Checks

Analysis of Congested Calls before a CAPEX Solution is deployed

Generic Step Tools or Data used to analyze the problem OMC Alarms; statistics Solution Steps Description of generic parameter or changes

Suspected Faulty HW

Transmission and/or Power Outage on surrounding cellsites

OMC Alarms; Customer Complaints; Statistics

Run standard pre-plans Resolution could be anything in the form of and NOC processes to resetting cards to replacing hardware resolve issues. 1. Resolve issue of sites with the transmission or power outage if possible; NOC should have 2. If the outage is not going to be fixed quickly, visibility of the issues in the congestion on the cell needs to be the form of alarms considered as systemic and all the related steps have to be taken

FAULT CONDITION

Basic Handover Relationships

Drive test data, propagation data, statistics, Neighbour Audit tools

Use a range of data to Add and remove neighbours as appropriate with analyse where basic special focus on co-site and first order neighbour relationships neighbors. are not correct

Radio Channel Configuration of BCCH, PDCH, SDCCH and TCH's

Configuration Files

Statistics, drive test data, propagation data

Modify channel allocations based on default configuration per cell type. The different channel Map current configuraiton types are used for various parts of call of all cells against origination and call carrying. If not dimensions standard design rules correctly, this can lead to un-necessary congestion If the site check shows a mismatch between Antenna tilt and azimuth implemented and planned configuration, reduce modification the coverage area by downtilting or changing the azimuth of the antenna plant The software attenuation solution may be useful in case of sites where physical access is difficult and provides a flexible solution to change the coverage footprint very quickly without the explicit need to visit the site - use only in exceptional cases, as this will unalance power budget in the site (UL interference may create problems in the future) This should be considered as a last option, but on some cases, it may be better to change the antenna to better control the RF. High gain antennas provide better footprint control than low gain antennas Implement changes in configuration based on exceptions against design rules (unless there is a specific reason for the exception)

CONFIGURATION ANOMALIES

Overshooting Cell

Statistic, drive test data, propagation data

Change power

Statistic, drive test data, propagation data

Change Antenna Type

Audit of current Cell Selection Parameters against design rules

Network Parameter Rule Audits

Config Files

Audit of Directed Retry Parameters against design rules

Implement changes in configuration based on exceptions against design rules (unless there is a specific reason for the exception)

Audit of handover Parameters against design rules

Implement changes in configuration based on exceptions against design rules (unless there is a specific reason for the exception). Incorrect settings could lead to undesired traffic unbalance among the cell which could cause congestion

Additional Capacity (Software activation)

Config Files, Statistics

Half Rate Vocoding

Make approproate changes in the configuration as specified by the process steps. Check HR thresholds and make them aggressive if needed

LIEF TECNIQUES (SINGLE CELL OR CONGESTED AREA)

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Traffic sharing with another layer (GSM or DCS)

Make appropriate parameter changes to effectively share traffic in the two bands in case the alternative band is not congested (in case there is a traffic sharing strategy and one of the bands is considered a priority for traffic and the other band is priority for coverage) Make approproate changes in the configuration as specified by the process steps. Permanent service area modification in order to shrink the congested cell service area and expand the neighbor one. (This technique should be used only for temporary solution, as the coverage areas will be maintained and interference issues will happen)

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Handover Hysteresis modifications (static)

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Checks

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells Traffic re-distribution

Load triggered Handover

Temporary service area modification based on the current loading status of the cells

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Forced Directed Retry

Make approproate changes in the configuration changes as specified by the process steps. The feature provides the last chance of succesfull allocation of resorces when the congested cell queue is full,forcing the directed retry even if the standard HO condition are not met. Verify global traffic strategy in the network; this solution may be effective (eg in case of dual-band network GSM-DCS) but do not generalize this solution, otherwise the traffic will become unmanageable network-wide.

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

In special scenarios, e.g.high site density and no Antenna tilt and azimith coverage issue, additional downtilt will shrink the modification coverage area forcing traffic to other neighbor cells Reducing the coverage area by software attenuation - use only in exceptional cases, as this will unalance power budget in the site (UL interference may create problems in the future)

Change power

TRX Upgrade

Statistics, drive test data, config data

Add TRX

Add new TRXs if the cell has not been deployed with standard capacity, i.e. 4 TRX. Otherwise check if the attenuation introduced by the new combiner is not originating a coverage issue.

NETOWRK EXPANSION

Distributed Antenna Solutions

Statistics, drive test data

Sectorization

Statistics, drive test data, config data

Hierarchal Cell Structures

Statistics, drive test data, config data

New site

Statistics, drive test data

Indoor solution resolves locally the high traffic demand of hot spots providing new capacity and improving the service quality In a very interfered scenario, add new TRX and deploy Bi-sector antennas in order to increase Implement Bi-sector the capacity and enhance the spectrum antenna efficiency (the new sectors fit in existing frequency plan) It should be employed when different kinds of cells and frequency bands are used. Cells can be divided in several layers, and traffic can be Cell layer implementation prioritized and distributed between these layers, the upper layer providing wide area coverage and acting as an overflow layer for congested lower layers Implementation of a new capacity site with a Add new site limited coverage area in order to absorb the high traffic demand. Implement Indoor Solution

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Checks

ALU

Huawei

ZTE

Motorola

Current Alarm_alarm query result_ZTENB_030409.xls

Check Network availability report Check Network availability report Check Network availability report Check Network availability report

As per standard process

As per standard process

As per standard process

As per standard process

As per default configuration

As per default configuration

As per default configuration

As per default configuration

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure changes procedure

BS_TXPWR_MAX parameter tuning, Power Level parameter tuning, see see Telecom B10 document GBSS8.1 Feature Description

Static Power Level parameter tuning, see ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual

Max_tx_bts parameter tuning, see chapter CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Implementation document

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure changes procedure See Cell Selection Parameters, See ZXG10-BSS Radio See Cell selection/reselection in Parameters Manual, Cell Technical Description BSS Parameters parameters, chapter Implementation doc 3 Check Directed Retry Indication (DrInd). For details, refer to ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual, section Service Process Additional Parameters Check dr_allowed. For details, refer to chapter CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Implementation doc

Check Telecom B10 4.2 for standard GBSS8.1 BSC6000 values Feature Description, Section 1.4.1 - 1.4.2

See Introduction to Radio Fine Tuning, section 2.5 Directed Retry

GBSS8.1 BSC6000 Feature Description, Section 1.6.7

Check mandatory rules defining the interaction of Handover with Power Control. See Telecom B10 4.2 Configure the thresholds THR_FR_LOAD_L_SV1, THR_FR_LOAD_L_SV3, THR_FR_LOAD_U_SV1 and THR_FR_LOAD_U_SV3 depending on the number of TRXs of the cell. See Telecom B10, 4.2.515 - 4.2.519

GBSS8.1 BSC6000 Feature Description, Section 1.6

See ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual, Handover control parameters, chapter 4

See inter and intra-BSS in Technical Description BSS Command document

TCH Traffic Busy Threshold%. Based on the TCH traffic load on a cell, the Half Rate assignment is decided based on the threshold of currently occupied/busy TCH timeslots (FR). See GSS8.1 BSC6000 Feature Description, Section 2.20.2

amr_half_rate_enabled and See AMR Half method gsm_half_rate_enabled paremeters. parameters of cell For details, see CM database parameters,Chapter-3 in ZXG10parameters in Technical Description BSS Radio Parameters Manual BSS Command document

Power Budget HO optimization: by tuning HO_margin (0,n) on every couple of cells. Mantain appropriate PBGT Handover optimization, See GSS8.1 hysteresis to avoid ping pont e.g. BSC6000 Feature Description, Section HO_margin(A;B) + HO_margin(B;A) 1.6.2 > 8-10 dB. See Telecom B10, 2.20.2 4.2, See Introduction to Radio Fine Tuning, Traffic Load Sharing (6/12)

PowerBudget Handover optimization, see ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual, Handover control parameters, chapter 4

congest_ho_margin parameter tuning to define the thresholds for congestion handover tuning. For details, see CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Command document

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Checks Fast traffic HO: It push out of a cell a mobile in dedicated mode to allow a queued request to be served in the serving cell. EN_FAST_TRAFFIC_HO = ENABLE. Tunable parameters: L_RXLEV_NCELL_DR(n), FREElevel_DR(n) See Introduction to Radio Fine Tuning, section 2.5 Handover Detection Cause 28 Traffic HO: Defined on neighbour relation basis, the HO will reduce the Load HO: used to offload the traffic from high loaded cells to low loaded neighboring cells. This HO works for busy hour(s) of the loaded cells and it is forcing the HO. It is recommended to set Load HO Enabled See ZXG10-BSS Radio parameters to YES on high loaded cells Parameters Manual, Handover (with TCH congestion). Some other related control parameters, chapter 4 parameters can be retuned which define the thresholds for traffic loads on serving cell as well as neighboring cells before Load HO can be decided by BSC (Load HO Threshold and Load req. of Candidate Cell).

ho_exist_congest parameter tuning. For details, see CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Command document

EN_FORCED_DR=true AND EN_DR = true Tunable parameters: Increase Directed Retry HO Level Range L_RXLEV_NCELL_DR(n), parameter in order to attempt the DR to a FREElevel_DR(n). See Introduction cell whose signal level is much lower to Radio Fine Tuning, section 2.5 Forced Directed Retry: cause 20

Check Directed Retry Indication (DrInd). For details, refer to ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual, section Service Process Additional Parameters

Check dr_allowed. For details, refer to chapter CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Implementation document

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure

Standard Hardware optimization / Standard Hardware optimization / changes procedure changes procedure

BS_TXPWR_MAX parameter tuning, Power Level parameter tuning, see see Telecom B10 GBSS8.1 Feature Description

Static Power Level parameter tuning, see ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Manual

Max_tx_bts parameter tuning, see chapter CM database parameters in Technical Description BSS Implementation document

Standard TRX upgrade procedure

Standard TRX upgrade procedure

Standard TRX upgrade procedure

Standard TRX upgrade procedure

Standard IBS design procedure

Standard IBS design procedure

Standard IBS design procedure

Standard IBS design procedure

Standard deployment procedure

Standard deployment procedure

Standard deployment procedure

Standard deployment procedure

See Introduction to Radio Fine Tuning, section 2.6

GBSS8.1 BSC6000 Feature Description, Section 1.6.5

Intelligent Multi-Layer Resource See Prior Layer Selecting Management (IMRM). See Technical Parameter, Handover Condition Description: BSS Implementation, in ZXG10-BSS Radio Parameters Advanced load management for Manual EGSM carriers Standard capacity site design procedure Standard capacity site design procedure

Standard capacity site design procedure

Standard capacity site design procedure

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Confirmation of checks

Analysis of Congested Calls before a CAPEX Solution is deployed

Generic Step Tools or Data used to analyze the problem OMC Alarms; statistics OMC Alarms; Customer Complaints; Statistics Drive test data, propagation data, statistics, Neighbour Audit tools Solution Steps Description of generic parameter or changes Date Reviewed

Suspected Faulty HW

Transmission and/or Power Outage on surrounding cellsites

Run standard pre-plans and Resolution could be anything in the form of NOC processes to resolve resetting cards to replacing hardware issues. 1. Resolve issue of sites with the transmission or power outage if possible; NOC should have visibility of 2. If the outage is not going to be fixed quickly, the issues in the form of the congestion on the cell needs to be alarms considered as systemic and all the related steps have to be taken Use a range of data to analyse where basic neighbour relationships are not correct Add and remove neighbours as appropriate with special focus on co-site and first order neighbors.

FAULT CONDITION

Basic Handover Relationships

Radio Channel Configuration of BCCH, PDCH, SDCCH and TCH's

Configuration Files

CONFIGURATION ANOMALIES

Statistics, drive test data, propagation data

Modify channel allocations based on default configuration per cell type. The different channel Map current configuraiton of types are used for various parts of call all cells against standard origination and call carrying. If not dimensions design rules correctly, this can lead to un-necessary congestion If the site check shows a mismatch between Antenna tilt and azimuth implemented and planned configuration, reduce modification the coverage area by downtilting or changing the azimuth of the antenna plant The software attenuation solution may be useful in case of sites where physical access is difficult and provides a flexible solution to change the coverage footprint very quickly without the explicit need to visit the site - use only in exceptional cases, as this will unalance power budget in the site (UL interference may create problems in the future)

Overshooting Cell

Statistic, drive test data, propagation data

Change power

Statistic, drive test data, propagation data

Network Parameter Rule Audits

Config Files

This should be considered as a last option, but on some cases, it may be better to change the Change Antenna Type antenna to better control the RF. High gain antennas provide better footprint control than low gain antennas Audit of current Cell Selection Implement changes in configuration based on Parameters against design exceptions against design rules (unless there is rules a specific reason for the exception) Audit of Directed Retry Implement changes in configuration based on Parameters against design exceptions against design rules (unless there is rules a specific reason for the exception) Implement changes in configuration based on exceptions against design rules (unless there is Audit of handover Parameters a specific reason for the exception). Incorrect against design rules settings could lead to undesired traffic unbalance among the cell which could cause congestion

EMIC CAPACITY ISSES- TRAFFIC RELIEF TECNIQUES (SINGLE CELL OR CONGESTED AREA)

Additional Capacity (Software activation)

Config Files, Statistics Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Half Rate Vocoding

Make approproate changes in the configuration as specified by the process steps. Check HR thresholds and make them aggressive if needed Make appropriate parameter changes to effectively share traffic in the two bands in case the alternative band is not congested (in case there is a traffic sharing strategy and one of the bands is considered a priority for traffic and the other band is priority for coverage) Make approproate changes in the configuration as specified by the process steps. Permanent service area modification in order to shrink the congested cell service area and expand the neighbor one. (This technique should be used only for temporary solution, as the coverage areas will be maintained and interference issues will happen)

Traffic sharing with another layer (GSM or DCS)

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Handover Hysteresis modifications (static)

Load triggered Handover

Temporary service area modification based on the current loading status of the cells

Traffic re-distribution

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Confirmation of checks Traffic re-distribution Make approproate changes in the configuration changes as specified by the process steps. The feature provides the last chance of succesfull allocation of resorces when the congested cell queue is full,forcing the directed retry even if the standard HO condition are not met. Verify global traffic strategy in the network; this solution may be effective (eg in case of dual-band network GSM-DCS) but do not generalize this solution, otherwise the traffic will become unmanageable network-wide. In special scenarios, e.g.high site density and no coverage issue, additional downtilt will shrink the coverage area forcing traffic to other neighbor cells Reducing the coverage area by software attenuation - use only in exceptional cases, as this will unalance power budget in the site (UL interference may create problems in the future) Add new TRXs if the cell has not been deployed with standard capacity, i.e. 4 TRX. Otherwise check if the attenuation introduced by the new combiner is not originating a coverage issue.

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Forced Directed Retry

Drive test/coverage plots to check cell overlapping, Stats to check congestion status of neighbour cells

Antenna tilt and azimith modification

Change power

TRX Upgrade

Statistics, drive test data, config data

Add TRX

NETOWRK EXPANSION

Distributed Antenna Solutions

Sectorization

Hierarchal Cell Structures

New site

Indoor solution resolves locally the high traffic demand of hot spots providing new capacity and improving the service quality In a very interfered scenario, add new TRX and deploy Bi-sector antennas in order to increase Statistics, drive test Implement Bi-sector antenna the capacity and enhance the spectrum data, config data efficiency (the new sectors fit in existing frequency plan) It should be employed when different kinds of cells and frequency bands are used. Cells can be divided in several layers, and traffic can be Statistics, drive test Cell layer implementation prioritized and distributed between these layers, data, config data the upper layer providing wide area coverage and acting as an overflow layer for congested lower layers Implementation of a new capacity site with a Statistics, drive test Add new site limited coverage area in order to absorb the high data traffic demand. Statistics, drive test data Implement Indoor Solution

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