Intra-eNodeB UL CoMP Feature Proposal

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1 Introduction and Impact

2 Trial Result

3 Activation

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 The function of UL CoMP

• Intra-eNodeB UL CoMP
 Current UE’s UL signal could be only received and UL CoMP
processed by serving Cell Without CoMP
 CoMP is using different cells’ antennas to receive
one UE’s signal, then combined different antennas’
Cell2
received signals(except PUCCH,PRACH and Cell0
SRS). Intra-eNB CoMP
 Similar to use more antennas(2R->4R) in one cell UE1

to receive signals. UE2

Cell1
 Get multi-antenna signal combining gain and
interference rejection gain  Gain for UE1: Co-demodulated.
 Gain for UE2: Interference (UE1) Rejection.

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Why to activate UL CoMP - UL Throughput Gain
UL CoMP, its main purpose is to improve the coverage of high data rates, the cell-edge throughput,
and also to increase system throughput.

The suitable UEs for UL CoMP is described as below:

 Type1 UE （ UE1) ： At cell edge & signal could be received by the
serving cell and neighbor cell effectively .
 Interfered by neighbor cell ’s UE
 ForMulti-antenna combining and interference rejection gain
 Type2 UE （ UE0) ： UE in the cell’s centre which used RB in cell0
are overlapped with UE1 in the cell1.
 For interference rejection gain.

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Simulation Results
•UL Comp performance gain 2Rx Gain in eRAN3.0
 Signal combination gain

 Interference rejection gain

Without CoMP

Throughput (Mbps)
•Benefits 7% Increase
With CoMP

 UL CoMP will be benefit to cell average and cell edge

throughput. 10% Increase

 For cell average the 2R UL coMP will increase 7%

Cell Average Cell Edge
throughput . Throughput. Throughput

 For cell cell edge the 2R UL coMP will increase 10% * Simulation assumption: 10MHz,
2-Sector CoMP
throughput .
 Without any external antennas addition.

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Content

1 Introduction and Impact

2 Trial Result

3 Activation

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Drive Test Summary
Requirements:
 Two UE locked on LTE, Perform UL Throughout
Testing in stationary and mobility state;
 Stationary testing are done at three locations
where the UE receiving RSRP of -75, -90 and
-110;
 Collect 20- 30 samples for per each scenario;
 Mobility testing is required to just drive alone all
major roads of the test Polygon.
 File sizes for FTP Upload used are 150MB,
75MB, 50MB and 10MB;

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Drive Test Results
1. Mobility tests observed an average of 9% gain observed after feature activation, 5.2% on UE1 an
d 12.1% on UE2; no degradations observed.
2. Stationary test observed average 10% gain in good coverage area, and 160 -200% in poor covera
ge area.

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Drive Test Result–KPIs
-Access and Drop KPI trending
Normal;
-Avg User Number KPI trending
Normal;
-PRB resource Usage trending
Normal.

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Drive Test Result 2

Single UE Throughput in Cell Edge Single UE Throughput in Cell Middle

CoMP CoMP
CoMP CoMP Off
On Off On

CoMP Verified in Orchard

Road, CBD of Singapore

UL 2Rx CoMP Cell Middle Cell Edge

eRAN3.0
(Intra-Site, 2cells JP) Throughput (Mbps) Throughput (Mbps)
CoMP On 12 4.5
Single User CoMP Off 6.5 2
CoMP Gain 84.6% 125%

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Drive Test Result 3--Inter-eNB UL COMP(introduced in eRAN6.1)

180%
Cloud BB
B

Comp (w. Cloud BB)

200 m
500 ft.

Jan, 2013
Site 1 Site 2 Site3 Site 4

User Experience Curve

CoMP
Non- CoMP
180% edge Throughput Improved by Inter-eNB UL CoMP.

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Content

1 Introduction and Impact

2 Trial Result

3 Activation

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UL CoMP Requirement
NE and software/hardware requirement
NE and Interface Description
UE N/A
EPC N/A
eNB LBBPd board is recommended for 3*20/15/10/5/3/1.4M 2T2R CoMP.
LBBPC board is recommended for 3*10/5/3/1.4M 2T2R CoMP.
LBBPC board is recommended for 3*20/15M 2T2R CoMP limitary.
Intra-eNB UL CoMp is introduced in eRAN3.0 and Inter-eNB UL CoMp is introduced in eRAN6.1

Related features
Feature ID Description
Required features LOFD-001012 UL Interference UL CoMP can perform well with the IRC technology, these two features
Rejection Combining should be used in conjunction.

Affected features LOFD-001002 UL 2x2 MU-MIMO Although the UL CoMP and MU-MIMO can be open at the same time, the
MU-MIMO user can’t be UL CoMP user at the same time. UL CoMP for
LOFD-001058 UL 2x4 MU-MIMO type-1 CoMP UEs has the highest priority, MU-MIMO the second, and UL
CoMP for type-2 CoMP UEs the third.

Mutually Exclusive Features High speed Railway LOFD-001008 Ultra High Speed Mobility is open ,the eNB will close the
scenario(>350km/h) UL CoMP automatically. The UL CoMP has limited gain in the high speed
railway scenario.

Mutually Exclusive Features Remote Radio Unit(>20km) If the distance between an RRU and a BBU is greater than 20 km, UL
CoMP should be closed Manually.

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Parameters ,Counters
The following customized parameters have been added.
Recommend
ID Name Description Range MML Level
Value
UplinkCompSwit Indicates the switch used to MOD
UlCoMP algorithms
ch=UlJointRecep enable or disable the UL OFF, ON ON CELLALGOSWITCH Cell
switch
tionSwitch-1; CoMP algorithm LST CELLALGOSWITCH

There are following counters to observe the state of Intra-eNodeB UL CoMP

Counter ID Counter name Description
1526728338 L.ULCoMP.User.Avg Average Number of UEs Using UL CoMP in a Cell.
1526728339 L.ULCoMP.User.Max Maximum Number of UEs Using UL CoMP in a Cell
1526728340 L.ULCoMP.RB Average number of scheduled PRBs for UL CoMP.

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User Performance Monitoring

The purpose of this monitoring is a real-time observation of the user's CoMP state.

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 Cell Performance Monitoring

The purpose of this monitoring is a real-time observation of the CoMP users in the cell.

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