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EDAP stands for Dynamic Abis pool for EGPRS requests. It is a shared resource for allocating additional Abis transmission capacity from a pool to cells on an as-needed basis for EGPRS channels and radio timeslots (TRX), rather than reserving a full fixed transmission link per TRX. This dynamic allocation allows higher data rates than the standard 16 kbit/s Abis channels by allocating additional 32, 48, 64 or 80 kbit/s Abis links from the pool when needed for PCU slave data frames that don't fit in the standard PCU master data frames. The size of the EDAP pool can be increased based on counters that show blocked requests, to better

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EDAP

EDAP stands for Dynamic Abis pool for EGPRS requests. It is a shared resource for allocating additional Abis transmission capacity from a pool to cells on an as-needed basis for EGPRS channels and radio timeslots (TRX), rather than reserving a full fixed transmission link per TRX. This dynamic allocation allows higher data rates than the standard 16 kbit/s Abis channels by allocating additional 32, 48, 64 or 80 kbit/s Abis links from the pool when needed for PCU slave data frames that don't fit in the standard PCU master data frames. The size of the EDAP pool can be increased based on counters that show blocked requests, to better

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EDAP

EDAP means Dynamic abis pool for EGPRS requests.


The Abis interface is situated between the BSC and the Base Station sites.The
Abis interface is also used for GPRS services. In a traditional GSM/GPRS
system, each TRX channel is mapped statically to Abis PCM timeslots.


In the air interface, higher rates are achieved through the use 8-PSK.
Achievable transmission rates are in the order of 59.2 Kbit/s per Radio Timeslot
(RTSL)
Higher data rates dont fit in 16 kbit/s A-bis channels so 32, 48, 64 or 80 kbit/s
Abis links are needed and Fixed Abis allocation of such links would be expensive
and would lack flexibility.
The Dynamic Abis Pool is a shared extra Abis resource for EGPRS channels and
TRXs. The Dynamic Abis functionality allocates Abis transmission capacity to
cells when needed instead of reserving full fixed transmission link per TRX.

Now lets see why EDAP is required.

PCU frame types

PCU data frame:-

Used when TRX not in EDGE mode
Only able to carry CS1 and CS2

PCU master data frame:-

Used when TRX is in EDGE mode
Carries CS1 or MCS1 on its own and CS2-4 and MCS2-9 with the help of slave
frame(s)
Includes pointers to the slave frames

PCU slave data frame:-

Carries additional data that does not fit in PCU master data frames




Fixed channels and EDAP

For each GPRS radio timeslot on each EDGE TRX, one fixed 16-kbps channel is
allocated on the Abis for the transfer of PCU master data frames
PCU slave data frames are allocated in a common pool, the EDAP (EDGE
Dynamic Abis Pool)
We are still going to make a static allocation of 16 kbit/s per TCH, (used for
voice or data)
In a PSD call, this sub-TSL is called a master Abis channel, and if required, the
system can allocate up to 4 extra slave Abis sub-TSLs for same master from
dynamic pool.

There are some counters defined in OSS through which you can see how many
requests are getting blocked in particular EDAP.So accordingly you can increase
the EDAP size.

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