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RFSTUD
2011-11-09, 02:52 AM
Dears,
Find attached the Qualcomm-WCDMA multi-carrier deployment guide.
I found it useful, hope you will too.
BR.

CONTENTS
1 Introduction................................................................................................................................................8
1.1 Scope of the paper..............................................................................................................................8
1.2 Organization.......................................................................................................................................9
1.3 Revision History.................................................................................................................................9
1.4 Acronyms ...........................................................................................................................................9
1.5 References ........................................................................................................................................10
2 Overview of Multi-Carrier Deployment Strategies................................................................................11
2.1 Hierarchical Cell Configuration ........................................................................................................11
2.2 Capacity Expansion Strategies ..........................................................................................................12
2.2.1 Hotspot Deployment ................................................................................................................12
2.2.2 One-on-one Overlay deployment .............................................................................................13
2.3 Multi-carrier traffic type separation strategies ..................................................................................13
2.3.1 HSPA (F2) overlaid on R99 (F1).............................................................................................14
2.3.2 HSPA+R99 CS (F2) overlaid on R99 (F1) ..............................................................................14
2.3.3 HSPA (F2) overlaid on HSPA + R99 (F1) ..............................................................................15
2.4 Multiple Band Support......................................................................................................................15
2.5 General observations and assumptions..............................................................................................15
3 Hot Spot Overlay Deployment Scenario .................................................................................................17
3.1 Hot spot deployment without traffic separation ................................................................................17
3.1.1 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection in hot spot overlay deployment ..........................................17
3.1.2 Inter-Frequency Handover (IFHO) in hot spot overlay deployment .......................................18
3.1.2.1 IFHO for Coverage .............................................................................................................18
3.1.2.2 IFHO for Coverage and Load balancing (without Call Redirection support) .....................21
3.1.2.3 IFHO for Coverage and Load balancing (with Call Redirection support) ..........................22
3.2 Hot spot deployment with traffic separation .....................................................................................23
3.2.1 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection for Hot spot deployments with Traffic Separation .............23
3.2.1.1 Inter-carrier balancing of Idle UEs .....................................................................................23
3.2.1.2 All Idle UEs camped on the primary carrier .......................................................................24
3.2.2 Inter-Frequency Handover (IFHO) for Hot spot deployments with Traffic Separation ..........24
3.2.2.1 IFHO for Traffic Separation without Call Redirection .......................................................25
3.2.2.2 IFHO for Traffic Separation with Call Redirection ............................................................26
3.2.2.3 IFHO for Voice Traffic Spill Over......................................................................................27
4 One-on-One overlay deployment scenario..............................................................................................30
4.1 One-on-One overlay deployment without traffic separation .............................................................30
4.1.1 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection in One-on-one overlay deployments...................................30
4.1.1.1 Inter-Carrier balancing of Idle UEs (without Call Redirection)..........................................31
4.1.1.2 Inter-Carrier balancing of Idle UEs (with Call Redirection)...............................................32
4.1.2 Inter-frequency Handovers in One-to-one overlay deployment...............................................33
4.2 One-on-One overlay deployments with traffic separation.................................................................34
4.2.1 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection for One-on-one deployments with Traffic Separation........35
4.2.1.1 Moving Idle UEs to primary carrier (through Parameter Settings) .....................................36
4.2.1.2 Moving Idle UEs to primary carrier (through Cell Access Restriction)..............................36
4.2.2 Inter-Frequency Handover for One-on-one deployments with Traffic Separation..................37
4.3 Operation at WCDMA Boundary of One-on-one deployments ........................................................40
4.3.1 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection at WCDMA Boundary........................................................40
4.3.2 Inter-Frequency Handovers at WCDMA Boundary ................................................................41