Scope of Work-Radio

Radio Department
RNE Somtel

2013

Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................................
............................... 3
Overview .......................................................................................................................
................................ 3
Resources Requirements
.............................................................................................................................. 3
Scope of Work
.......................................................................................................................................
........ 3
Physical Audit and Database
..................................................................................................................... 3
Benchmarking Drive Test
.......................................................................................................................... 3
Reporting ...................................................................................................................
............................... 4
Responsibility Matrix
.................................................................................................................................... 4
AppendixA....................................................................................................................................
................ 5
Site Audit FormA.................................................................................................................................
..... 5
Benchmarking Criteria
.............................................................................................................................. 5
Reporting ...................................................................................................................
............................... 5
Database of the network in the defned format
................................................................................... 5
Benchmarking report
............................................................................................................................ 6
Network Design
Report......................................................................................................................
... 6
Network Congestion Report
................................................................................................................. 6
Frequency Plan
Report......................................................................................................................
.... 6
BSS
Report......................................................................................................................
....................... 7
Neighbor Planning

Report.....................................................................................................................
7
Parameter Audit
Report......................................................................................................................
.. 7
KPIs Report
................................................................................................................................
............ 7

Introduction
Somtel has recently acquired the Telcom network in South Somalia. Now Somtel
needs to start a detailed level audit for each of the department to have a clear
view about the acquired network. This document is specifically related to the
scope of work defned for the radio part.

Overview
South Somalia is divided into two regions and each region is assigned to one team.
So a total of two field teams are required to accomplish this task. Majorly the scope
of work is divided into three parts.
Physical
Audit
Benchmarki
ng
Deliverable
s

Resources Requirements
2 Teams of Riggers with GPS, Compass, Digital Camera, Tilt measuring
scale and Meter Tape
2 Teams of Drive Testers with TEMS Investigation Kits(each Kit
with 3 Mobiles)
1 Radio Consultant (Huawei/ZTE
Skilled)

Scope of Work
Physical Audit and Database
Physical Audit is a necessary part of Radio Audit to get a clear view of what is
installed in the field and what physical parameters are there. Each of the Riggers
is assigned to collect all the necessary information contained in Form-A (defned
below). This information is to be submitted to the RF Consultant after the end of
each activity day so that he (Consultant) can develop an accurate database for
the network.

Benchmarking Drive Test

Benchmarking is another important activity to analyze the network situation
among the competitors. Each of the Drive test team has to make the drive on the
defned drive routes including all the major highways, cities, towns and villages to
have an idea about the coverage foot print and quality of service
for each of the operator. Drive Test Mode will consist of (not limited to);
Idle Mode
Short Call Mode

Long Call Mode

Drive Test mode selection/criteria will be defned by the RF Consultant according to
the profle of the drive region/area. At the end of each drive the Drive Test
Engineer is supposed to provide the coverage

plots, quality plots and event plots for the drive (plus any extra plot required) to the
RF Consultant in the defned format(jpg, ppt etc)as per his requirement.

Reporting
All the fnal reporting is to be done by the RF Consultant. It will consist of the
following reports;
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Database of the network in the defned format

Benchmarking report
Network Design Report
Network Congestion Report
Frequency Plan Report
BSS Report
Neighbor Planning Report
Parameter Audit Report
KPIs Report

Description of each of the report is found in Appendex-A below

Responsibility
Matrix

Activity
From
Physical Audit on each
site&Submission of collected
data

Resource
Rigger Team

Database Maintenance
Somtel
Drive Test Activity and
Submission of Logs and Plots
in defned format

Subcon

RF Consultant

Drive Test Team

Subcon

Benchmarking Report
Somtel

RF Consultant

Network Design Report

Somtel

RF Consultant

Network Congestion Report

Somtel
Frequency Plan Report
Somtel
BSS Report
Somtel
Neighbor Planning Report
Somtel

RF Consultant
RF Consultant
RF Consultant
RF Consultant

Parameter Audit Report

Somtel
KPI Reports
Somtel

RF Consultant
RF Consultant

Appendix-A
Site Audit Form-A
Site Name
Coordinates
(Lat/Long)
Tower Erected
(Yes/No)
BTS Type
(Indoor/outdoor)
BTS & Antenna
installed(Yes/No)
Tower Height
0 to 360 Degree
Pictures
Taken(Yes/No)

Sector ID
Sec 1
Sec 2
Sec 3
Sec 4
Sec 5
Sec 6

Antenna Azim Mecha

u th nic al
Height
()
tilt ()
(m)

Electri
ca l
tilt ()

Ant.
Band(Sing GSM Antenn
le
/DCS a
/Dual)
GSM Model
GSM
GSM
DCS
DCS
DCS

Benchmarking Criteria
Benchmarking is to be done on the basis of Idle Mode and Short Call/Long call mode
as per profle of the drive area selected by the RF Consultant. It is defned below;
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Idle Mode drive for the three operators (All Highways/Cities/Towns)

Short Call drive for the three operators(Cities/Towns)
Long Call drive for the three operators(All the highways/Towns/Cities)

Final mode of drive, route and drive test criteria(call time, idle time etc) will be
defned by RF Consultant and need to be followed by drive test teams in the same
manner.

Reporting
Database of the network in the defined format
Defned format of database sheet will be a simple excel sheet, having the following
columns;
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Site Name
Longitude

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Latitude
Tower Errected? Yes/No
Tower Height
BTS/Antennas Installed? Yes/No
BTS Type? Indoor/Outdoor
Cell Name
Cell ID/Sector ID
Azimuth
Height
Mechanical Tilts
Electrical Tilts
Antenna Type/Name
Frequency Band
Number of TRXs/TREs
On-Air Status? Yes/No
Comments (If any)

Benchmarking
report
This report consist of plots of the different operators. It contains,
Coverage Plots-Idle Mode(Rx_Lev Full
dBm) Coverage Plot-Dedicated
Mode(Rx_Lev Sub dBm) Quality PlotDedicated Mode(Rx_Qual Sub)
Events Plot- Dedicated Mode(Call Drop/HO
Failure/Blocked Calls) Best Server Plot
Network Design Report
Network Design report will come after the database collection is fnished and one
can have a clear view of the network physical design. It will be a snap shot of the
network current design review and recommendations from Consultant about the
current design and changes.
Network Congestion Report
Network Congestion report will be made by consultant after getting the stats of
trafic and resources in the last 30days (depends on the data storage of stats in
iManager2000) and get the congestion status on each of the cell and
recommendations about the expansion of TRX resources or new site probability.
Frequency Plan Report
Must contain the oficially allocated band for Telcom and utilization of band in the
network for GSM and DCS. If using outband frequencies, then how many out of
band frequencies are used and in what percentage. Secondly, the band split for
BCCH and TCH for each of GSM and DCS band. It means how many frequencies are
using in BCCH band and TCH band. Next will be the freq plan strategy used in the
GSM and DCS(hopping/non hopping). If hopping is used then which type of hopping
is used (SFH/BBH/DFH).

BSS Report
This report must contain the following items;
How many BSCs are used in the network and features of each BSC(Max
Traffic/Max TRXs) Traffic and TRX Loading in each of the BSC
BSC Boundaries Plot
LAC/RAC Plot
Paging Report for the last one month
Recommendations
Neighbor Planning Report
Just a smart view of Neighbor planning in the network. If found
inconsistencies(illogical neighbors/one way relations) then snap shot of few
examples and fnally the recommendations about the current neighbor
planning(needs neighbor audit or not . etc)
Parameter Audit Report
A small report about the basic and common parameters on;
BSC Level
Cell Level
Adjacency
Level
It will be a table, having name of parameter, its current value, its default
value(by vendor), and recommendations (if this value is correct or need
modifications)
KPIs Report
It contains the average of Basic KPIs of the network for the last two weeks. It must
have the following
item;
Call Drop rate(with Radio/BSS/HO
Drop Split) SDCCH Drop Rate
Call Setup Success
Rate TCH Congestion
Rate SDCCH
Congestion Rate
Incoming HO Success
Rate Outgoing HO
Success Rate
TCH Traffic and RTCH Availability(No. of TCH Available)
SDCCH Trafic and SDCCH Availability(No. of
SDCCH Available) GPRS_TBF Establisment
Success Rate UL/DL
GPRS_TBF Drop Rate UL/DL
GPRS_Throughput DL/UL

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