Ultima Mentor

Engineers Daily Operation

Automatic Diagnostic, Resolution and Optimization
Voice & HSPA

Gur Lavie, Director Product Marketing

 IMPORTANT NOTE

 This is NOT a MENTOR product presentation

 For a detailed explanation of the Mentor Product architecture
and components, please see the relevant PRODUCT
presentation
 ALL the features which are described in this presentation are
part of the standard package
 ALL of Mentor capabilities are based on data automatically
collected from the network.
 MENTOR does NOT USE predictions and drive tests data
 MENTOR is a Multi-Vendor tool – supporting all relevant
vendors

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 Engineering Activities (1)

 With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

 Coverage Holes
 Areas with poor network quality
 Pilot polluters
 Pilot dominance problems
 Low downlink and uplink throughput
 Over-shooter (“killer sectors”)
 Cross-feeders/swap cells *version 7.2
 Resolve all of the above with
 Power, Parameters & Tilt Automatic Optimizations

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 Engineering Activities (2)

 With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

 Redundant Neighbors (increasing noise levels, and scan time)
 Missing Neighbors, wrong neighbor priority (the cause of drops)
 Scrambling Code Conflicts
 Problems in IRAT configurations
 Resolve all of the above with
 Neighbor List & Scrambling Code Automatic Optimizations

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 Engineering Activities (3)

 With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

 VIP customers high drop rate
 Specific IMSI/IMEI trouble Ticket
 Equipment Types problems (uplink/downlink)
 Roamers coverage and quality
 Analyze each drop – location, cause, events
 Resolve all of the above with
 All Automatic Optimization Features

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 Examples of Mentor Usage by Engineers

 Problem Identification
 Coverage, Quality, Capacity, Throughput
 Voice & HS Data service
 Individual subscribers problems

 Automatic Problem Resolution

 “OneClick” Neighbor List plan and provisioning
 IRAT automatic planning
 Automatic resolving of SC conflicts
 Automatic Tilt changes recommendations
 CQI, RAB and other parameters optimization

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 Analyze KPIs in GIS and Table

 Quality, Capacity, Throughput & Backhaule KPIs

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KPI Layer Example

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 How do I Know I am improving the network

 Analyze the network from statistical perspective

 Includes
 Message statistics
 EcIo/RSCP distribution
 Pilot Dominance
 Cells statistics
 Traffic load
 Power distribution
 Soft HO factor

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 Engineers Usage of GeoMaps

 Analysis of Quality, Coverage, Throughput

 RAB based analysis
 APN filtering
 Automatic Threshold analysis
 HSPA Downlink/Uplink
 HSPA Throughput/Volume

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 Types of GeoMaps in Mentor
 Traffic
 Minutes of use
 Erlang
 Users
 Performance
 Best server
 RSCP,EcIo
 Soft/softer HO factor
 Pilot pollution,Pilot dominance
 Uplink/Downlink Throughput/volume
 UeTx power
 Drop map, IRAT, mobile drop
 Arc Maps

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 Where do I need to improve coverage/quality/throughput ?

 “Show the coverage quality for top dropping cells”

 Define a regular Ec/Io map
 Define Ec/Io as the map
 Set filtering parameter to KPI and condition to ‘top%’

 “Show the problematic coverage quality areas for top dropping cells”
 Define a regular Ec/Io map
 Define Ec/Io as the map
 Set filtering parameter to KPI and condition to ‘top%’
 AND filtering MAP for Ec/Io ‘bottom 5%’

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 Identifying Problems with GeoMaps
 Use Layer->Show Combined Selection Set on Map to see which cells are
selected for the specified condition
 Use the ‘threshold slider’ to dynamically modify thresholds

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 Automatically Fixing Neighbor List Problems

 Visualizing Neighbor Lists

 Changing Priorities
 Adding and removing Neighbors
 Unique Neighbor List Quality Indicator
 Automatic Provisioning Script to implement changes

Neighbor List Before 14

Neighbor List After
 Case B - Neighbor List Optimization
Handover rate change
indicates the potential to
Surrounding
Before
After optimization
optimization
cluster, needs improve the current Neighbor
further improvements list.

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 IRAT analysis and optimization

 Pinpoint IRAT events location

 Identify 3G and 2G serving and receiving cells
 Automatically fix the IRAT Neighbor List

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 Automatic Resolving Scrambling Code Conflicts

 Existing sites co-SC solution

 user initiated

 as recommended by the Neighbor

List reports
 New sites
 Scrambling Code planning

 Neighbor List planning

 Redraw
 Global SC solution

 SC carving (For Femtocells etc)

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 Improving Coverage/Quality/Throughput by Antenna Parameter changes

 Power, Tilt, Azimuth & Beam Width Optimization Wizard

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Optimization Sample

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 Example of Antenna Parameter Optimization
EcIo Crossing threshold
Resulting changes after optimization

Optimization Automatically
Executed in the server

10.0
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[% of messages]

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Ec/Io [dB] - Before
5.0
Ec/Io [dB] - After
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Best Server EcIo [dB]
 Case C– Quality Improvement with Mentor

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 Case C – Capacity Improvement with Mentor

Power Efficiency
increase

25 %

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 Analyzing and optimizing DATA Services

 APN (Access Point Names) analysis in Mentor

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Case A – Improving HSDPA User Throughput BH (Kbps)

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Case A – Improving HSDPA Cell Throughput BH (Kbps)

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Individual Subscribers Analysis

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Subscriber’s drops correlated with EcIo, RSCP & KPIs

Subscribers Problems
Top droppers classifications
Trouble shooting Individual Subscriber Problem
 Roamers analysis
Top Voice dropping IMSIs – Roamers Top HS dropping IMSIs – Roamers

Count of Drops Country Count of drops Country

125663 United States of America
29 Canada 123657 United States of America
13 United Kingdom 234 United Kingdom
7 Mexico 59 Canada
5 France 49 France
3 Cyprus 10 Italy
2 Brazil 7 Belgium
2 Spain 3 Belgium
2 Austria 2 Hong Kong (PRC)
2 Singapore 2 Mexico
2 Netherlands 2 Sweden
1 Australia 2 Indonesia
1 Argentine Republic 2 Germany
1 Norway 2 Spain
1 Sweden 2 Japan
1 Italy 1 Switzerland
1 Kuwait 1 South Africa
1 Germany 1 New Zealand
1 Spain
Summary

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 Summary - Mentor Workflow Building Blocks
Neighbors Parameters Antenna Optimization Customer Analysis
Parameters Objectives Analysis

NL
Optim.

SC Over- Mech.
Quality Data
Optim. Shooting Tilt

2G-3G IRAT RAB CQI Power Electrical

Coverage Capacity CEM GeoMaps KPIs
Inconsist. Optim. Power Optim. Optim. Tilt

Sample Workflow:

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 Product Differentiators

 RNC/MSC based licensing: no per-seat limitations

 Distributed-Centralized automatic data collection and modeling
 Most Accurate Geo-positioning engine, including moving, stationary,
in-building and outdoor subscribers
 Automatic Neighbor List and SC optimization
 Automatically generated full cluster plan – not just tables of data
 CO-SC problem identification and automatic resolution
 IRAT optimization
 Advanced parameter usage: overshooting sectors,
symmetry/reciprocity enforcement, locking and more
 Automatic power, tilt, and parameter optimization
 Advance data processing
 GPEH, UETR, CTR, RBS
 Encapsulated RF knowledge instead of overwhelming engineers
with more data
 SmartCluster optimization
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Thank You
 gur@schema.com
 www.schema.com

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