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RAN16.0 Video Service

Rate Adaption
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 Objective
 After completing this course, you are supposed to:
 Learn about the benefits and application scenarios of the Video
Service Rate Adaption feature.
 Learn about the specifications of the Video Service Rate Adaption
feature.
 Learn about the basic principles of the Video Service Rate
Adaption feature.
 Be able to configure and verify the Video Service Rate Adaption
feature and to install and commission the products related to the
feature.

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Feature Introduction-Background
 This feature serves as a user experience management solution for UMTS services and is available in section
2.2 of Service Awareness-based QoS Management Feature Parameter Description.
 Video services have been one of the major data services on the mobile broadband (MBB) networks. Users
expect smooth video playback and minimum bandwidth waste. However, in mobile communications networks,
radio resource allocation cannot match well the bandwidth requirements of video services. The reasons are as
follows:
 When the radio signal quality is good, downloading too much data at a high rate wastes bandwidth.
 When the radio signal quality is poor, the download data rates fluctuate and video playback is not smooth.
 To address these problems, the WRFD-150252 Video Service Rate Adaption feature provides flexible rate
adjustment based on the data rate requirements of video playback, thereby improving user experience.

Bandwidth waste caused by Video freezing caused by

high-rate downloading downloading rate fluctuation

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Feature Introduction-Technical Principle
 This feature is implemented on the RNC and NodeB.
 The feature provides the following functions:
 Video rate management: Based on the video bit rate in the network, this feature sets an SGBR or
SHBR for video services to minimize the impact of resource congestion on video data rates.
 Initial acceleration: To enable the video to start playing as soon as possible, this feature sets a
high SGBR or SHBR for video services in the initial acceleration period.
 Automatic bit rate detection: When the RAN performs service type awareness, this feature can
detect the bit rate of videos with the format of mp4, flv, or 3gp, and maps the SGBR/SHBR based
on the detected bit rate.

Faster initial rate to

reduce waiting Video rate
Throughput

time Download speed

Add service-based S-GBR/S-HBR to

guarantee video experience. Time

Initial Acceleration Time

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Feature Introduction-Application Scenarios

 Typical scenarios
This feature is applicable when user experience deteriorates due to insufficient network
resources.

Enable this feature to improve user experience for the corresponding services when a cell
under the RNC meets the following conditions:

 Cell load: The average throughput per HSDPA user in the cell is lower than 1 Mbit/s
during busy hours and resources are insufficient.

 Cell services: The proportion of the video traffic volume to the total traffic volume is
lower than 40% in the cell.

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Feature Benefits and Network Impact
 Feature Benefits
 When radio resources or Iub resources are insufficient, this feature increases service data rates of
video services and improves the user experience. The significant effect is reflected in reducing the
average pause time of online video display.
 Network Impact
 System capacity
 If there are UEs that are configured with SHBR/SGBR in a cell for service rate management, the
cell capacity may change, which depends on UE distribution, SHBR/SGBR settings, distribution
of video UEs, and SPI weight. To ensure that the data rate of UEs that have poor channel quality
is higher than SHBR/SGBR, improve the scheduling probability of users in weak coverage areas,
which may decrease the cell throughput.
 A simulation test was made in a lab: A cell has three category 8 UEs. UE 1 with good channel
quality has an average channel quality indicator (CQI) of about 30, UE 2 with moderate channel
quality has an average CQI of about 25, and UE 3 with poor channel quality has an average CQI
of about 9. After UE 3 was configured with an SHBR of 1024 kbit/s, the cell throughput
decreased by about 30%.
 Network performance
 To use this feature, the RNC needs to send QoS parameters such as SHBR and SGBR to the
NodeB through private Iub FP frames. This increases the Iub traffic volume.

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Feature Deployment-Related Features
 Prerequisite Features
None
 Mutually Exclusive Features
None
 Impacted Features
WRFD-020806 Differentiated Service Based on SPI Weight
Before enabling this feature, check whether the WRFD-020806 Differentiated Service Based on SPI Weight feature is applied
in the network. If the latter feature is used, ensure that the SPI weight calculated from the SPI weight configured for the latter
feature and the DLSpiWeightAdjCoef parameter is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 100. Any value greater
than 100 is treated as 100, and any value less than 1 is treated as 1. The service differentiation effect is counteracted in both
situations.
WRFD-020132 Web Browsing Acceleration

On networks with severe congestion, the maximum gains cannot be obtained. The concrete gains depend on the settings of
QoS parameters for web browsing and video services.
WRFD-150254 Differentiated Service Based on Application Resource Reservation

This feature is affected by the proportion of the maximum transmit power of the resource group. The gain of this feature
depends on the HSDPA power usage and the configured proportion of the maximum HSDPA transmit power of the resource
group to which video services map. If the HSDPA power usage of the resource group to which video services map exceeds the
configured proportion of the maximum HSDPA transmit power of the resource group, the user experience of video services is
affected.
WRFD-140221 HSDPA Scheduling Based on UE Location

The HSDPA Scheduling Based on UE Location feature is used to maximize cell throughput. The WRFD-150252 Video Service
Rate Adaption feature is used to improve the user experience of video services. When these features are used together, they
affect each other and, as a result, neither can obtain the expected gains. Therefore, these features should not be used
together.

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Feature Deployment-Prerequisites
 Dependencies on Hardware
 Dependency on RNC hardware
 When the RAN performs the service type awareness, the BSC6900 UMTS must be configured with
the NIUa board.
 When the RAN performs the service type awareness, the BSC6910 UMTS must be configured with
the ENIUa board.
 Dependency on NodeB hardware
 To support this feature, the BTS3812E, BTS3812A, and BTS3812AE must be configured with the
EBBI, EBOI, EDLP, EULP, or EULPd board. The HBBI and HDLP boards do not support this feature.
 To support this feature, the DBS3800 must be configured with the EBBC, EBBM, or EBBCd board.
The HBBU board does not support this feature.
 To support this feature, the 3900 series base stations, DBS3900, BTS3902E, and BTS3900C must
be configured with the WBBPb, WBBPd, or WBBPf board. The WBBPa board does not support this
feature.
 Dependency on Other NEs
 This feature does not have any special requirements for the CN if the RAN performs service type
awareness. When the CN performs service type awareness, this feature requires the CN to contain the
DSCP for VoIP services in the UE IP packet headers.
 License
 A new license control item for this feature is added on the RNC side.

Feature ID Feature Name License Description NE Sales Unit

Video Service Rate Video Service Rate Adaption

WRFD-150252 BSC6900/BSC6910 PS active user
Adaption (per PS Active User)

To enable this feature, you need to purchase sufficient Hardware capacity licenses.

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Feature Deployment-Required Information

Required Information
 Network load
 Service load: Collect the measurement values of the VS.HSDPA.UE.Mean.Cell and
VS.HSDPA.MeanChThroughput counters. If the value of VS.HSDPA.UE.Mean.Cell is greater than 10 and
the value of VS.HSDPA.MeanChThroughput is lower than 1 Mbit/s, the service load is considered high.
 Downlink power: Collect the measurement values of VS.MeanTCP.NonHS and VS.MeanTCP counters.
Obtain the value of MaxTxPower based on the RNC configuration data. The downlink transmit power
resources are insufficient if the total TCP usage is greater than 80% during busy hours.
 Use of differentiated services
If the WRFD-020806 has been enabled, check the SPI weight configurations. Ensure that the SPI weight
calculated based on the SPI weight configured for the WRFD-020806 Differentiated Service Based on SPI
Weight feature and the value of the DLSpiWeightAdjCoef parameter configured for video services is
greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 100. Any value greater than 100 is treated as 100, and
any value less than 1 is treated as 1. The service differentiation effect is counteracted in both situations.
 Service experience data
The service experience depends on the evaluation methods taken by the operators. Before the service
optimization solution is implemented, collect service experience data and use the collected data as input
data for evaluating the service optimization effects. After optimization, compare the service experience data
before and after optimization to evaluate the optimization effects.

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Feature Deployment-Network Planning

 Network planning
None
 RF planning
None

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Feature Deployment-Parameter Preparation for Service Type
Awareness by the RAN
Parameter Name Parameter ID Setting Notes Data source
QoS Policy Time This parameter specifies whether to enable a QoS policy group to take effect.
Switch QoSPolicyTimeSwitch If initial video acceleration is required, set this parameter to ON_1. If initial Internal plan
video acceleration is not required, set this parameter to ON.
The value of this parameter ranges from 0 to 63. This parameter specifies the
First Time Segment ID of the QoS policy used by video services in the first time segment. If video
QoS Policy ID FirQoSPolicyGroupID acceleration is required, this parameter specifies the ID of the QoS policy used Internal plan
in the initial video acceleration period. If video acceleration is not required, this
parameter specifies the ID of the QoS policy used by video services.
First Time Segment
FirTimeLength This parameter specifies the period of initial video acceleration. Internal plan
Length
The value of this parameter ranges from 0 to 63. This parameter specifies the
Second Time
ID of the QoS policy used by video services in the second time segment. If
Segment QoS SecQoSPolicyGroupID Internal plan
video acceleration is required, this parameter specifies the ID of the QoS
Policy ID
policy used after the initial video acceleration period ends.
This parameter specifies the traffic management policy. For video services,
this parameter should be set to SGBR or SHBR. When this parameter is set to
Traffic Management
TrafficPolicy SGBR, the data rates of video services are higher than the configured data Internal plan
Policy
rate. When this parameter is set to SHBR, the data rates of video services
approach the configured data rate.
Downlink Service
DLSHBR Set this parameter based on the required bandwidth of VoIP services. Internal plan
Happy Bit Rate
Downlink Service
DLSGBR Set this parameter based on the required bandwidth of VoIP services. Internal plan
Minimum Bit Rate
Downlink SPI
Weight Adjustment DLSpiWeightAdjCoef The default value of this parameter is 20. Internal plan
Coefficient
Service Rate
When the RAN performs service type awareness, set the service rate
Automatic Match SBRAutoMatchSwitch Internal plan
automatic match switch to ON.
Switch

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Feature Deployment-Parameter Preparation
for Service Type Awareness by the CN
Besides the parameters same as those for service type awareness by the RAN, you need to prepare the
following DSCP-related parameters for video services.

Data
Parameter Name Parameter ID Setting Notes
source

Differentiated This parameter must be set if the CN performs service Negotiated

DSCP type awareness. Before enabling this feature, determine
Services Code Point the DSCP range for VoIP services. with the CN

This parameter must be set if the CN performs service

DSCP Data Packet type awareness. Before enabling this feature, determine Negotiated
IPAddress the IP addresses for the servers that provide the FPI
IP Address function. If no server is specified, the IP address with the CN
255.255.255.254 is used.

This parameter must be set if the CN performs service

CP Data Packet IP IPMask type awareness. Before enabling this feature, determine Negotiated
Mask the mask for the IP address of the server that provides with the CN
the FPI function.

This parameter must be set if the CN performs service

Internal
Traffic Type TrafficType type awareness. Set this parameter to VIDEO for video
services. plan

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Feature Deployment – Activation
 Configuring the DSCP for video services
 Take the following step to configure the DSCP for video services when the CN performs service type awareness.
 Run the RNC MML command ADD UCNDSCPSERVP to add the mapping between a pre-planned DSCP
and the service type.
 Configuring the QoS policy
 Run the RNC MML command ADD UQOSPOLICY to set a QoS policy and QoS parameters.
 RNC MML command ADD UIPSERVICEQOS to configure QoS policy matching entries and initial acceleration
period for video services.
 Turning on function switches
 Run the RNC MML command SET URRCTRLSWITCH to select the NODEB_PRIVATE_INTERFACE_SWITCH
check box under the Process switch parameter. Select the VIDEO_RATE_ADAPTION_SWITCH check box
under the Process switch5 parameter.
 Run the RNC MML command SET UUPALGOSWITCH. In this step, set the QoS Policy Switch parameter to an
appropriate value, and turn on the QoS policy switches involved in the ADD UQOSPOLICY command.
 Run the RNC MML command SET UUPALGOSWITCH. In this step, if the CN is to perform service type
awareness, set the Service Protocol Matching Priority parameter to CN; if the RAN is to perform service type
awareness, set the Service Protocol Matching Priority parameter to RNC.
 If the CN performs service type awareness, run the RNC MML command MOD UCNNODE to change the value
of the Downlink E2EQoS Algorithm Switch parameter for the corresponding UMTS CN to ON.

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Feature Deployment-Activation Observation

 Observe related KPIs after the network has been running for a
period of time.
If the value of VS.Video.Total.DLTraffic is not 0, this feature has
been successfully activated.

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Feature Deployment – Deactivation
 Run the RNC MML command LST UIPSERVICEQOS to query the QoS policy matching
entries configured for video services and check the value of the Record Index parameter.

 Run the RNC MML command RMV UIPSERVICEQOS to remove QoS policy matching
entries for video services.

 Run the RNC MML command RMV UQOSPOLICY. In this step, specify the QoS Policy
Group ID parameter to remove the QoS policies for video services.

 If the CN performs service type awareness, run the RNC MML command RMV
UCNDSCPSERV. In this step, specify the Differentiated Services Code Point, DSCP
Data Packet IP Address, and DSCP Data Packet IP Mask parameters to remove all the
mapping between DSCPs and service groups for video services.

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Feature Deployment - Troubleshooting

None

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Performance Monitoring – New Counter

Counter Name Description

This counter indicates the total downlink traffic for video

VS.Video.Total.DLTraffic
services.

This counter indicates the total time for downlink data

VS.Video.Total.DLTransTime
transmission in video services.

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Performance Monitoring - Feature Evaluation

 Check the feature gains by comparing the video service rates before
and after the video optimization policy is implemented in the
congested cell.

Video service rate (bit/s) = VS.Video.Total.DLTraffic x 8/ VS.Video.Total.DLTransTime

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Application Cases

Provide application cases in the commercial network after the

feature beta or first office application (FOA) (including application
results and optimization experience) is completed.

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Precautions (FAQ)

 None

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Contents
 Feature Introduction
 Feature Benefits
 Feature Deployment
 Performance Monitoring
 Application Cases
 Precautions (FAQ)
 Reference Documents & Glossary
Reference Documents

None

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Glossary

None

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