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Introduction to the RAN14.0

Feature CE Overbooking

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About This Course

This course is based on the radio access network (RAN)

14.0 version. Before you learn this course, ensure that you
have completed the following courses based on the RAN
13.0 version:

Dynamic channel element (CE) resource management

Load control

Dynamic selection of the transmission time interval (TTI)

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Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Understand the values and application scenarios of the CE

Overbooking feature.

Explain the basic principles of the CE Overbooking feature.

Enable and verify the CE Overbooking feature based on

manuals.

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Contents
1 Feature Description
2 Feature Planning
3 Feature Deployment
4 Performance Monitoring
5 Reference Document and Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Feature Description
Background
The transmission rates of HSUPA UEs are low in most cases due to the
high penetration rate of smart phones. In this case, if the RNC reserves a
certain amount of credit resources for each admitted UE, the RNC rejects
new UE access attempts due to congested uplink credit resources. However,
the actual CE usage of the NodeB is low.
This problem can be resolved by enabling the TTI switching algorithm.
However, if the TTI of most UEs is switched from 2 ms to 10 ms, the
benefits of using a 2 ms TTI, such as the peak rate, short delay, and quick
scheduling, are unavailable. This reduces user experience.

Benefit
The CE Overbooking feature provides the following benefits when the
penetration rate of smart phones with an HSUPA TTI of 2 is high and the
average uplink throughput is low:
Relieves CE congestion during UE access.
Increases the number of admitted UEs and the number of UEs with a 2 ms
TTI.
Increases cell throughput when Uu resources are sufficient.
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Technical Principles
With this feature, the NodeB adjusts the credit resource usage of admitted UEs based on the
actual CE usage, includes the credit resource usage in a private information element (IE) in a
measurement report, and sends the report to the RNC every measurement report period. The
RNC then directly uses the reported credit resource usage. The following figure shows the
implementation principle of this feature.

UE

RNC

NodeB
Uu

Iub

Processing on the NodeB:

The credit resources that are consumed by
admitted HSUPA UEs are adjusted periodically
based on whether the amount of CE resources
that are available for HSUPA UEs is smaller
than the CE resource usage calculated with the
following formula:
CE resource usage = Max (CE resources
required for ensuring the GBR, CE resources
required for transmitting one RLC PDU)

CN
Iu

Processing on the RNC:

The RNC receives information about
consumed credit resources that is
reported by the NodeB using proprietary
IEs of Iub-interface messages. The
RNC performs CAC, LDR, or TTI
selection based on the information.

This feature applies only to uplink CE resources.

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Functions
When dynamic CE resource management is implemented, the CE resources that are available
for HSUPA UEs are managed dynamically. That is, idle CEs are recycled when the data
transmission rates of HSUPA UEs are low, or no data is transmitted. When this feature is enabled,
the credit resource usage of HSUPA UEs with low transmission rates is calculated based on the
actual CE usage.
The following table lists the methods for calculating consumed credit resources before and after
the CE Overbooking feature is enabled.

Whether CE Overbooking
Is Enabled
Not enabled

Enabled

Method for Calculating the Credit Resource Usage

The RNC calculates the credit resource usage as follows:
For R99 UEs, the RNC calculates the credit resource usage of admitted UEs based on the maximum bit
rate (MBR).
For HSUPA UEs, the RNC calculates the credit resource usage of admitted UEs by using the following
formula:
Credit resource usage = Max (Credit resources required for ensuring the GBR, Credit resources required for
transmitting one RLC PDU)
The NodeB calculates the credit resource usage as follows:
For R99 UEs, the RNC calculates the credit resource usage of admitted UEs based on the MBR.
For HSUPA UEs, the NodeB adjusts the credit resource usage of admitted UEs to be less than or equal to
the calculation result of the following formula:
Credit resource usage = Max (Credit resources required for ensuring the GBR, Credit resources required for
transmitting one RLC PDU)
If the UEs use a 10 ms TTI, the adjustment is based on the UE rate.
If the UEs use a 2 ms TTI, the adjustment is based on the UE rate and the REVDPARA4 parameter.

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Related Feature

Required Features

This feature depends on the feature WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE

Resource Management.

When CE Overbooking is enabled, it is recommended that

DRA_BASE_ADM_CE_BE_TTI_RECFG_SWITCH under DraSwitch
be turned on.

Mutually Exclusive Features

None

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Impact of CE Overbooking

Impact on resource consumption

Congestion of credit resources on the RNC is reduced.

Impact on the system capacity

Enabling this feature affects system capacity as follows:

Relieves congestion of credit resources on the RNC.

Increases the number of admitted UEs and online UEs.

Increases the average cell throughput when Uu resources are sufficient.

When CE resources are insufficient, enabling this feature reduces the resources available to each
user, leading to lower per user throughput.

Impact on network performance

This feature relieves congestion of credit resources on the RNC and therefore affects network
performance as follows:

Increases the success rates for RRC connection setups, RAB setups, and handovers.
Increases the call drop rate due to insufficient CE resources on the NodeB when multiple UEs
transmit data simultaneously.
Possibly increases the call drop rate due to increased Uu load when more UEs are admitted.

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Application Scenarios and Benefits

Application scenarios

There is a large number of 2 ms HSUPA smart phones in the network.

Credit resources are congested on the RNC.

The average HSUPA throughput is low.

The CE usage on the NodeB is lower than the credit resource usage on the RNC.

Benefits

When the CE usage on the NodeB is low due to the low average throughput of 2 ms
HSUPA smart phones, this feature provides the following benefits:

Reduces the congestion of credit resources on the RNC. This increases the success
rate of access based on CE resources, and reduces the number of CE resource
request failures, probability of TTI switching triggered by CE congestion, and CEbased load reshufflings (LDRs).

Increases the number of admitted UEs and the number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms
TTI.

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Contents
1 Feature Description
2 Feature Planning
3 Feature Deployment
4 Performance Monitoring
5 Reference Document and Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Activation Suggestion and Information

Collection

Activation suggestion

Activate CE overbooking when one of the following conditions is met:

There is a large number of 2 ms HSUPA smart phones in the network.

Credit resources are congested on the RNC.

The average HSUPA throughput is low.

The CE usage on the NodeB is lower than the credit resource on the RNC.

Information collection

Check the following counters:

VS.LC.ULCreditUsed.Mean: credit resource usage on the RNC

VS.LC.ULMean.LicenseGroup: CE usage on the NodeB

VS.RRC.Rej.ULCE.Cong and VS.RAC.NewCallReq.Fail.ULCE.Cong: whether credit

resources on the RNC are congested

You are advised to enable this feature when credit resources are congested, and the
CE usage on the NodeB is much lower than the credit resource usage on the RNC.

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Version/License Planning
Version
RAN14.0 or later versions
License
The license contolling the CE Overbooking feature is activated on the
M2000.
Required feature
WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE Resource Management

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Contents
1 Feature Description
2 Feature Planning
3 Feature Deployment
4 Performance Monitoring
5 Reference Document and Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Feature Deployment

Deployment Requirements

The license controlling the CE Overbooking feature must be obtained.

The feature WRFD-010638 Dynamic CE Resource Management must be enabled.

The requirements on NodeB hardware deployment are as follows:

The BTS3812E, BTS3812A, and BTS3812AE must be configured with the EBBI, EBOI,
EULP, or EULPd.

The DBS3800 must be configured with the EBBC or EBBCd. The BBU3806C must be
configured with the EBBM.

Activation/Initial Configuration

The 3900 series base stations must be configured with the WBBPb, WBBPd, or WBBPf.

Activate the license and parameter settings for this feature on the M2000.

Feature Verification

Check the VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean counter introduced for this feature. If the

value is not 0, this feature takes effect.

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Contents
1 Feature Description
2 Feature Planning
3 Feature Deployment
4 Performance Monitoring
5 Reference Document and Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Performance Monitoring

Check whether the CE Overbooking feature takes effect based on

the following counters:

VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean: added on the RNC and used to measure the credit

resource usage at the NodeB level when this feature is enabled

VS.LC.ULCreditUsed.Mean: used to measure the credit resource usage on the

RNC

When this feature takes effect, the value of the

VS.NodeB.ULCreditUsed.Mean counter on the NodeB is smaller than the
sum of the value of the VS.LC.ULCreditUsed.Mean counter in all the cells
under the NodeB.
When this feature takes effect, if CE congestion (which causes access
rejects) still exists, and the statistic result of the counters added for this
feature is close to the Licensed CE capability, capacity expansion is
recommended.

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Performance Monitoring
When CE usage is low due to a large number of 2 ms HSUPA smart
phones in the network, and the average uplink throughput is low, check
the following counters to observe performance changes:
VS.RRC.Rej.ULCE.Cong, VS.RAC.NewCallReq.Fail.ULCE.Cong, and
VS.HSUPA.RAB.FailEstab.ULCE.Cong: whether the success rate of
access based on CE resources increases, and whether the number of
CE resource request failures decreases.
VS.HSUPA.TTI2to10.Succ: whether the probability of TTI switching
triggered by CE congestion decreases
VS.MeanRTWP: whether Uu load increases
VS.HSUPA.MeanBitRate: whether the average cell throughput
increases
VS.HSUPA.UE.Mean.TTI2ms: number of HSUPA UEs with a 2 ms TTI

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Contents
1 Feature Description
2 Feature Planning
3 Feature Deployment
4 Performance Monitoring
5 Reference Document and Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Reference Document
WCDMA RAN CE Overbooking Feature Parameter Description

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Acronyms & Abbreviations

CE: channel element
GBR: guaranteed bit rate
HSUPA: high speed uplink packet access
MBR: maximum bit rate

PDU: packet data unit

RLC: radio link control
RNC: radio network controller
TTI: transmission time interval

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