SRAN13.1 CloudAIR Feature Description (Digicel)

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SRAN13.1
CloudAIR Feature Description
Issue 01
Date 2018-01-31
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CloudAIR Feature Description Contents
Contents
1 Multi-mode Evolution.................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 GL Spectrum Sharing ................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.1.1 MRFD-130201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (GSM)................................................................................. 1
1.1.2 MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (LTE FDD) ......................................................................... 4
1.1.3 MRFD-131201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2 (GSM) ................................................................... 9
1.1.4 MRFD-131221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2 (LTE FDD) .......................................................... 12
1.2 UL Spectrum Sharing ................................................................................................................................................. 17
1.2.1 MRFD-130212 UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing (UMTS) .................................................................................. 17
1.2.2 MRFD-130222 UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing (LTE FDD) ............................................................................. 23
1.3 Power Sharing............................................................................................................................................................. 28
1.3.1 MRFD-131212 UMTS and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing (UMTS) ....................................................................... 28
1.3.2 MRFD-131222 UMTS and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing (LTE FDD)................................................................... 31
1.3.3 LCOFD-131311 Cross LTE Carriers Dynamic Power Sharing (LTE FDD) ............................................................ 33
1.3.4 TDLCOFD-131311 Cross LTE Carriers Dynamic Power Sharing (LTE TDD) ...................................................... 35
1.4 LTE High and Low Band Coordination ...................................................................................................................... 36
1.4.1 LCOFD-131312 LTE Spectrum Coordination (LTE FDD) ..................................................................................... 36
1.4.2 TDLCOFD-131312 LTE Spectrum Coordination (LTE TDD) ................................................................................ 37
2 Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................... 40
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CloudAIR Feature Description 1 Multi-mode Evolution
1 Multi-mode Evolution
1.1 GL Spectrum Sharing

1.1.1 MRFD-130201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (GSM)
Availability
This feature is available from SRAN13.0.
Summary
With the increasing popularity of data services and the ever-roaring penetration rate of smart
terminals, network performance is facing unprecedented challenges. However, some operators
are confronted with such challenges as insufficient spectrum resources and long-term
persistence of massive number of GSM users. Consequently, they cannot evolve GSM
networks into LTE networks, which provide better data service experience.
This feature enables GSM and LTE to be deployed on the same spectrum band, and
determines the usage of this band based on the service volume. The co-deployment of GSM
and LTE on one spectrum band fully improves spectral efficiency and addresses the issue that
one spectrum band can be allocated to only one RAT in refarming technologies. The BSC and
eNodeB implement joint allocation and scheduling of the shared spectrum band. When GSM
does not occupy the shared spectrum band, LTE can use the shared spectrum band to meet its
large bandwidth requirements. This feature applies to the frequency bands supported by both
GSM and LTE, that is, 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 1900 MHz frequency bands.
Benefits
This feature provides the following benefits:
 Solves the long-tail challenge of legacy GSM terminals
Although GSM spectral efficiency is low, for GSM to exit requires a significant amount
of time, and may involve years for completion. This is because legacy GSM terminals
generally have a long-tail issue and will not exit the network within a specific short
period of time. Spectrum resources occupied by GSM cannot be released and reallocated
to newer radio access technologies (RATs) that can provide higher spectral efficiency.
This feature enables LTE deployment on the same spectrum band originally allocated to
GSM while keeping legacy GSM networks.
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 Solves the early phase issue of insufficient LTE coverage, facilitating user acceptance
Low frequency bands 900 MHz and 850 MHz are characterized by low propagation loss
and wide coverage, in comparison to high frequency bands 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz, and
2600 MHz. 900 MHz and 850 MHz are considered as gold frequency bands in mobile
networks which only have a small bandwidth. Only 56% of operators have a bandwidth
of 5–10 MHz on these frequency bands. Without this feature, these operators cannot
deploy LTE on 900 MHz and 850 MHz frequency bands. They can only deploy LTE on
high frequency bands with relatively abundant frequency resources.
With this feature, operators can deploy LTE on 900 MHz and 850 MHz frequency bands,
allowing LTE to quickly achieve full coverage on low frequency bands. LTE can scale up
and down based on the user penetration rate.
 Addresses the pain point that one spectrum band can only be allocated to one RAT in
refarming technologies
This feature enables GSM and LTE concurrency on the same spectrum band. These two
RATs use spectrum resources as required. When the GSM traffic is heavy, spectrum
resources are allocated to GSM. When the GSM traffic is light, spectrum resources are
allocated to LTE. This improves spectral efficiency.
 Supports CA of LTE carriers on 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz frequency bands
After LTE is deployed on the 850, 900, 1800, or 1900 MHz frequency band, the LTE
carriers on different frequency bands can be aggregated to fully utilize the remaining
resources of these frequency bands to improve user experience.
 Supports legacy GSM terminals
 Comprehensively ensures the best performance of GSM and LTE networks
This feature optimally improves LTE network capacity without sacrificing GSM network
KPIs.
Description
This feature is applicable to either band of a dual-band network, and to the primary or
secondary frequency band of a co-BCCH cell. This feature causes interference between GSM
and LTE, and can only be enabled on a single frequency band in an area to minimize the
impact on network performance. A proprietary interface is introduced between the BSC and
eNodeB for the exchange of information between GSM and LTE to support this feature. The
BSC performs a real-time calculation to determine the timeslots on which LTE cells can
multiplex the shared spectrum based on LTE configurations, GSM channel configurations,
channel occupation, and MS measurement information. Based on the calculation results, GSM
frequencies, transmit power, and co-coverage attributes of GSM frequencies, the eNodeB
determines the low- and high-quality frequency resources, as well as the frequency resources
that cannot be scheduled. The eNodeB then schedules the resources accordingly. If no

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communication link is configured between the BSC and eNodeB, GSM solely uses the shared
spectrum resources.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
 Base station controller
− Huawei BSC6900 or BSC6910 running SRAN13.0 or later versions must be used
on the radio access network. The BSC6900/BSC6910 service processing boards
(XPUa/XPUb/XPUc/EGPUa/EGPUb) support this feature. If the average CPU load
of the service processing boards on the live network exceeds 50% before this
feature is deployed, new service processing boards must be added.
− When this feature is implemented on multiple BSCs, an Iur-g interface must be
configured between these BSCs.
− The GL interference coordination information is exchanged between the BSC and
eNodeB over the Abis interface, which supports IP over E1/T1, IP over Ethernet,
and TDM transmission modes. The Abis interface boards can be used for the
information exchange.
 Base station
Huawei base stations running SRAN13.0 or later versions must be used on the radio
access network. The base station must be a GL co-MPT or a GL separate-MPT
multimode base station. When GSM and LTE are deployed on different BBUs, these
BBUs must be interconnected. Other hardware requirements are described in the table
below.
Hardware Requirement
Main control boards  UMPT

 UMDU/MDUC
 GTMUb/GTMUc
These boards do not support this feature
in SingleOM scenarios.
RF modules (RRUs/RFUs/AAUs) All RF modules that support GSM or LTE
and the 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, or
1900 MHz frequency band, excluding the
GRFU V1, GRFU V2, GRFU V2a, MRFU
V1, MRFU V2, MRFU V2a, RRU3008 V1,
RRU3008 V2, RRU3908 V1, RRU3908 V2,
AAU3902, and AAU5972
The UMDU/MDUC is a built-in board of the BBU3910A/BBU3910C.

 UE
None
 Core network
None

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 Other NEs
Huawei U2000 and CME running SRAN13.0 or later versions must be used.
 Other features
− Prerequisite features (requiring any of the following features)
GBFD-510401 BTS GPS Synchronization
GBFD-118620 Clock over IP support 1588V2
GBFD-118201 Soft-Synchronized Network
GBFD-201201 BTS Supporting 1588v2 ATR
− Mutually exclusive features
MRFD-090201 GSM and LTE FDD Dynamic Spectrum Sharing(GSM)
MRFD-111401 GSM and LTE Zero Bufferzone
GBFD-113901 Satellite Transmission over Abis Interface
GBFD-510104 Multi-site Cell
 Others
This feature must be simultaneously used with MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum
Concurrency (LTE FDD).
1.1.2 MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (LTE

FDD)
Availability
Summary
Benefits

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KPIs.
Description
This feature allows GSM and LTE spectrum concurrency on a part of spectrum. A proprietary
interface is introduced between the BSC and eNodeB to exchange information between GSM
and LTE to support this feature. If a connection is not established between the BSC and
eNodeB, the spectrum that can be used for GSM and LTE concurrency can only be allocated
to GSM. The BSC determines whether the interference from LTE to GSM is acceptable based
on the GSM and LTE level difference threshold for timeslot multiplexing as well as the
measurement information reported by MSs. LTE can multiplex the shared GSM

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time-frequency resources only if the interference level is acceptable. If the interference level
is unacceptable, LTE cannot multiplex the shared GSM time-frequency resources. The BSC
sends the transmit power and multiplexing status of shared frequencies to the eNodeB over
the proprietary interface. The eNodeB uses the information received from the BSC to
calculate the amount of available time-frequency resources on the shared spectrum, and
allocates and schedules the resources accordingly. If no communication link is configured
between the BSC and eNodeB, GSM solely uses the shared spectrum resources.
This feature supports only LTE FDD 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz bandwidths, and
the uplink and downlink bandwidths must be the same. The continuous bandwidth and shared
bandwidth in each LTE FDD bandwidth are as follows:
 LTE FDD 5 MHz bandwidth: A total of 6.2 MHz bandwidth is required, the continuous
bandwidth must be at least 5 MHz, and GSM can share up to 1.2 MHz bandwidth with
LTE. The following figure illustrates feature application when these requirements are
met.
 LTE FDD 10 MHz bandwidth: A continuous 10 MHz bandwidth is required, and GSM
can share up to 2.4 MHz bandwidth with LTE. The following figure illustrates feature
application when these requirements are met.
can share up to 3 MHz bandwidth with LTE. The following figure illustrates feature

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Enhancement
None
Dependency
(XPUa/XPUb/XPUc/EGPUa/EGPUb) support this feature. If the average CPU load
of the service processing boards on the live network exceeds 50% before this
feature is deployed, new service processing boards must be added.
 Base station
Huawei macro base stations running SRAN13.0 or later versions must be used on the
radio access network. The base station must be a GL co-MPT or a GL separate-MPT
below.

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 UMDU
 LMPT
 GTMUb/GTMUc
Baseband boards  UBBPd: UBBPd1 to UBBPd6
 UBBPe: UBBPe1 to UBBPe4, UBBPei,
UBBPep, and UBBPex
 UMDU
RRU3008 V2, RRU3908 V1, RRU3908 V2,
Antenna specifications 1T1R, 2T2R, 2T4R, and 4T4R
Base station types Macro base stations (configured with the
BBU3900, BBU3910, BBU3910A, or
BBU5900)
The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A.

 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
 Other features
− Prerequisite features
None
MRFD-090202 GSM and LTE FDD Dynamic Spectrum Sharing(LTE FDD)
MRFD-111401 GSM and LTE Zero Bufferzone
MRFD-231808 GSM and LTE Buffer Zone Optimization(LTE)
MRFD-101221 UL Refarming Zero Bufferzone
LOFD-111205 CDMA and LTE Zero Bufferzone (LTE FDD)
LOFD-001051 Compact Bandwidth
LEOFD-111302 Flexible Bandwidth based on Overlap Carriers

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DDB function of LEOFD-121204 3D Beamforming

LOFD-060201 Adaptive Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
LOFD-070220 eMBMS Phase 1 based on Centralized MCE Architecture
LOFD-081208 Inter-eNodeB SFN Based on Coordinated eNodeB
LAOFD-110203 ePDCCH (Trial)
 Others
Concurrency (GSM).
1.1.3 MRFD-131201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2

(GSM)
Availability
Summary
Benefits

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KPIs.
Description
This feature is applicable to either band of a dual-band network, and to the primary or
secondary frequency band of a co-BCCH cell. This feature causes interference between GSM
and LTE, and can only be enabled on a single frequency band in an area to minimize the
impact on network performance. A proprietary interface is introduced between the BSC and
eNodeB for the exchange of information between GSM and LTE to support this feature. The
BSC performs a real-time calculation to determine the timeslots on which LTE cells can
multiplex the shared spectrum based on LTE configurations, GSM channel configurations,
channel occupation, and MS measurement information. Based on the calculation results, GSM
frequencies, transmit power, and co-coverage attributes of GSM frequencies, the eNodeB
determines the low- and high-quality frequency resources, as well as the frequency resources
that cannot be scheduled. The eNodeB then schedules the resources accordingly. If no
communication link is configured between the BSC and eNodeB, GSM solely uses the shared
spectrum resources. This feature allows a larger maximum shared bandwidth than the GSM
and LTE Spectrum Concurrency feature. In LTE FDD 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz
scenarios, GSM can share up to 4.4 MHz, 5 MHz, and 5 MHz bandwidth with LTE,
respectively. Previously, LTE cells in the area where this feature is to be enabled must be
configured with different bandwidths due to varying degree of GSM traffic. A buffer zone
must be planned between LTE sites with different bandwidths. After an increase in the

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maximum bandwidth that GSM can share with LTE, LTE cells in the area where this feature is
to be enabled can then be configured with the same bandwidth, eliminating the configuration
of the buffer zone.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
(XPUa/XPUb/XPUc/EGPUa/EGPUb) support this feature. New service processing
boards must be added if either of the following conditions is met before feature
deployment:
 The ratio of LTE shared bandwidth to the LTE standard bandwidth is less than
or equal to 24%, but the average CPU load of service processing boards on the
live network exceeds 50%.
 The ratio of LTE shared bandwidth to the LTE standard bandwidth exceeds
24%, and the average CPU load of service processing boards on the live
network exceeds 42%.
 Base station
Huawei base stations running SRAN13.1 or later versions must be used on the radio
access network. The base station must be a GL co-MPT or a GL separate-MPT
below.

 UMDU/MDUC
 GTMUb/GTMUc
RRU3008 V2, RRU3908 V1, RRU3908 V2,

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The UMDU/MDUC is a built-in board of the BBU3910A/BBU3910C.

 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
 Other features
MRFD-130201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (GSM)
None
 Others
Concurrency Phase 2 (LTE FDD).
1.1.4 MRFD-131221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2

(LTE FDD)
Availability
Summary
Benefits

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KPIs.
 This feature allows a larger maximum shared bandwidth than the GSM and LTE
Spectrum Concurrency feature. In LTE FDD 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz scenarios,
GSM can share up to 4.4 MHz, 5 MHz, and 5 MHz bandwidth with LTE, respectively.
Previously, LTE cells in the area where this feature is to be enabled must be configured
with different bandwidths due to varying degree of GSM traffic. A buffer zone must be
planned between LTE sites with different bandwidths. After an increase in the maximum
bandwidth that GSM can share with LTE, LTE cells in the area where this feature is to be
enabled can then be configured with the same bandwidth, eliminating the configuration
of the buffer zone.

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Description
This feature allows GSM and LTE spectrum concurrency on a part of spectrum. A proprietary
interface is introduced between the BSC and eNodeB to exchange information between GSM
and LTE to support this feature. If a connection is not established between the BSC and
eNodeB, the spectrum that can be used for GSM and LTE concurrency can only be allocated
to GSM. The BSC determines whether the interference from LTE to GSM is acceptable based
on the GSM and LTE level difference threshold for timeslot multiplexing as well as the
measurement information reported by MSs. LTE can multiplex the shared GSM
time-frequency resources only if the interference level is acceptable. If the interference level
is unacceptable, LTE cannot multiplex the shared GSM time-frequency resources. The BSC
sends the transmit power and multiplexing status of shared frequencies to the eNodeB over
the proprietary interface. The eNodeB uses the information received from the BSC to
calculate the amount of available time-frequency resources on the shared spectrum, and
allocates and schedules the resources accordingly. If no communication link is configured
between the BSC and eNodeB, GSM solely uses the shared spectrum resources.
This feature supports only LTE FDD 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz bandwidths, and
the uplink and downlink bandwidths must be the same. The continuous bandwidth and shared
bandwidth in each LTE FDD bandwidth are as follows:
 LTE FDD 5 MHz bandwidth: A total of 6.2 MHz bandwidth is required, the continuous
bandwidth must be at least 5 MHz, and GSM can share up to 1.2 MHz bandwidth with
LTE. The following figure illustrates feature application when these requirements are
met.
can share up to 4.4 MHz bandwidth with LTE. The following figure illustrates feature

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Enhancement
None
Dependency
(XPUa/XPUb/XPUc/EGPUa/EGPUb) support this feature. New service processing
boards must be added if either of the following conditions is met before feature
deployment:
 The ratio of LTE shared bandwidth to the LTE standard bandwidth is less than
or equal to 24%, but the average CPU load of service processing boards on the
live network exceeds 50%.
 The ratio of LTE shared bandwidth to the LTE standard bandwidth exceeds
24%, and the average CPU load of service processing boards on the live
network exceeds 42%.

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 Base station
Huawei macro base stations running SRAN13.1 or later versions must be used on the
radio access network. The base station must be a GL co-MPT or a GL separate-MPT
below.

 UMDU
 LMPT
 GTMUb/GTMUc
Baseband boards  UBBPd: UBBPd1 to UBBPd6
 UBBPe: UBBPe1 to UBBPe4, UBBPei,
UBBPep, and UBBPex
 UMDU
RRU3008 V2, RRU3908 V1, RRU3908 V2,
Antenna specifications 1T1R, 2T2R, 2T4R, and 4T4R
Base station types Macro base stations (configured with the
BBU3900, BBU3910, BBU3910A, or
BBU5900)
The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A.

 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
 Other features
MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (LTE FDD)

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None
 Others
Concurrency Phase 2 (GSM).
1.2 UL Spectrum Sharing

1.2.1 MRFD-130212 UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing (UMTS)
Availability
LT1SRFSPCS00 and LT1S5000RFSS are the hardware licenses for this feature, which must be
purchased based on the types of RF units used on the live network.
Summary
Operators have growing demands for faster deployment or more capacity for LTE networks
because data services are growing more popular and the penetration rate of smart terminals is
increasing. However, available spectrum is scattered and therefore unsuitable for current LTE
standard bandwidth requirements (even after integration or refarming). Operators possessing
UMTS and LTE networks have not introduced any new changes. This will eventually waste
spectrum resources. Operators possessing only a UMTS network are confronted with similar
problems when attempting to deploy LTE networks. Operators possessing multiple UMTS
carriers are confronted with similar problems when attempting to perform UL refarming
whereas the refarming cannot be performed in units of 5 MHz.
This feature allows UMTS and LTE networks to be co-deployed on a minimum of 8.4 MHz
spectrum, achieving full utilization of operators' spectrum resources.
Benefits
This feature reduces the minimum spectrum required for the co-deployment of continuous
UMTS and LTE networks to 8.4 MHz, improving both spectrum utilization and user
experience.
Description
This feature can be used independently or together with the Flexible frequency bandwidth of
UMTS carrier feature.
 When this feature is used alone, spectrum sharing is implemented between one UMTS
carrier and one LTE carrier.
On the UMTS side, this feature uses uplink and downlink asymmetric band-pass filters
to enable UMTS to work on a compact bandwidth. The saved bandwidth is then shared
with LTE. The uplink asymmetric band-pass filter helps filter out any interference from
UMTS uplink receive signals, ensuring the normal operation of UTMS cells. The
downlink asymmetric band-pass filter attenuates signals outside the compact bandwidth,
reducing the interference caused by UMTS downlink signals to LTE. On the LTE side,
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to reduce the LTE effective bandwidth, and any performance loss caused by RB
puncturing is offset by physical channel resource management. In this way, LTE cells
can work properly using a smaller non-standard bandwidth, and the saved bandwidth is
available to share with UMTS.
The following figure illustrates how this feature works using 15 MHz of bandwidth,
where the maximum overlapped spectrum between UMTS and LTE in the uplink and
downlink are both 5 MHz. With this feature, there is enough bandwidth to deploy both a
5 MHz UMTS cell, and a 15 MHz LTE cell. Without this feature, after deploying a 5
MHz UMTS cell, there would only be enough left over to deploy a 10 MHz LTE cell.
Figure 1-1 UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing
Table 1-1 describes the maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE.

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Table 1-1 Maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE

LTE Maximum UMTS Maximum Maximum Maximum
Standard Sharable Standard Sharable Sharable Overlappe
Bandwidth LTE Bandwidth UMTS UMTS d Spectrum
Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum Between
in the in the in the UMTS and
Uplink and Downlink Uplink LTE in the
Downlink Uplink and
Downlink
5 MHz 1 MHz 5 MHz 1.8 MHz 0.6 MHz 1.6 MHz

10 MHz 3.4 MHz 4 MHz
Table 1-2 describes how much LTE cell downlink capacity is improved in different
application scenarios compared with an LTE network using the adjacent lower
bandwidth.
Table 1-2 LTE cell downlink capacity gains

LTE Standard Actual Available LTE LTE Downlink Capacity
Bandwidth Bandwidth Gain
5 MHz 4 MHz–5 MHz +20%–58% more than with

3 MHz of LTE bandwidth
10 MHz 6.6 MHz–10 MHz +22%–90% more than with
 When this feature is used together with the Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS
carrier feature, spectrum sharing is implemented between multiple UMTS carriers and an
LTE carrier.
Specifically, both ends of the UMTS spectrum are shared. One end is shared to the LTE
network, and the other end is shared to another UMTS network.
− The amount of the UMTS spectrum shared to the LTE network and technical details
on UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing are described in the sections above.
− At the end of the UMTS spectrum shared to another UMTS network, the maximum
amount of overlapped spectrum in the uplink and downlink are 0.6 MHz. In
addition, the UMTS carrier that shares spectrum with the LTE carrier must have at
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For details about WRFD-021001 Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier, see GU 900 MHz
Non-standard Frequency Spacing in RAN Feature Documentation.
Figure 1-2 illustrates how the UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing feature and the Flexible
frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier feature work using 15 MHz of total bandwidth.
With these two features, there is enough bandwidth to deploy two 5 MHz UMTS cells,
and a 10 MHz LTE cell. Without these two functions, after deploying two 5 MHz UMTS
cells, there would only be enough left over to deploy a 5 MHz LTE cell.
Figure 1-2 Simultaneous use of these two features
The following table lists the minimum bandwidth requirements in different configuration
scenarios.
Configura LTE Minimum Actual Bandwidth Actual
tion Configurati Required Occupied by UMTS Bandwidth
on Bandwidth Occupied by
Bandwidth LTE
1U1L 5 MHz 8.4 MHz U1: 3.4 MHz 5 MHz
10 MHz 11 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 7.8 MHz
15 MHz 15 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 11.8 MHz
20 MHz 20 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 16.8 MHz

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2U1L 5 MHz 12.4 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 4.6 MHz
MHz
10 MHz 15 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 7.2 MHz
MHz
15 MHz 18.8 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 11 MHz
MHz
20 MHz 23.8 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 16 MHz
MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
10 MHz 19.2 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 7.2 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
15 MHz 23 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 11 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
20 MHz 28 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 16 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
Enhancement
None
Dependency
None
 Base station
UL co-MPT or separate-MPT macro base stations must be used on the radio access
network (RAN). The base stations must meet the following hardware requirements:
− Boards
 The main control board must be a UMPT. The baseband processing board must
be a UBBP.
 A UBBP board supporting UMTS must be configured to provide CPRI ports.
 The UBBP board does not support this feature when any of the following
conditions are met:
 The UBBP board is configured to work in GSM&UMTS&LTE mode.
 The UBBPd1, UBBPd2, UBBPd3, or UBBPd4 board is configured to
work in GSM&UMTS mode.
 The BBU3910A1 (UMDU) is configured to work in GSM&UMTS or
UMTS&LTE mode.
 There is only half as many UL spectrum sharing cells supported by a baseband
processing board as there are normal UMTS cells. For example, if a baseband
processing board supports up to six normal UMTS cells, this board can serve
no more than three UL spectrum sharing cells and three normal UMTS cells.
In addition, when an uplink resource group serves 1–3 UL spectrum sharing

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cells, the number of available channel elements (CEs) decreases by 128. When
an uplink resource group serves 4–6 UL spectrum sharing cells, the number of
available CEs decreases by 256.
 When an uplink resource group serves more than nine cells, enabling this
feature triggers reallocation of the baseband resources in the resource group.
The reallocation then possibly causes re-establishment of cells not enabled
with this function in the resource group.
 This feature and the GU@5 MHz Phase 2 feature joint occupy the access
resources of interface boards. When these two features are used together, the
number of cells that can be enabled with this feature on a base station
decreases. The maximum number of cells that can be enabled with this feature
equals (24 – Number of cells enabled with the GU@5 MHz Phase 2 feature).
The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A. For details on the UMDU, see BBU Hardware
Description in 3900 Series Base Station Product Documentation or BBU5900 Hardware Description in
5900 Series Base Station Product Documentation.
− RF modules
 RFUs/RRUs: all RFUs or RRUs supporting LTE or UMTS, excluding the
LRFU, MRFU V1, MRFU V2, MRFU V2a, RRU3203, RRU3801C,
RRU3801E, RRU3804, RRU3805, RRU3806, RRU3808, RRU3908 V1,
RRU3908 V2, and WRFU
 AAUs: AAU3910, AAU3911, AAU3920, AAU3940, AAU3961, and
AAU5940
− Antenna specifications
UMTS: 1T1R and 1T2R
If UMTS cells need to work in 2T2R mode, WRFD-030011 MIMO Prime must be enabled.
 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Other features
None
 WRFD-141202 Independent Demodulation of Signals from Multiple Small
Cell RRUs in One Cell
 WRFD-021308 Extended Cell Coverage up to 200km
 WRFD-010209 4-Antenna Receive Diversity
 WRFD-010203 Transmit Diversity
 WRFD-021350 Independent Demodulation of Signals from Multiple RRUs in
One Cell
 WRFD-010205 Cell Digital Combination and Split
 WRFD-191202 Intelligent 2T VAM

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 WRFD-201203 UMTS 4T Beam Optimization

 WRFD-201204 UMTS MassiveBeam 8T8R
 WRFD-151210 Inter-Dependence of BBU Uplink Resource
 WRFD-010692 HSUPA FDE
 WRFD-170108 Hitless Cell Rehoming
 WRFD-191212 Dual Carriers over Narrowband
 Others
This feature must be simultaneously used with MRFD-130222 UMTS and LTE
Spectrum Sharing (LTE FDD).
When spectrum sharing needs to be implemented between multiple UMTS carriers and
an LTE carrier, the WRFD-021001 Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier
feature must be activated.
1.2.2 MRFD-130222 UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing (LTE FDD)

Availability
Summary
Operators have growing demands for faster deployment or more capacity for LTE networks
because data services are growing more popular and the penetration rate of smart terminals is
increasing. However, available spectrum is scattered and therefore unsuitable for current LTE
standard bandwidth requirements (even after integration or refarming). Operators possessing
UMTS and LTE networks have not introduced any new changes. This will eventually waste
spectrum resources. Operators possessing only a UMTS network are confronted with similar
problems when attempting to deploy LTE networks. Operators possessing multiple UMTS
carriers are confronted with similar problems when attempting to perform UL refarming
whereas the refarming cannot be performed in units of 5 MHz.
This feature allows UMTS and LTE networks to be co-deployed on a minimum of 8.4 MHz
spectrum, achieving full utilization of operators' spectrum resources.
Benefits
This feature reduces the minimum spectrum required for the co-deployment of continuous
UMTS and LTE networks to 8.4 MHz, improving both spectrum utilization and user
experience.
Description
This feature can be used independently or together with the Flexible frequency bandwidth of
UMTS carrier feature.
 When this feature is used alone, spectrum sharing is implemented between one UMTS
carrier and one LTE carrier.
On the UMTS side, this feature uses uplink and downlink asymmetric band-pass filters
to enable UMTS to work on a compact bandwidth. The saved bandwidth is then shared
with LTE. The uplink asymmetric band-pass filter helps filter out any interference from
UMTS uplink receive signals, ensuring the normal operation of UTMS cells. The
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reducing the interference caused by UMTS downlink signals to LTE. On the LTE side,
this feature punctures available RBs in LTE cells using a standard bandwidth. This helps
to reduce the LTE effective bandwidth, and any performance loss caused by RB
puncturing is offset by physical channel resource management. In this way, LTE cells
can work properly using a smaller non-standard bandwidth, and the saved bandwidth is
available to share with UMTS.
The following figure illustrates how this feature works using 15 MHz of bandwidth,
where the maximum overlapped spectrum between UMTS and LTE in the uplink and
downlink are both 5 MHz. With this feature, there is enough bandwidth to deploy both a
5 MHz UMTS cell, and a 15 MHz LTE cell. Without this feature, after deploying a 5
MHz UMTS cell, there would only be enough left over to deploy a 10 MHz LTE cell.
Figure 1-3 UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing
Table 1-3 describes the maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE.

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Table 1-3 Maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE

LTE Maximum UMTS Maximum Maximum Maximum
Standard Sharable Standard Sharable Sharable Overlappe
Bandwidth LTE Bandwidth UMTS UMTS d Spectrum
Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum Between
in the in the in the UMTS and
Uplink and Downlink Uplink LTE in the
Downlink Uplink and
Downlink
5 MHz 1 MHz 5 MHz 1.8 MHz 0.6 MHz 1.6 MHz

Table 1-4 describes how much LTE cell downlink capacity is improved in different
application scenarios compared with an LTE network using the adjacent lower
bandwidth.
Table 1-4 LTE cell downlink capacity gains

LTE Standard Actual Available LTE LTE Downlink Capacity
Bandwidth Bandwidth Gain
5 MHz 4 MHz–5 MHz +20%–58% more than with

 When this feature is used together with the Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS
carrier feature, spectrum sharing is implemented between multiple UMTS carriers and an
LTE carrier.
Specifically, both ends of the UMTS spectrum are shared. One end is shared to the LTE
network, and the other end is shared to another UMTS network.
− The amount of the UMTS spectrum shared to the LTE network and technical details
on UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing are described in the sections above.
− At the end of the UMTS spectrum shared to another UMTS network, the maximum
amount of overlapped spectrum in the uplink and downlink are 0.6 MHz. In
addition, the UMTS carrier that shares spectrum with the LTE carrier must have at
least 3.2 MHz of exclusive spectrum.

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For details about WRFD-021001 Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier, see GU 900 MHz
Non-standard Frequency Spacing in RAN Feature Documentation.
Figure 1-4 illustrates how the UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing feature and the Flexible
frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier feature work using 15 MHz of total bandwidth.
With these two features, there is enough bandwidth to deploy two 5 MHz UMTS cells,
and a 10 MHz LTE cell. Without these two functions, after deploying two 5 MHz UMTS
cells, there would only be enough left over to deploy a 5 MHz LTE cell.
Figure 1-4 Simultaneous use of these two features
The following table lists the minimum bandwidth requirements in different configuration
scenarios.
Configura LTE Minimum Actual Bandwidth Actual
tion Configurati Required Occupied by UMTS Bandwidth
on Bandwidth Occupied by
Bandwidth LTE
1U1L 5 MHz 8.4 MHz U1: 3.4 MHz 5 MHz
10 MHz 11 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 7.8 MHz
15 MHz 15 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 11.8 MHz
20 MHz 20 MHz U1: 3.2 MHz 16.8 MHz

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MHz
10 MHz 15 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 7.2 MHz
MHz
15 MHz 18.8 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 11 MHz
MHz
20 MHz 23.8 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 3.2 16 MHz
MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
10 MHz 19.2 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 7.2 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
15 MHz 23 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 11 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
20 MHz 28 MHz U1: 4.6 MHz; U2: 4.2 16 MHz
MHz; U3: 3.2 MHz
Enhancement
None
Dependency
None
 Base station
UL co-MPT or separate-MPT macro base stations running SRAN13.1 or later versions
must be used on the RAN. The base stations must meet the following hardware
requirements:
− Boards
 UMPT
 LMPT
 UMDU
 UBBP
 The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A. For details on the UMDU, see BBU Hardware
Description in 3900 Series Base Station Product Documentation or BBU5900 Hardware Description
in 5900 Series Base Station Product Documentation.
 To prevent cell activation failures due to lack of baseband resources, cells enabled with this feature
must be bound to baseband boards supporting this feature. If cells are not bound to such baseband
boards, cell activation may fail because the baseband boards supporting this feature are fully
occupied and other baseband boards do not support this feature.
− RF modules
 RFUs/RRUs

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All RFUs or RRUs supporting LTE or UMTS, except LRFU, MRFU V1,
MRFU V2, MRFU V2a, RRU3203, RRU3801C, RRU3801E, RRU3804,
RRU3805, RRU3806, RRU3808, RRU3908 V1, RRU3908 V2, and WRFU
 AAUs
AAU3910, AAU3911, AAU3920, AAU3940, AAU3961, and AAU5940
− Antenna specifications
1T1R, 2T2R, 2T4R, and 4T4R
 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Other features
None
 MRFD-231808 GSM and LTE Buffer Zone Optimization(LTE)
 MRFD-111401 GSM and LTE Zero Bufferzone
 MRFD-090202 GSM and LTE FDD Dynamic Spectrum Sharing(LTE FDD)
 MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (LTE FDD)
 MRFD-101221 UL Refarming Zero Bufferzone (Trial)
 LOFD-111205 CDMA and LTE Zero Bufferzone (LTE FDD)
 LOFD-001051 Compact Bandwidth
 LEOFD-111302 Flexible Bandwidth based on Overlap Carriers
 LAOFD-110203 ePDCCH (Trial)
 Others
This feature must be simultaneously used with MRFD-130212 UMTS and LTE
Spectrum Sharing (UMTS).
When spectrum sharing needs to be implemented between multiple UMTS carriers and
an LTE carrier, the WRFD-021001 Flexible frequency bandwidth of UMTS carrier
feature must be activated.
1.3 Power Sharing

1.3.1 MRFD-131212 UMTS and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing
(UMTS)
Availability

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Summary
This feature enables the idle power of one radio access technology (RAT) to be temporarily
allocated to another RAT for an improvement in user experience. This occurs as a result of an
imbalance in the distribution of UMTS and LTE traffic or when the peak hours of UMTS and
LTE spike fall in different periods of a single day.
During UMTS off-peak hours, UMTS shares its idle power with LTE. U2L power sharing
improves the throughput of LTE UEs using the quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK)
modulation scheme.
During LTE off-peak hours, LTE shares its idle power with UMTS. L2U power sharing
improves the average throughput of a UMTS cell.
Benefits
 U2L power sharing improves the throughput of UEs using the QPSK modulation scheme
in LTE cells, since these UEs are allocated the idle power of UMTS.
 L2U power sharing improves the throughput of HSDPA UEs, since the shared idle power
of LTE is allocated to HSDPA UEs.
Description
This feature consists of U2L and L2U power sharing.
When UMTS and LTE share the same RF module, UMTS and LTE cells calculate their own
power usage based on which peak and off-peak hours of UMTS and LTE cells can be
determined.
 U2L power sharing
During UMTS off-peak hours, UMTS limits the amount of power available to HSDPA
services, and shares its idle power with LTE. The pilot power of LTE cells remains the
same before and after U2L power sharing. After U2L power sharing, the throughput of
LTE UEs using the QPSK modulation scheme improves, which may cause interference
to adjacent cells.
The actual gains provided by U2L power sharing on the live network are closely related
to the traffic model. U2L power sharing can provide a large gain when UMTS traffic is
low and LTE traffic is high.
 L2U power sharing
During LTE off-peak hours, LTE limits the number of available RBs, and shares its idle
power with UMTS. The pilot power of UMTS cells remains the same before and after
L2U power sharing. After L2U power sharing, the throughput of HSDPA UEs improves,
which may cause interference to adjacent cells.
The actual gains provided by L2U power sharing on the live network are closely related
to the traffic model. L2U power sharing can provide a large gain when LTE traffic is low
and UMTS traffic is high.
This feature is applicable to the following scenarios:
 LTE and UMTS carriers share a power amplifier (PA) and are configured on each RRU
channel. RRUs are not combined.
 LTE carriers do not use a 1.4 MHz or 3 MHz bandwidth.

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 No NB-IoT carrier is configured on RRU channels.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
None
 Base station
− Only the UMPT series main control boards, UMDU, and WMPT support this
feature.
− Only the UBBPd, UBBPe, and WBBPf series baseband processing boards support
this feature.
− Only the RRU3962 and RRU5507 support this feature.
− This feature is not applicable to combined RRUs.
− This feature is not applicable to LTE carriers operating on a 1.4 MHz or 3 MHz
bandwidth.
− This feature supports 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz LTE cells. In 5 MHz
and 10 MHz LTE cells, LTE cannot share power to UMTS and can only use UMTS
shared power.
 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Other features
 WRFD-010610 HSDPA Introduction Package
 WRFD-160251 HSDPA Inter-Cell Power Sharing
When two or more UMTS carriers participate in power sharing on a single RF
channel, this feature must be enabled.
 WRFD-010205 Cell Digital Combination and Split
 WRFD-010684 2×2 MIMO
 WRFD-021350 Independent Demodulation of Signals from Multiple RRUs in
One Cell
 WRFD-151208 Macro-Micro Multi RRUs in One Cell
 WRFD-190205 VAM Power Saving
 MRFD-221801 Multi-mode Dynamic Power Sharing(UMTS)
 WRFD-201203 UMTS 4T Beam Optimization
 WRFD-201208 UMTS Massive Beam 8T8R
 Others

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This feature must be simultaneously used with MRFD-131222 UMTS and LTE Dynamic
Power Sharing (LTE FDD).
1.3.2 MRFD-131222 UMTS and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing (LTE

FDD)
Availability
Summary
This feature enables the idle power of one radio access technology (RAT) to be temporarily
allocated to another RAT for an improvement in user experience. This occurs as a result of an
imbalance in the distribution of UMTS and LTE traffic or when the peak hours of UMTS and
LTE spike fall in different periods of a single day.
During UMTS off-peak hours, UMTS shares its idle power with LTE. U2L power sharing
improves the throughput of LTE UEs using the quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK)
modulation scheme.
During LTE off-peak hours, LTE shares its idle power with UMTS. L2U power sharing
improves the average throughput of a UMTS cell.
Benefits
 U2L power sharing improves the throughput of UEs using the QPSK modulation scheme
in LTE cells, since these UEs are allocated the idle power of UMTS.
 L2U power sharing improves the throughput of HSDPA UEs, since the shared idle power
of LTE is allocated to HSDPA UEs.
Description
This feature consists of U2L and L2U power sharing.
When UMTS and LTE share the same RF module, UMTS and LTE cells calculate their own
power usage based on which peak and off-peak hours of UMTS and LTE cells can be
determined.
 U2L power sharing
During UMTS off-peak hours, UMTS limits the amount of power available to HSDPA
services, and shares its idle power with LTE. The pilot power of LTE cells remains the
same before and after U2L power sharing. After U2L power sharing, the throughput of
LTE UEs using the QPSK modulation scheme improves, which may cause interference
to adjacent cells.
The actual gains provided by U2L power sharing on the live network are closely related
to the traffic model. U2L power sharing can provide a large gain when UMTS traffic is
low and LTE traffic is high.
 L2U power sharing
During LTE off-peak hours, LTE limits the number of available RBs, and shares its idle
power with UMTS. The pilot power of UMTS cells remains the same before and after

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L2U power sharing. After L2U power sharing, the throughput of HSDPA UEs improves,
which may cause interference to adjacent cells.
The actual gains provided by L2U power sharing on the live network are closely related
to the traffic model. L2U power sharing can provide a large gain when LTE traffic is low
and UMTS traffic is high.
This feature is applicable to the following scenarios:
 LTE and UMTS carriers share a power amplifier (PA) and are configured on each RRU
channel. RRUs are not combined.
 LTE carriers do not use a 1.4 MHz or 3 MHz bandwidth.
 No NB-IoT carrier is configured on RRU channels.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
None
 Base station
− Only the UMPT series main control boards support this feature.
− Only the UBBPd series and UBBPe series baseband processing boards support this
feature.
− Only the RRU3962 and RRU5507 support this feature.
− This feature is not applicable to combined RRUs.
− This feature is not applicable to LTE carriers operating on a 1.4 MHz or 3 MHz
bandwidth.
− This feature supports 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz LTE cells. In 5 MHz
and 10 MHz LTE cells, LTE cannot share power to UMTS and can only use UMTS
shared power.
 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Other features
LCOFD-131311 Cross LTE Carriers Dynamic Power Sharing
 LBFD-002022 Static Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
 LBFD-00202201 Downlink Static Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
 LOFD-001003 DL 4x2 MIMO
 LOFD-001060 DL 4x4 MIMO
 LOFD-060201 Adaptive Inter-Cell Interference Coordination

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 LOFD-070208 Coordinated Scheduling based Power Control

 LOFD-081208 Inter-eNodeB SFN Based on Coordinated eNodeB
 LOFD-081209 Inter-eNodeB Adaptive SFN/SDMA Based on Coordinated
eNodeB
 LOFD-081221 Super Combined Cell
 LOFD-001007 High Speed Mobility
 LOFD-001008 Ultra High Speed Mobility
 MRFD-231806 GSM and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing(LTE)
 MLBFD-120001 NB-IoT Network Deployment
 Others
This feature must be simultaneously used with MRFD-131212 UMTS and LTE Dynamic
Power Sharing (UMTS).
1.3.3 LCOFD-131311 Cross LTE Carriers Dynamic Power Sharing

(LTE FDD)
Availability
This feature is:
 Available in macro eNodeBs as of eRAN13.1.
 Not available in micro eNodeBs.
 Not available in LampSite eNodeBs.
Summary
This feature enables TTI-level power sharing between LTE cells that share the same power
amplifier (PA) channels of one RF module.
Benefits
This feature enables eNodeBs to determine the power usage of LTE cells sharing the same PA
channels of one RF module in each TTI. If further data scheduling is required in a cell where
all its bandwidth has been occupied, this cell can instantaneously share the power of idle cells,
so that the transmit power of that cell exceeds its static power configuration. This is based on
the fact that different cells do not have their bandwidths fully occupied at the same time. This
feature improves power efficiency, increases cell edge user–perceived throughput, and
mitigates instantaneous inter-cell load imbalance.
Description
LTE cells instantaneously have all their bandwidth occupied or change to idle mode. Different
cells may not have their bandwidths fully occupied at the same time.
This feature enables instantaneous power coordination for multiple cells sharing the same PA
channels of one RF module in each TTI, based on the preceding fact. If data transmission is
required in a cell where no remaining power is available, this cell can instantaneously use the
power of idle cells, so that the transmit power of that cell exceeds its static power
configuration.

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This feature does not increase the PA channel capability of the RF module. It increases
user-perceived throughput by using power resources of idle cells for busy cells. Therefore, the
sum of maximum transmit power of multiple power-sharing cells does not exceed the sum of
their static power configurations.
This feature applies to cells with insufficient instantaneous power due to their limited static
power configurations. In these cells, further data transmission is required after scheduling.
This feature enables a carrier with heavy instantaneous traffic to use the remaining power of
other carriers. This is based on the fact that the instantaneous power usage is imbalanced
among LTE carriers with different services. This feature increases both the average cell
throughput and downlink edge-user-perceived throughput.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
None
 eNodeB
− MPT: The UMPT or later board is required.
− BBP: The UBBPd, UBBPe, or later board is required.
− RF module: RRU5507, RRU3962, and RRU5501
 UE
None
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Other features
− Prerequisite features: None
− Mutually exclusive features:
 LOFD-060201 Adaptive Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
 LOFD-070208 Coordinated Scheduling based Power Control
 LOFD-081208 Inter-eNodeB SFN Based on Coordinated eNodeB
 LOFD-081209 Inter-eNodeB Adaptive SFN/SDMA Based on Coordinated
eNodeB
 LOFD-001007 High Speed Mobility
 LOFD-001008 Ultra High Speed Mobility
 LOFD-081221 Super Combined Cell
 MRFD-231806 GSM and LTE Dynamic Power Sharing(LTE)

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1.3.4 TDLCOFD-131311 Cross LTE Carriers Dynamic Power

Sharing (LTE TDD)
Availability
This feature is:
 Available in macro eNodeBs as of LTE TDD eRAN13.1.
 Not available in micro eNodeBs.
 Not available in LampSite eNodeBs.
Summary
Dynamic Power Sharing Between Carriers enables TTI-level power sharing between LTE
cells that share the same power amplifier (PA) channels of one RF module.
Benefits
This feature enables eNodeBs to determine the power usage of LTE cells sharing the same PA
channels of one RF module in each TTI. If further data scheduling is required in a cell where
all its bandwidth has been occupied, this cell can instantaneously share the power of idle cells,
so that the transmit power of that cell exceeds its static power configuration. This is based on
the fact that different cells do not have their bandwidths fully occupied at the same time. This
feature improves power efficiency, increases user-perceived throughput, and mitigates
inter-cell imbalance in instantaneous loads.
Description
LTE cells instantaneously have all their bandwidth occupied or change to idle mode. In
addition, different cells do not have their bandwidths fully occupied at the same time.
This feature enables instantaneous power coordination for multiple cells sharing the same PA
channels of one RF module in each TTI, based on the preceding fact. If data transmission is
required in a cell where no remaining power is available, this cell can instantaneously use the
power of idle cells, so that the transmit power of that cell exceeds its static power
configuration.
Power sharing does not increase the PA channel capability of the RF module. It increases
user-perceived throughput by using power resources of idle cells for busy cells. Therefore, the
sum of maximum transmit power of multiple power-sharing cells is equal to the sum of their
static power configurations.
This feature applies to cells with insufficient instantaneous power due to their limited static
power configurations. That is, further data transmission is required in the cells after
scheduling. This feature enables the carrier with heavy instantaneous traffic to use the
remaining power of other carriers. This is based on the fact that the instantaneous power
usage is imbalanced among LTE carriers with different services. Therefore, both the network
throughput and user-perceived throughput are increased.
Enhancement
None

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Dependency
 eNodeB
The UBBP is required. The RF module must be an RRU3257 or RRU3279.
 UE
The UE complies with 3GPP Release 8 or later.
 Transport network
None
 Core network
None
 OSS
None
 Other features
This feature does not require other features.
 Mutually exclusive features
This feature does not work with the following features:
− TDLBFD-00202201 Downlink Static Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
− TDLOFD-060201 Adaptive Inter-Cell Interference Coordination
− TDLOFD-080203 Coordinated Scheduling based Power Control
− TDLOFD-001080 Inter-eNodeB SFN Based on Coordinated eNodeB
− TDLOFD-001082 Inter-eNodeB Adaptive SFN/SDMA Based on Coordinated
eNodeB
− TDLOFD-001007 High Speed Mobility
− TDLBFD-110103 Soft Split Resource Duplex
− TDLEOFD-130501 Inter-Cell DL D-MIMO
 Others
None
1.4 LTE High and Low Band Coordination

1.4.1 LCOFD-131312 LTE Spectrum Coordination (LTE FDD)
Availability
This feature is:
 Available in macro eNodeBs as of eRAN13.1.
 Available in micro eNodeBs (BTS3911E and BTS3912E) as of eRAN13.1.
 Available in LampSite eNodeBs as of eRAN13.1.
Summary
For a CA UE located a medium or long distance from the cell center, its downlink data rate
may not reach the expected value because of radio interface limitation in the uplink on the

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high-frequency component carrier (CC) of the UE. This feature changes the PCC of the CA
UE from the high-frequency carrier to a low-frequency one based on uplink channel quality,
so that the downlink channels on the high-frequency carrier can continue to be used for the
UE. This maintains the downlink data rate of the UE and improves user experience.
Benefits
On a multi-band LTE network, this feature takes effect on CA UEs located at the uplink
coverage edge of high LTE frequencies, which usually encounter uplink usage limitation
while downlink is still available. It increases the downlink usage of high frequencies for these
CA UEs and the downlink data rates of them.
Description
When an eNodeB finds that the uplink SINR on the PCC of a CA UE is poor, the eNodeB
evaluates whether any SCC of the UE can provide better uplink performance. If an SCC can
provide better uplink performance, the eNodeB hands over the UE from the PCC to the SCC,
configures the original SCC as a new PCC, and configures the original PCC as a new SCC.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
 eNodeB
− BBP: LBBPc is incompatible with this feature.
 eCoordinator
None
 UE
CA must be supported.
 Core network
None
 Other NEs
None
 Prerequisite features
LAOFD-001001 LTE-A Introduction
None
 Others
None
1.4.2 TDLCOFD-131312 LTE Spectrum Coordination (LTE TDD)

Availability
This feature is:
 Available in macro eNodeBs as of LTE TDD eRAN13.1.

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 Available in LampSite eNodeBs as of LTE TDD eRAN13.1.

 Available in micro eNodeBs as of LTE TDD eRAN13.1.
Summary
In LTE networks with both high and low frequency bands, this feature exchanges the
high-frequency primary component carrier (PCC) and a low-frequency secondary component
carrier (SCC) for a carrier aggregation (CA) UE to increase downlink RB usage of the
original PCC. This feature takes effect on CA UEs located at the uplink coverage edge of high
LTE frequencies, which usually encounter uplink usage limitation while downlink is still
available. This limitation may even affect the deployment of high frequencies.
Benefits
This feature offers the following benefits to the LTE networks deployed with both high and
low frequency bands:
 Increases the uplink and downlink RB usage of cells.
 Increases the uplink and downlink data rates of cell-edge CA UEs.
Description
When an eNodeB finds that the uplink SINR on the PCC of a CA UE is poor, the eNodeB
evaluates whether any SCC of the UE can provide better uplink performance. If an SCC can
provide better uplink performance, the eNodeB hands over the UE from the PCC to the SCC
so that the original SCC acts as a new PCC, and then the eNodeB configures the original PCC
as a new SCC.
Enhancement
None
Dependency
 eNodeB
None
 UE
CA is supported.
 Transport network
None
 Core network
None
 OSS
None
 Other features
This feature requires TDLAOFD-001001 LTE-A Introduction to be activated.
None
 Others

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None

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CloudAIR Feature Description 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronyms and Expansion

Abbreviations
E Enhanced feature
M Maintenance (No change)
N New added feature
3G 3 rd Generation Mobile Communication System
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate
Abis Abis Interface
BBU Baseband Control Unit
BSC Base Station Controller
CME Control Management Entity
CN Core Network
FE Fast Ethernet
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GERAN GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
GSM Global System For Mobile Communication
HCS Hierarchical Cell Structure
LDR Load Reshuffling
LMPT LTE Main Processing Transmission unit
Iub Iub Interface
LTE Long Term Evolution
MIMO Multi-Input Multi-Output

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CloudAIR Feature Description 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronyms and Expansion

Abbreviations
NACC Network Assisted Cell Change

PHB Per-Hop-Behavior
QoS Quality of Service
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RAN Radio Access Network
RIM Radio Information Manager
RNC WCDMA Radio Network Controller
RRC Radio Resource Connection
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SRAN Single Radio Access Network
TDM Time Division Multiple Access
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UE User Equipment
WCDMA Wideband CDMA
WMPT WCDMA Main Processing Transmission unit


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1.1 GL Spectrum Sharing

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Main control boards  UMPT

The UMDU/MDUC is a built-in board of the BBU3910A/BBU3910C.

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1.1.2 MRFD-130221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency (LTE

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Main control boards  UMPT

The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A.

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DDB function of LEOFD-121204 3D Beamforming

1.1.3 MRFD-131201 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2

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Main control boards  UMPT

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The UMDU/MDUC is a built-in board of the BBU3910A/BBU3910C.

1.1.4 MRFD-131221 GSM and LTE Spectrum Concurrency Phase 2

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Main control boards  UMPT

The UMDU is a built-in board of the BBU3910A.

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1.2 UL Spectrum Sharing

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Figure 1-1 UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing

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Table 1-1 Maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE

5 MHz 1 MHz 5 MHz 1.8 MHz 0.6 MHz 1.6 MHz

Table 1-2 LTE cell downlink capacity gains

5 MHz 4 MHz–5 MHz +20%–58% more than with

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Figure 1-2 Simultaneous use of these two features

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 WRFD-201203 UMTS 4T Beam Optimization

1.2.2 MRFD-130222 UMTS and LTE Spectrum Sharing (LTE FDD)

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Figure 1-3 UMTS and LTE spectrum sharing

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Table 1-3 Maximum sharable bandwidths between UMTS and LTE

5 MHz 1 MHz 5 MHz 1.8 MHz 0.6 MHz 1.6 MHz

Table 1-4 LTE cell downlink capacity gains

5 MHz 4 MHz–5 MHz +20%–58% more than with

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Figure 1-4 Simultaneous use of these two features