TEMS PARAMETERS

(Speech)

ADA Cellworks, Ahmedabad

ADACELLWORKS PRESENTATION
 Module
Module Objectives
Objectives
 On completion of the module one should be clear about
the parameters required during drive test what does it
mean and how much it is important.
 Parameters regarding in windows like :

 a) Current Channel
b) Radio parameters
c) Serving + Neighbors
Current Channel

 Definitions:
1. Time: It is system time of computer.
2. Cell name: It displays the name of
the sector which is serving according
to the cellfile that is loaded in TEMS.
3. CGI : It stands for the Cell Global
Identity which is unique for every
sector of the site. It consists of
MCC,MNC,LAC,CI.
MCC: Mobile Country Code 0 – 999
(e.g. 404), MNC: Mobile Network
Code 0 – 99 (e.g. 98) LAC : Location
Area Code 0 -65535 (e.g. 5101) CI:
Cell Identity 0 – 65535 (e.g. 11001)
Current Channel
• Cell GPRS Support: Tells sector is having
GPRS or not. Values are Yes or No .
• Band : It tells in which Freq. Band mobile is
operating e.g. GSM 900/ 1800.
• BCCH ARFCN: It tells by which BCCH is
the mobile station getting served.
• TCH ARFCN: On which Traffic Freq. call is
going on.
• BSIC (Base Station Identity Code) : It is
combination of Network Color Code (NCC)
(0 – 7) & Base Station Color Code (BCC) (0
– 7). e.g. 62. It is decoded by mobile on
every Sync. Channel Message.
• Mode: It is shows in which state is mobile
operating, Idle, Dedicated & Packet.
• Time slot: On which time slot of current
TCH call is going on. Viz. time slot no. of
TRX.
Current Channel
• Channel Type: Type of channel mobile is
getting now. Like BCCH / SDCCH/8 +
SACCH/C8 or CBCH / TCH/F
+FACCH/F +SACCH/F.
• Channel Mode : Shows mode of coding
like Speech Full Rate of Half Rate.
• Speech Codec: It shows FR for Full Rate,
HR for Half Rate & EFR for Enhanced
Full Rate.
• Ciphering Algorithm : It shows ciphering
algorithm used by the system to protect
data for privacy. E.g. Cipher by A5/2.
• Sub Channel Number: It is displayed at
a time when mobile is on dedicated mode
at time of call setup when it is getting
SDCCH at that time it shows which
SDCCH it is getting out of 8 available.
E.g. 2.
Current Channel
• Hopping Channel : It shows that current
sector is having hopping feature or not.
Values are Yes or No.
• Hopping Frequencies : It displays no. of
freq. on which mobile is allowed to hop.
viz. MA List for hopping of that sector.
• Mobile Allocation Index Offset (MAIO):
It is the number which tells from which
freq. from given MA list for sector
hopping has to be started. E.g. 0 means
sector will start from first freq. to hop.
• Hopping Sequence Number (HSN) :
Indicates sequence in which frequencies
are allowed to hop from the MA List. 0-
63. 0 for Cyclic Hopping, 1 – 63 random
hopping sequences.
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Radio Parameters
• RxLev : Receiving level in terms of dBm
that mobile is receiving from the site.
Range of -30 dBm to -110dBm.
• RxQual : Quality of voice which is
measured on basis of BER. Range of
RxQual 0 -7.
• FER : Frame Erasure Rate it represents the
percentage of frames being dropped due to
high number of non-corrected bit errors in
the frame. It is indication of voice quality
in network.
• BER Actual : Ratio of the number of bit
errors to the total number of bits
transmitted in a given time interval. BER
is a measure for the voice quality in
network.. Depending on BER RxQual is
measured. E,g, BER 0 to 0.2 %
corresponds to RxQual 0. Max. BER
countable and useful is up to 12.8 % which
corresponds to RxQual of max. 7.
Radio Parameters
• SQI : SQI is a more sophisticated measure
which is dedicated to reflecting the quality of
the speech (as opposed to radio environment
conditions). This means that when optimizing
the speech quality in your network, SQI is the
best criterion to use. SQI is updated at 0.5 s
intervals. It is computed on basis of BER and
FER. For EFR 30, FR – 21 & HR – 17 are
respectively ideal values.
• C/I : The carrier-over-interference ratio is the
ratio between the signal strength of the
current serving cell and the signal strength of
undesired (interfering) signal components. It
should be atleast > 9 .
• MS Power Control Level : Displays range of
power control from 0 to 8 depending upon
network design. E.g. 0 means no power
control and 1 means level that is defined by
operator viz. 2 dBm less acc. To airtel.
Radio Parameters
• DTX : Discontinuous transmission (DTX)
is a mechanism allowing the radio
transmitter to be switched off during
speech pauses. This feature reduces the
power consumption of the transmitter,
which is important for MSs, and decreases
the overall interference level on the radio
channels affecting the capacity of the
network..
• TA : Value that the base station calculates
from access bursts and sends to the mobile
station (MS) enabling the MS to advance
the timing of its transmissions to the BS so
as to compensate for propagation delay.
Value of 0 means MS in radius of 550mt.
From BS.
Radio Parameters
• RL Timeout Counter (Cur) : This
parameter define the maximum value of
the radio link counter expressed in
SACCH blocks. Range of 4 – 64 in step
size of 4. it shows current value of RLT.
Decrease by 1 but increase by 2. When it
reaches zero it results in normal DROP
Call.
• RL Timeout Counter (MAX) : This
parameter define the maximum value of
the radio link counter expressed in
SACCH blocks. Range of 4 – 64 in step
size of 4. it shows current value of RLT.
Normally 16, 20, 24.
• MS Behavior Modified : This window
shows current settings for the mobile
station, for instance whether handover is
disabled or multiband reporting enabled.
Serving + Neighbor

 Cell Name : Name that describes the neighboring cell as per the cellfile.
 ARFCN : Channel number mobile receives as neighbor.
 BSIC : BSIC of the neighboring cell.
 RxLev : Receiving Level in dBm of neighboring cell.
 C1 & C2 : These are the cell path loss criterion and cell reselection criteria. Valid during idle mode
of mobile station.
 C31 & C32 : GPRS signal strength threshold criterion C31 and GPRS cell ranking criterion C32.
Valid both in packet idle and packet dedicated mode.
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 Ahmedabad - Mehsana -Palanpur

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24.2
Belipatra,Palanpur

Chappi
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Sidhpur Vishw akarma

23.8 Unjha Umiyamata

Engg. Coll.
Lat

23.6 Jayant Mehsana

ONGC

WaterPark
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Nandasan

Kadi Chatral
Kalol KasturNagar
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Adalaj

Ahmedabad

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72.3 72.35 72.4 72.45 72.5 72.55 72.6 72.65 72.7
Long

Backbone Hop
Spur Hop
 Indoor Antenna:
There are two types of indoor antennas:

1. Omni Directional / Ceiling mount:

Gain: 2 dBi
Radiation pattern: 360º

It covers almost 20m surrounding area. Due to its 360º radiation pattern it is used in room or any small
square hall.
2. Panel antenna / Well mount:

Gain: 7 dBi
Radiation pattern:

Panel antenna is radiate signal up to 40-45 meter. So it is used at big multimedia hall or other long places.

Horizontal: 90º Vertical: 65º

Omni Directional Panel antenna

 2. IBS Site (Ultra or Metro)
At the region where we need coverage as well as capacity both it requires new site (BTS). We can use Metro or Ultra Site for
in-building solutions. Depending upon no. of users we choose either metro or ultra. Metro site supports maximum 4 TRx and Ultra
site supports 12 TRxs. Generally we use Metro site because it causes less interference compare to Ultra site.
In some cases Ultra site is used, but all 3 sectors are not serving for IBS. One sector serves as IBS site and other two sectors
serve as a normal outdoor BTS or other configuration is used.
All the procedure means frequency planning, Transmission planning remains same for this site. The difference is to put indoor
antenna in proper place in the building. We use co-axial cable, splitter and indoor antenna.
Advantage:
Give permanent coverage solution.
Increase the capacity.
Disadvantage:
Take some time to solve coverage problem.
Very high cost compare to RF repeater.
 USE OF RF REPEATER FOR OUTDOOR SOLUTIONS:
RF Repeater is not only used in In-building solution but it is used to solve outdoor coverage hole. Due to some high buildings
or in hilly area coverage is very poor at back part of that obstacle. Here we have no problem of capacity but only poor coverage is
our problem. At this back part there may be big public place like garden, temple, market place. All this place we need outdoor
coverage. So we put one repeater over there to fill up this coverage hole.

For this, put one pickup antenna at that high building or other place where we get good quality signal. Then using repeater,
co-axial cable and antenna we can give good coverage over that place.
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FIRST FLOOR

PA-2 PA-3
SCREEN -2 SCREEN-3

OA-4 OA-5

BTS
PA-1
SCREEN-1 STRICKING CARS

ABOVE RECPTION FUNCTION HALL OA-7

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 R WORLD MULTIPLEX
GROUND FLOOR

DOMINO’S

OA-8

BTS
STALL
OA-9
STRICKING CARS PA-13

OA-10
STALL PA-12

OA-14
OA-11
AT RECEPTION RESTAURANT

OA-15

AT THE BASEMENT FUNCTION HALL IN FRONT OF THILLARIUM

PA-16 IN THE BASE MENT
 SERVING BCCH AND ITS LEVELS

CHANNEL LEVEL CID PLACE

622 -75 Dbm 15343 OUT SIDE RECEPTION
616 -62 Dbm 10721 AT LOWER TERRACE

LAT : 23 10 49.6
LONG:72 33 56.7