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3G Mobile Service Provider Traffic Analy PDF
3G Mobile Service Provider Traffic Analy PDF
Abstract
The Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN) will be
heterogeneous in nature where the different Radio Access Technologies
(RATs) operate together. The most important feature of 3G mobile
cellular network is introduction of voice data integrated service under
multilayered cell environment to support overflow traffic of lower layered
cells by upper ones.
This paper first introduces the architecture of general 3G
communication system in both parts; packet switched (PS) and circuit
switched (CS) networks and then applies statistical analysis to Key
Performance Indicators (KPI) monitored from network entities in PS and
CS network to guide the long term capacity planning and better coverage
for the network by introducing a 3G network optimization cycle phases to
analysis the problems from the KPIs and propose the suitable solution for
these problems, our methodology is applied to a case study of a cellular
communications service provider company report for UTRAN
performance in a month. This UTRAN consist of two RNCs and 622
NodeBs. This report is proposed as an example of this case study and it's
generated according to the proper UTRAN deployment company
formulas; which is Huawei in this case.
Introduction
At present, dissimilar wireless access networks including 2.5G,3G,
Bluetooth, WLAN and Wi-MAX coexist in the mobile computing
environment, where each of these Radio access technologies offer
complementary characteristics and features in terms of its coverage area,
data rate, resource utilization and power consumption. With all these
there are constant improvements in the existing technologies offering
better performance at lesser cost [1]. This is beneficial in both the end
users and service provider's perspective.
In the service provider part these user's calls is the most important
thing in which represent the traffic of the network, traffic in a
telecommunications network is traditionally classified as voice and data
but the present technology advances promise and video services in the
near future over broadband channels[2]. Moreover land wire
communications networks will integrate new mobile services. Recently
great attention has been paid to these mobile services, especially in
cellular systems which will soon cover urban areas.
This traffic is moving from simple voice and SMS to multimedia.
UMTS can bring more attractive applications and better experience to
subscribers, and provide a higher efficient network and faster roll-out
capability of new services to operators.
The instantaneous traffic intensity in a pool of resources is the
number of busy resources at a given instant of time. The pool of resources
may be a group of servers, e.g. trunk lines. The statistical moments of the
traffic intensity may be calculated for a given period of time.
Erlang is the basic unit of telecom traffic intensity. Strictly
speaking, an erlang is what mathematicians call a "dimensionless unit,"
representing continuous use of one circuit. However, since a single circuit
used continuously carries 60 minutes of calling in one hour, one erlang is
usually defined as 60 minutes of traffic. If you receive 300 two-minute
calls in an hour, then you received 600 minutes, or 10 erlangs of traffic in
that hour.
Cause:
- Originating Conversational Call.
- Originating Streaming Call.
- Originating Interactive Call.
- Originating Background Call.
- Terminating Conversational Call.
- Terminating Streaming Call.
- Terminating Interactive Call.
- Terminating Background Call.
RRC.AttConnEstab: No. of RRC connection establishment attempts for each
establishment cause.
RRC.SuccConnEstab: No. of successful RRC establishments for each establishment
cause.
RabEstabSR: RAB establishment success rate, This KPI describes the ratio of all
successful RAB establishments related to the total number of RAB establishment
attempts.
Related work:
The WCDMA based 3G cellular standards have a great flexibility
and a variety of logical and transport channels defined for different types
of traffic classes, An access control protocol was proposed for an
integrated voice, video and non real-time data traffic on the forward link
(cell-site to mobile). The QoS of voice for mobile users in the mixed
traffic environment was estimated in [6].
The data services in a third generation mobile telecommunication
networks characterize the mix of several traffic types for capacity and
quality of service (QoS) planning. The analysis of QoS parameters of a
mobile network, such as channel occupation time, handoff, new call
blocking probabilities and traffic in Erlangs were described in [7].
In [8] the performance of three video traffic models in predicting
the number of data packets that were scheduled at the next time slot was
discussed.
In [9] the performance of the dedicated channel for WWW traffic
was investigated. Performance of the UMTS MAC on dedicated channel
for web traffic had been studied through simulation models in terms of
throughput, transfer delay, collision probability.
The results were compared with the performance obtained by
deploying a scheduling scheme based on weight. The scheme was
simulated with different number of users. The results showed that the
scheme improved the system capacity while maintaining the acceptable
end-to-end delay.
Results:
Conclusion:
From these results analysis of pad KPI is done and the following
procedure summary for causes probabilities and KPI optimizations are
suggested for better network performance:
Call drop is a Radio Network KPI in Retainability KPIs category
Causes: Poor coverage, High interference, Poor UL coverage, Poor
dominance, Pilot pollution, Missing neighbors and Fast change of RF
conditions usually causes drop calls, e.g. turning a corner.
Optimizations:
- Scrambling code planning adjustment
- System/handover parameter tuning (Intra-freq, Inter-RAT)
- Neighbors list optimization
- RF optimization
Pilot pollution optimizations:
- Antenna adjustment (e.g. azimuth or down tilt).
- Pilot power optimization
Call Setup Success Rate is a Radio Network KPI in Accessibility
KPIs category .
Increasing the call setup success rate as much as practical and
affordable In mobile networks this is achieved by improving radio
coverage, expanding the capacity of the network and optimizing the
performance of its elements, all of which may require considerable effort
and significant investments on the part of the network operator.
Causes and optimizations:
- Transmission problem: following counters indicate
transmission issue on Iub interface; check relative alarms
to identify faults on the transmission path or the
transmission boards of RNC/NodeB.
- Radio resource congestion: following counters indicate
lack of radio resources or Iub bandwidth. Check the
Admission Control thresholds. Take appropriate measures
to relieve congestion, e.g. activate LDR (Load
Reshuffling), OLC (Overload Control) algorithms, and to
increase capacity.
- RF problem: following counter indicate failure due to RF
issue. Check coverage in the failure points. Check if most
failures occur in cell border (most probably they are).
Check FACH power. Check DL interference in the cell: is
there a pilot pollution issue? Check UL interference in the
cell.
- RNL related problem: following counters indicate that the
failure is due to a RNL (Radio Network Layer) procedure
problem; includes congestion counters.
- Congestion problem: following counters indicate lack of
radio recourses or Iub bandwidth. Check the Admission
Control thresholds. Take appropriate measures to relieve
congestion, e.g. activate LDR, OLC algorithms, and to
increase capacity.
References
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[2] Huawei.com "How do you suit all needs with one simple solution?" Huawei.
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