SIR: - Signal to Strength Ratio is the measured uplink quality of a single call.

It is the ratio
between the measured RSCP of a single UE UL DPCCH signal and the Interference Signal code power multiplied with SF.

in dBs

RTWP: -Received Total Wideband Power reflects the total noise level within the UMTS
frequency band of one single cell. A high RTWP means high interference level and RNC may go for reconfiguration of all existing radio bearers. Call admission control and packet scheduler may take help of this value in calculation of load.

RSSI: - Received Signal Strength Indicator is the total power received including noise or
whatever in that particular band.

Eb/No: - Bit energy to noise ratio. It is a system specification which is used during planning. or
it can also be said as the min. received power required to demodulate a signal successfully. Typical value is 5 dB for voice calls. Quality targets are always expressed as a function of Eb/No.

If the processing gain is not large enough the resulting Eb/No will be too small and will not rise above the interference. In case the Eb/No < 0 there is no detection at all. For speech service Eb/No is typically in the order of 5dB. For Example for Pg=25 dB. After dispreading the resulting baseband signal must be 5dB above noise in order to be successfully reconstructed at the decoder. Therefore, the required wideband SIR must 5 dB minus the processing gain, i.e. SIR target = 5dB-25dB = -20dB. What exactly does SIR of 20dB mean? It means that the signal can be buried far below the interference. In fact for this example the chip power density signal is 100 times smaller than the noise +interference level. Thus the required wideband SIR is so tolerant that the signal can be buried in interference of a power density that is 100 times larger! Still is that SIR good enough for the signal to be recovered. Compare this with the 9 to 18 dBs of SIR required for good voice quality in GSM systems. if the interference level is high in some cells (because the interference contribution of many users sharing the air interface and probably using different data rates), then the Eb/No level of some links is not going to be enough to make their signal to rise above the Interference level and therefore the call would be dropped (i.e. the capacity in terms of number of supported users per cell is modified) and the cell-size (coverage) would be reduced (phenomena known as cell breathing effect).

Cell Breathing Effect: - When the no. of users increases the coverage area
decreases, i.e. more the no. of users lesser is the coverage.

Pole capacity: - In a simple way, It can be defined as the max. no. of users that can be
supported by a particular Node B on UL.

Compressed mode: - In addition to monitoring Node Bs on the same carrier, the UE

must be able to monitor for potential target resources on other UMTS carriers or GSM. This will involve at minimum retuning of the UEs receiver elements to a new radio frequency. CM is basically triggered when the coverage of serving cell becomes lesser than a certain threshold. The UE goes to CM. Normal transmission of frames are stopped and Gap is created to have the measurement of other frequencies. This gap can be created either by halving the SF or by higher layer scheduling. Typical CPICH (Common Pilot Channel) power is 33 dBm. Channelization code family is OVSF (Orthogonal variable Spreading Factor) which are orthogonal to each other.