ACADEMY

Course Number RA4133-70A

Course Title LTE Counters and KPI [RL70/RL45]
Course Duration 3 Days
Brief
Description
Target Group  Radio performance engineers
 Network Engineering and Optimization personnel

Learning Target The participant is able to:

 explain the Nokia LTE counter and KPI architecture
 decide suitable settings for measurement administration
 analyse the root cause of LTE call performance problems in
signalling flows
 analyse LTE capacity bottlenecks and mobility problems
 In detail the participant is able to:
 OSS aspects
 Explain the principles of measurement activation, with
available and applicable settings
 Describe the measurements supported in Nokia E-UTRAN
and give a general counter overview
 Describe the performance measurement architecture
 KPI architecture
 differentiate Field versus RAN measurements and KPI’s e.g.
coverage, access, retainability, mobility, service quality
 Give a general counter overview on M8xxxx
 Discuss the different counter areas available for LTE
 Capacity areas and cell resource measurements
 describe the different capacity areas in E-UTRAN
 explain outer and inner loop link quality control and the
corresponding measurements
 analyze measurements regarding link adaptation, the
selection of MCSs and adaptive transmission bandwidth
 explain the counters and KPIs related to packet scheduling,
MIMO and power control
 explain the counters and KPI’s for throughput and cell
 availability
 Paging and RRC Connection
 explain idle and connected states within LTE
 Describe the counters and related KPI’s defined for the DRX
features
 Describe the counters and related KPI’s defined for the TTI
Bundling feature (FDD)
 describe the phases, counters and related KPI’s defined for
the RRC connection setup procedure.
 RAB and NAS counters
 describe the LTE bearer concept (E-RAB, EPS bearer, S1 and
S5/S8 bearer)
 explain in detail the signaling for bearer setup and the
corresponding counters
 Discuss possibilities for investigations by using existing
counters
 list release counters and explain their meaning
 Identify Counters for QCI
 Mobility measurements in connected mode
 Differentiate HO types and Mobility events in LTE.
 describe the intra and inter eNodeB Handover phases and
related KPI's
 Describe Inter-eNB Inter-Frequency Load Balancing
 explain inter-frequency / inter-RAT redirection
 Describe HO via X2,S1 interface.
 Describe Performance matters relating to CSFB.
 Describe Performance matters relating to SRVCC.
 Describe the inclusion of the HeNB support.

Prerequisite RA4100: LTE Architecture TM5115: LTE and SAE Fundamentals

TM5117: LTE Air Interface RA4120 : LTE Radio Planning RA4121:
LTE Parameters
Contents  OSS aspects
 KPI architecture
 Capacity areas and cell resource measurements
 Paging and RRC Connection
 RAB and NAS counters
 Mobility measurements in connected mode

Course Type THY=Theoretical course

Skill Level EXP expert