WCDMA KPI

Troubleshooting
- Accessibility
 Accessibility
Introduction

Accessibility is defined as the ability of a user to access

the UMTS network successfully to utilize the available MOC/MTC
services.

The metrics within Ericsson RNC and OSS provide

counters and KPIs that describe the behaviors and RRC Setup
experience of the subscribers while accessing the UMTS
network.
NAS Signaling
problems in Accessibility are occurring either due to
problems in RRC (Radio Resource Control) connection,
NAS SIGNALING or due to problems with establishment of
RAB (Radio Access Bearer). RAB Setup

Accessibility = RRC RAB NAS

 Kpi formula CALCULATION

RRC Setup Success Rate CS :

=100*(sum(pmtotNorrcConnectReqCsSucc)/sum(pmtotnorrcconnectReqCs-
pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnCs))
RRC Setup Success Rate PS :
=100*(sum(pmtotNorrcConnectReqPsSucc)/sum(pmtotnorrcconnectReqPs-
pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnPs))

RAB Setup Success Rate CS :

=100*(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessSpeech)/sum(pmNoRabEstablishAttemptSpeech-
pmNoDirRetryAtt))
RAB Setup Success Rate CS64 (Video) :
=100*(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessCs64)/sum(pmNoRabEstablishAttemptCs64))
RAB Setup Success Rate PS/R99 :
=100*(sum(pmNoRabEstSuccessPsIntNonHs)/sum(pmNoRabEstAttemptPsIntNonHs))
RAB Setup Success Rate HSDPA :
=100*(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessPacketInteractiveHs+pmNoRabEstSuccessPsStreamHs)/
sum(pmNoRabEstAttemptPsStreamHs+pmNoRabEstablishAttemptPacketInteractiveHs))
RAB Setup Success Rate EUL :
=100*(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessPacketInteractiveEul)/
sum(pmNoRabEstablishAttemptPacketInteractiveEul))
 Kpi formula CALCULATION

CS CALL SETUP Success Rate E2E :

=100*(sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqCsSucc)/sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqCs-
pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnCs))*(sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleaseCs)/sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleaseCs+pmNoSyste
mNasSignReleaseCs))*(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessSpeech)/sum(pmNoRabEstablishAttemptSpeech-
pmNoDirRetryAtt))

PS CALL SETUP Success Rate E2E :

=100*(sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPsSucc)/sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPs-
pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnPs))*(sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs)/sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs+pmNoSyste
mNasSignReleasePs))*(sum(pmNoRabEstSuccessPsIntNonHs)/
sum(pmNoRabEstAttemptPsIntNonHs))

HSDPA CALL SETUP Success Rate E2E :

=100*(sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPsSucc)/sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPs-pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnPs))*
(sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs)/sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs+
pmNoSystemNasSignReleasePs))*
(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessPacketInteractiveHs+pmNoRabEstSuccessPsStreamHs)/
sum(pmNoRabEstAttemptPsStreamHs+pmNoRabEstablishAttemptPacketInteractiveHs))

EUL CALL SETUP Success Rate E2E :

=100* (sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPsSucc)/sum(pmTotNoRrcConnectReqPs-
pmNoLoadSharingRrcConnPs))*(sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs)/sum(pmNoNormalNasSignReleasePs+pmNoSyste
mNasSignReleasePs))*
(sum(pmNoRabEstablishSuccessPacketInteractiveEul)/sum(pmNoRabEstablishAttemptPacketInteractiveEul))
troubleshooting flow chart
 RRC Setup Failure Causes
PLoad=pmNoRejRrcConnMpLoadC
DENIED_ADM=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdm
FAIL_RADIO=pmTotNoRrcConnectReq - pmTotNoRrcConnectReqSucc pmTotNoUtranRejRrcConnReq
FAIL_AFT_ADM=pmTotNoUtranRejRrcConnReq - pmNoRejRrcConnMpLoadC pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdm
DEN_CS=pmNoRrcCsReqDeniedAdm
DEN_PS=pmNoRrcPsReqDeniedAdm
RL_DENIED_ADM=pmNoRlDeniedAdm
FAILURES_AFTER_ADM=pmNoFailedAfterAdm
ADMCONTROL_REQDEN=pmNoReqDeniedAdm
BLOCK_HW=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqHw
BLOCK_HW_CS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqCsHw
BLOCK_HW_PS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqPsHw
BLOCK_NODE_CS=pmNoRrcCon nReqBlockNodeCs
BLOCK_NODE_PS=pmNoRrcConnReqBlockNodePs
BLOCK_HW_CS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqCsHw
BLOCK_HW_PS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqPsHw
REQDEN_CODES=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlChnlCode
REQDEN_ULHW=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmUlHw
REQDEN_DLHW=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlHw
REQDEN_DLPOWER=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlPwr
REQDEN_SPEECH=pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedSpeech
 RAB Establishment Failure Causes

REQDEN_ULASE=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlAse)/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt)
REQDEN_DLASE=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlAse)/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt)
REQDEN_CODES=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlChnlCode )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_DLPOWER=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlPwr )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_SFHYST=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptExceedConnLimit )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_ULHW=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_DLHW=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlHwBest )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
 Main Accessibility issues

DL Transmitted Carrier Power Admission

DL Channelization Code Admission
UL / DL HW (CE) Admission
ASE Admission
High MP load.
Connection limit.
High UL NOISE [RSSI]
FAILURE AFTER ADM
RNC license limit
Admission Control Workflow
 DL POWER - COUNTERS
FAILURE Counters:
RRC : pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlPwr
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlPwr

CRITERIA
ADMISSION REJECTION : Power > pwradm
CONGESTION REJECTION : Power > pwradm+pwroffset

Action:
Check and align the Power parameters & DL attenuation parameters.
Increase the value for pwrAdm + pwrOffset and could be less than 100%
Optimize the parametrs minPwrRl, minPwrMax, interPwrMax, maxPwrMax, maximumTransmissionPower.
If 2nd carrier cell is not congested then share traffic by Qoffset (Idle mode)
If 2nd carrier is congestion also, then check neighbor cells and try to off load traffic by reducing cpich (-1 db)
and adjust Qoffset values
Do physical optimization incase of overshooting
 DL Power curve
Services vs rate mapping in the new scenario will be :

minimumRate : A-Dch (HS Services signalling)

Interrate : AMR Speech (12.2 kbps),WB speech (12.65 kbps) & R99 (8 kbps)
Maxrate : R99 (16kbps,32 kbps,64 kbps,128 kbps & 384 kbps)

minimumRate from 1590 to 370 (15.9 kbps 3.7 kbps)

minPwrMax from 0 to -15 (0 dB -1.5 dB)
interRate from 7760 to 1300 (77.6 kbps 13.00 kbps)
interPwrMax from 38 to 30 (3.8 dB 3 dB)
maxPwrMax from 48 to 30 (4.8 dB 3.8 dB)
prach parameters
Tuning the following RACH parameters:
powerOffsetP0
preambleRetransMax
maxPreambleCycle

powerOffsetP0: It is the Power ramp step for the preamble when no acquisition indicator is
received.
preambleRetransMax: It is the maximum number of preambles sent in one RACH
preamble ramping cycle.
maxPreambleCycle: It is the maximum number of preamble ramping cycle.

Old Current
configuration configuration
Parameter
(default (Ericssons
values) recommendation)

powerOffsetP0 3 1
preambleRetransMax 8 32
maxPreambleCycle 4 32
 DL CHANNELISATION CODE
WCDMA Code tree is considered as one of the important Resource
Below picture will clearly explain the code tree usage
DL CHANNELISATION CODE - Lack of DL CODE

FAILURE Counters:
RRC : pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlChnlCode
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlChnlCode

CRITERIA
ADMISSION REJECTION : code > dlcodeadm

Action:
Increase dlCodeAdm from 90 to as high as 95
Reduce NumHsScchCode
Reduce NumHsPdschCode
Reduce the values for sf4Adm, sf8Adm, sf16Adm to free some codes for other uses
Carrier addition
 Lack of UL HW
FAILURE Counters:
RRC : pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmUlHw
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHWBest

CRITERIA
ADMISSION REJECTION : CE Usage > Available CEs in DUW

Action:
Check availableRbsChannelElementsUplink & licenseCapacityRbsChannelElementsUplink
Rejection in only one DUW (out of available two DUWs) - Tune the ulLicFractBbPool2
Recommend for CE addtion.
Reduce the values for sf4AdmUl, sf8AdmUl, sf16AdmUl,
Switch off the 2ms TTI for EUL eulServingCellUsersAdmTti2
Send more traffic to GSM if GSM is not congested Change
Directed Retry to GSM loadSharingGsmThreshold
Increase UlHwAdm
Tune UlPrefrate & DlPrefrate
 Channel Element
Definition:
CE is a measure of board capacity and radio bearer capacity cost
CE is an unit less entity
Normalization:
Downlink: One AMR12.2kbps with SF=128
Uplink: One AMR12.2kbps with SF=64
CE Ladder for DL
DUW30 CE capacity
 A DCH Reservation
A-DCH are dedicated channels, used for UL/DL signaling (SRB) when using HSDPA
service.
A-DCH channels consume CEs both for UL/DL, but in DL these CEs are reserved from the
DL R99 CE pool.
It is important to calculate the amount of R99 CE as this A-DCH reservation effectively
reduces the CE capacity for R99.
The cost for 1 A-DCH in RBS6000 is 0.5CE.
A DCH Reservation
 ASE AIR INTERFACE SPEECH
EQUIVALENT
ASE is a Virtual capacity resource of air interface in WCDMA Network. It is a measure of
how much of user of this service load the air interface.

ASE is equated to Speech RAB ASE (sum of DCH-SPEECH + DCH-SRB)

ASE calculation for Speech RAB

ASE for different RABs are

shown in the picture
 Lack of ASE
FAILURE Counters:
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlAse & pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlAse

CRITERIA
UL ADMISSION REJECTION : ASE Usage > aseUlAdm
DL ADMISSION REJECTION : ASE Usage > aseDlAdm

Calculation of Actual ASEs:

ASEs are cacluated by using the following counters

Action:
Generally ASE rejections will not be pegged due to higher value setting of aseUlAdm & aseDlAdm
 High Processor Load
Calculation: pmSumMeasuredLoad / pmSamplesMeasuredLoad
pmprocessorload
PROCESSOR LOAD TOUCHING
PEAK LOAD OF 94% in DUW1.
Leading to Fluctuation for both
carrier in DUW1 (FDD10 & FDD
7)

Action
Terminate MRR Recording
Turn off unnecessary traces
change reportingRange1a from 6 to 4,
reportingRange1b from 10 to 8, and
timeToTrigger1c from 11 to 12
Incase of IUB congestion, Check and upgrade IUB
 MP Load Distribution

Channel Switching contributed the Similar trends can be seen

most Load on mMP of 32%. This is
then followed by Location Updated &
SMS, then HS/EUL Access.
when High MP Load, the
Channel Switching KPI also
impacted and it mainly due to
Up-Switching.
 Connection limit
FAILURE Counters:
EUL : pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedEul
HS : pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedHs

CRITERIA
ADMISSION REJECTION EUL : EUL Serv Users > eulServingCellUsersAdm
ADMISSION REJECTION HSDPA : HSL Serv Users > hsdpaUsersAdm

Action:
Need to recommend the increase in the license limit for HS and
EUL users
Increase hsdpaUsersAdm but need to leave scope for HS users
needing access while in handover in connected mode.
Increase maxNumHsdpaUsers
Increase eulServingCellUsersAdm
pathlossThresholdEulTti2
pathlossThresholdEulTti2-
Path loss threshold for selecting 2ms TTI for EUL at DCH to DCH transitions. Calls with path loss less than
this threshold, or for which path loss measurements have not been received, will be considered for setup
on 2ms TTI EUL.
E/// recommends to set this parameter to a lower value than 170, which basically disables the EUL 2ms
path loss check.
o GPEH analysis performed on 1 hour of RNC shows that around 90% RAB EUL 2ms failures occur when RSCP <
-94 dBm, which corresponds to an average RNC pathloss = 129 dBm
pathlossThresholdEulTti2
Ericsson recommendation to properly set this parameter to a value <170 was tested on 01/10/13 in
the RNC
Good CSSR PS improvement without any EUL 2ms TTI traffic loss
Changes

The value of
pathlossthresholdeultti2 was tuned
from 170 to 129
Changes
 PmnofailedafterAdm
Description : Number of Radio Resource Control (RRC) or Radio Access Bearer (RAB)
establishment requests failed after being admitted by admission control.
RRC and RAB establishment failures which occur after admission control can be due to
Iub transport Network blocking
Node blocking
NBAP RL setup failure (RAX or TXB congestion)
Channel Code Allocation Failure (code not available)
Core transport network congestion or failures
timeout in the UE, RNC or RBS
Action:
Check and remove TAX/RAX Board congestion
Check and upgrade IUB link in case of congestion
Check and clear Hardware issues
Check and clear Iub Link outages.

pmCapAllocIubHsLimitingRatioSpiXX XX = 0015
pmHsDataFramesLostSpiXX XX = 00...15
pmHsDataFramesReceivedSpiXX XX = 0015
pmHsDataFrameDelayIubSpiXX XX = 0015