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LTE Service Drops
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• Case Study
Does not receive the DEACTIVATE EPS BEARER CONTEXT REQUEST message and,
Does not receive the DETACH REQUEST message from the MME and,
Does not send the DETACH REQUEST message and,
Receives the RRCConnectionReconfiguration message containing the IE drb-ToReleaseList.
In this case, if the ERAB num minus the eps-BearerIdentity contained in the ReleaseList is 0, the UE
transits to RRC_Idle mode.
II. eRAB AbnormRel increments by 1 if the UE
Does not receive the DEACTIVATE EPS BEARER CONTEXT REQUEST message and,
Does not receive the DETACH REQUEST message from the MME and,
Does not send the DETACH REQUEST message and,
Receives the RRCConnectionRelease message and the RLC layer performs data transmission in the
last 4s in any direction.
In this case, the UE directly transits to RRC_Idle mode.
Note:
The eRAB Release procedure releases one or multiple e-RABs. After the procedure, at least the default bearer is maintained.
The UE Context Release procedure releases all connections. No bearer is maintained after this procedure.
• Case Study
Huawei test UE and UE Probe, or other commercial UEs and their signaling trace
software are used in a drive test. Symptoms shown by the traffic monitoring software
installed on the drive test computer are:
The throughput suddenly falls to a low value or zero.
The UE begins to receive system information when a handover is not complete
or when the UE is not in a re-establishment scenario.
Low UE receives
throughput system
information.
Time
segment of
call drops
• Case Study
If the closing actions are reproducible, consider the merits of copying the closing
actions to the entire network.
Sort the cells by the difference of the call drop rate and the
difference of the number of e-RAB abnormal releases to obtain the top
cells of degraded call drop rate and top cells of number of e-RAB
abnormal releases.
Entire-network problem
After one-fifth of the top cells of high call drop rate and large number of e-RAB
abnormal releases are removed from calculation of the entire-network call drop
performance, if the performance is not significantly improved, the call drop
problem is defined as an entire-network problem.
Traffic statistics can be obtained from the M2000/PRS. For details, see
section 2.3.3 of LTE Service Drop Troubleshooting and Optimization
Guide.doc.
Signaling trace can be performed on the M2000. For details, see section 2.2.2
of LTE Service Drop Troubleshooting and Optimization Guide.doc.
The drive test data can be obtained by performing a drive test. For details, see
section 2.1.3 of LTE Service Drop Troubleshooting and Optimization
Guide.doc.
Plays back signaling messages traced on the Released together with the product version and integrated in
TraceViewer
LMT. OfflineTool file package.
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scheduling, and signal quality information. 409&colID=ROOTENWEB|CO0000000174
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Assistant signaling, scheduling, and signal quality
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Parses and analyzes traffic statistics of the
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Parses and analyzes original traffic statistics
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Signaling Trace
Management
interface of the
M2000
Huawei UE
Probe
Huawei
UE
Probe
eNodeB TrafficReview
If the message
contains the IE
targetPhysCellId, the
message is a
handover command.
• Cause analysis
The counters indicate whether an abnormal release is caused by the
Uu interface or cell resource congestion, as shown in the lower left
figure.
• Top analysis
Analysis of the traffic statistics can show the top cells and top
time segments that have the highest RRC connection setup
failure and e-RAB setup failure, as shown in the lower right
figure.
Single-UE global-network trace (a minor means): Query the IMSI of a TMSI from the
EPC, start the global-network trace of this IMSI. This method is effective for ensuring VIP
service.
• Case Study
Note
The standard actions of a comprehensive problem (entire-network plus top-cell problem) are a
combination of the checklist for the entire-network problem and the checklist for the top-cell
problem.
• Possible Cause
The abnormal release is caused by weak coverage, uplink interference, or abnormal UE that lead to
maximum number of RLC retransmissions, out-of-sync, or failure of signaling interactions. For details about
diagnosing the interference problem, see LTE RF Channel Check and Troubleshooting Guide.
Analyze the CHR of the source and target cells to determine whether the handover
failure is caused by failure to receive the handover command or random access failure.
Examples of the cause values are UEM_UECNT_REL_HO_OUT_X2_REL_BACK_FAIL
and UEM_UECNT_REL_HO_OUT_S1_REL_BACK_FAIL.
Optimize the handover parameters and neighbor relationship and check whether the call
drop KPI is improved.
• Possible Cause
This call drop is caused by the abnormal transmission between the eNodeB and MME,
such as S1 interface break.
• Fault Description
If the abnormal release is recorded in the counter L.E-RAB.AbnormRel.Cong, the
call drop is caused by resource congestion.
• Possible Cause
This call drop is caused by radio resource congestion, such as exceeding the
maximum number of users.
• If the front-line engineers fail to solve a difficult problem, collect the following
information and submit them to R&D engineers for further analysis:
One-click log (Mandatory)
Logs of the LMPT and LBBP of the top cells
• Case Study
Analysis of the CHR shows that the cause value of the abnormal release is
RLC_UNRESTORE_IND. This cause value indicates that the maximum number
of DRB RLC retransmissions is exceeded.
This problem occurs repeatedly from 10:51 to 13:49 in cell 2.
The TMSI column indicates that this problem is contributed by a single UE whose
TMSI is C2 7F 20 56.
The last 16 DRB scheduling procedures at a period of 64ms indicate that the
symptoms are similar. The symptoms are that the UE encounters suddenly
terminated data transmission shortly after the access. The duration from access
to release is tens of seconds to 2 minutes, indicating that the problem is not
caused by script test. The access type is MO-DATA, indicating that the user is
performing a service.
UE_RLC_UNRESTORE_IND indicates that the abnormal release is caused by restoration failure after exceeding the maximum number of RLC
retransmissions. The same problem is recorded by the standard interface as "Radio resources not available".
UE_RESYNC_DATA_IND_REL_CAUSE indicates that the abnormal release is caused by resynchronization triggered L2 report data. The same
problem is recorded by the standard interface trace as "Unspecified".
• Cause analysis
The DRB scheduling information at the last 4 512ms and 16 64ms periods shows that most abnormal releases are caused by suddenly
terminated data transmission, possibly caused by unplugging the data card or UE fault. The following figure shows the CHR information.