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Retainability

• E-RAB drop distribution

- LTE_762a E-RAB QCI1 All releases
- EPC initiated QCI1 releases due to…
• LTE_763a …Normal
- EPC initiated EPS Bearer Release requests for QCI1 due to Normal release by UE
• LTE_764a … Detach
- EPC initiated EPS Bearer Release requests for QCI1 due to Detach procedure by UE or MME
• LTE_765a … RNL
- EPC initiated EPS Bearer Release requests per QCI1 due to Radio Network Layer cause
• LTE_766a … Other
- EPC initiated EPS Bearer Release requests for QCI1 due to Other causes
- When redirection cause do not match any other failure counter

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Usage

• Number of UE’s using the Voice calls

- LTE_5805c E-UTRAN Average Active UEs with data in the buffer for DRBs of QCI1 DL
• Average number of UE's having data in RLC level buffers for DRBs of QCI1 during the measurement period per cell
for downlink direction.
- LTE_5807c E-UTRAN Average Active UEs with data in the buffer for QCI1 DRBs UL
• Average number of UE with buffered data in UL per logical channel group id mapped to VoIP (QCI1) DRBs during a
measurement period per cell
- LTE_1037a E-UTRAN Average Active UEs with data in the buffer for DRBs of QCI1 vs all DRBs,
DL
• Ratio between average number of UE's having data in RLC level buffers for DRBs of QCI1 during the measurement
period per cell for downlink direction vs number of UE's having data in RLC level buffers for DRBs of any QCI (1-9) .
- LTE_986a E-UTRAN Average Active UEs with data in the buffer for DRBs of QCI1 DL vs GBR ratio
• Ratio between average number of UE's having data in RLC level buffers for DRBs of QCI1 during the measurement
period per cell for downlink direction vs number of UE's having data in RLC level buffers for DRBs of any GBR QCI (1-
3)
- New KPI Fraction of QCI1 UE’s in TTI bundling mode
• This KPI provides the ratio of the UE’s configured with TTI bundling to the overall number of QCI1 UE’s
• KPI is not applicable if parameter LNBTS: enforcettibundling is set to true
• = TTI_BUNDLING_MODE_UE_AVG / UE_DRB_UL_DATA_QCI_1

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Usage

• Active time for all VoIP connections

- LTE_5576a E-UTRAN E-RAB Active Time QCI1 [min]
• Aggregated in-session activity time in minutes for all E-RABs with QCI1 characteristics.
• The E-RAB is said to be "in-session" if any user data has been transferred in UL or DL direction within the last
100msec
• This KPI may be compared to the total session time (LTE_5575a E-UTRAN Total E-RAB Active Time)
- LTE_1067b VoIP traffic load
• This KPI measures the traffic load of voice calls over LTE network. The traffic is expressed in Erlang.
• =ERAB_IN_SESSION_TIME_QCI1 / (period_duration * 60)
- LTE_1153a Average voice call duration
• This KPI measures the average duration of a voice call.
• = ERAB_IN_SESSION_TIME_QCI1 / (numer of QCI sessions)

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Usage

• Voice call throughput on cell level [kbit/s]

- LTE_5294c E-UTRAN average PDCP Active Layer Cell Throughput UL for QCI1 DRBs
• shows the average PDCP layer throughput per cell in uplink direction for QCI1 Data Radio Bearer
• The throughput is calculated as ratio of the PDCP SDU data volume and sum of time units where
there is received data
- LTE_5293c E-UTRAN average PDCP Layer Active Cell Throughput DL for QCI1 DRBs
• shows the average PDCP layer throughput per cell in DL direction for QCI1 Data Radio Bearer
• The throughput is calculated as ratio of the PDCP SDU data volume and sum of time units where
there is received data

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Usage

• Voice call throughput (IP scheduled) [kbit/s]

on user level Successful transmission,

- LTE_5350a E-UTRAN Averaged IP buffer not empty

The last data unit  TTI

Failed transmission (“Block error”)
scheduled Throughput in DL, QCI1 Successful transmission,
shall always be removed
from calculations since it
IP_TPUT_TIME_*
• This KPI provides the IP scheduled end
buffer empty can be impacted by packet
size of User Plane (UP)
No transmission, buffer not empty packets
user throughput in DL for QCI1 services (e.g. due to contention

according to 3GPP 36.314 chapter 4.1.6

- LTE_5359a E-UTRAN Averaged IP
Time (ms)
scheduled Throughput in UL, QCI1 Data arrives to First data is The buffer is
again empty
• This KPI provides the IP scheduled end
empty buffer transmitted to
the UE

user throughput in UL for QCI1 services IP_TPUT_VOL_* = Σ [kbit]

according to 3GPP 36.314 chapter 4.1.6
Total DL transferred volume = Σ + [kbit]

IP_TPUT_VOL_*
Scheduled IP throughput =
IP_TPUT_TIME_
*
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Integrity

• Voice service delay

- LTE_5138a E-UTRAN Average Latency Downlink for QCI1 DRBs
• shows the retention period (delay) of a PDCP SDU (DL) inside eNB for QCI1 DRBs
• time from reception of IP packet to transmission of first packet over the Uu interface.

- Average Latency Uplink for QCI1 - no counter available due to implementation reasons.

• Handover latency
- LTE_1086a Handover interval for Inter system HO with SRVCC
• Average interval between Inter system Handovers with SRVCC
• SUM(ERAB_IN_SESSION_TIME_QCI1) /
SUM(ISYS_HO_UTRAN_SRVCC_SUCC + ISYS_HO_GERAN_SRVCC_SUCC)
- No counters for intra-LTE HO latencies (duration) for QCI1

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Mobility

• LTE572 IMS Emergency Session support

- LTE_5155a E-UTRAN HO Preparation Success Ratio for IMS emergency Sessions
• Shows success ratio for the handover preparation phase for IMS emergency sessions, when the
source eNB attempts to prepare resources and finally starts to attempt the handover to a neighboring
cell within the own or target eNB.
• = 100*sum(HO_EMG_ATT) / sum(HO_EMG_PREP)
- LTE_5158a E-UTRAN HO Attempts for IMS emergency Sessions
• Shows number of attempts for emergency calls
• = sum(HO_EMG_ATT)
- LTE_5161a E-UTRAN HO Success Ratio for IMS emergency Sessions
• Shows success ratio for the handover execution phase, when the source eNB receives information
that the UE successfully is connected to the target cell within own or target eNB.
• = 100*sum((HO_EMG_SUCC)/ sum(HO_EMG_ATT)

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Integrity

• PDCP SDU
- LTE_1131a Percentage of user-plane PDCP SDU UL QCI1
• Provides the percentage of received PDCP SDUs for QCI 1 bearers
• Only user-plane traffic (DTCH) is considered
• Updated when a PDCP SDU for a QCI 1 bearer is delivered to higher layers
- LTE_1127a Percentage of PDCP SDU DL QCI 1
• The KPI provides the percentage of transmitted PDCP SDUs in downlink for QCI 1
- LTE_1041a Percentage of discarded PDCP SDUs DL QCI1
• Percentage of discarded PDCP SDUs in DL for QC1 compared with SDUs to transmit (actual
transmitted plus discarded)
- New KPI UL PDCP SDU transmission success ratio per QCI
• Having the knowledge about the lost PDCP SDU’s (M8001C255 PDCP_SDU_LOSS_UL_QCI_1),
the transmission success ratio can be calculated
• = PDCP_SDU_DL_QCI_1 - PDCP_SDU_LOSS_DL_QCI_1 / PDCP_SDU_DL_QCI_1

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Table of contents
Introduction
11 Executive summary, list of KPIs

Related counters
22 With descriptions

KPI details
33 Descriptions, examples, issues

NPM report
44 Predefined report for VoIP monitoring

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Overview

• Network Performance Manager (NPM)

• In NPM  Reporting Suite there is report
RSLTE052 – VoIP
- Report is composed of following 9 parties (sections):
• RRC Connection Setup Success Rate
• RRC Connection Releases
• E-RAB Setup Success Rate
• E-RAB Drop Rates
• RNL Fail UE lost
• E-UTRAN IP Latency (QCI)
• VoIP Capacity
• Handover Success Rates
• Paging
• Packet Loss Ratio
• It contains so many counters/KPIs that it might be difficult
to read (division to section slightly help)
• There are not only VoIP KPIs but also general LTE counters/KPIs that might be useful when
evaluating performance of VoIP
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RRC Connection Releases section

• RRC Connection Releases section contains:

- RRC Releases (LTE_5219a)
- EPC initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Normal release by UE (M8013C9)
- EPC initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Detach procedure by UE or MME (M8013C10)
- EPC initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Radio Network Layer cause (M8013C11)
- EPC initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Other causes (M8013C12)
- eNB initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Normal release (M8013C13)
- eNB initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Radio Network Layer cause (M8013C15)
- eNB initiated transitions to ECM-IDLE due to Other causes (M8013C16)

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