Drive Test Tutorial

Part II

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Drive Test Required Tools

Drive Test Measured Radio KPIs and Activities

Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting

Drive Test Optimization and Trails

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Site Issues

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Site level Issues:

• Cross Sector in 2G site.

• Variation on Hopping channel.
• Carrier -over - Interference ratio.
• Cross Sector in 3G site.
• Shift in Azimuth.
• Missing Relations in 3G.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Cross Sector in 2G site :

This is a cross sector between 2 and 4.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Variation on Hopping channel :

Variation in hopping Channel due to hardware

problem (DTRU).

The variation on hopping channel must not increase

than 10 dB.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Carrier -over - Interference ratio :

Bad C/I due to interference ,there are two types

o Co-channel interference (Interference

between same frequencies).

o Adjacent interference (Interference

between two different frequencies).

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Cross Sector in 3G site :

This is a cross sector between 1 and 2

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Shift in Azimuth :

There is shift in sector 2 azimuth

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Missing Relations in 3G :

SC: Scrambling Code in idle mode

AS: Active Set in dedicated mode

MN: Monitored Neighbor can make soft Hand Over

to this SC

DN: Detected Neighbor can not make soft Hand Over

to this SC

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Radio Issues

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Radio level Issues:

• Weak Coverage in 3G.

• Bad Ec/No due to miss configuration.
• Bad Ec/No due to weak coverage.
• Dropped call due to No coverage .
• Dropped call due to ul interference.
• Dropped call due to Bad Ec/Io.
• Dropped call due to Pilot pollution.
• Dropped call due to Wrong Neighbor.
• Blocked call due to missing neighbor definition.
• Blocked call due to Wrong Neighbor.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Weak Coverage in 3G :

Recommendations :

o Mechanical or Electrical up tilt.

o Increase RRU power.
o Re-height antenna sector.
o Re-azimuth.
o Add New Site or Sector.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Bad Ec/No due to miss configuration:

Recommendations :

o Re-plan the neighbors

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Bad Ec/No due to weak coverage:

Recommendations :

o Same solution to enhance the coverage

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to No coverage :

Recommendations :

o Add New Site

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to ul interference:

Recommendations :

o Avoid establish the call on interfered

frequency.
o Try Interference mitigation action.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Bad Ec/Io :

Recommendations :

o Mechanical or Electrical up tilt to offload voice

traffic to NBrs.
o Increase RRU power.
o Re-height antenna sector.
o Re-azimuth.
o Add New Site or Sector.
o Change CPICH Power to decrease the congestion.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Pilot pollution:

Recommendations :

o Add the down-tilt of 31301.

o Or add 31301 to 31472 neighbor list.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Wrong Neighbor:

The same SC ((Site947-2-305, Site20-2-305) caused the

dropped calls

Recommendations :

o Re-plan the neighbors

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Blocked call due to missing neighbor definition:

In the above figure, no neighbor definition

between site 66 site police4 and site 31A, so
the MS can’t do soft handover to site31A even
this site’s signal is strong.

Recommendations :

o Neighbor Audit

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Blocked call due to Wrong Neighbor:

Wrong Neighbor List resulted that better radio

link can not be added to active set, and it
caused bad CPICH RSCP and bad CPICH EcNo.

Recommendations :

o Improve RSCP or EcNo

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Example:

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 Thanks

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