Agenda

 Introduction of NETWORK PERFORMANCE tools (AIS

Access Database for Optimization)
 Brief on main KPI formulas
 Drop call analysis
 SDCCH and TCH counters and meaning
 Explanation of RNO process

 BTC Power control and related parameters

recommendation.

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Main Objective

 Tools for daily Network Performance monitoring

 Iterative process to maintain and improve
network performance
 Discuss and understand the important BSC statistics in
GSM network.
 Identify the reason of the problem cells and rectify the
faults.

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Optimization Activities
 Daily performance data monitoring and problems troubleshooting
 Weekly/Monthly quality report
 Neighbouring relationship and parameter setting review
 Coverage optimisation
 Frequency replan
 Feature setting design
 Drive test

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 Network Performance Measurement tools

 A tailor made access database tools

- 519, 153 and 232 reports generate by NMS
 A tool that has been customized to few important levels
- PLMN level
- BSC Level
- Cluster Level
- Cell Level
- Top 20 worse performance cells
- Adjacencies handover statistics
- Timing advance statistics
 Macro to generate daily worse performance cells

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Drop call analysis and its related Key Performance Indicators
 TCH Drop Call Rate (DCR_4f)

 TCH and SDCCH Availability ( 100%)

 BCCH Missing Alarms ( should be 0, 1-3 is the acceptable value)

 UL and DL quality (0 - 4)or 196 report, should be above 95%

 Calls (To monitor daily call trends)

 CSSR ( >95%)

 UL interference band distribution (99.9% for Band 1) or 196 report

 Handover Failure rate (< 5%) or 153 and 062 report

 Average of call Distance (Base on Timing advance measurement) or 232 report

 SDCCH/TCH Access and SDCCH/TCH success

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Drop Call Analysis

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Drop call analysis and its related counters
 TCH/SDCCH Radio Fail

 TCH/SDCCH_RF_Old_HO

 TCH/SDCCH Abis_Fail_Call

 TCH/SDCCH Abis_Fail_Old

 TCH/SDCCH_A_IF_Fail_Call

 TCH/SDCCH_A_IF_Fail_Old

 TCH_TR_Fail (only for TCH channel)

 TCH_TR_Fail_Old (only for TCH channel)

 TCH_Act_Fail_Call(only for TCH channel)

 TCH/SDCCH_LAPD_Fail

 TCH/SDCCH_BTS_Fail

 TCH/SDCCH_User_Act

 TCH/SDCCH_Net_Act

 TCH/SDCCH_BCSU_Reset

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 SDCCH useful counters
MS accessing,
SDCCH Requests
SDCCH ACCESSES REJECTED IN BSC
RACH on CCCH SDCCH FAILURES
/c3004 AND OTHER FAILURES
REJECTED DUE BEFORE ESTABL. sdcch_abis_fail_call
ch_req_msg_rec (corrupted
TO ILLEGAL INDICATION
EST.CAUSE (incl.IMSI detach) msgs, failed chan.act.)

ghost_ccch_res

small part of failures

other than
sdcch_abis_* failures
SDCCH-
SDCCH HO
ASSIGNMENTS TRUE SDCCH SEIZURES
FOR CALLS,LU,SS
TRUE SDCCH SEIZURES FOR CALL,SMS,SS
sdcch_assign
SDCCH
REQUESTS MOC (incl.SMS) CALL RE-EST.
/c1000
SEIZURES FOR HO
sdcch_seiz_att succ_seiz_orig sdcch_call_re_est

sdcch_ho_seiz
MTC (incl.SMS) EMERGENCY CALL
TRUE SDCCH SEIZURES TCH
FOR CALL & SS
succ_seiz_term sdcch_emerg_call
BLOCKED - succ_sdcch_sms_est
- unsucc _sdcch_sms_est

sdcch_busy_att
LOCATION UPDATE
sdcch_loc_upd
Normal LU

Periodic LU

IMSI attach

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 SDCCH Drop calls

One of these triggered

Cell A
EMERGENCY CALL
SDCCH Call drops
sdcch_emerg_call

one of SDCCH fail counters is triggered

MOC (incl.SMS) SDCCH_RADIO_FAIL

SDCCH_USER_AC
succ_seiz_orig SDCCH_BCSU_RESET
SDCCH SEIZURES FOR SDCCH_NETW_ACT
REQUESTS CALLS AND LU SDCCH_BTS_FAIL
SDCCH_LAPD_FAIL
MTC (incl.SMS) SDCCH_A_IF_FAIL_CALL
sdcch_seiz_att sdcch_assign
succ_seiz_term

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 MS TCH Requests BSC/BTS

BLOCKED CALLS DR OUT SUCC TCH SEIZURES

TCH FOR
REQUESTS tch_call_req NEW CALL
msc_o_sdcch_tch
FOR NEW -tch_norm_seiz +bsc_o_sdcch_tch
CALL -msc_o_sdcch_tch tch_norm_seiz
-bsc_o_sdcch_tch
tch_call_req

TCH REQUESTS

tch_request
TCH
REQUESTS BLOCKED HO’S TCH SEIZURES FOR
FOR HO HO
tch_request -tch_call_req tch_ho_seiz
tch_request -tch_fast_req -tch_ho_seiz
-tch_call_req
-tch_fast_req

TCH
REQUESTS TCH FCS SEIZURE
FOR ATTEMPTS
FCS
TCH FCS SEIZURES
tch_seiz_att_due_sdcch_con
tch_fast_req
tch_seiz_due_sdcch_con

BLOCKED
TCH FCS SEIZURES
tch_seiz_att_due_sdcch_con
-tch_seiz_due_sdcch_con

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 TCH Drop Calls
One of these triggered
Cell A
EMERGENCY CALL

sdcch_emerg_call

TCH
REQUESTS TCH SEIZURES FOR
MOC (incl.SMS) TCH REQUESTS
FOR NEW NEW CALL
CALL
succ_seiz_orig tch_request
SEIZURES FOR tch_norm_seiz
SDCCH tch_call_req
REQUESTS CALLS AND LU

sdcch_seiz_att sdcch_assign MTC (incl.SMS)

succ_seiz_term

Call drops

TCH DROPS

TCH_RADIO_FAIL
TCH_RF_OLD_HO
TCH_ABIS_FAIL_CALL
TCH_ABIS_FAIL_OLD
TCH_A_IF_FAIL_CALL
TCH_A_IF_FAIL_OLD
TCH_TR_FAIL
TCH_TR_FAIL_OLD
TCH_LAPD_FAIL
TCH_BTS_FAIL
TCH_USER_ACT
TCH_BCSU_RESET
TCH_NETW_ACT
TCH_ACT_FAIL_CALL

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Drop call analysis, useful KPIs(counters) and formulas
tch_radio_fail_old
tch_radio_fail
tch_a_if_fail_call tch_abis_fail_call
tch_abis_fail_old
tch_a_if_fail_old

BSC
TC
BTS

tch_bcsu_reset
tch_tr_fail_old tch_tr_fail tch_user_act
tch_netw_act
tch_act_fail_call
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Drop call analysis, useful KPIs(counters) and formulas
 TCH/SDCCH Drop Call Rate (DCR_4f)
Drop Call (DCR_4f): 100*Sum([TCH_RADIO_FAIL]+[TCH_RF_OLD_HO]+[TCH_ABIS_FAIL_CALL]+
[TCH_ABIS_FAIL_OLD]+[TCH_A_IF_FAIL_CALL]+[TCH_A_IF_FAIL_OLD]+[TCH_TR_FAIL]+[TCH_TR_FAIL_OLD]+
[TCH_LAPD_FAIL]+[TCH_BTS_FAIL]+[TCH_USER_ACT]+[TCH_BCSU_RESET]+[TCH_NETW_ACT]+

[TCH_ACT_FAIL_CALL]) / Sum([TCH_NORM_SEIZ]+[TCH_SEIZ_DUE_SDCCH_CON]+[MSC_I_SDCCH_TCH]+
[BSC_I_SDCCH_TCH]+[CELL_SDCCH_TCH]+[MSC_I_TCH_TCH]+[BSC_I_TCH_TCH] - [MSC_O_TCH_TCH]-
[BSC_O_TCH_TCH])

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Drop call analysis, useful KPIs(counters) and formulas
 UL and DL Quality distributions
UL Qual 0-4: 100*Sum(FREQ_UL_QUAL0]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL1]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL2]+
[FREQ_UL_QUAL3]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL4])/Sum([FREQ_UL_QUAL0]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL1]+
[FREQ_UL_QUAL2]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL3]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL4]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL5]+
[FREQ_UL_QUAL6]+[FREQ_UL_QUAL7])

DL Qual 0-4: 100*Sum(FREQ__DL_QUAL0]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL1]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL2]+

[FREQ_DL_QUAL3]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL4])/Sum([FREQ_DL_QUAL0]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL1]+
[FREQ_DL_QUAL2]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL3]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL4]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL5]+
[FREQ_DL_QUAL6]+[FREQ_DL_QUAL7])

or

Run 196 report to check UL and DL per TRX distribution

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Drop call analysis, common problems
 Hardware and transmission fault -> check TCH drop reason, TCH availability
and transmission.
 Interference -> Check possible interference by using Mapinfo, Check UL and
DL quality, site too high? (check TA-232 distribution report)
 Coverage problem/Island site

 Handover problem -> To check if any potential neighbours is not defined or

missing of neighbour relation
 Wrong feeder connection

 Neighbour site down

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Optimization process, Worse TCH Drop Rate
Daily Top 10 or 20 Worse TCH/SDCCH DCR performance cells

Hardware fault RF problems

Check BTS alarm Check BCCH missing

Refer KPIs trends like Calls, TCH drop rate and reason of drop,
Yes UL and DLquality, UL interference band,
No
Report to OMC Handover performance, call distance, CSSR….

Yes
Majority drop due to TR_Fail, A_IF_Fail_Call, BTS
No
Check frequency plan, neighbor site status (site down?), site to site distance (232 report), antenna height and antenna tilting
- Mapinfo or Prediction tools

Discuss with AIS’s

Yes
Suggestion for improvement Optimization
team and Planning team. Issue
No work
order for any suggestions.
Conduct drive test
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Optimization process, Worse HO performance
Daily Top 10 or 20 Worse handover performance cells

Hardware fault RF problems

Check BTS alarm Check BCCH missing

Refer to handover reason, UL and DL quality, UL interference band

Yes
No
Report to OMC
Check 153 HO report to find out majority failures
towards which cells?

Possible reasons: Target cell has co-channel/Adj channel interference, coverage gaps, hardware failure, neighbor BCCH/BSIC
frequency not updated, wrong CGI format in MSC, wrong HO number in MSC, Non-symmetric HO relations, synchronization
problem, excessive UL interference, site too high, Direct Retry traffic cause high HO Failures(KTU13).

Yes Discuss with AIS’s

Suggestion for improvement
Optimization
No team and Planning team. Issue
work
Conduct drive test order for any suggestions.

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Optimization process, lowest TCH Availabilty
Daily Top 10 or 20 lowest TCH Availability

>= 2 days

Hardware fault

Check BTS alarm Check BCCH missing

No
Yes

Accidentally Report to OMC

blocked by
user?

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Weekly or Daily Activities Detail analysis and Issue work order
Import into suggestions for and monitor
AIS database improvements performance

519/153
report from
NMS

Daily trends PLMN, BSC, Worse Cells monitoring

Discussion with
by individual BSC responsible engineers
AIS’s engineers for
any suggestions

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Iterative process to improve network quality
 Frequency Retune

- 1/1, 2/2 or 3/3 reused…Depends on traffic loading and number of frequenies in the MA list.
 Use of frequency hopping…consider to use/trial TRP = 2 (TCH/Hopping preferred)

- Improve DCR

- Degrade UL/DL quality( 0- 4)…acceptable!!!

 Optimise Parameter setting

- BTS Power control…to perform trial!

- TRP setting….per area basics

- Quality margin handover (QMRG)….different setting in rural, suburban and urban area

- QDR/QUR setting for hopping cells

- Power budget handover (PBGT) …different setting in rural, suburban and urban area.

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