TDD to FDD Inter-Working(IWK)

Solution

TDD to FDD Inter-Working(IWK) Solution

Issue

1.0

Date

2015-05-18

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Change History
Date

Version

Description

Author

2015-05-18

1.0

Revised

Kuangjun

Purpose

For the purpose of making user get better experience between FDD and TDD network. We
can set HO parameter to push user to TDD or FDD which can offer better throughput,
along with the consideration of payload of both TDD and FDD network.

FDD2.1G

IF TDD user Throughput > FDD user throughput Prefer stay in TDD;
IF TDD user Throughput < FDD user throughput Prefer stay in FDD;

Network Load Change

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Gain of TDD after IWK

Scene1 (User throughput in FDD better than TDD):

User get better experience when HO to FDD
TDD network PRB efficiency decrease(available PRB increase)
TDD network Downlink SINR become better(load decrease)

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Solution A: Configure by cell

3.1 Work flow

synchronize the start/end time of TDD/FDD drive test
Filter by TDD PCI
Compare THR by TDD RSRQ range
If FDD has 60% of THR sample that greater than TDD, then chose this TDD RSRQ
value as the A2 measurement threshold(( TA2-T), and correspondent FDD RSRQ+1dB
as A5 access Threshold(TA5-F)
If samples of PCI is less than 50 or this principle is not applicable to some cells, then
chose the RSRQ which THR is 10Mbps

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3. Set -13.5dB+1 to be FDD access threshold (TA5-F)

3.2 Example
When TDD cell RSRQ=-16dB, FDD THP has 62.6% probability greater than TDD(red oval
mark), this will bring customer better experience. So huawei suggest that A2 threshold to
be set as -16dB, and consider the previous offset is 1.5 dB, we set A4 Threshold to
-14.5dB.

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Solution B: configure by cluster

4.1 Data Required

KPI counter of TDD and FDD(Include
.Thrp.Time.DL/L.Thrp.bits.DL/L.ChMeas.PRB.DL.Used.Avg/L.ChMeas.PRB.DL.Avail)
Cluster drive test log(pre-benchmark.
TDD & FDD network topology, engineering parameter.

4.2 Work flow

Obtain TDD and FDD KPI counter
TDD counter required
L.Thrp.Time.DL/L.Thrp.bits.DL/L.ChMeas.PRB.DL.Used.Avg/L.ChMeas.PRB.DL.A
vail
FDD counter required
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Similar with TDD counter

Calculate user throughput, and adjust it according to PRB usage
TDD Thrp is less than FDD, If FDD average PRB usage is less than 40% , adjust
TDD A2 and A4 threshold.
If FDD Thrp is less than TDD and TDD PRB usage is less than 40%,adjust FDD
handover threshold.
According to the DT data of cluster, use RSRQ to calculate the measurement
threshold
calculation From cluster DT data, work out the line chart of RSRQ vs DL Thrp,
Use RSRQ of certain Thrp gap to calculate the measurement threshold.
KPI monitor after adjust
Compare KPI performance after modify the measurement threshold.

4.3 Example
As shown below, FDD throughput is 4Mbps higher than TDD of same cluster, which
indicate FDD has higher spectrum efficiency than TDD in this specific area. Besides, we
can tell that FDD PRB usage is not high as well, so in this situation, TDD measurement
threshold should be higher in order to make UE handover to FDD earlier.
If throughput of FDD is higher than TDD, but PRB usage exceed a certain value(assume a
threshold of 40%/10Mbps ), TDD should not change measurement threshold.
If FDD average throughput is lower than TDD, then it should be considered to change FDD
measurement threshold in the same way.

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TDD average Tput19.8Mbps

FDD average Tput24.1Mbps

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Comparison between solution A

and B

A.DT Solution

B.KPI Solution

Comments

Data required

TDD and FDD drive

test of all cluster.

KPI counter of TDD

and FDD

High on the Road

Middle on the Road

Low in the indoor

Middle in the indoor

TDD counter( user TP, PRB related),FDD corresponding

counters are required
A is accurate because both TDD and FDD drive test result
is included, thus each point has its particular throughput.
B takes larger scale into consideration, it calculates
average throughput of all users in this area.

Configuratio
n

Cell level

Cluster lever

Work load

High

User Merit

User in DT Route

Low
Real Indoor and
Outdoor users

Deploy period

Every 6 month

Accuracy

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Every month

A is a way that requires threshold adjust for each cell,

which is quite a lot configurations.
B just configure once for whole cluster.

A is for DT user, B considers all commercial UE.

With solution A, when network payload increase, DT
should be performed every 6 month to adjust new network
situation.But with B, KPI check can be done every month.

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