TEMS investigation

Presented by: Ourchani Samira

NPOC Radio Engineer

Directed by Area Supervison: Alsousou.A

 Optimization and Tools
To maintains / improve the performance of the network . The Optimization is basically the only way to keep track of the network by using the
following tools:

 Statistics ( Business object,…).

Analyse data

 Know of the configuration of the parameters ( X-manager : CNA / RNO

/BSM).
 Configuration and parameters check (X-manager tool RNO/CAN/BSM/…
 Collecting and analyzing drive test data ( TEMS Investigation / TEMS automatic / TEMS Pocket).
 Optimization and Tools
To maintains / improve the performance of the network . The Optimization is basically the only way to keep track of the network by using the
following tools:

1 Business Object

2 X-manager

3 TEMS Investigation
 Optimization and Tools

1 Look deeply into statistics ( Business object,…).

Enable to :

 Access to different data providers

 Creating queries

 Setting up drillable reports

 Creating variables and using the Business Objects

functions to analyze the data in the reports.

-BO interface
 Optimization and Tools

2 Configuration and parameters check (X-manager tool RNO/CAN/BSM/…)

-X-manger interface
 CNA

View of related
network settings.
Print and view of all
network parameters

RNO/FAS: help for best choose of RNO/NCS: help for best Neighbour
frequency and frequency cleaning. optimization and Neighbor audit
 Optimization and Tools

3 TEMS investigation

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AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
TEMS investigation configuration
Logfile recording steps
How to create own workspace
How to create cell file Mapinfo
How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal cases
 TEMS investigation
WHAT IS TEMS investigation??

TEMS stands for TEst Mobile System.

The leading air-interface test tool for GSM , CDMA, and
UMTS networks.

Why TEMS investigation is used ??

 Exact reading of KPIs in the specific areas.

 Give perfect statistics of all KPIs in the specific area.

 Help in Network optimization and RF tuning through layer

messages.

How can we use TEMS investigation:

 TEMS Installation and configuration

 TEMS use
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
Logfile recording steps
How to create own workspace
How to create cell file Mapinfo
How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 Configuring the PC for TEMS Investigation
Data Collection
Phones
Configuring the PC for TEMS Investigation (USB or
scanners erial ports required regarding what external
devices to connect).

 Installing the TEMS Investigation software.

 Connect the external devices (GPS, data cards GPS

and dongle to the USB ports).
Computer

 Configuring phones for data

services.

Note: SLIM CASE have one port to connecte the devices

AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
How to create own workspace
How to create cell file Mapinfo
How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 LOGFILE Recording

 Click Start Recording on the Record toolbar.

• Name the logfile in its standard format MMDD_nn.log, where:
MM - current month
DD current day of the month,
nn is an incrementing counter starting at 01.
 To pause the recording without closing the logfile, click Pause Recording

 Click the same button once more to resume the recording

 Click Stop Recording to end the recording and close the logfile. Once you have closed it, you cannot log any
more data to the same file.
Alternatively, you can control the recording with the corresponding commands in the Logfile menu

 Click Swap Logfiles.

To record subsequent files with file name corresponding to the original one and the counter nn will be further
incremented.
 Filemarks are text strings which can be inserted manually in a logfile in order to tag interesting segments in the
file. They are treated as events and appear as such in presentation windows. Just type the name of the happened
event
 LOGFILE Recording

Open/Close Logfile: Open a logfile/Close the logfile that is currently open. Only one logfile can be open at a
time.

Rewind Logfile: Rewind the logfile to the beginning.

Play/Stop Logfile: Replay the logfile/Stop logfile replay. The speed of the replay is variable and is set from the
Logfile menu; see section 7.3.1 below. When the stop button is clicked to halt fast-forwarding, all presentation
windows are updated

Step Logfile: Advance one step in the logfile, i.e. read one more message from the phone. Note that a
presentation window is not always updated when advancing a single step or just a few steps.

Fast-forward Logfile: Play the logfile at high speed. No updating of presentation windows takes place until
the replay is stopped

Find in Logfile: Search forward in the logfile for a time instant, a type of event, or a type of message.

Information:
 The Header tab window shows data on the logfile currently in use.

 If the user who recorded the logfile made use of the “Add User Info” option.
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
How to create cell file Mapinfo
How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 TEMS workspace and its main windows

Map window Events description

GSM Line Chart Layer 2 messages

Layer 3 messages
GSM C/I

Some useful Microsoft

information PowerPoint Presentation
 Create own workspace
Geoset manager Open map Position map Layer control Add/Edit themes

Create , modify and open new workspace

Map: a set of geographical features which are treated as a unit. A map usually consists of several
map LAYERS and is presented in a special window which is called the Map Window
Supported map formats: MapInfo, bitmap, and TIF (uncompressed only).

Layer: a set of data from a particular category which is displayed in the map window. There are
two types of layer:
map layers, which make up the map itself( roads, areas seas, … )
presentation layers, which contain information relating to the cellular network (sites, camgeo.. ).

Themes: a component of a presentation layer, displaying, for example, an information element or

a type of event.

It is possible to load TAB files in the Map window directly, without constructing a
! GeoSet, but then any changes made using the Layer Control will be lost.
 Create own workspace

Layer control

Open the
existed
geoset map
Create own workspace
Create own workspace

Save your appropriate geo set

(map)
Create own workspace

Your New
workspace
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
 How to create cell file Mapinfo
How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 Create Cell File
General

Cell file !
How to get it ??

Cell file: it is a cell file with special extension (.cel), helps to display on the TEMS map the neighbour relations, and to get if wrong nighbour
definition exists in addition of the element displayed there.
 Create Cell File

The cell file is opened in excel sheet, it contains information that we got from EXERT macro (appeared as icon) , which
requiers as input CDD excel sheet (BSC region), plus the 4 columns that are hilighted in orange coulour . The data in theses
columns could be gotten from Site data base under MAPINFO/MCOM format , to update the data of all BSCs. Just save the
change and the cell file will be ready to load it.

Microsoft Excel
97-2003 Worksheet
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
 How to create cell file  Mapinfo
 How to export logfile
Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 Export logfile to MAPINFO
Logfile - menu
bar

Export logfile

Mapinfo file
Loaded logfile from the path
directory Loaded logfile
from your his path

Check box to Merge

logfiles if there is more
than one All related network KPIs
 Export logfile to MAPINFO

File name

Mapinfo file
Loaded logfile Display events
from your his path
 Export logfile to MAPINFO
Map menu
bar

Create thematic map to show

all desired information Legend of the correspondant
elements. information element levels.

Export logfile to the MAP INFO to see where the main problem is located, and thus come back to the TEMS map to analyse step by
step and search for the real cause.
 Export logfile to MAPINFO

Second logfile
logfile 0127_02

File name

The first logfile

0127_01
 Export logfile to MAPINFO
User Definede Remark
Recording Paused

Event
Handover

GPS Posisition
invalid
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
 How to create cell file  Mapinfo
 How to export logfile
 Google Earth
Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 Export to Google Earth

 Install the software named GNIM, to be able to create

logfile under GoogLe Earth format

 Open the MAPINFO table with theme which to analys

first(ex: RxLevSub dBm).
 Export to Google Earth

Tool menu bar

Run MapBasic Program

Open the MAPINFO

table existed in GNIM
folder

Save the file with

Google earth
format .KML
Export to Google Earth
Export to Google Earth
Export to Google Earth
Export to Google Earth

Just save the file in the

folder
 Export to Google Earth

Open the
saved file
Export to Google Earth
Logfile with
RxLevel element
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
 How to create cell file  Mapinfo
 How to export logfile
 Google Earth
 Logfile analysis
Some practiacal case
 Logfile Analysis
Low signal strenght / Coverage problem
Main Causes: Proposed solutions:

 Missing neighbour  Define the missing neighbours

 Incorrect HCS parameters  Correct HCS parameters

values (LAYER). values (LAYER).
 Low POWER parameters adjustements
(BSPWR and MSTXPWR)  Adjust the appropriate POWER
settings
 Lack of best dominant server ( Coverage  Site Configuration Change
problem) (Antenna Type, height, azimuth, tilt
changes).
 Loss or Attenuation Check
( Feeders, Connectors, Jumpers,
etc..)
 Sector Addition
 Repeater
 New site proposal
 Logfile Analysis
Quality problem

Main Causes: Proposed solutions:

 Low signal strenght  Improve signal strenght to

inhance the quality

 co/adj-frequencies  Frequencies clean_up

 Check /Active feature parameters as

 Worst C/I ratio - external interference Intra cell Handover.

 Half rate penetration  Adjust the DTHNAMR value

according to the congestion
problem
 Logfile Analysis
Timing advance C/I SQI

Main Causes: Main Causes: Main Causes:

 Half rate penetration

 Overshooting problem
 Lack of best dominant
server
 Interference problem
 Bad BER / FER
 Co-channel
interference  Interference problem

Proposed solutions: Proposed solutions: Proposed solutions:

 Site Configuration Change

 Frequency tuning  DTHNAMR
(Antenna Type, height,
adjust
azimuth, tilt changes)
 Frequency tuning
 Sector Addition
 Repeater
 New site proposal
 TEMS Cell Planner

 Correct and
detailed
Heigh &
Clustters
 Reasonable
Coverage propagation
model
prediction

 Site addition
 Reppeaters
AGENDA

 Introduction
 TEMS investigation concepts
 TEMS investigation configuration
 Logfile recording steps
 How to create own workspace
 How to create cell file  Mapinfo
 How to export logfile
 Google Earth
 Logfile analysis
 Some practiacal case
 Some practical cases
Drop Call:
 Some practical cases
Drop Call:

Drop call due to missing

neighbour

BCCH=104
CGI= 603 01 5101 16072

Drop call , No Service

 Practical cases

Drop Call:

Other cause:

• Missing neighbour
• Bad Quality « RxQual », Interferance « when signal becomes
weaker to handle the interference ».
• No best dominant server.
• Bad coverage «poor RxLev & RxQual ».
• ….. (experience field !!)
 Some practical cases
Drop Call:

Drop call due to no best

dominant server

BCCH=104
CGI= 603 01 5101 16072

Drop call , No Service

 Practical cases
Handover Failure:

The chosen Target

cell
BCCH:95
BSIC : 71
LAYER 3 messages /
Handover command

Protocol Error , Unspecified

Handover Failure
 Practical cases

Handover Failure:

Other cause:

• HW problem in the target cell (ex: transmission problem)

• Congestion (NB:Handover command will not apprear in the
layer 3 messages)
• Quality problem in the serving cell
• ….. (experience field !!)
 Practical cases
Handover Failure:

Cause: Handover failure due to poor

quality in the serving cell

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