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GPRS DT ANALYSE AND CASE

KEY WORDS: GPRS DT, SYSTEM INFORMATION, CELL RESELECTION ABSTRACT: This report summarizes all kinds of problems in GPRS DT and corresponding methods to solving them. And it gives more detailed analyze and related cases.

CATALOG
SYSTEM INFORMATION 2Ter........................................................................................3 RESOURCE NOT ENOUGH.............................................................................................5 MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY LACK..........................................................................7 CELL RESELECTION OPTIMIZING (A).........................................................................8 CELL RESELECTION OPTIMIZING (B).......................................................................10 UPLINK INTERFERENCE TO DATA TRANSFER......................................................11 TEST EQUIPMENT CAUSE............................................................................................13 FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE.....................................................................................15 NEW SITE IMPROVE COVERAGE...............................................................................16 MODIFY ANTENNA TO COVER..................................................................................19 GPRS FEATURE DISABLE............................................................................................21

SYSTEM INFORMATION 2Ter


QUESTION The signal strength and quality in cell A (900M) is poorer and poorer. When MS moves in opposite direction, the signal strength and quality in cell B (1800M) is very good. But at this time, MS could not occupies cell B, even C1 and C2 value of cell B do not exist in TEMS C1 and C2 Chart.

ANALYSING We could find MS receives System Information 13 before getting system information 2 ter. So MS requests channel and gets corresponding channel for data transfer in cell A. MS could not select cell B with strong signal strength and good quality because of the lost of 1800M neighboring cell ARFCN.

Related explanation in GSM specification below.

METHOD

Strengthening signal coverage of both 900M and 1800M synchronously, which could ensure the strong signal strength, good quality and high speed of data transfer when not receiving System Information 2ter.

RESOURCE NOT ENOUGH


QUESTION The data speed transfers slowly when MS reselect to one cell.

ANALYSING After reselect to this cell, MS only gets 2 PDCHs. When gets 3 PDCHs, two users share these 3 PDCHs. Data transfers slowly. The layer 3 signaling figure is shown below.

This cell exists serious congestion through STS and the number of PDCH establish failure, PDCH preempt and TBF release are more somewhat. So the resource of this cell is not enough. METHOD The resource need to be increase. The speed of data transfer improves after the number of frequency carriers is increased. The comparison figures are shown below.

MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY LACK


QUESTION In one road, both signal strength and quality are very poor, and speed of data transfer is low. The cell reselection queue should be A->B->Cstrongest signal strength->D->E in the first DT test. But the queue is A->F->E in this DT test. ANALYSING After the fist test, the CRO of cell B is changed from 8 to 5, which result in no reselection from cell A to cell B. But the signal strength of cell B is not the strongest, and cell C is the best selection through the first DT log. The MS does not reselect from cell A to C because of relation lack between cell A and C. And measurement frequency is not added in idle mode list of cell A. METHOD Adding measurement frequency of cell C to cell A in idle mode. Even the relation between the two cells could be ignored. The signal strength and quality of this road is improved after adding measurement frequency of cell A in idle mode. The comparison figures are shown below.

CELL RESELECTION OPTIMIZING (A)


QUESTION In one road, the cell reselection is so fast and frequent, which results in low data transfer. ANALYZING The cell reselection queue is A->B->A->C. After reselection from cell B to A, the signal strength in cell A is very poor and data transfer stopped nearly. The signal strength in cell C is strong, but cell B is not reselect to C, because the ACCMIN 98 and CRO 8 in cell B give cell B a too big coverage in idle mode.

METHOD Modify ACCMIN in cell B from 98 to 94 and CRO from 8 to 4. The possibility of selection to cell B is decreased and corresponding C is increased. The signal strength and quality of Cell A and C is good compared to B. The cell reselection in the first DT test is A->B->A->C. The queue in the second DT test is A->C.

The cell selection is from cell A to C directly and cell B is not be added. The number of cell reselection is decreased from 4 to 2. The data transfer is improved therefore. The effect of the second DT test is shown below.

CELL RESELECTION OPTIMIZING (B)


QUESTION In this road, the cell reselection is from cell A to B directly. But the signal strength is very poor in cell A when reselection happens. ANALYZING When cell A reselects to B, the signal strength is very poor. Considering cell C should be transition cell between cell A and B.

METHOD Modify CRO in cell A from 6 to 4 and CRO in cell C from 0 to 4, which result in cell reselection queue A->C-> B.

UPLINK INTERFERENCE TO DATA TRANSFER


QUESTION After cell reselection to cell A, data transfer is poor.

ANALYZING The uplink interference of cell A impacts quality in air-interface. The uplink interference in STS is shown below.
CELL A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A DATE 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 060825 PERIOD 0000-0100 0100-0200 0200-0300 0300-0400 0400-0500 0500-0600 0600-0700 0700-0800 0800-0900 0900-1000 1000-1100 1100-1200 1200-1300 1300-1400 1400-1500 1500-1600 1600-1700 1700-1800 NOACCUF 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 360 ITFUSIB1 889 1536 2316 3432 3912 6646 3525 663 99 68 59 214 89 100 372 122 109 182 ITFUSIB2 40 1456 3405 4806 5227 4504 1877 224 106 13 29 85 12 75 41 11 9 26 ITFUSIB3 1175 5886 6293 5039 5142 3126 3338 2087 1013 34 12 731 24 385 94 71 17 13 ITFUSIB4 9963 5752 3144 1138 1050 919 5082 7916 4178 5338 1198 4183 2585 3257 1680 987 744 418 ITFUSIB5 1928 206 48 13 11 12 503 1265 334 1505 2583 688 3309 1896 1179 1884 2341 2482

A A A A

060825 060825 060825 060825

2000-2100 2100-2200 2200-2300 2300-0000

360 360 360 360

58 94 208 7260

6 15 429 602

195 188 2188 1788

3063 5158 5913 2423

2273 1689 690 77

METHOD Modify CRO in cell A from 5 to 0 to avoid to reselect to this cell.

TEST EQUIPMENT CAUSE


QUESTION The signal strength and quality are very good, but the data transfer is not perfect.

ANALYZING The operating system in test PC that day is E/// ESOE which sends special network information on time. When MS reselects to cell A, the PC sends a series of query indication to network side, which impacts the normal FTP download. The abnormal indication is shown below through Ethereal software.

FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE
QUESTION After selecting cell A, the speed of data transfer is changed poor. ANALYZING C/I is so low in cell A. It is the most important reason to poor data transfer. MOTHED The C/I of frequency 23 and 65 is the lowest, modifying 23 65 -- > 12 60. The data transfer speed is improved. The comparison figures are shown below.

BEFORE

AFTER

NEW SITE IMPROVE COVERAGE


QUESTION The signal strength of some cells covering one road is less than or equal to -80dBm, and the corresponding quality is changed to poor. ANALYING In this road, the signal strength of every cell is very low. So the coverage is not so good to this road. The DT chart is shown below.

At the same time, the serious bit error rate could be seen in the layer 3 sheet of TEMS Investigation. Abundant data retransmissions take place and data transfer is interrupt usually. Related error bit is shown below.

There are many high resident buildings around this road. Some signal from micro cellular leaks to the road, but it should be avoided and can not cover the whole road. The below figure shows the low signal strength road, serving cell and micro cells around.

METHOD Advise to add new site in order to cover this road well.

MODIFY ANTENNA TO COVER


QUESTION One site consists of 1800M and 900M, no cover by 1800M to its west direction road. ANALYZING In the first test, MS selects this cell, but does not receive System Information 2Ter. So MS measures 1800M frequency only, and signal strength and quality is changed poor when it moves from this site to the west direction because the MS could not measure 900M frequency. Eventually data transfer is stopped. The DT figure is shown below.

METHOD Modify antenna angle from 60 to 90. In the test later, signal strength of 1800M is improved and MS selects 900M cells more easily. The DT figure is shown below.

GPRS FEATURE DISABLE


QUESTION In some tests e.g. airport road, the FTP download and GPRS attach could both not be operated effectively.

ANALYZING This kind of problem took place hardly. Radio parameter and BSC parameter are correct through careful check. No abnormal problems are found. METHOD Finally restarting cell GPRS feature solves this problem using RLGSE and RLGSI commands. FTP data transfer is performed normally. This method is produced through test, so problem should take place in HW or SW feature usage and maintenance.

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