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EVOLIUM A9157 LASER Product Description
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SCOPE
Network Operation & Maintenance
Within the GSM-network life cycle, BSS network Operation and Maintenance is one of the most important challenges for the Mobile operator. By tackling each of the three axis : Call accessibility, Call retainability and Voice Quality, the operator contributes to the end-user satisfaction and maximize the revenues. One of the key differentiator of the Alcatel offer is the fully integrated EVOLIUM tool chain which addresses not only Network Performance Monitoring, but also Radio Network Optimization, Network Planning and Alarm statistics for network availability and produces highly valuable information for the operator in his activities. All BSS Network Elements which compose the GSM infrastructure provide alarms to the OMC-R operator for its real-time supervision activities. In order to provide information about the System Quality, i.e. the global network availability and the BSS system stability, statistics based on alarms are needed, with a consolidation over a certain period of time. To address this specific need, Alcatel has developed A9157 LASER 1, which will provide the operator with a consolidated information based on the alarms statistics. This product description presents the EVOLIUM A9157 LASER tool (previously named A957 LASER), associated with the EVOLIUM Base Station System, from release B6.2.
LASER means "Lucid network Availability, Stability and Events Reporting"
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CONTENTS
1. REFERENCES ...................................................................................................... 4 2. ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. 4 3. OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................ 5 ARCHITECTURE AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT ................................................................. 6 3.1 Hardware platform and physical connections ...................................................... 6 3.1.1 3.1.2 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 4.1 Configurations ................................................................................. 7 Hardware requirements ...................................................................... 8 Working environment ......................................................................... 9 Operational environment ...................................................................10 Capacity........................................................................................10
Working and operational environment .............................................................. 9
4. FUNCTIONNAL DESCRIPTION..................................................................................10 User interface...........................................................................................12 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Network topology management............................................................13 Functions.......................................................................................14 Reports .........................................................................................14
LASER Reports...........................................................................................14 Autromatic batch report ..............................................................................16 Events management ...................................................................................16 Unavailability management ..........................................................................17 Administrative functions ..............................................................................17
5. CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................17 6. ANNEX - REPORT SAMPLES ....................................................................................18 6.1 6.2 Management Report example ........................................................................18 Operational Report example .........................................................................19
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1. REFERENCES
[1] 3DC 21076 0005 TQZZA [2] 3DC 21119 0001 TQZZA EVOLIUM Radio Solutions - A1353 RA OMC-R Product Description EVOLIUM Radio Solutions - A9156 RNO Product Description
2. ABBREVIATIONS
BSS FTP LAN MMI MO NE OMC-R WAN Base Station System File Transfer Protocol Local Area Network Man-Machine Interface Managed Object. A MO represents either a TRX, cell, GPRS cell, BTS, BSC, MFS, N7 Network Element Operation and Maintenance Center - Radio part Wide Area Network
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3. OVERVIEW
This product description presents EVOLIUM A9157 LASER, the alarms statistics tool integrated to the EVOLIUM tool chain, dedicated to BSS System Quality monitoring, provided by Alcatel as part of a comprehensive set of solutions for GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 Network Management . A9157 LASER is also used by Alcatel teams for allinOne services. In order to follow efficiently the BSS System Quality 2, A9157 LASER allows to define events 3 based on a set of alarms, provide synthetic display of alarms, events, operator commands and unavailability on selected MOs (BSC, BTS, TRX, Cell, etc.) between 2 dates, build daily, weekly and monthly unavailability indicators for telecom resources generate automatically reports for management and operational teams.
These functions make the A9157 LASER an essential tool to Isolate / highlight the main causes of Network Unavailability, Monitor / detect the System Quality Degradation, at cell/BTS/BSC/TC/Trans level Synthesize BSS alarms - at a network level Automation of the reporting Provide facilities for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on the network, Produce metrics for Quality Management Optimize the maintenance process
Monitoring of system stability and availability is gathered under the generic terminology of System
Quality. In such a case, system is defined as BSS part of a GSM network managed by one or several OMC-R in charge of supervision of voice and data telecom traffic (GSM and GPRS) on an operational region.
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An event corresponds to a synthesis of alarms issued from customisable detection rules. It is a way for the
user to apply correlation rules on a sequence of alarms to obtain a more synthetic information.
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ARCHITECTURE AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT 3.1 Hardware platform and physical connections
A9157 LASER is a client / server application that can be configured dependent on the size of the network to be monitored. The solution is therefore fully scalable and can be configured also as a standalone application for a small network (few hundreds of cells) or as a server with up to 10 clients for a large network if needed (thousands of cells).
Figure 1: A9157 LASER topology
The A9157 LASER solution can be connected to several OMC-Rs which form a Single Operational Region via a Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN) using TCP/IP and FTP protocols. It gather all the information and provide a global network view to the operator. BSS and MFS data (alarms, topology) and OMC-R data (operator commands, resource state changes) are retrieved daily from the OMC-Rs via a batch mechanism, stored in the LASER data-base. Unavailability indicators are calculated and downloaded to NPA. These indicators are used by RNO, in order to take into account BSS equipments unavailability in the QoS optimization process.
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3.1.1 Configurations To fit with different GSM network sizes, four different A9157 LASER configurations are supported. LASER logical configurations Small Standard Max. Nb of cells B6 LASER hardware configuration 1 LASER Standalone 1 LASER Standalone B7 and B8 LASER hardware configuration 1 LASER Standalone 1 LASER Server up to 5 LASER Clients (see 1) 1 LASER Server up to 10 LASER Clients (see 1) 1 LASER Server up to 10 LASER Clients (see 1)
250 2000
Large
5000
1 LASER Standalone
X-Large
B7: 7000 B8: 8000
Table 1: LASER configurations Note (1) From a hardware point of view , the complete LASER solution offers tailored-made configurations with a number of clients (or terminals) depending on 2 points : - the size of the Network : Number of cells managed by the tool, - the Organization of the Operator and the split of work between entities : Number of terminals needed for the National Maintenance center, Regional branches, teams dedicated to the Network Optimization, the Network Quality, BSS Support, etc - the integration of LASER reporting to the Information System
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3.1.2 Hardware requirements The A9157 LASER is a PC-based application. The minimum hardware requirements are similar to the A9156 RNO server and client definition. In each A9157 LASER server configuration, the hardware is equipped with a high performance processor, sufficient memory and disk capacity for acceptable performance of the application (processing of the System Quality, display of reports, storage, etc .). For the client, a high resolution screen 19" or 21 is needed to match with the sophisticated graphical user interface of A9157 LASER client. The PCs are equipped with an Ethernet-card for communication purposes. The PCs (at the date of the edition of this document) proposed by Alcatel for the A9157 LASER are the following:
PC configuration Model Processor Ram Memory Hard disks C:\ 4 Go D:\ remain space NTFS SCSI Card with Ext port Ethernet card 10/100 Mbits Video card Monitor RAID 5 controller system Operating system
PC Client
PC Standalone
PC Server Proliant ML 370G3 Xeon 2.4 GHz 1 Gb DDRam SCSI Ultra Wide 2 4 x 18 (or 36) Go Ctrl Ultra SCSI 160
XW 4000 Pentium IV 2.8 GHz 512 Mb DDRam ATA/100 EIDE 40 Go Ultra 160 SCSI 10000 tr/mn 36 Gb
Ctrl Ultra SCSI 160 X (integrated) Nvidia Quadro 4 200NVS 64 Mo AGP 21 "
ATI rage XL vido 8 Mb 17 " X
Windows 2000 (NT5) Workstation
Windows 2000 (NT5) Server with 5 workstations
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3.2 Working and operational environment

3.2.1 Working environment A9157 LASER server and client are running under a Windows 2000 environment on dedicated powerful PCs. The version of A9157 LASER delivered with a given Alcatel BSS release is designed to be used in the environment of that BSS release and of the previous BSS release. Independent from its functional evolution, evolutions of the tool are planned to support future BSS releases (synchronized rodmaps)..
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3.2.2 Operational environment A9157 LASER offers the possibility to interface with several OMC-Rs and gather all Alarms, State Changes, Operator commands, topology data in a single tool. This allows to link the operational organization and the architecture of the tool chain (one region one chain) and manage the alarms statistics for a complete Operational Region. It is a major benefit for the operator . Daily, A9157 LASER collects the following data from the OMC-R(s): BSS/MFS topology, BSS/MFS alarms, OMC-R operator commands, Resource state changes on TRXs, cells, BSCs, GPRS cells, MFSs, N7s.
After the data import period, the relevant data is stored in LASER database. During the parsing (reading of the files and importing of the results into LASER database), LASER computes events and unavailability indicators, and purges old data.
3.2.3 Capacity The following table doesnt give the number of data stored in the data-base. It is only an indication on the duration. The size of the LASER data-base is fully in-line with the OMC-R traffic model and its expected data flow.
Data type Monthly indicators Daily and weekly indicators (except TRX) Daily and weekly TRX indicators Events Alarms
Storage duration 2 years 1 year 6 months 1 year 2 months
The data is automatically purged at expiration of the storage duration.
4. FUNCTIONNAL DESCRIPTION
LASER monitors of the system stability and availability, gathered under the generic terminology of System Quality, system being defined as BSS part of a GSM network managed by one or several OMC-R in charge of supervision of voice and data telecom traffic (GSM and GPRS) on an operational region. LASER is a post-processing application of the OMC-R. From each OMC-R, BSS/MFS alarms, OMC-R operator commands, resource state changes and BSS/MFS topology are retrieved daily:
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to compute system quality indicators, based on statistics and complete telecom availability, to generate events which correspond to synthesis of alarms from customizable detection rules (see paragraph 4.1).
Using LASER, BSS network supervision teams can: highlight faulty equipments, measure impact of alarms or events on network unavailability, distinguish planned/unplanned unavailability in busy/non busy hours, extract alarms/events/OMC-R operator commands/unavailability related to a MO (BSC, BTS, TRX, Cell, ) and/or for a period of time, produce statistics on most frequent alarms and events, filtered and sorted to detect main impacts on stability and unavailability, detect system quality degradation.
LASER can be used in the following phases of the network life cycle: To report indicators chosen from a contractual acceptance protocol, over a defined period of time, after introducing a new software release, activating a new BSS feature or introducing a new hardware generation to validate it. To detect and analyze system quality degradation that occurred on the network in commercial use (daily supervision). A9157 LASER reports are generated in Crystal Reports format. Crystal Reports is a third party application, embedded in LASER, which provides advances means of reports generations. The A9157 LASER reports can be exported to popular back office application formats as well as in HTML format for easy publication on an Intranet.
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4.1 User interface

The user interface is the core of A9157 LASER. It is the interface between the operator and the tool. The operator is provided with all necessary information, commands, processing results etc. in order to handle and use the A9157 LASER functions. A9157 LASER distinguishes three types of user rights: Administrator who has access to all administration facilities and also to LASER application, Operator or Manager user who have access only to different LASER application.
The table below shows the three profiles available in LASER application. Application Operator LASER Client Operation Tree selection Snapshot Report Top N Manager LASER Client Rules Simulation OMC management Unavailability Origin List NPA management Administrator LASER Admin LASER Client User management Set up Load start time Import management + Manager rights + Operator rights Remark None.
A9157 LASER user interface is very intuitive and uses the latest graphical methods to provide a clear representation of any kind of data. So-called tree-gadgets are used to present objects (e.g. topological tree of MOs, alarms, reports, etc.). Data is displayed in tables or reports and splitters allow the user to quickly reorganize the user-interface look.
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Figure 2: A9157 LASER - main MMI window The main A9157 LASER user interface is composed of three areas: Network topology management (left part), Functions (middle part), Reports (right part).
4.1.1 Network topology management This part of the graphical user interface of LASER represents the topology of the network. Each LASER connected OMC-R is represented in a hierarchical browser. The topology presents the network / OMC-R / MFS / BSC / N7 / cell / TRX. Each MO of the topology is displayed with an icon stating whether an item is related to it. An item is the presence of a basic unavailability that could have occurred on the previous day. This allows the operator to identify quickly "faulty" MO. A second tree is available and represents only faulty MOs (thanks to the previously described item value). The user is able to define his own part of the network topology and to save it as a SubNetwork. This SubNetwork facility allows each user to quickly define parts of the network he is in charge of, provided he has the sufficient rights.
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Clicking on a MO refreshes the footer view at the bottom of the window. This view provides useful information about the MO. Search facilities are offered to quickly locate a MO. 4.1.2 Functions The functions area provides the list of all the functions available on the selected MO of the network topology managed area. The different functions are sorted by functional group (snapshots, reports, Top N, management). A function could be applied on one MO or several MOs, depending on its definition. Execution of a function on one or more MOs provides a report. 4.1.3 Reports The report area provides a notebook, with one tab per report. The report is the result of the application of a function on one or more MOs.
4.2 LASER Reports

LASER reports are the basis of the analysis done daily by the user. High level reports provide synthesis of the availability and stability of the network while detailed reports help in troubleshooting the network. LASER provides facility to create reports such as: Management report This report provides a global view of BSS and MFS network stability and availability. From the selected MO(s) (BSC, BTS, TRX, Cell, ) and observation period, the following information is displayed: planned/unplanned (in busy/non busy hours) unavailability per resource type (TRX, cell, BSC, GPRS cell, MFS, N7) total unavailability per resource type percentage of availability per resource type total number of alarms per TRE and per day cut-off on Air interface per TRE and per day
Operational report This report displays alarms split into several families from a selection of MOs (BSC, BTS, TRX, Cell, ) and of an observation period. Alarms are split by:
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severity event type (communication, environment, equipment, processing error, QoS) BSC alarms BTS alarms transmission alarms MFS alarms
Alarm synthesis report This report displays the number of alarms occurred on a defined area (set of MOs) and period, split by BTS, BSC, transmission and MFS sections. Each section regroups a set of particular alarm labels (for example, a processor restart is counted in the BSC section). Indicators evolution report This report displays the evolution of stability and/or unavailability for a selected set of MOs and an observation period. Availability evolutions can be consolidated on several resource type (TRX, cell, BSC, GPRS cell, MFS, N7) Stability evolutions are displayed on selected stability indicators (BTS reset, TCU reset, etc.).
Alarm evolution report This report displays the evolution of the number of basic alarms on selected MOs, over a chosen observation period. Top N reports There are three types of "Top N reports": Top N alarms, OMC operator commands, Top N availability indicators between 2 dates for selected MO(s), Top N causes of cell unavailability between 2 dates for selected MO(s).
These three reports extract from selected MOs and from an observation period, the top N alarms, OMC operator commands, availability indicators or causes of cell unavailability to identify the most frequent problems on the network. Global transmission evolution report (B8) This report provides a global view of Transmission alarms. It displays in a cross-table the number of alarms and duration per day (in second) for following the Terminal Point (TP):
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A TP Abis TP Ater TP AterMux TP Daily summary transmission report (B8) The Daily Summary Transmission report displays predefined alarms that occur in a defined area for the specified day. These predefined alarms have a direct impact on transmission link availability. A/Abis/ Ater interface troubleshooting report (B8) Display transmission alarms for A/Abis/Ater Trailing Termination Point.
4.3 Autromatic batch report

This feature allows a LASER Client to launch by batch one given type of operation after an automatic import of OMC data. This operation could be: - A retrieval of LASER data - A production of LASER report At the login of the LASER client, every result of the batch operation is available in the result part of the screen.
4.4 Events management

LASER provides the administrator facility to create events. An event is an alarm or represents a list of alarms (in order to provide the operator with a more synthetic information). Events can be tested interactively by the user, which means that before deciding to create a new event, it is possible to test it on a recorded alarm list to ensure its relevancy. Once an event is considered as good, it is added to the global list of the events. An event is the result of the application of an event detection rule. LASER distinguishes row types of events: Counting events to gather together the same alarms Correlation events to manage correlation of alarms
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After each daily import of the different alarms, events are extracted and counted to provide statistics to the user. Those statistics are very helpful to find the impact of events on the system stability and to correlate them with its unavailability. LASER is delivered with default event detection rules based on Alcatel expertise on the system supervision and alarms management domain.
4.5 Unavailability management

This service allows computing basic unavailability and unavailability indicators. It is automatically triggered during the OMC-R data import phase. From raw unavailability, current topology and busy hours definition, LASER computes basic unavailability and stores it in its database. Based on these results, LASER produces or updates daily/weekly/monthly unavailability indicators to consolidate basic unavailability of a defined type on a defined network topology level. The unavailability is expressed in 2 different forms: average resource unavailability (in seconds) unavailability ratio, linked to the observation period, consolidated at various levels: network, OMC-R, MFS, BSS, BTS, cell
4.6 Administrative functions

The LASER administrator is able to administrate LASER through a dedicated application. From this application, the administrator can operate the functions like managing the connected OMC-R(s), defining the busy / non busy hours, defining user access rights, etc.
5. CONCLUSION
A9157 LASER is an essential tool to identify and rank the main reasons for network resource unavailability. It provides advanced means to diagnose system quality problems, thus improving visibility on the global system quality.
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6. ANNEX - REPORT SAMPLES 6.1 Management Report example
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6.2 Operational Report example
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Network Operation & Maintenance

LASER means "Lucid network Availability, Stability and Events Reporting"

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Working and operational environment .............................................................. 9

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Figure 1: A9157 LASER topology

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B7: 7000 B8: 8000

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3.2 Working and operational environment

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Storage duration 2 years 1 year 6 months 1 year 2 months

The data is automatically purged at expiration of the storage duration.

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4.1 User interface

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4.2 LASER Reports

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4.6 Administrative functions

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6. ANNEX - REPORT SAMPLES 6.1 Management Report example

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