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Problems and Case Analysis Huawei Technologies Proprietary 8-12

Figure 8-5
Downlink code transmitting power of voice with the downlink 50% loading recorded
by RNC

The mean value of the downlink code transmitting power obtained from the network
drive test can measure the downlink path loss and intra-frequency interference of
the coverage. The analysis to the drive test data focuses on the area in which the
downlink code transmitting power is higher than the mean value, and the maximum
downlink code transmitting power remains for a long time. Compared with the
recorded UE drive test data, the direct reason for the remaining high downlink code
transmitting power is that the BLER of the downlink transmitting channel of the
service is not converged to the target value. Where the Best Server coverage of the
pilot RSCP in this area should be analyzed first to check whether the path loss
increases due to the signal dead zone or coverage hole. Then, the Best Server
coverage of pilot Ec/lo in this area and the active set should be analyzed and the
number of integrated cells should be monitored to check whether the downlink
coupling loss increases due to the intra-frequency interference generated by the
pilot pollution. If the pilot pollution does not happen, the change of the downlink
RSSI should be noted. If the RSSI has no obvious increase through the comparison
with other areas, the data collected by the Scanner should be compared with that of
the dominant cell to check whether the configuration of the adjacent cell is missed.
Of course, the external interference also needs to be taken into consideration,
although the frequency clearing test is performed during the site setup. e) Soft
handover rate analysis

WCDMA Radio Network Optimization Guide Chapter 8 Category of Optimization

Problems and Case Analysis Huawei Technologies Proprietary 8-13
According to the drive test data collected by the Scanner, the rate of the soft
handover area can be obtained, which is defined as:
testdriveinScanner by thecollected pointsof number Total testdriveinScanner the
bycollectedandconditionhandover themeeting pointsof Number area Ratever Soft
Hando
However, the soft handover area rate is the percent between the area of soft
handover with the network coverage area in the network, and it cannot reflect the

resource consumption and influence to the system capacity caused by the soft
handover. So the soft handover rate should be defined based on the traffic, such as:
%100handover)soft (includingchannelservice by borneErl handover)soft (excluding
handover)soft (including channelservice by borneErlchannelservice by borneErl
RateHandover Soft

During the network optimization, because there is no user, the UE drive test data
once for the whole network is usually adopted. The rate of points in the soft
handover status in the all points in the drive test is named the soft handover area
rate, and it should be controlled from 30% to 40%. The soft handover rate can
increase if the parameter modification happens, such as reducing the filter
coefficient, reducing the trigger time, trigger threshold and hysteresis of the 1A
event, increasing the trigger time, trigger threshold, hysteresis of the 1B event and
increasing CIO. For the micro cell area, because of the dense sites, the soft
handover rate will be relatively high,