Antenna Advanced System

(AAS)

Process for AIR3246 B66 activities

Roi Alejandro Sánchez Service Delivery Unit Build MX 2020-03-11

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Main benefits
• Enhanced Coverage – High gain adaptive beamforming
• Enhanced Capacity – High-order spatial multiplexing
• Reduced footprint – Integrated Radio & Antenna
• Improved Network performance – low inter-cell interference
• Advanced RAN Features – cell splitting; vertical and horizontal beamforming

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In a quick summary, the process consists of:

 AAS L21 NSB process (include any ENM checks such as supervisions, Time-zone, etc.)
 AAS L2100 Mirror with Legacy L2100 which implies scripts for feature preservation & radio parameter
change.
 AAS Feature settings.
 Physical antenna swap.
 Cleanup, RET, NBIOT adjustments .
 Dummy PCI change and Elastic RAN setting implementation (T-Mobile requested to use dummy PCIs for
the new AAS cells until the AIR3246 are installed and the legacy L2100 cells are deleted, then we will put
back the original PCI).

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SW to be used
Check last SW revision on James Bzdyl emails.

At 2020-03-11 last version is 6-R85C103 L20.Q1

AAS without mmWave 6630 AAS 5216 or 6630 Legacy LTE 6630 NR 600
MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6-R85C103) MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6-R85C103) MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6-R85C103)

AAS with mmWave 6630 AAS 5216 or 6630 Legacy LTE mmWave NR 600

MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6- MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6- MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6- MTR20.5 EC5 (CXP9024418_6-
R85C103) R85C103) R85C103) R85C103)

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AAS integration sequence High Level

When cutting over to a new AAS node:

1. Save a CV on the Legacy LTE node. (Pre_L21_Delete)

2. Lock L21.
3. Unlock AAS L21 with dummy PCI’s.
4. FE will do basic call testing (SRS) to ensure it can process calls.
5. Lock AAS L21 once basic calls have been completed.
6. Delete Legacy L21 cells.
7. Update PCI on AAS L21.
8. Unlock AAS L21 for 911 call testing
9. While FE is call testing, do the neighbor clean up.
10. If 911 call testing passes, leave all sectors of AAS L21 up. (Remember if site has a split sector to lock and
unlock both cells of the split sector together.)

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Sequence for script loading

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Sequence for script loading

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Sequence for script loading

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Sequence for script loading

After executing each PCI script if you see the below issue, it means PCI was not changed
<LsiteID2> setm EUtranCellFDD=<L21CellAlpha> physicalLayerCellIdGroup 7 physicalLayerSubCellId 0
Option m cannot be used while gs/gsg is active!
Please stop gs/gsg and try again.

You can use the next commands to check PCIs

cabx or invrxb or
hget ^EUtranCellFDD cellid|physicallayerC|physicallayerS|sectorCarrierRef

The PCI can be calculated using:

PCI = (physicalLayerCellIdGroup*3) + physicalLayerSubCellId = physicalLayerCellId

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Sequence for script loading

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Cleanup process
• To know the legacy eNBId use:

get ENodeBFunction=1 eNBId

LLI13533A> get ENodeBFunction=1 eNBId

=================================================================================================================
MO Attribute Value
=================================================================================================================
ENodeBFunction=1 eNBId 43192
=================================================================================================================
Total: 1 MOs

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 Cleanup process
• Get the externalENodeBFunction ENM export on next link
https://rnam-pas.exu.ericsson.se:9090/T-Mobile/PR4609_externalENodeBFunction/
(T-Mobile Project Assist - externalENodeBFunction ENM export email)

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Cleanup process
• Create a sitelist file using the eNBId
• Upload the txt to FTP with the cleanup scripts

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 Cleanup process

Cleanup for Alpha L2100

ENM> mobatch sitelist.txt 04_LLI13533A_LLI13533A11_To_Be_Mobatch_to_Neighbor_ExternalEUtranCellFDD_delete.mos ./LLI13533A11

ENM>cd LLI13533A11
ENM> grep 'Total' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'MOs attempted' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'Duplicate name' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'failed' *.log

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 Cleanup process
Cleanup for Beta L2100

ENM> mobatch sitelist.txt 04_LLI13533A_LLI13533A21_To_Be_Mobatch_to_Neighbor_ExternalEUtranCellFDD_delete.mos ./LLI13533A21

ENM> cd LLI13533A21
ENM> grep 'Total' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'MOs attempted' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'Duplicate name' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'failed' *.log

Cleanup for Gamma L2100

ENM> mobatch sitelist.txt 04_LLI13533A_LLI13533A31_To_Be_Mobatch_to_Neighbor_ExternalEUtranCellFDD_delete.mos ./LLI13533A31

ENM> cd LLI13533A31
ENM> grep 'Total' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'MOs attempted' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'Duplicate name' *.log
ENM> grep -i 'failed' *.log

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Sequence for script loading

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Sequence for script loading

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Sequence for script loading

/home/shared/EJAMBZD/Baseline/MISC

File to run on Legacy node

FDMIMO_LTE_PA7.txt

File to run on AAS node

FDMIMO_AAS_PA7.txt

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Remember to check PCIs
Confirm that PCI values on L2100 AAS are same as L2100 legacy on pre-check

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Remember to check PCIs

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Remember to check PCIs

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Remember to check MMEs

The AAS Baseband should have same number of MMEs as the Legacy BB less the amount of MMEs for
NbIotCell.

To check MMEs use:

st mme

To check the MMEs on legacy BB for NbIot traffic use:

hget mme nbiot true

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Remember to check RiLinks
4 Rilinks per sector on all the AIR3246 AAS nodes.

• Lesson learned:
— If RiLinks are disabled check if SFPs are from the same vendor in order to make the RiLinks to come up.
Use:
invrxb

— We should also notice that for AAS nodes the NR 600 won’t have the IDL Cable defined so please don’t run
IDLE script in 5G.

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Diagram example to show the rilink connections for AAS EnodeB

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Remember to check bblinks
The bblinks must be created in Legacy & AAS BBs.

If SW is matching between Legacy BB & AAS BB and there is no issue with the setup (VlanPort=ERAN value must set in
eranVlanPortRef attribute) all is needed is a restart of LTE and AAS nodes to make the Elastic RAN feature create the
bblinks.

•To check SW level •To check eranVlanPortRef

cvcu get . eranVlanPortRef V

•To check feature status use

invlr ElasticRAN •To check bblink status use
or st bblink
invlr CXC4012034

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Remember to check sCellCandidate for AAS & DS
Check that attribute sCellCandidate on the eNBId –cellId, that corresponds to our LTE node, are set to 1 in all
AAS cells

Use the next command in AAS node

st cell
get . sCellCandidate 1

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Remember to check sCellCandidate for AAS & DS
Use the next command in Legacy node to check eNBId
get ENodeBFunction=1 eNBId

Use the next command in Legacy node to check Cell Ids

hget ^EUtranCellFDD= ^cellId$|sectorCarrierRef

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