Behaviour Problem Call set-up failure Call drop Poor coverage area

Description

Possible solutions Check Antenna line installation (antenna position and quality, cable length and quality).

If problem is poor coverage, this means poor Check that CPICH powers are balanced RSCP (<-95 dBm) thus also the EcNo between the studied cells. derades very rapidly (< -12 dB) when the coverage border is reached. Check presence of shadowing obstacles. Add a site to the area. Use buildings and other environmental structures to isolate cell(s) coverage.

Call set-up failure Call drop Poor dominance area.

No main server in the area, too many cells with weak CPICH level. CPICH EcNo is usually very bad even the RSCP is good e.q. RSCP 80-90 dBm but EcNo about 10 dB

Down tilt antennas to make cells dominant and limit effects of interfering cell(s). Check antenna bearing. Add a site.

Call set-up failure Call drop Pilot Pollution Bad CPICH Ec/Io (<-12 dB) level although CPICH RSCP level is good. High site in the neighbourhood may cause interference.

Find interfering cell from Scanner results. Adjust antenna bearing and down tilt or lower the antenna height (too much tilt will break the dominance). Add interfering cell to the neighbour of the serving cell.

Dropped call/SHO failure Call set-up Failure Call drop

Missing neighbour

A good usable neighbour is present within cells coverage area, can cause DL interference if it is not in the active set. Swapped sectors in WBTS.

Check scanner data and look for missing neighbours.

Check the cabling in antenna line. Try to figure the possible area/direction of the interference by checking PrxTotal level on neighbouring cells. Alternatively use spectrum analyser & directive antenna to locate interferer.

High PrxTotal due to The PrxTotal level is significantly higher than UL External expected in no/low load conditions. interference Inform operator/regulator about the found conditions.

Check if auto tuning range is large enough (20 dB).

Call set-up High PrxToatal due failure to wrong MHA settings Call drop Call set-up High Prxtotal due to failure Installation problems Call drop Bad RRC connection Cell set-up set-up success rate failure due to slow Ue cell reselection

In case of MHA is used in BTS check MHA and The PrxTotal level is significantly higher than cables loss parameters, otherwise PrxTotal expected in no/low load conditions. value will be too high. (If MHA parameter is set to ON, Cable loss MHA settings should be checked, see more parameter is used, Cable loss = Real MHA gain in reference [7] = Feeder loss parameter) The PrxTotal level is significantly higher than Check the antenna installation as the last expected in no/low load conditions. alternative in high PrxNoise case. RRC connection set-up complete message not heard by BTS.

Long call set-up time

Set parameters so that reselection process will start earlier: Qqualmin, Sintrasearch and Qhyst2 as per latest recommendation [8] Use smaller value N312 (2, recommendation is 4). Use Actix for checking the call set-up delay (L3 Long time interval for The value of Parameter N312 is too high: messages). sync between RNC maximum number of in sync indications Use call set-up time optimisation feature and BTS before received from L1 during the establishment of Dynamic setting of ActivationTimeOffset connection a physical channel (possible in RAN1.5.2 ED2) enables 200 to 500ms reduction for set up delay. Overshooting cell come temporarily into active set and forces a suitable serving cell to Pan away overshooting cell if it is too close to be dropped out. Later RSCP suddenly drops the serving cell, otherwise apply down tilting as in the wrong cell and causes a dropped call well. because there is no neighbour defined.

Dropped call

SHO to wrong cell will cause drop call.

Dropped call

Use cell individual offset (negative value) Cell suffering from UL interference = DL As the UE Tx power is not enough for target parameter to balance the DL and UL coverage. (CPICH) coverage cell synchronisation, the SHO fails which will much bigger than UL cause call drop later. Check traffic direction of in-car UEs to decide coverage which cell requires offsets. Cell with lower CPICH power than the surrounding is having too good UL DL CPICH coverage performance, as this cells UL cannot be < UL coverage used efficiently due to SHO is decided upon DL (CPICH Ec/No). Use cell individual offset (positive value) parameter to balance the DL and UL coverage. Note: Cell individual offsets are not taken into account when calculating the added cell Tx power. Use cell individual offset (positive value) parameter to balance the DL and UL coverage. Note: Cell individual offsets are not taken into account when calculating the added cell Tx power. Delete unnecessary neighbours.

Dropped call

Dropped call

Round the corner effect

The call drops due to too rapid CPICH coverage degradation for Cell A, and therefore there is not enough time for SHO.

Dropped call/SHO failure

Too many neighbours

In SHO area the number of combined neighbouring cells become more than 31. HO list is created using RNC algorithm in the Improve dominance. final stage some of the neighbours will