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Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: Understand the common procedure Of drive test data analysis Identify the basic problems and cause of the problems Propose the solutions to solve the network problems
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Chapter 1 Common procedure of drive test data analysis Chapter 2 Case study for drive test analysis Chapter 3 Practice on drive test analysis
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Chapter 1 Common procedure of drive test data analysis Chapter 2 Case study for drive test analysis Chapter 3 Practice on drive test analysis
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Coverage
Downlink RxLevel Coverage of single cell Coverage of whole network
Coverage
Network Coverage is evaluated by: RxLev = EIRP(dBm) L(dB) Where: EIRP = Effective Isotropic Radiated Power L = Propagation Losses EIRP(dBm) L(dB) RxLev(dBm) Unexpected coverage (overshooting)
Good coverage
In urban area, Lower Antenna Height (<=25m), Greater downtilt (>=6 degree), and Lower EIRP (<=41 dBm) are used to control overshooting & interference.
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Coverage(one cell)
The following example shows the downlink RxLevel(Dedicated Mode) decreases when MS is driving away from BTS.
Downtilt: 0 drgree
RxLevel
Downtilt: 8 drgree
Coverage(Network)
The picture shows the coverage of a city, which contains good and bad coverage areas. The distribution of downlink RxLev concentrates from -80 to -95 dBm.
Good Coverage
Bad Coverage
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Coverage Issues
Coverage hole Sudden Decrease on Signal Level Line of Sight Lost Lack of Dominant Server Coverage Overlapping Overshooting
Coverage Hole
Legend
RxLevel
Bad RxQuality
Call Drop
RxQuality
RxLevel(Serving Cell) is about (or less than) -95 dBm RxLevel(Neighbours) are about (or less than) -95 dBm
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Signal Strength of Serving cell make fast up and down due to far away server being blocked by obstacles from the terrain. The other way, signal from the server lose line of sight(LOS) to the mobile because of a hill of something.
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This might happen because the MS is located on the cell borders and there is no any best server to keep the call.
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Coverage Overlapping
Signal Level of 34 cells are too closed to each other.
This will cause quality problems because of frequency reuse and frequent HO Immediate action to optimize cell coverage should be taken by power reductions, downtilt or other configuration changes.
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Overshooting
MS is covered by the serving cell, but is outside the cell BSC thinks that it is neighbor cell A and makes a handover to cell A The MS is not near cell A so the assigned TCH for the handover is not used Cell A will have unused TCH (handover) The call might be dropped because it cannot make the handover or bad quality
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Serving cell
BTS
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Proposal
New Site Proposal
Remark
How to do
Using prediction tool(U-net) to identify the best locations to put new sites Using prediction tool(U-net) to identify the recommended azimuth of new sectors Using prediction tool(U-net) to identify the recommended height, type, azimuth or down tilt of sector.
Most effective solution, but the cost is highest Effective solution Sector Addition but only for Omni-Site Difficult, high cost Height Difficult, high cost Type Antenna Easy to operate Azimuth Downtilt Easy to operate Only for troubleshooting Feeders Hardware Connectors Only for troubleshooting Only for troubleshooting Jumpers
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Proposal
Antenna Height Type Azimuth Downtilt
Remark
Difficult, high cost Difficult, high cost Easy to operate Easy to operate
How to do
Using prediction tool(U-net) to identify the recommmended height, type, azimuth or downtilt of sector. Referring to Data Configuration Reference Help
Parameter
Easy to operate, but with Output Power related risk of coverage reduction
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Cross Feeder
What is crossed feeder issue (1)
The term crossed feeder is used to describe the problem that arises when the feeders for two or more sectors in a site are inadvertently connected incorrectly. For Example, consider a new cell site that has three sectors, A, B, and C:
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Normal Situation
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In the example shown above, point A is in the area of coverage of Cell D3, but the handset at point A receives the stronger signal of Cell D2. It indicates that TX feeders were crossed between Cell D3 and Cell D2.
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RxQual is divided into eight levels which are from 0 to 7, the level 0 is the best and the level 7 is the worst.
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MS Time dispersion is caused by the reflections. The MS uses all or most of the received power, instead of only the direct signal, there is a larger probability to decode the information. So the RxQual will be very bad perhaps.
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Avoided adjacent frequencies in the same cell and preferably in neighboring cells as well.
Move the site to be placed near the reflecting Bad Quality due to Time Dispersion object to prevent time dispersion. Another efficient solution is to modify the antenna arrangement, either in azimuth (horizontally) or by tilt (vertically).
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Interference Issue
Hardware Problem TRX Problem Feeder & Arrester Problem Intra-Interference Adjacent channel & Co-channel Inter-modulation Interference Inter-Interference Other Equipment
It will bring the strong interference. The typical phenomena: High Rxlev Worst Rxqual
C/I Problem
C/I Definition C/I: Carrier signal /Interference signal Optimize C/I method Improve Coverage Decrease Interference
RxLevel(Serving Cell) is about (or less than) -95 dBm; RxLevel(Neighbours Cell) is about (or less than) -95 dBm; Result: Worst C/I due to poor coverage.
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RxLevel (Serving Cell) is about -70dBm; (strong) RxLevel (Neighbors Cell) is about -65 to -80 dBm Result: Worst C/I due to interference ( no dominant cell)
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Solution
Adjust cell frequency or adjust coverage Check whether the Feeder and antenna tightening, or direct replacement its.
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Handover Issues
What is
Handover procedure in network? Handover Um signaling flow? Purpose of Handover Analysis in DT?
Handover Procedure
Uplink MR (Measured by BTS) RXLEV Uplink RXQUAL Uplink TA Current BTS TX power
Neighbor Cell_1 Neighbor Cell2 Serving Cell Serving Cell Neighbor Cell2
MS in dedicated mode will continuously perform measurements on serving and neighbor cells. Measurement Reports are sent to BSC and used in the handover algorithm.
Downlink MR (Measured by MS) Downlink RXLEV(Sever) Downlink RXQUAL(Sever) RXLEV_NCELL(n) on the 6 best neighboring cells (+BSIC)
BSC
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Target cell Description Target BCCH of Neighborschannel Description Channel Type, Timeslot Serving Cell: to be measured
TSC DL DTX is ON RF is -109+ RxLev(sub) hopping 62 =--49dBm MAIO, HSN RxQual (sub) is 0
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To make optimization of HSR, the most effective way is based on traffic analysis, combining DT events, neighbor audit, and data configuration audit together.
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Handover Types
Different handover types by network topology Different handover types by algorithm PBGT handover Quality handover Edge Handover Intracell Handover Other types of handover
BSC
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BSC
BSC
BTS
BTS
BTS
BTS
BTS
BTS
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Case3 Asynchronous Inter cell HO Case4 Inter BSC HO Case5 Inter MSC HO
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Handover Types(Algorithm)
OM Forced HO
In DT, the most common handover types happens in following order of priority
Directed Retry
TA Emergency HO
Edge HO
TA RxQuality RxLevel
Rapid Level Drop HO Bad Quality HO Layer HO
PBGT OL&UL
Interference HO
PBGT HO
Fast Moving MS HO
HO
Load HO
Overlay/Underly HO
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PBGT Handover
PBGT HO Exp: When:
RXLEV_NCELL(n) (RXLEVEL+ PWR_DIFF) > HO_MARGIN Serving Cell Target Cell
MS is handed over to the neighboring cell . HO_MARGIN is usually set to 3 to 6 dB. HO_MARGIN could be increased to reduce number of handovers. HO_MARGIN should be decreased if faster handover decision is wanted. PBGT Handover is considered as most healthy handover in a network.
HO_MARGIN > 0
RXLEV_NCELL(n)
RX LEVEL + PWR_DIFF
PBGT HO
Power-budget Distance
A typical PBGT HO
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Quality Handover
Quality Handover Exp: When:
DL RxQuality >= DL Quality HO Threshold
handover caused by UL RxQuality takes place. DL&UL Quality HO Thresholds are generally set to 6. UL Quality HO cant be monitored in DT. Handover was performed to a better quality cell just after experiencing quality problems.
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EDGE Handover
Edge Handover Exp: When:
DL RxLevel < Edge HO DL RX_LEV Threshold
handover caused by UL RxQuality takes place. UL EDGE handover cant be monitored in DT. Handover was performed to the cell with higher downlink Rxlev.
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Handover Issues
What is
Dragged Handover Power Control Effect PingPong Handover Missing Neighbor Relation Fake Neighbor Handover Failure
Dragged Handover
There will be such cases that you will notice handover process taking place a little late, which is called dragged handover.
First thing to check will be handover margins between the neighbors. If margins for level, quality or power budget handovers are not set correctly, If margins are too much, handover will happen late, vice versa.
Dragged handover events often occur after a GSM serving cell loses dominance for a significant time period. Dragged Handover often cause Call Drop or Handover Failure.
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Power control
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Ping-pong Handover
Ping-pong handovers occur when the MS is handed over from one cell to another but is quickly handed back to the original cell.
The shot shows two pingpong handovers displayed on the map along with the Servering CI attribute. The first ping-pong handover is from cell 12424 to cell 12368 and back and the second is from cell 12424 to cell 12366 and back. Changes in the value of the CI is shown below the route. It can be clearly visualized by lines to cells display.
Ping-pong HO
For most cases, Ping-pong Handover is caused by no dominant cell. There was a handover back to cell 12366 after the second ping-pong handover, but this was outside of the defined window. The change in dominance after the handover was 9dB, which represents a much healthier handover.
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The shot shows after second handover in the red box, a much stronger Serving Cell appears. ( suspect there might be missing neighbor in the 1st HO attempt) At this time Neighbor audit should be performed.
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Although that overshooting cell with a very good signal level appears in neighbor list, in reality it is not. Just because the serving cell has another neighbor cell use same with the same BCCH&BSIC ,so the measurement of the overshooting cell appears in the list.
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Handover Failure
Handover Failure: Handover attempt was failed and the call returned back to its all channel.
Target Cell is BCCH is 13 BSIC is 65 Target channel is 900M RF Failure Handover hopping Channel. Half Rate MA list is 1, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 MAIO is 4, HSN is 31, The TSC is 5. handover has not successfully completed Channel mode is AMR(SV3) yet! Handover Failure is Another example: Excessive Number of Handover caused by T200 Expired
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Proposal
Check if the parameter of handover, such as: PBGT, Quality, Interference, Edge handover threshold, and P/N Value is set too high. Check if there is no dominant coverage. Referring to the solution of Low Coverage. Check if the traffic volume of target cell is high or has congestion at measuring time. Check if there is hardware problem. Referring to hardware checking guide Check if there is no dominant coverage. Referring to the solution of Low Coverage.
Ping-pong Handover
Check if the parameter of handover, such as: PBGT, Quality, Interference, Edge handover threshold, and P/N Value is set too low . Check if there is overlapping coverage area, which may also cause ping-pong handover. Neighbor Audit. Check if there is neighbor missing according to data configuration in OMC. Find out the cause of Handover failure form Um signaling flow from Layer2 and Layer3 Message. Check if the HSR between source and target cell is low. If it is, find the root cause of handover failure reasons by traffic statistic analysis.
Missing Neighbor
Handover Failure
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