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Ahmed Montaser Sr.RNO Engineer

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E-mail: Ahmed_Montaser_85@hotmail.com

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3G Field Problems
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3G Field Problems
1. Cross sector.
2. Cross feeder.
3. Pilot pollution.

4. Missing Neighbors.
5. Overshooting

6. Delayed Soft HO
7. HO From UTRAN Failures.
8. Dropped calls.
9. Blocked calls.
10.Hardware problem

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Cross sector

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This is the normal connection

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UMTS cross sector

UMTS cross

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EX: UMTS cross sector

Sector 3 serve beside sec 2 and vice versa Cross sector between sec 2 & sec 3

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After solving the cross sector

Sectors 3 serve beside itself and its the dominant server and sector 2 serve beside itself too

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Cross feeder

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UMTS cross feeder Case #1

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2-Cross feeder (Case # 1)

Sector 1 & sector 3 appeared with equal levels beside sector 3 and vice versa
cross feeder between sector 1 & sector 3

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After solving the cross Feeder

Sectors 3 serve beside itself and sector 1 serve beside itself too

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UMTS cross feeder Case # 2

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2-Cross feeder (Case # 2)

Sector 2 serve normally beside itself but the Tx power (UL power is very large
compared with UE distance, the same case for sector 3

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After solving the cross Feeder

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Pilot Pollution

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Pilot pollution:
The presence of more than a pilot with level difference within 5 dBm causing low
Ec/No all of them are strong but no one is strong enough to be dominant regarding
that they are of the same frequency

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Missing Neighbors

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Missing Neighbor:
The presence of a detected neighbor with high RSCP for a period without adding to the
AS list causing degradation in Ec/No

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Overshooting

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Delayed soft HO

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There is delayed soft HO due to Radio link congestion on cell with SC:218 or it may
be wrong SHO parameter (AS update parameters).

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HO from UTRAN failure

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2G Field Problems
1. HO Failure reasons.

Interference on Target 2G Cell.

Bad Rxlev on Target 2G Cell.

Interference on Serving 3G Cell.

Bad Rxlev on Serving 3G Cell.

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Delayed Soft HO which leads to make HO from UTRAN but HO from UTRAN failed.

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Dropped call

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3. Dropped call reasons.

Bad Radio condition (Bad RSCP or EcNo or both of them) due to the following:

1) Pilot pollution .
2) Delayed SHO Congestion or wrong SHO parameter definition.

3) HO from UTRAN Failure.

4) Missing neighbor (Bad Rx level).
5) Over shooting.

6) Poor coverage.
Note: all mentioned reasons make a dropped call in case of no HO from UTRAN occurred
successfully.

Transmission problem (Not RF problem)

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Dropped call due to pilot pollution & no HO from UTRAN occurred.

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Dropped call due to delayed SHO& no HO from UTRAN occurred.

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Dropped call due to delayed SHO & HO from UTRAN failure

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Dropped call due to Missing neighbor & no HO from UTRAN occurred..

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Dropped call due to overshooting& no HO from UTRAN occurred.

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Dropped call due to Transmission problem (Not RF problem)

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Blocked call

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4. Blocked call reasons.

Bad Radio condition (Bad RSCP or EcNo or both of them) due to the following:

1) Pilot pollution .
2) Delayed SHO Congestion or wrong SHO parameter definition.

3)Missing neighbor (Bad Rx level).

4) Over shooting.
5) Poor coverage.

Note: all mentioned reasons make a Blocked call in case of no cell reselection from UTRAN
occurred.

Congestion.

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Blocked call due congestion.

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Hardware problem

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Hardware problem

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Thank you
Best Regards,
Ahmed Montaser
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