Capacity & Traffic

Management

We reduce Mobile Operators Expenditures by 39%

We increase Fixed Wireless Access Revenues by 38%
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It is hard for mobile operators to accurately dimension
their network as traffic grows
2012 / PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audited 80 Tier1
operators and estimated that…
a. they were wasting up to up to 20% of their yearly CAPEX
b. adding up to a staggering $65bn per year worldwide

2014 / Telefonica Germany / Accenture audit, measured

66% of total upgrades on nodes with low saturation risk
80% of nodes with high saturation risk not planned for
upgrades

2016, 2018, 2019, ...

Similar analysis by Analysis Mason, Ernst & Young, Boston
Consulting Group
Ericsson forecast 200% mobile data growth by 2025 03

…and the problem will only

get worse
Telecom Industry Practices
So for the last 20 years, operators fell back on makeshift solutions such as:
Quality Drive Testing ( literally driving around with special phones to test
the quality of the network );
04 Trying to make sense of the deluge of network data by monitoring
averages / thresholds / crowdsourcing reports;
Customer complaints ( too many complaints = not enough capacity ! )
Building endless MS Excel spreadsheets with “in house” models...
… but results remain approximative at best

Today there is no efficient methodology or tool available

to properly analyze network capacity
 2G Capacity Modelling
To dimension the capacity of the 2G-GSM
networks, the ErlangB table was used, because
the traffic had only one dimension1 voice call =
1 circuit (timeslot) traffic was one dimension 1D

ERLANG TABLES
2G - Full Rate How many “circuits” or “time slots” are needed ?
Time Slots To support traffic T (in Erlang);
With blocking probability B (in %);
Birth and Death process, computed in Erlang tables.

Investments in resources were calculated

according to the quality of service QoS and traffic
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2G-3G-4G-5G Capacity Modelling
When 2G-GSM half-rate networks were introduced,
the traffic had two dimensions 1 call = either 1 time
slot or 0.5 time slot. The Erlang table was no longer
applicable. Unique solution Kaufman Roberts, but
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computation time is exponential

KAUFMAN - ROBERTS
2G - Half/Full Only theoretical model for higher order of traffic dimensions;
Rates Time Slots
Exponential computation time;
FR + HR are 2
dimensions 2D Icix adaptation used to dimension networks.

KAUFMAN - ROBERTS
3G - CE, Codes,
Model still applicable, but “buckets” are now codes;
Power Codes are assigned to Channel Elements (CEs) and HS/EUL codes;
Finite ways to allocate codes via Spreading Factors;
Class of Services lead to 7-9 dimensions;
Increasing level of complexity and calculation times;
Power congestion inferred by utilization plateau via OSS Counters.
How did we overcome the barrier ?
NO APPLICABLE THEORITICAL MODEL
3G / 4G / 5G -CE,
codes, PRB, “Buckets” are now Resource Blocks (RBs);
Users Licenses RBs can be allocated in very flexible ways;
Leads to an explosion of Classes of Service;

BUT, since performance not impacted by,

scheduler traffic characteristics (%Youtube, %Emails, …)
by the number of possible throughputs,
And it is demonstrated, size of the cell decreases with,
interference, load and impacts capacity directly

Deduced that the, TDMA-like strategy (K-R) valid combined

with a spatial component, derived an equivalent 4G & 5G
analytical modeling tool.

Working with PhD telecom advisors and members of the Kaufmann-

Roberts team, Icix developed a unique computationally efficient
adaptation of the theoretical model to dimension 4G/5G mobile networks 07
Top Down Analysis of Network Performance
Maximum Field Capacity
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Theoritical Sector
(maybe 51 Mbps)
Capacity:
- Remaining Capacity
75 Mbps (1 CA/10 INPUT PROCESSING OUTPUT Capacity - Congestion
MHz/2T2R/64 QAM) - For Fixed Wireless Access sellable lines
OSS Datasets
DL/UL Volumes
transmitted, PRB
Utilization, RSSI, RSRP, 02 User Throughput per sector
- @ peak / high / median / low hour
Active Users, CQI, QCI, Throughput - @ near / cell centre / cell edge
etc...(per hour / per sector)

Based on Configuration & 03 Most likely trafic forecast

per sector based on historical records
Performance Management Forecast
data only, no field data
required… Upgrades Required
More bandwidth / more carriers / more
04 sites to achieve targetted throughput
@ near / cell center / cell edge
Upgrades
08 @ peak / high / median / low hour
Measured Benefits
Detect and correct 100% of congested sites
No hardware, no probes, no
software, no drive tests !
Detect, monitor, and correct poor subscriber experience
and low QoS sites Only existing OSS counters
and cloud, intranet or
internet access
Achieve a 39% reduction in capital and operating
expenses when adding capacity to the network Simple and fast deployment

Reduce the inefficiency of "blind" expansions by 40%

Reduce congestion by 31% without investment thanks to
load rebalancing (inter-sites / intra-sites)
Improve the quality of subscriber experience by 51%
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Flexible Product Positioning
01 Engineering / Network Planning Team 04 Marketing Team

02 Optimization Team 05 Finance Team

03 Sales Team 06 BI / AI / ML / Big Data Team

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