Parameter tuning to reduce TCH

Congestion Rate in Huawei

System
1. TCH Traffic Busy Threshold(%)
2. RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN
3. SACCH Multi-Frames and Radio Link Timeout
4. SDCCH Dynamic Adjustment
5. RACH Min.Access Level
6. Speech Version
7. TCH Immediate Assignment
8. Speech Version
9. Fix Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Threshold
10. Assignment Cell Load Judge Enable
11. Flex Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Threshold
12. Directed Retry Load Access Threshold
13. Balance Traffic Allowed
14. Load HO Allowed
15. Load HO Step Period
16. Load HO Step Level
17. Cell Direct Try Forbidden Threshold
18. Direct Retry
19. SDCCH Dynamic Adjustment
20. Direct Retry and Cell Direct Try Forbidden Threshold
21. AMR TCH/H Prior Allowed
22. T3103
23. T3107
24. F2H HO th/ H2F HO th
25. Maximum Ratio Threshold of PDTCH

Above mentioned parameters are for Huawei System, name of the same may
be vary from system to system, but its influence is same in the network.
TCH Traffic Busy Threshold : When TCH Assignment Rate reaches or
exceeds this threshold BSC starts to assigns halfrate channels. If this
parameter is set to very small value there will e high TCH Congestion on the
cell. However this parameter will increases channel usages rate & also
degrades speech Quality. By increasing the value of this parameter we can
get relief in congestion.
RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN : This parameter specifies the minimum receive level
of an MS to access the BSS. If this parameter is set to a too small value,
some MSs with low receive levels may access the network and TCH
congestion is likely to occur. You can set this parameter to a great value to
reduce the TCH congestion rate. The counters such as call setup success rate
and the counters related to traffic volume, however, are accordingly affected.
SACCH Multi-Frames and Radio Link Timeout : SACCH Multi-Frames is
parameter used in UPLINK & Radio Link Timeout(RLT) is used for DOWNLINK.
SACCH Multi-Frames : When the BTS receives the SACCH measurement
report from the MS, the counter for determining whether a radio link is faulty
is set to the value of this parameter. Each time the BTS fails to decode the
SACCH measurement report sent by the MS, the counter decreases by 1. If
the BTS successfully decodes the SACCH measurement report, the counter
increases by 2. When the value of the counter is 0, the radio link fails.The
BTS sends a connection failure indication message to the BSC.The judgment
standard is whether the SACCH message is correctly decoded.
Radio Link Timeout : This parameter specifies when an MS disconnects a
call if the MS unsuccessfully decodes the SACCH message. Once a dedicated
channel is assigned to the MS, the counter S is enabled and the initial value
is set to this parameter value. Each time an SACCH message is not decoded,
the counter S decreases by 1. Each time an SACCH message is correctly
decoded, the counter S increases by 2.When the counter S is equal to 0, the
downlink radio link is considered as failed.Therefore, when the voice or data
quality is degraded to an unacceptable situation and it cannot be improved
through power control or channel handover, the connection is to be reestablished or released.
When these parameter is set to very high value inspite of poor quality
channel will be occupied and this will cause TCH Congestion.

SDCCH Dynamic Adjustment : When no of users increases some users

may not be able to access the network due to lack of SDCCHs. If this
parameter is set to YES TCH will be converted into SDCCH. This will cause
less no of TCHs & will increase TCH Congestion.
RACH Min.Access Level : This parameter specifies the level threshold for
the MS access. If this parameter is set to a too small value, some MSs with
low signal levels may access the network and TCH congestion is likely to
occur. You can set this parameter to a great value to reduce the TCH
congestion rate. The counters such as call setup success rate and paging
success rate, however, are affected.

Speech Version : This parameter contains 6 digits which should be set

either to 0 or to 1. 1 means speech version is enable & 0 means speech
version is disable.
First three digit of this indicates Half Rate speech versions & last three digits
indicates Full Rate speech version. First digit of both the half rate & full rate
pair indicates AMR Half Rate & AMR Full Rate, second indicates
Enhanced Half Rate(EHR) & Enhanced Full Rate (EFR), third digit
indicates Normal Half Rate & Normal Full Rate. If your speech version is
set to 111111 then all the speech versions are enable and if 1011111
means Enhance Half Rate is disable and rest all are enable.
If this parameter is set to wrong value means if any digit is set to 0 and the
same speech version is enable at MSC end then there will be problem during
assignment procedure. And if half rate is disable in this parameter then there
will be no half rate assignment in the cell.
TCH Immediate Assignment : If this parameter is set to YES then during
assignment procedure if SDCCH isn't available then BSC directly assigns
TCHs. If this parameter is set to NO then the attempt will blocked. This
parameter helps to relieve congestion & improve Channel Assignment
Success Rate.
Fix Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Threshold : This parameter specifies
the static Abis resource load threshold. When the static Abis resource load is
lower than the value of Fix Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Thred(%), the TCHF is
preferentially assigned. Otherwise, the TCHF or TCHH is preferred according

to the dynamic Abis resource load.

Flex Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Threshold : When the static Abis
resource load is higher than the value of Fix Abis Prior Choose Abis Load
Threshold(%) and the dynamic Abis resource load is higher than the value of
Flex Abis Prior Choose Abis Load Threshold(%), the TCHH is preferred.
Otherwise, the TCHF is preferred

Directed retry parameters

Directed Retry Permitted : This parameter specifies whether to allow
directed retry. In directed retry, a handover procedure is performed to hand
over the MS to a neighbor cell. Directed retry is an emergency measure for
abnormal peak traffic in the local wireless network. It is not a primary
method of clearing traffic congestion. If directed retry is preformed
frequently in a local network, you must adjust the TRX configuration of the
BTS and the network layout. Directed Retry will be performed only if
Assignment Cell Load Judge Enable is set to Yes.
> Parameters Need to be tuned to enable DRT:
1. Directed Retry Permitted : YES
2. Assignment Cell Load Judge Enable : YES
3. Directed Retry Load Access Threshold : 80
4. Directed Retry Handover Level Range : 72
5. Cell Directed Retry Forbidden Threshold : 90
Directed Retry Load Access Threshold : This parameter is used to adjust
candidate target cells for directed retry in HO Algorithm I. When target cells
are selected during directed retry, only the cells whose loads are smaller
than or equal to the Directed Retry Load Access Threshold are selected as
candidate target cells.If the value of the parameter is too high, the cells with
heavy loads are selected as candidate target cells so that the handover does
not make sense. If the value of the parameter is too low, it is difficult to

select candidate target cells. During directed retry, only the cells whose
loads are smaller than or equal to Directed Retry Load Access Threshold are
selected as candidate target cells.
Cell Directed Retry Forbidden Threshold : If Assignment Cell Load Judge
Enable is set to Yes, the directed retry procedure is started if the following
two conditions are met: The cell supports the directed retry procedure. The
load of the cell is greater than or equal to the Cell Directed Retry Forbidden
Threshold.
Directed Retry Handover Level Range : This parameter specifies the
value range of the difference in the signal level between the neighbor cell
and the serving cell when the directed retry procedure is triggered.