LTE Performance

Parameter change recommendation for

improvement CQI>MCS>DL/UL Throughput
INTRODUCTION: CASE DESCRIPTION

 Current Statistics show very low average CQI value for Fdd /TDD networks, most
degraded is FDD
 Low under 5 CQI values usually indicate bad radio conditions on service area
caused by different reasons mostly related to autogenerated noise.
 Lower than 10 CQI values usually are related to very poor DL/UL Thpt
performance due to low MCS .
FDD/TDD MCS PERCENTAGE USAGE BY CATEGORY MARCH

Images show both for FDD and TDD

Very low percentages of samples
Using 64QAM MCS and high number
Of QPSK MCS.

TDD show a light better performance

Compared to FDD but still lower same
As for FDD.

UL in both systems FDD TDD still quite

The same impacting negatively THPT.

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ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Based on broad experience this conditions of very low CQI
average samples its strongly related to bad radio conditions due
one or more root cause such as:
 Excessive RS power(CRS)
 Pollution/overshooting Last change done on whole network
 Bad PCI planning
Impacting negatively radio conditions
 Bad Ue Tx power setting
 External sources/interference Some roll back changes has been done
So far now but no on massive network
Checking last statistics and changes in the network I found this:

CQI HIGHER THAN 10 FDD/TDD CURRENT VALUE

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 CHANGE OUTPUT OVER KPI FDD/TDD
CQI/DL-UL THPT
 KPI after massive CRS boosting
change show some positive
changes in TDD and FDD.
 But for FDD there was a severe
trade off between
improvements and severe CQI
degradation and hence DL/UL
low thpt performance.
 Typically enhancing coverage
service area by increasing CRS
bring more issues than benefits
as can be seen in this
dashboard images.

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CHANGE PROPOSAL TO FIX CURRENT SITUATION

 Implement Roll back in FDD cells to reduce

autogenerated noise condition on the FDD
network. pdcchPowerBoostMax = 0 { 0..6 }
 Evaluate results and then implement on TDD if Maximum power boost applied to UE-specific PDCCHs that
necessary require more CCEs than the maximum available CCE aggregation
 As a countermeasure to the gain obtained with level. If UE-specific PDCCHs require equal or less, an automatic
CRS Boosting PDCCH BOSTING can be used. power boost algorithm is applied. Attribute pdcchPowerBoostMax
 pdcchPowerBoostMax enable to enhance coverage
does not affect those PDCCHs.
and improve VoLTE service and MBB data services
without affect radio conditions or create over shooters
beside increase efficiency of CCE usage helping to
increase capacity of the cells. Unit: 1 dB
 Current value in most of the cells is 0(Default Value) it
is advised to trial 4 or 6 to try to keep gain obtained with
CRS boosting.

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 THANK YOU

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