Cell Broadcast Service in RAN P7

Overview

FAJ 121 1326 Cell Broadcast Service

P7 Feature Scope (Optional) Enables broadcast of short text messages to UEs in idle mode and URA_PCH state CB messages are generated by an external Cell Broadcast Centre (CBC) and sent to UTRAN via the new Iu-BC interface.

Uu RRC: SIB5 BMC signalling (25.324) Logical ch: CTCH Transport ch: FACH1 Physical ch: S-CCPCH

UTRAN UE UE Node B RNC Node B Iub Uu IuBC Cell Broadcast Center (CBC)

Iu-BC SABP signalling (25.419) Signalling transport (25.414) -TCP/IP (port: 3452) -IP or ATM transport

Concepts
Cell Broadcast (CB) message
User data as transmitted from the CBC to the UE A CBSA represents the smallest geographical area where CB messages can be broadcast. One CBSA contains one UTRAN cell BC CB messages are sent from WCDMA RAN to the UE using the BMC protocol. A BMC CB message contents one CB message A radio frame on the S-CCPCH where CTCH can be sent

Cell Broadcast Service Area (CBSA)

BMC CB message

CTCH occasion

CBS in Ericsson RAN P7 (1/2)

Restrictions & Limitations CBS Level 2 Scheduling (DRX mode) is not supported in P7 Max CB messages stored per cell: 20 Max CBS payload stored per cell: 2.5 kbyte References CPI: Cell Broadcast Service, 126/1553-HSD 10102/7 3GPP SoCs:
BMC (25.324), 44/17402 - HSD10102/7 SABP (25.419), 45/17402 HSD 10202/7 Iu interface data transport & signalling (25.414), 02/17402 HSD 10102/7

CBS in Ericsson RAN P7 (2/2)

Feature preparation

CN requirements: None Hardware requirements: R4 HW for the RANAP/RNSAP MP in RNC UE requirements: Support for CBS according to 3GPP Rel-99 Initial tuning: Not applicable

Feature Activation
SW license for FAJ 121 1326 installed and activated in RNC MO IuBcLink created and unlocked Cell Broadcast Service Area defined per UtranCell (parameter cellBroadcastSac) Note: Activation of this feature will impact UE battery consumption in idle mode and state URA_PCH

Radio Protocol

BMC protocol model & functions

user-plane RRC BMC-SAP L2/BMC sublayer CBMCSAP BMC

UM L2/RLC sublayer RLC

Functions
Storage of Cell Broadcast Messages Scheduling of BMC messages Transmission of BMC messages to UE
CTCH-SAP

Note : E/// P7 will not support Traffic volume monitoring and radio resource request

Cell Broadcast Service Area

CBSA (Cell Broadcast Service Area) definition
PLMN id + Location Area Code (LAC) + CB Service Area Code Only used towards the CBC and contained one cell CB SAC is configured in RNC and set as cellBroadcastSac OSS provide consistency check rule

To verify CBSAs are unique in all the network

Existing SA towards CN (CS and PS domain) is not affected.

Start of CBS operation

Criteria to start CBS operation
1. The CBS feature activated and the license is loaded 2. The Iu-BC link is configured 3. The cells in which CB messages are to be broadcast are enabled and a CBSA is defined for each cell

RNC send a SABP RESTART message to CBC

Contains a list of all defined CBSAs within the RNC.

SABP RESTART Message is also sent

When
Disable cell was recovered and trigger to the RNC And periodic timer of 30seconds is expired Timer is implemented to avoid frequent messages

Message contains a list of all CBSAs that have triggered within last 30second

Broadcasting the message

(Write and Replace)

Note: E/// P7 doesnt support BMC schedule message

Write-Replace
Message type Message identifier

Message from CBC (1)

Identify the type of message (e.g. Write-Replace) RNC uniquely identify the CB message by this identifier with the 12 left most bits of the Serial number

New serial number and old serial number

Indicate new and old message

Service Area identifier

Identifies Service area Max 2304 Service Areas are supported

Category
High priority : Broadcast immediately Background : Broadcast when No High priority or Normal Traffic broadcast Normal : Broadcast according to the repetition period IE
Note : In Ericssons implementation RNC will not use the Category information. All CB messages are sent immediately after reception of a Write-Replace message.

Write-Replace
Repetition Period

Message from CBC (2)

Indicates the periodicity of message broadcasts Set from once per one second to once per -1 hour

Number of Broadcast requested

Indicates the number of the times a message to be broadcast 0 65535: 0 indicates until other command received from CN

Data Coding Scheme

Identifies the alphabet or coding employed for the message characters and message handling

Broadcast message content

Bit string (1.9968) ,,, The size shall be multiple of 8

Write-Replace

RNC action

Checks all service areas are defined as CBSA then responds Write-Replace complete message
If not, responds Write-replace failure message The new message is stored

If the cell contained in the CBSA is enabled If the Message contains old serial number New message is broadcast on CTCH
The previously stored message replaced with the new message
With the repetition period requested by CBC For infinite Broadcast the CB message is repeated until it is deleted by CBC

Deletion of CB messages
Kill Procedure
Used to stop broadcast of one CB message in one or several CBSs

Reset Procedure
Used to stop broadcast of all CB messages stored in one or several CBSs

CTCH mapping on S-CCPCH

The logical channel CTCH is multiplexed on FACH1 Then carried by exiting S-CCPCH for 32kbps Interactive PS RB and SRBs The CTCH is scheduled on S-CCPCH during predefined CTCH occasion i.e. timing of CTCH ...... S-CCPCH transmission is fixed ......
10mS

CTCH

CTCH

SFN 0

SFN 1

SFN 2

SFN N

SFN N+1

ctchOccasionPeriod

SFN cycle : 0..4095

CTCH Occasions
CTCH occasions are defined as SFN=K+m*N, m=0,1,2.M
K: Offset of the first CTCH, Hard coded to 0 N: Period of CTCH occasion, ctchOccasionPeriod:1-256 M: Chosen so that SFN=K+m*N <=4095 (Max SFN)

10mS

S-CCPCH

CTCH SFN 0 SFN 1 SFN 2

......

CTCH SFN N SFN N+1

......

N:ctchOccasionPeriod

SFN cycle : 0..4095 Maximum BW of CTCH Channel can vary from 0.18kbps to up to 30.4kbps

CTCH occasion impact

Impact on SRB and PS interactive, UE power consumption
BMC CB messages will have the highest priority in frames defined as CTCH occasions Other FACH1 or FACH 2 data can be sent if no CTCH data Frequent CTCH occasion and high CBS load cause delay of SRB and PS interactive on FACH 1 and FACH2 UE (In idle and URA_PCH) must listen to every CTCH occasion Trade off between Max CTCH BW and UE power Consumption

Need to select CTCH occasion period carefully

Confliction with paging occasion UE will prioritize paging occasion if paging occasion conflict with CTCH occasions in idle and URA_PCH state Paging occasions are calculated based on the IMSI and the DRX cycle length coefficient

Need to make sure CTCH occasion period is not set to a multiple of DRX cycle length coefficient to avoid same UE will miss CTCH occasion

IuBC Interface

Iu-BC protocol stack and precondition

IP Iu-BC protocol stack

ATM Iu-BC protocol stack

The Iu-BC interface is standardized by 3GPP. The CBC node must be connected to the O&M IP network The O&M IP network must allow the TCP port for SABP 3452 and will compete for bandwidth with the O&M traffic

Iu-BC using ATM transport

IP transport (Iu-BC)

ATM transport (Mur + Iu-BC)

Iu-BC and O&M traffic will share the same IP host in RNC. For ATM case, Iu-BC traffic is carried to O&M router using ATM. The CBC node must be connected using IP/Ethernet to O&M Router.

Iu-BC using IP transport

IP transport (Iu-BC)

IP transport (Mur + Iu-BC)

For IP case Iu-BC can be carried over IP/Ethernet straight to the CBC node from RNC all IP Routing configuration in RNC for Mur can be reused for Iu-BC as the Iu-BC interface is connected to the same O&M IP network as Mur. There is no need to add or modify routes as all traffic is sent to the O&M Router.

QoS
From RNC to CBC node the Iu-BC traffic will get the same QoS characteristics as O&M traffic. For the traffic from the CBC to the RNC, QoS separation in the IP network using different settings of the DSCP (DiffServ Code Point) can be done if the CBC node supports it. The QoS characteristics currently recommended for O&M traffic is assumed to be adequate for IuBC traffic. An operator may choose to implement an O&M IP network with a higher QoS level.

Dimensioning
The dimensioning of the O&M IP network should take into account Iu-BC traffic. The Iu-BC traffic volume is expected to be low and the impact on the dimensioning should be small. The Iu-BC capacity demand can be calculated using the formula below: C Iu-BC = Msglength * numMsgs/second Msglength is the length of the SABP message.
Note that the maximum length of a SABP message that can be processed in WCDMA RAN is limited to 18000 octets.

numMsgs/second is the number of SABP messages sent over the Iu-BC interface per second.

<Network example>
RNC3810
Backplane

CBS
OSS Server

ET-M4

Core MP

CBC Network (IP)

O&M Network (IP)

Mur
O&M Router <ATM/IP Converter>

<Network example>
RNC3810
Backplane

CBS
OSS Server

Core MP

CBC Network (IP)

O&M Network (IP)

Mur
O&M Router

ET-M4

Mur

X
O&M Router <ATM/IP Converter>

Redundant example with ET-MFX

ET-MFX board redundancy

Some Iu-BC Network Example

CBS
NW Address Translation
IuBC Host

NW Address Translation
IuBC Host

IuBC Host IuBC Host

IuBC Host IuBC Host

Area 1

Area N

O&M

New/Modified MO structure
RncFunction 1 1 0..47 LA 1 1 0..2304 0..2304 SA 1 0..2304 # ... # ctchOccasionPeriod # cellBroadcastSac # .. 0..2304 UtranCell # administrativeState # operationalState # availabilityStatus # cbcIpAddress #sourceIpAddressValida tion 1 0..1 IubcLink

Parameter setting (1/3)

cellBroadcastSac
Each UtranCell can be associated with a new Cell Broadcast Service Area used towards the CBC node.
SAC for the CB SA is set by parameter cellBroadcastSac Existing SA towards CN (CS and PS domain) is not affected.

Parameter setting (2/3)

ctchOccasionPeriod
Scheduling of CTCH on S-CCPCH is controlled by parameter ctchOccasionPeriod. The setting of ctchOccasionPeriod is a trade off between max CBS throughput and UE battery usage in idle mode and URA_PCH state.

S-CCPCH

CTCH ctchOccasionPeriod

......

CTCH

Parameter setting (3/3)

cbcIpAddress
Four field of digits, separated by dots. Each field may consists of three digits. The value of each field shall be in the range 0.255

sourceIpAddressValidation
Filter for IP source address validation in the RNC If it set to true filter will avoid the establishment of connections from other IP addresses

Observability (1/2)
No impact on KPIs New pm counters
pmNoReceivedSABPMsgs: Number of received SABP messages over Iu-Bc pmNoSentSABPMsgs: Number of sent SABP messages over Iu-Bc pmNoRejectedTcpConnections: Number of rejected TCP connections because of disallowed source IP address pmNoDiscardedCbsMsgOrders: Number of discarded CB message orders per cell pmNoDiscardedBmcMsgs: Number of discarded BMC PDUs per cell. Each BMC PDU contains one BMC CB message. pmBmcTrafficVolume: Accumulated BMC payload (bytes) per cell

Observability (2/2)
New GPEH events
CBS_MESSAGE_ORDER_DISCARDED triggered each time counter pmNoDiscardedCbsMsgOrders is stepped. New events for all SABP messages transmitted over Iu-BC: SABP_WRITE_REPLACE SABP_WRITE_REPLACE_COMPLETE SABP_WRITE_REPLACE_FAILURE SABP_KILL SABP_KILL_COMPLETE SABP_KILL_FAILURE SABP_RESET SABP_RESET_COMPLETE SABP_RESET_FAILURE SABP_RESTART SABP_ERROR_INDICATION