RAN2255

TWAMP Over IuR

Nov 2016
Agenda

1 Introducción

2 Configuration

3 Results

3 Summary
Introduction
RAN2255 TWAMP over IuR: IP Transport Measurement Initiated from RNC and Flexi Direct
BTS feature introduces a means for actively measuring and supervising the IP network conditions
through the mobile backhaul between two points. These two points can be the BTS on one side, and the
RNC or a site router on the other side.

Benefits: Is able to monitor the network conditions, and can react quickly to potential service
degradations. The measurements provide an indication of possible violations against an SLA (Service
Level Agreement).
Configuration
Were agreed 3 monitoring sessions for every Iur with the following parameters:

Session 1:
DSCP 46 (High Priority)
Lpacket Size 100 Bytes
Message per seconds 1
RTT Threshold alarm 30/100 ms*
Packet Lost Threshold alarm 1%

Session 2:
DSCP 34 (Medium Priority)
Lpacket Size 100 Bytes
Message per seconds 1
RTT Threshold alarm 30/100 ms*
Packet Lost Threshold alarm 1%

Session 3:
DSCP 0 (Best effort)
Lpacket Size 100 Bytes
Message per seconds 1
RTT Threshold alarm 30/100 ms*
Packet Lost Threshold alarm 1%

* For RTT Threshold value see “Configuration - Threshold RTT” sheet

 Configuration – Session Command
Destination vlan Packet size 15 minutes Packet
User Plane Iur IP lost threshold (X x
C fo Create Sesion ID* address + Port
(bytes)
0.01%)

IPA ZYGM:C:NPGEP,12:313:172.23.91.44:172.23.190.164:7:0:100:30:100:1:ON; Session state

Example
Destination
NPGEP Card Port 15 minutes RTT Message per
Originating vlan threshold (ms)** second
User Plane Iur IP DSCP
address

Originating vlan Destination vlan

User Plane Iur IP User Plane Iur IP Sesion ID*
Create address
address DSCP

mcRNC add networking monitoring twamp sender src-ip-addr 172.23.202.164 dest-ip-addr 172.23.59.44 session-id 13 dscp 0 packet-
Example frequency 1 packet-length 100 plr-threshold 1 port 7 rtt-threshold 30 session-state on owner /QNUP-0 vrf iurup1

Message per Packet size 15 minutes Packet 15 minutes RTT Session state Recovery group
lost threshold (%) threshold (ms)**
second (bytes)
Destination
Port

* For session ID value see “Configuration – Session ID formula” sheet

** For RTT Threshold value see “Configuration - Threshold RTT” sheet
Configuration – Session ID formula

Session ID = RNC Target + DSCP ID

DSCP ID: From

46 = 1 (High Priority) RTMX1
34 = 2 (Medium Priority)
0 = 3 (Best Effort)
DSCP 46
DSCP 34
Example RNC Target RTMX2 (RNC ID 29) DSCP 0

Session ID per DSCP

46 = 291
To RNC ID
34 = 292 29 (RTMX2)
0 = 293
Configuration - Threshold RTT

Iur between RCOP1   RCRT2 without traffic and not

neighbors, far away one to each other.
RTT average increase over the threshold.

In those cases (No traffic and NO neighbor RNC) RTT

threshold is set to 100ms. Another value can be set if it
RCRT2
is requested
Configuration - Alarm Procedure
If PLR/RTT threshold is reached the following alarms are triggered:

3720 - TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD

3721 - TWAMP PLR EXCEED THRESHOLD

The procedure for this alarms is described in the following attached document

Presentación de
Microsoft PowerPoint
Results (Focus important issues)
The feature allows monitor the IuR performance (RTT, Success Rate, packet loss) in reporting suite report
RSRAN136. Round-trip time is the time required for a signal pulse or packet to travel from a specific source to a
specific destination and back again.
 Results (Focus important issues)
ALARMS
RNC PLR RTT
RCRR2 1 36
RCRR1 8 38
RCHI1 0 14
ROSR1 17 17
RVLP2 20 98 So far, We have an historic of 596 alarms, mostly
RTLC3 0 10
RTLC1 8 39
regarding to RTT.
RDOR1 3 58
RREC1 10 80
RTCO1 9 18
The packet loss/RTT can be associated with another
RCRT3 6 10 issues, such as, transmission alarms.
RCCP2 0 18
RCCP3 0 10
RPTA1 24 1
RPMT1 18 1
RCOY1 21 1
RLSN1 0 1
RCOP1 0 1
Sub total 145 451
Total 596

CO_NAME ALARM_NUMBER TEXT DN ALARM_TIME CANCEL_TIME TARGET

RPTA1 3720 TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD PLMN-PLMN/RNC-8/FUUT-NPGEP-4 2016-11-10 23:35:04.0 --> RCOY1 RTT alarms actives,
RPMT1 3720 TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD PLMN-PLMN/RNC-6/FUUT-NPGEP-9 2016-11-13 22:40:00.0 --> RCOY1
RCOY1 3720 TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD PLMN-PLMN/RNC-7/FUUT-NPGEP-4 2016-11-10 23:26:14.0 --> RPTA1 mostly out of RM
RLSN1 3720 TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD PLMN-PLMN/RNC-12/FUUT-NPGEP-5 2016-11-10 23:30:37.0 --> RCOP1
RCOP1 3720 TWAMP RTT EXCEED THRESHOLD PLMN-PLMN/RNC-17/FUUT-NPGEP-7 2016-11-10 23:24:39.0 --> RLSN1
Sumary
• Main objective of the feature activation is allow to monitor the network conditions, and react quickly
to potential service degradations.

• 768 Monitoring sessions were created.

• 596 alarms were triggered since feature activation.

• This feature does not affect the end-user experience.