PREVENTIVE

MAINTENANCE
(BSS)
 
I did my training…..
 Ericsson one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and
data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies,
including especially mobile networks.
 Ericsson is founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and incorporated on august
18,1918
 Ericsson has offices and operations in more than 150 countries, with more than 20,000
staff in Sweden, and also significant presences in, for example, the UK, India, Ireland, the
USA, Finland, China, and Brazil.
 Ericsson Networks is one of the largest telecommunications solutions suppliers in the
world.
 About 1 billion people are connected through its networks.
 The world's largest ever manual telephone exchange, serving 60,000 lines, was installed
by Ericsson in Moscow in 1916. Throughout the 1990s, Ericsson held a 35-40% market
share of installed cellular telephone systems.
 Ericsson is currently the world's largest mobile telecommunications equipment vendor
with a market share of 35%.
 GNOC

Front Configuration Operation

Back Office Support
Office Management

Fault Preventive Fault

Surveillance Maintenance Management
 
 Front office is the first level escalation. Front office consist of
many departments FS, PM,FM.

 Surveillance team do live monitoring .They run commands on

OSS,see alarm and raise TT forward them to fault management or
raise work order to field team as required.

 Preventive maintenance do health checkups. They run script and

found deviations. Resolve above 80% TT and remaining are
transferred to fault management and back office as required.

 Fault management do first level troubleshooting and need to clear

at least 80% of raised trouble ticket and remaining are forward to
the back office and field team as required.

 
 Back office is the second level TT not resolved by FO is transfer to
it.
 

 Configuration management plan and implement the new

configure. New tariff is configure by IN and configuration related
to BTS is done by BSS.

 Operation support maintains the performance of the tools check

the security of data system of ericsson. 
 What is PM?
Preventive
 Maintenance, as the name suggests, includes the
activities that are meant for the prevention of avoidable
outages.

Preventive
 Maintenance plays an important role in the
performance of network as it detect the fault earlier and it is
operated before being more challenging. Hence improve
network quality.

 
 NSS
BSS BSS-Base Station
Subsystem.

NSS-Network Surveillance
System.
Domains

OSS-Operation system.

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OSS
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WHAT PM do……

 Taking regular health checkups of the nodes as

per the health check list provided by Back Office.

 Health checkups divided in two types:

• Daily and fortnightly for BSS & NSS Node
• Daily & Weekly health checkups for OSS.

 Resolve above 80% of the TTs raised by

themselves and remaining are being raised to
the concerned teams
  .

IF CRITICAL
Transmission
FAULT
PREVENTIVE / hardware
MANAGEM
MAINTENANCE related problem WFM
ENT

TT related to OSS

BACK OFFICE
 Health checkup sheet consist of activities in which
deviations are found, commands and path for
checking and solving the problem, standard output
and deviated output.

 For BSS they run commands on citrix tool using

command handling application. If the output is
different from the standard one than it is
considered as deviation and a Trouble Ticket is
raised for it. Most of Trouble ticket raised is solved
on priority basis.
• These are those
• These are those
issues which
issues that have
have critical
impact on the MAJOR minor impact on
the network
network service
with high brunt services. These
on customer’s have to be
business and • These are those resolved within
should be issues that have 32 hours
resolved within 4 on impact on the otherwisw SLA
hour. network services breached.

CRITICA or event which

may lead to
emergency.These MINOR
L have to be
resolved within
10 hour .
Advantages of preventive maintenance

Solves above 80% of the raised trouble

ticket.

Maintain the better performance of cellular

network.

Plays major role in load sharing.

Prevents major/critical issue before they

appear and maintains a healthy network.
 BASE STATION SUBSYSTEM

BTS: BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION

TC: TRANSCODER
BSC: BASE STATION CONTROLLER
BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION (BTS)

• BTS has a set of Transceivers (TRXs) to

communicate with mobiles in its area.
• One BTS covers one or more than one cell.
• The capacity of a cell depends on number of
transceivers in the cell.
• BTS is connected to the BSC through Abis
Interface which is 2Mbps.
• BTS transmits and receives voice at 13kbps over
air interface to the mobiles.
• BTS performs encoding ,decoding ,time
synchronization ,modulating and feeding signals
to the antenna.
BASE STATION CONTROLLER (BSC)

 Provides all the control functions and

physical links between the MSC and BTS.
 External Interfaces
 ‘Abis’ interface towards the BTS
 ‘A’ interface towards the MSC
 BSC manages the radio resources for one
or more BTSs.
 It handles radio channel setup, frequency
hopping, and handovers.
 TRANSCODER (TC) FUNCTIONALITY

TC

BSC MSC
BTS

13 kbps 16 kbps 16 kbps 64 kbps

 Base Station Subsystem
performs following functions…….
FREQUENCY REUSE

B3 A1 B2 B3 A1 B2

C1 A2 A3 C1 A2 A3 C1

C3 B1 C2 C3 B1 C2 C3

A1 B2 B3 A1 B2 B3 A1

A3 C1 A2 A3 C1 A
A21 A3

one group includes 3 sectors /site ,9 frequency which are

distributed to 3 sites. Every site owns 3 frequency.

 LOCATION UPDATE

Location update is nothing but to update

the present location of a Mobile Station
(MS) into VLR (Visitor Location Register)
of MSC.

Thereare two procedures:

IMSI attach
IMSI detach
HANDOVER

 Between 1 and 2 –
Inter BTS / Intra BSC
 Between 1 and 3 –

Inter BSC/ Intra MSC

 Between 1 and 4 –

Inter MSC
2 types of HANDOVER…..
SOFT HARD

This Hard handover is

type of handover is
used in CDMA implemented in GSM.
In this type of handover, the
technology.
In this type of handover,
MS first make break link
with BTS A then make the
the MS first make one present link with BTS B.
link with BTS then break So, “break before make”
the present link with technology is used in hard
BTS. So, “make before handover.
break” technology is The chances of call drop is
used in soft handover. more in hard handover than
soft handover.
CONCLUSION

 During this summer training, I built a good understanding of GSM

technology that is being widely used by the mobile operators
worldwide.

 Except the technical learning, I have also learnt a lot about the
core values that are being followed at Ericsson which are
Respect, Professionalism and Perseverance.

 As a part of BSS Preventive Maintenance team I have also seen

the criticality of the faults that occur in network and learned the
seriousness and discipline with which these faults should be
handled.

 Having done this training at ERICSSON INDIA PVT LTD.,

Gurgaon has added a lot my technical and personal skills
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