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Power Control
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Outer Loop
The purpose of the Outer Loop power control is to set and adjust the Eb/No target for the service dependant upon the achieved BER/FER The BER/FER target will be associated with the service itself However it may be possible to set:
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Inner Loop
The purpose of the Inner Loop power control is to achieve the target Eb/No over the air interface The inner loop power control is dependant upon which of two algorithms are used
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Algorithm 1
" A single power control bit is used to indicate a power rise/lower
Algorithm 2
" A set of five power control bits are used, preceded by a series of 4 zero valued bits. Only if all bits indicate a power rise/lower is the power modified
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PC Algorithm
Open Loop Open Loop Closed Loop Closed Loop Closed Loop
Typical Values
1dB 0.5dB (1dB also possible) Algorithm 1/Algorithm 2
Description
Power Increase for Access Preamble failure Maximum Number of Access Preamble Trials
Power Step for Closed Loop Power Control Algorithm Choice of uplink power control algorithm
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Handover
Soft Handover is used in UMTS Soft handover is where multiple cells are simultaneously connected to a single UE The size of the handover zone can be set by modifying the handover parameters
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Handover Parameters
Parameter
WINDOW_ADD WINDOW_DROP WINDOW_REPLACE PS_MINIMUM AS_MAX_SIZE HCS_LAYER_UP/DOWN HCS_LAYER_REPLACE
Typical Values
3dB 5dB 3dB -
Description
The active set window. All cells within the active set window are added to the active set until AS_MAX_SIZE is reached Cells within the active set falling below this threshold are removed from the active set If the size of the active set is AS_MAX_SIZE then a member is replaced when this threshold is breached. The minimum pilot strength of an active set pilot The maximum size of the active set Thresholds to select a higher/lower cell layer Thresholds to replace the current layer (frequency) used with a different cell layer
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Active set = 1
Pilot Ec/Io
Cell A WINDOW_ADD
=2
Cell A and Cell B
=2
Cell A and Cell C
WINDOW_REPLACE
WINDOW_DROP
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Handover Parameters
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Remember that increasing the number of handover channels used reduces the network capacity
Reducing the WINDOW_ADD beyond a certain point will reduce the effectiveness of soft handover and lead to:
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a reduction in macrodiversity gain at the cell edge an increased probability of handover failure
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Admission Control
Fast power control has the undesirable side effect of introducing instability in a CDMA network if the load is too high An additional mobile added to the network can cause party effects where every other mobile tries to increase its TX Power Headroom is required to prevent this The purpose of admission control is to maintain the stability of the network by ensuring that if the loading becomes too high no additional mobiles are admitted to the network
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Admission Control
The Uplink Noise Rise in the network or the Uplink Load The Downlink TX Power or the Downlink Load The maximum TX Power per user
These are user definable parameters Typically a maximum uplink Noise Rise of 6dB ( a load of 75%) is allowed at macrocells or 20dB in microcells
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To add cells to the active set in handover. To set the maximum extent of the cell. To allow for channel estimation at the receiver.
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Initial Area
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Cell A
Cell B
Handover
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Neighbour Relationships
Neighbour relationships will need to be defined for UMTS to enable the monitoring of neighbours within the Neighbour Set for handover The following Neighbour relationships may be required:
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Intra-frequency/layer UMTS neighbours Inter-frequency/layer UMTS neighbours Inter-mode mode UMTS TDD neighbours Inter-technology GSM900/GSM1800 neighbours
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Code Planning
Code Planning is required for the downlink scrambling codes and downlink secondary synchronisation codes The objective of code planning is to ensure:
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that code reuse is as efficient as possible that we can maximise the minimum reuse distance between sites sharing the same scrambling code
There are 512 downlink scrambling codes that we can use At an average of 3 codes used per site this implies a reuse of 170!
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Code Planning
However it should be born in mind that the Secondary Synchronisation Code may also require planning (future study required)
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