CSSR improvement Phase II:

Fach Power Adjustment Trial

WNE
39/Nov/2006

Index
Problem description
Trial
Link budget
Parameter settings
Results/KPI graphs

Conclusions

Link budget impact

Link Budget before NE1 Trial

Link Budget during NE1 Trial

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Link Budget impact NE1 Trial

Problem description
Counter analyses, which was confirmed through field
results, highlighted a lower Call set up Success rate on
Mobile
Terminating calls if compared to Mobile Originating calls
(1% ). Preliminary investigation has shown that
connected and idle mode link budget might not be properly
aligned and we might be DL limited.
Solution to test:
By adjusting the cells Common powers (Fach power) used in
the call setup phase, we were hoping to virtually increase the
3G DL accessibility coverage.

Parameters settings

Fach Pw.
Adjus.
feature

Paramter
sccpchPowerRelativeToPcpich
sccpchPowerRelativeToPcpich
fachPowerAdjustmentCpichEcNoThreshold
fachPowerAdjustmentCpichRscpThreshold
InitialFachPowerAdjustment
maxFachPowerRelativeToPcpich

Before
(dB)
0
2
-12
-115
2
4

After
(dB)
2
0
-10
-100
4
8

Changed
4-Oct-06
10-Oct-06
4-Oct-06
4-Oct-06
4-Oct-06
4-Oct-06

The Upug says:In order to ensure that the maximum FACH power will be high enough to allow the
transmission of the last repetition of RRC Connection Setup, its value should respect the equation,
as shown in FACH power adjustment:
Before Trial:
maxFachPowerRelativeToPcpich (4) sccpchPowerRelativeToPcpich (0) + InitialFachPowerAdjustment (2) + N351(1)*
FachTransmitPowerLevelStep (1)

After Trial:
maxFachPowerRelativeToPcpich (8) sccpchPowerRelativeToPcpich (2) + InitialFachPowerAdjustment (4) + N351(1)*
FachTransmitPowerLevelStep (1)

Results
Cell colour/RAB distribution
Cell colour distribution
NE1 Trial

RAB distribution
NE1 Trial
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KPI Graph: CSSR

CSSR= RRC*RAB
RRC=RRC +
CSSR= CSSR + *RAB

KPI Graph: RRC success rate

KPI graphs:
RRC repetitions &
failures

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KPI graphs: MO vs MT RRC Success Rate

The result shows improvement on both MO
and MR RRC success rate.
The gap between MO and MT RRC success
rate was reduced by 24 %.
As predicted the network in DL limited it is
evident how the MO improvement is twice as
important as the MT. By doing so we also
managed to further reduce the gap between
MO and MT RRC success rates.

It is also very interesting to note

how the proportion of MO and MT
requests has changed.

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KPI graph: Ec/No & RSCP

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KPI graph: Drop Call Rate, SMC success rate

As stated before regarding the RSCP and
EcNo, being now able to serve more users
ad cell edge did not worsen the overall DCR
(Note that the PS DCR started increasing
prior to the trial for other under investigation
reasons).
This also confirms that the network had
enough margin and we are getting closer to
an optimal UL DL link balance and the right
alignment between idle and dedicated modes

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KPI graph: HHO

Despite the increase of traffic and
consequently the overall number of
HHO detections the average number
of HHO per call stayed study.
So given more accessibly to users at
cell edge did not trigger extra 3g to 2g
HHOs. The success rate stayed very
stable too.

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KPI graph: Traffic & Congestion

Cell color

RL color
RAB distribution

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KPI graph: CS/PS traffic

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KPI graph: RB Blocking

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Summary

TMU load? And some call profile

metrics like RRC signalling metrics,
& paging?

The Trial was conducted on 3 different RNCs and showed the following Benefits:
CS CSSR (CS Setup Success rate ) increase by 1.1 %
CSSR user perspective PS increase by 1.3 %
Inter System reselection (Inter-RAT RRC) success rate increase by 1.8 % i.e. more reliable IRAT cell resection, paging at cell border
less vulnerable.
Customer Registration procedures success rate increase by 1.2%
Overall Mobiles Signalling (RRC) Success rate increase by 1.39%
Mobile Originating Calls RRC success rate increase by 0.7%
Mobile Terminating Calls RRC success rate increase by 0.4%
Reduced the gap between MO and MT RRC success rate by 24 %
Quicker call setup time due to Less Signalling (RRC) repetitions of time-out cause
No DCR (Drop Call rate) degradation
No (inter System Handover) degradation, despite the extra users at cell edge the average number of HHO per call is stable.
No Congestion due to extra Power or Extra Traffic
No QoS degradation and no Pollution

To summarise this trial had significantly increased the CSSR and helped balancing the UL and DL link budget by aligning the idle and
dedicated mode coverage. By doing so we also made quicker and more reliable the signalling phase during call setup and enhanced the
user experience at cell edge both for MO and MT calls.

Recommendation is
1.to role out the change across the Nortel network
2.Suggest having similar functionality in E/// network

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