ICASE

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
1.What Occurred: Multi-Carrier Switch off
Based on Traffic Load not working in 40% of
carriers. Site:RNC AL01.
2.How Occurred: After feature activation to
try and reduce power consumption.
3.Impacts: power consumption

Below details of counter of cell switch off

where we observe there are some cells that
do not present the event of switch off for 20
days:
 
We activate the feature “Multi-Carrier-
Switch Off Based on Traffic Load” with the
purpose of reducing the consumption of
power in NodeBs, this is made for carriers F2
and F3, in F1 it is not activated.
Time 10:00PM to 8:00AM
 
We verified that there are carriers which do
not switch off, approximately 40% of the
carriers that have the feature active.
From the 4 carriers shown in the chart, only
1 (1) generates the events many times,
others don’t.
HANDLING PROCESS

According to the RAN feature document, the

feature can get effective when there is no
FACH user, but according to the performance
data, there are always FACH users for cell
1,2003 and 28103:
It is recommended to set the following
switch to be off and check if the feature can
be effective in the above cells and set the
cell number related parameters to be default
value:
 
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=1,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00, TOTALUSERNUMTHD=1,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=2,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00, TOTALUSERNUMTHD=1,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=3,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00, TOTALUSERNUMTHD=1,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00, TOTALUSERNUMTHD=1,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=0,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;

ROOT CAUSE:
NOTE: following images have only example
images and cells which were changed from
original to have general example of an
analysis.

The difference is still the FACH user number.

 
According to the performance data, there
are always FACH user in cell 3 and the FACH
user only got to be 0 on 28th and then the
Multi-Carrier Switch off Based on Traffic Load
feature  got effective:

The FACH user always got to be 0 during

detecting period in cell 1, so the feature
always got effective:
 
The FACH user in cell 20 and 2 never got to
be 0, so the feature couldn’t be effective:

So it is recommended to set the

DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH to be OFF
so the feature won’t consider CCH users.
 
Besides, the original threshold setting is as
follows, that is, when total user number in
the cell is less than 16, HSDPA user number
is less than 8 , HUSPA user number is less
than 8, the feature can get effective:

Later customer tried the suggestion but still

had issues in 2 Cells: cells 2 y 20 did not turn
off as expected: 
 

According to the RAN feature document, 7

requirements must be satisfied to make the
feature to be effective. It is requirement 2~5
can’t be satisfied in cell 20 and 2 now:
For the requirements from 2 to 6, the
TotalUserNumThd, HsdpaUserNumThd and
HsupaUserNumThd are set to 1,0,0 , that is
,the total user number should be 0 to make
the feature to be effective, this the
recommended configuration in the RAN
feature document, and the requirement is
very strict , this make the feature  hard to  be
effective, the McHsdpaUserNumThd is a
parameter in R16, it is R14 now, so we
needn’t care it.

According to the previous data, DCH user,

DPA user and UPA user are never below the
above threshold, but in cell 20 and 2, DCH
user, DPA user and UPA user is below the
threshold sometimes, so feature is hard to
be effective in cell 20 and 2:

You can set the above 3

threshold（TotalUserNumThd,
HsdpaUserNumThd and
HsupaUserNumThd）to be higher value so
that the requirement is not so strict. But
there is the following risk, and impact of the
feature:

 
You can try to set the threshold to be the
original configuration and check the result:
 
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=1,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00,
TOTALUSERNUMTHD=16,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=0,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
 
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=2,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00,
TOTALUSERNUMTHD=16,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=0,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
 
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=3,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00,
TOTALUSERNUMTHD=16,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=0,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;
 
ADD UCELLDYNSHUTDOWN:CELLID=20,
DYNSHUTDOWNTYPE=CONDITIONALSHUTD
OWN, STARTTIME1=22&00,
STARTTIME2=00&00, ENDTIME1=23&59,
ENDTIME2=08&00,
TOTALUSERNUMTHD=16,
HSDPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
HSUPAUSERNUMTHD=8,
NCELLLDRREMAINTHD=0,
DYNSHUTDOWNSWITCH=ON_2,
DYNSHUTDOWNCCHUSERSWITCH=OFF;

 
SOLUTION
【Resolution Summary】Provided customer
feature requirements and recommendations
to make certain changes so feature can be
effective and currently the use of such switch
has been improved according to customer
confirmation after following troubleshooting
to make it work.

【Resolution Details】SUMMARY: Multi-

Carrier Switch off Based on Traffic Load not
working in 40% of carriers. Site:RNCCAL01.
ROOT CAUSE: 7 requirements must be
satisfied to make the feature to be effective
SOLUTION: Provided customer feature
requirements and recommendations to
make certain changes so feature can be
effective and currently the use of such swith
has been improved according to customer
confirmation after following troubleshooting
to make it work. Still some cells need to be
improved for feature to work which will be
checked by customer.
SUGGESTION AND SUMMARY:
After final configurations suggested
customer says the shutdown event showed
in cells 20 and 2 which did not have the
feature working before. According to the
observed the cell again turns on in first
carrier which is on air with barely 4 HSDPA
users. Is it possible to configure such range
to a superior value?
A= Customer can set HSDPAUSERNUMTHD
and HSUPAUSERNUMTHD to a larger value
(and the largest value is 15).
 But they need to know the risk that the call
drop rate and throughput may be affected
during the cell shutdown.