7 Steps to Efficiently Manage Your Network with iManager, PRS and NetEco

7 Steps to know iManager
M2000, PRS and NetEco
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

iManager: Bring you efficient O&M in E2E network lifecycle
7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.1: iManager overview
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Nastar PRS
Network Optimizer & Analyzer Performance Management
M2000 NetEco
Network Management Site Management
Site
IP Network
CN
SingleRAN
User/Service/Terminal

Planning 1 2 Build
Traffic Map to identify hotspot CME to provide seamless data prepare

Terminal Analysis to introduce new feature Remote Antenna Management to manage
and support terminal business plan antenna and do troubleshooting remotely
Maintenance 4 3 Optimization
PRS to monitor the performance efficiently RF optimization to provide High Efficiency in
NetEco to reduce site visit Routine Network Optimization
E2E Trace to improve trouble shooting User Perception Management to improve
iSStar to make maintenance intelligently user experience and reduce the churn
CME to adjust network safely and efficiently

7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.2: Performance report system: PRS

Manually, Low Efficiency
Generating Reports
Waste much time and manpower.
Meanwhile mistake happens due to
manually calculation.
Manage
Network
Mass Data, Isolated Analysis Performance Un-visualized, No Trend
Monitoring Difficult to have a visualized view

Hard to do correlated analysis Troubleshooting
of the network performance status
among mass data in order to locate
and to sense the changing trend.
the problem.
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Counter KPI Report Excel Template
KPI1
C1
KPI2 Email
C2 .
.
C3 .
KPIn
C4
Busy Hour Rule
. R1 . . SMS
. R2 . .
. . . .
Cn . FTP Web Browser
.
Rn
Customizing KPI Customizing Generating Reports on schedule
Customizing Busy Hour Rule Customizing Report Excel template Distributing Reports Automatically
Construct report express: customize KPI and report flexibly, generate and distribute reports
automatically.
Bulk copy optimization experience: solidify optimization experience in the customized reports, which
are applied in the similar scenarios.

GIS Display and Rendering KPI Dashboard
Display geographic locations of sites and cells on Directly monitor the network status through the
maps clearly. dashboard and the range of the status is preset.
Geographic rendering of performance results Analyze the network problems through the
according to customized KPI thresholds. correlated theme reports.

KPI Benchmarking Traffic Trend Prediction
Compare KPI with benchmark calculated on the Predict the traffic trend based on the historical
basis of the historical values. traffic data and mathematical algorithm.
Compare the network quality after the relocation Provide the reference for network tuning and
and that before the relocation. holiday assurance.
Fix Benchmark Floating Benchmark

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Benchmarking Value

Fans Park Freeway
.. .. .. ..
. . . .

Media Centre Stadium

Cell Scenario
Grouping Aggregation
PS Throughput
Stadium
Busy Hour
Report Busy Hour Time
Drilling

With PRS
PRS calculates all the KPIs and busy-hour
data quickly and generates the reports and
charts automatically.
The efficiency of generating performance
reports improved obviously.
Suffering
3
Large mount of daily/weekly/monthly
3 2 Unit: per person/day
reports for 5 circles including 7000+
sites. 2
0.5 0.5
1
2 experts and 3 engineers were
busy for calculating KPIs and 0
Before After
generating reports day and day.
Daily Reports Weekly Reports

With PRS
Quickly gain top 300 high call drop ratio cells
of the whole network in about 1 minute.
Get detailed call drop status of Trx level
accurately.
Suffering
Huge GSM network in Hangzhou
with 100+ BSCs, 17,000+ cells and Unit: minutes
5 M2000s.
60
Manually searching data in excel file
for troubleshooting always costs
several hours time. 1
Before After

7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.3: Wireless configuration solution: CM express

Automation
Planning
System of Huawei 1. Base station detecting
Seamless 2. Software upgrade NodeB

import 3. Configuration download
4. Monitor and validation
iManager M2000 5. Generating the commissioning
(CME) report
Transmission & Wireless
BTS
data template
Data preparing phase Commissioning phase
Template Wizard Centralization Remote batch
Lets be more fast!

Depress skill requirement Deploy 100 NodeBs
Reduce the site-visiting time in one week
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BTS Creation - Negotiated Data Import
Import CME
Transmission data
Device data Download to
Radio data network after
validation
check
Old site
BSC/RNC
New site Automation and

Step1: Prepare the negotiated data including transmission, device and radio data High Efficiency
Step2: Import it to CME for validation, and after that, generate MML script to active
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>1,800,000 parameters need to be set
Swapped the whole network of E/// and NSN

Swapped site > 9000
New deployment: 1.2mins/BTS
RAT Configuration Parameters Total parameters Efficiency improved: 8.3 times

objects need to be set
GSM >200/BTS >2,000/BTS >18,000,000
Save 88% deployment time
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One workspace for GUL multi-mode system Efficient configuration mechanism
Plan Area Network Copy
consistency
GSM&UMTS check GSM&UMTS Current Area Plan Area
&LTE &LTE
Consistency & validity
check
Synchronize
Common resources consistency check
Inter-RAT Neighboring Cell check Network
Configuration fallback if necessary Element

Multi-Area configuration
No effect on current network
Data consistency check
Guarantee the correctness
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Simple Migration Wizard Automatic
Neighboring Cell Configuration
Step by step
Adjust neighboring cells GSM

automatically
UMTS
RNC1 UMTS
1 NodeB1
2 NodeB/Hour
60 NodeBs/Hour Automatic
Manual
UCell 1
Efficiency improved 30 times GCell A

UCell 1
2 GCell A
NodeB2 UCell 2
UCell 2
RNC2
New connection
GCell A
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Migration: 1min/NodeB
Efficiency improved: 30times
Save 96% migration time
I know the tool called CME which provided by Huawei. I think we need
it because I believe it would help a lot for our BTS re-homing due to our
regular operating service change.
-- Supervisor of O&M dept.
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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.4: Antenna management and troubleshooting

During deployment, optimization and maintenance,
antennas might be adjusted by needs
Tilt / azimuth adjustment Fault detection Site visiting

Pure software, no additional HW required
Save CAPEX & OPEX In-band transmission
Remote management, reduce site visit
Web access NodeB

iManager M2000 RNC
Power/RET/TMA/ SASU Fault diagnosis & Alarm

Remote software upgrade
configuration monitor

Challenges and Needs
FT Orange
Inefficiency and high cost for antenna adjustment because of site visiting
Extra CCU and transmission resources needed Catherine's
management system to manage the
Efficiency
improved by 80%
Huawei Solution
Built in CCU, reuse existing transmission resources for remote
centralized antenna management.
Customer Benefits Cost decreased

Compare with site commissioning, efficiency improved by by 95%
80%,cost decreased by 95%.
No extra hardware like CCU for Catherines system.

Traditional detection way Now: Detect remotely from M2000
No Additional
No Site visiting
apparatus
Detect 70% hidden Antenna problems:

Connect inversely
Omitted connection
Mismatched radiation pattern
Intermediation Interference

Support schedule detection report
Support generate antenna alarm
Site visiting RRU RRU RRU

Improve efficiency by 60%

Antenna fault is a major reason of network problems Huawei solutions
Potential problems are hard to located 15889 cells worldwide
Antenna fault detectorRemote scanned574 cells
Antenna problem is very common
detecting with antenna faults
found
TraditionalManual fault detection 90%
accuracy
client M2000 BSC BTS rate
CMCC antenna health checking Project Efficiency improved 23 times
Miss-Connection checking Interference detecting

Inter-
Locate antenna fault of a site
Weak receiving Frequency CDMA
cross connected VSWR modulation
signal scanning interference
interference
5mins Speed improved by 24 times
Analysis and fault location faulty site identification after
120mins
time(min)
Fault Report and Fix Suggestions before
Deal with Problems and verification 0 50 100 150

7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.5: Fast troubleshooting: E2E tracing

1. Extra device 2. Separate tracing 3. Manually tracing
(Probe) is required of RAN and Core is log analysis is
for signal collection low efficient exhausting task

Powerful functions
GSM / UMTS / LTE support
GU CS / SAE / IMS / NGN support
Subscriber / Network Interface oriented
Easily operation
E2E tracing in one task
Signal browser / statistics in GUI
High performance
FARS make No extra device/probe required
Troubleshooting from High efficiency troubleshooting
hours to minutes

GSM Tracing for A, Um, Abis, Gb interfaces
WCDMA Tracing for Iu, Iur, Iub, UU interfaces
Drive Test FARS LTE Tracing for S1, X2, UU interfaces
User Tracing based on MSISDN/IMSI/IMEI/TMSI
Quality trend chart and Call drop statistics
4 hours 15 minutes Flowchart of event messages and signaling
Traced Message Playback
Efficiency improve over 90 Multi-subscriber and multi-BSC/RNC parallel tracing
Signal Statistic Powerful GUI

E2E Tracing Task Problem identified!
analysis flow/trend chart

7 Steps to Know iManager Step.6: Site manager: NetEco

Typical Operator
OPEX
Site visit cost is high
Typical operator power consumption power consumption on site

Air conditioner
46% 51% BSS/UTRAN

3%
Auxiliary equipment
Site consumes the most power for operator

Wireless site
Solar PanelWind turbine AC/DC Grid power

Base station D.G Battery power
Operator NetEco All-in-one Smoke Water Infrared Device Temperature &

controller Sensor sensor humidity sensor
Battery D.G Environment Power system

Replace notification Fuel location detection Temperature alarm Run time monitoring
Remote charge/discharge Replacement notification Smoke, Water, Fire alarm Malfunction detection
Remote management to reduce site visit

BS and power system interaction
Smart TRX
activation Environment
BS
Energy
NetEco
BS power saving policy activation based on power system status
Power consumption analysis Power generating analysis
Guide to work out power saving policies Guide to optimize the power system

Deployed Plan to deploy
NetEco has been deployed in Chile, South Africa, Kampuchea, China.

Challenges of China Mobile
On site monitoring solar-wind hybrid equipment cost too much
workload
Manual power generation statistics for TCO analysis and
power system optimization is not convenient
Huawei Solution
Provide NetEco to manage site power system

NetEco
Benefits
Real time site monitoring to ensure on going power provision June, 2010 the first NetEco was
Easy to do TCO analysis based on remote data collection deployed in China Mobile
Assist to work out solar PV and wind turbine expansion plan to Site info: one solar system and 2
meet traffic growth in the coming years wind turbines without electric supply

7 Steps to Know iManager Step.7: Intelligent O&M: iSStar

Check
data Optimize
Create office
signaling links
data
Add
Check devices The routine O&M is complicated.
Collect status
neighboring statistics
cell data 1. Certain operations must be performed
Add and manually and repeatedly, which
Adjust delete
network causes low work efficiency.
circuits
clocks ~#%*?+
2. Mal-operations may result in network
problems
MSC UMG PDSN CG SGSN HLR

CN
BTS BSC Router Lanswitch
GBSS IP device
NodeB RNC S-CSCF
UTRAN WASN BTS
MGCF IMSBGCF Wimax

Experiences Programs
Let network do it self!
Experience 1 Intelligent Program 1

Experience 2 Maintenance Program 2
Experience 3
Platform Program 3
, ,
Mobile Number
Integrate MML
120 Mins 6 Mins Develop programs by yourself
Run
take example for China Mobile
Edit Customize Service Flows
Debug Up to 20 times efficiency Batch and Automate the
Schedule improved Maintenance Process

Based on Python Language
Need not compile

rich variable numeric types
operators
condition check / loop
built-in functions
abundant library functions
Tool Bar Information Output Area Integrate the MML Command

Project Display Area Edit Area
MML command can be use directly
in the program
Efficient Programming, Easy to Learn

Abundant Library Functions Output Result
HSL built-in functions Interface Output

NE operation functions transaction messages
MML message parsing functions MML messages
Alarm message parsing functions Report Output
Customized
Database operation functions Functions Excel/Html format
Time functions
Information input/output functions
Functions used for obtaining error information
FTP operation functions
Report operation functions Use Library Functions to build
File directory operation functions

Automatic script
Monitor the
performance of
network 1 2 3
The dream of
Execute automate our daily Data collection and analysis

Detect the traffic Policy of adjustment
adjustment changes works came true! MML commands generated and executed
commands
Decide to Query the PM

30mins
85% after
adjust TCH data from
rate or not database
16 24%
mins 4% 4.0
Compare with 10% 3.8
benchmark
Half rate TCH is enabled to access more subscribers

iSStar duration
manual
TCH/H
in busy hour work ave
The adjustment between TCH/F and TCH/H need to be MOS
repeated often, to ensure the user experience

Using MML to convert message &
alarm notifications into reports, provide
Greece
network with OSS reference
information
GBSC half rate adjustment

Compile script to acquire NE data &
Soft-Switch load sharing
manage information
Core Network Health Check Poland
Deploy to guarantee QoS during Olympic

Games
Enquire configuration data & convert into reports
T-MSC Server & MGW routine inspection

Thank you
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M2000, PRS and NetEco

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Traffic Map to identify hotspot CME to provide seamless data prepare

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Monitoring Difficult to have a visualized view

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 6

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 7

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 8

Fix Benchmark Floating Benchmark

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 9

Media Centre Stadium

Report Busy Hour Time

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 10

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 11

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 12

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Template Wizard Centralization Remote batch

Lets be more fast!

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. HUAWEIHuawei

New site Automation and

Swapped the whole network of E/// and NSN

New deployment: 1.2mins/BTS

RAT Configuration Parameters Total parameters Efficiency improved: 8.3 times

Plan Area Network Copy

Adjust neighboring cells GSM

Save 96% migration time

-- Supervisor of O&M dept.

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Tilt / azimuth adjustment Fault detection Site visiting

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 21

Web access NodeB

Power/RET/TMA/ SASU Fault diagnosis & Alarm

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 22

Customer Benefits Cost decreased

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 23

Detect 70% hidden Antenna problems:

Site visiting RRU RRU RRU

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 24

CMCC antenna health checking Project Efficiency improved 23 times

Miss-Connection checking Interference detecting

Deal with Problems and verification 0 50 100 150

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 25

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 27

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 28

Efficiency improve over 90 Multi-subscriber and multi-BSC/RNC parallel tracing

Signal Statistic Powerful GUI

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HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Site visit cost is high

Typical operator power consumption power consumption on site

46% 51% BSS/UTRAN

Site consumes the most power for operator

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential Page 31

Solar PanelWind turbine AC/DC Grid power

Operator NetEco All-in-one Smoke Water Infrared Device Temperature &

Battery D.G Environment Power system

Remote management to reduce site visit

BS power saving policy activation based on power system status