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In order to achieve Lossless HOs packets are forwarded from the source to the target.
Depending on each bearer's QoS profile, the eNodeB shall decide whether data forwarding
should be applied to it during the handover or not.
The GTP-U message End Marker is used for ever EPS bearer which is subject to a HO.
The End Marker is an indication of the last DL T-PDU (i.e. user data SDU)
to source eNB is expected from the EPC.
The end marker is a special GTP-U PDU which carries no data.

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Load Supervision and Exchange

DL GBR and DL nGBR cell load is periodically measured

and exchanged between cells of the same eNB
Upon measuring cell load, the cell evaluates load to
determine whether to stay, enter or exit Active LB state

Candidate UE Selection for measurement solicitation

UEs which switch from Idle to Connected states are

considered candidates for measurement solicitation
Triggered HOs eventually reduces load for the
highly-loaded cells, since already connected UEs will
not be offloaded
Special treatment for QCI1 bearers
Depending on iFLBBearCheckTimer, UE which
establishes QCI1 bearers may be removed from candidate
UEs

Measurement Solicitation

For each candidate UE, if serving eNB is highly loaded,

A4 measurements of different frequency neighbor cells is
activated
RSRP and RSRQ measurements from received A4 reports
are post-processed to select best target cell for UE
offloading

iF-LB Execution

Normal handover procedure to offload candidates UEs to

selected target cells

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Available Capacity(AC) is taken by normalizing GBR/nGBR load by the

configurable GBR/nGBR target load (iFLBTargetLoadGBRDL and
iFLBTargetLoadNonGBRDL, respectively)
The AC values are then exchanged between cells of the same eNB

periodically

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In each cell, whenever new load measurements

are calculated (LoadGBR,DL,LoadnGBR,DL), the cell
load is evaluated
The calculated load measurements are evaluated
against load thresholds (target and high load
thresholds) to determine load status of the cell
Enter Active iF-LB State GBR OR
nGBR load measurement exceed the highload thresholds
Leave Active iF-LB StateGBR AND
nGBR load measurement are below the
target load thresholds
Difference between target load and high load
thresholds provides hysteresis to prevent pingpong between iF-LB state transitions

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*Note: depending on settings for iFLBBearCheckTimer, condition 3 may be excluded

Feature Group Indicator

Defines which features are supported by UE.

BIT13 Inter-frequency Handover

BIT14 A4 and A5 measurements/reporting

BIT25 interfrequency measurement and reporting in connected mode.

reportTimerIFLBA4 - hard coded -non modifiable

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A4 Configuration hard-coded and NOT configurable

Reported cells would be post-processed to

remove cells with insufficient RSRP and/or
RSRQ.

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