NSN Optimization

Guidelines for CS and

PS KPIs
CS and PS Accessibility

28th Jan, 2014

CS and PS Accessibility
KPI Formula
RRC Setup & Access Failures
RAB Setup and Access Failures

Call Setup Success Rate (CSSR)

Call setup success Rate (CSSR) covers all the steps from
the initial RRC connection request from the UE to the
network, through the RRC setup phase and the RAB setup
phase, and until user data is starting to get transferred.
For CS, the Call setup success rate CSSR is essentially
RRC Setup & Access Success * RAB Setup & Access Success

For PS Session setup success

Poor CSSR could be a result of

Poor coverage or dominance or interference issues in Radio

interface
Capacity issues in Radio or Iub interface
Configuration issues in WBTS (parameters or HW)
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Definition of Accessibility (CSSR)

UE
RRC: Connection Request

RNC

BTS

CN

RRC Connection Setup phase

Resource Reservation in RNC, BTS, Transmission

RRC: RRC Connection Request Setup

RRC Connection Access phase
RNC waits reply from UE

RRC: RRC Connection Completed

RRC: Initial Direct Transfer cm service request
RANAP: Initial UE Message
DIRECT TRANSFER (Call Proceeding)
RANAP: RAB Assignment
Request

RAB Connection Setup phase

Resource Reservation in RNC, BTS, Transmission

RRC: Radio Bearer Set-up

Call Setup
Success
Rate
Call Setup Time

RAB Connection Access phase

RNC waits reply from UE

RRC: Radio Bearer Setup Complete

DIRECT TRANSFER (Alerting)
DIRECT TRANSFER (Connect)

RANAP: RAB Assignment Response

DIRECT TRANSFER (Connect Acknowledge)

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KPI Formula
CS Accessibility
KPI Formula : RRC Setup & Access Success * RAB

Setup & Access Success (RNC_5093b >99%)

100
*
sum(MOC_CONV_CALL_ATTS - MOC_CONV_CALL_FAILS + MTC_CONV_CALL_ATTS MTC_CONV_CALL_FAILS + EMERGENCY_CALL_ATTS - EMERGENCY_CALL_FAILS RRC_ACC_REL_EMERGENCY - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_CONV - RRC_ACC_REL_MT_CONV +
CELL_UPDATE_SUCC_CS_CALL)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------sum(MOC_CONV_CALL_ATTS + MTC_CONV_CALL_ATTS + EMERGENCY_CALL_ATTS RRC_ATT_REP_MO_CONV - RRC_ATT_REP_MT_CONV - RRC_ATT_REP_EMERGENCY RRC_ACC_REL_EMERGENCY - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_CONV - RRC_ACC_REL_MT_CONV RRC_CONN_STP_REJ_EMERG_CALL+CELL_UPDATE_ATT_CS_CALL)
*
sum(RAB_ACC_COMP_CS_VOICE)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------sum(RAB_STP_ATT_CS_VOICE)

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KPI Formula
PS Accessibility
KPI Formula : RRC Setup & Access Success * RAB

Setup & Access Success (RNC_576e >99%)

100
*
sum(MOC_INTER_CALL_ATTS - MOC_INTER_CALL_FAILS + MOC_BACKG_CALL_ATTS MOC_BACKG_CALL_FAILS + MTC_INTER_CALL_ATTS - MTC_INTER_CALL_FAILS +
MTC_BACKG_CALL_ATTS - MTC_BACKG_CALL_FAILS + MOC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_ATTS MOC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_FAILS + MTC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_ATTS - MTC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_FAILS RRC_ACC_REL_INTERACTIVE - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_BACKGROUND - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_HIGH_PR_SIGN RRC_ACC_REL_MO_INTERACTIVE - RRC_ACC_REL_MT_BACKGROUND - RRC_ACC_REL_MT_HIGH_PR_SIGN)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------sum(MOC_INTER_CALL_ATTS + MOC_BACKG_CALL_ATTS + MOC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_ATTS +
MTC_INTER_CALL_ATTS + MTC_BACKG_CALL_ATTS + MTC_HIGH_PRIOR_SIGN_ATTS RRC_ATT_REP_INTERACTIVE - RRC_ATT_REP_MO_INTERACTIVE - RRC_ATT_REP_MO_HIGH_PR_SIGN RRC_ATT_REP_MO_BACKGROUND RRC_ATT_REP_MT_BACKGROUND - RRC_ATT_REP_MT_HIGH_PR_SIGN RRC_ACC_REL_INTERACTIVE - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_BACKGROUND RRC_ACC_REL_MO_HIGH_PR_SIGN - RRC_ACC_REL_MO_INTERACTIVE RRC_ACC_REL_MT_BACKGROUND - RRC_ACC_REL_MT_HIGH_PR_SIGN)
*
sum(RAB_ACC_COMP_PS_INTER+RAB_ACC_COMP_PS_BACKG)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------sum(RAB_STP_ATT_PS_INTER+RAB_STP_ATT_PS_BACKG)

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Failure analysis for low CSSR/PSSR cells

RRC, RAB, HSPA Setup
Performance KPI/counters
Follow-Up
RRC, RAB Setup, PS
Setup Failure due AC

Yes

Air Interface

No
RRC, RAB Setup, PS
Setup Failure due
BTS

Yes

BTS

No
RRC, RAB Setup, PS
Setup Failure due Iub

Yes

Iub

No
RRC, RAB Setup, PS Setup
Failure due RNC, DMCU

Yes

RNC

No
RRC, RAB Setup failure due
to Frozen BTS

Yes

High Traffic Event

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Failure and abnormal release causes

The failure and abnormal release causes for RRC and RAB phases are
presented in the tables below:

* In this case, RRC/RAB phase may fail

due to left-hand side failure reason, but
instead of that failure counter the RNC
internal failure counter is updated.

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RRC Setup and Access Failures

RRC setup failure causes
RRC setup failure causes :

1)

Handover Control Fails (RNC_2217a)

2)

Admission Control Fails (RNC_2218a)

3)

BTS Fails (RNC_2219a)

4)

Transport Fails (RNC_2220a)

5)

RNC Fails (RNC_2221a)

6)

Frozen BTS Fails (RNC_2222a)

7)

Iub AAL2 Fails (M1001C530)

8)

RNTI Fails (M1001C247)

9)

ICSU Fails (M1001C618)

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Admission Control Fails due to DL Power

1. Check cell power load is in marginal area or overload area if power parameter setting are correct

from RSRAN067/ RSRAN086 report.

2. Check power related parameter settings (Ptxcellmax, MaxDLPowercapability, Ptxtarget
PtxmaxHSDPA etc.). Ensure Ptxcellmax = MaxDLPowercapability and Ptxtarget should be
accordingly up to 90% of transmitted power. And Ptxoffset value should be 5-8%.
3. Check CPICH Power value i.e. 8-10% of transmitted power.
4. Check PRACH propagation delay report, 90% sample must be below 1 st tier neighbours, downtilt the
sector if overshooting is there.
5. Check SHO overhead value, it should be between 20-30% to save radio resources for other services.
Check tilt of site. Fine tune addition window and drop window size/time to reduce SHO overhead.
6. Check RRC EC mapping with SRB bit rates to 3.4 kbps and 13.6 kbps.
7. Check MaxBitRateDLPSNRT and InitialBitRateDL. Max bitrate used should not exceed 128 Kbps and
initial bit rate can be downgraded to 8 kbps. Also MinAllowedBitRateDL should be 8 Kbps.
8. Check Dylo, TBO implementation for better PS NRT bitrate optimization.
9. Check other carrier load and balance the traffic if required by DRRC, Cell reselection criteria, Azimuth
planning and also check compressed mode.
10. Implement AMR Directed retry feature.
11. Check max and min power of radio link.
Maximum Radio Link Power: RT Service Ptx_max_RL: Minof( ( cpich power cpichtorefraboffset
+SF_Adjustment),
(ptxtotalmax- ptxdpchmax))
and PS & multiRab: : Ptx_max_RL:Min of (( cpichpowercpichrefraboffset+SF_Adjustment), (Ptxtotalmax- ptxdpchmax),
ptxabsmax))
Minimum Radio Link Power: Max( (ptx_max_RL PcrangeDL), ( Ptxmax-Ptxdpchmin)) for every
service.

Note : Increase PA power if possible or Plan for another carrier.

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Effects of CPICH Power modification

Less Power
Available for traffic
Increased soft
handover overhead
Too much
power

Reduced system
capacity
capacity

Late cell reselection

/handout
/handover
too late

Non- ideal traffic

distribution

CPICH coverage
holes

Reduced system
coverage

CPICH Transmit
Power
Too little
power

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Unreliable scrambling
code detection

Slow initial
synchonisation

Unreliable channel
estimation

Increased Eb/No
requirement

Early cell reselection

/handout
/handover
too early

Non- ideal traffic

distribution

Reduced system
capacity

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DL Common Control Channel

DL Common control channels must be heard over the whole cell, thus their

power setting is designed for cell edge.

DL Common Channels do not have a power control.
The power of the common physical channels are set relative to the CPICH

default
values
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Total DL Common Channel Power without HSPA

Service
Type

Default
Power

Minimum
Activity

Minimum
Average
Power

Maximum
Activity

Maximum
Average
Power

CPICH

33 dBm

100 %

33 dBm

100 %

33 dBm

P-SCH

30 dBm

10 %

20 dBm

10 %

20 dBm

S-SCH

30 dBm

10 %

20 dBm

10 %

20 dBm

PCCPCH

28 dBm

90 %

27.5 dBm

90 %

27.5 dBm

SCCPCH

33 dBm

25 %

27 dBm

115 %*

33.6 dBm

PICH

25 dBm

96 %

24.8 dBm

96 %

24.8 dBm

AICH

25 dBm

0%

80 %

24 dBm

Total

35.5 dBm
3.5 W

37.5 dBm
5.6 W

* S-CCPCH control (TFCI) bits transmitted with higher power than data bits

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Admission Control Fails due to DL Code

1. Check Code tree blocking rate from RSRAN067 report. High code blocking does not necessary mean

the call setups are failing. Dynamic resource allocation will downgrade codes allocated for HSDPA if
R99 traffic increase. Ensure Code blocking rate per SF to see what traffic is cause of the blocking.
E.g. voice use SF128.
2. Check that code tree optimization is enabled. Fine tune parameters CodeTreeOptimisation,

CodeTreeOptTimer and CodeTreeUsage for code tree optimization.

3. Check SHO overhead value, it should be below 35% to save radio resources for other services.

Check tilt of site. Fine tune addition window and drop window size /time to reduce SHO overhead.
4. Check MaxBitRateDLPSNRT and InitialBitRateDL. Max bitrate used should not exceed 128 Kbps and

initial bit rate can be downgraded to 8 kbps. Also MinAllowedBitRateDL should be 8 Kbps.
5. Check FACH load and reduce FACH to DCH transitions by tuning parameter

TrafVolThresholdDLHigh/ Low to increase buffer size for FACH state. And check timer values for
state transition.
6. Implement HSDPA dynamic resource allocation and Fine tune HSPDSCHCodeSet,

HSPDSCHMarginSF128 for HSDPA code upgrade and downgrade.

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7. Implement TBO feature which use resources more efficiently.

Admission Control Fails due to UL Load

1. Check uplink load is in marginal or overload area and RTWP from RSRAN067.

2. Check UL power based RRM parameters

Prxtarget, PrxTargetPSMax and PrxTargetPSMin, If Prxtarget

>=30, means UL AC is disabled.

3. Check Missing neighbors which can cause high interference.

4. Check antenna cables and connectors which cause interference in the network and pushing extra traffic to

cells. It can be checked in non-busy hour by simultaneous HSPA users.

5. Analyze network signaling Load (Delayed handover makes similar effect as missing neighbor).

6. Fine Tune parameter setting of RRM UL activity factor for HSDPA UL return channel.

7. Fine tune initial R99 SIR and HSUPA SIR targets. Need to optimize min and max SIR target values for radio link

for OLPC.
8. Optimize RACH load and fine tune RACH capacity, PRACH preambles..

9. Analyze UEs acknowledging RRC Connection Setup erroneously (Fast dormancy highlights this as RRC

Connection Setup happens more often).

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Admission Control Fails due to UL Load

1. Check simultaneous HSUPA users and limit no. of users using 2ms TTI if required. Disable

higher SF utilizing HSUPA users using parameter MaxTotalUplinkSymbolRate setting..

2. Check MaxBitRateULPSNRT and InitialBitRateUL. Max bitrate used should not exceed 128

Kbps and initial bit rate can be downgraded to 8 kbps. Also MinAllowedBitRateUL should be 8
Kbps.
3. Implement HSDPA 16Kbps UL return channel feature and fine tune HSDPAMaxBitrateUL to 128

Kbps.
4. Implement CPC feature.

5. Fine tune load control parameters like RRIndperiod, PrxMeasAveWindow and

PrxMeasFilterCoeff to report optimum load to AC.

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BTS / Frozen BTS Fails

1. Analyse R99CEs and Subunit utilization from RSRAN131 report.

2. Check alarms if indicating HSDPA/HSUPA configuration fail reflecting. Also check system module

failure alarm.
3. Check NodeB behavior, sometimes high number of BTS fails observed if RRC setup fails.

4. Check MaxBitRatePSNRT and InitialBitRate. Max bitrate used should not exceed 128 Kbps and

initial bit rate can be downgraded to 8 kbps. Also MinAllowedBitRate should be 8 Kbps.
5. Check SHO overhead value, it should be below 35% to save radio resources for other services. Fine

tune addition window and drop window size /time to reduce SHO overhead.
6. Increase CE steps if CE utilization is high (> 80-85%).

7. Evaluate NBAP counters (radio link reconfiguration failures)-- NBAP Signalling Per cause Report

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8. Check any mass event occurred if frozen BTS fails
areSecurity
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Transport / Iub AAL2 Fails

1. Check Iub utilization for ATM and IP sites. Refer report number RSRAN087.

2. Check M800 report to identify failures due to lack of Iub Bandwidth, lack of RNC capacity and

AAL2 signalling failure.

3. Check COCO configuration for ATM sites.

4. Check AAL2 CAC resource reservation, VPC/VCC utilization measuremements.

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RNC / ICSU, DMPG Fails

1. Check avg. and max RNC units utilization by M592 reports.

2. Implement URA-PCH in network. And fine tune state transitions parameters.

3. Enable Fast dormancy handing.

4. Fine tune RRC wait timers parameters and decrease RACH capacity.

5. Fine tune Active set size and addition and drop window size and time for Active set update.

6. Fine tune FACH capacity parameters to avoid DCH selection for short message due to high

penetration of smartphones.
7. Increase RNC capacity to minimize RACH load.

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Miscellaneous
1)

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Check common channel Load

PRACH Message Load
RACH Throughput (increase RACHCapacity if required)
Check PCH load and throughput.
Monitor FACH-c and u Load and throughput.

2)

Enable Common channel setup feature and its mapping with different RRC causes.

3)

Enable DRRC for traffic balancing.

4)

Fine tune RRC wait timers parameters to decrease uplink load and avoiding
aggressively RRC retry.

5)

Enable Directed Retry feature.

6)

Enable PCH24kbps using PtxSCCPCH2.

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Appendix
1) Parameters Details
2) Counters Details

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Thank You

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