Antenna Connection Fault Caused Lower Rank2 Ratio 文档密级

Antenna Connection Fault Caused Lower Rank2 Ratio

Title：
Antenna Connection Fault Caused Lower Rank2 Ratio

Author：
zhuzhengfa00294917

Multi-product：
NO

Product Info：
Product Line: Product Class: SPDT:
Wireless Network GSM &UMTS&LTE LTE FDD RAN

PDT: Product:
LTE FDD BTS3900

Fault Type：
FaultType_L1: FaultType_L2: FaultType_L3:
Performance Problem KPI Others

Keywords：

Rank2 Ratio, antenna connection, RI, MIMO

Problem Description：

In X Country A Operator, customers complain that average Rank2 Ratio (drive test) was only

21.29%. But for B Operator in same National, the average Rank2 Ratio can reach 58.51%.

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Figure 1. Basic information compared

Note: RI=1 means Rank1, RI=2 means Rank2.

Handling Process：

In general, factors of impacting Rank2 ratio were shown as bellow figure 2, and it is needed

to check them one by one.

Figure 2. Factors of Rank2 ratio

According to Problem Description, it was shown that these two Operators used the same

testing terminal. So UE was not the root case.

Next, MIMO Model、Coverage Problem and Antenna Problem would be the key factors that

caused lower Rank2 ratio.

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Step1 Analysis the configuration file to check MIMO Model

After comparing the MIMO Model parameters, it can be found clearly that the MIMO Model

parameter configuration of A Operator and B Operator are difference.

For A Operator, the MIMO Model is CL_ADAPTIVE ; but for Operator, the MIMO Model is

OL_ADAPTIVE.

Figure 3. MIMO Model configuration compared

Compared with CL_ADAPTIVE, in drive test OL_ADAPTIVE can improve the Rank2 ratio

(about 4%) (figure 4). So the MIMO Model was one of the reasons, but not the main reason.

Figure 4. OL&&CL Rank2_Ratio(A Operator)

Step2 Analysis Radio coverage

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According to analysis with assistant software, the sites of A Operator and B Operator test in

the similar radio coverage. (For following Figure, A is abbreviation of A Operator; B is

abbreviation of B Operator.)

Serving RSRP was nearly accordance between A and B.

Figure 5. Serving RSRP_CDF

For serving SINR, it was shown as below that both A and B were also accordance.

Figure 6. Serving SINR_CDF

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And at same SINR the RANK2 ratio of A Operator was lower than B Operator, so we can

exclude the interference impact.

Figure 7. Serving SINR vs TM3_RANK2_Ratio

For A Operator, the radio quality is normal, but Rank2 Ratio is abnormal. According to the

impacting factors of lower Rank2 ratio, Antenna connection was needed to check in the next step.

Step3 Checking Antenna Connection

The UE report the RI according the channel correlation measurement. And the antenna

connection fault would cause the channel correlation problem and low rank2 ratio.

Further analysis the RSSI Trace log, it can be found that the RSSI correlation between

antenna0 and antenna1, and the RSSI correlation between antenna2 and antenna3 were high.

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Figure 8. Polarizing antenna consistences

For this Scenario, it would be incorrect connection of polarizing antenna port. And we further

check the antenna connection on site, we final confirm the both the port A and port B connect to

+45, that would cause high correlation and low RANK2.

Figure 9. Incorrect antenna connection

Cause：

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Lower Rank2 ratio was caused by incorrect connection of antenna.

The UE report the RI according the channel correlation measurement. And the antenna

connection fault would cause the channel correlation problem and low rank2 ratio.

Solution：

Correctly connect the antenna.

Suggestions：

NA

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