Title of Invention

EQUIPEMNT AND METHOD OF CALL ADMISSION IN CDMA BASED SYSTEM

Abstract The admission control procedure in CDMA systems works as: when a call traffic requests for access, classify the traffic type and take the minimum non-zero rate for non real-time traffic to get the transfer rate requirement of the call traffic, measure the uplink and downlink payload power of the cell in real time, consider the uplink multiple access interference and the power climb factors caused by downlink non-orthogonality, estimate the payioad power increment of the call traffic, perform admission control respectively in uplink and downlink directions to adapt to the access of asymmetric traffic and lower the call loss rate ("blocking rate), and improve the system efficiency with precondition of stable operation.
Full Text Equipment and Method of
Call Admission in CDMA Based System
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a control method for CDMA systems
in mobile communication field, and more particularly, to a method of uplink and
downlink traffic payioad power increment estimation and admission control for
CDMA systems such as WCDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, TD-CDMA and the
like.
Background Art of the Invention
2G mobile communication systems, regardless of GSM or 18-95 have a
common characteristic that, with regard to the single voice service, every channel has
a fixed transmission rate and the number of channels in a sector corresponds to the
throughput.
To satisfy the ongoing growth of the demand for data traffic development,
mobile Internet, or namely the 3rd mobile communication system (3G), has become
the highlight in recent research and. development activities. In addition to traditional
voice traffic, it's also necessary for 3G to carry pacicet data traffic corresponding to
the Internet. The transmission method and the requirement of the packet data traffic
are greatly different from voice traffic, e.g. the traffic generation rule is different, the
transmission BER and delay are different too, which cause the difference in transfer
formal and transmission control method for packet data.
All 3G CDMA systems (WCDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, TD-CDMA and
so on) fall into the category of 3G technical standards, and use code sequences to
distinguish different users, which is similar to narrowband CDMA systems (such as
TS-95 system) in theory. However, the transmission scheme and system control
method in 3G CDMA systems are greatly different from those in IS-95 system.
Although there is no uniform method to define it in the word currently, the system
power capacity payload is not measured with channel number am more, but
represented by power or data throughput. Meanwhile. WCDMA has three main

features with support for broadband high-rate, aggregate traffic bearing and variable
rate transmission. Since the throughput power capacity payload of 3G CDMA systems
is 'soft', which means the power capacity payload varies with different traffic access,
so it can be very difficult to judge whether the system satisfies the technical standard.
In a practical CDMA system, the key factor is the power, and it's of practical
significance to take the throughout power as the payload power of the cell. But the
payload power of the cell doesn't have a fixed relationship with the throughput power
capacity payload of the cell, that is, both the channel number and the throughput are
not fixed.
In a WCDMA system, although the bandwidth is fairly broad, but for the
ongoing-increasing traffic demand, the radio power capacity payload over the air is
rather limited. When a user initiates a call request for radio access, an admission
control must be carried out in order to prevent the system payload power from
exceeding the threshold for stable operation and thus leading to system collapse.
3GPP passed and published the technical specification for radio interference -
Release 99' version in March. 1999, and keeps on modifying since then. But 3GPP
does not work out a uniform standard for the admission control methods for WCDMA
system so far, and the current system control methods are developed by respective
companies, based on the standard.
The admission control procedure works as: first, measure the current payload
power of the cell (base station) accurately, and derive the remaining (available)
payload power capacity of the system cell (base station); next, predict and estimate
the uplink and downlink payload power increments of the call traffic (including new
call traffic and the handover call traffic) respectively; then, compare the traffic
payload power increments in the uplink and downlink directions with the remaining
(available) payload power capacity of the cell; admit the call traffic if the remaining
payload power capacity is sufficient, and reject it otherwise. With the accurate call
admission control, more users or traffics can be admitted under the precondition that
the system payload power allows (the system runs steadily), and thus to maintain
lower call loss rate and lower call drop rate, and achieve higher QoS and higher
system power capacity payload.
3G mobile communication systems have another important feature with support

for asymmetrical traffic, i.e. data rates in uplink and downlink directions are not equal,
even the data rate in some direction can be zero. In this way, an admission control
(congestion control or access control) should be necessary in uplink and downlink
directions respectively. If the resource requirement (power capacity payload) for the
call traffic in either direction is not satisfied, the call traffic can't be admitted.
Another feature of 3G mobile communication systems is to provide a user with
communication of several traffics simultaneously, such as making call and meanwhile
accessing the Internet. Therefore, a traffic call is taken as a fundamental calling unit.
For an UDD (that is Unconstrained Delay Data) PS (Packet Switch) traffic,
when the traffic call is requesting for resource, wireless data communication can be
canned out by exploiting the resource in a manner of queuing and waiting. When an
admission decision is made, the minimum transfer rate of the UDD traffic (determined
by the system transfer format) is taken to estimate the payload power increment. This
is a 'soft' decision process.
For a CS (Circuit Switch) traffic, such as voice, movie and other multimedia
traffics, an admission decision must be made in a short time period based on the
resource that the traffic applies for, and the requirements for transfer rate, quality and
delay have to be satisfied thoroughly, otherwise, reject it. This is a 'hard' decision
process.
An admission control is carried out during traffic call procedure. When each
traffic call applies for radio interface resource, real-time and dynamic measurement
must be conducted on the payload power of the current system cell (base station), to
get the remaining payload power capacity available for the system, and estimate the
call traffic, evaluate the impact of admitting the traffic upon the system. The general
criteria is to admit the call and allocate the radio resource and the relevant parameters
for it if the remaining payload power capacity can satisfy the resource requirement of
the call traffic, and reject it otherwise. However, the traffic carried in 3G mobile
communication systems is aggregate traffic, which includes real-time voice traffic and
UDD PS traffic, hence the accurate estimation and the valid judgment must be made
with respect to different characteristics of the traffic, thus the system power capacity
payload can be taken advantage of sufficiently under the precondition of guaranteeing
smooth system operation, and thus to achieve efficient utilization of radio resource.

Currently, the method for predicting payload power increment of the call traffic is
based on the throughput, which can be referred to "WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access
for Third Generation Mobile Communications", Harri Holma, et al. The currently
used method for predicting the traffic payload power increment does not take power
as the core. And the predicted payload power increment of the call traffic is not direct
Tx/Rx power increment, and the prediction does not consider the influence of the
multiple access interference, thus it is not highly corresponding to the practical system,
neither is utility nor accurate, which easily leads to misjudgment of the admission
control. In published patent documents, there is no admission control method for
aggregate traffic and asymmetric traffic yet. Only some related patents, such as
US5687171 "Device and Method for allocating radio channels in a CDMA system",
which is the nearest method, it is based on the criteria that a radio channel is allocated
if the remnant are higher than the required power after measuring the Rx signal
strength at the base station, calculating the allowable remnant, estimating the power
required for call. This is the typical admission control method for single traffic and
symmetric traffic in 2G, and only the uplink Rx signal strength is measured at the base
station. In these methods, neither power climb nor the respective admission control of
asymmetric traffic on the uplink and downlink is taken into account when calculating
the power required for call traffic. Since the methods for measurement and calculation
of the remnant of the payload power are different on uplink and downlink, the
requirement for complicated diversity in 3G systems can't be satisfied if not
considering the particularity of non-realtime traffic admission and the traffic priority.
In 3G communication systems, since the carried traffic may be asymmetric, that
is, the transfer rates for uplink and downlink are different, the admission control has
to be carried out on uplink and downlink respectively. Because WCDMA system is a
self-interfering system, the uplink power capacity payload is interference-constrained
while the downlink power capacity payload is power-constrained. The downlink Tx
power of the cell (base station) equipments is constrained by the physical facilities
and accordingly the maximum downlink Tx power is limited, hence the power on
each carrier frequency in each sector is generally not more than 20W. Thus, for
downlink admission control, first, it's necessary to measure the downlink payload
power of the cell very precisely, then to analyze the rate, traffic type (real-time or

non-real-time traffic), SNR and so on in QoS during the traffic call, and calculate
the predictor AP of the Tx power required for the call traffic, and then perform
admission control. The call traffic will be admitted when the remaining downlink
resource is sufficient for use, and rejected it otherwise. The procedure for the uplink is
similar: first, measure the uplink payload power of the cell -the total Rx interference
power, predict (estimate) the Rx power increment of the call traffic; and then judge
whether the available remaining power capacity payload of the cell is sufficient, and
perform admission control. Power climb caused by multiple access interference must
be considered when performing uplink and downlink admission control.
When estimating the downlink traffic payload power increment, it's very hard to
estimate the traffic payload power increment, which is a well known problem to be
settled because the location of the mobile station and downlink path loss usually can
not be known accurately. When the measurement of downlink path loss can be utilized,
the downlink path loss can be used, but we still need to consider the power climb
issue caused by the downlink non-orthogonal factor, which increases the extra power
of its traffic channel and also leads to extra increase in the total downlink Tx power,
and thus causes the downlink transmission ability to be saturated and ultimately
collapse due to the fact that each user's communication quality can't meet the
requirement. The admission error only produces influence once and doesn't
accumulate, but significant estimation error will increase the call loss rate and thus
decrease the system operation efficiency.
On the downlink, a cell generally corresponds to a linear power amplifier, it has
only 20W Tx power ability, while downlink admission control mainly concerns on the
remaining power capacity payload - that is, whether the power is sufficient for
transmission.
When estimating the uplink traffic payload power increment, the multiple access
interference between users is the primary concern. All users send the power towards
the base station simultaneously, which is a one-to-multiple communication. On the
uplink, the spreading codes for distinguishing different users are not orthogonal
entirely, so there will be a multiple access interference between users, which
deteriorates the communication quality. The more the users, the higher the
interference will be. When the user number reaches a certain value so as to cause the

total Rx power too high, the interference between users is too serious and the
communication quality will decrease drastically. Under closed-loop power control
mechanism, the Tx power of each user climbs alternately, which leads to non-linear
climb in the power and the total uplink interference power increase dramatically, and
ultimately, system collapse occurs when the total Rx interference power exceeds the
limit of the receiving circuit.
The total uplink Rx interference power can't exceed the threshold, and the
uplink admission control mainly concerns on the remaining power capacity payload
(interference remnant) - that is, whether the total Rx power exceeds the limit of the
system.
Based on the above characteristics and requirements, when a call traffic requests
for accessing the radio access network system, it need to consider both the
requirements of the uplink and downlink traffic and the uplink and downlink payload
power situations of the system, and the admission control is conducted in uplink and
downlink directions respectively.
The current admission control method does not take into account the power
climb issue when computing the power required for the call traffic, does not consider
the admission control for asymmetric traffic in uplink and downlink directions
respectively, and does not consider the particularity of the non-real-time traffic
admission and the traffic priority as well, so it can't satisfy the traffic requirements of
the next generation mobile communication system.
One object of the present invention is to provide an accurate admission control
equipment and a method for CDMA systems, wherein the power climb is taken into
serious account when the power required for the call traffic is calculated, admission
control for asymmetric traffic is addressed respectively on uplink and downlink,
different methods are used for uplink and downlink measurement and calculation of
the payload power remnant, and the admission of non real-time traffic and the traffic
priority are processed differently, thus to improve the effect on increasing the system
operation efficiency, reducing call blocking rate and call drop rate.
Summary of the Invention
The procedure of the admission control works as: when a call traffic requests for


access, classify the traffic type, with regard to non-real-time traffic, take minimum
non-zero rate, and get the transfer rate requirement for the call traffic, measure the
uplink and downlink payload power of the cell in real time, consider the uplink
multiple access interference and downlink power climb caused by non-orthogonality,
estimate the payload power increment of the call traffic and perform admission
control respectively in uplink and downlink directions to adapt to the access for
asymmetric traffic and lower the call loss rate (blocking rate), and improve the system
operation efficiency under the precondition that the system is stable.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an admission control
method is provided for a CDMA system, the CDMA system comprising: at least one
base station, at least one mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for which the
base station serves, and a control means containing the information about the mobile
stations for which the base station in the cell is serving and other information in the
cell such as the rating payload for different traffic in the cell; wherein the mobile
station requesting for accessing the cell for which the base station serves initiates at
least one traffic request, such as a non real-time or a real-time traffic to the system;
said admission control method comprising:
receiving the call request for accessing the cell for which the base station serves
from the mobile station;
acquiring the parameters of said mobile station, including the SNR Eb/No,
uplink source rate Rup or/and downlink source rate Rdown, user ID and traffic type
required by said at least one traffic;
calculating the available remaining downlink capacity of the system cell
according to the determined path loss L, the acquired parameters of said mobile
station and the information contained in the control means;
judging whether the downlink can admit the traffic according to the calculated
available remaining downlink capacity of the system cell: if yes, establish downlink;
otherwise, reject the traffic request.
Wherein steps for determining the downlink path loss L of the traffic are also
included.
Steps for determining the downlink climb power of the system cell according to
the information contained in the control means are further included.

Wherein, steps for calculating the available remaining downlink capacity of the
system cell further comprise:
calculating the processing gain and transmission level required for the traffic
downlink;
determining the downlink climb power of the call traffic according to the
information in the control means.
And, determining that the downlink climb power satisfies the following
equation:

where, APdBm is the original power payload power increment of the call
traffic; the SNR is
(JB is the processing gain; R is traffic rate with
unit as kbps;
then

wherein A P is the absolute value of the original downlink Tx power; v is
voice activation factor, 1.00 for data traffic (non-voice traffic) and 0.67 for voice
traffic (symmetric session traffic), A Ptotal is the downlink power climb after traffic
access; α is the downlink non-orthogonal factor for multipath radio environment,
ranging from 0.1 to 0.4, depending on the specific radio environment.
Additionally, steps to determine downlink path loss L of the traffic further
comprise:
searching for the downlink path loss reported latest by the user ED;
deciding whether the measured path loss is useable and valid: if yes, taking the

reported downlink path loss as the downlink path loss L of the traffic; otherwise,
taking the first predefined value as the downlink path loss L.
And also, the first predefined value is equal to the path loss of the equivalent
radius calculated by substituting the product of the maximum coverage radius of the
cell and 0.707 into the propagation model.
Additionally, deciding that the path loss is unusable and invalid if the user ID
fails to report the downlink path loss within the predefined time period.
And also, deciding that the path loss is unusable and invalid if the downlink path
loss reported by the user ID within the predefined' time period is above the second
predefined value.
Wherein the second predefined value is equal to the path loss of the equivalent
radius calculated by substituting the product of the maximum coverage radius of the
cell and 1.4 into the propagation model.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, an admission control
method is proposed for a CDMA system, the CDMA system includes at least one base
station, at least one mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for which the base
station serves, and the control means containing the information about the mobile
stations for which the base station in the cell is serving and other information in the
cell such as the rating payload for different traffic in the cell; wherein the mobile
station requesting for accessing the cell for which the base station serves initiates at
least one traffic request such as a non real-time or a real-time traffic to the system;
said admission control method comprising:
receiving the call request for accessing the cell for which the base station serves
from the mobile station;
acquiring the parameters of said mobile station, including the SNR Eb/No, the
uplink source rate Rup, user ID and traffic type required by said at least one traffic;
determining whether the uplink throughput satisfies the uplink requirement of
the traffic according to the uplink source rate Rup: if yes, establish uplink; otherwise,
reject the traffic request.
Steps to determine whether the uplink throughput satisfies the uplink
requirement of the traffic according to the uplink rate Rup, include:
deriving the total uplink Rx (interference) power of the cell from the measured

data groups reported by the base station;
determining the equivalent Rx power required by the uplink rate Rup;
determining whether the uplink throughput satisfies the uplink requirement of
the traffic according to the total Rx power allowed by the payload of the cell;
Wherein steps to determine whether the uplink throughput satisfies the uplink
requirement of the traffic include: determining the equivalent total Rx power required
after service is provided to the uplink rate Rup; satisfying the uplink requirement of the
traffic when the equivalent total Rx. power is less than or equal to the total Rx power
allowed by the payload of the cell.
Also, steps to determine the equivalent total Rx power required after service is
provided to the uplink rate Rup comprise:
calculating the equivalent throughput corresponding to the call traffic with the
total Rx power;
deriving the total throughput by adding the equivalent throughput and the uplink
rate Rup of the traffic;
obtaining an equivalent total Rx power corresponding to the total throughput
calculated with the total throughput.
Also, the calculated equivalent throughput corresponding to the voice call traffic-
satisfies the following equation:

where Ttotal(kbps) is the equivalent throughput, the equivalent throughput Tx is
the maximum throughput power capacity payload of various traffics, Tx = 800kbps
when voice traffic is 8kbps and Tx = 793kbps when voice traffic is 12.2kbps; PN =
-103dBm is background white noise.
Further, the calculated equivalent throughput corresponding to the data call
traffic satisfies the following equation:

Tx = 1280kbps when data traffic is 64kbps, Tx = 1440kbps when data traffic is
144kbps, and Tx = 1536kbps when data traffic is 384kbps.
Wherein steps to determine whether the uplink throughput satisfies the uplink


requirement of the traffic further comprise:
subtracting the total uplink Rx (interference) power (measured value) of the cell
from the equivalent total Rx power, to get the uplink Rx power increment of the call
traffic;
subtracting the total uplink Rx (interference) power (measured value) of the cell
from the total Rx power allowed by the payload of the cell, to get the uplink
remaining capacity of the cell;
judging whether the uplink remaining capacity is above the third predefined
value: if yes, admit the uplink traffic; otherwise, reject it.
Also, steps to judge whether the uplink remaining capacity is above the third
predefined value comprise:
converting the uplink remaining capacity of the cell into the available remaining
uplink capacity of the cell, according to the requirement of reserved capacity for
handover;
judging whether the available remaining uplink capacity is above the traffic
payload increment: if yes, it indicates that the remaining uplink capacity is above the
third predefined value.
In accordance with yet another aspect of the present invention, an admission
control equipment is proposed for a CDMA system, the CDMA system includes at
least one base station, at least one mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for
which the base station serves, and a control means containing the information about
the mobile stations for which the base station in the cell is serving and other
information in the cell such as the rating payload for different traffics in the cell;
wherein the mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for which the base station
serves initiates at least one traffic request such as a non real-time and a real-time
traffic request to the system; said admission control equipment comprising:
receiving means, for receiving the call request for accessing the cell for which
the base station serves from the mobile station;
parameters acquiring means, for acquiring the parameters of said mobile station,
including the SNR Eb/No, uplink source rate Rup or/and downlink source rate Rdown,
user ID and traffic type required by said at least one traffic;
signal processing means, for determining the downlink path loss L of the traffic,

and determining the downlink climb power of the system cell according to the
information in the control means; then, calculating the available remaining downlink
capacity of the system cell based on the determined SNR Eb/No, downlink source rate
Rdown, user ID and traffic type, and the determined downlink climb power of the
system cell;
judging means, for determining whether the downlink can admit the traffic
according to the calculated available remaining downlink capacity of the system cell;
link connection means, for establishing downlink, or not connecting so as to
reject the traffic request, according to the result determined by the judging means.
Wherein the signal processing means further comprises:
transmission level determining means, for calculating the processing gain and
the transmission level required by the traffic downlink;
climb power determining means, for determining the downlink climb power of
the call traffic according to the information in the control means;
searching means, for searching for the downlink path loss reported latest by the
user ID;
deciding means, for deciding whether the path loss is usable and valid: if
usable and valid, taking the reported downlink path loss as the downlink path loss I. of
the traffic; otherwise, taking the first predefined value as the downlink path loss L.
In accordance with still another aspect of the present invention, an admission
control apparatus is proposed for a CDMA system, the CDMA system includes at
least one base station, at least one mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for
which the base station serves, and a control means containing the information about
the mobile stations for which the base station in the cell is serving and other
information in the cell such as the rating payload for different traffics in the cell;
wherein the mobile station requesting for accessing the cell for which the base station
serves initiates at least one traffic request such as a non real-time or a real-time traffic
request to the system; said admission control means comprising:
receiving means, for receiving the call request for accessing the cell for which
the base station serves from the mobile station;
parameters acquiring means, for acquiring the parameters of said mobile station,
including the SNR Eb/No, uplink: source rate Rup, user ID and traffic type required by

said at least one traffic;
control means, for determining whether the uplink throughput can satisfy the
uplink requirement of the traffic according to the uplink rate Rup: if yes, establish
uplink; otherwise, reject the traffic request.
Wherein the control means includes:
Rx power determining means, for determining the total uplink Rx (interference)
power of the cell, which is required by the uplink rate Rup and derived from the
measured data groups reported by the base station, according to the uplink rate Rup,
and determining the equivalent Rx power required by the uplink rate Rup;
judging means, for determining whether the uplink throughput satisfies the
uplink requirement of the traffic according to the total Rx power allowed by the
payload of the cell.
Alternatively, the Rx power determining means further determines the
equivalent total Rx power required after providing service to the uplink rate Rup; the
judging means satisfies the uplink requirement of the traffic when the equivalent total
Rx power is less than or equal to the total Rx power allowed by the payload of the
cell.
Also, the Rx power determining means calculates the equivalent throughput
corresponding to the call traffic according to the total Rx power; gets the total
throughput by adding the equivalent throughput and the uplink rate Rup of the traffic;
derives a corresponding equivalent total Rx power by calculating the total throughput.
Additionally, the judging means subtracts the total uplink Rx (interference)
power (measured value) of the cell from the equivalent total Rx power, to get the
uplink Rx power increment of the call traffic; subtracts the measured uplink Rx total
(interference) power of the cell from the absolute value of the Rx total power allowed
by the payload of the cell, to get the uplink remaining capacity of the cell; and then
judges whether the uplink remaining capacity is above the third predefined value. As a
result, admit the uplink traffic if yes and reject it otherwise.
An admission control method for CDMA systems is also proposed by the
present invention, comprising:
Step A: extracting parameters from the traffic QoS parameters requested by the
call traffic RAB;


Step B: judging whether to perform downlink admission control procedure
according to the parameters extracted in Step A: if yes, execute Step C; otherwise,
turn to Step E to conduct uplink admission control procedure;
Step C: calculating the downlink payload power increment of the traffic and the
available remaining downlink power capacity payload according to the above
extracted parameters;
Step D: if the available remaining downlink power capacity payload of the
system cell is above the downlink payload power increment of the traffic, setting the
downlink admission permission as 'true', and turning to Step E to go on with uplink
admission control; otherwise, returning to Step A to process the next traffic call;
Step E: calculating the uplink payload power increment of the call Traffic and the
available remaining uplink power capacity payload of the cell;
Step F: if the available remaining uplink power capacity payload of the system
cell is above the uplink payload power increment of the traffic, setting the uplink
admission permission as 'true', and turning to Step G; otherwise, setting the uplink
admission permission as 'false', and returning to Step A to process the next traffic
call;
Step G: if the uplink admission permission and the downlink admission
permission are both 'true', allocating downlink resource and parameters for the call
traffic, as well as uplink resource and parameters simultaneously, and altering the
status table of the code resource and the resource parameters table of the system cell.
Brief Description of the Drawings
The substance and the spirit of the present invent will become apparent from the
further description of the preferred embodiments of the invention given in conjunction
with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating the payload power measurement for the
cell of the base station (Node B);
Fig.2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the information pass-channel of the call
admission control;
Fig.3 is the main flowchart (1) of the call processing in accordance with the
method in the present invention;


Fig.4 is the flowchart of the downlink call admission processing with the
method in the present invention;
Fig.5 is the flowchart of the uplink call admission processing with the method
according to the present invention;
Fig.6 illustrates the uplink control device for call admission control according to
the present invention;
Fig.7 illustrates the downlink control device for call admission control according
to the present invention.
Detailed Description of the Invention
Further descriptions will be given below to the present invention, in conjunction
with accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating the payload power measurement for the
cell of the base station (Node B), where every base station can have 1, 3, or 6 cells
(sectors). Every base station has one cell when omni-directional antenna is applied, 3
cells when 120° antenna is applied, and 6 cells when 60° antenna is applied. Every cell
has two antennas, wherein one antenna (101) is connected to LPA (105) in the
transmission portion and to LNA (110) in the reception portion via duplexer (102),
and another antenna (108) is connected directly to the Rx total power measurement
circuit (110). The cell payload power measurements in the base station mainly clarify
as the measurement of the total Rx power and the measurement of the total Tx power.
The total Rx power measurement reporting module (109) reports the output of the
total Rx power measurement circuit (110) to RNC (Radio Network Controller) via
signaling channel as required, and similarly, the total Tx power measurement
reporting module (103) also reports the output of the total Tx power measurement
circuit (104) to RNC via signaling channel as required. The transmitted RF signal is a
signal which is obtained by passing the signal generated by baseband circuit (107)
through the IF transmission processing circuit (106). And similarly, the received
signal is processed by the baseband reception processing circuit (113) after being
processed by the EF reception processing circuit (112).
Fig.2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the information pass-channel in the call
admission control. First, UE or namely mobile equipment (201) possibly reports the

measured downlink path loss to the RRM (Radio Resource Manger) module in RNC
(203) via RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling channel (202), for the RRM
module to calculate the Tx power required by the downlink. The common
measurement functional module (204) in the base station (Node B) reports the total
uplink Rx power of the cell to RNC (203) via Iub interface (205). This is the current
payload power of the cell, and it is taken as the basis for admission control judgment
to conduct CAC (Call Admission Control).
Fig.3 is the main flowchart illustrating call processing with the method
according to the present invention, which includes the main control procedures for
admission control of uplink and downlink asymmetric traffics. First, judge whether
the downlink rate requirement for the traffic is zero. If non-zero, start downlink
admission control procedure: processing the non real-time and real-time traffics
respectively, with major difference in that non real-time traffic can be processed after
queuing and waiting for a while and access at the minimum rate, but real-time traffic
almost can't wait and requires rate guaranteed. Then, call and use the downlink
admission control processing program. After the downlink admission control is
accomplished, uplink the admission control procedure will be carried on, wherein the
uplink admission control also distinguishes real-time and non real-time traffics first
and then processes them respectively, which is similar to the downlink admission
control procedure.
Fig.4 is a detail flowchart for the downlink call admission processing with the
method according to the present invention, wherein a prediction method is adopted by
combining the measurement with the equivalent coverage radius, in order to predict
the power increment and the payload power increment of the downlink traffic during
calling. When there is no measurement reported by the cell (base station), we will
adopt the downlink path loss calculated with the equivalent radius. And the
functionality of measurement report is just optional because it's not necessary for the
cell to report the measurement. The call may be a call initiated from UE in idle status,
a call of newly added traffic in connection, a handover call or a call from the wired
network side. RRM in the higher layer of RNC acquires the QoS parameters and
measurement parameters of the call traffic from RRC signaling, and obtains the traffic
type (voice or data), traffic rate, BER requirement (SNR Eb/No requirement) and


priority from the QoS parameters, and obtains the current payload power and the
downlink path loss of the system from the measurement parameters, thus to predict
the power increment AP of the call. Then, the final power increment of the traffic
can be derived by further considering the influence of the non-orthogonal factor
caused by radio multipath environment and the power climb amount, and then convert
it into the downlink payload power increment A n. Only in the condition that the
current payload power of the system is judged accurately, the admission control can
be achieved correctly. With regards to the priority of the call traffic, the admission
control will have two thresholds when judging the payload power threshold of the
system, and the difference between the two thresholds is the reserved power capacity
payload for the handover, for use in soft switch, and to guarantee lower call drop rate
in hard switch. In a word, the accurate downlink admission control can be performed
when the downlink path loss is reported, and the admission control can also be
conducted even if it's not reported. When calculating the downlink payload power
increment of the traffic, consider the downlink non-orthogonal factors, the power
climb issue caused thereafter and the traffic priority, and set different admission
thresholds for different priorities, thus to predict accurately the influence of the call
traffic access upon the system, so as to improve the effect on increasing the system
operation efficiency, and reducing the call blocking rate and call drop rate.
Fig.5 illustrates the detailed flowchart for the uplink call admission processing
with the method according to the present invention, which is basically similar to the
downlink call admission procedure, with major difference in that it's not necessary to
consider the path loss issue and the payload power of the cell is completely in
accordance with the power, without being converted into percentage. In uplink
admission control, RRM module in the higher layer of the RNC acquires the QoS
parameters of the call from signaling, obtains the traffic type (voice or data), traffic
uplink rate, BER requirement (SNR Eb/No requirement) and priority from the QoS
parameters, and obtains the current payload power of the system from the
measurement parameters. According to the uplink multiple access interference,
consider the multiple access interference in the case of the current payload power of
the cell, i.e. the power climb caused by multiple access interference, thus to predict
the power increment AP of the call traffic and the payload power increment A n . In

this way, the correct admission control can be conducted in the condition that the
current payload power of the cell is judged accurately. Considering the priority of the
call traffic, the admission control will also have two thresholds when judging the
payload power threshold of the system, and the difference between the two thresholds
is the reserved power capacity payload for handover, which is for use in soft switch
and can guarantee lower call drop rate in hard switch. In a word, the uplink admission
control takes multiple access interference into account, wherein the calculation of the
uplink payload power increment of the call traffic considers the power climb caused
by multiple access interference and the traffic priority with different admission
thresholds for different priorities, thus to predict accurately the influence of the call
traffic access upon the system, improve the effect on increasing system operation
efficiency, and lowering the call congestion rate and call drop rate.
Fig.6 illustrates the downlink control device for the call admission control in the
present invention. In CDMA system 600, there are at least one base station 610, at
least one mobile station 620 requesting for accessing the cell for which the base
station serves, a control means 630 containing the information about the mobile
station for which the base station in the cell is serving and other information about the
cell such as the rating payload for different traffic. The downlink control device
including a base station 610 and a control means 630 comprise receiver 650 as the
receiving means, for receiving the call request for accessing the cell for which the
base station serves from mobile station 620. The downlink control device includes a
parameters acquiring means 670, for acquiring parameters of said mobile station 620
from the information received by receiver 650 and the information in control means
630, including but not restricted to, the required SNR Eb/No, uplink source rate Rup
or/and downlink source rate Rdown, user ID and traffic type. The downlink control
device further includes a signal processing means 680 constructed by CPU and its
accessories, for determining the downlink path loss L of the traffic according to the
information acquired by parameters acquiring means 670; determining the downlink
climb power of the system cell according to the information in the control means; and
then calculating the available remaining downlink capacity of the system cell,
according to the determined path loss L, downlink source rate Rdown and the required
SNR Eb/No, and the determined downlink climb power of the system cell. Wherein


judging means 690 determines whether the downlink can admit the traffic according
to the available remaining downlink capacity of the system cell calculated by
signaling processing means 680. If the traffic can be admitted, the link connection
means establishes downlink with mobile station 620 according to the result
determined by the judging means; otherwise, the traffic request will be rejected. In
practical applications, it's very likely that mobile station 620 only needs to establish
downlink non real-time traffic (such as reception of e-mails and so on) or just to
establish downlink real-time traffic (such as reception of speech notification and so
on). At this moment, only downlink is required to be established.
In the downlink control device, signal processing means 680 further comprises
transmission level determining means 682, climb power determining means 684,
searching means 686 and judging means 688. Wherein transmission level determining
means 682 is for calculating the processing gain and the transmission level required
by the traffic downlink. Climb power determining means 684 determines the
downlink climb power of the call traffic according to the information in the control
means. Searching means 686 searches for the downlink path loss reported by the user
ID latest. Judging means 688 judges whether the path loss is usable and valid: if
usable and valid, taking the reported downlink path loss as the downlink path loss L of
the traffic; otherwise, taking the first predefined value as the downlink path loss L.
Fig.7 displays the uplink control device for the call admission control in the
present invention, in which the parts same as those in Fig.6 are denoted by same
reference numerals. The uplink admission control device 700 comprises: receiving
means 650, parameters acquiring means 670 and control & processing means 710.
Wherein, receiving means 650 receives the call request for accessing the cell for
which the base station serves from the mobile station; parameters acquiring means
670 acquires parameters of said mobile station, including the SNR Eb/No, uplink
source rate Rup, user ID and traffic type required by at least one traffic; control &
processing means 710 determines whether the uplink throughput can satisfy the uplink
requirement of the traffic according to the uplink rate Rup: if yes, establish uplink;
otherwise, reject the traffic request.
Where control & processing means 710 includes Rx power determining means
713 and judging means 716, wherein Rx power determining means 713 determines


the total uplink Rx (interference) power of the cell required by the uplink rate Rup,
which is obtained from the measured data groups reported by the base station, and
determines the equivalent Rx power required by the uplink rate Rup; judging means
716 determines whether the uplink throughput can satisfy the uplink requirement of
the traffic according to the total Rx power allowed by the payload of the cell. Rx
power determining means 713 also determines the equivalent total Rx power required
after providing service to the uplink rate Rup; and judging means 716 will satisfy the
uplink requirement of the traffic when the equivalent total Rx power is less than or
equal to the total Rx power allowed by the payload of the cell. Additionally, Rx power
determining means 713 calculates the equivalent throughput corresponding to the call
traffic according to the total Rx power; adds the equivalent throughput and the uplink
traffic rate Rup to get the total throughput; and obtains an equivalent total Rx power
corresponding to the total throughput. Judging means 716 subtracts the total uplink
Rx (interference) power (measured value) of the cell from the equivalent total Rx
power, to get the uplink Rx power increment of the call traffic; subtracts the measured
total uplink Rx (interference) power from the absolute value of the total Rx power
allowed by the payload of the cell, to get the uplink remaining capacity of the cell;
and then judges whether the uplink remaining capacity is above the third predefined
value: if yes, admit the traffic; otherwise, reject it.
Then, control & processing means 710 converts the uplink remaining capacity
into the uplink available remaining capacity of the cell according to the requirement
of the reserved capacity requirement for handover. The judging means judges whether
the uplink available remaining capacity is above the traffic payload increment: if yes,
it indicates that the uplink remaining capacity is above the third predefined value.
In practical applications, it's very likely that mobile station 620 only needs to
establish uplink non real-time traffic (such as transmission of e-mails and so on) or
just to establish uplink real-time traffic (such as transmission of voice notification and
so on). At this moment, only uplink is required to be established.
In some practical applications, it's also likely that both uplink and downlink
traffics need to be established, and at this moment, the apparatus should include the
components in Fig.6 and Fig.7.


Preferred Embodiments of the Invention
The functional blocks of the present invention are embodied in RNC in form of
software, and RNC controls and manages several base stations (cells). In conjunction
with steps in the present invention, an embodiment can give further description as
below:
Step 1: extracting the signal source rate R, the required SNR Eb/No, priority
level and user ID of the call traffic, from the QoS parameters carried by the RAB
(radio access bearer) request of the call traffic (user);
Step 2: checking whether the downlink rate of the call traffic is zero. If not zero,
turn to Step 3 to go on with the downlink admission control; otherwise, turn to Step
14 to start to execute steps for the uplink admission control processing;
Step 3: further extracting the downlink data rate of the call traffic, the required
SNR Eb/No, traffic type (real-time traffic or non real-time traffic) and the calling user
ID from the QoS parameters. From the traffic type, the delay requirement for the
traffic can be known, and the queuing line and the time duration to be waited for
should be taken into account when queuing priority. With user ID, it can be judged
whether the user has any traffic in communication, thus consider the combined
utilization of the radio link, that is, to establish a new radio link or reconfigure the old
radio link. Non real-time traffic takes the minimum transmission rate requirement as
the admission rate.
Step 4: searching the database for the downlink path loss L (dB) reported by the
corresponding user latest with the user ID. In general, during call connection
initialization, the mobile station will measure the downlink path loss and report it to
the RNC. This value must be measured within the last hundreds milliseconds to few
seconds, otherwise it's invalid. For example, if the mobile station moves 6.67 meters
at 120km/h within 200ms, or the time duration can be extended a little, but it will
cause loss of accuracy if moving distance is too long and it is of no practical
significance.
Step 5: judging whether the downlink path loss L is valid, i.e. the non-zero path
loss at a recorded time, and the time difference between the value record time and the
current time is within at most several seconds. Taking the real-time measurement


value as the path loss and turning to Step 7 for further calculation. Otherwise, turning
to Step 6 to get the approximation of the downlink path loss through estimation.
Step 6: when the measured path loss value losses time validity, take the cell
parameters (antenna height A ho of the base station and the maximum coverage
radius rmax of the cell) and 70.7% of the cell's maximum coverage radius as the
propagation distance parameters, and substitute them into the following equation for
propagation model, to calculate the mean 1, (the approximation of the path loss L) of
the path loss of the equivalent radius, for replacing the path loss I.:

Step 7: after the downlink path loss I, is derived in Step 5 or 6, by using the
downlink rate Rdown of the traffic and the required SNR Eb/No. the original value of
the power payload power increment can be calculated by:

dB is the processing gain. R is the traffic rate
with unit as kbps.
White noise power wherein To is the
absolute ambient temperature (oK), k is Bolt/mann's constant as 1.38 x 1023. K. B is
the communication bandwidth (Hz) and the bandwidth for WDMA system is 5Mhz.
and take Po -103 dBm under normal temperature.
The original value of the predicted transmission power in dB should be
transformed into the absolute value, and the statistical multiplex factor for voice
traffic needs to be considered in conversion. The absolute value (mW) of the original
downlink transmission power required for calculating the call traffic can be given as
follows:


where v is voice activation factor, being 1.00 for data traffic (non voice traffic)
and 0.67 for voice traffic (symmetric session traffic).
Step 8: Since WCDMA system is a self-interfering system, the multipath
propagation over downlink radio link causes non-orthogonality of the physical code
channels, so that the separation of physical code channels is not complete. And there
are still mutual interferences. That is, non-orthogonality will cause multiple access
interference or noises between physical code channels, and thus the SNR of each
physical code channel is decreased. The more the physical code channels, the higher
the interference will be. To offset the decrease in SNR caused by non-orthogonality, a
power climb amount has to be added. To calculate the downlink power climb amount
after traffic access based on Step 7:

where α is the downlink non-orthogonal factor in multipath radio environment,
ranging from 0.1 to 0.4, depending on the specific radio environment.
Step 9: in a practical system, the downlink payload power of the base station
(cell) of the system reported to RNC is a percentage, so we can get the total downlink
Tx power P0 by using the reported payload power n (%)through practical
measurement and the maximum Tx power Pmax (mW) of the base station (cell), so as
to further calculate the power climb of the base station (cell):

Due to the influence of downlink non-orthogonal factors in WCDMA system,
multiple access interference exists between the physical code channels. If a user
(traffic) accesses when a power has reached balance, the transmission power of the
user will cause the SNR of other physical code channels to decrease and cause the
transmission power of other channels to increase somewhat. Estimation of the total Tx
power when taking into account power climbs after the traffic access can be
calculated with the following equation:

Step 10: the case of the power climb caused by call traffic (user) access is


considered in the above, the payload power increment caused by traffic access can be
predicted with the following equation:

Step 11: reserving the power capacity payload required for soft switch,
according to the requirement for soft switch, to avoid call drop and significant
decrease in the system QoS when the user can't get enough power capacity payload
during soft switch. Considering that the downlink power capacity payload reserved
for soft switch is 50% and with a low PAR (Peak-to-Average power Ratio) the
payload power for guaranteeing smooth system operation is 90%, the admission
threshold for non-handover traffic call is 60% while that for handover traffic call is
90%, and the available remaining power capacity payload of the cell can be further
determined accordingly. That is: the available remaining power capacity payload for
non-handover call traffic can be calculated by ; while
the available remaining power capacity payload for handover call traffic can be
calculated by
Step 12: if the available remaining power capacity payload is above the
downlink traffic payload power increment, admit the call traffic, set the downlink
traffic admission control permission as 'true' and then go to Step 14 for uplink
admission control: otherwise, reject it. set the downlink traffic admission control
permission as "false" and turn to Step 24 to wait for the next call;
Step 13: extracting the uplink source rate ReP. the required SNR Eb/No, priority
level and user ID for the traffic from the QoS parameters of the call traffic, and taking
the minimum rate as the admission rate for non real-time traffic;
Step 14: extracting the total uplink Rx (interference) power P10, (dBm) of the
cell from the data groups reported by the base station, which is reported to RNC
regularly by the base station equipment via signaling channel, and is the real-time
uplink payload power of the cell:

Step 15: calculating the equivalent throughput Ttotal (kbps) corresponding to the
cell with the following equation, according to the traffic type and with reference to the
total uplink Rx (interference) power Ptotal of the cell:

where Ttotal (kbps) is the equivalent throughput, Tx is the maximum throughput
power capacity payload for various traffic, Tx is 800kbps for 8kbps voice traffic and
793kbps for 12.2kbps; and PN=-103dbM is background white noise.
For data traffic, the equation is as following:

Tx is 1280kbps for 64kbps, 144kbps for 144kbps, and 384kbps for 1536kbps.
Equations (PT1) and (PT2) represent the rule of the power climb, and the power
climb procedure is the non-linear increase procedure of the power.
Step 16: adding the traffic source rate R (kbps) and the equivalent throughput
Ttotal (kbps), to get the total throughput after traffic access;
Step 17: substituting the total throughput into the above equation (PT1) or (PT2),
to obtain the total power P total (dBm) of the cell after traffic access;
Step 18: converting P total(dBm) and Ptotal (dBm) into absolute value, and
then get the increase power of the traffic through subtraction:

Step 19: subtracting the total Rx (interference) power measured and reported by
the base station from the threshold of the maximum downlink transmission power of
the cell, to get the uplink remaining power capacity payload of the cell, wherein the
threshold is a maximum Rx power for guaranteeing stable system operation. That is:

Step 20: reserving the power capacity payload required for soft switch,
according to the requirement for soft switch, to avoid call drop and significant
decrease in the system QoS when the user can't get enough power capacity payload
during soft switch. Considering that the uplink power capacity payload reserved for


soft switch is 50% and the uplink payload power (maximum payload power) for
i
guaranteeing stable system operation is 90%, the admission threshold for
non-handover traffic call is 60% while that for handover traffic call is 90%, and the
available remaining uplink power capacity payload of the cell can be further
determined accordingly. That is: the available remaining power capacity payload for
non-handover call traffic can be calculated with:

the available remaining power capacity payload for handover call traffic can
be calculated by:

wherein 60% of the uplink payload power (uplink Rx total power) is equivalent
to -93dBm, rising to -93dBm from -103dBm for empty carrying, while 90% of the
payload power corresponds to -84dBm.
If the available remaining uplink power capacity payload A Pm of the system
cell (base station) is above the uplink payload power increment A P of the traffic, that
is, set the uplink admission permission as 'true', and go to Step 22;
otherwise, go to Step 1 to process the next traffic call;
Step 22: if both the uplink and downlink admission permissions are 'true',
allocating downlink and uplink resource parameters for the call traffic; and allocating
system resource parameters, and more particularly, the parameters for establishing
radio link, such as spreading factor, transfer format, scrambling code and so on;
Step 23: if the call traffic is admitted, the code resource table and the system
payload power table need to be altered, so as to judge the next call admission control
with the latest condition; if the call traffic is rejected, the code resource table and the
system payload power table need no alteration; then wait for the next traffic call
requesting for access, and iterate the above procedure from Step 1 when the call is
received next time. When a traffic initiates the call or the call queue outputs, the call
admission control procedure will be executed once
As stated above, the present invention puts forward the following methods for
the first time: 1. consider the power climb caused by multiple access interference in


both uplink and downlink; 2. estimate the uplink and downlink payload power
increment for the call traffic respectively, to be adapted to the access of asymmetric
traffic; 3. employ estimation method for the path loss with equivalent mean radius on
the downlink, and estimate the transmission power for the uplink traffic when no
measurement information can be exploited; thus to estimate the payload power
increment of the traffic; 4. perform admission control on uplink and downlink
respectively; 5. admit non real-time traffic with minimum allowable transfer rate. This
solves the problem of performing accurate admission control for asymmetric traffic,
i.e. the contradiction between stable system; operation and call loss rate at higher
payload power. This invention aims at the network design for CDMA systems and the
admission control mechanism in network operation, and can estimate the downlink
payload power increment of the call traffic accurately and facilitate admission control,
thus improve the effect on increasing the network operation efficiency, and reducing
call loss rate and call drop rate.
Although the present invention has been shown and described with respect to
exemplary embodiments thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art
that various changes, omissions and additions may be therein and thereto, without
departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention.

What is claimed is :
1. An admission control method for controlling a mobile station to access a cell for
which a base station serves in a CDMA system, wherein the method performed by the
base station comprises:
(a) receiving a call request for accessing the cell for which the base station
serves from the mobile station;
(b) acquiring parameters from the call request, wherein the parameters includes
SNR Eb No, uplink rate Rup and downlink rale Rdown, user ID and traffic type required
by at lease one requested traffic in the call request,
(c) if the downlink rate of the traffic is not zero, estimating a downlink power
climbing amount occurred after the traffic access, according to the acquired
parameters, and determining whether to admit the traffic in downlink;
(d) estimating an uplink power climbing amount occurred after the traffic access
according ro the acquired parameters, and determining whether to admit the traffic in
up link.
(e) establishing uplink, and/or downlink for the admitted traffic, if the traffic is
admitted in both uplink and downlink, otherwise, rejecting to admit the call rsquest.
2. The admission control method according to claim 1, wherein the traffic type
indicates that the traffic is non real-time or real-time traffic, and when it is non
real-time traffic, the method further comprises:
searching a transport format set of the non real-time traffic, and taking the lowest
rate in the transport format set as the uplink rate Rup or the downlink rate Rdown.
3. The admission control method according to claim 2, wherein, according to the SNR
Eb No, the downlink rate Rdown the user ID and the traffic type required by the traffic,
the downlink power climbing amount of in step (c) is estimated by follow equation:


wherein, APdBm is in dBm, SNR
processing gain is dB, rate R is the downlink rate
Rdown in kbps, and L is a downlink path loss.
4 The admission control method according to claim 3, wherein, when the traffic
includes data traffic( non-voice traffic) and/or voice traffic, the downlink power
climbing amount is modified into AP as follow equation,:

Wherein, v is a voice activation factor with different value for the data traffic
and the voice traffic.
5. The admission control method according to claim 4, wherein, when considering
non-erthogonality of physican code channels in downlink, the dowrlink power
climbing amount is modified into APtotal as follow equation:

wherein, α is a downlink non-orthogonal factor under mulupath radio
environment, depending on the specific radio environment.
6 The admission control method according to claim 5, wherein, considering that
transmitting power of other channels will increase due to accessing the traffic, the
downlink power climbing amount is further modified inio AP6, in mW as follow
equation:

P0 is the total downlink transmitting power occurred before the traffic access, α is a
downlink nonorthogonal factor under multiparth radio environment; depending on the
specific radio environment.

7. The admission control method according to claim 3, wherein the step (c) further
comprises;
searching for measured downlink path loss reported lately by the mobile station in
a database through using the user ID;
determining whether the measured downlink path less is available and valid.
taking the measured downlink path loss, if available and valid, as the downlink
path loss.
8. The admission control method according to claim 7, wherein the downlink path loss
is equal to a path loss of an equivalent radius which is 70.7% of the maximum
coverage radius of the cell, and is calculated by substituting the equivalent radius into
a propagation model, if the measured downlink path loss is invalid or unavailable.
9. 'Ihe admission control method according to claim 7, wherein the measured
downlink path loss is unavailable or invalid, if the mobile station fails to report the
measured downlink path loss within a predetermined period.
10. The admission control method according to claim 7, wherein the measured
downlink path loss, reported by the mobile station within the predetermined period, is
unavailable or invalid, if the measured downlink path loss is greater than a stooded
predetermined value.
11. The admission control method according to claim 10, wherem the predetermined
value is s path loss of an equivalent radius, which it 1.4 times, of the maximum
coverage radius of the cell, and is calculated by subslimbing the equivalent radius into
a propagation model.
12. Ihe admission control method according to claim 1, wherein the step (c) another
comprises:
calculating downlink remaining power capacity, according to the reported
payload power through practical measurement and the maximum downlind payload


power of the cell;
judging whether the downlink power climbing amount is less than the downlink
remaining power capacity;
admitting the traffic in downlink, if the downlink power climbing amount is less
than the downlink remaining power capacity, otherwise, rejecting to admit the traffic.
13. The admission control method according to claim 12, wherein the maximum
downlink payload power is determined according to the downlink power capacity
reserved for soft switch.
14. The admission control method according to any claim of claims 1-13, wherein the
step (d) comprises:
(d1) estimating uplink throughput occurred after the traffic access, according to a
total uplink receiving (interference) power Ptotal measured before the traffic access and
the uplink rate Rup;
(d2) calculating the uplink power climbing amount occurred after the traffic
access, according to the estima:ed uplink throughput occurred after the traffic access.
(d3) judging whether the uplink power climbing amount is less than uplink
remaining power capacity;
(d4) admitting the traffic in uplink, if the uplink power climbing amount is less
than the uplink remaining power capacity, otherwise, rejecting to admit the traffic.
15. The admission control method according to claim 14, wherein the step (dl) the
uplink throughput occurred after the traffic access is the sum of the uplink rate Rup of
the traffic and the uplink throughput calculated from the measured total uplink
receiving power Ptotal.
16. The admission control method according to claim 15, wherein the relation
between the uplink throughput Ttotal and the total uplink receiving power Ptotal is
defined as follow equations:
the voice traffic:

for data traffic:
wherein Tx (kbps)is the maximum throughput power capacity payload; PN is
background white noise.
17. The admission control method according to claim 16, where in the step (d2),
calculating the total receiving power occurred after the traffic access, according to
the estimated uplink throughput occurred after the traffic access;
obtaining the uplink power climbing amount by subtracting the measured the total
uplink receiving power from the calculated total receiving power occurred aftet the
traffic access.
18. The admission control method according to claim 17, wherein the step (d3) further
comprises:
obtaining the uplink remaining power capacity by subtracting the measured total
uplink receiving power from the maximum total uplink receiving power allowed by
the payload of the cell.
19. The admission control method according to claim 18, is herein the maximum total
uplink receiving power allowed by the payload of the cell is determined according to
the reserved capacity for soft switch.
20. An admission control device for controlling a mobile station to access a cell for
which a base station serves in a CDMA system, wherein the device comprises.
a receiving means, used to receive a call request for accessing the cell for which
the bade station serves from the mobile station,
an acquiring parameters means, for acquiring parameters from the call request,
wherein the parameters includes SNR Eb/No, uplink rale RuP, downlink rate Rtotal
user ID and traffic type required by at least one requested traffic in the cell request,
a signal processing means, for determining downlink path loss L of the traffic,
calculating downlink power climbing amount occured after the traffic request,
according to the parameters acquired by the acquiring means; calculation. The


downlink remaining power capacity; determining whether to admit the traffic in
downlink according to the downlink remaining power capacity and the downlink
power climbing amount;
a control and processing means, for calculating uplink power climbing amount
occurred after the traffic access, according to the parameters acquired by the acquiring
means; calculating the uplink remaining power capacity; determining whether to
admit the traffic in uplink according to the uplink remaining power capacity and the
uplink power climbing amount,
a link connection means, for establishing downlink or uplink if the traffic is
admitted by both the signal processing means and the control and processing means,
otherwise, rejecting to admit the traffic.
21. The admission control device according to claim 20, wherein the signal processing
means comprises:
transmission level determining means, for calculating processing gain and
transmission level required by the traffic in downlink;
searching means, for searching measured downlink path loss repoted by the
user ID lately;
deciding means, for deciding whether the path loss is available and valid if
available and valid, taking the measured downlink path lost as the downlink path loss
L or the traffic; otherwise, raking the first predefined value as the downlink path loss
L.
power climbing determining means, for determining the downlink climbing
power of the traffic according to the parameters acquired by the acquiring means.
22. The admission control device according to claim 21, wherein the power climbing
determing means estimates the downlink power climbing amount expressed as
APdBM in dBm, according to the SNR Eb/No, the downlink rate Rtotal the use. ID and
the traffic type required by the traffic, and the APdBm is estimated by follow equation:


wherein SNR
processing gain rate R is the downlink rate
Rdown in kbps, and L is the downlink path loss,
23. The admission control device according to claim 22, wherein, when the traffic
includes data traffic( non-voice traffic) and/or voice traffic, the downlink power
climbing amount is modified into AP in mW by follow equation:

wherein, D is voice activation factor with different value for the data traffic
and the voice traffic.
24. The admission control device according to claim 23, therein, considering
non-orthogonality of the physical code channels in downlink, the downlink power
climbing anount is modified the APtotal in mW by follow equation:

wherein, α is a downlink non-orthogonal factor under multipath radio
environmsnt depending on the specific radio environment.
25. The admission control device according to claim 24, wherein considering that
transmitting power of other channels will increase the to accessing the traffic, the
downlink pewer climbing amount is further modified into AP7 in mW by follow
equations.

P0 is the total downlink power transmitting power before the traffic access, α is a
downlink non-orthogonal factor under multipath radio environment, depending on the
specific ratio environment

26. The admission control device according to claim 25, wherein the predetermined
the first value is a path loss of an equivalent radius which is 70.7% of the maximum
coverage radius of the cell, and is calculated by substituting the equivalent tadius into
a propagation model.
27. The admission control device according to claim 20-26, wherein the control and
processing means comprises:
Rx power determining means, for calculating an equivalent throughput
according to the total receiving power measured before the traffic access; obtaining
the total throughput occurred after the traffic access by adding the uplink rate Rup to
the equivalent throughput; calculating the equivalent, total receiving power occurred
after the traffic access from the total throughput occurred after the traffic access;
judging means, for obtaining the uplink power climbing amount by subtracting
the total receiving power measured before the traffic access from the equivalent total
receiving power; obtaining the uplink remaining power capacity by subtracting the
total receiving power measured before the traffic access from the total receiving
power allowed by the payload of the cell; determining whether the uplink remaining
power capacity is greater than the uplink power climbing value, if greater, admitting
the traffic, otherwise rejecting to admit it.
28. The admission control device according to claim 27, wherein the judging means
determines the uplink remaining power capacity according to the reserved power
capacity for a soft handover.

The admission control procedure in CDMA systems works as: when a call traffic
requests for access, classify the traffic type and take the minimum non-zero rate for
non real-time traffic to get the transfer rate requirement of the call traffic, measure the
uplink and downlink payload power of the cell in real time, consider the uplink
multiple access interference and the power climb factors caused by downlink
non-orthogonality, estimate the payioad power increment of the call traffic, perform
admission control respectively in uplink and downlink directions to adapt to the
access of asymmetric traffic and lower the call loss rate ("blocking rate), and improve
the system efficiency with precondition of stable operation.

Documents:

301-kol-2004-granted-abstract.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-claims.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-correspondence.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-description (complete).pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-drawings.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-examination report.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-form 1.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-form 18.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-form 2.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-form 3.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-form 5.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-pa.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-reply to examination report.pdf

301-kol-2004-granted-specification.pdf


Patent Number 225970
Indian Patent Application Number 301/KOL/2004
PG Journal Number 49/2008
Publication Date 05-Dec-2008
Grant Date 03-Dec-2008
Date of Filing 07-Jun-2004
Name of Patentee ZTE CORPORATION
Applicant Address ZTE BUILDING, SOUTH HI-TECH ROAD, HI-TECH INDUSTRIAL PARK, NANSHAN DISTRICT SHENZHEN, GUANG DONG PROVINCE
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 HUANG, CHAO ZTE BUILDING, SOUTH HI-TECH ROAD, HI-TECH INDUSTRIAL PARK, NANSHAN DISTRICT SHENZHEN, GUANG DONG PROVINCE 518057
PCT International Classification Number H04Q 7/38
PCT International Application Number PCT/CN01/01608
PCT International Filing date 2001-12-06
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 PCT/CN01/01608 2001-12-06 IB