WCDMA HSPA &

HSPA+ Dimensioning

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 Objectives
 Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

 Describe HSDPA dimensioning principle, including link budget,

capacity dimensioning, channel element dimensioning

 Describe HSUPA dimensioning principle, including link budget,

capacity dimensioning, channel element dimensioning

 Describe impacts of HSPA+ features on dimensioning, including

DL 64QAM , MIMO, DC-HSDPA, MIMO + DL 64QAM, UL 16QAM,
DC-MIMO,DC-HSUPA

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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

2. HSUPA Dimensioning

3. HSPA+ Dimensioning

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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

1.1 HSDPA Link Budget

1.2 HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning

1.3 HSDPA CE Dimensioning

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 R99 Downlink Budget Principle
Antenna Gain SHO Gain against Slow
fading Slow fading margin

SHO Gain against fast Fast fading margin

fading
Interference margin
NodeB Antenna Gain Body Loss

Cable Loss
UE Antenna Gain

NodeB Transmit Power

CableLoss Penetration Loss

Penetration UE
Loss Sensitivity DOWNLINK BUDGET

Antenna Gain Maximum

allowed path loss
SHO Gain
Margin
Loss

UE reception sensitivity

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Link Budget Difference between HSDPA and R99

 Coverage Requirement
 R99: Based on target continuous coverage service

 HSDPA: Based on cell edge throughput

 Simulation KPI
 R99: Connect Success Rate, Coverage Probability, Pilot
Pollution Proportion and SHO

 HSDPA: Cell Average Throughput and Cell Edge Throughput

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Link Budget Difference between HSDPA and R99

 Target Network Load

 R99: DL target load should be set to 75%

 HSDPA: DL target load can be raised to 90%

HSDPA
power
Cell total power Cell total power

More power
R99 DCH Power 90% R99 DCH Power to ensure
75% R99 capacity
CCH CCH

time time

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Link Budget Difference between HSDPA and R99

 Other Parameters
 R99
 Power control margin should be considered.

 SHO gain should be considered.

 HSDPA
 Power control margin need not be considered.

 SHO gain should not be considered for HSDPA.

 Other elements: Number of HS-PDSCH, HSDPA power, etc.

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HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 Goal of HSDPA link budget
 The HSDPA link budget is usually based on the R99 link
budget to get the cell edge throughput in downlink

 The HSDPA cell edge throughput need to be calculate depend

on simulation results, which is related with cell edge Ec/No

 HSDPA link budget procedure

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 HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 DL Coupling Loss

DL _ CouplingLoss = PL _ DL + Lf _ BS − Ga _ antenna + Lb + SFM NSHO + Lp

 Cell edge Ec/No

Ec PHS − DSCH
= 10 × log( DL _ CoupleLoss＋NF＋Nt
)
No
(α + f )×η DL × Pmax + 10 10

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HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 Relationship between Ec/No and throughput
 Simulation Conditions
 Channel model-TU3
 5 codes

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 HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 According to R99 Cell Radius and HSDPA Power Allocation,
calculate Cell Edge Throughput

R99 Network Cell Radius

DL_CoupleLoss=DL_PL+TxBodyLoss+TxCableLoss-TxAntennaGain
Downlink Path Loss
+RxBodyLoss + RxCableLoss-RxAntennaGain +PenetrationLoss
+SlowFadingMargin

Downlink Coupling Loss

HSDPA power

Ec PHS − DSCH
Ec/No at Cell Edge = 10 × log( DL _ CoupleLoss＋NF＋Nt
)
No
(α + f )×η DL × Pmax + 10 10

Simulation Results

Cell Edge Throughput

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 HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 According to Cell Edge Throughput requirement and HSDPA
Power Allocation, calculate HSDPA Cell Radius
Cell Edge Throughput
Simulation results

Ec/No at Cell Edge

HSDPA power

Downlink Coupling Loss PHS − DSCH

− (α + f )×η DL × Pmax
Ec
DL _ CoupleLoss = No
Downlink Path Loss
NF＋Nt

DL_CoupleLoss=DL_PL+TxBodyLoss+TxCableLoss-TxAntennaGain
+RxBodyLoss + RxCableLoss-RxAntennaGain +PenetrationLoss
HSDPA Cell Radius
+SlowFadingMargin

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HSDPA Link Budget Principle
 According to Cell Edge Throughput requirement and Cell
Radius, calculate HSDPA Power

Cell Radius Cell Edge Throughput

Simulation results

Downlink Path Loss Ec/No at Cell Edge

Downlink Coupling Loss PHSDPA = PHS − DSCH + PHS − SCCH

Ec
( DL _ CoupleLoss × Nt × NF + (α + f )×η DL × Pmax ) ×
= No + P
HS − SCCH
Pmax

HSDPA Power

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Example – HSDPA Link Budget
 Assumption:
 Downlink maximum path loss: 129.06 dB

 Cable loss : 0.5 dB

 NodeB antenna gain : 18dBi

 Penetration loss : 20dB ( required in indoor coverage )

 Body loss : 0 dB

 Slow fading margin without soft handover gain against SFM :

13.1

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Example – HSDPA Link Budget (Cont.)
 Assumption:
 Channel type: TU3
 Non-orthogonality factor: 0.5
 Adjacent cell interference factor: 1.78
 HSDPA code resource: 5
 Cell radius: 0.36 km
 UE Category: 8
 Max transmitter power of downlink: 20000 mW
 Total power of HSDPA: 6000 mW (30% downlink power allocation)

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Example – HSDPA Link Budget (Cont.)
 According to the assumption above, the DL Coupling Loss for
HSDPA is calculated below:

DL _ CouplingLoss = PL _ DL + Lf _ BS − Ga _ antenna + Lb + SFM NSHO + Lp

= 129.06 + 0.5 - 18 + 0 + 13.1 + 20 = 144.66dB

 Cell Edge Ec/No will be carry out base on equation below:

Ec PHS − DSCH
= 10 * log( DL _ CoupleLoss＋NF＋Nt
)
No
(α + f )×η DL × Pmax + 10 10

6000
= 10 * log( 144.66 −108.16 + 7
) = −10.2dB
(0.5 + 1.78) * 0.9 * 20000 + 10 10

 Base on the simulation result, the Cell Edge Throughput for

HSDPA can be obtained is 173.80 Kbps
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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

1.1 HSDPA Link Budget

1.2 HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning

1.3 HSDPA CE Dimensioning

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HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning (1)
 HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning
 The purpose is to obtain the required HSDPA power to satisfy
the cell average throughput.

 HS-DSCH will use the spare power apart from that of R99

Power 3GPP Release 99 Power 3GPP Release 5

Unused power
Pmax-R99 HS-DSCH

Dedicated channels (power controlled) Dedicated channels (power controlled)

Common channels Common channels

Power usage with dedicated t t

HS-DSCH with dynamic power allocation
channels channels

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HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning (2)
4.00% DU Cell coverage Radius=300m

Capacity Based on Simulation

Distribution probability
3.50%

3.00%
2.50%

 to simulate Ior/Ioc distribution in the 2.00%

1.50%

network with certain cell range 1.00%

0.50%
0.00%

to simulate cell throughput distribution

4.22
2.98
2.04
1.39
0.96
0.66
0.45
0.31
0.21
0.14
0.1
0.07
0.05
0.03
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.01
0
0
0
0

Ioc/Ior

based on Ec/Io distribution in the cell

Conditions of Simulation
 Dimensioning Procedure Channel model-TU3
5 codes

Cell coverage
radius
Simulation

HSDPA Power
Ior/Ioc distribution
Allocation

Ec/Io distribution Ec/Io =>throughput Cell average

throughput

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Example
 Input parameters
 Subscriber number per cell: 800
 HSDPA Traffic model: 1200kbit per subs
 HSDPA Retransmission rate: 10%
 The power for HS-SCCH: 5%
 Cell radius: 1km

 HSDPA cell average throughput:

800 *1200
* (1 + 10%) = 293kbps
3600
 The needed power for HS-DSCH including that for HS-SCCH is 18.38%

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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

1.1 HSDPA Link Budget

1.2 HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning

1.3 HSDPA CE Dimensioning

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Channel Element

 Definition of a CE:
 A Channel Element is the base band resource required in the NodeB
to provide capacity for one voice channel, including control plane
signaling, compressed mode, transmit diversity and softer handover.

 NodeB Channel Element Capacity

 One BBU3900
 UL 1,536 CEs with full configuration

 DL 1,536 CEs with full configuration

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Huawei Channel Elements Features

 Channel Elements pooled in one NodeB

 No need extra R99 CE resource for CCH
 reserved CE resource for CCH

 No need extra CE resource for TX diversity

 No need extra CE resource for Compressed Mode
 reserved resources for Compressed Mode

 No need extra CE resource for Softer HO

 HSDPA does not occupy R99 CE resource
 separate module for HSDPA

 HSUPA shares CE resource with R99 services

 No additional CE resource for AGCH RGCH and HICH

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CE Mappings for R99 Bearers

Channel Elements Mapping for R99 Bearers

Bearer Uplink Downlink

AMR12.2k 1 1

CS64k 3 2

PS64k 3 2

PS128k 5 4

PS144k 5 4

PS384k 10 8

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CE Mappings for HSDPA Bearers

HSDPA Channel Elements Consumption

Traffic Uplink Downlink
HSDPA Traffic --- 0 CE
HS-DPCCH 0 CE ---
DL A-DCH (DPCCH) --- 1 CE

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HSDPA CE Dimensioning

 In uplink, no CE consumption for HS-DPCCH if corresponding UL

DCH channel exists

 In uplink, CE consumed by one A-DCH depends on its bearing

rate

 In downlink, A-DCH is treated as R99 DCH.

 No additional CE needed for HS-DSCH and HS-SCCH

Associated Dedicated Channels

One HSDPA link need

one A-DCH in uplink and
downlink respectively
Site 1 Site 2

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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

2. HSUPA Dimensioning

3. HSPA+ Dimensioning

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 Contents

2. HSUPA Dimensioning

2.1 HSUPA Link Budget

2.2 HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning

2.3 HSUPA CE Dimensioning

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 HSUPA Uplink Budget Principle
Antenna Gain
SHO gain over SFM SFM

SHO gain over FFM FFM

Interference Margin
NodeB Antenna Gain

Cable loss
Cable Loss UE Antenna Gain
Body Loss
NodeB UE power backoff
Sensitivity Penetration Penetration Loss
Loss
UE maximum transmission
power

HSUPA Uplink Link Budget

Maximum Available
Antenna Gain Path Loss
SHO gain

Margin

Loss
NodeB receiver sensitivity

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HSUPA Radio Link Budget Principle
 Based on the link budget, the HSUPA cell radius is obtained

 Cell radius  throughput

Cell Radius

Link
Budget

Ec/No = Cell
Edge NodeB Cell Edge NodeB
Receiver signal Receiver signal strength
Simulation
strength-(-
108.16+ NodeB
Noise Figure) Cell Edge
Cell Edge Ec/No =>Throughput
Ec/No Throughput

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HSUPA Radio Link Budget Principle

 Relationship between Ec/No and throughput

TU3_SBLER70%
10 TU3_SBLER30%
5 TU50_SBLER70%
TU50_SBLER30%
0 RA3_SBLER70%
RA3_SBLER30%
-5
Ec/N0

-10
-15
-20
Bearer Rate
-25
69 507.6 978 1353 1927.8 2706 4050

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Factors Influencing Simulation Results of Ec/No
and Throughput
 Channel Model

 SBLER

 TTI of HSUPA ( UE Category or NodeB capability)

UE Category TTI Maximum Throughput

1 10ms 0.7Mbps
2 10ms&2ms 1.4Mbps
3 10ms 1.44Mbps
4 10ms&2ms 2.8Mbps
5 10ms 2.0Mbps
6 10ms&2ms 5.74Mbps

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R99 and HSUPA Comparison
 R99  HSUPA
 No HARQ  HARQ

 10ms or longer TTI  10ms & 2ms TTI

 RNC scheduling  NodeB scheduling

 Single code transmission of  Multi-codes transmission of

data data

 Fast power control to  Fast power control to adjust

compensate fast fading data rate

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R99 and HSUPA Link Budget
Parameters Comparison
 Smaller fast fading margin of HSUPA
 HARQ of HSUPA brings time diversity gain
 For PS64k, FFM of HSUPA in PA3 is about 1dB smaller than R99
 Smaller SHO gain over FFM
 Typical value of SHO gain over FFM for R99 is 1.5dB
 HARQ of HSUPA reduces MDC gain of SHO
 Typical value of SHO gain over FFM for HSUPA is 1dB
 HSUPA UE power back off
 DPCCH, DPDCH, HS-DPCCH,E-DPDCH and E-DPCCH multi-codes
transmission results in UE power back off
 The higher the HSUPA bearer rate, the smaller the UE power back off

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R99 and HSUPA Link Budget
Parameters Comparison
 R99 and HSUPA PS64k Ec/No requirement comparison

 Simulation Condition
 SBLER=10%
-10
TU50 TU3 PA3
 Without Power Control -11
-12
-13

Ec/N0 -14
-15
-16
R99
-17
HSUPA
-18
Channel Model

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 R99 and HSUPA Link Budget
Parameters Comparison
 Uplink target load
 Given the same Noise Rise (NR), HSUPA can work at higher
load due to fast NodeB scheduling

 Higher uplink load reduces uplink coverage

Cost231-Hata 1

Cell radius shrink



 NodeB antenna height 30m 0.8

0.6
0.4
0.2 Cell Coverage shrink Vs
uplink load increase
0
50% 60% uplink
68%load 75% 80%

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R99 and HSUPA Coverage Comparison

 PS384K Coverage comparison between R99 and HSUPA

 Simulation Condition
 TA3

 CAT5&CAT6

Better receiver sensitivity

and smaller fast fading
margin result in better
coverage of HSUPA than
R99

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 Contents

2. HSUPA Dimensioning

2.1 HSUPA Link Budget

2.2 HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning

2.3 HSUPA CE Dimensioning

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HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning Principle

 Target
 The relationship between HSUPA Ec/No and HSUPA Cell
throughput is obtained from simulation

 The maximum data rate is determined by the target uplink load

and UE capacity

 The average cell throughput is obtained base on the HSUPA

user throughput at distance R and maximum data rate

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HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning Procedure
Simulation
Cell Radius Ec/No User rate at
distance R
Ec/N0=>Throughp HSUPA cell
ut average throughput
Uplink load HSUPA actual Maximum rate
cell load of single user
One HSUPA
user occupies
all available
1. HS-DPCCH load HSUPA HSUPA load
2. R99 load single user
3. A-DCH load throughput

UE distance from NodeB

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 Impact of HSUPA on Uplink Capacity

 HSUPA effectively increases uplink cell capacity

 Simulation Condition
 Voice per cell : 20Erl
Cell Throughput
 TTI of HSUPA :10ms 700
Cell Throughput
Cell Throughput(Kbps) 600
 Single carrier 500
118%

400
30%
300
200
100
0
R99_Load50% HSUPA_Load50% HSUPA_Load75%

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Impact of HSUPA on Downlink Capacity
 Impact of HSUPA on downlink code resources
 AGCH
 SF=256
 20 HSUPA users could share one AGCH

 RGCH and HICH

 SF=128
 One code with SF 128 could be shared among 20 RGCH and HICH
 20 HSUPA users per cell consumes 1.2% downlink code resources
 40 HSUPA users per cell consumes 2.4% downlink code resources

Impact of HSUPA on downlink code

resources is negligible and fixed code
allocation for HSUPA could be adopted

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 Impact of HSUPA on Downlink Capacity

 Impact of HSUPA on downlink power resources

R99 Network Network with HSDPA

CCH Margin CCH
Margin
CCH Margin CCH
Margin HSDPA

HSDPA
HSUPA
\
HSUPA

R99 DCH
R99 DCH R99 R99
DCHDCH

Power available for R99 Power available for HSDPA

decreases! decreases!

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Impact of HSUPA on Downlink Capacity

 Impact of HSUPA on downlink cell throughput

 Simulation Condition
 TU3
 Power for R99: 50%
900
800 9%
HSDPA Throughput(Kbps)

700 19%
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
WithoutHSUPA HSUPA_5%_Power HSUPA_10%_Power

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 Contents
2. HSUPA Dimensioning

2.1 HSUPA Link Budget

2.2 HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning

2.3 HSUPA CE Dimensioning

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HSUPA Uplink CE Dimensioning
 HSUPA shares all the uplink CE resource with R99 services.

 The SF determines the CE consumed by the HSUPA service.

CE consumption for an HSUPA service (10 ms TTI, SRB over DCH)

Rate (kbit/s) Rate (kbit/s) Corresponding

Number of CEs
Direction SF Credits
SF > minSF SF = minSF Consumed
Consumed
32 64 32 1 2

64 128 16 2 4

128 256 8 4 8
UL
608 608 4 8 16
1280 1280 2SF4 16 32

1800 1800 2SF2 32 64

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CE Consumption for HSUPA Service

CE consumption for an HSUPA service (2 ms TTI, SRB over DCH)

Rate (kbit/s) Rate (kbit/s) Corresponding

Number of CEs
Direction SF Credits
SF > minSF SF = minSF Consumed
Consumed

608 608 4 8 16

UL 1280 1280 2SF4 16 32

2720 2720 2SF2 32 64

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CE Consumption for HSUPA Service(Cont.)

CE consumption for an HSUPA service (10 ms TTI, SRB over HSUPA)

Rate (kbit/s) Rate (kbit/s) Corresponding

Number of CEs
Direction SF Credits
SF > minSF SF = minSF Consumed
Consumed

NA 64 32 1 2
32 128 16 2 4
128 256 8 4 8
UL 608 608 4 8 16

1280 1280 2SF4 16 32

1800 1800 2SF2 32 64

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CE Consumption for HSUPA Service(Cont.)

CE consumption for an HSUPA service (2 ms TTI, SRB over HSUPA)

Corresponding
Rate (kbit/s) Rate (kbit/s) Number of CEs
Direction SF Credits
SF > minSF SF = minSF Consumed
Consumed

608 608 4 8 16
1280 1280 2SF4 16 32

UL 2720 2720 2SF2 32 64

5760 5760 2SF2+2SF4 48 96

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HSUPA Uplink CE Dimensioning
 One HSUPA link requires one uplink A-DCH

 One uplink A-DCH(SF=256) consumes one CE

Associated
Dedicated Channels

E-D
PD
E-D CH
PC
CH

Site 1 Site 2

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HSUPA Uplink CE Dimensioning
 HSUPA Uplink CE Calculation

N CE _ HSUPA = N CE _ Traffic _ HSUPA + N CE _ A− DCH _ HSUPA

1＋PHSUPABurst
= NUser _ HSUPA _ NodeB × ΓHSUPA × (1 + PSHO ) ×
1 − BLER
+ NUser _ HSUPA _ NodeB × (1 + PSHO ) × (1＋PHSUPABurst )

ThroughputPerUserHSUPA _ kbit × UsersPerNodeB

N User _ HSUPA _ NodeB =
AvgUserRate HSUPA × 3600

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HSUPA Downlink CE Dimensioning
 Downlink CE dimensioning
 Downlink physical channel of HSUPA
 AGCH, RGCH and HICH consumes no additional CE

 A-DCH of HSUPA
 One HSUPA link requires one downlink A-DCH

 A-DCH of HUSPA and HSDPA could be shared

 A-DCH CE dimensioning of HSUPA is the same with HSDPA

Associated
Dedicated Channels

AG
CH
&R
GC
H&
HIC
H
Site 1 Site 2

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CE Dimensioning Comparison of HSUPA, R99&HSDPA

 R99
 Uplink and downlink CE dimensioning are the same

 HSDPA
 HS-DSCH and HS-SCCH consume no additional CE
 No soft handover overhead

 HSUPA
 Uplink CE dimensioning is more complicated
 Both E-DPDCH and E-DPCCH consume CE
 Soft handover overhead

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Impacts of HSUPA on Uplink and Downlink CE

 Impacts of HSUPA on uplink CE

 E-DCH and A-DCH consumes uplink CE resources
 SHO overhead of HSUPA consumes uplink CE resources
 Uplink CE resources may increase considerably

 Impacts of HSUPA on downlink CE

 Only A-DCH of HSUPA may consume downlink CE resources
 A-DCH of HSUPA and HSDPA share CE resources
 HSUPA has little impact on downlink CE resources

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 Contents

1. HSDPA Dimensioning

2. HSUPA Dimensioning

3. HSPA+ Dimensioning

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview
 HSPA+ Main Features
 DL 64QAM: The highest order modulation mode used for HS-DSCH, increase
DL peak rate to 21Mbps

 MIMO: 2 × 2 MIMO can increase DL peak rate to 28Mbps

 CPC: Includes three sub features

 UL DTX

 DL DRX

 HS-SCCH Less operation

 DC-HSDPA: One UE can setup HSDPA connections with two adjacent-

frequency cells that have the same coverage, DC-HSDPA with DL 64QAM can
provide a peak rate of 42Mbps

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HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview (Cont.)
 HSPA+ Main Features
 MIMO + DL 64QAM: MIMO and DL 64QAM can be used simultaneously by one
UE to receive HSDPA data, with the technology, DL peak rate can reach
42Mbps

 UL 16QAM: Higher order modulation for UL, increase peak rate to 11Mbps

 DC-MIMO : DC-HSDPA(with 64QAM) and MIMO are used at the same time,
with the technology, DL peak rate can reach 84Mbps

 DC-HSUPA : One UE can setup HSUPA connections with two adjacent-

frequency cells that have the same coverage, DC-HSUPA with UL 16QAM can
provide a peak rate of 23Mbps

 HSPA+ Dimensioning
 Algorithms of Dimensioning are all same with HSPA

 Describe impacts of HSPA+ main features on Dimensioning

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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 Impact on Coverage - DL 64QAM
Type3 64QAM vs Type3 16QAM (Ec/Ior=-1.6dB, PA3)
 64QAM provides users
Type3_16QAM Type3_64QAM
30000
higher throughput when
25000
the users are near to the
20000

NodeB
Throughput (kbps)

15000

10000  No cell coverage range

5000 extend with 64QAM
0
-5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Ior/Ioc (dB)

64QAM vs 16QAM : 64QAM has better performance in good

radio condition.

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Impact on Capacity - DL 64QAM
Macro Scenario, Typical DU Micro Scenario, Typical DU

Cell Throughput: 64QAM vs 16QAM, Macro, PA3 Cell Throughput: 64QAM vs 16QAM, Micro, PA3

11000 11000
16%
10000 10000

9000 9000

Cell Throughput (kbps)

Cell Throughpu t(kbps)

8000
7% 16QAM 8000
16QAM
64QAM
7000 7000 64QAM

6000 6000

5000 5000

4000 4000

 64QAM provides capacity improvement compare to HSPA both in

micro/DAS and macro scenarios
 Capacity improvement from 64QAM is higher in micro scenario
than macro scenario

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Impact on CE Consumption - DL 64QAM

 DL 64QAM consumes no additional Channel Elements in

the downlink because of dedicated module for HSDPA

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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Impact on Coverage - 2×2MIMO
HS-PDSCH Performance (Ec/Ior=-1.6dB, PA3)

type3_16qam_ext mimo_dual_ext mimo_single_ext

30000

25000
Throughput (kbps)

20000

15000

10000

5000

0
-5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Ior/Ioc (dB)
MIMO vs 16QAM: MIMO has better performance under both
good and bad radio condition

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Impact on Coverage - 2×2MIMO (Cont.)

 PA3 Single Stream (MIMO vs DL  PA3 Dual Stream (MIMO vs DL 16QAM)

16QAM)  Cell Edge: 0% improvement
 Cell Edge: 40%~60% improvement  Cell Middle: ~15% improvement
Cell Middle: ~15% improvement
Near Site: 50%~80% improvement



 Near Site: 0% improvement

Transmit diversity brings gain Dual stream brings gain

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 Impact on Capacity - 2×2MIMO
Macro Scenario, Typical DU Micro Scenario, Typical DU
Cell Throughput: MIMO vs 16QAM, PA3 Cell Throughput: MIMO vs 16QAM, PA3
11000 12000
33%
11000
Cell Throughput (kbps)

10000

Cell Throughput (kbps)

25%
9000 10000

8000 9000

7000 8000

6000 7000

5000 16QAM
6000 16QAM
MIMO MIMO
4000 5000

 MIMO provides capacity improvement compare to HSPA both in

micro/DAS and macro scenarios

 Capacity improvement from MIMO is higher in micro scenario than

macro scenario
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Impact on CE Consumption - 2×2MIMO

 MIMO consumes no additional Channel Elements in

downlink because of dedicated module for HSDPA

 HS-DPCCH in uplink consumes 1 Channel Element when

MIMO is introduced

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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 Impact on Capacity in Uplink - CPC
Typical Urban Scenario
 Simulation shows that with the
UE NUMBER GAIN
same uplink upload 33%(
57
60
1.74dB noise rise in the uplink):
50
40
About 42.5% capacity gain can
UE NUMBER

40 
30 UE NUMBER be provided in typical Urban
20
10
scenario
0  47.5% capacity gain can be
noncpc upload = 33.514005% cpc upload = 33.7399988%
achieved in typical Rural
UPLINK UPLOAD(%)
scenario

 The basic principle which CPC can provide capacity gain is that activity of
DPCCH is decreased. Thus the interferences from each users is degraded
and more users can be supported with the same noise rise (Uplink load)

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Impact on Capacity in Uplink- CPC (Cont.)
 CPC will achieve higher Uplink cell throughput in FTP+VOIP case
compare to Non CPC (from 2.32% to 10%)

 VoIP UEs bring smaller noise rise compare to Non CPC case, which
remains more resources to FTP service to achieve higher cell

VOIP+FTP Simulation Case, Typical Urban

1400

1200

1000

800 Without CPC

600 With CPC

400
200

0
10VoIP+5FTP 10VoIP+5FTP 20VoIP+5FTP 30VoIP+5FTP 40VoIP+5FTP
50% loading 75% loading 75% loading 75% loading 75% loading

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Impact on Capacity in Downlink - CPC

 HS-SCCH less operation feature of CPC improves the cell

capacity in the downlink

 CPC provides obviously capacity improvement for the

services which are periodically bursting such as VOIP,
Gaming, WEB Browsing

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Impact on Capacity in Downlink - CPC (Cont.)
PB3 VoIP CAPACITY

0.30

Original HS-SCCH-less: 2 TB sizes

0.25 Original HS-SCCH-less: 4 TB sizes

Reduced complexity HS-SCCH-less: 4 TB sizes

0.20 Rel 5 HSDPA: Legacy

OUTAGE PROBABILITY

0.15

0.10

0.05

0.00
40 50 60 70 80 90 100
VoIP USERS

 HS-SCCH less operation of CPC improves 15~20% VOIP

users capacity

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Impact on Capacity in Downlink - CPC (Cont.)
PB3 BE Throuhgput of 5 BE users

1600

Original HS-SCCH-less: 2 TB sizes

1400
Original HS-SCCH-less: 4 TB sizes

Reduced complexity HS-SCCH-less: 4 TB sizes

1200
Rel 5 HSDPA: Legacy
1000
KBPS

800

600

400

200

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
VoIP USERS

 CPC saves the power consumption for VOIP users

 Thus VOIP users provides throughput improvement for other BE
service in the same cell, more VOIP users, more benefits

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Impact on CE Consumption - CPC

 CPC consumes no additional Channel Elements in the

downlink and uplink, because it’s only new technology of
channel discontinuous transmission

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3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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 Impact on Coverage - DC-HSDPA

 DC-HSDPA provides users

higher throughput when the
users are near to the NodeB

 DC-HSDPA has less service

delay in non congestion cell

 DC-HSDPA extend
coverage range

DC-HSDPA vs SC-HSDPA : DC-HSDPA has better performance

in good radio condition

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Impact on Coverage - DC-HSDPA (Cont.)

DC-HSDPA vs SC-HSDPA : DC-HSDPA provide same effect

compared with 64QAM and 16QAM

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Impact on Coverage - DC-HSDPA (Cont.)

 DC-HSDPA 64QAM CAT24 vs DC-HSDPA 16QAM CAT22

 Cell edge : 0% improvement of throughput

 Cell Middle : 0% ~ 10% improvement of throughput

 Near Site : 30% ~ 50% improvement of throughput

 DC-HSDPA 64QAM CAT24 vs SC-HSDPA 16QAM CAT10

 Cell edge : 100% improvement of throughput

 Cell Middle : 100% ~ 110% improvement of throughput

 Near Site : 150% ~ 200% improvement of throughput

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Impact on Capacity - DC-HSDPA

7.4%

7.2%

With high utilization of radio resource, multi user selection

and frequency, DC-HSDPA provide capacity improvement
to SC-HSDPA 16QAM/64QAM for system simulation for full
buffer service

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Impact on Capacity -DC-HSDPA (Cont.)

The gain for full buffer service is impacted by user

number

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Impact on CE Consumption – DC-HSDPA

 DC-HSDPA consumes no additional CE resource in the

downlink because of dedicated module for HSDPA

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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Impact on Coverage - 2×2MIMO + DL 64QAM

 MIMO + 64QAM gets

better performance across
cell compared to 64QAM

 MIMO provides cell

coverage extend
compared to 64QAM

MIMO + 64QAM vs 64QAM : MIMO has better performance

under both good and bad radio condition

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Impact on Coverage - 2×2MIMO +
DL 64QAM(Cont.)

 Single MIMO + 64QAM vs 64QAM  Dual MIMO + 64QAM vs 64QAM

 Cell Edge : 40%~75%  Cell edge : 0% improvement

improvement  Cell Middle : ~12 improvement
 Cell Middle : ~17% improvement  Near Site : 20% ~50% improvement
 Near Site : 0 improvement
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Impact on Capacity - 2×2MIMO +
DL 64QAM

 MIMO + 64QAM provides capacity improvement compared to

64QAM / MIMO both in micro/DAS and macro scenarios

 Capacity improvement from MIMO + 64QAM is higher in micro

scenario than macro scenario
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Impact on Capacity - 2×2MIMO +
DL 64QAM (Cont.)

1.9%

MIMO with higher modulation provides higher throughput

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Impact on CE Consumption -
2×2MIMO + DL64QAM

 MIMO + 64QAM consumes no additional CE in downlink

because of dedicated module for HSDPA

 MIMO + 64QAM consumes one additional CE for HS-

DPCCH in uplink

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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Impact on Capacity - UL 16QAM

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Impact on Capacity - E-DCH IC

Cell Throuput over HSUPA Vs IC

From lab radio test, Target Rot=6dB, TTI=2m, Full buffer service

7
29%
6
UL Cell Throuput (Mbps)

5
32%
38%
4 IC OFF
3 IC ON

2
1
0
2 3 4
User Number (HSUPA Cat6) in one cell

IC reduce the interference among users and increase the

UL cell throughput by 29%~38%

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Impact on Capacity - FDE

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Impact on CE Consumption – UL 16QAM

max. # E-DCH CE consumption CE consumption CE consumption

Codes & min. SF (RAN10.0) (RAN11.0) (RAN12.0)

1*SF64 1 CE 1 CE 1 CE

1*SF32 1.5 CE 1 CE 1 CE

1*SF16 3 CE 2 CE 2 CE

1*SF8 5 CE 4 CE 4 CE

1*SF4 10 CE 8 CE 8 CE

2*SF4 20 CE 16 CE 16 CE

2*SF2 32 CE 32 CE 32 CE

2*SF2+2*SF4 48 CE 48 CE 48 CE
2*SF2+2*SF4
not supported not supported 64 CE
(HSP A+, 16QAM )

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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Impact on Coverage - DC-MIMO

Downlink Edge Throughput of Different Cell Radius from Link Budget

Downlink Edge Throughput

100% gain from DC

resource

20%-50% gain, going

(kbps)

up as radius increase
due to MIMO TD

Cell Radius (km)

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Impact on Coverage - DC-MIMO

 Compared to MIMO : Edge throughput of DC-MIMO has

100% gain over MIMO due to 2 carriers resource of DC
under both good and bad radio condition

 Compared to DC-HSDPA : Edge throughput of DC-

MIMO has 20%~50% gain over DC due to transmit
diversity (TD) of MIMO at Cell Edge

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 Impact on Capacity - DC-MIMO
8% gain due to combined schedule in 2 carriers of DC

Downlink Cell Throughput (throughput/carrier) from

simulation
8% 17% 17%
8%
Downlink Cell Throughput

17% gain from MIMO dual

(Mbps)

stream near antennae and

transmit diversity at cell edge

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Impact on Capacity - DC-MIMO

 Compared to MIMO : Cell throughput of DC-MIMO has

8% gain over MIMO due to combined schedule in 2
carriers of DC

 Compared to DC-HSDPA : Cell throughput of DC-MIMO

has 17% gain over DC due to frequency efficiency
improvement from MIMO dual stream near antennae and
transmit diversity at cell edge

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 Contents
3. HSPA+ Dimensioning
3.1 HSPA+ Dimensioning Overview

3.2 Impact on Dimensioning – DL 64QAM

3.3 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO

3.4 Impact on Dimensioning – CPC

3.5 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSDPA

3.6 Impact on Dimensioning – MIMO + DL 64QAM

3.7 Impact on Dimensioning – RAN12 UL Features

3.8 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-MIMO

3.9 Impact on Dimensioning – DC-HSUPA

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Impact on Coverage – DC-HSUPA

 Cell radius will reduce (because of the Secondary carrier will

consume UE power 0.7dBm)

 Data is transmitted in 1 carrier due to UE power limit

 DC-HSUPA is downgraded to SC-HSUPA downgraded at cell edge
where UE power is limited

DC-
HSUPA SC-HSUPA

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Impact on Coverage – DC-HSUPA (Cont.)

HSUPA密集城区H
coverage,
SU Pdensely populated urban area
A 新特性覆盖对比
12000
H SU P A + Q P SK 10m s
10000 H SU P A + Q P SK 2m s
H SU P A + 16Q A M
H SU PA Th ro u g h p u t (kb p s)

D C + H SU P A + 16Q A M
8000

6000

4000

2000

0
0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80
R a d iu s (km )

* Link estimation

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Impact on Capacity – DC-HSUPA

 Simulation Result
 Cell throughput decreases as DC users increase (typically -5.99% at 8
DC users)

System
Cell1 Load Cell2 Load Gain of DC
User Number Throughput
(%) (%) vs SC (%)
(kbps)
2 SC 65.02 65 8421.84 -
2 DC 75.03 74.78 8629.38 2.46
4 SC 73.63 73.56 6942.49 -
4 DC 73.64 73.63 6802.62 -2.01
8 SC 72.16 72.41 4537.97 -
8 DC 72.03 72.31 4266.1 -5.99
16 SC 73.62 73.42 3566.36 -
16 DC 73.96 74.06 3320.85 -6.88

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Impact on CE Consumption – DC-HSUPA

 During the UE admission, channel element (CE) consumption of a

DC-HSUPA UE is calculated based on the guaranteed bit rate
(GBR) on the primary carrier. On the secondary carrier, the UE
consumes one CE by default.

 After the connection is established, CE consumption calculation of

the DC-HSUPA UE on each carrier is the same as that of an SC-
HSUPA UE, which is based on the SFs on the uplink E-DCH of
the corresponding carrier.

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 Summary

 In this course ,we discussed following dimensioning principles:

 HSDPA Dimensioning

 HSUPA Dimensioning

 HSPA+ Dimensioning

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