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OWJ102103 WCDMA RNO RF Optimization
ISSUE 1.0
Wireless Curriculum Development Section
Review
This
lecture
introduces
the
various
stages
involved in optimizing a 3G radio network and focuses mainly on the RF Optimization phase.

Step-by-step approach for the analysis of drive survey data collected by Agilent Scanner and test UE is presented. The analysis is carried out using the post processing tool Actix Analyzer.
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Review
RF optimization will be an ongoing activity and will need to be revisited as traffic increases in the network and as new sites are deployed.
In
addition,
as
the
network
matures,
the
optimization process should be enhanced to take into account statistical data and key performance indicators collected throughout the network.
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 Optimization Phases Chapter 2 RF Optimization Chapter 3 RF Analysis Approaches Chapter 4 Antenna Adjustment Example Chapter 5 Drop Call Analysis Example
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Network Optimization Phases Flow Chart
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Network Optimization Phases Step 1
Single Site Verification

To verify the functionality of every new site.
Objectives
To ensure there are no faults related to site installation or parameter settings.
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RF Optimization
Once all the sites in a given area are integrated and verified, RF (or Cluster) optimization could begin.
Objectives
To optimize coverage while at the same time keeping interference and pilot pollution under control over the target area. This phase also includes the verification and optimization of the 3G neighbor lists.
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Services Testing & Parameter Optimization

To be conducted in areas of good RF conditions in order to exclude any coverage issues. Such testing does not need to be performed for each cell but the drive route must include different clutter types and environments.
Objectives
To assess the performance and identify any need for specific parameter optimization.
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Regular Reference Route Testing & Stats Analysis

Constant monitoring and evaluation of the network performance can be based on field testing as well as network stats analysis. Results of the regular analysis may necessitate re-visits to the RF optimization and/or parameters tuning.
Objectives
To identify any new issues that could arise, for example, as a result of increase in traffic or changes in the environment.
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Course Contents
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RF Optimization - Preparation

Clutters
RF optimization should be carried out for groups or clusters of sites rather than on single site basis.
Drive Routes
Cluster drive surveys should include the coverage areas of each cell and all the major roads and streets as well as any other important locations.
Tools
Agilent scanner Qualcomm UE in continuous AMR call Actix Analyzer
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RF Optimization - Targets
Item
CPICH RSCP CPICH Ec/Io Active Set size (estimated)
Requirements
Target Minimum Target Minimum Target Max % - 85 dBm -95 dBm -8 dB - 14 dB 3 < 10 % 8 dB <15 dBm >95 %
Comments
Corresponds to outdoor measurements. Applicable for unloaded network. Based on scanner data. % of time a cell is seen as a pilot polluter. Relative to best server when cell is not in Active Set. Assuming 21 dBm max. For e1a, e1b & e1c
Pilot pollution Threshold UE Tx power SHO Success rate Max Target
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RF Optimization Flow Chart

Drive Test Identify any RF Issues Identify candidate cells for changes Identify nature of required changes Implement changes N Repeat Drive Test Problem Resolved? Finish
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Determine amount of changes
RF Optimization - Solutions

Antenna tilt Antenna azimuth Antenna location Antenna height Antenna type Site location New site
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Course Contents
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RF Analysis Approaches Cell Dominance
Cells with no dominance at all

A site was not radiating during the drive survey Very poor dominance can also be caused by blocking of the antenna. So a site visit must be made to verify the antenna clearance.
Cells with either excessive or poor dominance

This could be due to a high site or non-optimum antenna tilts. Cells with too large dominance will be causing interference to adjacent cells resulting in poorer capacity.
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Areas of non-dominance:
Areas where there is not a single clear dominant cell and where the best server changes too frequently. Result: Excessive number of soft hand off events reducing the system efficiency and increasing the probability of call drops.
UE vs. Scanner Best Serving Cells:

Comparison between the UE and scanner SC plots. Significant differences between the plots may indicate a missing neighbor or failed soft handoff problem.
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RF Analysis Approaches CPICH Coverage
Check areas of poor coverage, suggestion value as below:

Good: RSCP -85 dBm Fair: -95 dBm RSCP < -85 dBm
Poor: RSCP < - 95 dBm

Examine the RSCP coverage on per cell bases in order to highlight any cells that have too large a footprint.
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RF Analysis Approaches CPICH Coverage
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RF Analysis Approaches Interference
CPICH Ec/Io Plot

Good: Ec/Io -8 dB Fair: -14 dB Ec/Io < -8 dB Poor: Ec/Io < - 14 dB
The -8 dB threshold takes into account the expected future interference increase as a result of increased traffic.
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Whats the problem?
-14 -15 -16 -104 -17 -18 -19 -20 Ec/Io RSCP -15.5
-90 -95 -100 -105 -110 -115 -120
Because the RSCP Level is POOR, the fundamental cause of low Ec/Io is POOR COVERAGE
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-14 -15 -16 -17 -18 -19 -20 Ec/Io
-63 -15.5
-60 -65 -70 -75 -80 -85 -90
Whats the problem?
RSCP
RSCP level is GOOD, this will imply strong SYSTEM INTERFERENCE
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RF Analysis Approaches UL Coverage
Uplink Coverage (UE Tx Power)

High UE Tx power means possible poor uplink coverage. Areas of high Tx power should be compared to the CPICH pilots to verify if the problem only exists on the uplink.
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RF Analysis Approaches UL Coverage
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RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution
Pilot Pollution Point Define:

Not all points in the active set Within a certain margin of the best server( the margin is set to 8dB)
Cells which are frequently seen as polluters (e.g. >8% time) should be marked and investigated.
Pilot Pollution results should be used in conjunction with the Estimated Active Set Size
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-60 -65 RSCP (dBm) -70 -75 -80 -85 -90 SC1 SC2 SC3 SC4 SC5 SC6 N t Pil t P lluti n
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Margin
-62
-64
-66
-68
-69 -81
A tive Set
Pil t P lluti n

SC 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 32 35 37 43 48 53 67 80 130 Count 2 6 165 157 156 1 8 135 95 94 76 74 73 56 54 39 33 19 8 7 3 2 2 % in Pollution Set 2.9% 10. % 9.8% 9.7% 9.2% 8.4% 5.9% 5.9% 4.7% 4.6% 4.6% 3.5% 3.4% 2.4% 2.1% 1.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
Should be investigated
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Estimated Active Set Size

Another useful measure of pilot pollution is by looking at the estimated active set based on the scanner data. This plot is obtained by modeling the network soft handoff parameters within Actix. In order to see areas of excessive SHO candidates, the estimated active set size is allowed to exceed maximum of 3. This can be done in conjunction with the Pilot pollution analysis.
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Estimated Active Set Size Example
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RF Analysis Approaches Neighbor List

Neighbor List Verification

The neighbor list could be verified and optimized using the Neighbor List Verification tool within Actix.
Recommendations for Each Cell:

Retain: This indicates that those neighbors have been confirmed from the drive survey data. Add: Missing neighbors Remove: These neighbors that were not measured but are in the neighbor list.
Careful consideration is needed prior to removing neighbours since the Actix results are drive route dependent.
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RF Analysis Approaches Neighbor List
Neighbor List Verification Example

Sample Sample Action Nbr SC Count Count
576 Retain Retain Retain Retain Retain Add Retain Retain Retain Retain Retain Remove Remove Remove Remove Remove Remove 018 010 016 032 011 130 021 008 020 012 017 053 019 034 037 013 051 82 46 31 20 18 17 17 12 6 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
SC
009
Cell
70548
Site
Ajman Central
Latitude
25.41204
Longitude
55.447
%
14.2% 8.0% 5.4% 3.5% 3.1% 3.0% 3.0% 2.1% 1.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
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RF Analysis Approaches SHO

UE SHO Performance
The success rates for event 1a, 1b & 1c and can be obtained from Actix
Number f ti e et tes
Event unt Event - e 328 Event - e 306 Event c - e 64
Number f
tive et
te
mpletes
Event unt Event - e 326 Event - e 305 Event c - e 62
ft-
ndover uccess
te
Event te Event - e 99.4 Event - e 99. Event c - e 96.9

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RF Analysis Approaches Drop Call
Drop Call Analysis - RF related issues :

Poor coverage (RSCP & Ec/Io) High interference and hence poor Ec/Io Poor uplink coverage (insufficient UE Tx power) Poor dominance (best cell changes too frequently resulting in too many SHO events) Pilot pollution (too many cells present) Missing neighbors Fast change of RF conditions (e.g. turning a corner)
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Drop Call Analysis Example 1
RSCP & Ec/Io degrades BOTH for scanner and UE
Check for Coverage problems
Call Drop
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Ec/Io (and RSCP) degrades for UE ONLY while scanner shows no degradation
UE camp on new cell immediately after drop, and UE did not measure this cell before Drop
Call Drop
Check the Neighbor
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Too many and too quick changes of best server
UE to perform measurements and SHO in time difficultly
PingPong Handover, need to improve cell dominance
Call Drop
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 Optimization Phases Chapter 2 RF Optimization Chapter RF nal sis Approaches
Chapter 4 Antenna Adjustment Example Chapter 5 Drop Call Anal sis Example
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Antenna Adjustment Example

RSCP Coverage before Adjustment
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RSCP Coverage after Adjustment
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RSCP Distribution

CPICH RSCP Dist ib ti 40.00% 35.00% 30.00% 25.00% 29.33% 25.98%
20.31% 5.47%
15.00% 10.00% 1.44% 5.00% 0.00%

5t 10 -
30.27% 31.04%
20.00%
0.02%
-9 5 -9
5t
-85 -8

5t
-75 -7

5t
-65
>

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ef e A j st e t

Afte A j st e t
18.65%
37.48%
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Down Tilt from 4 to 6 Result
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Down Tilt from 4 to 8 Result
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 Optimization Phases Chapter 2 RF Optimization Chapter RF Anal sis Approaches
Chapter 4 Antenna Adjustment Example Chapter 5 Drop Call Anal sis Example
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Drop Call Analysis Example

Drop Call Distribution
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There are total 5 drop calls in the plot. The example of drop call 1 is analyzed to show the process of analysis in the following.
Drop call 1 occurred at an area of frequent change of best server as shown by the scanner scrambling code plot
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CPICH RSCP and Ec/Io before the Call Drop
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Compare Ec/Io from both scanner and UE at the time of the drop as shown in Figure. This clearly shows the UE Ec/Io to drop to < -21 dB while the scanner remained above -11 dB.
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Best server before and after the Call Drop
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Comparing the best servers from the UE and the scanner at the time of drop:
Drop Call 1 (UE vs. scanner best server) shows that for the scanner and UE SC008 is the best server prior to the drop. However, about 30 seconds before the drop, the scanner selected SC018 as the best server while the UE continued to have only SC009 in its active set resulting in the drop call. Immediately after the drop, the UE camps on SC018.
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UE Active Set and Monitor Set Before and After the Call Drop
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Conclusion
Examining the UE Active and Monitored set, Figure does not show SC018 to be measured by the UE prior to the drop. This scenario resembles a missing neighbor problem
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Coverage of Drop Call Point
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Solution:
Looking at drop call Figure clearly shows that at the location of the drop, SC018 should not be the best server. Cell SC018 clearly requires some down tilting to control its interference into the area of Drop 1. To illustrate this, RSCP coverage of SC018 shows clearly that the cells is extending into a large area. E.g. around the location of drop call, SC018 RSCP is > -75dBm. Add the Missing Neighbors
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Wireless Curriculum Development Section

Network Optimization Phases Flow Chart

Network Optimization Phases Step 1

Single Site Verification

Network Optimization Phases Step 2

Network Optimization Phases Step 3

Services Testing & Parameter Optimization

Network Optimization Phases Step 4

Regular Reference Route Testing & Stats Analysis

Confidential Information of Huawei. No Spreading without Permission.

Security Level: Internal

Pilot pollution Threshold UE Tx power SHO Success rate Max Target

RF Optimization Flow Chart

Determine amount of changes

RF Analysis Approaches Cell Dominance

Cells with no dominance at all

Cells with either excessive or poor dominance

RF Analysis Approaches Cell Dominance

UE vs. Scanner Best Serving Cells:

RF Analysis Approaches Cell Dominance

RF Analysis Approaches CPICH Coverage

Check areas of poor coverage, suggestion value as below:

Poor: RSCP < - 95 dBm

RF Analysis Approaches CPICH Coverage

RF Analysis Approaches Interference

CPICH Ec/Io Plot

RF Analysis Approaches Interference

-90 -95 -100 -105 -110 -115 -120

RF Analysis Approaches Interference

-14 -15 -16 -17 -18 -19 -20 Ec/Io

-60 -65 -70 -75 -80 -85 -90

Whats the problem?

RSCP level is GOOD, this will imply strong SYSTEM INTERFERENCE

RF Analysis Approaches Interference

RF Analysis Approaches UL Coverage

Uplink Coverage (UE Tx Power)

RF Analysis Approaches UL Coverage

RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution

Pilot Pollution Point Define:

RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution

RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution

RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution

Estimated Active Set Size

RF Analysis Approaches Pilot Pollution

Estimated Active Set Size Example

RF Analysis Approaches Neighbor List

Neighbor List Verification

Recommendations for Each Cell:

RF Analysis Approaches Neighbor List

Neighbor List Verification Example

RF Analysis Approaches SHO

Event unt Event - e 326 Event - e 305 Event c - e 62

Event te Event - e 99.4 Event - e 99. Event c - e 96.9

RF Analysis Approaches Drop Call

Drop Call Analysis - RF related issues :

RF Analysis Approaches Drop Call

Drop Call Analysis Example 1

RSCP & Ec/Io degrades BOTH for scanner and UE

Check for Coverage problems

RF Analysis Approaches Drop Call

Drop Call Analysis Example 2