Q. Swap Project experience?

A.

Q.What activities to do before swap night and after the swap?

A.Before swap night we do power mapping, prepare nbr relation scripts,nss
definitions (CGI and local & remote LAC definitions) etc.

After swap night we check MOC/MTC, handovers specially inter-BSC/MSC. Check for
partial/full swap and benchmark hourly/daily pre-post KPIs.

Q. NSN->Huawei parameter Mapping.

A.HO algorithms are different. Give examples of some parameters in Huawei and NSN
which can be mapped.

Q. What is Pagging, load from BSCorMSC and how we can relax paging load?

A.Number of cells in a Location Area ranges from as low as 10 to more than 100.
Once a page reaches
the BSC from MSC, BSC sends it across to �all the cells within the BSC�15. Hence an
incoming page to a
BSC gives rise to a considerably large number of outgoing paging commands from the
BSC (point to
multipoint). This is the reason why the BSC is more likely to be the unit
�limiting� paging rate than the
MSC.
All the RBSs within this BSC will now broadcast this page at least once , this
means the RBS sets the
limit on overall paging capacity (158 mobiles per second if TMSI based paging is
used or 68 mobiles per
second if IMSI based paging is used).

Q.How to change/check/map TRX power in Huawei? Parameter names?

A.You can check by LST GTRXDEV, change by MOD GTRXDEV. Paramters names are Power
Type, Power Level and Power Finetune. To map NSN power you check TRX power in dBm
and using this equation set the power in Huawei accordingly . Power dBm =
10xLog(PT/1000)-(2xPL)-(PT/10)

Q.How to improve throughput? Name few parameters and what they do.
A.Check for the reason of low throughput. If abis congestion than define
appropriate IDLE TS on the abis. If interference than either change BCCH or down-
tilt if overshooting.If frequent re-selection than also down-tilt nbr cells and
increase CRH. Some related parameters are BEP period, Downlink Default MCS Type
etc.

Re-configure PDTCH so they are in sequence. A multi-slot capable MS can seize 4 PD

in downlink but they must be consecutive. SO re-arrange PD so they are in
consecutive order.

Also, check the % of GPRS only users if it is high than seperate GPRS and EDGE TS
because if a PD is multiplexed between two users and one user in only GPRS user
than the other will also get GPRS service.

Q.How to improve TBF Drop Rate? Name parameters? what they do?
A.Depends on the formula of TBF Drop rate. Some use flushes in the formula meaning
if a MS reslects to another cell than it is counted as drop. In that case increase
CRH and re-desing to prevent frequent reselections. If the drops are due to
interference than change BCCH. Also you can increase N3101 and N3105.

Q.How to improve TBF ASR?

A.Same thing as above. Also you can increase T3168 (UL TBF request response waiting
timer). Increasing it can also increase blocking and degrade throughput.

Q.Downlink PS closed loop power control?

A. See attachment.

Q.Open loop power control?

A.Gamma is sort of threshold below which no power control should be used and alpha
is the step size with which to increase power.

P = min(Pmax, GAMMA� - GAMMA - ALPHA(C + 48))

P = Actual output Power of the MS in dBm
GAMMA� = 39dBm for GSM900 cells
GAMMA� = 36dBm for GSM1800/1900 cells
Pmax = Maximum MS Output Power
GAMMA is set to give a desired received signal strength at the BTS
ALPHA decides the level of MS power
reduction in relation to the path loss
C is the received Signal Strength at the MS
Pmax=39dBm

Q.How to identify hardware issue? What counters to identify hardware issues?

A.You can check Path Balance and Difference in Avg. Main and Diversity Levels.

Q.Path Balance Formula and Ranks?

A.Ranks are from 1 to 11. More samples in rank1 means weak downlink and vice-versa.

Q.Huawei handover parameters?

A. Min. UL/DL Level on Candidate Cell, MINOFFSET,
INTERCELLHYST, BQHOMARGIN, PBGTHOMARGIN, Edge HO UL/DL RX_LEV Threshold etc.

Q.How to do traffic balancing in layered (Dual BCCH) network?

A.Inter-Layer HO. Configure GSM as layer 3 and DCS as layer 2. Set Inter-alyer HO
threshold on DCS = 15 and GSM = 25, Set EDGE HO threshold on DCS = -90dBm/-95dBM.
Add CRO in DCS layer = 40 and RXMIN = 20. For details come on chat.

Q.Any new features implemented?

A.

Q.DT issues specially if getting low throughput? How to check and resolve?
A.Check coding scheme, no. of allocated TS, BER, other data% (it shows proportion
of data by other MS), re-selections, C/I in TEMS.

Q.Channel Allocation Optimization algorithm?

A.Not used by me.

Q. Handover Algorithm II?

A. No used. Not recommended by Huawei.

Q.PAN_INC & PAN_DEC, how do they improve TBF Drop?

A.It is sort of RLT for data call. INC in usually in 2 steps and DEC is usually in
1 step.

Q.How to control flushes? What steps could be taken?

A. Redesign and CRH and probably some timers.

Q.What do N3101 and N3105 do?

A.
Q.How to manage handle post swap issues? How to tackle customer on major issues
like blocking after swap/expansion etc?
A.Check TCH ASR and DCR to detect partial swap. Full swap can be detected by pre-
post traffic comparison and Number of HO per Nbr stats. If blocking has increased
we can tell customer that foot print has changed NSN and Huawei have different HO
algorithms so we will need to down-tils some cells etc etc.