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RRU Abnormal Caused Low throughput Issue

1 Issus Description

In B city of H country when we did single site acceptance for one LTE VIP IBS site, we

found the DL throughput is very low during the DT progress when UE connected to the network,

and it’s far lower than our expectation 75Mbps, also the SINR from idole model to connected

decrease more.

Site introduce：

Hot spot Site ID: 1283

Site type: IBS

Huawei equipment: BTS 3900 V100R010C10SPC160

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MIMO or SISO : SISO

Bandwidth : 20 MHz

Number of Sectors: one

PCI : 415

2 Handle Process

From the DT logs we can see the DL throughput is very and undulate, so in our experience

there will be to reasons to affect the DL throughput. The first one is transmission issue, such as:

Retransmission, Packet loss and etc ; the other is RF issue, such as : Low SINR, Low RSRP. The

detail handle process show as below.

1.Check alarm, we did not find any alarm after we checked this site.

2. The DT logs analysis and show as below snap.

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From the snap we can see the CRS RSRP is very good but SINR is very low, the transmission

model is TM1, so we distrust the low DL throughput due to bad SINR. But from the speed test ,

when the SINR is 23.8 and the DL throughput is only 25.23Mbps, and we finished several

times speed test but the result is same, so we think the low DL throughput don’t cause by bad

SINR.

3. Through the DT result, the terminal is normal, FTP normal and don’t have limit of Tx

Bandwidth. From OSS KPI: the retransmission rate is low 10% while packet loss rate is nearly

0%, so we can ignore the retransmission and packet loss reasons.

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4. Interference Check.

Through the pervious analysis, the main reason is Uu interface issue to made low throughput,

because the MCS is low, so we distrust this site have interference.

1）Monitor RSSI

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RSSI monitoring result:

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L.UL.Interference.Avg(dBm)
-119.1
-119.2 016 016 016 016 016 016 016 016 016
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
0
-119.32 / 0 2 / 0 2 / 0 2 / 0 2/ 0 2/ 0 2/ 0 2 / 0 2 /
/ / / / / / / / /
01 03 05 07 0 9 1 1 1 3 15 17
-119.4 EI_AW_GUL_1283_PSPGP
-119.5 ublicGate

-119.6
-119.7
-119.8
-119.9
-120

2）FFT scan

FFT scanning result:

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Through our check and analysis, this IBS site use DAS antenna, the rate of RANK 1 is in
our expectation and the main reason of low DL throughput is low MCS. From the logs we can see
SINR only 12 and RSRP near -60 obviously.
The next step:

1） Use another antenna to replace DAS antenna;

2） If the Antenna is normal then using the frequency sweep meter scan external

interference.

5. We did the DT again after the antenna changed but the issue still existence. And due to the

some reasons restriction, we can’t use frequency sweep meter to scan external interference.

6. RRU Alarm Logs analysis.

After analysed the RRU alarm logs, we found the A passageway abnormal. And due this site

is 1T1R, So we tried to use B passageway.

After used B passageway, we did the DT again and the DL throughput is still low.

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7. Change RRU

We negotiated with customer to change a new RRU after we analysed RRU alarm logs and

change the antenna connect passageway. After changed RRU, the DL throughput is normal and

issue solved.

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3 The root cause

After we did a series external operation and based on the RRU alarm logs analysis, we
found A passageway is abnormal but change passageway can’t solve the issue and then with
the help of GTAC as RRU problem in itself.

4 The solution

Change a new RRU

5 The summary

In the SSV process, we found the DL throughout is far lower than our expectation. So

through alarm checking, OSS KPI analysis, interference checking , RRU alarm logs analysis and
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etc. In the last we confirmed this is RRU issue, so the issue solved when we changed the RRU.

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