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Remco Litjens
Performance of Networks & Systems SCVT ‘12
Expertise Centre Technical Sciences November 16, 2012
TNO Eindhoven, The Netherlands
OUTLINE
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
OUTLINE
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
INTRODUCTION
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
TRENDS & DRIVERS
! Market perspective
! Need to reduce time-to-market of innovative services
! Reduce operational hurdles of service introduction
! Pressure to remain competitive
! Reduce costs (OPEX/CAPEX)
! Enhance resource efficiency
! ‘Society’
! Mobile communications becomes more
and more a critical infrastructure for
economy and society as a whole: need
for network robustness/resilience
OUTLINE
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
VISION
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
EXPECTED GAINS
! OPEX reductions …
! Primary objective!
! Less human involvement in
! Network planning/optimization
! Performance monitoring, drive testing
! Troubleshooting
! About 25% of OPEX is related to
network operations
! x00 million € savings potential per
network
EXPECTED GAINS
WITH SELF-OPTIMIISATION:
LESS QUALITY DEGRADATION
QUALITY
SERVICE QUALITY
WITH SELF-HEALING:
QUICK RECOVERY
SERVICE QUALITY
TRAFFIC LOAD
TO TOLERABLE LEVEL
LOCAL SERVICE
DELAYED
WITHOUT SELF-OPTIMISATION: INVESTMENTS
MORE QUALITY DEGRADATION
LOCAL
WITHOUT SELF-HEALING:
DRAMATIC DROP
TO INTOLERABLE LEVEL
REQUIRED SERVICE QUALITY
0 20 40 60 80 100 0 20 40 60 80 100
TIME SITE TIME
FAILURE
OUTLINE
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
ACHIEVEMENTS
ACHIEVEMENTS
Collect HPIs
Observation No No
time >
Optimisation
Opt. intervall
Yes
Yes HPI_PP < threshold No
HPI_HOF < threshold
HO optimisation Legend
Time-to-
Trigger
Connected
Cell
UE1
Interfering
Cell
User (UE)
Received signal strength
SeNB TeNB
TTT
Hysteresis
Offset
Hysteresis eNodeB
Handover
area
Distance
ACHIEVEMENTS
Operator
policy:
Coverage,
QoS
Compensa-on
-70
2000
-80
1500
-90
1000
-100
500 -110
0 -120
-500
-1000
-130
Coverage/QoS
-1500
-160
-2000
-170
-2000 -1500 -1000 -500 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
es-ma-on
ACHIEVEMENTS
Failed Cell
Compensating Cell
Operational Cell
Covered Area
(a)
Coverage Hole (b)
+/- 80% compensated
Compensated Coverage Hole
! Load balancing
! Detect load asymmetry between neighboring cells
! Adjust handover control parameters to balance loads
! Example scenario: moving hot spot
non-regular network; hotspot is moving from cell 27 to 13 scenario 3
2000
Base Station 200 reference
shotspot route
23 with load balancing
1500 26 25 180
22
1000 24 160
27
3 100
11 10
-500 30 17
16 80
12 14 13
-1000
18 60
32
31 15
-1500 40 35
35 34
33 20
-2000
36
0
-2000 -1500 -1000 -500 0 500 1000 1500 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
X [m]
t [s]
OUTLINE
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHALLENGES
! INTRODUCTION
! TRENDS & DRIVERS
! VISION
! EXPECTED GAINS
! ACHIEVEMENTS
! CHALLENGES
! CONCLUDING REMARKS
CONCLUDING REMARKS