BANNU CITY Optimization Plan

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INTRODUCTION
Bannu City is launched with currently 9 sites of the city OnAir. The focus of this presentation is to make proposals for
Counteracting the KPI Degradations and Low throughput
being caused by High RTWP in Bannu City.
Currently the concern in Bannu City is with regards to
External Interference(RTWP). High uplink Interference(RTWP)
is being observed for almost all the sites from the day of
commissioning except the few cells looking out of City. This
RTWP degradation is directly impacting All major KPIs &
Throughput as well.
Although Severity of Adverse Impacts caused by External
Interference cannot be fully countered, however Attempts to
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Physical Optimization - Cell Containment

All Cells of Bannu City are carrying Traffic over far off areas.
Most of the Cells are overshooting to TP Range 55 which Corresponds to
a serving Area of almost 10-12 Km
This overshooting has degrading consequences on Major KPIs

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Causes Excessive Congestion in Establishment Phase causing Reduced Access Success Rate
Causes Lowering of Throughput due to high Load
Causes higher Drop rates for Both CS & PS ( R99 & HS )
causes degraded Handover Success Rates ( SHO & Inter RAT)

Therefore as a Preliminary Step to Other optimization Activities it is

imperative that we Minimize the Overshooting and Contain the Cells
Positives Include Improvement in All Major KPIs and to some Extent in
RTWP as well.

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RTWP Optimization
Bannu City is suffering from High RTWP Being Contributed by 2 factors

External Interference Causes UEs to Excessively Increase their Power which

results in Aggregation of General Network Noise
Therefore to Limit the Recursive Power Increase by UEs due to presence of
External Interference, Two Trials Can be Implemented to check for Any positive
Impacts

External Interference
General Network Noise

SIB 7 Optimization
Initial Preamble Power Ramp Step Reduction
Initial Preamble Max Retransmission Increase

Above mentioned Trials are intended to lower the General Network Noise.
Positives Include Improvement in RTWP & resultantly All Major KPIs including
Accessibility & Drop Rates & throughput
Negatives May Include Lowering in Access Success Rates (which will be critically
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Retainability Enhancement
High RTWP is severely impacting Service Drop Rates for both CS & PS

Once the Physical Optimization is complete and Cells have been

relieved of Overload, A Number of Steps may be taken which may yield
Improvement in CS & PS Drop rate but at the cost of rise in Load on the
Network.
However Cell Containment is expected to relieve Cells of Congestion
already and make room for the rise in Load generated as a side effect
due to optimization activities to be carried out for CDR Enhancement.
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Retainability Enhancement
Several Trials are being proposed in order to reap any improvement in
CDR % despite High RTWP

QRxLevMin Optimization in order to Manipulate the Number of PS Inter RAT which would help
reduce the Drops occurring during the course of Inter-RAT Handover due to High Interference.

Soft Hand Over Optimization Using Event 1A ( RL Addition) Threshold . This May cause
increase in SHO Overload but may also result in Improvement in CDR for both CS & PS.

Increase in Required Number of Frame Out of Synch Indications.

Decrease in Required Number of Frame In-Synch Indications.

Increase in Radio Link Failure Timer Length

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HS Throughput Enhancement
HS-Throughput for both Uplink & Downlink is impacted due to High
Interference.
HSDPA Throughput is impacted due to Non- reception of
Acknowledgements sent from UE to NodeB over Uplink due to high
RTWP.
Increasing the Power Used by UE to send these Acknowledgements to
NodeB might help improve the ratio of Successful Delivery of
Acknowledgements sent over Uplink.
The trial would involve changing the Values of below mentioned
parameters

ACK/NACK Power Offset for HS-DPCCH

ACK/NACK Repetition Factor on HS-DPCCH

The Downside may be minor increase in Noise Floor

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Thank You

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