2008-11-3 Security Level:

How to Analyze Quality

Issue by DT

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Outline
Downlink RxQuality Issue

What is RxQuality Issue

The problems raised by RxQuality issue

How to detect quality issue by DT

Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is Bad

Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is OK

Bad Quality due to C/A Interference

Bad Quality due to Time Dispersion

The solution to RxQuality issue

 What is RxQuality Issue

 Bad RxQuality is one of the biggest problems in a Network. The

RxQuality that a network operator can offer to customers mostly
depends on the RxLevel and the interference of the network.
 There are two types of RxQuality problems, uplink RxQuality
and downlink RxQuality. We can only detect downlink
RxQuality problem by DT, however, if the downlink RxQuality
is bad in one cell, there is a risk that there would be problems on
the uplink as well.

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What is RxQuality Issue

Good
RxQualit Bad
y RxQualit
y

RxQuality is divided into eight levels which are from 0 to 7, the level 0 is the
best and the level 7 is the worst.

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The problems raised by RxQuality issue

 Bad RxQuality may raise many problems, such as:

Difficulty in accessing the network

Dropped calls due to bad quality

Poor handover success rate

Low MOS value

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 Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is
Bad

As the signal strength drops
down, the quality of the call
becomes worse being effected by
interference and/ or fading.
Consequently the system becomes
weaker to handle the interference.

Drop calls and ping pong

handovers usually happen in such
environments.

RxLev (Serving Cell and

Neighbors) is not high enough
(about less than -95dbm).

Maybe there are interferences

in this region for bad FER.

Bad RxLev
Bad RxQual
Bad FER

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 Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is OK

This case is similar with

the previous except for FER.
Signal strength is also bad
in this, but FER is still fine.

FER is ok, it means that

there is no obvious
interference in the area.
The coverage is usually the
problem in this situation.

Bad RxLev
Bad RxQual
Fine FER

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 Bad Quality due to C/A Interference

There is adjacent channel
interference in this case and
the RxQuality is not good.

Bad Quality due to Adjacent

Interference.

Adjacent BCCH between

best server and best neighbor.

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Bad Quality due to Time Dispersion

Site
Reflecting object

MS

Time dispersion is caused by the reflections. The MS uses all or most of the
received power, instead of only the direct signal, there is a larger probability
to decode the information. So the RxQuality will be very bad perhaps.

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Bad Quality due to Time Dispersion

The MS is near the

cell, it is less than 1
mile far away.

The RxQuality is very
bad for the bad C/R, in
which, R stands for
reflected signal and C
stands for original
signal.

The TA is too high.
It is because that TA
stands for the reflected
signal but the original
signal.

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The solution to RxQuality issue (1)

RxQuality Issue Solution

Find out the interference source or /and

adjust the azimuth or downtilt of the
Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is Bad
antenna or /and adjust the power of the
transmitter(s).

There is no obvious interference in this

situation. Adjust the azimuth or
Bad Quality due to Signal Strength FER is OK
downtilt of the antenna or /and adjust
the power of the
transmitter(s).

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The solution to RxQuality issue (2)

RxQuality Issue Solution

Avoided adjacent frequencies in the same cell and

Bad Quality due to C/A Interference
preferably in neighboring cells as well.

Move the site to be placed near the reflecting

Bad Quality due to Time Dispersion object to prevent time dispersion. Another efficient
solution is to modify the antenna arrangement, either
in azimuth (horizontally) or by tilt (vertically).

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