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Analysis report of CE Congestion

CE congestion is one of the major reason for blocked calls, so it is very important to
get a clear picture of the CE situation for the whole network.

Table of Contents
1

CE Status Review...............................................................................................................1

1.1

Statistics.........................................................................................................................1

1.2

Analysis..........................................................................................................................3

Solution of CE Congestion..............................................................................................10

2.1

Increase CE capacity....................................................................................................10

2.2

Switch off HSUPA 5.76mbps service..........................................................................10

2.3

Switch off dynamic CE function.................................................................................10

1 CE Status Review
1.1

Statistics
Lets review the statistics of last week, which is from 12th Aug to 18th Aug.
Top 20 of RNC2

CI
13032
13035
13037
13036
13033
13031
12252
12256
9382
12257
3136
12253
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Cell Name
Ntinda_Valley_2
Ntinda_Valley_5
Ntinda_Valley_7
Ntinda_Valley_6
Ntinda_Valley_3
Ntinda_Valley_1
Kyebando_Nsoba_2
Kyebando_Nsoba_6
Kamukuzi_2
Kyebando_Nsoba_7
KAWAALA_ONE_6
Kyebando_Nsoba_3

VS.RAB.
VS.RAB.Fail FailEsta
EstabPS.UL bCS.ULC VS.RRC.Rej.U
CE.Cong
E.Cong
LCE.Cong
173085
1810
69626
164729
2697
57587
129996
2767
44139
99508
1322
56656
85517
1581
28710
80464
994
28168
18449
188
6259
16551
230
5624
16256
112
698
15421
219
3794
14902
373
6761
14818
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1871
3132
12255
9097
12251
9383
9093
1873

Gulu_1
KAWAALA_ONE_2
Kyebando_Nsoba_5
Bugonga_7
Kyebando_Nsoba_1
Kamukuzi_3
Bugonga_3
Gulu_3

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11872
11127
11096
9069
9026
8218
8129
7977

180
178
150
144
100
98
130
114

907
5121
2757
4859
2436
392
4413
633

Top 20 of RNC1

CI
13622
10126
10122
5435
12965
12966
10085
5336
12186
12962
13623
52
12182
56
12961
9176
4385
2572
4615
9122

Cell Name
Nakabago_2
Kireka_Caravan_6
Kireka_Caravan_2
First_Street_5
IvoryPlaza_5
IvoryPlaza_6
HBTowers_5
MTN_Towers-6
Marie_Hotel_6
IvoryPlaza_2
Nakabago_3
BugolobiRadioStatio
n_2
Marie_Hotel_2
BugolobiRadioStatio
n_6
IvoryPlaza_1
Zzimwe_Rd_Muyeng
a_6
Mbuya_Hill_5
Nkoma_2
UBC_5
Katwe_2

VS.RAB.F
ailEstabP VS.RAB.Fail
S.ULCE.C EstabCS.UL VS.RRC.Rej.
ong
CE.Cong
ULCE.Cong
13034
294
2270
5477
207
1519
5407
168
1515
3095
159
1221
1105
154
364
1222
150
356
1792
146
535
891
140
286
2669
134
932
1162
134
292
7743
130
899
1604
2608

128
120

346
833

1813
1058

118
116

402
285

5212
2901
6226
1459
3797

116
112
110
107
103

2302
1016
461
436
589

For details of the whole network, please refer to attached.

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Analysis
For all the CE congestion shown above, they can be divided by three categories:
1. Real CE Congestion
Ntinda_Valley
This site had a real high CE utilization and need CE upgrade:

Even Kyebando_Nsoba, the same problem:

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For this kind of sites, the solution is easy upgrade CE.

2. Fake CE Congestion

There are still another kind of sites, whose CE utilization isnt high at all, but still
has UL CE congestion, such as site Entebbe_Airport_Inbuilding:
CE Utilization is very low:

While CE congestion existed:

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This is the issue of the counters related to CE congestion, such as

FailCSRAB.ULCE.Cong, FailPSRAB.ULCE.Cong.
Lets take FailCSRAB.ULCE.Cong for example:
1
2
3

There are three cells in active set: Cell A, B, C, and cell A is the dominant cell.
Now Cell B has UL CE congestion and then CS RAB is failed because of it.
But from statistics, we will see cell A-the dominant cell, has
FailCSRAB.ULCE.Cong, while Cell B is OK.
So for CE congestion issue, we should not only consider the cell itself, but also
neighboring cells.
This statistics problems cannot be solved now, but you can refer to these two
counters to verify if congestion really exists:

RLM.FailRLSetupIub.Cong, always 0, which means no any congestion.

VS.IUB.FailRLRecfg.Cong, also 0 eveytime.

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Then Entebbe_Airport_Inbuilding had no any congestion.

3. Something like category 2, but its real CE congestion
Many sites belong to category 3, such as Kamukuzi, the CE
utilization is not high while UL CE is congested.

As analyzed above, we use VS.IUB.FailRLRecfg.Cong and

RLM.FailRLSetupIub.Cong to evaluate the real CE congestion, and it is really
congested:
Sector 1- VS.IUB.FailRLRecfg.Cong

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Sector 1- RLM.FailRLSetupIub.Cong

Sector 2- VS.IUB.FailRLRecfg.Cong

Sector 2- RLM.FailRLSetupIub.Cong

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Sector 3- VS.IUB.FailRLRecfg.Cong

Sector 3- RLM.FailRLSetupIub.Cong

So why is it like this?

CE utilization is measured in NodeB level when switched on Dynamic CE
function. While CE congestion is measured in RNC, which doesnt know
how NodeB schedules CE based on Bynamic CE function, and RNC just
judges CE resource based on GBR admission, such as one HUSPA user,
reserve 16 CEs, 3 users, 48 CEs reserved, even though these CEs are not
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consumed in NodeB level.

Then we can see from NodeB level, a lot of CEs(48) are left, but on RNC,
congestion has happened, as the remaining 48 CEs have been reserved.
So if we switch off Dynamic CE function on NodeB, which means NodeB
wont release CE automatically, CE utilization will reflect real CE
utilization. Such as the site Kamukuzi, we will see the CE utilizaion
almost 100%.

2 Solution of CE Congestion
2.1

Increase CE capacity

2.2

Switch off HSUPA 5.76mbps service

As 5.76mbps need higher GBR, more CEs need to be reserved and then
congestion happened easily.

2.3

Switch off dynamic CE function

1. NodeB gave real consumed CEs within 2ms, while RNC get the statistics
from admission GBR for HSUPA in 5ms, even though the consumed CE
was far less than physical CE capacity, CE congestion could happen from
RNC statistics(RAB failures due to CE congestion).
2. When Dynamic CE function is on, HSUPA DCCC will be invalid, and
RNC will use GBR for admission.
3. When dynamic CE function was switched off, HSUPA DCCC will take
effect, through which RNC can give admission for user with initial speed,
not GRB, and thus blocked calls will reduce a lot.

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