Gladiator Innovations

RAN Trace Optimization

April 2014

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Product Line Solu5on

Problem addressed

Vendor supported

RAN Drive test

Op<miza<on

Site Verica<on
Cluster Acceptance
Spectrum Clear, etc

XCAL, TEMS, JDSU,

Nemo, SwissQual, ZK, etc

Network Congura<on
Audit

Neighbor plan,
Channel/Code Plan,
SW License vs HW se_ngs, etc

CM - Ericsson, Huawei,
Nokia, etc

Network Monitoring

Go No-Go
Worst Oenders

PM - Ericsson, Huawei,
Nokia, etc

RAN Trace
Op<miza<on

Network Troubleshoo<ng
Mobile Analy<cs

Trace - Ericsson 3G, 4G *

Huawei 3G, 4G*

Network Op<miza<on
RCA

Meet SLA target

Improve User Experience

CM, PM, FM, Trace

Ericsson, Huawei,
Nokia, etc

Network Operator
Benchmarking

Iden<ca<on of areas to
minimize user churn,
Marke<ng Priori<za<on

XCAL, TEMS, JDSU,

Nemo, SwissQual, ZK, etc

G-Net

Workow automa<on
Large data processing
Opex reduc<on

All the above

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* Under development

Product Line and Associated Features

RAN Trace Op<miza<on
Analyses & Reports
1. Coverage and neighbor analysis
2. KPI troubleshoo<ng (Signaling performance
analysis)
3. VIP Performance (User and trac analysis)
4. Enterprise trace post-processing with
customized sta<c reports*
5. Enterprise drill down inves<ga<on using trace
data (IDC_T)*

* Under Development
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RAN Trace Op5miza5on - Outline

Coverage and neighbor analysis
Signaling Performance

Coverage
Pollu<on
Over-shooters
Neighbor addi<on

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Accessibility
Admission control
Call Setup
Channel Switching
RRC Analysis
RAB Analysis
Retainability

User Performance


KPI impact on VIP users
Phone model
Trac analysis for network expansion
planning

Coverage

Measurement Report Analysis

The distribu<on of measurements per carrier provide an overview of the
subscriber radio environment. Coverage and Pollu<on assessment helps to
priori<ze areas of coverage op<miza<on.
Distribution of measurement by Quadrant
1st.Carrier Sample # Sample %
Q1
46874
10%
Q2
38904
9%
Q3
253702
56%
Q4
114676
25%
Total
454156
100%

2nd Carrier Sample # Sample %

Q1
22489
7%
Q2
81455
24%
Q3
223309
65%
Q4
16394
5%
Total
343647
100%

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Coverage

Measurement Report Analysis

Findings:
High overlap of
coverage can be
observed from High
event 1a and Small
event 1b.
Recommendation:
To identify over
shooters to avoid
coverage overlap
To avoid waste of
bandwidth
utilization in SHO
mode to reduce
SHO window.

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Neighbor Analysis
Neighbor

Findings:
Check specific vendor messages and
MR messages to identify possible
missing neighbors.
Missing Neighbor Detection

Critical missing neighbor indicators:

- EcIo Offset > 6 dB ( Detected Cell
Source Cell)
- Missing Neighbor Occurrence > 150
- Over-shooter if distance between
detected cell and source cell is
greater than 5 tiers
Recommendations:
Missing relations to be added
Over-shooters needing additional
coverage assessment for
optimization

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Signalling

Signaling Performance
Perform analysis on all indicators and events that impact the network
performance regarding RAN Signaling
Radio Link Establishment/Status
Radio Bearer Establishment/Status
etc

Inves<gate using 3GPP signaling informa<on and vendor specic informa<on.

Iden<fy the root case reasons for the failed events and signaling overload.

Accessibility
Admission control
Call Setup
Channel Switching
RRC Analysis
RAB Analysis
Retainability

The following slides give examples of signaling analysis for 1 RNC at peak hour
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VIP User

RAN Trace Op5miza5on for VIP

Iden<fy accessibility, retainability, and throughput
experiences for VIP users.

Phone
Model
KPI impact
on VIP
users
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Network
expansion
planning

VIP User

Top 10 users impacted by Drop call

List of Top 10 users impacted by Drop call
IMSI
724100501137885
724100801334672
724100700582900
724100301115368
724101703122528
724101704010390
724101904515247
724102000815731
724102101194225
724102103426240

Count
8
7
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5

IMEI

Phone Model

3557990534234700

3571230465736820
BlackBerry 9300
3561800444975100
Galaxy 3 / Galaxy

3530020502608700
GT-P3100


3571230469532220
BlackBerry 9300

Number of drop per cellid for the Top 10 impacted users

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Phone Manufacturer

Cell ID
43963
27966
44491
32126
27348
50487
51737
32971
36524
32285
22285
28809
29428
29549
37345
39425
40484

RIM
Samsung

Samsung


RIM
Count
10
7
6
5
4
4
4
4
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Identifies Cell IDs

where the Top 10
Users are having
the most dropped
calls
Associates device
model with VIP
user list

VIP User

Phone Model
General distribu<on of Phone Manufacturer (Top ones) and Phone Model (Top
ones).
Correla<on of Phone model with Retainability KPI.

Full device list distribution

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Network expansion
VIP User

Traffic heat map for Carrier 1st carrier - Density Map (erlang/Km2)
Allows the
engineer to
understand
critical
coverage and
traffic areas
that will be
targeted for
future network
expansion.

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