UMTS ANR Introduction

SNFD-140205 Automatic Neighbor Relation - UMTS Intra-Frequency

SNFD-140206 Automatic Neighbor Relation - UMTS Inter-Frequency
SNFD-140208 Automatic Neighbor Relation - UMTS to GSM
SNFD-140209 Automatic Neighbor Relation - UMTS to LTE FDD
SNFD-140210 Automatic Neighbor Relation - UMTS to LTE TDD

Why Is the ANR Required?

Confusion
caused by
the call drop:

…… ……
Hello, Master. Pardon. I cannot hear what you say.
When will my express mail arrive? I am driving. Hello… Hello…

No Signal While Driving?

No. Neighboring cell B is not configured for cell A where the courier is located.
The mobile phone failed to be handed over to the new cell, as shown in the following figure:

Cell A initially provides call services for the

A B
mobile phone of the courier.
When the mobile phone leaves the serving
cell A, it fails to be handed over to cell B.
Therefore, the call is interrupted.
Neighboring cells of cell A need to be
optimized. We need to add the missing
neighboring cell B to the neighboring cell
list of cell A.

Problems Faced by Neighboring Cells

A large quantity of 2
neighbor relationships ...
Increasing number of NEs and the changing
network environment
1

Missing Redundant Neighboring cell priority

neighboring cell neighboring cell to be optimized Continuously reconfigured neighbor
relationships result in high manpower costs.

What Is ANR?

UMTS ANR of the mAOS provided by Huawei automatically detects and adds missing neighboring cells,
and recognizes and deletes redundant neighboring cells as well as adjusts neighboring cell priorities. UMTS
ANR is used to automatically maintain the integrity and validity of UMTS-to-UMTS, UMTS-to-GSM, and
UMTS-to-LTE neighbor relationships.

Intra -frequency UMTS - to-UMTS ANR

Inter -frequency UMTS - to-UMTS ANR
UMTS -to- GSM ANR
UMTS -to - LTE ANR
UMTS ANR

Intra-RAT ANR Inter-RAT ANR

Intra-frequency UMTS- Inter-frequency UMTS-

UMTS-to-GSM ANR UMTS-to-LTE ANR
to-UMTS ANR to-UMTS ANR

Quick addition of missing Neighboring cell Redundant neighboring Missing neighboring

neighboring cells priority optimization cell optimization cell optimization

Application Scenarios
Scenario Description:

Periodical neighbor Neighbor Neighbor relationship Neighbor relationship

Network deployment
relationship relationship optimization caused optimization caused
and routine network
optimization on optimization by multi-RAT by network evolution
adjustment
the entire network in certain areas networks
The network As neighbor In cell clusters or Network deployment In the SingleRAN
deployment, base relationships change VIP areas with poor plans for different network, intra-RAT
station reparenting, due to network scale KPIs, you need to RATs differ. The and inter-RAT
and capacity and UE distribution optimize neighbor network deployment, neighbor relationship
expansion change changes, you need to relationships base station optimization is
neighbor check and optimize centrally. reparenting, and needed due to the
relationships. neighbor relationships capacity expansion evolution from GSM
on the entire network for an RAT change to UMTS to LTE.
periodically. neighbor
relationships.

This feature applies to urban areas, suburban areas, and rural areas and does not apply to
Radio scenarios other special scenarios such as high-speed, tunnel, super-distance, and indoor coverage.

Networking This feature does not apply to Femto networking and applies to other scenarios including
scenarios multi-carrier, multi-band, inter-RAT, and micro scenarios.

Network This feature applies only to network sharing scenarios (including MOCN and RAN sharing
architecture scenarios).
scenarios

Basic Principles

1 Number Description
3 Sets an optimization policy.
4 mAOS 1 Sets parameters related to ANR features on the
Operator mAOS.

CM/PM/MR/CHR Collects data.

2 Collects CM/PM/MR/CHR data.
Analyzes neighboring cells.
Optimizing missing neighboring cells: detects
EMS and adds unknown cells to the maximum
2 5 number allowed and sorts the cells.
3 Optimizing redundant neighboring cells:
detects and deletes invalid neighboring cells.
Optimizing neighboring cells' priorities: adjusts
GBSC/ the priority parameters for different neighboring
RNC cells so that better neighboring cells are used
for handovers.
Generates optimization advice.
4 Displays neighboring cell optimization advice
eNodeB NodeB GBTS on the mAOS for users to view.
Delivers optimization advice.
5 Delivers optimization advice to NEs to
implement the optimization advice.

Data Sources
CM
PM
Data
Source Description MR/CHR
SIG
Manually import
The data is obtained from the BSC, RNC,
export engineering
or eNodeB. It provides configuration
CM parameters
information about cells and neighbor
mAOS
relationships for the ANR analysis.

The data is obtained from the BSC or

PM RNC. It provides handover statistics
counters for the ANR analysis.
Huawei OSS
The data is obtained from the SAU of the (U2000/U2020)
MR RNC. It provides neighboring cell level and Trace Server
quality information for the ANR analysis.

The data is obtained from the SAU of the

CHR RNC. It provides CHR event blocks for the
analysis of quick neighboring cell addition. SIG
The data is obtained from the eNodeB. It
SIG provides neighboring cell level and quality MR MR/CHR
information for the GSM-to-LTE and RNC
UMTS-to-LTE ANR analysis. （including SAU）
The engineering parameters are manually
imported or exported on the mAOS.
Engineering They provide latitude and longitude and
parameters coverage type (indoor, high-speed, or BTS NodeB eNodeB
tunnel) information for the ANR analysis
and geographic display.
GSM UMTS LTE

Specifications and Restrictions

Number of Historical Historical Historical KPI View Specification

Optimization
Available Optimization Optimization - Historical KPI Storage Duration
Rollback
Optimization View Specification View Specification (Day)
Specification -
Objects (Cells) in - Historical - Historical Cell- and
Neighboring-Cell Allowable Time to
a Single Region Optimization Optimization Storage Controller
-Level Counter Be Rolled Back to
for a Single Feature Storage Period Duration (Day) -Level Counter

30 90 Hour-level data: Hour-level data:

stored for stored for The last
20000 one day. three days. optimization
The storage duration of intra period
Day-level data: Day-level data:
- or inter-frequency missing
stored for stored for
neighboring cells for quick
seven days. 30 days.
addition is three days.

For details, see

UMTS ANR Feature Description.

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