Self-Organizing Networks - FAJ 801 0435 R3 - Presentation

LTE
Self-Organizing
Networks
Presentation
Value Package FAJ 801 0435, R3
Commercial Section
Self-organizing networks
Increase
Secure the Smart Drive Cost Capture
Coverage &
Device Business Efficiency New Revenue
Capacity
Data User Experience Spectrum Management Network Efficiency Voice & Data Evolution
Voice Performance Capacity Evolutions Operations Efficiency New Service Opportunities
Smartphone Efficiency Coverage Expansion Network Management Revenue Optimization

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CONTENT
> Market Opportunity
> Benefits
> Operator Value
> Technical Section
> Summary
Market
Opportunity
› Controlling operational costs and
improving network performance is a
continuous challenge for all network Manual monitoring, post
operators. processing and
retrospective tuning
› Network complexity is increasing as
operators expand multi-technology and
multi-band networks.
› Fully autonomous SON features simplify

operations, optimize network utilization
and improve customer experience by
tuning parameters in near real time.
Fully Autonomous near
real-time monitoring,
analysis and parameter
tuning
LTE SON
› LTE SON features continually adapt to
changing network traffic and network
conditions. They are:
› Automatically detects and adds missing

neighbor relations
› Automatically detects PCI conflicts
› Automatically tunes handover settings to

reduce too-late, too-early handovers and
ping-pong
› Automatically allocates RACH root

sequence
Benefits
› User Experience
– Up to 30% improvement in Handover success
– Neighbor and handover parameter Self-healing
response to unplanned network changes due to
high traffic or site outages. Repetitive Tasks Automated Planning
› Efficient Operations
– No manual planning required for new site
neighbor lists, PCI or root sequence
Reactive Tuning Automated Tuning
R3 ENHANCEMENT
BENEFITs (1/2)
› New enhancements and functions
– Overlaid cell detection as add-on for Best cell
neighbor relation detection, in case of IFLB with
small cells
› Gain Description and claims

– Increased load management in multi layer
architecture. Improved KPI’s
› Operator Values
– OPEX savings through automation: Less O&M on
configuration and optimization
R3 ENHANCEMENT
BENEFITs (2/2)
– ‘Whitelist of PLMN Ids’ CN1 CN2
– Operator maintained list of allowed PLMN ids, set
through OSS in each eNodeB
PCI 9 PCI 7
› Gain Description and claims eNB3 CGI X CGI Y eNB1
– Decreased risk of using the same PCIs on cells

PLMN A PLMN B, C and D
close to each other
– Increased retainability: Hand over success rates.
Improved KPI’s
– Less dropped VOLTE calls
Operator Value
› Improved HO performance improve Automatic

Handover
customer experience Tuning
– Reduce churn
– Drive revenues
› Faster Time-to-Market Time-to-

– Automatic neighbor/PCI and handover optimization market
speeds new site deployment benefits
› Resources Efficiency
– Direct costs savings from reduction in operations
resources or services Reduced
OPEX
Operator Value calculation
Main Assumptions
Benefits Assumption Calculation
› Improved HO performance › Performance churn reduced with

1 Customer customer experience automatic SON features by 5%
Experience › Improved customer experience related to customer experience
reduces churn improvement observed
› Automatic neighbor/PCI and

2 Faster new site handover optimization speeds
deployment new site deployment › A percentage of the daily site revenue
is used to estimate the benefit of early
› When the commercial on-air site launch.
date is brought forward, each
day has a value
Resource › Direct costs savings from › No. Of full time resources currently
3 Efficiency reduction in operations assigned to routine neighbor and
resources or services handover planning x annual cost.
SON
Business case example 1
Investments vs. € value
BENEFITS Input and assumptions Euro over 3 years
› Automated pro-active
neighbor performance › 3 years analysis
management in near real-time 0.0 0.0
› 4000 Nodes, no new sites
› Subscribers: 5M
› Opex saving by automating
repetitive tasks › Churn = 24% per yr 9.0
› 20% of churn due to 11.6 11.6
performance
› 5% improvement in
performance churn due to 2.6
improved customer satisfaction.
› 3 full time employees per every
1000 sites for Neighbour
planning and optimisation
Value over 3 years: 11.6 M€

SON
Business case example 2
Investments vs. € value
BENEFITS Input and assumptions Euro over 3 years
› Automated pro-active › 3 years analysis
neighbor performance
› 1000 Nodes,1K new sites per yr 0.4
management in near real-time
› Subscribers: 1M, 30% CAGR 2.3
› Churn = 24% per yr 2.4
› Opex saving by automating
repetitive tasks › 20% of churn due to 5.4
performance
› 5 5% improvement in 2.6 3.1
› Automation of neighbor
performance churn due to
planning reduces new site
improved customer satisfaction
lead times
› 3 full time O&M employees per
every 1000 sites for neighbour
planning and optimisation
› 6 full toptimisation employees
per every 1000 new sites
› 2 days new site lead time gain
Value over 3 years: 3.1 M€
recovers lost revenue
Payback time = 7.3 Months
SON-LTE Value Calculator
Technical Section
self-organizing networks
Overview
› Automatic initial configuration and

continuous optimization of RAN
functions
› Plug and play configuration and

optimization of network parameters
› Increased handover performance

and decreased operator OPEX
Technical Description
self configuration
› SON Value package contains three functions for self-
configuration:
› Automated Neighbor Relations (ANR)
› PCI conflict reporting
› Automated RACH Root sequence allocation
› Overlaid Cell Detection as add-on for Best cell Neighbor
Relation in case of IFLB with small cells.
› The Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) enables
automatic configuration of neighboring lists for LTE,
WCDMA and GSM neighboring cells based on UE
measurements
› Equally important is that Neighbor Relation lists are
automatically cleaned-up, i.e. removal of unused &
unwanted neighbor relations
Technical Description:
ANR, Automatic ncell relations
handling, R1
Ncell 1
› Solution R1:
Ncell 2
– absolute threshold for adding cell to ncell list
› (reset at SW reset) .
– threshold = number of handover attempts: .
ANRFunction:nrHoNeededToAddCellRelation (default 0) .
– candidate list for qualification until threshold is met
.
› not in MOM
› still allows handovers to be commenced .
- i.e. external cell (ExternalENodeBFunction and .
ExternalEutranCellFdd/Tdd) are created Candidate.1
› no PM stats
Candidate.2
› does not create X2 (if missing)
..
t
› Solves: Candidate.x
– avoids adding ncell relations that are seldom used
.
Technical Description:
ANR, Automatic ncell relations
handling, R1
Ncell 1
› Solution R1:
Ncell 2
– threshold based on rate for adding cell to ncell list
› (reset at SW reset) .
– threshold = number of handover attempts within 15 minutes: .
ANRFunction:nrHoNeededToAddCellRelation (default 0) .
– candidate list for qualification until threshold is met
.
› not in MOM
› still allows handovers to be commenced .
- i.e. external cell (ExternalENodeBFunction and .
ExternalEutranCellFdd/Tdd) are created Candidate.1
› no PM stats
Candidate.2
› does not create X2 (if missing)
..
t
› Solves: Candidate.x
– avoids adding ncell relations that are seldom used independent of time replace
– allows new ncell relations to always be possible to add
.
self configuration – R1
› PCI conflict reporting detects conflicts when two
neighbors to a certain cell have the same Physical
Cell Identity (PCI)
Case A
› PCI conflicts causes handover failures and are PCI=1
PCI=10 ?
difficult and time consuming to detect by manually
reviewing cell plans PCI=10
RBS C
› PCI conflict reporting handles both PCI collision ?
(Case A) and PCI Confusion (Case B) PCI=1 Case B
› Requires OSS-RC function “Automatic PCI Collision

Resolution”
self configuration – R1
› RACH Root Sequence is allocated to cells and is
an important parameter when terminals (UEs) tries RSI=0
to access the network PCI=0

RSI=14
PCI=1
RSI=29
› As for PCI it is important that neighbor cells have PCI=2
different RACH Root Sequence values to avoid false RSI=543 RSI=94
detection of random access procedures (preambles) PCI=327

RSI=573
PCI=57
RSI=109
between cells PCI=329 PCI=58
RSI=558 RSI=124
PCI=328 PCI=59
› Automatic RACH Root Sequence allocation assigns
an index based on PCI value which makes it
Automatic allocation:
important that PCI values are correctly allocated
Minimized risk of overlap
self optimization – R1
Handover
› SON Value package contains one function for self margin/Offset
optimization
› Automated Mobility Optimization Cell-A
Too early HO
› To minimize call drops at handover it is important
that cell parameters are correctly tuned Too late HO
Cell-B
Wrong cell HO
› Automated Mobility Optimization automatically
adjusts the Handover Margin based on feedback
from executed handovers
› Includes functionality to minimize “too late”, “too Cell-C

early” and “wrong cell” handovers as well as
oscillating handovers
reporting of problematic
cells – R2
Overshooting cells causes non-optimized
handover regions where far away cells interfers
through unwanted coverage => handover failures PCI=8
eCGI=A
?
Solution:
- Monitoring of handover success rate with two PCI=8
eCGI=C
thresholds:
- Thrhld 1. triggers ANR to mark neighbor relation as PCI=8
problematic (medium). eCGI=B
- Thrhld 2 triggers tagging ncell relation as problematic
(high). Cell relation barred from handover.
R3 Technical
ENHANCEMENTS PCI=8
eCGI=A
?
New enhancements and functions:
› Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) PCI=8

eCGI=C
- PLMN whitelisting is included in ANR algorithm
› Overlaid Cell Detection PCI=8

- Automatic configuration of Best cell Neighbor
eCGI=B
Relation for small cell handling from macro cell is
added.
PLMN id = 1
PLMN id = 2
ANR, white listing of plmn id –
R3
Networks with different PLMN ids risk to use PLMN id = 1
the same PCIs on cells close to each other,

causing handover failures
› Solution:
1. Operator maintained list of allowed PLMN ids, set PLMN id = 2
through OSS in each eNodeB
2. ANR verify against the PLMN white list before adding
a neighbor. If not white listed then ANR remembers
the cell and bars X2 setup
3. MORAN supported (PLMN white list per PLMN)
Overlaid Cell detection – R3
› The feature is a SON-type of feature which

automatically adds small cells as load relation*1. High hit rate
› Small cells typically have limited hit rate seen from a Source cell
macro Small cell Macro cell
› Small cells typically have a high hit rate towards a few Identifies high hit rate
macro cells to a macro cell
“I am a small cell”
› The feature creates load relation to small cell from
relevant macro cells. Add the small cell to
the list of load relations
*1 Introduced with FAJ 221 3077 Coverage-Adapted Load Management

Self-organizing
Networks
Summary
› Automatic configuration and Increased network Automatic

performance by configuration and
optimization of RAN functions eliminating cell optimization of
parameter conflicts important network
› Benefits parameter
– Increased Performance
– Automatic configuration
– Constant Monitoring
– Mitigate outage Impact
› Operator Value Constantly Mitigates
monitoring for negative impact of
– Decreased OPEX through automation of
optimal neighbour site outages or new
network planning and tuning performance site additions
– Reduced churn through less dropped calls
R2 technical
ENHANCEMENTS
New enhancements and functions:
› Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR)

- Cells with bad handover performance are reported
to OSS and are automatically barred and no longer
used as neighbors
- Benefit:
› ANR will reduce session drop rate
› Reduced manual configuration work
R2 ENHANCEMENTS
BENEFIT
– Area: ‘ANR, reporting of problematic cell relations’ PCI=8
– Description: :Monitoring of handover success rate to eCGI=A
detect problematic cells that will be as last resort black
listed automatically. ?
› Gain Description and claims PCI=8

eCGI=C
– Increased retainability: Hand over success rates.
Improved KPI’s
– Less dropped VOLTE calls
PCI=8
eCGI=B
› Operator Values Overshooting cells causes non-optimized

– OPEX savings through automation: Less O&M on
configuration and optimization
handover regions where far away cells
interferes through unwanted coverage =>
handover failures

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LTE

Voice Performance Capacity Evolutions Operations Efficiency New Service Opportunities

Smartphone Efficiency Coverage Expansion Network Management Revenue Optimization

> Market Opportunity

› Fully autonomous SON features simplify

› Automatically detects and adds missing

› Automatically detects PCI conflicts

› Automatically tunes handover settings to

› Automatically allocates RACH root

Reactive Tuning Automated Tuning

› Gain Description and claims

– Decreased risk of using the same PCIs on cells

› Improved HO performance improve Automatic

› Faster Time-to-Market Time-to-

› Improved HO performance › Performance churn reduced with

› Automatic neighbor/PCI and

Value over 3 years: 11.6 M€

› Automatic initial configuration and

› Plug and play configuration and

› Increased handover performance

› Requires OSS-RC function “Automatic PCI Collision

to access the network PCI=0

detection of random access procedures (preambles) PCI=327

› Includes functionality to minimize “too late”, “too Cell-C

› Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) PCI=8

› Overlaid Cell Detection PCI=8

the same PCIs on cells close to each other,

› The feature is a SON-type of feature which

macro Small cell Macro cell

*1 Introduced with FAJ 221 3077 Coverage-Adapted Load Management

› Automatic configuration and Increased network Automatic

› Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR)

› Gain Description and claims PCI=8

› Operator Values Overshooting cells causes non-optimized

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