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Investigation of 3G IRAT CS

handover degradation due to

iPhone 5

Institute zhaojing Date May 21 2012

Reviewed by Date

Reviewed by Date

Authored by Date

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

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Contents

1. Executive summary...........................................................................................................3

2. Intra-Freq HHO from Huawei to N/// (U2100 & U900).....................................................4

3. Test area............................................................................................................................5

4. Dashboard KPIs – Only border cells in 13DISA..................................................................5

5. IOS trace analysis............................................................................................................10

5.1. IOS trace analysis – Huawei to N/// – CS interfreq......................................................10

5.2. IOS trace analysis – Huawei to N/// – PS interfreq......................................................12

5.3. IOS trace analysis – Huawei to N/// – CS intrafreq......................................................12

5.4. IOS trace analysis – Huawei to N/// – PS intrafreq......................................................13

5.5. IOS trace analysis – N/// to Huawei – PS interfreq......................................................13

6. Appendix.........................................................................................................................15

6.1. IPPATH & route solving relocation Cancel issue (impacting PS relocation)..................15

6.2. Switch parameter solving relocation issue for signaling service..................................15

6.3. Diagram flow...............................................................................................................16

6.4. Successful HHO with relocation from N/// to Huawei.................................................17

6.5. Successful HHO with relocation from Huawei to N///.................................................17

6.6. Counters information..................................................................................................17

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1. Summary
 CS IRAT SR failures are mainly due to 2 reason: Physical channel failure and
Configuration un-support
 Physical channel failure was mainly contributed by iphone 5.
 Configuration un-support was mainly due to some UEs which did not support encryption
algorithm of 2G during the IRAT.

2. 3G IRAT CS handover KPI trend

 The success rate of CS IRAT was degraded start from end of Sep 2012 on whole 3G
network.
 There is no change for CS IRAT HO preparation success rate during the CS IRAT HO
success rate degradation, which indicates the resource of 2G was stable, and definition of
2G cells neighbor relationship is fine. Note that some spikes were due to optimization
actions such as LAC split/shift and BCCH optimization.
 Physical channel failure is the main cause of the CS IRAT HO. Start from Sep 2012 till
now, the number of physical channel failure was increased step by step.

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3. 3G IRAT CS handover SR Analysis

 Physical channel failure is the main cause of the CS IRAT HO. The number of physical
channel failure increased step by step start from Sep 2012 and increased a lot at 2013.
 Configuration un support is another contributor as well but was stable.

4. Physical Channel Failure Analysis

 after deeply analyzing PCHR in RNC A, it turns out TOP IMEI of CS IRAT HO failure is

iPhone5

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 According to IRATHO fail handset analysis, around 30% IRATHO failure contributed by

iPhone 5 on 25th Feb (out of 9718 IRATHO failure, 2788 times contributed by iPhone 5).
Note: some of TAC cannot be identified due to IMEI data base issue.

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RNC231 CS IRATHO Success Rate trend match to the launch of iPhone 5,.
It seems PLMN trend is matching.

 Verification on other RNCs has been done as well and same result:
Comparison between RNC 330 (AUH6501) and RNC DXB6504, Take 3 Busy hours

Interval (17:00-20:00 17th Mar 2013):

-- iPhone 5 is contributing 51% Physical Channel Failures out of the total PHY Chn Failures in

AUH while 35% in DXB . IRAT CS SR was impacted more in AUH.

-- AUH RNC has more IRAT attempts compared to DXB RNC
-- CS IRAT Failure rate is 0.6% greater in AUH than in DXB

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 PHCR of RNC DXB6504 and RAK RNC (17:00 to 21:00 11th Mar 2013) were fully
analyzed and result is shown as below:
CS IRAT ATTs initialed by iphone5 occupied small percentage of all networks’ CS IRAT ATTs , but the
failure number occupied more than 36% in DXB6504 and 21% in RAK

5. Configuration un-support failure Analysis

The CS IRAT HO configuration un-support failures were mainly due to some UEs which did
not support encryption algorithm of 2G during the IRAT.

Top UE’s IMSI trace in 3G:

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Top UE’s IMSI trace in 3G during disable encryption algorithm on neighbour 2G cells:

 Trial of disable encryption algorithm has been performed at 23rd Jan 2013 to verify it
again.
 The TOP UE with CS IRAT HO configuration un-support failures has never got CS IRAT
HO success before the trial.
 After disable encryption algorithm on related 2G cells, the top CS IRAT HO
configuration un-support UE has performed IRAT HO successfully.

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6. Conclusion and Suggestion

Conclusion:
 CS IRAT SR failures are mainly due to 2 reason: Physical channel failure and

Configuration un-support
 Physical channel failure was mainly contributed by iphone 5.
 Configuration un-support was mainly due to some UEs which did not support encryption

algorithm of 2G during the IRAT.

Solution:
 Configuration un-support: can only be solved by deactivate A5-1/A5-3 at the same time

in 2G side.
à not suggested. Since there will be no encryption for users.
 Physical channel failure:
à Iphone 5 impact: SRAN 8.0, IRAT HO based on IMEI. Do not allow specific IMEI

TAC to IRAT. While it will impact the CDR. Suggest to depend on the requirement.
à Continuous optimization: follow the CS IRAT Plan in Optimization Road map .

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