UMTS Operational Optimisation

Increasing Revenue with Dynamic RF Parameter

Optimisation

Corey S. Clinger
Director – Product Management
Wireless OSS
Telcordia Technologies
Agenda

ƒ Introduction
to Operational Optimisation
ƒ The new challenges
ƒ Case Studies
– CDMA
– UMTS
ƒ Conclusions

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The Technical Challenge!
ƒ Planning UMTS networks is more complex
ƒ Services are not yet well defined
ƒ Many more parameters to optimise
ƒ Customer usage is unclear
– where, when, what
ƒ Rollout plans are optimised on best guess customer
predictions
ƒ But….
– Pressure to rollout
– Competition by press release

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“Bob Fuller said: “There are things they will only find out when they start
to build up customers. I am not going to give everything away. But when
you’re putting new (mast) sites in, you have continually to reoptimise
the network. The network itself works differently. Their engineers
understand these things intellectually but will have to learn how it works
practically.”

Sunday Times (London) – 7 November 2004

Article by Paul Durman

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“This is not all that 3 has learnt over the past 20 months. It suspects its
rivals have yet to understand what works and what doesn’t in this new
medium. Focus groups won’t help. Gareth Jones, 3’s chief operating
officer, said: “What customers will tell you they want to do, and what
they really want are two different things.””

Sunday Times (London) – 7 November 2004

Article by Paul Durman

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The “Solution” To Date
ƒ More time and energy spent in planning
ƒ Greater use of decision support tools
– Especially static optimisation techniques

ƒ Continuous pressure to incrementally improve tools for W-CDMA

– GSM and imported IS-95/CDMA2000 tools

¾ Will incremental improvements even reach the Best Balanced

Solution in a Continuously Dynamic Environment?

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 The assumptions are fixed

SO

Something different is needed!

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Auto RF Optimisation Concept:
Operational Optimisation

ƒ Auto RF is an Operational Optimisation product that increases

network capacity without additional Capex.

– Changes optimisation process from a six month planning cycle

into a regular operational activity

– Supports geographic and temporal shifts in traffic patterns

– Employs weighted traffic allocation methodology to provide

solutions based on actual usage distribution.

– Enables localised optimisation through standardised process

rather than standard parameter set(s)

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 Time
Update
Planning Plan
Initial Network Plan
Model and build
more sites
Initial Build
Modify Network Modify Network
Drive Test

Prebuild Static Static Static

Optimisation Optimisation Optimisation
Optimisation

Two – Four Months

Between Optimisation
Planning and (1-8 weeks to implement)
Static Optimisation
Only

Many Months
Between initial build and new site being added
(lots of weeks to implement)
 Time
Update
Planning Plan
Initial Network Plan
Model and build
more sites
Initial Build Modify Network
Modify Network
Drive Test
Soft settings only Soft settings only

Prebuild Static Static Static

Optimisation Optimisation Optimisation Optimisation

Rf Rf Rf Rf Rf Rf Rf Rf

Planning,
Static, and
2 to 4 is now 4 to 6 months Dynamic
Dynamic
Between Optimisation Optimisation run
Optimisation
(1-8 weeks to implement) every 1-3 weeks

Many Months plus a few more

Between initial build and new site being added
(lots of weeks to implement)
 Operational Optimisation Summary
ƒ W-CDMA networks are more complex
– Service mix
– Data speeds

ƒ Current techniques will work okay but

…
ƒ New innovations are required

Reach the Best Balanced Solution in a

Continuously Dynamic Environment
Telcordia Auto RF

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The new challenges
New services

ƒ UMTS for DSL replacement

– O2 “surf@home”

– Vodafone “Zuhause”

ƒ Live TV
– Orange Gallery

ƒ Video Streaming
– Football goals

ƒ Video Calling

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Fixed line replacement

ƒ In building
– High power
ƒ Different locations from business day traffic
– Where did I optimise my network?
ƒ Different time from business day traffic
– May be a benefit

ƒ IS this the UMTS equivalent of “off-peak free minutes”

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Case Study # 1
Trial Area – 82 Sectors

Sites’ Numbers In
Optimisation Area

1 2 3 15 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 31 32 33

34 35 36 37 38

43 45 46 48 49

52 53 54 55

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 Trial Results: performance
Call Completion Efficiency: Improvement in
every sector that was changed by Auto RF
deployment
Optimized sectors
improved CCE

Call Completion Efficiency

Pre Post

96.5%

96.0%

95.5%

95.0%

94.5%

94.0%

93.5%

93.0%
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 Trial Results - Performance
Drop Rate

Call Drop Rate

Pre Post

1.00%
0.90%
0.80%
0.70%
0.60%
0.50%
0.40%
0.30%
0.20%
0.10%
0.00%
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Statistically Maintained within Market’s Desired Levels

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Trial Results – Capacity
Carrying capacity is increased from 69 Erlangs to 85
Erlangs. A 23% increase in Capacity.
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Power Curve: Foward Link Pwr vs. Total Erlangs
90
85 85
80
75
70
Total Erlangs per Carrier

65 69
60
55
50
Pre Erl
45
40 Post Erl
35 Pre-model
30 Post-model
25
20
15
10
5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22
Average Forward Link Pwr (W)

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 Trial Results – Capacity
Headroom increased By an average of 91%

Carrier Capacity and Headroom

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Traffic Headroom

90
85
80
75
70
65
60
55
Erlangs

50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
-

Pre Post

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Summary Results

™ Highly loaded Sectors:

¾ Capacity increased by 23%.
¾ Average power per user was reduced by 22%.
™ Total Area:
¾ Call Completion Efficiency improved Drop Rate
maintained within desired levels
¾ Low traffic sites successfully added shifted traffic.

Concurrently improving
capacity and performance
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Case Study # 2

UMTS – Technology Validation

 W-CDMA load versus power consumption
Traffic Power Load (Watts)
7
6
5

The same increase

4

in erlangs, has large

difference in power
3

consumption
2

15 20 25 30 35
Traffic Load (Erlangs)

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 User and Power Distributions
Distribution of Users
DNCF1U1

Voice users out-

Pre Post

70%

number all other 60%

50%

users by wide
40%
30%

margin
20%
10%
0%
Voice PS-32 PS-64 PS-128 PS-384 CS-64

Distribution of Power

Power used by
DNCF1U1
Pre Post

Voice users is
70%
60%

lowest; most
50%
40%

power is used by
30%
20%

PS-384 users
10%
0%
Voice PS-32 PS-64 PS-128 PS-384 CS-64

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 Power Curve Shift
30.0

DNCF1U1 Pre: Max load 27 PVE

Power-equivalent Voice Erlangs (PVE)

25.0

20.0
Post: Max load 16 PVE
(reduced by 34%)
15.0

10.0

Post-deployment Pre-deployment
5.0

0.0
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
Downlink Power (Watts)

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 Users at Capacity
Users Supported at Capacity
DNCF1U1
Pre Post

60 55

50
41

Number of Users
40

30

20 17
15
12
10
10 6 5
0 0 0 0
0
Voice PS-32 PS-64 PS-128 PS-384 CS-64
Carrier User Capacity
DNCF1U1
100

90

24% more users

80

70
Number of Users

supported after Auto

60

50
89

RF application
40
72
30

20

10

0
Pre Post
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 UMTS Trial Summary
Conclusions:
ƒ Results aligned with CDMA
– Network reaction as expected
– Similar capacity gains
– Performance stable (no problems to solve, yet!)

ƒ Proof point of concept in UMTS

Observations:
ƒ Variability in service usage already obvious
– Week to week traffic deltas highly variable
ƒ Network parameter deltas to achieve results much
smaller than operator expected
– This is fine tuning the network!
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 Summary
ƒ Operational Optimisation is one of the new
operational innovations needed for profitable
services
ƒ The impact of high bandwidth services is just
beginning to be felt
ƒ The UMTS network is very sensitive to small
changes in parameters and loading
ƒ Let the new services fly!

Reach the Best Balanced Solution in a

Continuously Dynamic Environment
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