LTE Handover Fault Dia

gnosis

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 Objectives
 Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
 Deep understand the handover procedure
 Solve the typical handover fault

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 Contents
1. Handover Procedure Review
2. Handover KPI Introduction
3. Handover Fault Analysis
4. Case Study

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 Typical X2 Handover Flow
 See note page

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 Key Message – Measurement Configu
ration

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 Key Message – Measurement Report
 Both include serving cel
l and neighbor cell
 PCI should be included a
s an indicator of neighb
or cell.
 Multiple neighbor cells
measurement results coul
d be combined inside

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 Key Message – Handover Request

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 Key Message – Handover Acknowledgment

 After target eNodeB adm

itted handover in servi
ce, it sends handover a
cknowledgment message
to source cell, includi
ng:
Transparent RRC
 ERAB admitted list
handover command
 Transparent RRC handove
r command

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 Key Message – RRC Handover Command
 Source eNodeB send RRC ha
ndover command to UE, inc
luding:
 Target cell PCI
 Radio resource configura
tion
 RACH configuration
 Handover security config
uration

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 Contents
1. Handover Procedure Review
2. Handover KPI Introduction
3. Handover Fault Analysis
4. Case Study

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 Handover Success Rate Evaluation

Handover preparation A
attempts

B
Handover execution
attempts

C
Handover execution
Success

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 Relevant Counters – Intra eNB HO

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 Relevant Counters – Inter eNB HO

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 Handover Preparation Failure Conte
r

Measurement Description
Counter
L.HHO.Prep.FailOut.MM Number of outgoing handover preparation
E failures due to faults in the EPC
L.HHO.Prep.FailOut.No Number of outgoing handover preparation
Reply failures due to no responses from the target
cell
L.HHO.Prep.FailOut.Pre Number of outgoing handover preparation
pFailure failures due to handover preparation failures
at the target cell
L.HHO.Prep.FailOut.HO Number of outgoing handover failures due
Cancel to handover cancellation messages sent by
the source cell

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 Contents
1. Handover Procedure Review
2. Handover KPI Introduction
3. Handover Fault Analysis
4. Case Study

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 Contents
3. Handover Fault Analysis
3.1 Typical Handover Fault Scenarios

3.2 Generic Procedure

3.2 Problem Diagnosis & Analysis

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 Early Handover

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 Delayed Handover

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 Delayed Handover (Cont.)

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 Contents
3. Handover Fault Analysis
3.1 Typical Handover Fault Scenarios
3.2 Generic Procedure

3.2 Problem Diagnosis & Analysis

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 Procedure for Fault Analysis
 Step 1: Located fault point
 From the tracing message, we can located the handover f
ault point, there’re 3 key fault points during handove
r procedure
 No measurement report
 No handover command
 No handover complete message

 Step 2: Analyze the root cause

 Channel quality issue
 Configuration issue
 Transmission quality issue

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 Generic Analysis Method
 Channel quality problem
 Observe RSRP,RSRQ, SINR IBLER, DL/UL grant from driver test too
ls
 Observer performance monitoring from M2000 including scheduling s
tatistic, CQI report, MCS, SINR eg.
 Configuration problem
 Check the neighbor/ANR configuration
 Check the X2 configuration
 Check EPC authentication & security configuration
 Transmission problem
 Check relevant alarm
 Check the latency using some packet analysis tools

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 Contents
3.3 Problem Diagnosis & Analysis
3.3.1 No measurement report
3.3.2 No handover command
3.3.3 No handover complete message

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 Problem Analysis –No Measurement
Control Message
 Scenario : eNodeB doesn’t send measurement control
message
 Solution: Check related handover switch

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 Problem Analysis – Black List Con
figuration
 Scenario : UE receives measurement control message, b
ut UE doesn’t send any measurement report
 Possible cause:
 The neighbor cell is in black list. In the SIB message e
NdoeB delivers all black cell list, then UE doesn’t mea
sure any of these cells
 Solution: check if all the neighbor belongs to black
list
 LST INTRAFREQBLKCELL
 LST INTERFREQBLKCELL

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 Problem Analysis – Poor DL Quali
ty

 Scenario : UE receives measurement control message, b

ut UE doesn’t send any measurement report

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 General Coverage Requirement for H
andover
 RSRP: More than -110dBm
 RSRQ: More than -3dB

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 Problem Analysis –Parameters Set
ting
 Due to improper parameters setting, the criteria for
sending measurement report is very difficult
 Related parameters:
 A3 event: Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys > Ms+Ofs+Ocs+Off
 Ocn can be adjusted to easily trigger the report sending
 A4 event: Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys > Thresh
 Ocn can be adjusted to easily trigger the report sending

 Solution ： This case is considered as delayed handove

r, we can enable MRO feature to optimize it automatic
ally

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 Contents
3.3 Problem Diagnosis & Analysis
3.3.1 No measurement report
3.3.2 No handover command
3.3.3 No handover complete message

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 Problem Analysis – No Available Ne
ighbor Configuration

 Neighbor can be configured by manual or ANR

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 Handover Flow with ANR

 ANR request UE support CGI report capability

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 Problem Analysis – Target Cell Ad
mission Failure

 Due to the high load of target cell, it rejects the a

dmission of handover in service
 Solution: Enable relevant load control algorithms on
target cell

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 Problem Analysis – Transmission F
ailures

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 Problem Analysis – Transmission F
ailures (Cont.)

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 Contents
3.3 Problem Diagnosis & Analysis
3.3.1 No measurement report
3.3.2 No handover command
3.3.3 No handover complete message

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 Problem Analysis – Poor DL Cover
age

 Due to poor DL coverage of source cell, UE can’t dec

ode handover command

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 Problem Analysis – Poor UL Cover
age

RLF Occurs

 Due to poor uplink channel quality, eNodeB doesn’t r

eceive random access preamble until UE sends maximum
preambles
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 Contents
1. Handover Procedure Review
2. Handover KPI Introduction
3. Handover Fault Analysis
4. Case Study

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 Case 1: Inter TA Handover Due to M
issing IP Path
 Description: In one project, we find a lot of handove
r failure. From the statistic, we observe that most o
f these failures happen between inter TA cell.
 Analysis
 From the tracing message, we see that the failure cause
is handover preparation failure, the failure cause is
GTUP resource not available

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 Analysis

 In the handover request message, source eNodeB delive

r the target GTPU ID (SGW IP address) to let target e
NodeB setup uplink S1 bearer directly. We check the I
P address of SGW in the message, and find that it is
not identical with target eNodeB configuration

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 Solution
 Later we confirm this issue, this TA border is also the borde
r of two regions which use different SGW. And in each region
,only one IP path is configured for current eNodeB to SGW. So
the handover will be failure when cross the different SGW.
 Solution
 Configure S1 IP path from the target eNodeB to source SGW, then
the problem is solved
 Suggestion: This is a very typical problem, on the border cel
l of inter SGW, we should remember to configure the IP path t
o the SGW which belongs to the target cell as well.

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 Case 2: Handover Failure Due to No
Handover Command
 Description: UE sends measurement report to eNB sever
al times , but no feed back from eNodeB
 Tracing message from eNodeB

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 Case 2 – Analysis
 From the previous message, we can see that before the
measurement report, eNB sends one “RRC reconfigurati
on” message, but the UE doesn’t feedback the comple
te message.
 Then we check trace on UE side, and find that UE does
n’t receive the RRC reconfiguration message

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 Case 2 – Conclusion
 Due to poor DL coverage, UE doesn’t receive the RRC
reconfiguration message, thus no complete feedback. A
s the previous RRC reconfiguration procedure is not c
ompleted, eNodeB is still waiting for reconfiguration
feedback and measurement report is not processed.

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 Summary
 Handover flow analysis
 Troubleshooting for typical handover fault

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