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Reasons for low call setup success rate could be:
TCH congestion
Interference
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Poor coverage
Faulty HW units
5. Call Setup TCH Congestion Rate
The Call Setup TCH Congestion Rate statistic provides the
percentage of attempts to allocate a TCH call setup that were
blocked in a cell.
Attempts TCH of No
HO Excluding Blocks TCH of No
Rate Congestion TCH Setup Call
_ _ _
) _ ( _ _ _
_ _ _ _ =
Possible reasons for call setup block could be:
Increasing Traffic Demand
Bad Dimensioning
HW Fault & Installation Fault
High Antenna Position
High Mean Holding Time (MHT)
Low Handover Activity
Congestion in Surrounding Cells
B. Retain ability
Service retain ability is The ability of a service, once
obtained, to continue to be provided under given conditions
for a requested duration. In other words:
setup calls Successful Total
Completed Calls Total
y tainabilit
_ _ _
_ _
Re =
Listed below are the KPIs connected to retain ability.
1. Call Drop Rate
This KPI gives rate of drop call. Percent of TCH dropped after
TCH assignment complete.
successes HO Outgoing Successes HO g Inco DR g inco successes Assignment Normal TCH
Drops TCH Total
CDR
_ _ _ _ min _ min _ _ _
_ _
+ +
=
*DR is directed retry
Possible reasons for TCH Drop Call Rate could be:
Low Signal Strength on Down or Uplink
Lack of Best Server
Congestion in neighboring cells
Battery Flaw
Poor Quality on Down or Uplink
Too High Timing Advance
Antenna problems
Low BTS Output Power
Missing Neighboring Cell Definitions
Unsuccessful Outgoing Handover
Unsuccessful Incoming Handover
2. Handover Success Rate
The handover success rate shows the percentage of successful
handovers of all handover attempts. A handover attempt is
when a handover command is sent to the mobile.
HOSR
Possible reasons for poor handover success rate could be:
Congestion
Link Connection or HW Failure
Bad Antenna Installation
The MS Measures Signal Strength of another Co-or-
Adjacent Cell than Presumed
Incorrect Handover Relations
Incorrect Locating Parameter Setting
Bad Radio Coverage
High Interference, Co-channel or Adjacent
VI. NEIGHBOR, PARAMETERS AND FREQUENCY AUDIT.
It is important for the neighbor list to be updated and
optimized as it directly affects handover decisions in a
mobile network. Wrong or missing neighbor relations may
cause an on-going connection to drop or be handed over to the
wrong neighbor cell. Excessive neighbor relations in a cell, on
the other hand, may cause wrong handover decision on the
part of the BSS because of inaccurate measurements.
Neighbor relations and parameters are cross checked to
identify and remove
One way neighbors
Illogical neighbor Relations
Methods used to assign frequencies in the network are
reviewed and the steps are taken to control interference and
maximize network capacity through frequency planning.
BCCH/BSIC reuse is crosschecked. MA (Moblile Allocation)
List is cross verified.
VII. COMPETITIVE BENCHMARK AUDIT
In competitive benchmarking, coverage and quality
comparison of network is performed with competitors.
Below is coverage and quality comparison for two operators
for a city, Results are taken Drive test tool, TEMS.
Coverage Comparison :
As visible from Plots mentioned in Fig.2 and Fig .3 operator 1
have better coverage than operator 2. which is also visible in
KPIs.
Fig. 2 . Coverage Plot for Operator 1 For City K :
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Fig. 3. Coverage Plot for Operator 2 for City K
Legend For Coverage is given below .
Formula For Coverage Rate:
100 *
_
90 _ _ _ _ _
_
Samples Total
dbm strength Signal having samples of No
Rate Covergae
>
=
Results for Coverage rate for operator 1 and operator 2 taken
for city K are given below
KPI Operator 1 Operator 2
COVERAGE
RATE 94.64% 72.77%
Quality Comparison:
As visible from plots mentioned in Fig 4 and Fig 5 , Operator
1 has better quality than operator 1 , which is also visible in
KPIs
Fig. 4. Quality Plots for Operator 1 For City K.
Fig. 5. Quality Plots for Operator 2 for city K
Legend For Quality Plots is as follows :
Formula for Quality:
Samples Total
Qual RX Qual RX Qual RX Qual RX Qual RX Qual RX Qual RX
Quality ceive
_
07 . ) 6 _ 5 _ 4 _ ( ) 3 _ 2 _ 1 _ 0 _ (
_ Re
+ + + + + +
=
Results for receive quality for operator 1 and operator 2 taken
for city K.
KPI Operator 1 Operator 2
Rx QUALITY 88.19% 87.18%
VIII. REFERENCES
[1] Halonen T., Romero J., Melero J.: GSM, GPRS and EDGE
Performance. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2003.
[2] ITU-T recommendation G.1000 (2001), Communication quality of
Service: A framework and definition.
[3] Jens Zander. Radio Resource Management for Wireless
Networks. Artech House Inc., 2001
[4] [4] Bilal Haider,M.Zafarrullah Khan, M.K.Islam: Radio Frequency
Optimization and QOS in operational GSM network.