XiNOS

EXPERT INTEGRATED NETWORK OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM

Software Team

Wave-In Communication Inc.

 Outline

| Company Background
| Challenge
| Solutions
| XiNOS Overview
| Use Cases
| Q&A

Wave-In Communication Inc.

 Company Background

Company : Wave-in Communication Inc.

(伸波通訊有限公司)

 Indoor Coverage Solutions  SDAS

 Network Optimization Expert System  XiNOS
Taipei Neihu Science and Technology Park

XiNOS Partners

Wave-In Communication Inc.

 Mobile Network Challenge
New Technology
- IoT, M2M
- Connectivity

End User Satisfaction

- VIP Complaint
- Churn Rate

ROI
- Spectrum Efficiency
- Resource Utilisation

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 Evolution for Mobile Network KPI Optimization Solution
2020

3G
2000 2005 2014

2G 4G 5G Platform
Domain : Telecom + IT + Data Science
System
New
PHP+JQuery
Tool BI tool
Spreadsheet PHP PHP+JQuery Greenplum (MPP)
MYSQL MYSQL OpenGIS
MS HTML OpenGIS Python/Talend
Excel Access Java Python Machine-Learning
Daily
Data
Size
20MB ~ 1GB 5GB ~ 20GB 50GB ~ Infinity
Scalable Database Capability
Stand alone Web-based Dynamic GUI
Stand alone Advance BI Interface
Individual effort Data capacity Interactive Chart/GIS
Individual effort Use Case Orientated
Slow processing Static Page GUI User Defined
Limited rows Big data Analytic
Need extra skill Module hard coded Data Processing Improve
Auto-detection & Diagnosis

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 XiNOS - Solutions
Multi-Vendors /Technology
KPI Reporting Platform
2.0
Dash-boarding
Historical Data Warehouse
User Customizable
GIS Overview & Analysis
Multi-Vendor Support
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Expert Insight Network User Experience &
Optimization System Poor Indoor Detection
Insight User Experience
Intelligent Use Cases Performance Test App
Machine Learning Algorithm End User perception Analysis
Auto Detection & Diagnosis Problem Area detection
Poor Indoor detection
 District Level
Aggregation

Dash-boarding KPIs Library & Report Builder

Report Grid
KPIs on Maps

Dash-board
Charts

Top N & drill-down

Report Module Builder

Coverage Plot
Provide Flexible & Interactive GUI for details deep in Technical Analysis.
User able
Wave-In to define Case
Communication Inc. Module, PI formula and Charts Combination. What is XiNOS
 XiNOS Introduction
Main Function: Reporting & Dash-boarding (data visualization)

Key Features (on top of OSS functions)

 Historical Database, fast & scalable. (Mysql & Greenplum)
 Automated ETL & Object Aggregation. (such Region, City, District, Cluster & Workingset)
 Build-in Counters & KPIs library (10,000+ KPIs).
 Builders - User Defined & Customized : Report Module, KPI formula & Composite Charts.
 Visualization on map. (KPIS, Parameter, HO relations & coverage)
 Top N View & Drill-down

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 What went wrong?
Anomalies/Outliers
What has changed?
Network Changes
What was the root cause?

INSIGHT Diagnosis
XiNOS+ uses algorithms What should be done to fix it?
that to find hidden insights
from OSS data : Actions

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System Architecture
Data Data AI/
UI/Data Visualization Insight Modules
Integration Warehousing Machine Learning

Data Reactive
KPI Dashboarding
Sources Integrated Data Model Analytics
ORDER
ORDER NUMBER
ORDER DATE
STATUS
ORDER ITEM BACKORDERED
QUANTITY
CUSTOMER
CUSTOMER NUMBER
CUSTOMER NAME
ORDER ITEM SHIPPED
CUSTOMER CITY
CUSTOMER POSTQUANTITY

Automated anomaly detection

CUSTOMER ST SHIP DATE
CUSTOMER ADDR
CUSTOMER PHONE ITEM
CUSTOMER FAX ITEM NUMBER
QUANTITY
CM Data DESCRIPTION

Artificial
Data Proactive
Intelligence
DATA Analytics
Extract
WAREHOUSE
Transform Automated change detection
PM Data
Load
(ETL)
Diagnostic
Machine Automated Diagnosis
Analytics
FM Data Learning
MPP
Architecture
Prescriptive
Automated Action
Site Info
Analytics

Predictive
Automated Prediction
Analytics

Wave-In
Flow of DataCommunication
Analytics Inc.
 Network Insight and automatically problem identification Example

RSI Collision PCI Confusion

pair Detection cells detection

ISD

Wave-In
GoldenCommunication
Neighbors Inc. Coverage Holes & Weak Coverage KPIs outlier on Map
 Data-Driven Network Planning & Optimization Service
LTE PCI RSI DriveTest
3 Domains Knowhow in 1 box eNodeB E-RAB
Interference CQI
Strong Coverage PRACH
MME overshooting KPIs
Domain MINO MDT RSSI
Expertise
Machine-Learning
K-mean
ARIMA R-languge Valuable
AI pearson Voronoi Insight
Big Data SAS SPSS
Smart Powerful
MPP Mysql Cassandra
Data IT CI AWS
Scientist Platform Tomcat Cloud D3
Javascript Hadoop
GreenPlum OLAP
Pyhton Tableau
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 Current Expert Modules with Machine Leaning
PCI RSI
• Identification and visualization of poor PCI planning • Identification and visualization of poor RSI planning
Auto Diagnostic System
• Too-short PCI reuse distance • Too-short RSI reuse distance
• Uneven PCI distribution • Uneven RSI distribution

ISD Golden Neighbor

• Calculation of ISD using machine-learning algorithms • Find 1-tier, 2-tier, 3-tier neighbors of each site/cell automatically using
• Visualization of average ISD in carrier/site/district/city/region level machine learning algorithm
• Identification of Top-N shortest ISD sites in carrier/district/city/region level

DL Interference UL Interference
• DL interference management • XiNOS Customized KPIs for UL interference Identification
• Interference Pair identification • Daily Monitoring for problem cells

KPI on Map (outlier) Coverage Hole

• Automatic Identification of bad performed cells using machine learning • Automatic Identification of weak coverage area and coverage holes
algorithms cells using machine learning algorithms

KPI Anomaly Detection Network Change Detection

• Analytics generating events based on cell-level hourly/daily KPI anomaly • Analytics generating events based on changes in the network
detection

Capacity Bottleneck Analytics Overshooting Detection

• Detecting of network capacity bottlenecks based on understanding • Labeling of cells/BTSs based on overshooting detection analysis using HO
current network utilization and forecasting network utilization and performance data
capacity bottlenecks

Crossed Cable/Feeder Detection Labeling of LTE Problem Cells

• Labeling of cells/BTSs based on outlier detection analysis using statistical • Labeling of abnormal cells/BTSs (e.g. KPI outliers, PCI/RSI
methods confusion/collision, overshooting, capacity bottleneck, etc)

PCI/RSI Recommendation Diagnosis and Action

• Labeling of cells/BTSs based on outlier detection analysis using statistical • Automatic diagnosis and action planning based on the result of event
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methods Inc. association analysis
 DL Interference – CQI vs DL Volume Traffic
CASE example

Network CQI degrade

LTE frequency reuse =1 technology along with DL traffic grow

DL Traffic

CQI

overlap of the cells needs to be

carefully tuned

Cell 1 Serving
Cell
CQI
Cell A

Cell K
Neighbor Cells DL Volume Traffic

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 L1 Tuning DL Interference Hunter Snapshot
• XiNOS+ using Machine Learning algorithms on huge PM data to find trouble-makers that caused interference relations among cells.
• Operator can easily find trouble-maker cells which causing DL interference to perform “L1 tuning”precisely and efficiently

Traditionally DL interference hunting (L1

tuning) relies heavily on DT.
•  Expensive
•  Limited to roads and cannot find
interference that happens in the
This cell CQI Suffering
Interference from 2 Ncells
building
when high traffic
Troble-maker 1
Overshooting • This can be done by PM counters
analysis, but hard to calculate
manually due to huge amount of
hourly data to be used.
• XiNOS+ deployed big data
technology and Machine Learning
algorithm to achieve easily.

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Trouble-maker 2 Inc.
Overshooting
 UE App Analysis Platform Concept
Data Server IP
1 Configurable
Performance Test
4G/3G/2G Configurable
RSRP FTP Server IP Data Collection
RSRQ Server (Mysql)
SNR Test Files
CQI Ping Latency FTP server
Nbr.Cell Info ETL Server
Web-loading
Latency
DL Speed DL/UL Speed Greenplum
UL Speed
DataMart
Measurement Data
Collection Mobile Data Analysis
Network & Visualization Server
2
RF Data Collection UE Sensor Performance RF Data
RSRP Illumination Module Module
RSRQ 3 Speed
SNR Motion
CQI Altitude
Nbr.Cell Info Acceleration
Wifi-GPS

  No expensive probe & hardware, data storage >> Cost Saving.

 Actual real location for the identified problems >> Accuracy.
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 Capability Inc.
to solve indoor coverage problem >> Difficult Problem XiNOS+ Analysis Platform
 Snapshot of the Analytic Results

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 1 XiNOS - Service Delivery - Vendor (Nokia Taiwan)
1 Day
Most Service
Delivery
Practices
+
Time/Resource Engineers
Consuming Huge network Slow response in reporting
Telco Expert spend hours
raw data trouble-shooting & analysis
to process

1 Hours
LTE Network Size
With XiNOS
Number LNBTS : 12000
Efficiency Number LNCEL : 58000
improved
XiNOS solved resource problem
XiNOS solved work efficiency
 Engineers head-count reduce from 20 to 12.
 Improve data handling & processing
daily time save 60% saved 8 person x USD 60K /annual
XiNOS improved Work Quality XiNOS improved collaboration & Competence
 Quick Report/Analysis on time, improve  Fly-in experts knowhow retain after expert leaving.
competitive advantage Less dependent on expert support.
Customer/User satisfaction improved saved N x USD10k+/month
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 We are integrating expert knowledge & use cases into one box.
 We provide better insight to Improve network quality & ROI.
 We make optimization work simple, easy, smarter & cost efficient.

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Automatic Diagnosis System

LTE Network KPI Anomaly Detection Module

Objective / Problem Statement Expected Outcome of the Module Use Cases/Benefits

• KPI Anomaly: KPI that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. • Automatic detection of cell-level KPI • Used as input information for further
• The ability to detect cell-level KPI anomalies in daily basis is valuable for proactive network anomalies (~20 Major KPIs) using diagnosis/action planning
performance management. machine learning algorithm (Extreme • Benefits:
• However, accurately detecting cell-level KPI anomalies can be very difficult. First, what Studentized Deviate, ESD) • Reducing mean-time-to-
qualifies as an anomaly is constantly changing. Systems evolves over time as behaviors • Turning KPI anomalies into events identification (MTTI) of network
(such as number of connected UEs) change and effective anomaly detection requires a stored in the XiNOS+ event DB performance degradation
system to learn continuously. • Reducing mean-time-to-action
• Simple-thresholds is not suitable solution because: (MTTA) to avoid potential
• They generally are set by the user, rather than learned, which can be a time customer complaints
consuming and difficult process when monitoring many KPIs.
• Moreover, they need to be adjusted as the environment changes, so manual real-
time maintenance is needed.

Example Analytics: detection of cell-level KPI anomalies Example Analytics: turning KPI anomalies into events

Anomaly Detection

KPI anomaly Events

• 2015/12/31: RRC Con. Setup SR degrades
• 2016/2/5: Inter-eNB HO SR degrades
• 2017/8/3: …

Event Database

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Automatic Diagnosis System

Event Association Analysis Module

Troubleshooting/Diagnosis Module

Objective / Problem Statement Expected Outcome of the Module Use Cases/Benefits

• When the degradation of network performance happens and the abnormal KPIs • Automatic root cause identification
for KPI degradation using data mining
are identified, it is still not easy to find the root cause of the degradation.
algorithm (association analysis)
• It also takes a lot of experience, knowledge and analysis to, after finding the right
action to resolve the degradation and bring the network performance back to • Automatic action plan
normal recommendation using machine
learning algorithm (decision tree)
Use cases
• Finding KPI degradation caused by
PCI confusion/RSI collision
• Finding KPI degradation caused by
inteference
Benefits
• Reduce mean-time-to-
investigate/resolve(MTTI/MTTR)
• Improve the accuracy of solution
• Improve network performance
• Saving operational cost

Example Analytics: Example Analytics:

Top-N DL interference cell pair of each carrier/city/district • Visualization of DL interference on the map
• Correlation of cell DL CQI vs. neighbour cell DL traffic volume

Association
Analysis
FM Database Cell-Level Diagnosis
BTS-Level Modeling
Neighbor-Level
Event Database
Action
Tag Library DB Diagnosis Plan

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