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Optimizer 2.0: Intra-frequency Congestion Relief Optimization of CPICH EcNo Offsets

Requirements Specification

Change History

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Synchronous offset control of cell pairs
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Table of contents
1.1 Purpose and Scope..................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Open Issue.................................................................................................................................. 3
1.3 Terms and Abbreviations............................................................................................................ 3
1.4 References.................................................................................................................................. 3
2. SYSTEM CONTEXT......................................................................................................................... 3
3. USE CASES..................................................................................................................................... 4
4. OTHER REQUIREMENTS................................................................................................................ 9
5. CONSTRAINTS.............................................................................................................................. 12
6. GLOSSARY/DOMAIN MODEL.......................................................................................................12

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INTRODUCTION
1.1
Purpose and Scope
This document describes the use cases of the CPCIH EcNo control of Optimise network.
The use cases capture the functional requirements from the network optimisers point of
view. This document does not describe any design or implementation issues or details but
a purely user centric view of the CPICH EcNo offset optimization.
1.2

Open Issue
Counter names (PM) shoud be clearified!

1.3

Terms and Abbreviations

Term

Description

Abbreviation

Description

1.4

References

Reference [XXX]
[SYSREQ]
[PILOT]
[HO]
[PBGT_RS]

2.

Description (Name of the document, version, author)

System Requirements for OSS, v.1.0, Tapani Mikola
Operability and Automation System Program Feasibility Study:
Intra-Frequency Load Balancing, v.1.0.0, Jyrki Parkkinen, Kimmo
Valkealahti, and Albert Hglund
Load based HO optimization, Salvador Pedraza, a slide set
GERAN Congestion Relief with PBGT HO optimization,
Requirements Specification Optimizer2.0,
OPT_GeranTrabPBGT_RS, Jaana Laiho

SYSTEM CONTEXT
After the study in [PILOT], it was decided that it is safer to do intra-frequency load
balancing with CPICH Ec/No Offsets. This requirement specification describes a UTRAN
feature, which is similar to Salvador Pedraza's ideas in GERAN [HO], in which parameters
of two neighboring cells are changed if their blocking ratios differ. The GERAN [HO] feature
is specified in [PBGT_RS] for NetAct Optimizer.
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Blocking and queuing/delay statistics

CPICH Ec/No histogram (cell based)

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Required and updated CM (configuration management), i.e. parameters needed and to

be updated
o

Parameter name: CPICH Ec/No Offset

Abbreviated name: AdjsEcNoOffset

Internal parameters of the feature

o

maximum CPICH Ec/No Offset levels for the optimization, with respect to
planned value (e.g. 6dB)

minimum CPICH Ec/No Offset levels for the optimization, with respect to
planned value (e.g. -6dB)

Tuning step, e.g. 0.5 dB

USE CASES

Select Area
Or Cells

Analyze
Congestion
Set Constraints and
Algorithm Parameters
Optimization Mode
Selection

Parameterization

Time Period and

Frequency Selection

Actor

Optimize CPICH
Ec/No Offsets
Analyze Results
Accept Results if
Semi-Automatic Mode

Figure 1 Possible user actions related to this feature.

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The use case figure in the above figure can be updated in the attached file:

CPICHEcNoOffsetCo
ngestionReliefUseCase.ppt

ID 1
Name Select Area Or Cells
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user selects the cells whose CPICH Ec/No offsets are optimized, and
cell-selection mode used in optimization. The cell-selection mode means
the the user can select whether to include only cell pairs of which both cells
are selected or also pairs where only one cell was cell selected.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
Rationale/Source
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ID 2
Name Analyze Congestion
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description User can analyse congestion, i.e blocking and delay+queuing of selected
cells at least individually for cells or possibly also a joint histogram for all
the selected cells.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
Rationale/Source
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Name Parametrization: Set Constraints and Algorithm Parmeters

Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user sets the maximum and the minimum Ec/No offsets for the
optimization with respect to the planned value. Also the tuning step can be
changed from the default, i.e. 0.5 dB.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
Rationale/Source
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ID 4
Name Parametrization: Optimization Mode selection
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user selects automatic or semi-automatic mode. In automatic
optimization updates are performed automatically and in semi-automatic
mode updates have to be approved before taken into use.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
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ID 5
Name Parametrization: Time period and frequency selection
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user sets the daily starting and ending period for the optimization (e.g.
busy hour), length of the interval between successive EcNo offset actions
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(e.g. weakly). User can also select if he wants to have several dayly
periods, witch have separate parameters and are optimized separately.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
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ID 6
Name Optimize CPICH Ec/No Offsets
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user starts the optimization. If automatic mode was selected, the
algorithm optimizes the CPICH Ec/No Offsets according to the time and
frequency selected in requirement 5. In semi-automatic mode the actor has
to accept the tuned values as described in requirement 8.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
Rationale/Source
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ID 7
Name Analyse results
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description The user can analyse the optimization results, e.g. the tuned CPICH Ec/No
Offset values and the congestion (also the CPICH coverage if available),
see requirement 2. The history of the congestion and the Ec/No offsets are
recorded and can be visualized for selected cells.
Exceptions
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
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ID 8
Name Accept Results if Semi-Automatic Mode
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description
Exceptions The actor accepts the optimized CPICH Ec/No values before they are
taken into use. No further optimization can be performed before the actor
has performed this action.
Postconditions
Priority Mandatory
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4.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

<Specify non-functional and other requirements for the system.>

ID 1
Name Optimization mode selection
Description User should be able to select if the optimization is semi-automatic or
automatic. If the optimization is semi-automatic the operator has to accept
the changes befor the parameter updates are done in NetAct configurator.
In automatic mode the updates are performed automatically.
Priority M (mandatory)
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ID 2
Name Cell selection mode
Description User can select whether to include only cell pairs in which both cells inside
optimization area or also pairs where only one cell inside optimization area
Priority O (optional)
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Name
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Optimize CPICH EcNo offsets, automatic mode
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The CPICH EcNo offsets in the selected cell group are optimized to correct
significant deviations of blocking ratios between cell pairs.
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Trigger(s) The time from the previous EcNo offset adjustment check exceeds a limit
set by Operator.
Frequency Set by Operator.
Actor(s) Optimizer
Preconditions The blocking ratios must be measured and available. The number of
admission decisions from which the blocking ratio was computed must be
available. The range of the EcNo offsets must be specified. The EcNo
offset adaptation step must be specified.
Description 1. Iterate Steps 2 to 9 for all cell pairs ( c1 , c 2 ) in the cell-group selection.
Note: Do not repeat steps for a cell pair ( c 2 , c1 ) if ( c1 , c 2 ) is already
processed.
2. Obtain the measured blocking ratios, B1 , B2 , and the number of
admission decisions, N 1 , N 2 , from which the blocking ratios were
computed for cells c1 , c 2 .
3. If any of N 1 B1 or N 2 B2 or N 1 (1 B1 ) or N 2 (1 B2 ) is lower than
five, there are not enough samples for sufficient statistical accuracy and
the analysis is cancelled for the current cell pair. Take the next pair and
continue with Step 2.
4. Obtain the current CPICH EcNo offsets, Offset1 ,Offset 2 given in
decibels.
5. Compute the average blocking ratio B =

B1 N 1 + B2 N 2
.
N1 + N 2

6. Compute the deviation of the blocking ratios. It is obtained with formula

B1 B2
D=
1
1 .

B (1 B )
+
N1 N 2
Step

7. Compute the change in the EcNo offset: Offset = Step

0

if D > 2
if D < 2
otherwise

, in which Step is the EcNo offset adaptation step given in decibels

(for instance, 0.5 dB).
8. Compute the new EcNo offsets with range checking:
Offset1 + Offset if Max Offset1 + Offset Max
NewOffset1 =
,
otherwise
Offset1
and
Offset 2 Offset if Max Offset 2 Offset Max
NewOffset 2 =
.
otherwise
Offset 2

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9. If both computed new EcNo offsets of cells c1 , c 2 differ from their

current setting, change the EcNo offsets and reset the admission
decision counters to zero. Store the EcNo offsets in the history tables.
Exceptions
Postconditions The CPICH EcNo offsets of the selected cell group are adjusted and the
admission decision counters of cells with adjusted offsets are reset.
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ID
Name
Version
Summary
Trigger(s)
Frequency
Actor(s)
Preconditions
Description

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Collect blocking statistics
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The blocking ratio of the cell is updated with admission decision data. The
update can be limited to busy hours.
New admission decision data are available
At every admission decision or less frequently during the optionally defined
busy hour period.
Optimizer
New admission decision data are available that has not been processed by
the blocking statistic collector
1. If the busy hour period is not defined or the time is within a defined busy
hour period then continue with Step 2.
2. Obtain the total number of new admission decisions N new . Obtain the
number of blocked calls among the new decisions, N blocked .

N B + N blocked
, and the
N + N new
number of admission decisions on which the estimate is based,
N := N + N new .

3. Update the blocking ratio estimate, B :=

4. Store statistics N and B in a table of history data.

Exceptions
Postconditions Blocking statistics N and B are updated.
Priority
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ID 5
Name Reset admission decision counter
Description Reset admission decision counter because some CPICH EcNo offset of the
cell has changed. Set the counter for the number of admission decisions,
N, to zero.
Priority
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Furthermore, the requirements specified in [SYSREQ] have to be met.

5.

CONSTRAINTS

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ID 1
Name
Description Only symmetric adjacencies are tuned, i.e. the changes in the cells are
equal but opposite.
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ID
Name
Description
Priority
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6.

GLOSSARY/DOMAIN MODEL

<Define the concepts/terms used in specifying the system context and use cases here. Use object
models to show the relations between the concepts/terms if seen appropriate.>
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