Current setting for HSDPA FMCS will result in early Compressed mode

triggering which will prompt RAN to re-configure the UEs to Single Carrier
since CM on DC-HSDPA is not allowed in NSN.
o Since CM triggering is very early due to current settings, UE will spend
most of the time in single carrier or R99 and more often handover to
GSM (if allowed).
o High resource utilization and congestion will also be experienced since
the simultaneous users in CM would be high and RAN will use higher
resources for these UEs.
o There might an increase in PS DCR (or Cell updates due to RLF since
PS Re-establishment is allowed). Since UEs in good coverage will also
enter CM, RAN may not be able to initiate CM for cell edge users due to
Max CM users capacity limit per cell. There will be high probability of
these cell Edge users to drop.
Solution would be either increase the thresholds for FMCS 6 to align with
FMCS 5 or to change the FMCS settings for DC-HSDPA to FMCS 5.

Compressed Mode

Before the handover, UE normally measure the cell power (signal quality) of the target cell
and report it to the network, so that network can make a decision whether to allow UE to
handover to the target cell or not.
It is not a big issue to measure the signal quality of the target cell if the target cell is at the
same frequency as the current cell (Intrafrequency measurement). But there would be an
issue when the target cell is at a different frequency from the current cell (Interfrequency
measurement). Just in terms of logical sense of view, the simplest solution for Interfrequency
measurement, the simplest solution for this would be to implement two RF tranciever on UE.
However, there are some practical problems with this kind of two tranciever solution. One of
the problems is cost issue. It would require additional cost to implement the additional
tranciever. The other problem would be the possible interference between the current
frequency and target frequency especially when the current frequency and target frequency
are close to each other.

So they come out with a special techique called "Compressed Mode". The idea of the
compressed mode is to create a small gap during which no transmission and reception
happens. since there is no signal transmission and reception during the gap, UE can switch
to the target cell and perform the signal quality measurement and come back to the current
cell.
To make this work seamlessly, there should be a well established agreement between UE
and Network about the gap definition (e.g, Starting Position of the Gap, Gap length, number

of Gaps etc) and this agreement is established by a couple of RRC messages (e.g,
Measurement Control, Physical Channel Reconfiguration etc) as follows.

Compressed mode is when the mobile goes into a slotted transmit mode
whereby it opens up an idle period (transmission gap) where it can monitor
another carrier or technology (GSM). The impact is that to maintain the same
bit-rate, it halves the SF, and therefore increases power level causing higher
interference to the network. If the SF cannot be halved then the bit-rate of the
bearer decreases. If they seem knowledgeable, ask them if they know what
messages and events trigger and configure compressed mode on/off. 2D event
for on, 2F for off. Messages would for configuration would be RADIO BEARER
RECONFIGURATION, TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION or PHYSICAL
CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION.