA UEs in a
NodeB if the following inequation is true:
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT5~9)/(VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT1.4+(
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.CAT5~9)
Collect the values of the following counters on the RNC. If any of the following counters
has a value other than 0, access denial caused by insufficient admission CE resources
occurred in the NodeB.
VS.RRC.Rej.ULCE.Cong: Number of RRC Connection Rejects for Cell (UL CE
Resource Congestion)

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VS.RAB.FailEstabCS.ULCE.Cong: Number of Failed CS RAB Establishments for Cell

(UL CE Congestion)
VS.RAB.FailEstabPS.ULCE.Cong: Number of Failed PS RAB Establishments for Cell
(UL CE Congestion)
VS.HSUPA.RAB.FailEstab.ULCE.Cong: Number of Failed HSUPA Service
Establishments Due to UL CE Insufficiency for Cell
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Collect the values of the following counters on the RNC. If either of the following counters
has a value other than 0, 2ms-to-10ms TTI switching caused by insufficient admission CE
resources occurred in the NodeB.
VS.HSUPA.TTI2to10.ADMCE.Succ: Number of Successful TTI Switchovers Based
on Admitted CEs During RB Reconfiguration in a Cell(2ms to 10ms)
VS.HSUPA.RABEstabTTI10ms.AdmCE.Succ: Number of Successful RAB
Establishments Initiated by HSUPA 2ms UEs with a 10 ms TTI Due to Congestion of
Admitted CEs in a Cell
Collect the values of the following counters on the RNC and NodeB:
VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean: Average NodeB Uplink Credit Usage When CE
Overbooking Is Enabled for NodeB (RNC)
VS.LC.ULCreditUsed.Mean: Mean Usage of UL Credit for Cell (RNC)
VS.LC.ULCreditAvailable.Shared: Number of UL CEs configured for a shared group
(NodeB)
If CE Overbooking is enabled, admission-CE congestion is about to occur is the following
inequation is true:
(VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean/2)/VS.LC.ULCreditAvailable.Shared 70%
If CE Overbooking is not enabled, admission-CE congestion is about to occur if the
following inequation is true:
(VS.LC.ULCreditUsed.Mean/2)/VS.LC.ULCreditAvailable.Shared 70%
6.3 Deployment
6.3.1 Requirements
Other Features
See section "Prerequisite Features" in chapter 4 Related Features.
Hardware
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The 3900 series base stations must be configured with the WBBPf or UBBPd board, and
the WBBPa board is not contained in any downlink resource groups within a NodeB. You
can run the NodeB MML command LST BASEBANDEQM to check the baseband boards
contained in the downlink resource groups.
The BTS3803E supports CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms, while the
BTS3902E does not.

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License
The license controlling this feature has been activated. For details on how to activate the license,
see License Management Feature Parameter Description. For details about license items, see
License Control Item Description.
Feature ID
Feature Name
License Control
Item
NE
Sales Unit
WRFD-160205
CE Efficiency
Improvement for
HSUPA TTI 2ms
CE Efficiency
Improvement for
HSUPA TTI 2ms
NodeB
per NodeB
Others
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The UE is of HSUPA category 6 or higher.
There are no non-scheduling services in the uplink.
The maximum size of an RLC PDU is 336 bits.
6.3.2 Data Preparation

Table 6-1 lists the data to prepare before activating CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA
TTI 2ms.
Table 6-1 Data to prepare before activating CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
Parameter Name
Parameter ID
Setting Notes
Data
source
HSUPA 2ms CE
Efficiency
Improvement Switch
CEIMPROVEMENT2
MSSW
Set this parameter to ON

(ON).
Engineeri
ng design
6.3.3 Activation
Using MML Commands
Run the NodeB MML command SET NODEBALGPARA with HSUPA 2ms CE Efficiency
Improvement Switch set to ON(ON).
MML Command Examples

//Activating CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
SET NODEBALGPARA: CEIMPROVMENT2msSW=ON;

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Using the CME

NOTE
When configuring the feature on the CME, perform a single configuration first, and then perform a batch
modification if required.
Configure the parameters of a single object before a batch modification. Perform a batch modification
before logging out of the parameter setting interface.
Step 1 Configure a single object (such as a cell) on the CME.

Set parameters on the CME according to the operation sequence in Table 6-2. For instructions
on how to perform the CME single configuration, see CME Single Configuration Operation
Guide.
Step 2 (Optional) Modify objects in batches on the CME. (CME batch modification center)
To modify objects in batches, click
on the CME to start the batch modification wizard. For
instructions on how to perform a batch modification through the CME batch modification center,
press F1 on the wizard interface to obtain online help.
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Table 6-2 Configuring parameters on the CME
SN
MO
NE
Parameter Name
Parameter
ID
Configurable
in CME Batch
Modification
Center
NODEBA
LGPARA
NodeB
HSUPA 2ms CE
Efficiency
Improvement Switch
CEIMPRO
VEMENT2
MSSW
Yes
6.3.4 Activation Observation

Check the value of the NodeB counter VS.HSUPA.AlltoSingleHARQNum.CECong, which
indicates the number of times an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI stops using all the eight HARQ
processes and starts to use a single HARQ process to transmit data due to insufficient CE
resources. If the counter value is not 0, CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms has
been activated.
You can also run the DSP LOCELL command to check whether the feature has been enabled.
6.3.5 Deactivation
Using MML Commands
Run the NodeB MML command SET NODEBALGPARA with HSUPA 2ms CE Efficiency
Improvement Switch set to OFF(OFF).

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MML Command Examples

//Deactivating CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
SET NODEBALGPARA: CEIMPROVMENT2msSW=OFF;
Using the CME

NOTE
When configuring the feature on the CME, perform a single configuration first, and then perform a batch
modification if required.
Configure the parameters of a single object before a batch modification. Perform a batch modification
before logging out of the parameter setting interface.
Step 1 Configure a single object (such as a cell) on the CME.

Set parameters on the CME according to the operation sequence in Table 6-3. For instructions
on how to perform the CME single configuration, see CME Single Configuration Operation
Guide.
Step 2 (Optional) Modify objects in batches on the CME. (CME batch modification center)
on the CME to start the batch modification wizard. For
To modify objects in batches, click
instructions on how to perform a batch modification through the CME batch modification center,
press F1 on the wizard interface to obtain online help.
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Table 6-3 Configuring parameters on the CME
SN
MO
NE
Parameter Name
Parameter ID
Configurable
in CME Batch
Modification
Center
NODEBAL
GPARA
Node
B
HSUPA 2ms CE
Efficiency
Improvement
Switch
CEIMPROVE
MENT2MSSW
Yes
6.4 Performance Monitoring

After this feature is activated, admission CE consumption is expected to decrease. You can
observe the counters listed in the following two tables.
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Counters related to consumed admission CEs within a NodeB
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean
Average NodeB Uplink Credit Usage When CE

Overbooking Is Enabled for NodeB

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Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Max
Maximum NodeB Uplink Credit Usage When CE

Overbooking Is Enabled for NodeB
Counters related to CE resource usage of a local cell group (LCG)

Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.LCG.ULCreditUsage.Mean
Average Uplink Credit Usage of LCG for Cell
VS.LCG.ULCreditUsage.Max
Maximum Uplink Credit Usage of LCG for Cell
After this feature is activated, the number of UEs in the CELL_DCH state, HSUPA UEs, and
UEs with a 2 ms TTI is expected to increase. You can observe the counters listed in the following
table.
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Counter related to the number of UEs in the CELL_DCH state, HSUPA UEs, and UEs with
a 2 ms TTI
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.CellDCHUEs
Number of UEs in CELL_DCH State for Cell
VS.HSUPA.UE.Max.cell
Maximum Number of HSUPA UEs in a Cell
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.cell
Average Number of HSUPA UEs in a Cell
VS.HSUPA.UE.Max.TTI2ms
Maximum Number of HSUPA 2 ms TTI UEs in

a Cell
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.TTI2ms
Average Number of HSUPA 2 ms TTI UEs in

a Cell
After this feature is activated, the number of failed RRC/RAB setup attempts and the number
of times TTI switching and LDR are triggered due to insufficient CE resources are expected to
decrease. You can observe the counters listed in the following three tables.
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Counters related to the number of failed RRC/RAB setup attempts caused by insufficient
uplink CE resources
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.RRC.Rej.ULCE.Cong
Number of RRC Connection Rejects for Cell

(UL CE Resource Congestion)
VS.RAB.FailEstabCS.ULCE.Cong
Number of Failed CS RAB Establishments for

Cell (UL CE Congestion)
VS.RAB.FailEstabPS.ULCE.Cong
Number of Failed PS RAB Establishments for

Cell (UL CE Congestion)

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Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.RAB.FailEstab.ULCE.C
ong
Number of Failed HSUPA Service

Establishments Due to UL CE Insufficiency for
Cell
Counters related to the number of times TTI switching is triggered due to insufficient CE
resources
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.TTI2to10.ADMCE.Succ
Number of Successful TTI Switchovers Based

on Admitted CEs During RB Reconfiguration
in a Cell(2ms to 10ms)
VS.HSUPA.RABEstabTTI10ms.Ad
mCE.Succ
Number of Successful RAB Establishments

Initiated by HSUPA 2 ms UEs with a 10 ms TTI
Due to Congestion of Admitted CEs in a Cell
Counter related to the number of times LDR is triggered due to insufficient CE resources
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.LCC.LDR.Num.ULCE
Number of Times a Cell Is in LDR State Due to

UL CE Resource Congestion for Cell
After this feature is activated, the number of times HSUPA UEs experience service drops due
to insufficient CE resources is expected to decrease. However, the number of times HSUPA UEs
experience service drops due to poor coverage will increase because 2 ms TTI provides weaker
coverage than 10 ms TTI. You can observe the counters listed in the following table.
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Counters related to HSUPA service drops
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.RAB.AbnormRel
Number of HSUPA RABs Abnormal Releases for

Cell
VS.HSUPA.RAB.AbnormRel.E
2P
Number of RABs Abnormally Released for PS

HSUPA Services during the State Transition from
CELL_DCH to CELL_PCH or URA_PCH for Cell
VS.HSUPA.RAB.NormRel
Number of HSUPA RABs Normal Released for

Cell
VS.HSUPA.HHO.E2D.SuccOutIntraFreq
Number of Successful HSUPA Intra-Frequency

Hard Handovers for Cell(EDCH to DCH)

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Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.E2F.Succ
Number of Successful Channel Conversions from

EDCH to FACH for HSUPA Service for Cell
VS.HSUPA.E2D.Succ
Number of Successful Channel Conversions from

EDCH to DCH for HSUPA Service for Cell
VS.HSUPA.E2P.Succ
Number of Successful Times That a UE Performing

HSUPA Services Transits to CELL_PCH or
URA_PCH State for cell
After this feature is activated, network load may raise due to the increased number of UEs with
a 2 ms TTI. You can observe the counters listed in the following two tables.
l
Counter related to the cell average RTWP

Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.MeanRTWP
Mean Power of Totally Received Bandwidth for Cell
Counters related to air interface load of a cell (NodeB)

Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.LoadOutput.0 through
VS.HSUPA.LoadOutput.25
Number of Cell Ul Load Between 0db to

0.5db through Number of Cell Ul Load
above 30db
After this feature is activated, uplink HSUPA throughput in the case of insufficient CE resources
may increase. However, if cell load is heavy, uplink HSUPA throughput may decrease because
2 ms TTI results in more loads than 10 ms TTI. You can observe the counters listed in the
following table.
l
Counters related to average HSUPA throughput within in a cell (NodeB)

Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.MeanBitRate
Average throughput of HSUPA users in a cell
VS.HSUPA.MeanBitRate.WithData
Average throughput of HSUPA users in a cell

when data is transmitted
After this feature is activated, you can check CE consumption and number of HSUPA UEs with
a 2 ms TTI transmitting data at a low rate by observing the counters listed in the following two
tables.
l
Counters related to CE consumption on the NodeB (NodeB)

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Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.ULCE.Mean.Shared
Average Shared Uplink CE
VS.LC.ULMean.LicenseGroup.
Shared
Average number of UL CEs consumed in an shared

group
VS.CE.ULMean.UlGroup
Mean Number of Uplink CEs Consumed by All Cells

in an Uplink Resource Group
Counter related to the number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI transmitting data at a low
rate
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.LowRateTTI2msUserNumber
Average number of 2 ms TTI HSUPA users at a

rate lower than or equal to 23.25 kbit/s in a cell
After this feature is activated, you can check the number of times an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms
TTI stops using all the eight HARQ processes and starts to use a single HARQ process to transmit
data due to insufficient CE resources and vice versa by observing the counters listed in the
following table.
l
Counters related to the number of times an HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI stops using all the
eight HARQ processes and starts to use a single HARQ process to transmit data due to
insufficient CE resources and vice versa (NodeB)
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.HSUPA.AlltoSingleHARQNum
.CECong
Number of transitions from using all HARQ

processes to using a single HARQ process due to
limited CEs in the cell
VS.HSUPA.SingletoAllHARQNum
Number of Transitions from Using A Single

HARQ Process to Using All HARQ Processes In
the Cell
Number of failed RRC/RAB setup attempts caused by insufficient downlink CE resources
Counter Name
Counter Description
VS.RRC.Rej.DLCE.Cong
Number of RRC Connection Rejects for Cell

(DL CE Resource Congestion)
VS.RAB.FailEstabCS.DLCE.Cong
Number of Failed CS RAB Establishments for

Cell (DL CE Congestion)
VS.RAB.FailEstabPS.DLCE.Cong
Number of Failed PS RAB Establishments for

Cell (DL CE Congestion)

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6.5 Parameter Optimization

None
6.6 Troubleshooting
After this feature is activated, if the number of times service drops occur due to poor coverage
increases, you are advised to enable coverage-based dynamic TTI adjustment. For detailed
operations, see HSUPA TTI Selection Feature Parameter Description.
As air-interface efficiency of UEs with a 2 ms TTI is lower than that of UEs with a 10 ms TTI,
cell load may increase after this feature is activated. As a result, congestion increases in heavily
loaded cells, leading to reduced uplink throughput, rejected uplink power admissions, or call
drops. To combat with this negative effect, you are advised to enable Turbo IC Phase2. For
detailed operations, see HSUPA Data Channel Interference Cancellation Feature Parameter
Description. You can also enable TTI switching based on the RTWP to switch UEs from the 2
ms TTI or the 10 ms TTI when the uplink load is heavy.
When this feature is enabled, if consumed CE resources accounts for 60% of all configured CE
resources for the NodeB and there are more than 10 HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI requiring a
low data rate (indicated by the VS.HSUPA.LowRateTTI2msUserNumber counter), you can
enable such UEs to use a single HARQ process from the beginning to transmit data. However,
this will prolong service delay. Therefore, you are advised not to do so on live networks. After
this feature is activated, if the number of denied access attempts caused by insufficient downlink
CE resources increases, run the NodeB MML command SET RESALLOCRULE with
Resource Allocate Rule set to CAPAFIRST(Capacity First Rule).

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7 Parameters
Parameters
Table 7-1 Parameter description

Parameter ID
NE
MML
Command
Feature ID
Feature Name
Description
CEIMPROVE
MENT2MSSW
BTS3900,
BTS3900
WCDMA
SET
NODEBALGP
ARA
WRFD-160205
CE Efficiency
Improvement
for HSUPA TTI
2ms
Meaning:Indicates the switch

for CE
efficiency
improvement
for 2 ms TTI
HSUPA users.
LST
NODEBALGP
ARA
GUI Value
Range:OFF
(OFF), ON(ON)
Unit:None
Actual Value
Range:OFF, ON
Default
Value:OFF
(OFF)

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7 Parameters
Parameter ID
NE
MML
Command
Feature ID
Feature Name
Description
INITSINGLEH
ARQSW
BTS3900,
BTS3900
WCDMA
SET
NODEBALGP
ARA
WRFD-160205
CE Efficiency
Improvement
for HSUPA TTI
2ms
Meaning:Indicates the switch

for initial
activation of
single HARQ
for 2 ms TTI
HSUPA users. If
this switch is
turned on, single
HARQ takes
effect on newly
admitted users.
LST
NODEBALGP
ARA
GUI Value
Range:OFF
(OFF), ON(ON)
Unit:None
Actual Value
Range:OFF, ON
Default
Value:OFF
(OFF)
CERSVFOR2M
SUSER
BTS3900,
BTS3900
WCDMA
SET
NODEBALGP
ARA
WRFD-140212
CE
Overbooking
LST
NODEBALGP
ARA
Meaning:Indicates the
minimum
number of CEs
for admitting 2
ms users when
CE
Overbooking is
enabled.
GUI Value
Range:1~8
Unit:None
Actual Value
Range:1~8
Default Value:4

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8 Counters
Counters
Table 8-1 Counter description

Counter ID
Counter Name
Counter
Description
NE
Feature ID
Feature Name
50331958
VS.HSUPA.Allt
oSingleHARQN
um.CECong
Number of
transitions from
using all HARQ
processes to
using a single
HARQ process
due to limited
CEs in the cell
NodeB
Multi-mode:
None
CE Efficiency
Improvement
for HSUPA TTI
2ms
Number of
Transitions from
Using A Single
HARQ Process
to Using All
HARQ
Processes In the
Cell
NodeB
Average number
of 2 ms TTI
HSUPA users at
a rate lower than
or equal to 23.25
kbit/s in a cell
NodeB
50331959
50341892
VS.HSUPA.Sin
gletoAllHARQ
Num
VS.HSUPA.Lo
wRateTTI2msU
serNumber
GSM: None
UMTS:
WRFD-160205
LTE: None
Multi-mode:
None
GSM: None
UMTS:
WRFD-160213
WRFD-160205
LTE: None
Multi-mode:
None
GSM: None
UMTS:
WRFD-160205
Single HARQ
Process
Scheduling
Based on Uplink
Load
CE Efficiency
Improvement
for HSUPA TTI
2ms
CE Efficiency
Improvement
for HSUPA TTI
2ms
LTE: None

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

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10
10 Reference Documents
Reference Documents
1.
3GPP TS 25.211, " Physical channels and mapping of transport channels onto physical
channels (FDD)"
2.
3GPP TS 25.321, " Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification"
3.
CE Resource Management Feature Parameter Description
4.
CE Overbooking Feature Parameter Description
5.
HSUPA Feature Parameter Description
6.
HSUPA TTI Selection Feature Parameter Description
7.
HSUPA Data Channel Interference Cancellation Feature Parameter Description
8.
License Management Feature Parameter Description

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1 About This Document

About This Document

1.2 Intended Audience

Need to understand the features described herein

Work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

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Allows more HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI to be admitted.

Increases the uplink throughput.

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Figure 3-3 CE consumption after this feature is enabled

3.2 Feature Impacts

Each HSUPA UE with a 2 ms TTI consumes only one admission CE.

3.2.1 CE-based Single HARQ Scheduling

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The InitSingleHARQSW parameter in the SET NODEBALGPARA command specifies

3.2.2 Admission CE Consumption for HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI

MAX(GBR, Rateone RLC

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UE data rate and the

Always uses one

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WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE Resource Management

Mutually Exclusive Features

WRFD-010695 UL Layer 2 Improvement

Admission-CE-based dynamic TTI adjustment for a single BE service over HSUPA

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Increased number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI

Higher HSUPA cell throughput

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6.1 When to Use CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI

6.2 Required Information

Collect the values of the following counters on the RNC:

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VS.RAB.FailEstabCS.ULCE.Cong: Number of Failed CS RAB Establishments for Cell

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The UE is of HSUPA category 6 or higher.

There are no non-scheduling services in the uplink.