I-RAT Improvement Case

I-RAT Improvement Case

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Jun 2012

Prepared by: -
Mr. Sanjeev K Sharma
Staff Id-00702301
Dept. GSRC-India

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page1, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

Symptoms:-

In country X, Town Y, total 78 site with Huawei 3G and 110 site ZTE 2G. Huawei RNC Version is
6900 V900R013ENGC00SPH532 and NODE-B Version BTS3900A WCDMA. For smooth Handover
between 3G-2G we define I-RAT. But I-RAT success rate was not up to the Mark. To Improve the I-
RAT we start Analysis of KPI. And find out around 70 worst cells which are affecting the RNC KPI.
For these cells further Analysis is required.

Alarm: - None

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page2, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

Cause Analysis:-
To improve I-RAT HO KPIs. First of all we review the following network KPIs to judge:
We extract the KPI from M2000 and prepare the RNC I-RAT HO Success rate daily, weekly &
monthly Chart. And also find out the worst cells which affects RNC I-RAT HO Success rate.
RNC I-RAT HO Success rate:-

worst 70 cell aggregation:-

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page3, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

As we can see from the Above KPI report that the I-RAT HO success rate is low and this is mainly
because some cells which are affecting the RNC KPIs. Further Investigation is required.
Handling Process: -
Steps to improve IRAT performance:
1. Check the neighbor list 3G/2G and update the 2G data on the RNC.
2. Check if there is any Co-BCCH/BSIC combination reused within UMTS cells' GSM
neighbor list.
3. Congestion problems in 2G can cause IRAT KPI degradation.
4. Minimize the number of IRAT attempts for cells having large number of IRAT attempts
and cause failures.
The parameters that can be modified to decrease the number of IRAT attempts in the worst cells
are:
1. usedFreqThresh2dEcNo
2. usedFreqThresh2dRscp
These two parameters define when to start measuring GSM carriers. With decreasing the value
of these parameters, the footprint of the 3G coverage will increase and this will probably help to
handover to another 3G cell with better coverage.
In this case study we have changed the values as below:
1. usedFreqThresh2dEcNo = -14 (for severely degraded cells -15)
2. usedFreqThresh2dRscp = -105

Worst cells after change the Parameters:-

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page4, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

The main target of improving the IRAT is to make the subscriber more 3G. That is, increasing
the percentage of users who originate the call on 3G network and terminates it on 3G too. This
will help increasing the 3G traffic.

Traffic and DCR KPI after Change the Parameters:-

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page5, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

Now we can see from the above chart the traffic increased with acceptable minor increase in
DCR. Below also we can see the effect of changes on IRAT HO success rate on RNC level.
RNC IRAT HO Success after Change the parameters:-

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page6, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

The IRAT HO Success Rate Vs. Physical Failure after Change the parameters:-

In this case we managed to increase the IRAT HO Success Rate from 95.5% to 96.5%.
Further investigations showed some miss match with the tilts for few cells with the database and
fixing it helped improving the KPIs more.

Suggestion:-

In this case study we have changed the values as below:

1. usedFreqThresh2dEcNo = -14 (for severely degraded cells -15)
2. usedFreqThresh2dRscp = -105
But this could not be the best values for your network and you have to choose the best value by
your own.

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page7, Total8

 I-RAT Improvement Case

2018-06-13 HUAWEI CONFIDENTIAL Page8, Total8