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DRIVE TEST REPORT

FOR
HUAWEI
UMUAHIA NETWORK

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Drive Test Engineer: Alozie Charles
Date: 12/03/2014
Supervisor: Jude Abba

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FINCON ENGINEERING NIGERIA LIMITED.
March 17th, 2014.

1.BASE STATION LAYOUT / CO-ORDINATES

The list of the on-air sites, their co-ordinates and configurations are listed below:
Site
Name
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Lo
ngitude
9.47062
9.62635
9.43285
9.51784
9.39618
9.4935
9.54670
9.45157
9.54933
9.34352

Latitu
de
11.8806
11.88432
11.86038
11.86360
11.84845
11.84720
11.80443
11.87251
11.83745
11.64126

BTS
Configurati
on
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222
S222

2. Drive Test Background

2.1 Test Original Intention
The motive for conducting Drive Test for the Huawei network in Umuahia Town, Abia State, is to
test for the coverage and the quality of the network and consequently provide solution to any

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existing network problem that may be affecting the efficiency of the network. Also, the test result
will help provide an understanding of network reliability and performance, and determining what
needs to be done to improve consumer experience on the network, to maintain a profitable
customer base.

2.2 Test method and Test Route

For the drive test, we used a set of drive test equipment with GPS and Sony Ericson W995
(TEMS) mobile station in the test car, and a laptop computer installed with data
collection/analysis software (TEMS Investigation). The two mobile stations were set for both
long call and short call respectively at full rate.
The MS was used to test Rx_level (received power) and the Rx_Qual (Speech/Voice Quality).
Both are used to define the forward coverage range of the system.
For better detailed network information according to BTS distribution and landform, the
drive test route used is shown in the figure below:

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Figure: DriveTest Route for Umuahia Town

Test Equipment and Test Engineer:

Listed in the table below is the set of optimization tools used for the drive test.:
Name
Navigator & MapInfo Pro
Sony Ericsson W995
Car
GPS

Function
Drive Test / Post-Processing Tool
Test Mobile Station
For Drive Test
For Drive Test

Set
1
3
1
1

Provider
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Laptop

For Drive Test

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Human resources:
RF Optimization Engineer.
NAME

Position
Radio DriveTest and Optimisation Engineer

Alozie Charles

(Fincon)
Field Engineers must have a site tracker for location of the sites as well as site
database associated with the sites.

Table: Human resource

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3.0 Drive test Analysis and Statistics
3.1

RX_LEVELSUB COVERAGE

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Figure: RX_LevelSub Distribution Map In Umuahia Town

The above figure shows the forward coverage (Rx_level) of the network. It can be clearly seen
that the received power is not impressing especially for the marked areas.
As indicated in the figure for areas marked A, B, C, D, E and F , they are experiencing very poor
network coverage.

Areas marked A and C has a poor coverage because of the dense vegetation and has no
settlements. Hence no optimization is required for these areas.
Areas marked D, E, and F has a poor coverage because of the Antenna Tilting and high
antenna height causing areas very close to the site to have very low signal strength.
Optimisation recommended for these areas should be that the antennas should be down tilted
by two degrees below and the antenna height should be reduced.
Area marked B has poor coverages because of forward interference from Site 1 (sector 2)
which was not configured as a neighbor to the serving Site 3 (sector 1) as shown in the figure
below.

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3.2 Statistics of RX_LevelSub is shown below:

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18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0

Samples
Samples(%)

Figure: RX_LevelSub Distribution Bar Chart

Figure: RX_LevelSub Pie Chart

RxLevel(dBm)
Rx >= -20
[-50=<Rx<20]
[-80=<Rx<50]
[-90=<Rx<80]
Rx <-90
Total

Sample
s

Samples (%)

0%

0%

14115

34%

17611

43%

9591
41317

23%
100%

Table: Samples Coverage of RXLevelSub

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The Chart shown above shows that the Rx_level (Signal strength) of the cities drive test
coverage distribution counts less than -80dBm is 66%.

3.2 Statistics For Rx_Qual

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Figure: RX_Qual Distribution Map

The above diagram shows the Rx_Qual (Speech Quality) of the network in the area. . It can be
clearly seen that the Speech Quality is good except for the marked areas.

RX_QUAL

Sample
s

Samples(
%)

0 to 2

4493

44%

2 to 4

1300

13%

4 to 5

2866

28%

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1470

15%

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Table: Samples Coverage of RX-Qual

Figure : RX_Qual Distribution Bar chart

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5000
4500

44%

4000
3500
3000
2500
2000

28%
4493

1500

13%

1000

0 to 2

2 to 4

15%
1470

1300

500
0

2866

4 to 5

5 to 7

Figure: RX_Qual Distribution Chart

The Chart shown above shows that the RX_QUAL (Speech Quality) of the cities drive test
coverage distribution counts from 0 to 2 is 44% (which is minimal).

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4.1 OPTIMISATION PLAN

From the above analysis, and the suggested recommendations so as to improve the network
coverage in some areas, the following steps can be taken for the optimization plan.
The antennas close to the area marked D, E, and F in the RX_LEVEL diagram should be
down tilted by an angle of two degrees below so as to increase network coverage.
Also for area marked B, a neighbor cell (Site 1_ sector2) should be configured on site3_
sector1 in order to avoid forward interference.

4.2 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

From the analysis above, it can be inferred that most populated parts of the City are well
covered by the Huawei Network, except for some areas that are having poor signal receivedlevel due to thick vegetation surrounding the areas and distances.
Finally, to ensure consistency in good network performance, all signaling links, hardware
equipment of the radio network, transmission back bones as well as resources for calls, must be
in good status so as to maintain an excellent Rx_level, Rx_Qual, SQI, call setup ratio etc. and
other already established on-going measurement index for good network quality

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