Dynamic MS Power Control

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 Dynamic MS Power Control

• Reduce MS battery consumption

• Decrease the overall uplink interference
• Reduces the risk of bad speech quality due
to BTS receiver saturation

The MS can change the power level in units of 2 dB

every 13th TDMA frame, approximately 50 ms.
The largest change per SACCH-period is 16 dB.
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 MS Power Control
Maximum Output power of the MS
allowed
power level

Minimum
allowed
power level

Regulation area Path loss

Received signal strength in the BTS

3 2

SSDES
1
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Regulation area Path loss

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 Received Signal Strength in the BTS

Received signal strength in the BTS

Up- or down regulation

depending on the quality

SSDES

Regulation area Path loss

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 MS Power Control, Procedure

Measurement preparation
• estimation of missing measurements
• decide whether full or sub set shall be used (DTX)

Filtering of measurements
• eliminates variations of temporary nature to ensure that
the decision base for the next power order is stable

Calculation of power order

• calculate power order to achieve desired signal strength/quality
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• apply power order constraints

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 MS Power Control, Measurement Procedure

Measurement report is sent

each SACCH period
(every 0.480 sec.) d
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 MS Power Control, Measurement Procedure

BTS measures signal strength

and quality:

• Full set 100 samples

• Sub set 12 samples

•
UL quality
UL signal strength
MS power level used
UL DTX indicator

BSC
MS power order
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 MS Power Control, Regulation Modes
• Initial regulation - enables fast down regulation at call set-up
- at immediate assignment and handover
• only down regulation
• quality is not taken into account

• Stationary regulation
- begins when the stationary filter is filled
• up and down regulation
• quality is taken into account
•regulation is performed as long as there exist information
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about MS power level used and the measured uplink signal stren

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 MS Power Control, Filters (straight average)

Filtering of measurements
• INILEN- signal strength filter length, initial regulation
• QLEN - signal quality filter length (for stationary regulation)
• SSLEN - signal strength filter length, stationary regulation

Regulation
• power regulation starts as soon as filters are filled
• REGINT,controls the shortest time interval between two
power orders
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 MS Power Control, Signal Strength Target Values

• INIDES - target value for the initial regulation when a fast

down regulation must be possible

• SSDES - target value for the stationary regulation when

a stable regulation is desired

INIDES must be set to a higher signal strength

values than SSDES!
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 MS Power Control, Reference Point

preferred alternative reference

locating locating point for
reference point for, INIDES, reference point
reference CCHPWR
SSDES (MS power control) point for (EIRP) for
and intra-cell handover MSTXPWR
BSRXMIN BSRXMIN
BSRXSUFF BSRXSUFF

antenna
BSRX diversity RX feeder RX antenna gain Path loss MSTX
gain
(other branch)
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 MS Power Control, Calculation Of Power Order
The unconstrained power order:
pu = Fpl(path loss) +Fq( quality)
Fpl(path loss) = MSTXPWR - (SScomp - SSDES)

MSTXPWR is the maximum output power of the MS and SSDES is the

desired signal strength to be received in the BTS.

SScomp is the filtered signal strength compensated for regulation, i.e. the
signal strength the BTS would have received if no power control was used.

 = LCOMPUL/100 and determines the degree of

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path loss compensation

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 MS Power Control
Fq( quality) = -(Q_AVE_dB - QDESUL_dB)

The transformation from rxqual to C/I is given by the

following expressions:

Q_AVE_dB = 32 - 10·Q_AVE/25

QDESUL_dB= 32 - 10·QDESUL/25

 = QCOMPUL/100 and determines the degree of

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quality compensation
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 MS Power Control

Mapping of rxqual to C/I

C/I Quality (rxqual) QDESUL

32 0 0
28 1 10
24 2 20
20 3 30
16 4 40
12 5 50
8 6 60
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 MS Power Control, Calculation Of Power Order

Measurement Calculation of
Filtering unconstrained
preparation
power order

Every SACCH period

Apply
constraints

Send power order

(REGINT)
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 MS Power Control, Power Order Constraints

If• the unconstrained power order is higher thanMSTXPWR ,

the power order is set equal toMSTXPWR .

• If MSTXPWR is set to a value higher than the capability

of the MS, the maximum power order will correspond to
the capability of the mobile class
• lowest allowed power order depends on which
The
power class the MS belongs to (for GSM 900, 13 dBm, all
classes, phase 1 and 5 dBm all classes, phase 2)
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• maximum change from the last power order is 16 dB

The

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 MS Power Control

The ordered power level is always increased by a

power margin, PMARG at:
• At assignment of a TCH.

• At assignment failure or handover failure.

• At intra-cell handover and subcell change.

Note! PMARG affects both up and down link power control

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 Handover Power Boost

If the signal strength decreases very quickly and the BTS looses contact
with the MS, the BSC/BTS immediately sends a HO command to the
MS on maximum power.

When HO boost is triggered normal regulation is inhibited until MS has

received the HO command and acknowledged it.
(the acknowledgement is made with maximum power)
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 Multislot Configuration

• If a TCH channel is part of a channel combination, it

can either be a main, bi-directional or a unidirectional
channel.
– If the channel is a main channel in a multislot configuration,
the difference between the computed and the power order
sent must exceed a hysteresis (2 dB) before a new power
order is sent.
– MS power control on bi-directional channels is done
independently of other channels.
– In a multislot configuration only the main channel is affected
by the handover power boost.
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 The desired power regulation performance can be achieved through a
well balanced combination of the following:

• the MS Power Control parameters SSDES, LCOMPUL and QDESUL

determine how much a connection should be down regulated for a certain
signal strength.
• the quality compensation factor QCOMPUL.
• the intracell handover area defined by QOFFSETUL (ref. 4).
• the threshold triggering bad quality urgency handovers, QLIMUL (ref. 3).
• the length of the locating quality filter QLENSD (ref. 3), and the Power
Control quality filter, QLEN.
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 Cell Parameters
Parameter Default Recommen- Value Unit
name value ded value range
INIDES –70 –70 –110 to –47 dBm
INILEN 2 2 0, 2 to 5 SACCH periods
SSDES –85 –92 –110 to –47 dBm
SSLEN 5 5 3 to 15 SACCH periods
LCOMPUL 70 50 0 to 100
QLEN 8 6 0 to 20 SACCH periods
QDESUL 20 0 0 to 70 dtqu
QCOMPUL 30 60 0 to 60
REGINT 5 1 1 to 30 SACCH periods
PMARG 8 6 0 to 20 dB
DTXFUL 5 5 0 to 40 SACCH periods
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MSTXPWR 13 to 43 dBm

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