6.4.

2 Inter-Frequency DRD for Service Steering

If the UE requests a service in an area covered by multiple frequencies, the RNC selects the
cell with the highest service priority for UE access, based on the service type of RAB and the
definitions of service priorities in the cells.
The availability of DRD for service steering is specified by
the ServiceDiffDrdSwitch parameter.

"Inter-frequency DRD for service steering" is called "DRD for service steering" for short in this section.

Cell Service Priorities Introduction

Cell service priorities refer to the priorities of cells under the same coverage accepting
specific service types. These priorities help achieve traffic absorption in a hierarchical way.
The priorities of specific service types in cells are configurable. If a cell does not support a
service type, the priority of this service type is set to 0 in this cell. The group of service
priorities in each cell is specified by the service priority group identity (SpgId) parameter.
Service priority groups are configured on the LMT. In each group, priorities of R99 RT
services, R99 NRT services, HSPA services, and other services are defined.
When selecting a target cell for RAB processing, the RNC selects a cell with a high priority,
that is, a cell that has a small value of service priority.
Assume that the service priority groups given in the following table are defined on an RNC.

Cell Service Service Priority Service Priority of Service Priority Service Priority
Priority of R99 RT R99 NRT Service of HSPA Service of Other Service
Group Service
Identity

A 1 2 1 1 0
B 2 1 2 0 0

As shown in Figure 6-3, cell B has a higher service priority of the R99 RT service than cell A.
If the UE requests an RT service in cell A, preferably the RNC selects cell B for the UE to
access.
Figure 6-3 Example of DRD for service steering
If the requested service is a combination of multiple services, the RAB with the highest priority is used when
a cell is selected for RAB processing. In addition, the target cell must support all these services.

Procedure of DRD for Service Steering

This section describes the procedure of DRD for service steering when DRD for load balancing is disabled.

Figure 6-4 Procedure of DRD for service steering

The procedure of DRD for service steering is as follows:

1. The RNC determines the candidate cells to which blind handovers can be performed and
sorts the candidate cells in descending order according to service priority.
A candidate cell must meet the following conditions:
− The frequency of the candidate cell is within the band supported by the UE.
 − The quality of the candidate cell meets the requirements of inter-frequency DRD. For
details, see 6.2 "IAC During RRC Connection Setup."
− The candidate cell supports the requested service.
2. The RNC selects a target cell from the candidate cells in order of service priority for UE
access.
If there is more than one cell with the same service priority,
− When the cell, in which the UE requests the service, is one of the candidate cells with
the same service priority, preferably, the RNC selects this cell for admission decision.
− Otherwise, the RNC randomly selects a cell as the target cell.
3. The CAC algorithm makes an admission decision based on the status of the target cell.
 If the admission attempt is successful, the RNC accepts the service request.
 If the admission attempt fails, the RNC removes the cell from the candidate cells and then
checks whether all candidate cells are tried.
− If there are any cells where no admission decision has been made, the algorithm goes
back to step 2.
− If admission decisions have been made in all the candidate cells, then:
a.If the service request is an HSPA one, the HSPA request falls back to a DCH one.
Then, the algorithm goes back to step 1 to make an admission decision based on R99
service priorities.
b.If the service request is a DCH one, the RNC initiates an inter-RAT DRD.