Value Range: -121~-47 Unit: dbm Default Value: -115 Description: The parameter affects the access of an MS.

That is to say,the BTS determines the threshold of the level for the random access of the MS. When the receive level of the RACH burst is lower than thethreshold, the BTS regards this access as an invalid access and nodecoding is performed. Only when the receive level for the bursttimeslot of the random access is greater than the threshold, the BTSregards that this timeslot has an access request. Location: Cell Attributes/Call Control/Advanced/Access Control

As we said before the paging strategy has a direct impact on the random access. The above figures showed that after the implementation of the new paging strategy, the random access performance decreased. It reaches 92% after being around 94.5%. Poor Random Access performance is related to one or more of the following factors: Interference and/or bad BSIC plan. Hardware problems in the antenna system. Coverage problems; Overshooting sites has high probability of having high figures of failed random access attempts. BSC dimensioning; the effect will be on all sites served by that BSC. A random Access optimization starts on 08th August 2006. The results showed that it passed the 96% which is even better than the situation where it was 94.5%. We can resume the optimisation done on the random access on the following points: ACCMIN and Power: Limit the coverage for a cell and hinder it from being a dominant far away. MAXRET and Tx: Control the method of accessibility. SAE Dimensioning: Controls the number of active mobiles in a BSC. CRO: Controls the idle mode behavior and cell selection.