ZGF05-02-009 Directed-Shift Handover

ZGF05-02-009 Directed-Shift
Handover
Feature Description
ZGF05-02-009 Directed-Shift Handover

Version
Date
V8.1.1
2009-03-12
Author
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Remarks
Not open to the Third Party
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Feature Property........................................................................................................ 1
2
2.1
2.2
Overview.................................................................................................................... 1
Feature Introduction.................................................................................................... 1
Relation with Other Features......................................................................................1
Technical Description...............................................................................................2
4
4.1
4.2
Parameters and Configurations...............................................................................3

Parameter List............................................................................................................ 3
Parameter Configurations...........................................................................................5
5
5.1
5.2
Related Counters and Alarms..................................................................................7

Related Counters........................................................................................................ 7
Related Alarms........................................................................................................... 7
6
6.1
6.2
6.3
Engineering Guide.................................................................................................... 7
Application Scenario................................................................................................... 7
Configuration Description............................................................................................7
Impact on Network...................................................................................................... 7
Abbreviation.............................................................................................................. 8
Reference Document................................................................................................ 8
FIGURES
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Handover control configuration interface......................................................................

Handover arithmetic configuration interface..................................................................
Adjacent cell handover and reselection configuration interface....................................
Adjacent cell handover configuration interface..............................................................
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Feature Property
iBSC Version: [ZXG10 iBSC V6.20].
BTS Version: [Independent of BTS software and hardware platforms]
Related Network Element:
NE Name
Involved Or Not
MS
BTS
BSC
MSC
MGW
SGSN
GGSN
HLR
Special Requirement
Intra-BSC handover is not involved,

but inter-BSC handover is involved.
Dependent Function: [None].

Exclusive Function: [None].
Note: [None].
Overview
2.1
Feature Introduction
As a decision of lowest priority, directed shift is performed after all handover decisions
and is the last resort to adjust traffic onsite.
Directed shift handover is performed only in specified cells and is applicable to dualband networking (co-location site of 900M and 1800M cells) and areas with dense
traffic. For example, in the case of co-location site of 900M and 1800M cells, operators
wish to migrate MSs around BTS from 900M cells into 1800M cells. Although probably
outweighed by 900M cells in terms of signal strength, 1800M cells still have sufficient
signal strength to ensure speech quality. In this case, directed shift handover can be
used to migrate traffic into 1800M cells to realize traffic balance on dual-band network.
2.2
Relation with Other Features

This feature is functionally related to the following features:
ZGF05-07-001 Dynamic BTS Power Control
ZGF05-07-002 Dynamic MS Power Control
ZGF05-02-002 Basic Handover Decision Criteria
The specific descriptions are as follows:
Relation with Power Control: Power control scope cannot conflict with related
threshold of handover decision algorithm in this feature, and power control takes
precedence over handover decision. That is, power control is performed first, and if
power control does not work, handover is performed.
Relation with PBGT in Decision Criteria: The parameter MaxForceHoDiff defined in

this feature must be less than reverse PBGT handover threshold to avoid ping-pong
handover between cells.
Technical Description
Target MSs near BTS are generally selected for directed shift handover because speech
quality can be ensured for them due to good network coverage around BTS. Therefore,
MSs with small PathLoss and small TimingAdvance (TA) are forcedly handed over to
adjacent cells to ease the traffic load in current cell in directed shift handover.
Directed shift handover is allowed when the PathLoss of MS is less than MaxLossThs
and TA is less than MaxTAThs. When MaxTAThs is set to 63, only PathLoss is used as
directed-shift handover criteria; when MaxTAThs is set to 150, only TA is used as
directed-shift handover criteria.
Directed shift handover is triggered in the following conditions:
1
The level of target cell must be MaxForceHoDiff higher than that of current cell.
The PathLoss of MS must not be larger than MaxLossThs and TA must not be
larger than MaxTAThs.
Directed shift handover decision is made based on the following two formulas:
PathLoss MaxLossThs
TA MaxTAThs
(1)
(2)
In formula (1) PathLoss refers to the path loss of certain MS in the serving cell obtained
by calculating the average value of downlink levels acquired in measurement reports;
MaxLossThs refers to the path loss threshold of directed shift handover.
In formula (2) TA refers to the TA of certain MS in the serving cell; MaxTAThs refers to TA
threshold of directed shift handover.
The strategies used to select target cells for directed shift handover are as follows:
The target cell must be the specified cell of the serving cell.
The maximum level difference between directed shift cells must be larger than
MaxForceHoDiff (which can be a negative value) to restrict directed shift handover.
MaxForceHoDiff must be less than reverse PBGT handover threshold to avoid pingpong handover between cells.
The resource reservation threshold HoForceRes of directed shift is used to monitor

traffic in target cell so as to avoid cell congestion. Directed shift handover can be
performed to the target cell only when the available resources in the target cell are
greater than HoForceRes.
Criteria 1: The average level of target adjacent cells must be larger than the
minimum incoming handover level.
If over P (that is, parameter HoForceP) in N (that is, parameter HoForceN) PathLoss and
TA values meet formulas (1) and (2) at the same time in the measurement results of
certain MS in the serving cell, directed shift is allowed in adjacent cells
(IsHoForceNCell=Yes) and target cell selection criteria are met, then directed shift
handover is performed.
Parameters and Configurations
4.1
Parameter List
Full name
Allow force transfer handover
Abbreviation
HoControl17
Value Range
Yes/No
Unit
None
Default
No
Full name
Abbreviation
MAX path loss threshold on force handover

MaxLossThs
Value Range
0 ~ 150
Unit
None
Default
110
Full name
MAX time advance threshold on force handover
Abbreviation
MaxTAThs
Value Range
0 ~ 63
Unit
None
Default
Full name
N value of force handover
Abbreviation
HoForceN
Value Range
1 ~ 31
Unit
None
Default
Full name
P value of force handover
Abbreviation
HoForceP
Value Range
1 ~ 31
Unit
None
Default
Full name
MAX level difference of force handover
Abbreviation
MaxForceHoDiff
Value Range
0 ~ 48
Unit
None
Default
Full name
Handover force resource threshold
Abbreviation
HoForceResThs
Value Range
0 ~ 100
Unit
None
Default
40
Full name
Is handover forced neighbor cell
Abbreviation
IsHoForceNcell
Value Range
Yes/No
Unit
None
Default
No
Note:
The parameters set in Figure 3 and Figure 4 are identical, but the names of interfaces
displayed in Figure 3 and Figure 4 are different. Figure 3 shows Handover and
Reselection interface (Main interface), and Figure 4 shows Handover interface (subinterface).
4.2
Parameter Configurations
Figure 1
Handover control configuration interface
Figure 2
Handover arithmetic configuration interface
Figure 3
Adjacent cell handover and reselection configuration interface
Figure 4
Adjacent cell handover configuration interface
Related Counters and Alarms
5.1
Related Counters
Counter ID
C901060042
What It Counts
Number SDCCH handover attempts due to forced transfer
Number of TCH/F handover attempts due to forced transfer
C901060065
Number of TCH/H handover attempts due to forced transfer
C901130029
Number of forced transfer handover attempts of the full rate second sub cell
(on TCH/F)
C901130043
Number of forced transfer handover attempts of the half rate second sub
cell (on TCH/F)
C901060019
5.2
Related Alarms
None.
Engineering Guide
6.1
Application Scenario
This feature is applicable to the following scenarios:
6.2
900M/1800M dual-band networking or traffic balance in the case of 900M/1800M

dual-band networking (for example, co-location site of 900M and 1800M cells).
Downtown areas with dense traffic.
Configuration Description
This feature does not involve adjustment of iBSC and BTS hardware configurations.
6.3
Impact on Network
1
Impact on Network
This feature is used to realize traffic balance on dual-band network and improve
handover success ratio.
Impact on NE
This features has no impact on the capacity of iBSC and BTS.
Abbreviation
Abbreviations
Full Characteristics
BTS
Base Transceiver Station
BSC
Base Station Controller
MSC
Mobile services Switching Centre
PBGT
Power Budget
TA
TimingAdvance
Reference Document
[1] ZXG10 BSS (V6.20) Base Station Subsystem Radio Parameters Manual
[2] ZXG10 iBSC (V6.20) Base Station Controller Performance Counter Manual
[3] ZGF05-07-001 Dynamic BTS Power Control
[4] ZGF05-07-002 Dynamic MS Power Control
[5] ZGF05-02-002 Basic Handover Decision Criteria

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