Call Muting & Drop :

Overview & Statistics

Rev 0.0
Date: 13.03.2016

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Call Muting & Call Drop

In general, the call muting issues were happening due to Radio Link Failures (RLF)
After the Radio Link Failure, UE takes few seconds to re-select the new cell and latch on to it.
During this process, there is no voice reception/transmission that leads to user experiencing call muting
The call muting can be classified based on the duration as outlined below
Missed call even good RF
condition....
Long Term muting

Short
ShortTerm
Termmuting
muting

~4 sec
T311(3sec)+T304(1sec)

DL RLF in UE
HO failure
S1 release with bearer preservation)

4~9 sec
UL RLF timer
UL RLF in eNB
RRE fail & delayed SR
S1 release with bearer preservation
Delayed Paging Response after S1
release

9 sec ~ Call drop

Depend on No RTP timer in UE
UL RLF in eNB
RRE fail & delayed SR
S1 release with bearer preservation
No or delayed Paging Response after S1
release

Call cracking - Periodic cracking per 100 msec ~ 1 sec : frequent HO, RLF, RoHC error, and etc.

RSRP & SINR distribution :

Derived from CLOT Drive Test Data
RSRP Ranges

2300 Band

1800 Band

850 Band

>=-70

0.55%

7.65%

28.22%

-80 to -70

8.59%

26.44%

29.48%

-90 to -80

29.14%

35.58%

28.53%

-100 to -90

38.21%

23.60%

12.37%

-108 to -100

18.41%

6.06%

1.32%

-115 to -108

4.61%

0.56%

0.13%

<-115

0.46%

0.09%

0.00%

SINR Ranges
>=25
20 to 25
15 to 20
10 to 15
5 to 10
0 to 5
-2 to 0
<-2

2300 Band
0.14%
4.35%
13.63%
22.40%
26.75%
23.53%
5.21%
3.98%

Coverage

2300 Band

1800 Band

850 Band

2 Wall Coverage

38.28%

69.66%

86.23%

3 Wall Coverage

9.14%

34.09%

57.70%

1800 Band
0.66%
7.50%
15.78%
21.88%
24.80%
20.80%
4.63%
3.94%

850 Band
0.35%
6.30%
16.13%
21.22%
24.57%
22.75%
4.95%
3.62%

It is imperative to eliminate samples less than 0 dB SINR as it will lead to call muting/drop.

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Statistical Summary
Call Details
City

Band

Kolkata
Bhopal

Indore

Mumbai
Rest of
PAN India

1800
2300
1800
2300
850
1800
2300
850
1800
2300
850
2300
1800
850

No. of
Users

10443
2000

2000

51781

333969

Total No. of Call Drop

calls
Rate (%)
1521547
1672945
360777
538535
110873
391458
659198
115071
4710259
7107107
1092763
53472272
29462460
1573119

1.18
1.51
1.13
1.32
1.61
1.31
1.61
1.55
1.39
1.48
1.94
1.7
1.37
1.75

Radio Link Failure (RLF)

Total RLF
Count

RLF (%)

52444
34190
9851
12115
6260
12049
16628
5781
231094
160239
84848
1236430
1221337
93547

3.45
2.04
2.73
2.25
5.65
3.08
2.52
5.02
4.91
2.25
7.76
2.31
4.15
5.95

Reestablishment (RRE)

Residual Block
Reestablishment Reestablishment Error Rate (UL)
(%)
Success Rate (%) Failure Rate (%)
70.4
34.8
64.5
45.8
75.8
66.5
44.7
76.9
76.6
46.2
80.2
31.41
63.79
69.44

29.6
65.2
35.5
54.2
24.2
33.5
55.3
23.1
23.4
53.8
19.8
68.59
36.21
30.56

2.55
1.9
0.53
0.73
1.27
0.66
0.73
1.7
1.47
1.14
2.86
1.06
1.23
2.3

Avg
MCS

Avg
CQI

13
14
19
18
11
17
17
14
13
14
7
16
15
12

8
9
10
10
10
9
10
10
9
10
9
10
10
10

The Block Error Rate (BLER) is a measure of how successful a data transmission is over the air at the Physical/MAC layer level.
Residual BLER of a packet is calculated after the maximum allowable retransmission. The value of Residual BLER should not be more than 0.5%.
Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) represents the quality of the uplink channel reported by the UE.
Modulation & Coding scheme (MCS) defines different combinations which provides bits per symbol.
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BLER vs MCS vs CQI :

City wise Statistics
City

Residual BLER

MCS

CQI

Mumbai
Kolkata
Indore
Bhopal
Bangalore
Chennai

2300
1.14
1.9
0.73
0.73
0.82
0.84

1800
1.47
2.55
0.66
0.53
1.21
1.06

850
2.86
1.7
1.27
-

2300
14
14
17
18
17
16

1800
13
13
17
19
13
10

850
7
14
11
-

2300
10
9
10
10
11
10

1800
9
8
9
10
10
9

850
9
10
10
-

Ahmedabad

0.92

1.64

16

14

10

Surat
Pune
Nagpur
Hyderabad
Lucknow
Kanpur

1.05
0.97
0.69
0.91
0.73
0.76

1.33
1.41
0.64
1.07
0.69
0.99

2.05
1.42

14
17
18
16
16
18

13
14
17
14
19
21

17
19

10
10
10
10
10
10

9
9
9
9
9
9

10
10

850 band shows poor Residual BLER & MCS values as compared to 2300 & 1800 bands.
UE in challenging RF environment is served by 850 band instead of 2300 & 1800 band due to multiband strategy.
Higher BLER in 850 band indicates that the 850 coverage may not be sufficient to provide deep indoor coverage in some areas.
Study is being carried out at Kolkata to understand the cause of poor residual BLER through RF Shield Box.
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BLER & MCS :

2300, 1800 & 850 band
UL MCS

850 band has lower DL BLER, while is has higher UL BLER.

850 MCS is poorer as compared to 2300 & 1800 bands.
This could be because 850 provides less advantage in uplink as compared to downlink over 2300/1800 band.
This indicates that 850 uplink coverage need to be strengthened in some of the deep indoor areas.

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RRC Connections and Drop Rate

850 band RRC drop rate similar to 2300/1800 band despite of having significantly lower RRC Connections in 850 band.
This could be due to 850 band serving UE in difficult RF environment as per multiband strategy.
This indicates that 850 coverage need to be strengthened in some of the deep indoor areas.
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Resolution on RLF :
Improvement of SIB Read Failures
The below table indicates the improvement in SIB failure rate post increase in number of RBs allocated in SIB .
A test was carried out in Navi Mumbai cluster 108,109 to know the effect of change in RB allocation on call muting.
It is seen that after increasing the number of RB allocated as per current package the sib failure rate has been improved.
Improvement observed in Mumbai cluster 108 & 109 from 91% to 99.53 % .
No. RB for SIB2
Band
SIB2 Error
SIB2 Success Rate

Pre 5 RBs
1800
6/77
92.20%

850
14 / 91
84.60%

2300
1/85
98.80%

850
0 / 66
100.00%

Post 18 RBs
1800
1/71
98.60%

2300
0 / 55
100.00%

The RB allocation as per version

PKG
SLR410
SLR500 Default
SLR500

Scaling
16
16

Reduction Factor
4
1

SIB2
20RB
5RB
18RB

Remark
Earlier value
Default value
Recommended Value

Significant improvement in SIB Read failures observed after increasing RBs from 518 for SIB & already implemented PAN India
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