ACCESSABILITY ANALYSIS

CONTENT

ACCESSIBILTY OBJECTIVE
ACCESSIBILTY KPI FORMULA
RRC & RAB ESTABLISHMENT FAILURE CAUSES
TROUBLESHOOTING FLOW CHART
MAIN ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES
ADMISSION CONTROL FLOW CHART
DL POWER CONGESTION ANALYSIS
CHANNELISATION CODE CONGESTION ANALYSIS
CE CONGESTION ANALYSIS ( UL & DL )
ASE CONGESTION ANALYSIS
HIGH PROCESSOR LOAD ANALYLSIS ( Mp LOAD )
CONNECTION LIMIT
HIGH UL NOISE
FAILED AFTER ADM ANALYSIS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS
CONCLUSION

ACCESSABILITY Objective

Accessibility is defined as the ability of a user to access the UMTS network successfully
to utilize the available services. The metrics within Ericsson RNC and OSS provide
counters and KPIs that describe the behaviors and experience of the subscribers while
accessing the UMTS network.
This is divided up into a number of areas, CS and PS, as well as being divided on an RRC
and RAB basis.
The services which have counters for Accessibility are:

CS Voice
CS Data
SRB
Video
PS Streaming & Interactive
HSDPA Streaming & Interactive
EUL (HSUPA)

ACCESSABILITY KPI FORMULS

RRC Setup Failure Causes

PLoad=pmNoRejRrcConnMpLoadC
DENIED_ADM=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdm
FAIL_RADIO=pmTotNoRrcConnectReq - pmTotNoRrcConnectReqSucc pmTotNoUtranRejRrcConnReq
FAIL_AFT_ADM=pmTotNoUtranRejRrcConnReq - pmNoRejRrcConnMpLoadC pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdm
DEN_CS=pmNoRrcCsReqDeniedAdm
DEN_PS=pmNoRrcPsReqDeniedAdm
RL_DENIED_ADM=pmNoRlDeni edAdm
FAILURES_AFTER_ADM=pmNoFailedAfterAdm
ADMCONTROL_REQDEN=pmNoReqDeniedAdm
BLOCK_HW=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqHw
BLOCK_HW_CS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqCsHw
BLOCK_HW_PS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqPsHw
BLOCK_NODE_CS=pmNoRrcCon nReqBlockNodeCs
BLOCK_NODE_PS=pmNoRrcConnReqBlockNodePs
BLOCK_HW_CS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqCsHw
BLOCK_HW_PS=pmNoFailedRrcConnectReqPsHw
BLOCK_NODE_CS=pmNoRrcConnReqBlockNodeCs
BLOCK_NODE_PS=pmNoRrcConnReqBlockNodePs
REQDEN_CODES=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlChnlCode
REQDEN_ULHW=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmUlHw
REQDEN_DLHW=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlHw
REQDEN_DLPOWER=pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlPwr
REQDEN_SPEECH=pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedSpeech

RAB Establishment Failure Causes

REQDEN_ULASE=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlAse)/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt)
REQDEN_DLASE=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlAse)/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt)
REQDEN_CODES=100 * (pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlChnlCode )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_DLPOWER=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlPwr )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_SFHYST=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptExceedConnLimit )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_ULHW=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))
REQDEN_DLHW=100 * ((pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlHwBest )/(pmNoRabEstablishAttempt))

Troubleshooting Flowchart

The following flowchart may be useful for troubleshooting accessibility issues based on
the problem areas

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Main Accessibility issues

DL Transmitted Carrier Power Admission

DL Channelization Code Admission
UL / DL HW (CE) Admission
ASE Admission
High MP load.
Connection limit.
High UL NOISE [RSSI]
FAILURE AFTER ADM

Admission Control Workflow

Resource request

No, then
accept

Yes,
then
block

Yes,
then
block

Yes, then block

Is admission blocked
by Congestion Control

No

Check if the requested +

estimated # compressed mode RL
>
compModeAdm

Check if the requested

DL PWR + estimated PWR

>
pwrAdm

No

No
Check if the requested
code usage + estimated code usage
>
dlCodeAdm

Check if the requested

ASE UL + estimated ASE UL
>
aseUlAdm

No Only checked if
BE-service requests

Yes,
then
block

Check if the requested

DL SF + estimated DL SF
>
sfXAdm

X=8, 16 or 32

Yes,
then
block

Yes,
then
block

No
No

Check if the requested

ASE DL + estimated ASE UL
>
aseDlAdm

Yes,
then
block

DL POWER

WCDMA Networks TCP (Tx Carrier Power) is always an important resource. Available RBS
Downlink TCP is limited by MCPA capability (20W, 30W & 40 W)

DL POWER - COUNTERS

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

RRC : pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlPwr
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlPwr

ADMISSION REJECTION
CONGESTION REJECTION

: Power > pwradm

: Power > pwradm+pwroffset

Action:

Check and align the Power parameters & DL attenuation parameters.

Increase the value for pwrAdm + pwrOffset and could be less than 100%
Optimize the parametrs minPwrRl, minPwrMax, interPwrMax, maxPwrMax, maximumTransmissionPower.
If 2nd carrier cell is not congested then share traffic by Qoffset (Idle mode)
If 2nd carrier is congestion also, then check neighbor cells and try to off load traffic by reducing cpich (-1 db)
and adjust Qoffset values
Do physical optimization incase of overshooting

DL Transmitted Carrier Power Admission

Non-HS DL Power > pwrAdm, block start

Non-HS DL Power <pwrAdm, block release

DL Power Congestion

The threshold for detection of downlink congestion is determined by the

parameters pwrAdm + pwrOffset and the hysteresis time pwrHyst.
When non-HS DL power + HS-required DL power > 100% utilization for a hysteresis
time maxPowerOverloadHystTime, then DL HSDPA-overload happens.

DL Overload

DL HS Overload

DL CHANNELISATION CODE

WCDMA Code tree is considered as one of the important Resource

Below picture will clearly explain the code tree usage

DL CHANNELISATION CODE - Lack of DL CODE

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

ADMISSION REJECTION

: code > dlcodeadm

Action:

RRC : pmNoRrcReqDeniedAdmDlChnlCode
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlChnlCode

Increase dlCodeAdm from 90 to as high as 95

Decrease pwrLoadThresholdDlSpeech.amr12200 from 50 to possibly as low as 0
Reduce NumHsScchCode
Reduce NumHsPdschCode
Reduce the values for sf4Adm, sf8Adm, sf16Adm to free some codes for other uses
Carrier addition

SPECIAL CHECK (for Hybrid & IP Nodes)

UlCreditUsage != AvgULCEUsage
ACTION: IUB Reset

UL/DL HARDWARE CHANNEL ELEMENT

Ericsson RBS Hardware consumption is measured in terms of CE.

RNC allocates CE resources based

on the Credit usage

Lack of UL HW

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

RRC : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHwBest
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlHW

ADMISSION REJECTION

: CE Usage > Available CEs in DUW

Action:

Check availableRbsChannelElementsUplink & licenseCapacityRbsChannelElementsUplink

Rejection in only one DUW (out of available two DUWs) - Tune the ulLicFractBbPool2
Recommend for CE addtion.
Reduce the values for sf4AdmUl, sf8AdmUl, sf16AdmUl,
Switch off the 2ms TTI for EUL eulServingCellUsersAdmTti2
Send more traffic to GSM if GSM is not congested Change
Directed Retry to GSM loadSharingGsmThreshold
Increase UlHwAdm

Lack of UL HW

SPECIAL CHECK (for Hybrid & IP Nodes)

CRITERIA
CE FREEZE : UlCreditUsage != AvgULCEUsage

ACTION:

IUB Reset

CE FREEZE

Lack of DL HW

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

ADMISSION REJECTION

: CE Usage > Available CEs in DUW

Action:

RRC : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlHwBest
RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlHW

Check availableRbsChannelElementsDownlink & licenseCapacityRbsChannelElementsDownlink

Rejection in only one DUW (out of available two DUWs) - Tune the dlLicFractBbPool2
Recommend for CE addtion.
Reduce the values for sf4Adm, sf8Adm, sf16Adm,
Send more traffic to GSM if GSM is not congested Change
Directed Retry to GSM loadSharingGsmThreshold
Increase DlHwAdm

SPECIAL CHECK (for Hybrid & IP Nodes)

DlCreditUsage != AvgDLCEUsage
RECOMMENDATION: IUB Reset

ASE AIR SPEECH EQUIVALENT

ASE is a Virtual capacity resource of air interface in WCDMA Network. It is a measure of

how much of user of this service load the air interface.

ASE is equated to Speech RAB ASE (sum of DCH-SPEECH + DCH-SRB)

ASE calculation for Speech RAB

ASE for different RABs are

shown in the picture

Lack of ASE

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

UL ADMISSION REJECTION
DL ADMISSION REJECTION

: ASE Usage > aseUlAdm

: ASE Usage > aseDlAdm

Calculation of Actual ASEs:

RAB : pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackUlAse & pmNoFailedRabEstAttemptLackDlAse

ASEs are cacluated by using the following counters

Action:

Generally ASE rejections will not be pegged due to higher value setting of aseUlAdm & aseDlAdm

High Processor Load

Calculation: pmSumMeasuredLoad / pmSamplesMeasuredLoad

pmprocessorload
PROCESSOR LOAD TOUCHING
PEAK LOAD OF 94% in DUW1.
Leading to Fluctuation for both
carrier in DUW1 (FDD10 & FDD
7)

Action

Terminate MRR Recording

Turn off unnecessary traces
change reportingRange1a from 6 to 4,
reportingRange1b from 10 to 8, and
timeToTrigger1c from 11 to 12
Incase of IUB congestion, Check and upgrade IUB

Connection limit

FAILURE Counters:

CRITERIA

EUL : pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedEul
HS : pmNoOfNonHoReqDeniedHs

ADMISSION REJECTION EUL : EUL Serv Users > eulServingCellUsersAdm

ADMISSION REJECTION HSDPA
: HSL Serv Users > hsdpaUsersAdm

Action:

Need to recommend the increase in the license limit for HS and

EUL users
Increase hsdpaUsersAdm but need to leave scope for HS users
needing access while in handover in connected mode.
Increase maxNumHsdpaUsers
Increase eulServingCellUsersAdm

High UL Noises

FAILURE Counters:

RSSI : pmAverageRssi
[Low RSSI<-105,High RSSI>-95]

RESONS
Defective TMA and antenna
Faulty Hardware
Increase in traffic manly EUL traffic

Action:

Reduce OwnUuload and RotCoverage (if EUL throughput is currently good,

otherewise we will be reducing EUL thp to an unacceptable level) to 80 and 100
respectively
Reduce aseUlAdm
Set Sf4AdminUl to 0, set sf8AdmUl to 0 (if (not already done)
reduce compModeAdm in outdoor cells
Consider increasing CPICH of indoor sites

FAIL AFTER ADM

Description : Number of Radio Resource Control (RRC) or Radio Access Bearer (RAB)
establishment requests failed after being admitted by admission control.
RRC and RAB establishment failures which occur after admission control can be due to

Formulas

Iub transport Network blocking

Node blocking
NBAP RL setup failure (RAX or TXB congestion)
Channel Code Allocation Failure (code not available)
Core transport network congestion or failures
timeout in the UE, RNC or RBS
invalid parameter settings
Failures due to RAXB congestion = (pmSetupFailuresSf128 + pmSetupFailuresSf16 + pmSetupFailuresSf256 +
pmSetupFailuresSf32 + pmSetupFailuresSf4 + pmSetupFailuresSf64 + pmSetupFailuresSf8)
Failures due to TXB congestion = (pmSetupFailuresSf128 + pmSetupFailuresSf16 + pmSetupFailuresSf256 +
pmSetupFailuresSf32 + pmSetupFailuresSf4 + pmSetupFailuresSf64 + pmSetupFailuresSf8)
DL Channel code alloc Failure = (pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf8 + pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf16 +
pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf32 + pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf64 + pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf128 +
pmNoDlChCodeAllocFailureSf256)

Action:

Check and remove TAX/RAX Board congestion

Check and upgrade IUB link in case of congestion
Check and clear Hardware issues
Check and clear Iub Link outages.

SPECIAL ANALYSIS
NODE B BLOCKING ANALYSIS

ATM UTILIZATION CHECKUPs

IUR DISCREPANCY CHECK

VC QoS Mapping Issue

UL CE Credits

STEPS /Commands To CHECK ATM Discrepancy

CONCLUSION

This Presentation gives a complete analysis for Accessibility Failure reasons, Methods to
analyse and solutions to solve the same.

Analysis is also provided for Node-B Blocking, ATM Iub Utilisation, IUR Discrepancy
Check, VC QoS Mapping Issue, RAB Blocking due to DL CE Credits & DL CE usage.

Using this presentation, any Resource can start the delivery of the Accessibility KPI
Monitoring.