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MAIO Management

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Purpose of MAIO Management

The MAIO Management feature provides increased control over synthesized frequency hopping to minimize channel interference within a site. The cells within the site needs to be synchronized! This is beneficial in a network with tight re-use of frequencies, such as 1/1 & 1/3.

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Concepts
Basic Physical Channel (BPC) Hopping Group (HG) Channel Group (CHGR) Hopping Frequency Set (HFS) Hopping Sequence Number (HSN) TS + TDMA frame Group of BPC using the same TS A set of frequencies. Possible to define several CHGR to a cell Specifies the frequencies which a CHGR can hop over Which order to use the frequencies in the HFS for the CHGR

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Concepts continued
Synchronized cells Cells belonging to the same TG or synchronized TG:s and equal HSN or HSN containing the same number of fq:s

Mobile Allocation Index Offset (MAIO) Transceiver Group (TG)

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TRX TRX TRX TRX TRX TRX

CHGR 0. The BCCH frequency CHGR 1. The set of frequencies belonging to these (8) HGs are called Hopping Frequency Set (HFS).

CHGR 2.

Each of these groups of BPCs are defined as a Hopping Group (HG).

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Algorithm
At frequency hopping MAIO values are used (together with the HSN and the current FN) to point out the frequencies to be used from the HFS at an instant in time. Cyclic hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+FN) modulo (number of frequencies in HFS)

Random hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+random value) modulo (number of frequencies in HFS)

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Default MAIO list

The number of MAIO values in the default list are the same as the number of frequencies in the HFS. The order of the MAIO values in the default list are arranged in a "first even then odd MAIO values" manner. The actual MAIO values to be used for a CHGR depends on the number of TRXs for the CHGR.

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Example of Default MAIO list

If there are seven frequencies in the HFS, the MAIO list will contain the values 0-6. MAIO=0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5 If three TRXs are used for a CHGR, only the first three MAIO values in the MAIO list will be used, i.e. 0, 2, 4.

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Example
HFS Pos. Cyclic hopping, 3 TRX:s in a cell, nine frequencies in the HFS. The current FN is 1. The first TRX use frequency number: (FN+MAIO) mod (# of frequencies in HFS) = (1+0) mod 9 = 1 (which will relate the pointer to the second frequency in the HFS The next time FN=2 and the pointers will be shifted downwards one step. Default MAIO list: 0, 2, 4 0 TRX1
TRX2

2 4 7 12 17

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

FN=1

TRX3

21 22 31 33

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Manual MAIO list

A manual MAIO list for a CHGR can be created by specifying up to 32 values for the parameter MAIO. If the manual MAIO list is too short then random MAIO values will be added on to the end of the list. If there is an invalid MAIO value in the manual MAIO list it will be skipped in favor of the next MAIO value in the list.

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GPRS
MAIO Management can be used on GPRS channels in the same way as for circuit switched channels. No measures, or concerns have to be taken.

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Recommendations
On neighbor cells the same frequencies and MAIO values (e.g. the default list) can be used as long as the cells are unsynchronized. When using 1/1 reuse in a network it is beneficial to use manual MAIO planning In a 1/3 reuse without synchronization, only considerations concerning adjacent frequencies within a cell has to be taken. The default value for the parameter MAIO is recommended to be used

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Parameter Default Recommended name value value MAIO Default HOP HSN FHOP COMB OFF ON

Value range 0-31 or Default OFF, TCH,ON

Unit -

Use the same HSN 0-63 for synchronized co-sited cells SY BB, SY HYB HYB, FLT

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