Dynamic GBR Admission Control

Feature Description

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 Contents

Contents

1 Introduction 1
1.1 Basic Characteristics 2
1.2 Dynamic GBR Admission Control Summary 3
1.3 Additional Information 3

2 Feature Operation 4
2.1 Network Requirements 4
2.2 Feature Operation Sequence Diagram 4

3 Parameters 6
3.1 Introduced Parameters 6
3.2 Affected Parameters 6

4 Network Impact 7
4.1 Capacity 7

5 Associated Features and Affected Functions 8

5.1 Prerequisite Features 8
5.2 Affected Features 8
5.3 Affected System Functions 8

6 Performance 9
6.1 KPIs 9
6.2 Counters 9
6.3 Events 10

7 O&M Information 11
7.1 Activate and Deactivate Feature 11

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1 Introduction

This document describes the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature and its
main benefits and impacts in the LTE RAN.

Dynamic GBR admission control is performed by monitoring the use of certain

system resources, referred to as monitored system resources (MSR), and
allowing the setting up of new guaranteed bit rate (GBR) bearers only if the
MSR usage by GBR bearers does not exceed a configured threshold. These
monitored system resources are scheduler-handled resources and include
hardware and software resources as well as license limited resources on both
cell and RBS level. The MSRs include resources such as the usage of
physical resource blocks (PRB), scheduling elements (SE), control channel
elements (CCE) and baseband capacity. The use of the MSRs is measured
during a measurement period after which a filtered value for the MSR usage is
calculated. This filtered MSR usage value is updated after each new
measurement period. Note that the MSR usage only considers resources
scheduled at high priority. To benefit from Dynamic GBR Admission Control,
one needs to assign GBR traffic scheduling algorithms/configuration allowing
for high-prioritized scheduling to happen. Examples of such configurations is
described in QoS-Aware Scheduler and Delay-Based Scheduling and Grant
Estimation and Minimum Rate Proportional Fair Scheduler .

QoS-Aware Scheduler, Delay-Based Scheduling and Grant Estimation and

Minimum Rate Proportional Fair Scheduler

The MSRs considered are the following:

• UL GBR PRB utilization per cell

• UL GBR PRB utilization per RBS

• DL GBR PRB utilization per cell

• DL GBR PRB utilization per RBS

• UL GBR SE utilization per cell

• UL GBR SE utilization per RBS

• DL GBR SE utilization per cell

• DL GBR SE utilization per RBS

• GBR CCE utilization

• UL GBR Baseband Capacity utilization per RBS

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• DL GBR Baseband Capacity utilization per RBS

Upon a GBR bearer setup the utilization of each MSR will be checked against
a configured threshold (shown in ) and is only allowed if the resource usage
does not exceed the threshold.

Max capacity

Block new non-privileged accesses

Allow incoming mobility
Allow high-privileged access
GBR Admission
Threshold GBR
load

Allow all GBR requests

L0000273A

Figure 1 GBR Admission Threshold

The GBR load on the dynamic MSRs is not considered for handover and
privileged access. Privileged access is described in more detail in Admission
Control.

Enabling the feature Differentiated Admission Control will introduce a second

threshold to allow differentiation between bearers with different ARP priority.
More details can be found in Differentiated Admission Control.

1.1 Basic Characteristics

This section describes the basic characteristics of the feature.

Feature name: Dynamic GBR Admission Control

Product identity: DU Radio Node, see Feature Overview.

Baseband Radio Node, see Licensed Feature

Overview.

Replaces: N/A

Dependencies

This feature requires the following RAN features to be active:

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• This feature has no prerequisite features.

This feature affects the following RAN features:

• This feature affects no other features.

1.2 Dynamic GBR Admission Control Summary

This section describes the benefits of this feature.

The main purpose of Dynamic GBR Admission control is to ensure that the
Quality of Service (QoS) is maintained for GBR bearers in the system. By
enabling the Dynamic GBR admission control feature, a headroom is created
to allow for fluctuating radio conditions and mobility. The headroom can also
be used to control the ratio between GBR and non-GBR traffic. Furthermore,
using a dynamic method of measuring the use of resources by GBR bearers
allows for more efficient use of resources as well as avoiding unnecessary
rejections.

Enabling the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature will also enable tuning
of the GBR cost per QCI (QoS Class Identifier) in the basic GBR admission
control function, see Admission Control . This will in turn enable the basic
admission control function to make admit or reject decisions with higher
precision by considering service-specific protocol overhead and activity factor.

1.3 Additional Information

More information about this feature and related topics can be found in the
following documentation:

• 3GPP TS 23.203

• 3GPP TS 36.413

• 3GPP TS 36.211

• Manage Licenses

• Admission Control

• Differentiated Admission Control

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2 Feature Operation

This section describes the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature in more
detail, including network configuration requirements and operation flows.

The GBR threshold is common for all dynamic MSRs and controlled, for the
downlink and uplink, by the parameters dlAdmDifferentiationThr and
ulAdmDifferentiationThr introduced in Differentiated Admission Control.
The threshold is given as a ratio to max capacity.

2.1 Network Requirements

This is a licensed feature. This means that for the feature to be operational, a
valid license key must be installed and the feature must be explicitly activated
by setting a MOM attribute. See Section 7.1 on page 11 for more details.

The following must be fulfilled at feature activation:

• This feature has no prerequisite network configuration requirements.

2.2 Feature Operation Sequence Diagram

Figure 2 is a flow diagram showing how the Dynamic GBR Admission Control
feature handles bearer requests.

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GBR
E-RAB request

Cause is Yes
mobility?

No

Is Privileged Yes
access?

No

Resources Yes
available?

No

Reject Admit

L0000272B

Figure 2 Flow Diagram for the Dynamic GBR Admission Control Feature

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3 Parameters

This section describes parameters introduced by the Dynamic GBR Admission

Control feature and parameters affected by activating the feature.

3.1 Introduced Parameters

This feature introduces no new parameters.

3.2 Affected Parameters

Table 1 Affected Parameters for the Admission Control feature

Parameter Description
dlAdmDifferentiationThr Sets the downlink threshold for the Dynamic GBR Admission
Control feature.
ulAdmDifferentiationThr Sets the uplink threshold for the Dynamic GBR Admission Control
feature.
qciAcTuning Tuning factor per QCI for the basic admission control function
(only applicable to Transport Network Admission Control). Needs
the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature to be activated to
take effect.

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4 Network Impact

This section describes how the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature
impacts the network functions and capabilities.

4.1 Capacity
This section provides information on the impact of the feature on network
capacity.

Dynamic GBR Admission Control limits the amount of resources used by GBR
bearers, this helps ensure that the quality of service is fulfilled for GBR
bearers within the system but may come at a cost of accordingly reduced GBR
capacity. As the feature also provides a headroom for non-GBR bearers, the
non-GBR capacity will be improved for scenarios with a high load from GBR
bearers.

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5 Associated Features and Affected

Functions

This section describes how the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature
affects other features and functions.

5.1 Prerequisite Features

This feature has no prerequisite features.

5.2 Affected Features

This feature affects no other feature.

Table 2 lists features that are related to the Dynamic GBR Admission Control
feature.

Table 2 Affected Features

Feature Description
Dynamic QoS Modification Dynamic GBR Admission Control will handle requests for
increased GBR as new requests and may thus reject such
requests at high load.

5.3 Affected System Functions

Table 3 lists functions affected by the Dynamic GBR Admission Control
feature.

Table 3 Affected System Functions

Function Description
Admission Control If the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature is activated, the parameter
qciAcTuning will be able to configure GBR cost per QCI. Activating the
Dynamic GBR Admission control function will also affect the functionality of
the parameters dlAdmDifferentiationThr and
ulAdmDifferentiationThr . The basic admission control function also
introduces privileged access which allows some GBR bearer setup requests
to be accepted in spite of resource shortage.

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6 Performance

This section describes performance indicators, counters, and events

associated with the Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature.

6.1 KPIs
Table 4 lists the main Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with the
Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature.

Table 4 KPIs
KPI Description
Accessibility The ability of a service to be obtained, within specified tolerances and
other given conditions, when requested by the end user.
Retainability The probability that a service, once obtained, continues to be provided
under given conditions for a given time duration.

6.2 Counters
Table 5 lists the counters associated with the Dynamic GBR Admission
Control feature.

Note: The counters in Table 5 exist in the following MO classes:

• EUtranCellFDD

• EUtranCellTDD

Table 5 Counters
Counter Description
pmErabEstabSuccInitGbrArp Number of successful initial GBR E-RAB Establishments within
this cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabEstabSuccAddedGbrArp Number of successfully added GBR E-RABs within this cell,
recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabEstabAttInitGbrArp Number of initial GBR E-RAB Establishment attempts within this
cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabEstabAttAddedGbrArp Number of initial GBR E-RAB Establishment attempts within this
cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabRelNormalEnbGbrArp Number of normal GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the RBS
within this cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabRelMMeGbrArp Number of GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the MME excluding
successful handover within this cell, recorded per ARP priority
level. The counter is stepped regardless of whether data was or
was not lost in UL/DL buffers.

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Counter Description
pmErabRelAbnormalEnbActGbrA Number of abnormal GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the RBS
rp within this cell, recorded per ARP priority level. The counter is
stepped if data was present in the UL or DL buffers
pmErabRelAbnormalMmeActGbrA Number of GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the MME
rp considered as abnormal within this cell, recorded per ARP priority
level. The counter is stepped if there was data in either the UL or
DL buffer (that is active).
pmErabRelAbnormalEnbGbrArp Number of abnormal GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the RBS
within this cell, recorded per ARP priority level. The counter is
stepped regardless of whether data was or was not lost in UL/DL
buffers.
pmErabRelAbnormalMmeGbrArp Number of abnormal GBR E-RAB Releases initiated by the MME
within this cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabEstabFailUeAdmLicRejA Number of Initial UE Context requests rejected by UE Context
rp admission control due to Differentiated Admission Control
licenses exceeded within this cell, recorded per UE ARP priority
level.
pmErabEstabAttRejAdmMsrInit Number of initial E-RAB establishment requests rejected by
Arp Differentiated Admission Control due to MSR capacity within this
cell, recorded per ARP priority level.
pmErabEstabAttRejAdmMsrAdde Number of added E-RAB establishment requests rejected by
dArp Differentiated Admission Control due to MSR capacity within this
cell, recorded per ARP priority level.

More information about counters can be found in Managed Object Model

(MOM) .

6.3 Events
Table 6 lists the events associated with the Dynamic GBR Admission Control
feature.

Table 6 Events
Event Event Parameter Description
INTERNAL_PROC_INITIA EVENT_ARRAY_ERAB_SETUP_RES This feature returns lack of
L_CTXT_SETUP ULT resources at reject due to GBR
overload.
INTERNAL_PROC_ERAB_S EVENT_ARRAY_ERAB_SETUP_RES This feature returns lack of
ETUP ULT resources at reject due to GBR
overload.

For a full list with detailed information about PM events, see the list files in the
List Files library folder.

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7 O&M Information

This section provides Operation and Maintenance (O&M) information for the
Dynamic GBR Admission Control feature.

Adjusting the GBR thresholds is done with the parameters

dlAdmDifferentiationThr and ulAdmDifferentiationThr as
described in Section 2 on page 4.

7.1 Activate and Deactivate Feature

Activating the feature requires that the corresponding license is installed.
When the license is installed, an MO instance DynamicGbrAdmCtrl is
automatically created.

Table 7 Feature MO Instance

Node Type MO Instance
DU Radio Node MO instance is
OptionalFeatureLicense
=DynamicGbrAdmCtrl
Baseband Radio Node MO instance is FeatureState
=DynamicGbrAdmCtrl

Feature activation and deactivation are described in Manage Licenses.

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