Fast Power Congestion Control

RAN13.0

Feature Parameter Description

Issue

01

Date

2011-04-30

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Contents

Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience......................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Overview......................................................................................................................................2-1
3 Technical Description ..............................................................................................................3-1
4 Parameters..................................................................................................................................4-1
5 Counters ......................................................................................................................................5-1
6 Glossary ......................................................................................................................................6-1
7 Reference Documents .............................................................................................................7-1

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1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the Fast Power Congestion Control feature (WRFD-010208 Fast Power
Congestion Control (FCC)).

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:

Personnel who are familiar with WCDMA basics

Personnel who need to understand the Fast Power Congestion Control feature

Personnel who work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:

Feature change: refers to the change in the Fast Power Congestion Control feature.

Editorial change: refers to the change in wording or the addition of the information that was not
described in the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:

01 (2011-04-30)

Draft B (2011-03-30)

Draft A (2010-12-30)

01 (2011-04-30)
This is the document for the first commercial release of RAN13.0.
Compared with issue Draft B (2011-03-30) of RAN13.0, this issue has no change.

Draft B (2011-03-30)
This is the draft of the document for RAN13.0.
Compared with Draft A (2010-12-30) of RAN13.0, this issue has no changes.

Draft A (2010-12-30)
This is the draft of the document for RAN13.0.
Compared with issue 01 (2010-03-30) of RAN12.0, this issue optimizes the description.

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2 Overview

2 Overview
Fast power congestion control (FCC) is implemented on the NodeB side. This feature aims to quickly
rectify the system overload situation to prevent the output power from exceeding the maximum power
allowed by hardware.
This feature enables efficient utilization of power amplifiers for traffic load, especially for dynamic power
sharing in one carrier between R99 and HSDPA.

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3 Technical Description

3 Technical Description
FCC is a NodeB function that complements RNC congestion control. The function monitors the output
power per slot that all users demand at the same time, using the real time scale as the fast power control
function.
Huawei provides the DL automatic level control (ALC) function for fast power congestion control in the
NodeB, in order to limit output power and avoid PA saturation. The ALC monitors the transmit power in
real time. When the input power reaches or exceeds the predefined threshold, the ALC can decrease the
signals on TX channels by increase attenuation to keep the output power lower than the threshold, thus
avoiding PA saturation.
The NodeB uses FCC to quickly control the output power, the control reaction time is 1024 chips, which
is fast enough to fully prevent saturation of the TX chain or overdriving of PAs without the need for power
margins.
Therefore, when a cell is heavily loaded, its performance remains robust, without the risk of call drops or
inaccurate modulation. In addition, the RNC congestion and admission thresholds can be set to higher
levels, which increase cell capacity without compromising overall quality of service.

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4 Parameters

4 Parameters
There are no specific parameters associated with this feature.

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5 Counters

5 Counters
There are no specific counters associated with this feature.

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6 Glossary

6 Glossary
For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see the Glossary.

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7 Reference Documents

7 Reference Documents
There are no specific reference documents associated with this feature.

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