Below mentioned parameters may cause TCH Congestion & also help you to reduce TCH Congestion:

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. To know more about other parameters kindly reply..