MUHAMMAD FARHAN FAROOQ

PERSONAL DETAILS
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OBJECTIVE
 Working experience of 16+ years as RF Consultant with 5G-
NR/LTE/UMTS/GSM 900/1800
 5G/4G/3G Vendor knowledge of Huawei /Ericsson/ZTE
 Responsible for Optimization/Planning of R.F Network for optimum
performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Pre 5G-NR (Concept & Knowledge of 5G-NR System )

 NR Use Cases, eMBB, mMTC, uRLLC

 Numerology concept wrt Time-domain/Frequency-domain and Space-domain
resources. BWP newly introduced concept
 SCS (Subcarrier Spacing) wrt service types, frequency bands & moving speed
 5G-NR Frame structure
 5G NR Spectrum – Sub-6 GHz and mmWave Bandwidth
 Channel Management
 Massive MIMO concept, Beamforming concept
 5G Uplink & DL Power Control
 Reliability (Flow Control/Cell Outage Detection & Base Station Always Online)
 5G Scehduling, DL Scheduling/ UL Scheduling
 Mobility Management, NSA SgNB
 5G Intraband CA
 Business to Home (B2H) concept and its configuration
 5G KPIs understanding
o Service Integrity:
 User UL/DL Throughput
 Cell UL/DL Avg Throughput
o Utilization KPIs
 UL/DL Resource Block Utilizing Rate
 Average CPU Load
o Availability KPIs:
 Radio Network Unavailability
o Traffic KPIs:
 UL/DL Traffic Volume
 Average/Max User Number
 NSA Architecture/NSA Evaluation
o SgNodeB Addition Procedure
o SgNodeB Release Procedure
o SgNodeB Modification Procedure
 Basic Concept of 5G Link Budget with introduction of Foliage Loss/Body Block Loss
& Rain Attenuation Margin
 5G Planning Parameter wrt diff combination of AAUs and RRUs for highly
populated Urban Areas/ Sub Urban Areas and Rural Areas
 Scanario-based MM Beam Configuration, Azimuth Planning/Tilt Planning
 PCI Planning Concept
 PRAH, Root Sequence Planning Concept

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LTE Team Lead (CMPAK Pakistan Project) (May 2017 – June 2019)

 Managing team of 08 RF Engineers and 10 DT Engineers

 Responsible for weekly meeting with customer and discuss issues related to the
Network
 Execution of multiple Trials in order to improve various KPIs like UL Throughput/DL
Throughput/HHOSR/CDR/CSSR etc
 Working on FDD network with 10M /15M/20 & Compact Band 18.6 MHz
 Trial for the execution of VOLTE & SRVCC trial in CMPAK Project
 VOLTE features trial, other than basic VOLTE, TTI Bundling/Voice Characteristics
Awareness Scheduling/ RObust Header Compression (ROHC)
 Trial for CA implementation using 15Mhz (1800) & 5 Mhz (L2100)
 MLB for Load Balance on High Congested Sites
 Intra-eNodeB UL CoMP Trial to improve CEU Throughput
 Feature trials such as ANR, Blind CSFB, Coverage based Redirection to UTRAN
 PCImod3 Planning/ PRACH Planning
 Power Audits on LTE to ensure Reference Signal transmission at proper power
considering PA & PB.
 ANR Parameter tuning wrt deletion of Neighbors on the basis of ERROR
NCELL/REDUNDANCE NCELL/Maximum  NCELL
 Optimization of GUL Interworking parameters to ensure that selection, re-selection,
handover, redirection, CSFB and other RAT priority strategies are properly optimized
to ensure efficient interworking.
 Worst Cells Analysis & Recommendation
 Responsible for Benchmarking Project. Optimizing network in order to make it
number one in all agreed KPIs
 On job training of team members
 Various Traffic Retention and traffic shifting trials to shift traffic from 3G to 4G
 Responsible for Bandwidth upgradation/expansion activity from 10M to 15M &
15M to 20M

RF Team Lead (MTN South Africa Project) (Feb 2015 till Feb 2017)

 Managing team of 10 RF Engineers, 10 DT team and 2 RF survey team

 Responsible for Benchmarking Project
 Develop and execute planning & optimization team strategies to meet KPIs and
ensure proper operations of access networks.
 Responsible to interact with Customer for Weekly/Monthly meetings
 Follow ups with teams specially for the targeted operations like P3 and LTE 10M
implementation
 Coordinating the operations of different departments & teams to ensure that they
all pull in the same direction
 Attending & communicating management meetings by making suggestions

LTE RF Consultant

 Worked on FDD network with 3M/ 5M & 10MHz band

 PCImod3 Planning
 PRACH Planning
 Analysis of Accessibility (RRC Success Rate, ERAB Success Rate, X2 HO Success Rate,
S1 Failure Rate), Retainability (ERAB Drop Rate, ERAB Drops HO Execution, ERAB
Drops HO Preparation), Integrity (PDCP Throughput, Packet Loss Rate), Network
 Usage (UL/DL PRB Usage, UL/DL Number of Active UE’s, UL/DL DATA Volume),
 Mobility (Inter/Intra Frequency HO Preparation/Execution Success/Fail Rate, RAT
Success/Fail Rate to WCDMA/GSM) on Network level and cell level.
 Troubleshooting of worst offender cells to improve overall Network/market level
KPI

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  Daily KPIs Monitoring
 Network Capacity Audit and submit proposal for expansions.
 Cell Reselection parameter tuning
 Neighbor Planning & Optimization for IntraLTE and IRAT
 LAC/TAC mapping to ensure faster CSFB Latency by avoiding LAU
 Acceptance on behalf of MS team for LTE rollout of commercial network
 PCImod3 Clashes identification and rectification
 Optimize network in order to win MTN for P3 benchmarking
 Parameter audit and alignment with baseline values
 Enhanced CFI Adaptation feature trial which enables PDCCH symbol adaptation
based on number of required CCEs
 Fast return to LTE feature trial implemented on all sites with collocated 3G
 Trail for Adaptation of Periodic CQI Report
 Trail for Enhanced UL Frequency Selective Scheduling
 Trail for PUSCH DTX Detection
 Trail for Intra – eNodeB UL CoMP Feature
 Carrier Aggregation deployment to improve throughput
 Implementing VoLTE on trial Cluster
 To Improve LTE multi-layer traffic management and smooth interworking with
3G/2G
 Troubleshooting NW problems using Layer3 analysis and identification of faulty UE
causing KPI degradation
 MLB for loadsharing with UTRAN

3G RF Consultant
 PSC Planning
 New Site Planning for coverage and capacity
 CE board planning for New and Congested sites
 Power Board planning
 Planning for Multi Carrier strategy and design
 Trial and implementation of SON ANR & SON Master PSC auto mode
 Trail for HSDPA Inter-Cell Power sharing. In order for optimum use of Power
resources
 Trail for Flexible Dual Carrier HSDPA to increase the UE data rate and system
capacity
 Trail for Dynamic Configuration of HSDPA CQI to improve throughput
 Trail for DPCH Maximum Power Restriction to improve HSDPA throughput
 Trail for HSDPA Scheduling Based on UE Location
 Multiband DRD based on UE pathloss
 Multi Carrier strategy implementation (3xU2100; 1xU900)
 Trail for CE Efficiency Improvement for HSUPA TTI 2ms
 Adaptive RACH trial to improve RTWP
 Responsible for tuning of 3rd carrier and 4th carrier strategy in the network.
 FACH congestion Rectification on RNC level by enable switch P2D bypassing FACH
in case of high FACH utilization
 CS/PS/HSDPA/HSPA+ performance improvement (Accessibility, Retainabilty and
throughput).
 Load Sharing and Congestion(CE/Code/Power/IUB) Optimization
 2ms/10ms HSUPA optimization

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3G/4G RF Planning & Optimization ADVISOR (TELENOR PAKISTAN)
(June 2014 till Dec 2014)

 Responsible for successful 3G deployment.

 Main responsibilities are to manage vendor (ZTE), RAN algorithm development and
smooth execution with 2G algorithm.
 RAN KPI formulation.
 Feature/Parametric tuning
 Responsible to train whole RAN organization on the formulation of optimization
principles
 Responsible to provide all integration, configurations, testing, Data fills, and
acceptance plans to be executed by vendor organization on behalf of Telenor
Pakistan

RF Planning & Optimization Team Lead (Omantel Project–Oman)

(January 2013 till June 2014)

 Managing team of 8 RF Engineers, 6 DT team, 3 survey engineer.

 Coordinating with Project and Marketing team for  RF related issues. Regular
customer meeting & taking care of the requirements & queries.
 Develop and execute planning & optimization team strategies to meet KPIs and
ensure proper operations of access networks.
 Manage team for Initial tuning and survey separately in order to formulize steps
and checklist require for surveys and Initial tuning

RF Consultant LTE

 Managing planning Engineers for LTE site planning

 LTE rollout of commercial network, including planning (PCI, PRACH, TA),
 Single Site verification of LTE Sites.
 VIP customer complaint.
 LTE Cluster Optimization (Improve RSRP/SINR/Accessibility/Retainability/CSFB).
 LTE daily worst Cells Analysis and recommendations.
 Daily KPIs Monitoring
 Worst Cells Analysis & Recommendation
 Implementing CSFB on a Network
 Understanding of Load Control/Admission Control/ Congestion Control and Load
Balancing
 Cell Reselection parameter tuning
 Neighbor Planning & Optimization for IntraLTE and IRAT
 Successfully done trial of MIMO 4T4R

RF Consultant UMTS

 Preparing Trail strategies for golden cluster and recording results.

 Responsible for implementing HSPA+ in the network. Finalizing strategy with
solution team.
 Implementing HSUPA
 Implementing 2nd Carrier with U2100 in the network
 Making & finalizing Multi carrier strategy and parameter finalization to implement
2nd carrier in the network, network planning for 2nd carrier (CE, IUB, WRFU power
calculation for expansion, plan hardware expansion to make network ready for
implementing 2nd carrier).
 Troubleshoot and optimize network after F2 implementation
 Design and implement strategy for 3rd carrier with U2100 in Muscat Region
 Design and implement strategy for 3rd carrier with U900 for Coverage in outside
Muscat Region
 DC implementation.

 Responsible for Omantel Network Antenna Modernization Project by swapping

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 single band to multi band Antenna
 Cluster Optimization and submission of reports to customer
 Trial of features like RL reestablishment, Enhanced Fast Dormancy
 FACH congestion Rectification on RNC level
 CS/PS/HSDPA/HSPA+ performance improvement (Accessibility, Retainabilty and
throughput).
 Load Sharing and Congestion(CE/Code/Power/IUB) Optimization
 Troubleshoot and optimization require for Mobility (SHO/HHO/IRAT)

RF Planning & Optimization Team Lead (Vodacom project–South Africa)

(May 2011 till May 2012)

 Scrambling Code Planning

 Troubleshooting Multi carrier issues
 Parameter Audit & parameter tuning
 New site, Cluster and RNC level KPI monitoring
 Cluster drive analysis on Actix and Genex Assistant
 Cell Reselction paramter tunning
 Implementing Random Camping Strategy
 CS/PS/HSDPA/HSPA+ performance improvement (Accessibility, Retainabilty and
throughput).
 Worked on Huawei RAN10/RAN11 & RAN12. RAN13 was just implemented
 CHR/PCHR and Call Fault analysis on KylinPro/UMAT/PCHR analyzer and Genex
Naster
 Implementing new feature DC HSDPA to achieve higher throughput
 VIP call complaints analysis & recommendations for the improvement
 Identifying low throughput issues and the resolution to improve throughput
 Worst cell analysis and improvement
 Neighbor Planning for Interfreq/Intrafreq and IRAT neighbors
 Site Planning by using Atoll Prediction. Arrange and conduct Technical Site Surveys
for different candidates
 SPM migration whenever required
 WBBP board selection for CEs according to the requirement and BTS type

3G RF Planning & Optimization Engineer (Consultant in Etisalat project -UAE)

(March 2010 till May 2011)
 Monitor and analyze KPI Network statistics on daily basis.
 Achieve and maintain the radio network performance as per the contracted KPIs.
 PS/HSDPA/HSPA+ performance improvement (Accessibility, Retainabilty and
throughput).
 3G Performance KPI and capacity monitor. Considering CE/Code/Power/IuB both
CS/PS congestion and adjust their LDR/DCCC/IRAT parameter etc to reduce it.
 Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall Service Quality both for
PS and CS traffic, between 2G and 3G networks for parameterization and to define
 Understands the relationship between Soft/Softer Handovers and Network
Capacity, and how to optimize both.
 Perform troubleshoot for problematic cells and perform traces to resolve the issue.
 Daily worst cell analysis and recommendation to improve KPIs for cell degrading
overall RNC performance
 Neighbor engineering of 3G to 3G and 3G to 2G sites.
 Troubleshooting of Drop Calls, Set up Failures, Soft Handover, Inter-System HO,
Cell Reselection
 Perform RNP & RNO activities such as: radio optimization, statistical handling and
analysis, radio recording function, RAN parameter adjustment, RAN features
optimization, field measurements
 Perform support for the customer complains related to radio network design and
optimization.

 Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive

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 test data to improve the system performance.
 Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics, and solve
complex issues in different environments.
 Analyze the drop call during the drive test with help of RNC trace+CHR.+Logfiles
 Experience in Scrambling Code and Neighbor planning.
 Daily usage of PROBE, ASSISTANT, GENEX/NASTAR, M2000 and LMT as well as
other optimization tools.

Senior 3G RF Planning & Optimization Engineer/Team Lead (STC project -

BAHRAIN ) (Dec 2009 till Feb 2010)

 Responsible for KPIs maintenance of RNC.

 Cluster Optimization to meet all KPIs for Cluster acceptance agreed with the
customer.
 Analysis and recommendation for all events including call drop; Call Setup failure;
Access failure and SHO failure using drive test logs.
 AMR CS & PS calls analysis.
 VIP routes Optimization, recommendations for the improvement of Ec/Io, missing
neighbors,azimuth to provide better coverage on VIP routes using GENEX Assistant
(Huawei’ s post processing tool).
 3G sites Neighbor planning using GENEX Nastar Planning tool and its
implementation in Huawei’s Local Maintenance Terminal (LMT) according to
Neighbor Planning strategy agreed with the customer.
 Scrambling code planning for the 3G sites

RF Planning & Optimization Consultant (AirCom Zain Ghana - Ericsson)

(April 2008-September 2009)

RF Consultant UMTS (Ericsson)

 UMTS Design & Optimization
 Coverage analysis and recommendation to improve cluster RSCP and Ec/Io.
 Statistical Analysis of Daily, Hourly KPI Stats of Cell Level.
 Pilot Pollution rectification and improvement (by RF Optimization including
reorientation & tilting)
 Collect Data from Reporting Suite to monitor and analyze Key Performance
Indicators (like CS CSSR, PS CSSR, CS Drops, PS Drops, CS and PS ISHO success rate)
 Recommend power settings and parameter changes for R99 and HSDPA
throughput improvements.
 Identify cause of Dropped Calls, Access Failure and Low HSDPA Throughput, Pilot
 Pollution and Interference
 Neighbor list audit and optimization.
 Neighbor engineering of 3G to 3G and 3G to 2G sites
 Troubleshooting of Drop Calls, Set up Failures, Soft Handover, Cell Reselection
 RAN KPI (cell availability, RRC setup success rate, RAB setup success rate, RAB drop
rate, Soft Handover, BLER, ISHO, cell reselection, power control)
 Responsible for Cell planning, site surveys, site candidate selections, Scrambling
Code Planning/Cell Data Parameters, Neighbor Relations Optimization, integration
and acceptance of new sites

RF Consultant GSM (Ericsson)

 Stats monitoring on daily basis using Optima and command handling.
 Optimization of the newly On Air sites.
 Worst cells analysis and recommendations
 Initial tuning of newly on-air worst sites
 Database Audit for new sites / BSC’s to find inconsistencies.
 Included in all aspects of Initial Nominal Planning for maximum coverage &
capacity.

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  Responsible for the validation of all the surveys done by the survey engineers after
the survey.
 Conducting Technical Site Surveys for new BTS / BSC sites and analyzing on ground
situations to produce the best result.
 Generating Prediction Maps using Planet EV 4.2.
 Conducting Area profiling of new cities to create the nominal plan
 BSC/RNC Dimensioning w.r.t BTS/Node B’s for both 2G & 3G networks
 Making Performance Monitoring procedure for the upcoming sites.
 Frequency Planning
 Using RNO tools like MRR, FAS, FOX, NOX to categorize the problem and then
implementing the desired solution to overcome the issues in network.
 Using RNO tools like MRR, FAS, FOX, NOX to categorize the problem and then
implementing the desired solution to overcome the issues.
 Missing 3G to 2G HO optimization.

Assistant Manager RF in Telenor Pakistan

(February 2005-April 2008)

 Managing team of 18 RF Engineers, including Telenor and LCC Planning Engineers

 Coordinating with Project/Implementation and Marketing team for  RF related
issues. Regular vendor meeting & taking care of the requirements & queries.
 Develop and execute planning & optimization team strategies to meet KPIs and
ensure proper operations of access networks.
 Leading task of Site Planning and all necessary co-ordination with vendor and TP
planning team.
 Responsible for master plan of new sites.
 Leading Cluster Acceptance activity and responsible for all co-Ordination between
vendor and operator.
 Leading task of frequency Planning and frequency retuning for the expansion of
900 TRX and for better network quality.
 Responsible for planning of phase IV coverage and capacity sites.
 Responsible and manage task of Area profiling.
 Leading and managing TSS for Phase IV sites including site evaluation for the
candidates provided by the RE/SA before TSS; co-ordination between different
departments and vendor.
 Preparing RF Technical Design Proposal for In-building Solutions
 Performing RF surveys and then preparing appropriate design and proposal
products such as antenna location and schematic drawings.
 Verify Macro, Micro and In-building coverage plans to meet quality specifications.
 Leading task for all repeater installation recommendations and its
Commissioning
 RF Planning & Technical Site Survey (TSS) of New Sites. (BCCH, TCH, Neighbors of
each cell, Azimuth, hand over, and other Cell Parameters).
 Responsible for INITIAL TUNING activities for new upcoming sites.
 I was responsible for the smooth launch of remote cities.

RF Optimization (Telenor Pakistan - NSN):

 Involved in deep Drive test using TEMS Investigation Tool for new and
existing sites’ Coverage, Handover & interference issues.
 Statistical analysis of the network (especially, DCR, HSR, CSSR, SDCCH
& TCH Blocking, Interference, Outer & inner zone Traffic for Concentric
Cells).
 SDCCH Time Slots Audit.
 Addition/Expansion of TRXs on the basis of RF Utilization.
 Suggestion for HR implementation on the basis of traffic utilization on
particular cells.

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  Daily and Weekly analysis of the network on cluster basis and BSC level.
 Altering azimuths and tilts to optimize the overshooting & weak signal
issues.
 Post Drive test analysis to reach the root cause.

RF Engineer (GSM)
(February 2003 – February 2005)

Wireless Network Solutions(WNS)

WNS is a service-oriented company, which provides Telecommunication
solutions. I worked in that company as a team player and provided solutions
with my team to corporate network.

Key responsibilities included

 Involved in all issue based and planned Drive test activities.
 Monitoring of Cell, Carrier and Neighbor stats such as Call Setup Success
Rate(CSSR), Drop call Rate(DCR), Handover Success Rate(HSR),TCH congestion
( Inner or Outer Zone), SDCCH congestion, Path balances & Interferences ( IOI).
 Give full RF specifications for new sites (Antenna type, azimuth, tilt, feeder’s type).
 Conducted Technical Site Surveys of new sites of Cities/Remote.
 Planned a drive test route for a single as well as cluster of sites.

TOOLS:
 Aircom Asset Enterprise Edition 5
 ATOLL
 GENEX NASTAR
 Genex Assistant
 ACTIX
 TEMS Disovery
 Drive Test Tools: TEMS 5.1.1/Investigation (Ericsson); TEMS 6.1.1/Investigation; GENEX
PROBE;
 PLANET EV (ver 4.2) Planning Tool for Cell planning.
 GENEX ASSISTANT 1.53 & 2.2 for post processing tool.
 Optima for stats monitoring
 MFiol/Winfiol for Command handling
 Ericsson OSS RNO/CNA
 Business Object
 Mapping Tool: MapInfo Professional V 7.5,
 Statistical Analysis: SPOTS.
 Using Google Earth to perceive necessary information about the clutter
 MCOM/PIANO and AFP PLANET for Frequency Planning
 MCOM/NASTAR tool for Neighbor Planning

EDUCATION
B.E. (Electrical) 2002
N.E.D University of Engineering & Technology
Karachi ,Pakistan
First Division

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