Paging Success Rate - It is rate of successful page responses to First and Repeated

Page Attempts to a location area w.r.t. Number of Initial and Repeated Page
Attempts to a location area. This parameter is calculated for 24 Hours. Its
standard value >= 92%.

LSR = (Number of Page responses to first page to an LA + Number of Page responses

to repeated page to an LA) / Number of Page Attempts to an LA (Location Area).
OR
LSR = (first paging response+ repeated paging response)*100/first paging request).

Major contributor for decreasing PSR -

1. Improper Paging / LU (Location Update) related parameter setting.

2. O&M issue i.e Outages.
3. Lower RACH success rate.
4. Air Interface Issues like Interference, SDCCH Congestion, etc.
5. Footprints.
6. Paging overload on BSC i.e. paging capacity of BSC compared with the actual
paging.
7. Congestion on A-bis interface i.e. Paging command from BSC is delivered to BTS
via A-bis.

Planning of location areas

The location areas are not properly segmented, and thus a large number of location
updating requests are generated. An MS does not respond to pagings during location
update. In addition, the SDCCH congestion
occurs, and paging response messages cannot be reported. In this case, the paging
success rate is very low.

Traffic volume

The traffic volume on the signaling channel is overhigh, and thus the paging
requests cannot be sent or the paging response messages cannot be reported.

Improvement Plan -

1. Paging / LU timers setting, like Paging Timers in MSC must longer than Paging
Timer in BSC (prolonging 1st and repeated page) and also paging strategy (local vs
global), or repeated page on/off.
2. LAC optimization.
3. Paging / LU related parameter setting like increasing paging capacity through
uncombined BCCH, changing Access grant and MFRMS (multiframe) parameters.
4. Address Coverage issues.
5. Check Discard/Paging queue on cell level.