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 Summary
• Network Overview
• Main KPIs
• Idle Mode
• Admission Control
• Power Control
• Scheduler
• Latency
• Mobility
• Overshooters
• RRC Re-establishment
• Recommendations
• Further analysis

NOTES
• CM data analysed for 15/March/2016
• PM data analysed between 02/03/2016 09:15:00 and 18/03/2016 00:15:00

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Network Overview
 Network Overview
 100 eNode B / 285 Cells
 Most eNodes are 3-cells
 All cells with 20MHz carrier
 All cells in band 3 (1800MHz):
 EARFCNDL 1300 (1815.0 MHz)
 EARFCNUL 19300 (1720.0 MHz)
 All cells with CELLRANGE=5km
Main KPIs
 Main KPIs
 Main KPI have very good
values KPI
PM_DATETIME
VALUE
02/03/2016 09:15->18/03/2016 00:15
DL_AVE_RF_UTIL No data
 But some important KPIs have DL_CONG_TIME
UL_AVE_RF_UTIL
No data
No data

some counters disabled UL_CONG_TIME

DL_AVE_UE_THRO
No data
39.3618
DL_AVE_SECT_THRO No data
 UL throughput is slightly low TOTAL_DL_VOLUME
TOTAL_UL_VOLUME
190765.2987
20142.5481

 No main issues but some KPIs

UL_AVE_SECT_THRO 0.7771
UL_AVE_UE_THRO 1.0717
CQI_REP_AVG 11.1551
to be enabled PMANRNEIGHBRELADD No data
PMANRNEIGHBRELREM No data
PMRASUCCTA No data
PMUECTXTTA No data
RRC_CONN_ESTAB_FL 62115
RRC_CONN_ESTAB_ATT 160081704
RRC_CONN_ESTAB_FR 0.0004
ERAB_DROPS 279110
ERAB_DROP_RATE 0.23%
ACCESSIBILITY_FAIL 478064
ACCESSIBILITY_FR 0.32%
RAND_ACC_CB_SR No data
RAND_ACC_CF_SR No data
AVG_RSRP No data
AVG_RSRQ No data
 Main KPIs
 For interference measurement, just counter
PMRADIORECINTERFERENCEPWR is available (RSRP
and RSRQ counters not available)
 Cell CELL_GE_2016_1_L18 with some issues although not
impacting on network average
 Main KPIs
 CQI distribution
shows almost 90%
of CQI reported are
9 or higher, which is
a very good value

 Consistent with this,

75% of the
transmission mode
used was MIMO
Idle Mode
 Idle Mode
 Overall strategy requires common levels to camp in the cell

Qrxlevmeas – (Qrxlevmin + Qrxlevminoffset) – Pcompensation > 0

Qrxlevmeas – ( -122 + Not used ) – 0 >0
Qrxlevmeas > -122

CELLBARRED PMAXSERVINGCELL QQUALMIN QQUALMINOFFSET QRXLEVMIN QRXLEVMINOFFSET Cell Count

1 23 -20 0 -122 1000 246
1 1000 -20 0 -122 1000 36
1 23 -20 0 -124 1000 3

 Pcompensation = MAX(Pemax – Pumax, 0), so it was

considered 0 as most UE power is 23dBm
 Idle Mode
 Overall strategy requires common levels to camp in the cell

Qqualmeas – (Qqualmin + Qqualminoffset) > 0

Qqualmeas – ( -20 + Not used ) > 0
Qqualmeas > -20

CELLBARRED PMAXSERVINGCELL QQUALMIN QQUALMINOFFSET QRXLEVMIN QRXLEVMINOFFSET Cell Count

1 23 -20 0 -122 1000 246
1 1000 -20 0 -122 1000 36
1 23 -20 0 -124 1000 3
 Idle Mode

 Note 3 cells with QRXLEVMIN=-124

 Few cells with PMAXSERVINGCELL=1000, but this value
sets Pcompensation in same value as previous calculation

 AC Barring feature is disabled

 Idle Mode
 For Re-selection parameters, all cells have same settings
but cells in eNode B BTS_GE_0022_L18, with lower
QRXLEVMIN
 ThreshX parameters not used as they apply to inter
frequency measurements
 TRESELECTION for high and
medium mobility state (speed) EUTRANFREQRELATION_ID
CELLRESELECTIONPRIORITY
1300
7
1300
7
set to same value as normal PMAX
QOFFSETFREQ
23
0
23
0
mobility users QQUALMIN -20 -20
QRXLEVMIN -124 -122

 QOFFSETCELLEUTRAN (MO THRESHXHIGH

THRESHXHIGHQ
4
2
4
2
EutranCellRelation) is 0 for all THRESHXLOW
THRESHXLOWQ
0
0
0
0
neighbours, so no relation TRESELECTIONEUTRA
TRESELECTIONEUTRASFHIGH
1
100
1
100
weighted TRESELECTIONEUTRASFMEDIUM
CELL_COUNT
100
3
100
282
 Idle Mode
 Other SIB3 parameters:
 cellReselectionInfoCommon:
 qHyst: 2 for all cells
 qHyst for medium/high mobility UE is 0 for all cells
 nCellChangeHigh and nCellChangeMedium set to 16 for all cells, so no
difference for high and medium mobility users
 tEvaluation: 240 for all cells which makes harder mobility state change
 intraFreqCellReselectionInfo:
 sIntraSearch: 20 for all cells. Added to qRxLevMin to set threshold to
trigger intra-freq measurements. This value is -122+(20)=-102 dBm
 sIntraSearchQ: 0dBm for all cells, which disables RSRQ triggering for inter-freq
measurements
 presenceAntennaPort1: true for 282 cells while false for 3 cells (cells in eNode
BTS_GE_1065_L18)
 Idle Mode
 Other SIB3 parameters:
 cellReselectionServingFreqInfo:
 sNonIntraSearch: 4 for most cells, setting threshold for inter frequency
measurements in -122+(4)=-118 dBm, which could be a low value. There are 5 cells
using value 16 (-106dBm/-108dBm as some of them have qRxLevMin=-124)
 sNonIntraSearchQ: 0 for all cells, which means RSRQ triggering disabled
 threshServingLow: 4 for most cells. This threshold triggers re-selection and it has been set
to same value as measurement trigger. 39 cells have value 10, which is bigger than
measurement trigger threshold, which is not recommended
 threshServingLowQ: 1000 for all eNodes, disabling RSRQ triggering
 cellReselectionPriority: priority 5 for any UMTS layer and 3 for GSM

CELLRESELECTIONPRIORITY UTRANFREQRELATION_ID Cell Count

5 10712 285
5 3036 48
5 3020 3
5 10762 233
5 10737 285

CELLRESELECTIONPRIORITY GERANFREQGROUPRELATION_ID Cell Count

3 GSM1800_1 285
3 GSM900_1 285
3 GSM1800_2 285
3 GSM900_2 210
 Idle Mode
 For UTRAN Freq relation, parameter settings have mostly same profile,
no matter the UARFCN
 As EUTRAN Frequency has CellReselectionPriority=7 and UTRAN
Frequencies have 5, then THRESXHIGH parameter is not used
 For few cells THRESXLOW=0, so threshold required for reselection
target cell is none
 For one cell, QQUALMIN=-18 while -16 for any other
 It is recommended to apply same threshold for these cells (cells in
eNode B BTS_GE_0022_L18 and CELL_GE_0004_1_L18)
THRESHXHIGH THRESHXLOW QRXLEVMIN QQUALMIN UTRANFREQRELATION_ID COUNT(EUTRANCELLFDD_ID)
30 14 -122 -16 10762 232
30 14 -122 -18 10762 1
30 14 -122 -16 10737 281
30 0 -124 -16 10737 3
30 14 -122 -18 10737 1
30 14 -122 -16 10712 281
30 0 -124 -16 10712 3
30 14 -122 -18 10712 1
30 14 -122 -16 3036 48
30 14 -122 -16 3020 3
Admission Control
 Admission Control
RRC Connection
• RRC Connection FR has good level around 0.25%
• There are 10 different failure cause counters: 5 where provided and 5 were
not
• Probably not provided counters are not enabled
• Recommendation would be to enable these counters to monitor RRC
failures cause
• 9 failures due to lack of licenses are a peak on eNode B
BTS_GE_1104_L18 on 14/03/2016 03:15:00

Counter Total
pmRrcConnEstabFailBearerAdmissionRej Not provided
pmRrcConnEstabFailFailureInRadioProcedure Not provided
pmRrcConnEstabFailLackOfResources Not provided
pmRrcConnEstabFailMISigQCong Not provided
pmRrcConnEstabFailUnspecified Not provided
pmRrcConnEstabFailLic 9
pmRrcConnEstabFailHighLoad 0
pmRrcConnEstabFailOverload 0
pmRrcConnEstabFailMmeOvlmos 0
pmRrcConnEstabFailMmeOvlmod 0

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 Admission Control
ERAB Connection
• ERAB connection has no issue having failure rate < 0.05%
• Counters for initial ERAB failure cause were provided, but 0
• It is recommended to verify if these counters are enabled

pmErabEstabFailGbrDlEnb
pmErabEstabFailGbrUlEnb
pmErabEstabFailAddedLic
pmErabEstabFailInitLic

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 Admission Control
• For Admission Control parameters:
• Resource Reservation for Priviliged Access is disabled
• Allocation and Retention Priority (ARP) based pre-emption is
disabled
• Bandwidth for both DL and UL is 1 Gbps

resourceReservationForDifferentiation 5
admResourceMinQciPrio 5
dlTransNwBandwidth 1000
ulTransNwBandwidth 1000
PAARPOVERRIDE 7
ARPBASEDPREEMPTIONSTATE 0
RESOURCERESERVATIONFORPASTATE 0
eNode B Count 100

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Power Control
 Power Control
• PZERONOMINALPUCCH is -117 for all cells
• This value could be increased as network has low level of interference
• Increasing it will increase UL throughput although -117 is a quite high value

• Some cells configured with CONFIGUREDOUTPUTPOWER (mWatts) lower than

Licensed Output Power
• It is recommended to set CONFIGUREDOUTPUTPOWER = 1000*
MAXIMUMTRANSMISSIONPOWER (and thus update
MAXIMUMTRANSMISSIONPOWER where proceed)
• After change, monitor cells to check if downtilt is needed
PZERONOMINALPUCCH PZERONOMINALPUSCH COUNT(EUTRANCELLFDD_ID)
-117 -96 285

SECTOREQUIPMENTFUNCTION_ID MECONTEXT_ID CONFIGUREDOUTPUTPOWER Check Licensed Output Power

CELL_GE_1082_3_L18 BTS_GE_1082_L18 100000 FALSE 120
CELL_GE_1082_4_L18 BTS_GE_1082_L18 100000 FALSE 120
CELL_GE_1082_2_L18 BTS_GE_1082_L18 100000 FALSE 120
CELL_GE_1082_1_L18 BTS_GE_1082_L18 100000 FALSE 120
CELL_GE_1104_1_L18 BTS_GE_1104_L18 20000 FALSE 40
CELL_GE_1104_3_L18 BTS_GE_1104_L18 20000 FALSE 40
CELL_GE_1104_2_L18 BTS_GE_1104_L18 20000 FALSE 40

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Scheduler

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 Scheduler
• Scheduler parameters set to default values
• ICIC and DL Interference management features are enabled
• UL Advanced scheduler is enabled
• Minimum Rate Proportional Fair Scheduler is licensed, but not enabled as
selected algorithm is RESOURCE_FAIR (SCHEDULINGALGORITHM=0)
• Values 2, 3 and 4 (PROPORTIONAL_FAIR_HIGH,
PROPORTIONAL_FAIR_MEDIUM and PROPORTIONAL_FAIR_LOW)
should enable the feature and increase the throughput
• It is recommended to perform a trial to check which is best algorithm
for Geocell network
ULSCHEDULEBWALLOCATIONENABLED ULSCHEDULEBWALLOCATION eNode B Count
TRUE TRUE 100

SCHEDULINGALGORITHM QCIPROFILEPREDEFINED_ID eNode B Count

DLCONFIGURABLEFREQUENCYSTART 0 0 default 100
ULCONFIGURABLEFREQUENCYSTART 0 0 qci1 100
DLFREQUENCYALLOCPROPORTION 100 0 qci2 100
DLINTERFERENCEMANAGEMENTACTIVE TRUE 0 qci3 100
ULINTERFERENCEMANAGEMENTACTIVE TRUE 0 qci4 100
NOOFPUCCHCQIUSERS 160 0 qci5 100
NOOFPUCCHSRUSERS 160 0 qci6 100
PDCCHCFIMODE 0 0 qci7 100
Cell Count 285 0 qci8 100
0 qci9 100
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Latency

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 Latency
• Average Latency in the network
around 8ms, which is considered
good value
• But there are some cells with quite
high values, especially
CELL_GE_2016_1_L18 and
CELL_GE_0022_1_L18 with 18ms
and 10ms
• To improve latency, a change in
scheduler algorithm is
recommended (see scheduler
section)
• Further analysis on DRX feature is
also recommended to improve
latency

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Mobility

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 Mobility
• Neighbour CMPM report developed considering HO counters and site
coordinates, showing results for unused neighbours and long distance
neighbours as well as other analysis
• Note there is high number of unused NBR that could be removed
• Most of them have low number of attempts and high failure rate
impacting on overall HO success rate

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 Mobility
• ANR created most of them, although ANR counters not provided and
not possible to perform further analysis
• CELLADDRSRPTHRESHOLDEUTRAN seems low (-1440) for some
cells
• CELLADDRSRQTHRESHOLDEUTRAN is low (-1920) for all cells
• Removal times are high for some cells (> 3 days)
ANRUESEUTRAINTRAFMIN

ANRUESTHRESHINTERFMIN
ANRUESTHRESHINTERFMAX
ANRUESEUTRAINTRAFMAX
ANRUESEUTRAINTRAFDECR

CELLADDRSRPTHRESHOLDEUTRAN

CELLADDRSRQTHRESHOLDEUTRAN
ANRUESEUTRAINTRAFINCRANR

ANRUESTHRESHINTERFDECR

ANRUESTHRESHINTERFINCRANR

ANRUESTHRESHINTERFINCRHO
MAXTIMEEVENTBASEDPCICONF

X2SETUPPOLICY

eNode B Count
MAXNOPCIREPORTSEVENT
ANRUESEUTRAINTRAFINCRHO

HOALLOWEDEUTRANPOLICY

REMOVENENBTIME

REMOVENRELTIME
REMOVENCELLTIME

10 20 100 20 1 -1050 -1920 1 15 30 3 3 14 1 10 20 100 20 1 80

10 20 100 20 1 -1440 -1920 1 15 30 30 7 14 1 10 20 100 20 1 10
10 20 100 20 1 -1050 -1920 1 15 30 30 7 14 1 10 20 100 20 1 5
10 20 100 20 1 -1440 -1920 1 15 30 7 7 7 1 10 20 100 20 1 3
10 20 100 20 1 -1440 -1920 1 15 30 30 7 10 1 10 20 100 20 1 1
10 20 100 20 1 -1050 -1920 1 15 30 7 7 7 1 10 20 100 20 1 1

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 Mobility
• CS Fallback enabled and 3G UARFCN 10712 has higher priority
• GSM layer has lowest priority
• Counters pmUeCtxtRelCsfbGsm and pmUeCtxtRelCsfbWcdma show
that just 0.25% of CSFB are to GSM
• Note counters to monitor CSFB performance were not provided:
• pmHoPrepAttCsfb
• pmHoPrepSuccCsfb
• They are recommended to be enabled in order to monitor CSFB
performance

CSFALLBACKPRIO UTRANFREQRELATION_ID NBR Count CSFALLBACKPRIO GERANFREQGROUPRELATION_ID NBR Count

7 10712 5372 0 GSM900_1 8448
6 10737 4775 0 GSM1800_2 7092
5 10762 40 0 GSM900_2 5721
7 3020 9 0 GSM1800_1 5466

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Overshooters
 Overshooters
• Cell CMPM report has been developed using counters and planning
parameters
• This report locates possible overshooters based on HO counters and
site locations
• Three cells considered to be overshooter
• It is recommended to review downtilts for them
MECONTEXT_ID

ENODEBFUNCTION_ID

EUTRANCELLFDD_ID

CELL_NAME

ENODEB_NAME

TAC

ENBID_SECTOR

CELL_STATUS

CELL_ANALYSIS
BTS_GE_1082_L18 1 CELL_GE_1082_3_L18 CELL_GE_1082_3_L18 UPTOWN_TBILISI 11 10823 Cell Live Possible Overshooter -
BTS_GE_1133_L18 1 CELL_GE_1133_1_L18 CELL_GE_1133_1_L18 DELISI 12 11331 Cell Live Possible Overshooter -
BTS_GE_2016_L18 1 CELL_GE_2016_3_L18 CELL_GE_2016_3_L18 RAILWAY_STATION 14 20163 Cell Live Possible Overshooter -

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RRC Re-establishment

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 RRC Re-establishment
• RRC Re-establishment success rate for the network is 44.56%
• Main cause for failures is HO: while having 14% of RRC re-
establishment attempts, no one is successful
• This shows the need of tune all HO issues in the network that were
pointed previously:
• Overshooter cells
• ANR parameter tuning
• Neighbour grooming
• If RRC re-establishment due to HO failure are reduced, RRC re-
establishment SR will improve

PMRRCCONNREESTATT PMRRCCONNREESTATTHO PMRRCCONNREESTFAILLICMTREEST PMRRCCONNREESTSUCC PMRRCCONNREESTSUCCHO

798934 111857 405704 356001 0

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DL/UL Frequency Selective Scheduling

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 DL/UL Frequency Selective Scheduling
• Both DL and UL Frequency Selective Scheduling features licensed
• Note DLRESOURCEALLOCATIONSTRATEGY is disabled for 14
eNode Bs, some QCI, but enabled for any other
• Performance of DL Frequency Selective Scheduling can be monitored
with counters pmRadioUeRepCqiSubband0Sum to
pmRadioUeRepCqiSubband12Sum and
pmRadioUeRepCqiSubband0Samp to
pmRadioUeRepCqiSubband12Samp: these counters are currently
disabled DLRESOURCEALLOCATIONSTRATEGY QCIPROFILEPREDEFINED_ID eNode B Count
0 default 14

• It is recommended to enable
1 default 86
0 qci1 14
1 qci1 86
them to monitor this feature 1
0
qci2
qci2
86
14
0 qci3 14
1 qci3 86
1 qci4 86
0 qci4 14
0 qci5 14
1 qci5 86
1 qci6 86
0 qci6 14
1 qci7 86
0 qci7 14
0 qci8 14
1 qci8 86
0 qci9 14
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 DL/UL Frequency Selective Scheduling
• UL Frequency Selective Scheduling is disabled as parameters
RESOURCEALLOCATIONSTRATEGY and
SRSALLOCATIONSTRATEGY are 0
• Average interference per PRB in the network is -11.1126dBm
• Per PRB, it’s observable that some PRBs have stronger interference
than others
• There are some PRB with
higher interference than
others
• It is recommended to
enable feature to reduce
interference impact and
improve UL throughput

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 DL/UL Frequency Selective Scheduling
• In UL interference, top 4 cells have quite high values
• Especially top 1, CELL_GE_2016_1_L18 which seems to have an
installation issue
• It is recommended to review installation for all these cells

ENODEB EUTRANCELLFDD Average Interference per PRB (mWatts) Average Interference per PRB (dBm)
BTS_GE_2016_L18 CELL_GE_2016_1_L18 0.006037215 7.808366123
BTS_GE_0217_L18 CELL_GE_0217_1_L18 0.002797689 4.467993813
BTS_GE_0240_L18 CELL_GE_0240_1_L18 0.00063675 -1.960307828
BTS_GE_0217_L18 CELL_GE_0217_2_L18 0.000515435 -2.878260659

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Recommendations

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 Recommendations
• Re-plan intra and inter frequency measurements trigger thresholds for re-
selection
• Enable RRC failure cause counters and verify if ERAB failure cause
counters are enabled
• Apply THRESXLOW=14 for cells in BTS_GE_0022_L18
• Increase PZERONOMINALPUCCH in order to increase UL throughput
• Apply right value for CONFIGUREDOUTPUTPOWER for some cells
• Perform a trial with Minimum Rate Proportional Fair Scheduler algorithms
• Enable ANR counters
• Perform Neighbour grooming
• Tune ANR parameters
• Review downtilts for cells CELL_GE_1082_3_L18, CELL_GE_1133_1_L18
and CELL_GE_2016_3_L18
• Enable DL/UL Frequency Selective Scheduling feature to reduce
interference and improve UL throughput
• Review cells CELL_GE_2016_1_L18, CELL_GE_0217_1_L18,
CELL_GE_0240_1_L18 and CELL_GE_0217_2_L18 with UL interference
issues

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Further Analysis

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 Further Analysis
• Random Access: counters not provided. It is recommended in Strategy
Analysis a RSI re-plan
• QCI parameters: parameter audit will be needed if Semi-Persistent
Scheduling (SPS) is applied
• Paging: enable TAU counters to monitor activity
• DRX: further analysis if latency needs to be improved

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