WCDMA RAN

Fast Power Congestion Control

Feature Parameter Description
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Date

2011-04-30

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Contents

Contents
1 About This Document..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Scope..............................................................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Intended Audience..........................................................................................................................................................1
1.3 Change History...............................................................................................................................................................1

2 Overview.........................................................................................................................................3
3 Technical Description...................................................................................................................4
4 Parameters.......................................................................................................................................5
5 Counters..........................................................................................................................................6
6 Glossary...........................................................................................................................................7
7 Reference Documents...................................................................................................................8

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1 About This Document

About This Document

1.1 Scope
This document describes WRFD-010208 Fast Power Congestion Control (FCC).

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for personnel who:
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Need to understand the features described herein

Work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information about the changes in different document versions. There are
two types of changes, which are defined as follows:
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Feature change
Changes in features of a specific product version

Editorial change
Changes in wording or addition of information that was not described in the earlier version

01 (2011-04-30)
This issue does not include any changes.

Draft B (2011-03-30)
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1 About This Document

Draft A (2010-12-30)
Compared with Issue 01 (2010-03-30) of RAN12.0, Draft A (2010-12-30) of RAN13.0
optimizes the description.

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2 Overview

Overview

Fast power congestion control (FCC) is implemented on the NodeB side. This feature aims to
quickly rectify the system overload situation to prevent the output power from exceeding the
maximum power allowed by hardware.
This feature enables efficient utilization of power amplifiers for traffic load, especially for
dynamic power sharing in one carrier between R99 and HSDPA.

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3 Technical Description

Technical Description

FCC is a NodeB function that complements RNC congestion control. The function monitors the
output power per slot that all users demand at the same time, using the real time scale as the fast
power control function.
Huawei provides the DL automatic level control (ALC) function for fast power congestion
control in the NodeB, in order to limit output power and avoid PA saturation. The ALC monitors
the transmit power in real time. When the input power reaches or exceeds the predefined
threshold, the ALC can decrease the signals on TX channels by increase attenuation to keep the
output power lower than the threshold, thus avoiding PA saturation.
The NodeB uses FCC to quickly control the output power, the control reaction time is 1024
chips, which is fast enough to fully prevent saturation of the TX chain or overdriving of PAs
without the need for power margins.
Therefore, when a cell is heavily loaded, its performance remains robust, without the risk of call
drops or inaccurate modulation. In addition, the RNC congestion and admission thresholds can
be set to higher levels, which increase cell capacity without compromising overall quality of
service.

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4 Parameters

Parameters

There are no specific parameters associated with this feature.

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5 Counters

Counters

There are no specific counters associated with this feature.

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6 Glossary

Glossary

For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see Glossary.

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7 Reference Documents

Reference Documents

There are no specific reference documents associated with this feature.

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