WCDMA Performance Regression

Log Anaysis Presentation

12/07/2004

Yogen Deshpande
 Sleep Timeline

• In idle (DRX mode), the UE tries to minimize current

consumption by turning off various clocks and HW blocks.
The sequence of events during the powering off and
powering on of various blocks is referred to as the sleep
timeline.
• during this state, SW (the ARM processor) wakes up
periodically to service internal SW timers. These wakeups
are in response to “Rex-tick” interrupts.
• WCDMA wakeup every DRX cycle.
• TCXO (crystal oscillator). Not shut down when USB cable
connected.
 Figure Not to Scale

Rex Tick interrupts

wakeup interrupt

WCDMA_AWAKE SLEEP RTP SLEEP RTP SLEEP RTP SLEEP WCDMA_AWAKE

WCDMA_SLEEP Awake period

Sleep Controller (SLEEP_INTERVAL)
Triggered

RTP REX TICK PROCESSING ARM Interrupt

TCXO/PLL power-on ARM Power down

TCXO/PLL power-down

Sleep Timeline
 WCDMA Awake Period

• Reacquisition
• Read PICH (and PCH if indicated on PICH)
• Measure Neighbors (if required)
• Step 1,2,3 (if due)
• Sequence of events after wakeup shown in
log snippet : wakeup.doc
 Reading a Page
• Paging occasion => The SFN at which the network will
send a page message on PCH (mapped onto SCCPCH)
• Paging indication on PICH which is a different physical
(code) channel, 3 slots (2ms) before the SCCPCH onto
which PCH is mapped.
• Formula for paging occasion given in Slide #9
• DRX cycle length coefficient – present in SIB1. Use the
smaller of CS domain and PS domain.
• E.g. 7=> 2^7 = 128 radio frames = 1280 ms = 1.28 sec
• Number of SCCPCH given in SIB5
 Paging Procedure
• 288 paging bits/frame. (last 12 bits out of 300 are
DTX)
• Np = # of users that can be paged (18,36,72,144) –
given in SIB5. e.g. e72 or e18
• # of paging bits per indication (repetition) =
288/Np
• Quality Vs Quantity tradeoff.
• PI_SUM negative => You’ve got Page
• Location of page indication within a PICH frame.
Formula given in slide #10
• PI location varies with SFN => fairness
 Paging Failures

• If UE is in a weak cell, then it may be able to demodulate

PICH but may fail to demodulate SCCPCH.
• False alarm: Indication on PICH but no page message on
PCH. 200 ms timer to wait for Page message.
• drx.c 1167 H no rsp to page 1 or abort 0
• This symptom may also be due to hashing collision
• Error in timely update of SFN may cause missed PICH
• Paging failure due to cell reselection
• Example log snippet: MissedPageExample.doc
 Inter-Layer Communication
• L1, RLC, RRC, MM, CM layers need to exchange
messages among themselves to move along different states
in the state machine of each layer.
• Inter-Layer communication glitch can cause Hang-up
states.
• Example Log InterLayer.txt & comments: InterLayer.doc
Formula for Paging Occasion
Formula for Paging Indicator Location