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impact OF IUR Border ON

CLUSTER LEVEL KPIs
KPI margin calculation for use in swaps
Impact of Iur
› When averaging all sites swapped in a cluster, clear correlation between
percentage of relations over Iur (%) can be seen with multiple KPIs degradation
› Negatively impacted KPIs:
– Success KPIs:
› RRC, CSSR CS and PS, HSDPA
– Drop KPIs:
› CS and PS
› On following slides, all UMTS sectors were grouped into bins based of
percentage of relations over Iur (radio link attempts)
– Bins: 0% to 5%, 5% to 10%, etc.

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Negative correlation

Success KPI affected by Iur (with other vendor) Drop KPIs affected by Iur (with other vendor)
99.9 0.7

0.6
99.8

0.5
99.7

0.4
KPI [%]

KPI [%]
99.6
0.3

99.5
0.2

99.4
0.1

99.3 0
0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50% to 0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50% to
15% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100% 15% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100%
Iur Impact [bin %] Iur impact [bin %]

RRC_SR CSSR_CS CSSR_PS HSDPA_ACC DR_CS DR_PS

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Negative correlation (2)

Success KPI affected by Iur (with other vendor) Success KPI affected by Iur (with other vendor)
100 99.95

99.9
99.9
99.85
99.8 99.8

99.75
99.7
KPI [%]

KPI [%]
99.7
99.6
99.65

99.5 99.6

99.55
99.4
99.5

99.3 99.45
0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50% to 0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50% to
15% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100% 15% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100%
Iur imapct [bin %] Iur impact [bin %]

RRC_SR HSDPA_ACC Linear (RRC_SR) Linear (HSDPA_ACC) CSSR_CS CSSR_PS Linear (CSSR_CS) Linear (CSSR_PS)

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Negative correlation (3)

Drop KPIs affected by Iur (with other vendor)

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4
KPI [%]

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50% to
15% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100%
Iur impact [bin %]

DR_CS DR_PS Linear (DR_CS) Linear (DR_PS)

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IUR border in a cluster impact
› First cluster should have a good
number of Ericsson sites built
contiguously
– Important to get the real Ericsson
performance

› First cluster is surrounded by

Vendor sites

› There are 3 outdoor un-swapped

Vendor sites still inside the cluster

› Two more indoor Vendor sites

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Premise

› Iur border with other-vendor influences negatively accessibility and retainability

KPIs

› Impact is most evident on first-neighbor E/// cells overlooking the border with
Vendor
› Impact should be low or non-existing on E/// cells looking inwards

› True post swap cluster KPI performance when Iur border moves away
– Can be simulated by observing cluster KPIs only on inward looking cells

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Outward Sector selection

› Red – Vendor sectors

› Yellow – E/// sectors looking
outwards over Iur with Vendor
› Blue – E/// sectors looking
inward

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Iur influence KPI’s
› KPI’s impacted by IuR from Ericsson to another vendor
1. RRC success rate – will exist for whole project
› Impacted by counting attempts on one vendor and success rate on another
- This is not user impacting but statistical as each vendor cannot count on the others equipment
2. Establishment rates – will exist for whole project
› RRC forms part of the establishment rate, therefore will influence the success rate of this for PS and
CS
› For HSDPA if Vendor (Nokia) does not support 2*HS/64 RAB, therefore when Vendor cell in AS this
causes the assignment to fail, thus reducing the establishment rate on Ericsson side
- Large impact
3. Dropped call rates – In 18Q4 there is a new feature Dynamic relocation which should improve this
› Where the call goes across the IuR border and into the Vendor area, with Ericsson and Vendor in
the active set
- Where neighbours are not defined, this will also cause the drops
› where the interference level increases and messages over RNSAP are not delivered

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KPI Comparison – 2W PRE POST
› Post KPIs contain whole cluster – both inward and outward looking sectors
› Good post KPI values due to
– No remaining configuration issue
– Neighbours manually optimised and then ANR activated
– All top cells issues resolved

› Good optimization hides negative Iur border influence

Split cluster
KPIs Pre swap Vendor Post Swap E/// Outward looking Sectors 
Inward looking Sectors
(Iur Vendor)
RRC Setup complete SR 99.56 99.69 99.77 99.53
CSSR CS 99.9 99.92 99.94 99.86
CSSR PS 99.68 99.83 99.9 99.65
HSDPA Resource Accessibility 99.8 99.89 99.92 99.81
RAB Drop CS 0.16 0.13 0.09 0.24
RAB Drop PS 0.56 0.41 0.39 0.44

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KPI Comparison - Inward Cells
› Inward looking sector KPIs are all green with superior performance compared
with Vendor pre swap
– RRC failure rate decreased by half
– CSSR CS failure rate decreased by half
– CSSR PS failure rate decreased by two thirds
– CS Drop rate decreased almost in half

Split cluster
KPIs Pre swap Vendor Post Swap E/// Outward looking Sectors 
Inward looking Sectors
(Iur Vendor)
RRC Setup complete SR 99.56 99.69 99.77 99.53
CSSR CS 99.9 99.92 99.94 99.86
CSSR PS 99.68 99.83 99.9 99.65
HSDPA Resource Accessibility 99.8 99.89 99.92 99.81
RAB Drop CS 0.16 0.13 0.09 0.24
RAB Drop PS 0.56 0.41 0.39 0.44

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KPI Comparison - Outward Cells
› Outward looking sector KPIs are significantly worse than inward sector KPIs
› Degradation is directly due to presence of other-vendor Iur border

› Outward looking sector degrade overall cluster post swap

Split cluster
KPIs Pre swap Vendor Post Swap E/// Outward looking Sectors 
Inward looking Sectors
(Iur Vendor)
RRC Setup complete SR 99.56 99.69 99.77 99.53
CSSR CS 99.9 99.92 99.94 99.86
CSSR PS 99.68 99.83 99.9 99.65
HSDPA Resource Accessibility 99.8 99.89 99.92 99.81
RAB Drop CS 0.16 0.13 0.09 0.24
RAB Drop PS 0.56 0.41 0.39 0.44

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KPI Comparison - CONCLUSION
› True post swap performance of E/// cluster (visible on inward looking sectors) is
hidden due to other-vendor Iur border
› Once when Iur border moves away from the cluster, true post E/// performance will be
shown
› Straightforward pre/post whole cluster KPI comparison is not fair due to high impact of
Iur border

Split cluster
KPIs Pre swap Vendor Post Swap E/// Outward looking Sectors 
Inward looking Sectors
(Iur Vendor)
RRC Setup complete SR 99.56 99.69 99.77 99.53
CSSR CS 99.9 99.92 99.94 99.86
CSSR PS 99.68 99.83 99.9 99.65
HSDPA Resource Accessibility 99.8 99.89 99.92 99.81
RAB Drop CS 0.16 0.13 0.09 0.24
RAB Drop PS 0.56 0.41 0.39 0.44

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IUR Influence
› Other-vendor Iur border influence can be measured by cluster level percentage
of radio link additions over the border
– Source cell is within the E/// cluster and target is Other vendor cell
– Measured on all sectors – both inward and outward
› In a cluster, relation level statistics:

pmRlAddAttemptsBestCellSpeech +
Source Cell RNC Target Cell RNC pmRlAddAttemptsBestCellPacketLow + Percentage of radio link additions over Iur
pmRlAddAttemptsBestCellPacketHigh

Vendor RNC 1642716
Ericsson 3.20%
Ericsson 49725937

% %

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Create a scaling factor to
use on pre/post comparison
› IUR KPI margin should equal

% ∗

› KPI factor can be calculated based on good first cluster KPI values

%

Complete Cluster Inward looking Sectors Scaling Factors calc. 

KPIs Degradation Iur Impact
(influenced by Iur) (True cluster perforance) from CP
Radio Resource Control Setup Success 99.69 99.77 0.08 0.025
Call Setup Success Ratio CS 99.92 99.94 0.02 0.006
Call Setup Success Ratio PS 99.83 99.9 0.07 0.022
3.20%
HSDPA Resource Accessibility 99.89 99.92 0.03 0.009
Radio Access Bearer Drop Ratio CS 0.13 0.09 0.04 0.013
Radio Access Bearer Drop Ratio PS 0.41 0.39 0.02 0.006

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