Standard 132551v18000
Standard 132551v18000
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights ................................................................................................................................2
Legal Notice .......................................................................................................................................................2
Modal verbs terminology....................................................................................................................................2
Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................4
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................4
1 Scope ........................................................................................................................................................5
2 References ................................................................................................................................................5
3 Definitions and abbreviations ...................................................................................................................5
3.1 Definitions .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.3 Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
4 Concepts and Backgrounds ......................................................................................................................7
4.1.0 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
4.1.1 Fundamental concepts................................................................................................................................... 7
4.1.2 Additional concepts for selected uses cases .................................................................................................. 8
4.1.3 Operator control ............................................................................................................................................ 8
5 Business level requirements ...................................................................................................................10
5.1 Requirements .................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2 Actor roles ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
5.3 Telecommunication resources .......................................................................................................................... 11
5.4 High level use cases ......................................................................................................................................... 11
5.4.1 Cell overlaid use case ................................................................................................................................. 11
5.4.2 Capacity limited network use case .............................................................................................................. 12
6 Specification level requirements ............................................................................................................13
6.1 Requirements .................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.1.1 Common requirements ................................................................................................................................ 13
6.1.2 Requirements for NM Centralized ES ........................................................................................................ 13
6.1.3 Requirements for EM Centralized ES......................................................................................................... 14
6.1.4 Requirements for Distributed ES ................................................................................................................ 14
6.2 Actor roles ........................................................................................................................................................ 15
6.3 Telecommunication resources .......................................................................................................................... 15
6.4 High level use cases ......................................................................................................................................... 15
6.4.0 General........................................................................................................................................................ 15
6.4.1 Energy saving activation on selected network elements (Centralized ES on NM layer) ........................... 16
6.4.2 Deactivation of energy saving on selected network elements (Centralized ES on NM layer) .................... 17
6.4.3 Energy saving activation on selected network elements (Distributed ES) .................................................. 18
6.4.4 Energy saving deactivation on selected network elements (Distributed ES) .............................................. 19
6.4.5 Coordination between Energy Saving and Cell outage ............................................................................... 20
6.4.6 Energy saving switch off by IRP Manager on selected network elements (Distributed ES) ...................... 20
Annex A (informative): Use case details: Capacity-limited network use case ..................................21
Annex B (informative): Use Case details: eNB overlaid use case.......................................................23
Annex C (informative): Change history ...............................................................................................26
History ..............................................................................................................................................................27
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Foreword
This Technical Specification has been produced by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within the TSG and may change following formal
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Introduction
The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Technical Specification
Group Services and System Aspects, Telecommunication management; as identified below:
TS 32.522 [5]: Self-Organizing Networks (SON) Policy Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference
Point (IRP): Information Service (IS)
TS 32.762 [4]: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Network Resource Model
(NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP): Information Service (IS)
TS 32.642 [7]: Configuration Management(CM); UTRAN network resources Integration Reference Point (IRP):
Network Resource Model (NRM)
TS 32.652 [8]: Configuration Management(CM); GERAN network resources Integration Reference Point (IRP):
Network Resource Model (NRM)
This work is based on the Study contained in TR 32.826 [2] Study on Energy Savings Management (ESM) and TR
32.834 [9] Study on Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) aspects of inter-Radio-Access-Technology
(RAT) energy saving.
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1 Scope
The present document describes the concepts and requirements how energy savings functionalities are managed what
requirements need to be met to support this. The document also describes if a requirement shall be met via the Itf-N
interface or via other means.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or
non-specific.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including
a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same
Release as the present document.
[3] 3GPP TS 25.104: "Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception (FDD)".
[4] 3GPP TS 32.762: "Telecommunication management; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
Network (E-UTRAN) Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP);
Information Service (IS)".
[9] 3GPP TR 32.834: "Study on Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) aspects of inter-
Radio-Access-Technology (RAT) energy saving ".
[10] 3GPP TS 36.300: " E- UTRA and E-UTRAN; Overall description; Stage 2".
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. A
term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905 [1].
Centralized ES: ES solution where ES algorithms are executed in the OAM system. Centralized ES has two variants:
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- NM-Centralized ES: ES solution where ES algorithms are executed at the Network Management level.
- EM-Centralized ES: ES solution where ES algorithms are executed at the Element Management level.
Distributed ES: ES solution where ES algorithms are executed at the Network Element level.
notEnergySaving state: the default state in peak-traffic situation, with no specific energy saving in progress.
energySaving state: in an off-peak-traffic situation, some functions of a cell or a network element are powered-off or
restricted in resource usage in other ways, whereas the cell or network element is still controllable.
ES Probing procedure : Upon being triggered by the Cell Activation Request message - of the Cell Activation
procedure (see TS 36.300 [10] section 20.2.2.15) - sent from a node owning a candidate cell, eNBs owning ES probing
capable original cell(s) indicate its (their) presence to UEs for a period of time which last up to the Minimum
Activation Time (see TS 36.300 [10] section 22.4.4.2) . An ES probing cell prevents idle mode UEs from camping on
the cell and prevents incoming handovers to the same cell. The results of these measurements are used to determine
whether the cell has UEs within its reach and thus could take over load by going into the notEnergySaving state.
compensatingForEnergySaving state: in an off-peak traffic situation, a network element is remaining powered on,
e.g. taking over the coverage areas of neighbor base station in energySaving state.
ES activation: the procedure to switch off a cell or network element or restrict the usage of physical resources for
energy saving purposes. As a result, a specific network element transitions is in energySaving state.
ES compensation: the procedure to change a cell’s or network element’s configuration to remain powered on for
compensating energy saving activation on other cells or network elements, e.g. by increasing a base station’s coverage
area. As a result, the network element is in compensatingForEnergySaving state.
ES deactivation: the procedure to switch on a cell ornetwork element or resume the usage of physical resources which
had been ES activated before. As a result, a specific network element is in notEnergySaving state.
Disable ES: ES is prohibited to be performed. When ES is disabled, subject cells or NEs are in notEnergySaving state.
Candidate cell: candidate cell is a cell which can provide coverage when the original cell goes into energySaving state.
3.3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. An
abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in
TR 21.905 [1].
ES Energy Saving
ESM Energy Saving Management
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4.1.0 Introduction
Protecting the environment and combating climate change are challenges that we face today. In the telecom
environment, as energy prices increase, there is added incentive for Network Operators to look for means to reduce
energy costs.
OAM of mobile networks can contribute to energy saving by allowing the operator to set policies to minimize
consumption of energy, while maintaining coverage, capacity and quality of service. The permitted impact on coverage,
capacity and quality of service is determined by operator’s policy.
When a cell is in energy savings state it may need neighbouring cells to pick up the load. However a cell in
energySaving state cannot cause coverage holes or create undue load on the surrounding cells. All traffic on that cell is
expected to be drained to other overlaid/umbrella cells before any cells moves to energySaving state.
A cell in energySaving state is not considered a cell outage or a fault condition. No alarms should be raised to the
IRPManager for any condition that is a consequence of a NE moving into energySaving state
In addition, the use of the renewable energy sources (e.g. wind, solar energy) should be encouraged in mobile networks.
The following ESM concepts can apply to different RATs, e.g. UMTS and LTE. Nevertheless some of these ESM
concepts may be limited to specific RATs and network elements, and specific solutions may be required for them.
Conceptually, a cell or a network element may be on one of these two states with respect to energy saving:
- notEnergySaving state
- energySaving state
Based on the above energy saving states, a full energy saving solution includes two elementary procedures:
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- compensatingForEnergySaving.
- Energy saving compensation deactivation: the procedure to decrease a previously increased coverage area.
This compensation concept, i.e. the energy saving state compensatingForEnergySaving and the additional procedures
for energy saving compensation (de)activation, does not apply to Inter-RAT Energy Saving concepts.
Energy savings in cells can be initiated in several different ways. Some of the mechanisms are:
- IRPManager instructs the cells to move to energySaving state (e.g. according to a schedule determined by
network statistics) , configures trigger points (e.g. load threshold crossing) when it wants to be notified,
deactivates the energy saving of a network element.
- IRPManager sets policies and conditions and when these policies/conditions are met, the cells will move to
energy saving state.
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Examples for policies/conditions are: A time period, during which energy saving is allowed; definition of cells
which are to be considered when a ES decision is made; load thresholds to be considered for energy saving
decisions to determine from when on energy saving shall be done and which of the RATs should be “ramped
down” first, which second etc.
- Based on these policies/conditions and further information – e.g. the operational status of the candidate cell to
take over - the ESM function controls the energy saving measures in the network elements. The network
operator is informed about configuration changes which are triggered by the ESM function.
In the case of distributed architecture the eNB moves itself to/from energySaving state autonomously
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5.1 Requirements
REQ-32.551-CON-01
The acceptable impact on services shall be determined based on operator’s policy.
REQ-32.551-CON-02
The IRPManager shall be able to monitor how the network and the user service quality are influenced by energy saving
function.
REQ-32.551-CON-03
IRPManager shall be able to monitor the performance of the energy saving function.
REQ-32.551-CON-04
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to retrieve energy consumption information for each
of its managed NEs.
REQ-32.551-CON-05
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to configure for each of its managed NEs the
period of time for which energy consumption information will be provided.
REQ-32.551-CON-06
The IRPManager shall be able to initiate energy saving compensation activation and/or deactivation on one or multiple
cells or network elements.
This requirement applies for the use case capacity limited network, for other use cases it is FFS.
REQ-32.551-CON-07
IRPManager shall be able to enable and disable energy saving for a selected part of the network.
REQ-32.551-CON-08
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to initiate energy saving activation/deactivation on
one or multiple cells or network elements in the network.
REQ-32.551-CON-09
When a NE is in energySaving state the IRPAgents shall not consider the NE as a fault, and no alarms shall be raised to
the IRPManager for any condition that is a consequence of an energySaving NE.
REQ-32.551-CON-10
The IRP Agent shall be able to allow the IRPManager to define a list of cells to prevent them from going into energySaving
state.
REQ-32.551-CON-11
The IRPAgent shall allow the IRPManager to query which cells in the network under its domain are in the
energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-12
The IRPAgent shall support a capability to notify the IRPManager when a cell goes into or out of energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-13
The IRPAgent shall notify the IRPManager when a cell fails to re-start as a result of going out of energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-14
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The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to configure a cell traffic load threshold to be used
for the decision if a network element goes into energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-15
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to configure a cell traffic load threshold to be used
for the decision if a network element goes out of energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-16
The system shall bring cells within one node into energySaving state in the most energy efficient sequence.
REQ-32.551-CON-17
A cell must not go into energySaving state until emergency calls or Wireless Priority Service calls in the cell are
completed. Forcing handovers of such calls because of ES shall be avoided.
REQ-32.551-CON-18
The IRPManager shall be able to access location and coverage information for each of its managed NEs.
REQ-32.551-CON-19
The IRPAgent shall provide the capability to allow the IRPManager to configure one or more related cells as the candidate
cells to take over the coverage when the original cell is going into energySaving state.
REQ-32.551-CON-20
The IRPAgent shall provide a capability to allow the IRPManager to indicate cell outage of an overlay cell that is a
candidate cell that can take over the coverage for another cell.
REQ-32.551-CON-21
A cell or a network element in energySaving state is a planned condition and should not be considered as an outage.
REQ-32.551-CON -22
Energy Saving shall not prevent the fulfillment of emergency service requirements (e.g. E911) and Wireless Priority
Services requirements.
REQ-32.551-CON -23
The IRPAgent should provide a capability to allow the IRPManager to query which cells support the ES probing
procedure.
This use case applies both for Intra- and Inter-RAT Energy Saving.
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This use case applies for Intra-RAT Energy Saving and does not apply for Inter-RAT Energy Saving..
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6.1 Requirements
6.1.1 Common requirements
REQ-ComES-FUN-01
The IRPManager shall be able to monitor how the network and the user service quality are influenced by energy saving
function.
REQ-ComES-FUN-02
IRPManager shall be able to monitor the performance of the energy saving function.
REQ-ComES-FUN-03
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to retrieve energy consumption information for each
of its managed NEs.
REQ-ComES-FUN-04
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to configure for each of its managed NEs the
period of time for which energy consumption information will be provided.
REQ-ComES-FUN-05
When a NE is in energySaving state the IRPAgents shall not consider the NE as a fault, and no alarms shall be raised to
the IRPManager for any condition that is a consequence of an energySaving NE.
REQ-ComES-FUN-06
void
REQ-ComES-FUN-09
The IRPAgent shall allow the IRPManager to query which cells in the network are in energySaving state.
REQ-ComES-FUN-07
The IRPAgent shall support a capability to notify the IRPManager when a cell goes into or out of energySaving state.
REQ-ComES-FUN-08
The IRPAgent shall notify the IRPManager when a cell fails to re-start as a result of going out of energySaving state.
REQ-ComES-FUN-09
The IRPAgent should provide a capability to allow the IRPManager to query which cells support the ES probing
procedure.
This requirement applies for the use case capacity limited network.
REQ-NCES-FUN-05
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to initiate energy saving compensation deactivation
to one or multiple cells or network elements.
This requirement applies for the use case capacity limited network.
Editor’s note: this requirement is here presented not in sequential order for readability purpose.
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REQ-NCES-FUN-02
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to initiate energy saving activation to one or multiple
cells or network elements.
REQ-NCES-FUN-03
The IRPAgent shall support a capability allowing the IRPManager to initiate energy saving deactivation to one or multiple
cells or network elements.
REQ-NCES-FUN-04
The IRPAgent shall provide a capability allowing the IRPManager to monitor the network load.
REQ-DIES-FUN-02
The IRPAgent shall provide the IRPManager the possibility to define that a cell is prohibited to be reconfigured for
Energy Saving purposes.
REQ-DIES-FUN-03
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to define a traffic threshold and a time duration: If
the traffic in the active neighbor cells is above this threshold longer than this time duration, then the cell can leave the
energySaving state.
REQ-DIES-FUN-04
The IRPAgent shall provide the capability to allow the IRPManager to configure one or more related cells as the candidate
cells to take over the coverage when the original cell is going into energySaving state.
REQ-DIES-FUN-06
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to define a traffic threshold (threshold1) for the
cell, a traffic threshold (threshold2) for the neighbour cells and a time duration; if the traffic in the cell is below this
threshold1 longer than this time duration and the traffic in active neighbor cells is below this threshold2 longer than this
time duration, then the cell can enter the energySaving state.
.
REQ-DIES-FUN-07
Void.
REQ-DIES-FUN-08
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to define in a uniform way on subnetwork level or
for many cells the circumstances when entering or leaving the energy saving is allowed.
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REQ-DIES-FUN-09
The IRPManager shall be able to switch on (= enable) and switch off (= disable) energy saving for a selected part of the
network. Switch off energy saving by the IRPManager shall be possible at any time, even if the selected NEs are in
energySaving state.
REQ-DIES-FUN-10
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing the IRPManager to configure the time period during which energy
saving is allowed.
REQ-DIES-FUN-11
If the IRPAgent has no direct access to outage information about candidate cells, then the IRPManager should be able to
indicate cell outage of such a cell.
REQ-DIES-FUN-12
The IRPAgent should support a capability allowing IRPManager to indicate that the outage of a candidate cell shall end
and prohibit the energy saving activiation of specific cells.
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The network operator has decided to activate energy saving on selected network elements in a part of
the network (network elements, e.g. base stations). This requires to activate energy saving on some
network elements and to activate compensatingForEnergySaving on others.
An interference control function is available to support the coverage adjustment process among NEs in
ES-Compensate and energySaving state.
Pre conditions The network topology should allow transferring some network elements into energySaving state while
maintaining coverage by transferring some other into ES-Compensate state.
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The network operator has decided to activate energy saving on selected network elements in a part of
the network (network elements, e.g. base stations). This requires to activate energy saving on some
network elements and to activate energy saving compensation on others.
An interference control function is available to support the coverage adjustment process among NEs in
compensatingForEnergySaving and energySavingstate.
Pre conditions The affected network elements are in energySavingstate or in ES-Compensate state.
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An interference control function is available to support the coverage adjustment process among NEs in
compensatingForEnergySaving and energySaving state.
Pre conditions The network topology should allow transferring some network elements into energySavingstate while
maintaining coverage by transferring some others into ES-Compensate state.
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An interference control function is available to support the coverage adjustment process among NEs in
compensatingForEnergySaving and energySaving state.
Pre conditions The affected network elements are in energySaving state or in compensatingForEnergySaving state.
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Annex A (informative):
Use case details: Capacity-limited network use case
Capacity-limited networks (e.g. UMTS networks in an urban environment) are normally dimensioned to cope with peak
time traffic demand and can hence be under-utilized in off-peak times, e.g. at certain hours of the night, when the
overall load as well as the load distribution onto the different cells may differ significantly from peak times.
For energy saving management in such networks, the objective is therefore to adapt the network to these changing
conditions by activating energy saving on selected cells. One approach is to concentrate the load into a few selected
cells that remain active during low traffic demand periods with increased coverage area and to deactivate the remaining
less loaded cells.
This use case is generally RAT-independent, but may provide specific requirements and leverage specific mechanisms
of individual RATs. This use case is only applicable to macro base stations.
Overview
In this use case the coverage area of a cell can be configured dynamically, where an operator would employ smaller
coverage areas per cell (to increase capacity per geographic area) in a peak traffic situation. In that case some base
stations would be enabled to adjust their transmission power and other configuration parameters for their cells at off-
peak times in order to provide coverage for other neighboring cells – which could then be transferred to energy saving
state, after handing currently associated UEs over to remaining neighboring cells. Activating energy saving on certain
base stations and modifying radio parameters for increasing coverage for other cells can lead to different neighbor
relations as well as different cell and frequency layouts, which should be addressed by automatic neighbor relation,
interference control, e.g. through OAM-driven configuration or SON functions, depending on the specific RAT in use.
Depending on the specific scenarios, activating energy saving on base stations could ultimately lead to switching off all
radio-transmission-related functions at a site, which would lead to reduced energy consumption and could implicitly
lead to even further energy saving, e.g. when air condition systems at a site adapt to the reduced cooling requirements –
which is not considered here in detail.
The energy saving management in the scenario would ideally lead to situation for an off-peak time as depicted in
figure A.1 – where one base station would remain powered one (depicted as ES-Compensate), taking over the coverage
areas of neighbor base stations in energySaving state (depicted as eSaving).
no-ES eSaving
no-ES no-ES eSaving ES-compensate
As depicted in figure A.1, a certain part of a network, e.g. base stations in a geographical area, can be in two different
situations:
1. Peak traffic situation: no particular energy saving is on-going, and network elements are in No-ES state.
2. Off-peak Traffic situation: energy saving is on-going, and some network elements may be in energySaving state,
while others are in compensatingForEnergySaving state.
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Peak-traffic situation and off-peak-traffic situation refer to the disposition of a network. For this use case, the following
three different states are applicable to individual network elements: 1) notEnergySaving, 2) energySaving, and 3)
compensatingForEnergySaving state.
These states are entered and left using the procedures energy saving activation, energy saving deactivation, energy
saving compensation activation, and energy saving compensation deactivation.
It should be noted that the concrete actions for transferring a network element into an energySaving state (depicted as
“eSaving” in figure A.1) depend on the specific scenario and capabilities of the network element.
This use case can be implemented in the ES-below-Itf-N architecture and in the ES-above-Itf-N architecture. Depending
on the architecture, energy saving decisions and corresponding state transfers are made by network elements (or
element / domain managers) or by network management systems.
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Annex B (informative):
Use Case details: eNB overlaid use case
In order to assure the service connectivity and make no side effect on the service (there is a possible case that a UE may
power on in the area of an eNB in ES), only the eNB overlaid by other eNBs (i.e. the area served by the eNB also
covered by other eNBs) can enter into ES.
In this scenario, legacy systems, e.g. 2G/3G provide radio coverage together with E-UTRAN. Another case similar with
this is that an area covered by different frequencies in E-UTRAN, i.e. inter-frequency case.
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According to the definition of base station classes in [3] section 4.2, base stations can be categorized by Macro Cell
(Wide Area Base Station), Micro Cell (Medium Range Base Station), Pico Cell (Local Area Base Station) and Femto
Cell (characterized by Home Base Station). This category of base station can be applied to enhance the scenarios of
inter-frequency eNB overlaid.
In this scenario, two E-UTRAN cells (Cell A, Cell B) with separate frequency bands cover the same geographical area.
Cell B has a smaller size (Pico Cell or Micro Cell) than Cell A (Macro Cell) and is covered totally by Cell A. Generally,
Cell A is deployed to provide continuous coverage of the area, while Cell B increases the capacity of the special sub-
areas, such as hot spots. The energy saving procedure in the coverage of Cell B (ES area) may be triggered in case that
light traffic in Cell B is detected. Cell B deactivation of energy saving may also be triggered when the traffic of ES area
(measured by Cell A) resumes to a high level.
E-UTRAN
Macro Cell A
ES Area
E-UTRAN
Pico/Micro Cell B
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The inter-frequency E-UTRAN cell coverage use case also has a variation of hybrid deployment of Macro Cell and Femto
Cell, which means different cell classes (Macro and Femto) cover the same geography area.
In this scenario, two E-UTRAN cells (Cell A, Cell B) with different cell types cover the same geographical area. Cell B
(Femto Cell) is covered totally by Cell A (Macro Cell). Generally, Cell A is deployed by eNB to provide continuous
coverage of the area, while Cell B is deployed by Home eNB to increase the capacity of the special sub-areas, such as
home or business mall or office. The energy saving procedure in the coverage of Cell B (ES area) may be triggered in
case that light traffic or no traffic in Cell B is detected. Cell B deactivation of energy saving may also be triggered when
the traffic of ES area resumes to a high level. Home eNB which deploys the femto cell can be totally switched off during
the ES procedure.
E-UTRAN
Macro Cell A
ES Area
E-UTRAN
Femto Cell B
Figure B.3: Hybrid E-UTRAN Macro Cell and Femto Cell Coverage
In this scenario, E-UTRAN Cell B is totally covered by inter-RAT Cell A (such as legacy system UMTS or GSM). Cell
A is deployed to provide basic coverage of the voice or medium/low-speed data services in the area, while Cell B enhances
the capability of the area to support high-speed data or multi-media services. The energy saving procedure in the coverage
of Cell B (ES area) may be triggered in case that no high-speed data or multi-media traffic in Cell B is detected. Cell B
deactivation of energy saving may be triggered when the high-speed data or multi-media service request in ES area is
restarted again.
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UMTS/GSM
Cell A
ES Area
E-UTRAN
Cell B
In this scenario, E-UTRAN cell X Cell is overlaid by multiple UTRAN/GERAN cells (cell A and cell B). The UEs that
are served by E-UTRAN cell X may be located in the areas covered by cell A, cell B, or cell A/B. When cell X is
triggered to enter the energy saving mode, cell A and cell B are required to provide the coverage for cell X. The trigger
for cell X to exit the energy saving mode is based on the traffic loads or operation status of cell A and cell B. This use
case applies if cell X is installed for capacity enhancement, but not to take care of UTRAN/GERAN coverage holes.
E-UTRAN
cell X
UTRAN/GERAN UTRAN/GERAN
cell A cell B
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Annex C (informative):
Change history
Change history
Date TSG # TSG Doc. CR Rev Subject/Comment Old New
2010-09 SP-49 SP-100513 -- -- Submitted to SA#49 for Information --- 1.0.0
2010-12 SP-50 SP-100768 -- -- Submitted to SA#50 for Approval 1.2.0 2.0.0
2011-01 -- -- -- -- Publication of SA approved version 2.0.0 10.0.0
2011-02 -- -- - - Editorial modifications 10.0.0 10.0.1
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 0001 1 Modify the energy saving compensation related use cases 10.0.1 10.1.0
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 0002 1 Add energy saving compensation deactivation requirement 10.0.1 10.1.0
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 Modify the requirements about traffic threshold and time duration for 10.0.1 10.1.0
0003 1 Energy Saving Management (ESM)
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 0004 - Modify errors in state name and in section title 10.0.1 10.1.0
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 Clarify the description of energy saving compensation activation and 10.0.1 10.1.0
0005 1 deactivation over Itf-N
2011-03 SP-51 SP-110100 0006 - Correct requirements for EM-centralized Energy Saving Architecture 10.0.1 10.1.0
Mar 2012 SP-55 SP-120056 0008 5 Relocate misplaced text for energy saving management concept 10.1.0 11.0.0
Mar 2012 SP-55 SP-120056 0009 2 Add Inter-RAT Energy Saving Management requirements from 32.834 10.1.0 11.0.0
Mar 2012 SP-55 SP-120056 0010 1 Add Inter-RAT Energy Saving Management concepts from TR 32.834 10.1.0 11.0.0
Mar 2012 SP-55 SP-120056 0011 1 Add Inter-RAT Energy Saving Management use cases 10.1.0 11.0.0
Jun-06 SP-56 SP-120371 0019 3 Clarify Inter-RAT Energy Saving Management requirement 11.0.0 11.1.0
Sep-2012 SP-57 SP-120573 0025 2 eNB overlaid use case 11.1.0 11.2.0
Sep-2012 SP-57 SP-120645 Removal of Inter-RAT ES restriction for the time period during which 11.1.0 11.2.0
0026 2 energy saving is allowed
SP-120783 IRP Manager switches off distributed ESM - Requirement and Use
0027 1 Case
SP-120800 0028 - Cleanup of energy saving management requirements
Dec-2012 SP-58 11.2.0 11.3.0
SP-129800 Correction on references related to inter-RAT energy saving
0029 - management
SP-120783 0030 3 Addition of information on probing to Energy Saving
June 11.3.0 11.3.1
2013 Editorial correction (MCC): Annex A title was in style Normal
Sep-2014 Automatic upgrade (MCC) 11.3.1 12.0.0
Jan 2016 Update to Rel-13 (MCC) 12.0.0 13.0.0
Change history
Date Meeting TDoc CR Rev Cat Subject/Comment New
version
2017-03 SA#75 Promotion to Release 14 without technical change 14.0.0
2018-06 - - - - - Update to Rel-15 version (MCC) 15.0.0
2020-07 - - - - - Update to Rel-16 version (MCC) 16.0.0
2022-04 - - - - - Update to Rel-17 version (MCC) 17.0.0
2024-04 - - - - - Update to Rel-18 version (MCC) 18.0.0
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History
Document history
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