4G TRIAL : CONGESTION CTRL SWITCH

Fact Finding Analysis

When transmission bandwidth dynamically changes, the minimum bandwidth of the
intermediate transmission devices in the transmission network may be lower than the
bandwidth limited on the shared port. If the base station keeps transmitting data at the
bandwidth limited, the transport network may be congested. To prevent transport network
congestion, the flow control algorithm is introduced.

Background
Trial to disable Congestion control switch to improve UL Throughput and get
better user experience. When this switch is turned on, the BS lowers the TX rate if the
BS detects that links experience transmission delay or packet loss. So after turn off this
switch will not impact UL thp.
For a co-MPT UL or GUL multimode base station in co-transmission scenarios, the NodeB sends the results of
Execution Selection Criteria : the uplink bandwidth adaptive adjustment algorithm to the eNodeB by default. The eNodeB then performs
uplink flow control according to the results. If the eNodeB is not expected to use the results of the algorithm,
Sites with high UL Congestion time two transmission resource groups can be configured to carry UMTS and LTE services separately.
Parameter setting:
Action Taken:
Execute at 10 Sites at 17July 2018 @15.00 PARAMETER PROPOSE
TNLCONGCTRLSWITCH OFF 5.5%
Pros:
Results Summary
UL Throughput improvement, • Uplink Payload increased +5.5%
UL Payload increment • User Uplink Throughput increased +6.8%
• UL Congestion time reduced to 0
Cons: • TX Mean Speed improved 6.6 %
None • RX Mean Speed improved 12 %
• Others KPI tend to maintain
Sites Requirement
Sites with high flow control Ul Cong Time and have CO MPT with 3G
6.8%
 4G TRIAL : CONGESTION CTRL SWITCH

Trial Congestion Control

Category KPI Name
Before (11-15 July 2018) After (18-22 July 2018) Delta Improvement% Remark
RRC Success Rate (%) 99.97 99.97 0.00 0.00 Maintained
Accessibility E-RAB Setup Success Rate (%) 99.94 99.94 0.00 0.00 Maintained
CSSR (%) 99.91 99.90 -0.01 -0.01 Maintained
Retainability Service Drop Rate (%) 0.09 0.08 0.01 13.34 Maintained
CSFB Preparation Success Rate (%) 99.90 99.90 0.00 0.00 Maintained
CSFB
CSFB Execution Success Rate (%) 99.95 99.96 0.01 0.01 Maintained
Intra-Frequency HOSR (%) 99.90 99.91 0.01 0.01 Maintained
Mobility
Inter-Frequency HOSR (%) 99.86 99.88 0.03 0.03 Maintained
Downlink Traffic Volume (MByte) 18136708.26 19498442.61 1361734.35 7.51 Increased
Traffic Uplink Traffic Volume (MByte) 1345639.74 1420243.87 74604.13 5.54 Increased
Payload (Mbyte) 19482348.00 20918686.48 1436338.48 7.37 Increased
Users Average User Number 40.11 37.92 -2.19 -5.47 Decreased
Throughput User Downlink Average Throughput 8.99 9.20 0.20 2.25 Maintained
User Uplink Average Throughput 1.51 1.61 0.10 6.80 Increased
Cell Downlink Average Throughput (Mbps) 18.13 18.89 0.77 4.23 Maintained
Integrity
Cell Uplink Average Throughput (Mbps) 1.91 2.01 0.10 5.16 Increased
Interference Average UL Interference (dbm) -112.4 -112.6 -0.2 0.18 Maintained
CQI CQI>6 88.27 87.96 -0.31 -0.35 Maintained
DL IBLER 12.75 12.48 0.27 2.13 Maintained
IBLER
UL IBLER 7.92 7.62 0.30 3.83 Maintained
DL Resource Block Utilizing Rate 29.38 30.92 1.55 5.26 Increased
PRB
UL Resource Block Utilizing Rate 24.89 24.86 -0.03 -0.11 Maintained
RscGroup.FlowCtrol.UL.CongTime (s) 1510.86 0.00 -1510.86 -100.00 Increased
Congestion
Counter VS.FEGE.RxMeanSpeed (bit/s) 48.49 54.35 5.87 12.10 Increased
VS.FEGE.TxMeanSpeed (bit/s) 7.66 8.17 0.51 6.60 Increased

Conclusion:
Feature can reduce UL Congestion time and increase UL throughput.

Next Action:
Waiting feedback from transport team
 4G TRIAL : CONGESTION CTRL SWITCH (3G KPI)
KPI: Before After
Trial Congestion Control Switch (07/11-07/15) (07/18-07/22) Delta Improvement (%) Remark
CSSR CS (%) 99.88 99.87 -0.01 -0.01 Maintained
CSSR PS (%) 99.33 99.20 -0.13 -0.13 Maintained
CSSR HSDPA (%) 99.92 99.92 0.00 0.00 Maintained
CSSR HSUPA (%) 99.90 99.91 0.01 0.01 Maintained
CCSR CS % 99.92 99.88 -0.04 -0.04 Maintained
CCSR PS (%) 99.99 99.98 -0.01 -0.01 Maintained
CCSR HSDPA (%) 99.78 99.78 0.00 0.00 Maintained
CCSR HSUPA (%) 99.86 99.86 0.00 0.00 Maintained
ISHO SR (%) 95.72 95.26 -0.46 -0.48 Maintained
SHO SR (%) 99.92 99.92 0.00 0.00 Maintained
IFHO SR (%) 96.43 97.14 0.71 0.74 Maintained
Traffic Voice (Erlang) 9585.53 9254.28 -331.25 -3.46 Maintained
PAYLOAD R99 Mbyte 24415.26 21928.67 -2486.58 -10.18 Decreased
PAYLOAD HSDPA Mbyte 4697493.65 5107774.74 410281.09 8.73 Increased
PAYLOAD HSUPA Mbyte 634758.89 502070.50 -132688.40 -20.90 Decreased
R99 Throughput Kbps 4.57 4.24 -0.32 -7.04 Decreased
HSDPA Cell Throughput Mbps 2.62 2.78 0.16 6.25 Increased
HSDPA User Throughput Mbps 1.84 1.94 0.11 5.72 Increased
VSCellDCHUEs 131495.78 120781.92 -10713.86 -8.15 Decreased
VSCellFACHUEs 54357.64 50885.63 -3472.01 -6.39 Decreased
VSCellPCHUEs 171100.95 160806.95 -10294.01 -6.02 Decreased
HSDPA Mean UE Number 16245.35 14770.94 -1474.41 -9.08 Decreased
HSDPA Mean UE Number per Cell 7.05 6.51 -0.54 -7.64 Decreased
VS.MeanRTWP -103.57 -103.63 -0.07 0.06 Maintained
VS.MeanTCP 42.55 42.55 0.00 0.01 Maintained
VS.MeanTCP.NonHS 40.25 40.19 -0.07 -0.17 Maintained

Conclusion:
HSUPA Payload decreased -20.90% while total payload is increased 5%