Training on 3G/HSPA Design: Design Thresholds, KPIs & Targets

KPI Classification and Management E2E KPIs Peak, Average, Cell-Edge Performance Network Counter Assessment Street Level Design Threshold

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KPI Classification
KPI Categories

Rollout KPIs

E2E KPIs

Statistical KPIs

Prediction KPIs

Coverage Related

Statistical E2E KPIs

UTRAN CS-Related

Coverage KPIs

Installation Related

Coverage E2E KPIs

UMTS HSPA

Capacity KPIs

Tool based calculations to assess rollout progress & network build tracking
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Measurements in real network to optimise and/or to assess customer experience

Network counter analysis to track network stability, access-ability, performance, utilisation

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Tool based coverage/quality/ performance analysis to visualise expected or planned coverage, e.g. fix drive test route

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KPI Management
KPI focus to status of network build and operation Example:
Site installation period Optim. Period Acceptance period

T0 Start of site installation

Weekly reporting

T1 End of site installation

14 days reporting

T2 Ready for acceptance

Monthly reporting

Focus to rollout & prediction KPIs

Focus to rollout & prediction KPIs, E2E testing for optimisation

Focus E2E testing for optimisation and network counters to assess network quality

E2E testing and network couters to verify customer experience and network quality/ performance

Usualy different targets are applied to stages of network build, optimisation, acceptance and operation

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KPI Examples Rollout KPIs

Basic Level Coverage Time (T0-T1) Percentage Covered 25% 10% 50% 30% 75% 60% 100% 90% Basic Level Coverage Time (T0-T1) Percentage Installed 25% 15% 50% 40% 75% 70% 100% 90% Premium Level Coverage Time (T0-T1) Percentage Covered 25% 10% 50% 40% 75% 70% 100% 95% Premium Level Coverage Time (T0-T1) Percentage Installed 25% 20% 50% 45% 75% 75% 100% 95%

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KPI Examples Prediction KPIs

Prediction KPIs
KPI No Coverage Coverage Capacity Interference Handover Handover Handover Handover KPIs KPI-PR-01 Outdoor-Coverage by signal level (RSCP) KPI-PR-02 Indoor-Coverage by signal level (RSCP) KPI-PR-03 Indoor-Effective service area KPI-PR-04 KPI-PR-05 KPI-PR-06 KPI-PR-07 KPI-PR-08 Pilot Pollution Total SHO Area Best Server 2 way SHO 3 way SHO

Treshold tool based calculation 100% 90% 90% <2% 30-35% 65-70% 25-30% 5-10%

hierarchy

SLA relevant

RSCP Thresholds for outdoor and indoor coverage according to guidelines

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KPI Examples E2E KPIs

E2E KPIs
CS Related
Type Accessibility Retainability Accessibility Integrity Accessibility Integrity KPI No KPI565 KPI567 KPI566 KPI568 PI520c KPI523 KPI523 KPI524 KPI525 PI521b PI520c KPI523 KPI523 KPI524 KPI525 PI521b KPI511 KPIs Voice Service Non-Accessibility Voice Cut-off Call Ratio Voice Service Access Time Voice Speech Quality on sample basis PDP_Context_Activation_Failure_Ratio FTP User DL-Data Rate (Peak / Average / Cell Edge) FTP User UL-Data Rate (Peak / Average / Cell Edge) FTP Session Failure Ratio / HTTP Session Failure Ratio FTP Session Time / HTTP Session Time {service} PDP Context Activation Time (FTP+HTTP) PDP_Context_Activation_Failure_Ratio (FTP+HTTP) FTP User DL-Data Rate (Peak / Average / Cell Edge) FTP User UL-Data Rate (Peak / Average / Cell Edge) FTP Session Failure Ratio / HTTP Session Failure Ratio FTP Session Time / HTTP Session Time {service} PDP Context Activation Time (FTP+HTTP) Round Trip Time Threshold Testing Method (data rates in (Mobile/Stationary) kbps) m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s m/s focus to s focus to s focus to s focus to s focus to s focus to s focus to s <=1.5% <=2.0% <=6sec >=3.5 <=1.0% 350/200/100 350/150/100 <=2.0% 5s <=6sec <=1.0% 2800/1000/300 1000/500/200 <=2.0% 5s <=6sec <100ms

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Integrity Retainability Integrity Integrity Accessibility Retainability Retainability Retainability Integrity Integrity Integrity

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E2E KPIs Performance Peak, Average, Cell-Edge

Cell EDGE throughput Cell edge shall be represented by the 5 percentile: the upper limit from the 5% lowest measured throughputs out of the entire set of individual measurement points. Average throuhput Average throughput shall be the numerical average value out of the entire set of individual measurement points. Peak throughput Peak throughput shall be represented by the maximum value reached out of the set of individual measurement points (100 percentile)
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KPI Examples Network Counter Statistics

Network Counters
Threshold Type Availability KPI No (QMIS) KPIs KPI708 UMTS Radio Network Unavailability Outgoing CS IRAT HO failure rate Incoming CS IRAT HO failure rate Incoming PS IRAT cell changes failure rate Incoming PS IRAT cell reselection failure rate Outgoing PS IRAT cell changes failure rate RNC unavailability Voice Service Non-Accessibility UMTS RAB establishment failure voice Voice Cut-off Call Ratio PDP_Context_Activation_Failure_Ratio UMTS RAB establishment failure PS RAB abnormal Release Rate (PS) PDP_Context_Activation_Failure_Ratio RAB abnormal Release Rate (PS) cluster level <=1.0% <=1.5% <=1.5% <=1.5% <=1.5% <=1.5% <=1% <=1.5% <=0.5% <=2.0% <=1.0% <=1.0% <=3,5% <=1.0% <=3,5% yes yes yes yes yes hierarchy SLA relevant yes yes yes

Retainability KPI707

UTRAN

Retainability KPI706 Retainability KPI709 Retainability KPI710 Retainability KPI711 Availability

CS Related

Accessibility KPI565 Accessibility KPI701a Retainability KPI567 Accessibility KPI520c Accessibility KPI701c Retainability KPI702c Accessibility KPI520c Retainability KPI702c

HSPA

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Network Counter Assessment

Typical table for high level KPI definition
KPI-565 Definition Voice Service Non-Accessibility Probability that the end-customer cant access the Mobile Telephony Service when requested

Method of calculation KPI target values Source of information <=1,5% Network Counters

Reporting

monthly

How does the method of KPI calculation look like ? Since KPI definitions are strongly vendor dependent a detailed definition is required
(Detailed definition: abstract definition + equation, space aggregation, measurement point, reporting period, time aggregation, screening level, trigger points, signalling flow from / to network, ., vendor specific translation)
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Network Counter Assessment

Method of calculation within Vodafone
MAWD approach (Monthly Average Working Day) - aggregate data within a reporting period in the same way - refers to cell data in the networks - applies to working days excluding the weekends, bank holidays or

other special events/days

- Types of MAWD operators a) Arg Maximum: b) Maximum: PH_MAWD (peak hour) PHV_MAWD (peak hour value)

c) Sum:
d) Mean Value

S_MAWD (sum MAWD)

M_MAWD (mean MAWD)

Detailed description in
https://teamrooms1-vista.vodafone.com/eRoom/Global23/CompendiumKPIdefinitions/0_803e

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Example - Street Level Design Threshold

DOWNLINK Max Ptx node-B (dBm) Eb/No Noise density (dBm/Hz) UE Noise Factor (dB) Service Bit Rate (kbps) Noise floor UE sensitivity (dBm) Total DL path loss (dB) Required Ec/Io Feeder losses (dB) TMA insertion loss + jumper loss (dB) SHO Gain DL (dB) + Transmit diversity (dB) + Interference margin (dB) UE Antenna Gain (dBi) + Node B Antenna Gain (dBi) + Body loss (dB) LNF/Slow fading margin for 85% cell edge probability (dB) PC Headroom / Fast fading (dB) Indoor penetration loss (dB) Sum DL System Gains Area/service specific margins Total Gain/Margin Street level Design Target DL path loss (dB) Threshold at street level (ave. DCH) Eq. CPICH Threshold (average DL value on street level with CPICH power of 33 dBm)
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12.2k CS 33,0 6,0 -174,0 7,5 12,2 -100,7 -119,6 152,6 -19,0 2,0 1,0 2,0 0,0 5,0 -2,0 18,0 3,0 9,0 2,5 0,0 10,5 15,0 -4,5 148,1 -104,6

Pilot 33,0

With chance of pilot power the threshold will change !

-117,0 150,0

Sensitivity from 3GPP specification TS 25.101, Table 7.2, Band I.

2,0 1,0 0,0 0,0 5,0 0,0 18,0 3,0 9,0 0,0 0,0 15,0 17,0 -2,0 148,0 -100,0

Overall Gain at the transmitter side

Radiated pilot power = Pilot + Gains

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Threshold = Radiated Pilot Power SL path-loss available

-100,1
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-100,0

Example: 33 dBm+(18-2-1)dB148,1dB = -100,1 dBm

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How to come to a design threshold?

Reference baseline threshold
Wide Area Coverage Baseline Threshold [dBm] Default Penetration Loss [dB] Default Design Threshold [dBm] urban -100 23 -77 sub-urban -100 18 -82 rural -102 12 -90 conditions refercence dB path loss referenceis is146 146 dB path loss OpCos specific to match 2G OpCos specific for indoor coverage

Design threshold

Base line threshold to ensure service

BTS

Penetration loss to overcome, depth of in-building coverage

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Further Example - Utilisation Assessment

Method of calculation within Vodafone
Access network utilisation measures the physical resource usage

TRX

DL Power UL Noise Codes

Overall utilisation = TRX utilisation

Channel Elements
Overall utilisation = MAX resource

Capacity acc. ErlangB according to the design target = 100% utilisation

75% load (design target) = 100% utilisation

but in 3G it is not easy as it is in 2G!

In 3G the max of the resources are used to derive the final utilisation figure Depending on the resource which is highly used different actions are required, e.g. putting more base band capacity
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4 resources = 4 Dimensions

2G Resource loading
1 resource = 1 Dimension

3G Resource loading