AMR Progressive Power Control

BSS20776
BSC S13 SW and CX(M)6.0 SW Features Course

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 AMR Progressive Power Control - Objectives

• After studying this module the trainee will be able to:

– Describe the function of the AMR Progressive Power Control feature
– List the benefits of AMR PPC
– Understand the operational aspects of AMR PPC
– Describe the steps required to activate AMR PPC
– Understand the purpose of the 32 new AMR PPC parameters

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AMR Progressive Power Control – Pre Introduction

• With current power control, voice quality (based on TCH FER) and drop call rate
(based on SACCH RLT) cannot be optimised at the same time
• For example RXQUAL low thresholds 5 and high thresholds 6 provides low drop
call rate, but poor voice quality.
• As a result, used power control algorithm AMR RXQUAL thresholds have to be
selected so that trade-off between voice quality and system capacity is made

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 AMR Progressive Power Control – Pre Introduction

• In normal Power Control algorithm the quality thresholds for quality based PC are not
changing according to actual transmitting power
• Example:
Quality
Rxqual BER %
0 <0.2

1 0.2 - 0.4

2 0.4 - 0.8

3 0.8 - 1.6

4 1.6 - 3.2

5 3.2 - 6.4

6 6.4 - 12.8

7 >12.8

Power
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Power level
30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Attenuation dB

pc upper threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (UDRF)

pc lower threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (LDRF)
Optimum quality, No need to change transmitting power

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 AMR Progressive Power Control - Introduction
• Progressive AMR Power Control (AMR PPC) provides mechanism to change quality
thresholds depending on used power level i.e. favor increase of power with low
power levels and avoid increase of power with higher power levels and thus reduce
overall interference
• AMR PPC is an enhancement to the existing Power Control (PC) algorithm running
in the BSC and controlling the transmitting power of the MS and BTS
• AMR PPC is application software in S13 and it contains two separate functionalities
which can be separately controlled with Licence and Feature Handling MML
(LFHMML)
▪ AMR PPC for MS power controlling
▪ AMR PPC for BTS power controlling
• AMR PPC algorithm will be used only for AMR calls. When the AMR PPC
algorithm is disabled, the normal PC algorithm is used also for AMR calls
• AMR PPC introduces one new measurement type, The AMR PPC Measurement. The
new measurement is for measuring the average signal quality vs. power level
distribution in TRX level

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AMR Progressive Power Control - Concept
• Progressive AMR Power Control is introduced inorder to further improve AMR quality
and capacity with legacy AMR along with new SAIC phones
• Instead of using constant RX_QUAL threshold values, progressive power control uses
higher RX_QUAL threshold values for higher TX power levels
• Progressive power control provokes AMR adaptation to use codec rates progressively
along power control range
– Better interaction between AMR adaptation and power control by favouring increase
of power over AMR adaptation with low power levels and avoid increase of power
and favouring AMR adaptation with higher power levels and thus reduce overall
interference

Main principle of Progressive Power Control

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 AMR Progressive Power Control -Description
• In AMR PPC algorithm, the algorithm internally changes the thresholds for quality based PC
according to AMR PPC parameters and actual transmitting power
• It is possible to define 4 power level points, where power control quality thresholds are changed
• The changes of power control quality thresholds in AMR PPC algorithm are fixed to be -2, -1, 0,
+1, +2 depending on the current power level
• Example:

Quality
Rxqual BER %
0 <0.2

1 0.2 - 0.4 -2
2 0.4 - 0.8 -1
3 0.8 - 1.6 -2
4 1.6 - 3.2 -1 +1
5 3.2 - 6.4 +2
6 6.4 - 12.8 +1
7 >12.8 +2
X1 X2 X3 X4 Output Power
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Power level
30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Attenuation dB

pc upper threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (UDRF)

pc lower threshold dl Rx qual AMR FR (LDRF)
Optimum quality, No need to change transmitting power
X1 PPC Downlink FR Lower Threshold 1 (= 26 dB)
X2 PPC Downlink FR Lower Threshold 2 (= 22 dB
X3 PPC Downlink FR Lower Threshold 3 (= 8 dB)
X4 PPC Downlink FR Lower Threshold 4 (= 4 dB)

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AMR Progressive Power Control -Description
• Progressive power control reduces the usage of highest transmitted power levels
and thus reduces overall interference
• The figure below shows simulated power distributing changes with current power
control and progressive power control

Progressive PC reduces usage of the highest TX power levels.

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AMR Progressive Power Control - Benefits

• AMR PPC functions as a mechanism that changes quality thresholds depending

on the used power level
• As a result AMR PPC favors increase of power with low power levels and avoids
increase of power with higher power levels. Following results are striven by this:
– Better power distribution introducing less interference to the network
– Better quality distribution yielding to better speech codec distribution
• The aim of this feature is get some capacity gain and decrease the Dropped Call
Rate (DCR)

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AMR Progressive Power Control - Benefits
• Benefits for Operators
– Capex savings and increased end user experience by decreasing the amount
of dropped calls significantly while maintaining good voice quality
– Simulation shows 50% reduction in dropped call rate (DCR) or, with the
same DCR, traffic increase of 15%
– Gives better balance between AMR codec modes and power control

Gains in Progressive Power Control

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AMR Progressive Power Control - Solution Architecture

•Network architecture
– Existing architecture will be used

• Elements involved

AMR PPC parameter Measurement reports

handling
MS or/and BTS power
command AMR capable MS
NetAct (OSS 4.2) / MML
BSC with AMR capable BTS
S13
software

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AMR Progressive Power Control – Operational Aspects

• Valid licence for AMR FR or AMR HR must be installed and one or both of
those features must be active before activation of AMR PPC
• AMR PPC introduces 32 new BSC level parameters
• AMR PPC is application software in S13 and it contains two separate
functionalities which can be separately controlled with Licence and Feature
Handling MML
▪ AMR PPC for MS power controlling
▪ AMR PPC for BTS power controlling
• AMR PPC algorithm will be used only for AMR calls. When the AMR PPC
algorithm is disabled, the normal PC algorithm is used also for AMR calls
• AMR PPC introduces one new measurement type - AMR PPC Measurement.
This new measurement is for measuring the average signal quality vs. power
level distribution in TRX level
• Network level gains are expected to be at a similar level for both AMR/FR and
AMR/HR

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AMR Progressive Power Control
–HW/SW Requirements & Licensing
• BSC HW: no special requirements
• BSC SW: S13
• BSC Application SW: licence for AMR PPC and licence for AMR FR or/and
AMR HR required
• Other NW elements: NetAct OSS4.2
• MS requirements: AMR capability

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AMR Progressive Power Control
- HW/SW Requirements
SUPPORTED IN:
GSM GSM GSM GSM Nokia NetActPl
800 900 1800 1900 MSC NetAct BSC SGSN anner
Y Y Y Y - OSS4.2
2)
S13 - -

Nokia 2nd Nokia Nokia Nokia Nokia Nokia Nokia

Gen. Talk-family PrimeSite MetroSite InSite UltraSite FlexiEdge

N (Y) N (Y) N (Y) (Y)

HW/FW DEPENDENCY:
BSC BTS BSC BTS TC SGSN Operating/
MMI MMI MS HW/FW HW/FW HW/FW HW/FW Application
Y - Y 1) - - - Application
Note(s): 1) AMR capable MS 2) OSS4.2 CD set1 / OSS5 CD set 1

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AMR Progressive Power Control
– Activation and operation
• Valid licence for AMR FR or AMR HR must be installed and one or both of
those features must be active before activation of AMR PPC.
• When valid AMR PPC licence is installed to BSC then the feature states of
AMR PPC for UL and AMR PPC for DL can be changed ON, CONF or OFF
via platform feature management
– feature code for DL AMR PPC -> fc_t_amr_ppc_dl_c = 578
– feature code for UL AMR PPC -> fc_t_amr_ppc_ul_c = 606
– Example: ZW7M:FEA=578:ON;

• Counters of AMR PPC measurement are available after the AMR PPC
measurement modification and starting. The measurement can’t be modified or
started if both of AMR PPC features (AMR PPC for UL and AMR PPC for DL)
are in OFF state.
Example: ZTPM:MEASUR,AMR_PPC:ALL,0-0-24-0,60;

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AMR Progressive Power Control – External interfaces

• Q3 interface
– Handling the new BSC parameters and new measurement type must be
supported by Q3

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AMR Progressive Power Control – New MML
•MML Command EEX – MODIFY AMR PPC PARAMETERS

BASE STATION CONTROLLER PARAMETER HANDLING COMMANDS

? ..... DISPLAY MENU
M: ..... MODIFY GENERAL BASE STATION CONTROLLER PARAMETERS
N: ..... MODIFY RADIO NETWORK SUPERVISION PARAMETERS
Q: ..... MODIFY MISCELLANEOUS PARAMETERS
U: ..... MODIFY DYNAMIC HOTSPOT PARAMETERS <option>
V: ..... MODIFY QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS <option>
T: ..... MODIFY PRIORITY LEVEL TO SUBSCRIBER TYPE RELATION <option>
H: ..... MODIFY DFCA PARAMETERS <option>
X: ..... MODIFY AMR PPC PARAMETERS <option>
R; ..... PREPARE DATABASE FOR DOWNLOADING OF BACKGROUND DATA
G: ..... CONTROL ACTIVATION OF BACKGROUND DATA
O: ..... OUTPUT BASE STATION CONTROLLER PARAMETERS
I: ..... OUTPUT RADIO NETWORK CONFIGURATION
L: ..... OUTPUT TRX RADIO TIME SLOTS
P: ..... OUTPUT BACKGROUND DATA ACTIVATION STATES
C: ..... CREATE LAC TO SPC MAPPING INFO <option>
D: ..... DELETE LAC TO SPC MAPPING INFO <option>
F: ..... MODIFY LAC TO SPC MAPPING INFO <option>
S: ..... OUTPUT LAC TO SPC MAPPING INFO <option>
Z; ..... RETURN TO MAIN LEVEL
•Example for syntax -> EEX:LDF1=<AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 1>

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 AMR Progressive Power Control – New Parameters
• AMR PPC introduces 32 new BSC level parameters.

AMR PPC for UL AMR PPC for DL

AMR FR AMR HR AMR FR etc…

Upper quality Lower quality Upper quality Lower quality Upper quality etc…
threshold threshold threshold threshold threshold

UUF1 UUF2 UUF3 UUF4 ULF1 ULF2 ULF3 ULF4 UUH1 UUH2 UUH3 UUH4 ULH1 ULH2 ULH3 ULH4 DUF1 DUF2 DUF3 DUF4
etc…

*In picture above, e.g. -> UUF1 == UL Upper Full rate threshold1…

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AMR Progressive Power Control – New Parameters

• All 32 new AMR PPC parameters are for defining power level points where the
PC quality thresholds will changes
• There are 4 power level points e.g. AMR FR Upper Power Control quality
threshold for Uplink direction etc.
• Quality thresholds are changed depending on AMR PPC parameter and measured
transmitting power, so that they are either reduced by 2 or 1 OR increased by 1 or
2
• Range for all new AMR PPC parameters is from 0 to 15 and it covers power
levels from the maximum power level to the minimum power level

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AMR Progressive Power Control – New Parameters
• Parameters are numbered from 1 to 4
– AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 1
– AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 2
– AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 3
– AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold 4
• Example:
– If measured BTS transmitting power is smaller than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold
1 -> Power Control Quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by 2 (LDRF - 2)
OR
– If measured BTS transmitting power is smaller than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold
2 -> Power Control Quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by 1 (LDRF - 1)
OR
– If measured BTS transmitting power is bigger than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold
3 -> Power Control Quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by 2 (LDRF + 1)
OR
– If measured BTS transmitting power is bigger than AMR PPC DL FR Lower Threshold
4 -> Power Control Quality threshold for AMR FR is reduced by 1 (LDRF + 2)

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AMR Progressive Power Control – Statistics

• New AMR PPC measurement will be introduced for measuring average RX quality
class per transmitting power class distribution
• Measurement consists of Rx quality sum counters separately for uplink and downlink
• For each RX quality sum counter there is a sample number counter (denominator)
indicating the numbers of samples in each RX quality class sum counter
• There are 4 counters for each transmitting power class (0-15)
• Counters can be utilized in post processing for calculating the actual average values by
dividing the sum counter with amount of samples
• Also counters for serving BTS, serving TRX, frequency of the serving TRX, frequency
group and service area information (normal or extended) exist, hence AMR PPC
measurement has a total of 69 counters
• Counters are updated only in case of AMR FR and AMR HR calls
• The object level of AMR PPC measurement is TRX ID
• RCSPRB updates counters during AMR calls

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 Appendix

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 AMR Progressive Power Control
- Solution Implementation
• Licence and feature handling
LFHMLL

Licence Management Feature Management Event Forwarding

Program Block Partner Program Block service Ordering Library
LMNPRO FMPPRB EFILIB

Licence
Management Licence Management Feature Management
File Library Library
LIKEYF LMXLIB FMNLIB

XML XMLLIB
Licence Files RCSPRB

Other involved PRB’s

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AMR Progressive Power Control
- Solution Implementation
• Parameter handling for BSC -level parameters and measurement handling:

RNW MML’s
NetAct
PBCHAN HSMMML
Q3

N04OCH N13OCH
PUBDAT PUMPRB
GUPDAT

RCGSTA
OMU
BSDATA ROLLER
RCSPRB

MCMU
BSCU

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AMR Progressive Power Control – How to test

• AMR FR feature must be active in the BSC before AMR PPC algorithm can be used for
AMR FR calls and AMR HR feature must be active in the BSC before AMR PPC
algorithm can be used for AMR HR calls
• Validation tests for new radio network parameters (in case of Plan Provisioning) are not
done in FT phase, so this functionality must be tested extra carefully in MT phase
• It must be tested that the new parameters related to this feature are invisible if there are no
valid AMR PPC and AMR licences
• It must be tested that the BSDATA has the default values of new parameters for BSC
object after upgrade to S13 level BSC SW
• It must be tested that MS power is controlled according AMR PPC related parameters in
case of AMR call. I must also be tested that new MS power level after MS power control
triggering is calculated according AMR PPC algorithm
• It must be tested that BTS power is controlled according AMR PPC related parameters in
case of AMR call. It must also be tested that new MS power level after MS power control
triggering is calculated according AMR PPC algorithm

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AMR Progressive Power Control – How to test

• Functionality and handling of the new measurement AMR PPC must be tested
• It must be tested that normal PC algorithm is used for AMR calls if AMR PPC feature
state is changed to ‘CONF’ or ‘OFF’. When both, AMR PPC for DL and AMR PPC for
UL feature states are changed to ‘OFF’ also AMR PPC measurement stops automatically
(If it has been activated before)
• It must also be tested that AMR PPC algorithm for certain direction (UL/DL) can be
disabled separately so that normal PC algorithm is used for disabled direction

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