AMX Workshop Series

Chronic Offenders Workshop

Dalia Guzmán

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Workshop Objectives

• Understand Chronic Offenders Table

– What are the fields
– What do they mean
– What they indicate
– How to use the table
• Steps for analysis with GEO
– Analyses
– Drop reasons – indications of current problem for the
cell
– Potential solutions (Antenna Tuning, Neighbor,
Scrambling code changes)

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Workshop Agenda

• Review Chronic Offender details

• Walk through an example of analysis

• Individual work: Complete analysis of 1 chronic

offender, identifying what the likely problem is for the
chronic offender cell, and recommendation for fixes

• Questions

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Chronic Offender Overview

• Chronic Offender Cells:

– Cells with poor performance consistently for long period of
time
– Cells that need fundamental changes to improve
performance, and improve capacity handling for growth
• From GEO – get picture of cell performance
• Insight into solutions:
– Containment (overshooting cells)
– Missing Neighbors validation
• Chronic Offender vs Acute Offender?

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Chronic Index

• Analysis created to provide summary of indicators for a cell

• Provides details for prioritizing work…

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Chronic Index

• Elements:

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Footprint Coverage Area

• Area where cell is measured (in

active set, neighbor measurements)
in sq km.
• Analysis “Footprint EcIo” converted
to metric

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Best Server Area

• Area where cell is measured (as

#1 in active set ) in sq km.
• Analysis “EcIo Sector Footprint
(Best)” converted to metric.

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Ratio: BS/Footprint

• What does this tell us?

– Efficiency
– Boomer or well contained
cell
– Interference area vs serving area

• Ratio is Best Server Area/Footprint area

– Small number = BAD (small best server area vs footprint
area)
– Large number = GOOD (well contained cell)

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EcIo Measurements

• Using threshold of >=-12dB (defined in Parameters), a score is created per

cell for % of area where cell has bins >=-12db.
• Analysis done for “Footprint Area” and “Best Server Area”.
• Indicator of quality experience within the cell.
– Small number = BAD – most calls have bad quality
– Big number = GOOD – most calls have good quality

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RSCP Measurements

• Using threshold of >=-100dBm (defined in Parameters), a score is created

per cell for % of area where cell has bins >=-100dbm.
• Analysis done for “Footprint Area” and “Best Server Area”.
• Indicator of quality experience within the cell.
– Small number = BAD
– Big number = GOOD

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Pilot Pollution

• Where cell is best server

– Pilot Pollution for cells within 5dB of best server
– Percentage of bins where there are more than 4 pilots
• Indicator of interference in the cell serving area
– Small number = GOOD – few bins have pollution
– Big number = BAD – many bins have pollution

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Exercise

• Choose Chronic Offender from your region

• Run analysis to determine possible fixes
• Report back findings / Questions

MENTOR
Dalia Guzmán
dalia.guzman@arieso.com
021.8897.1979

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 Annex: Some analysis used today...

Best Server Footprint RF KPIs

RF Chronic Index
To define Chronic Offenders
(Ec/Io and RSCP footprint
and best server ratios)
RF Footprint KPIs
To view Footprint and Best Server for
selected cell (e.g. selected chronic
offender from RF Chronic Index
analysis)
Pilot Pollution Map
To identify zones with high
Pilot Pollution in the Map

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Annex: Some analysis used today...
UMTS Neighbor Planning
Antenna Tuning Analyses (UMTS)
To create Neighbor Plan (add, delete,
To provide analysis on what would the footprint would
keep) for Intra- or Inter-frequency
look like if: Changing Azimuth, Power, Tilt or Turning the
neighbor relations, for selected group of
Cell OFF.
cells with a geographic area.

Missing Neighbors
This report provides a list of missing
neighbours identified in the network
base on 1A messages.

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