TeliaSonera Sweden optimisation update ongoing project(no final report available)

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Introduction
The TeliaSonera Sweden optimisation task force (TSSOTF) currently focuses on

1. Optimisation of the eNB parameter values, with respect of KPIs from the
system performance evaluation agreement towards the customer, and those reported to upper managerial layers. 2. Follow-up of outstanding faults that can impact the aforementioned KPIs. This includes 1. Specific UE issues 2. Specific core network issues 3. Internal eNB faults that can be determined from alarms/PM data/drive testing analysis.

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What has been done, so far

Summary of software update and parameter changes

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Upgrade to RL20: valid from March 8th 2011 in the nine golden cluster sites. First parameter alignment with default golden parameters and/or some parameters previously tuned for Gothenburg: valid from March 16th 2011. Minor parameter change in the golden cluster, tweak for TP during drive testing associated to system performance evaluation (SPE), maxNrSymPdcch 32 (fine insofar that the network has very light load) Link parameters changed in the golden cluster, valid from 25th/March (nCqiDtx,t310,) PRACH parameters + HO correction valid from 30th/March in the golden cluster Network-wide alignment with golden recommendations, valid from April 6th. Network-wide PRACH parameters tested in the golden cluster, valid from April 6th. Link+PRACH parameters changed in a test cluster, valid from April 7th (nCqiDtx,t310,) Additional testing for feedback to GMC: valid from April 20th, Lindholmen: taCmdMaxRetry 10->3 and Brunnsparken: taOffScheMarg 40->20
Date Golden Cluster 8-Mar-11 Upgrade to RL20 PCD 1.1 9-Mar-11 16-Mar-11 Gothenborg Upgrade to RL20 PCD 1.1 Upgrade to RL20 PCD 1.1 Whole Network

SW updates

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Summary of activities for c.w. 15, 16, 17

1. Discussion about default values for vendor file parameters, and how to deploy
the parameter values currently modified in the golden cluster, to the rest of the network. 2. Discussion about the root cause of the radio link drops, which cause bad KPIs with the default parameters. 3. Discussion about alignment of RL20 default values with recommended values for RL10, agreed during the maintenance phase. 4. Troubleshooting for the outstanding problems affecting the KPIs. 1. RRC setup failures due to missing messages from the UE. 2. RRC drops due to missing messages from EPC. 3. FSP crashes. 5. Monitoring of the KPIs. 6. Troubleshooting of miscellaneous issues: 1. Occasional problems in the NetAct result in missing data in the Oracle database. The data is still available in the iOMS. 2. Three sites crashed after vendor-configurable parameter updates.
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Deployment of modified parameter values to the rest of the network

1. There is no automated way to modify the vendor files while keeping the current 2. 3. 4. 5.
software version. Manual change of the vendor files is required, which is errorprone. A custom build for PCD 1.1 was produced, so that the parameters could be deployed network-wide upon the software upgrade. However, the customer chose not to upgrade to PCD 1.1 before Easter. After Easter, the upcoming release of PCD 2.2 makes the customer reconsider about upgrading to PCD 2.1. Upgrade to PCD 2.2 may be done instead. Most of the modified vendor file parameter changes have been agreed upon, to be deployed in PCD 2.2. Exception made for taCmdMaxRetry and taOffScheMarg. These are currently being tested, each one in an individual site.

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Discussion about the root cause of the radio link drops, which cause bad KPIs with the default parameters
1. Traces have been delivered to development, to analyze the current situation of 2. 3. 4.
RL20: both eRAB drop ratio and RRC success ratio have bad KPI values with the default parameter values. A discussion on the analysis of the traces followed. The increase in radio link drops can be explained partially by a different behaviour of the eNB, upon arrival of RRC connection re-establishment requests. This does not account for all the drops, though. Development has requested more extensive tracing. A large TTI trace collection campaign is being organized.

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Monitoring of the KPIs: eRAB drop ratio in the golden cluster Drops in
erab_DR 100427 18 04 2011 22.78 4 19 04 2011 8.97 6 20 04 2011 24.36 13 21 04 2011 11.06 28 22 04 2011 17.74 2 23 04 2011 27.94 0 24 04 2011 21.33 1 100428 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 100435 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 100438 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100445 2 0 45 17 25 29 28 100448 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 100480 0 0 6 0 0 0 2 100493 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100494 30 21 62 6 6 9 1

Kaserntorget will be investigated from the TTI + Emil traces

Sporadic drops in Gtaplatsen

enb_rel_rnl Succ. eRAB setup Total eRAB releases 18 04 2011 36 155 158 19 04 2011 27 298 301 20 04 2011 133 544 546 21 04 2011 52 464 470 22 04 2011 33 186 186 23 04 2011 38 137 136 24 04 2011 32 149 150

Additional drops in Svenska Mssan, to be checked

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Traffic has been somewhat lower last week (about 18% less eRAB setups compared to the previous week)

Parameter changes: test of taCmdMaxRetry 103 and taOffScheMarg 4020

Vendor file parameters changed. Large decrease in nr of drops
60 50 40 30 100443 20 10 0
07 04 2011 08 04 2011 09 04 2011 10 04 2011 11 04 2011 12 04 2011 13 04 2011 14 04 2011 15 04 2011 16 04 2011 17 04 2011 18 04 2011 19 04 2011 20 04 2011 21 04 2011 22 04 2011 23 04 2011 24 04 2011 25 04 2011 26 04 2011 27 04 2011 28 04 2011

Lindholmen (100468): taCmdMaxRetry 103 Brunnsparken: taOffScheMarg 4020

Lindholmen: large variability in the drops, no evident change. Brunnsparken: situation may have improved, but there are too few drops to be certain,.
100468

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PM data study: UL SINR distribution RL 10 / RL 20

No significant change found. UL CL PC disabled, ulpcIniPrePwr = -90 dBm, ulpcRarespTpc = 2 dB in both releases. It has been discussed that a lower value could be used, along with a higher value for ulpcRarespTpc. This could be tested in the field verification cluster in Espoo.

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PM data study: UL MCS distribution

MCS usage for April 19th, cells with PDCP UL vol > 30 MB 70 60

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Rough agreement between the MCS distribution / TP distribution (maximum TP per cell per 15 minutes), and the drive testing TP curve.

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UL TP v/s RSRP per MCS

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