General AMR Performances Monitoring Metrics

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PUBLICATION HISTORY
01/July/2004
Issue 01.00/ EN, Preliminary Creation of the document

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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................5 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 2. OBJECT .................................................................................................................................5 SCOPE OF THIS DOCUMENT .....................................................................................................5 AUDIENCE FOR THIS DOCUMENT ..............................................................................................5

RELATED DOCUMENTS............................................................................................................6 2.1. 2.2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS ........................................................................................................6 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS........................................................................................................6

3.

AMR MONITORING (V14.3)........................................................................................................7 3.1. GLOBAL PERFORMANCE .........................................................................................................7 3.1.1 Traffic............................................................................................................................7 3.1.2 Global blocking Evolution..............................................................................................8 3.1.3 Call drop ratio ...............................................................................................................9 3.1.4 Handover ....................................................................................................................10 3.1.5 QOS subcriber ............................................................................................................11 3.2. AMR INNER PERFORMANCES ................................................................................................12 3.2.1 Codec mode usage.....................................................................................................12 3.2.2 Frame erasure rate .....................................................................................................13 3.2.3 Power control efficiency ..............................................................................................14 3.3. L1M PERFORMANCES...........................................................................................................14 3.3.1 3.3.2 Radio Quality ..............................................................................................................14 Radio Level.................................................................................................................15

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ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS.....................................................................................16 4.1. 4.2. ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................................................................16

DEFINITIONS .........................................................................................................................17

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1.
1.1.

INTRODUCTION
OBJECT
The aim of this document is to define some performances monitoring metrics for the Nortel BSS AMR Feature, in order to:

Monitor efficiently the live network performances evolution related to that feature services. Detect the performances issues for these specific features Optimize the feature efficiency thanks to parameter fine tuning

1.2.

SCOPE OF THIS DOCUMENT

This document is applying to the V14.3 AMR BSS feature implying new monitoring counters. For more details concerning the GSM procedures & protocols, refer to ETSI GSM Specifications (see [R1]).

1.3.

AUDIENCE FOR THIS DOCUMENT

This document is intended for all engineers related to Network performances monitoring.

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2.
2.1.

RELATED DOCUMENTS
APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
[A1] [A2] [A3] [A4] [A5] PE/SYS/DD/0343 PE/SYS/DD/0371 PE/BSS/DD/0018 PE/DCL/DD/0036 PE/BSS/APP/11438 SV713: AMR Full Rate; SV885: AMR Half Rate CT7100 metrics BSS System Functional Specification Observation BSS Parameters User Guide V14.3.1 AMR Activation Guideline

2.2.

REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
[R1] 04.08 Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification

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AMR MONITORING (V14.3)

In the following section, a set of AMR performances monitoring metrics is proposed, based on existing counters and also new counters introduced with the AMR feature. As the main objective of this feature is to:

Increase the capacity (i.e. HR benefit, spectral efficiency gain), Improve the Voice Quality in degraded radio conditions (i.e. interferences resistant),

We will monitor the impacts by using the following metrics.

3.1.

GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

3.1.1 TRAFFIC
The following metrics provide the global traffic carried in Erlangs, obtained by summing both TCH full rate (AMR FR and standard FR calls) and AMR half rate traffic, on a per cell basis: The global TCH traffic carried in the cell is (in Erlangs)
TCH Traffic Carried = tchFrA veragedUsedO verflowA llocationM oy + tchFrAveragedU sedPrimoAllocationM oy + tchFrAveragedU sedTchAllocationM oy + tchH rAveragedU sedOverflowA llocationM oy + tchH rAveragedUsedPrimoA llocationM oy + tchHrAveragedU sedTchAllocationM oy

TheTCH AMR Traffic Carried in the cell is (in Erlangs)

TCH AMR Traffic Carried = tchHrAveragedUsedOverflowAllocationMoy + tchHrAveragedUsedPrimoAllocationMoy + tchHrAveragedUsedTchAllocationMoy + amrFrTchStdAveragedUsedMoy

The Ehanced Full-Rate (FR/EFR) traffic carried in the cell is (in Erlangs)

TCH EFR Traffic Carried = tchFrAveragedUsedOverflowAllocationMoy + tchFrAveragedUsedPrimoAllocationMoy + tchFrAveragedUsedTchAllocationMoy amrFrTchStdAveragedUsedMoy

We calculate the AMR traffic ratio compared to the global traffic carried on the cell:

AMR Traffic Ratio =

TCH AMR Traffic Carried TCH Traffic Carried

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We calculate the AMR HR Penetration comparing the AMR HR Traffic carried over the TCH Traffic carried:

AMR HR Penetration =
with:

TCH AMR HR Traffic carried TCH Traffic carried

TCH AMR HR Traffic Carried = tchHrAveragedUsedOverflowAllocationMoy + tchHrAveragedUsedPrimoAllocationMoy + tchHrAveragedUsedTchAllocationMoy

3.1.2 GLOBAL BLOCKING EVOLUTION

The SDCCH blocking rate should be closely monitored if no SDCCH resource is added after AMR implementation since the cell might carry more traffic.
SDCCH Blocking Rate = [SDCCH Allocation failure] [SDCCH Allocation failure]+[SDCCH Allocated]+[TCH FR Overflow Allocated]

with:

SDCCH Allocation Failure = sdcchRessourceFailure SDCCH Allocated = sdcchAllocated

TCH FR Overflow Allocated = tchFrAllocatedOverflowAllocated
NB: An AMR HR TCH cannot be used for overflow (signaling).

We should also monitor the TCH blocking rate evolution, as it should be improved according to the capacity increase, and it can be calculated from a system or a users point of view:

TCH Blocking Rate System =

with:

TCH Allocation Lack System TCH Allocation Attempts System

TCH Allocation Lack System = signallingReleaseBtsT11 + tchHrRessourceFailure + tchFrRessourceFailure

TCH Allocation Attempts System = signallingReleaseBtsT11 + tchHrRessourceFailure + tchFrRessourceFailure + tchHrAllocated + tchFrAllocated

TCH Blocking Rate Users =

with:

TCH Allocation Lack Users TCH Allocation Attempts Users

TCH Allocation Lack Users = signallingReleaseBtsT11 + tchFrRessourceFailure + tchHrRessourceFailure amrFrToHrHoRequestIntraCellTch + amrFrToHrHoExecutionIntraCellTch - amrHrToFrHoRequestIntraCellTch + amrHrToFrHoExecutionIntracellTch

TCH Allocation Attempts Users = signallingReleaseBtsT11+ tchFrRessourceFailure + tchHrRessourceFailure amrFrToHrHoRequestIntraCellTch + amrFrToHrHoExecutionIntraCellTch + tchFrAllocated + tchHrAllocated amrHrToFrHoRequestIntraCellTch + amrHrToFrHoExecutionIntracellTch

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3.1.3

CALL DROP RATIO

We should monitor the ratio of call drops at a network or a cell level, but exclusively from a global point of view, i.e. without spreading the metrics into a AMR HR / AMR FR / standard FR call drop ratio: NB: we remove all the intra-cell TCH communications (due to Tiering, Quality & AMR intracell Handovers) for the network & cell overview.

The call drop at the network level is given by

Call Drop Ratio Network =

trafficAbnormalRelease [TCH Communications Network]

We need to use the number of TCH communications at the network level

TCH Communications Network = amrHrTchSuccessfullyAssigned + successfulTchFrSeizures hoSuccessIntraBts - hoSuccessTieringTchLargeToSmallPattern - hoSuccessTieringTchSmallToLargePattern

The call drop at cell level is given by

Call Drop Ratio Cell =

trafficAbnormalRelease [TCH Communications Cell]

We need to use the number of TCH communications at the cell level

TCH Communications Cell = (successfulTchFrSeizures + amrHrTchSuccessfullyAssigned) (hoSuccessIntraBts + hoSuccessTieringTchLargeToSmallPattern + hoSuccessTieringTchSmallToLargePattern ) + hoSuccessIncomingInterBss + hoSuccessIncomingIntraBss

We may also need to evaluate the contribution of the main causes of dropped calls:
Release Ind Contribution = trafficReleaseReleaseInd [TCH Communications Cell]

RLT Contribution =
T200 Contribution =

trafficReleaseCnxFailRadioIntFail + trafficReleaseCnxFailRadioLinkFail [TCH Communications Cell]

trafficReleaseErrorIndDm + trafficReleaseErrorIndSeq + trafficReleaseErrorIndT200 [TCH Communications Cell]

T3103 Contribution = T3107 Contribution =

trafficReleaseT3103 [TCH Communications Cell] trafficReleaseT3107CircDown [TCH Communications Cell]

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3.1.4 HANDOVER
With the introduction of the AMR feature new Intracell Handovers are performed when Half Rate is activated. Those Intracell Handovers can either be for a capacity reason (FR to HR) or a quality reason (HR to FR) We can monitor the Execution Failure Ratio for each of these two causes:
AMR Intra HO HRtoFR Exe Fail Ratio = amrHrToFrHoExecutionIntraCellTch amrHrToFrHoSuccessIntraCellTch amrHrToFrHoExecutionIntraCellTch amrFrToHrHoExecutionIntraCellTch amrFrToHrHoSuccessIntraCellTch amrFrToHrHoExecutionIntraCellTch

AMR Intra HO FRtoHR Exe Fail Ratio =

It could also be interesting to supervise the evolution of Intercell Handovers Execution Failure Ratio. In case of an Intercell Handover four possibilities can occur: the handover is completed, the handover drop after a timer expiration, the handover fail and return to the old channel, or the handover is not successful for an other reason.
AMR Inter HO FR T3103 Exe Fail Ratio = AMR Inter HO FR ROC Exe Fail Ratio = hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrFrTimerExpiration hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrFr

hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrFrHandoverFailure hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrFr hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrFrClearCommand hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrFr hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrHrTimerExpiration hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrHr

AMR Inter HO FR Others Exe Fail Ratio =

AMR Inter HO HR T3103 Exe Fail Ratio = AMR Inter HO HR ROC Exe Fail Ratio =

hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrHrHandoverFailure hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrHr hoNCellsUnsuccessTchAmrHrClearCommand hoNCellsExecutionTchAmrHr

AMR Inter HO HR Others Exe Fail Ratio =

NB: the hoNCellsxx counters are defined at a neighbouring level and are meaningful only on a per relation basis

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3.1.5 QOS SUBCRIBER

We compute the Network subscriber QOS according to the following formula (with updated metrics):
QoS Subscriber = 100-(50*[Call Drop Ratio Cell]+10*[Call Establishment Failure ratio]+10*[SDCCH Blocking Rate]+10*[TCH Blocking rate (users)]+20*[Incoming HO Exe Fail ratio])

Metric Update: Call Establishment Failures Ratio:

Call Establishment Failure Ratio = [Assign Fail]-[HO Intracell Exe Fail]+[Signalling Abnormal Release] [Estab Indic All]

Assign Fail = (attemptedTchFrSeizures + amrHrTchSuccessfullyAssigned + amrHrTCHAssignFailure) - (successfulTchFrSeizures + amrHrTchSuccessfullyAssigned)

HO Intracell Exe Fail = (hoExecutionIntraBts + hoRequiredTchTieringLargeToSmallPattern hoFailureTieringTchNorrLargeToSmallPattern + hoRequiredTchTieringSmallToLargePattern hoFailureTieringTchNorrSmallToLargePattern) - (hoSuccessIntraBts + hoSuccessTieringTchLargeToSmallPattern + hoSuccessTieringTchSmallToLargePattern)

Signalling Abnormal Release = signallingAbnormalReleaseCell - signallingReleaseBtsT3107CircDown

Estab Indic All = estabIndicSignallingPagingRes + estabIndicSignallingLocUpdate + estabIndicSignallingReEstab + estabIndicSignallingImsiDetach + estabIndicSignallingMoc + estabIndicSignallingEmergency + estabIndicSignallingShortMsg + estabIndicSignallingSuppService

Incoming HO Failure Ratio:

Incoming HO Failure Ratio = [Incoming HO Cmd]-[Incoming HO Cmp] [Incoming HO Cmd]

Incoming HO Cmd = hoExecutionIncomingInterBss + hoExecutionIncomingIntraBss

Incoming HO Cmp = hoSuccessIncomingInterBss + hoSuccessIncomingIntraBss

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3.2.

AMR INNER PERFORMANCES

3.2.1 CODEC MODE USAGE

The codec mode usage will enable to monitor the distribution of AMR codec mode for each AMR channel uplink and downlink:

CODEC MODE USAGE AMR DOWNLINK FR

Codec 4.75 DL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrDownlinkCodec475 amrFrDownlinkCodec475 + amrFrDownlinkCodec59 + amrFrDownlinkCodec67 + amrFrDownlinkCodec102
Codec 5.9 DL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrDownlinkCodec59 amrFrDownlinkCodec475 + amrFrDownlinkCodec59 + amrFrDownlinkCodec67 + amrFrDownlinkCodec102
Codec 6.7 DL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrDownlinkCodec67 amrFrDownlinkCodec475 + amrFrDownlinkCodec59 + amrFrDownlinkCodec67 + amrFrDownlinkCodec102 Codec 10.2 DL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrDownlinkCodec102 amrFrDownlinkCodec475 + amrFrDownlinkCodec59 + amrFrDownlinkCodec67 + amrFrDownlinkCodec102

CODEC MODE USAGE AMR UPLINK FR

Codec 4.75 UL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrUplinkCodec475 amrFrUplinkCodec475 + amrFrUplinkCodec59 + amrFrUplinkCodec67 + amrFrUplinkCodec102

Codec 5.9 UL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrUplinkCodec59 amrFrUplinkCodec475 + amrFrUplinkCodec59 + amrFrUplinkCodec67 + amrFrUplinkCodec102 Codec 6.7 UL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrUplinkCodec67 amrFrUplinkCodec475 + amrFrUplinkCodec59 + amrFrUplinkCodec67 + amrFrUplinkCodec102
Codec 10.2 UL FR Usage Ratio = amrFrUplinkCodec102 amrFrUplinkCodec475 + amrFrUplinkCodec59 + amrFrUplinkCodec67 + amrFrUplinkCodec102

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CODEC MODE USAGE AMR DOWNLINK HR

Codec 4.75 DL HR Usage Ratio = amrHrDownlinkCodec475 amrHrDownlinkCodec475 + amrHrDownlinkCodec59 + amrHrDownlinkCodec67

Codec 5.9 DL HR Usage Ratio = Codec 6.7 DL HR Usage Ratio =

amrHrDownlinkCodec59 amrHrDownlinkCodec475 + amrHrDownlinkCodec59 + amrHrDownlinkCodec67 amrHrDownlinkCodec67 amrHrDownlinkCodec475 + amrHrDownlinkCodec59 + amrHrDownlinkCodec67

CODEC MODE USAGE AMR UPLINK HR

Codec 4.75 UL HR Usage Ratio = amrHrUplinkCodec475 amrHrUplinkCodec475 + amrHrUplinkCodec59 + amrHrUplinkCodec67

Codec 5.9 UL HR Usage Ratio =

amrHrUplinkCodec59 amrHrUplinkCodec475 + amrHrUplinkCodec59 + amrHrUplinkCodec67

Codec 6.7 UL HR Usage Ratio =

amrHrUplinkCodec67 amrHrUplinkCodec475 + amrHrUplinkCodec59 + amrHrUplinkCodec67

3.2.2 FRAME ERASURE RATE

For each codec mode and for each channel used, the Uplink FER can be computed so as to determine the Voice Quality:

AMR FR UL FER
AMR FER FR UL = AMR FR Bad Speech Frames Codec AMR FR Valid Speech Frames Codec

AMR FR Bad Speech Frames Codec = amrFrBadSpeechFramesCodec475 + amrFrBadSpeechFramesCodec59 + amrFrBadSpeechFramesCodec67 + amrFrBadSpeechFramesCodec102

AMR FR Valid Speech Frames Codec = amrFrValidSpeechFramesCodec475 + amrFrValidSpeechFramesCodec59 + amrFrValidSpeechFramesCodec67 + amrFrValidSpeechFramesCodec102

AMR HR UL FER
AMR FER HR UL = AMR HR Bad Speech Frames Codec AMR HR Valid Speech Frames Codec

AMR HR Bad Speech Frames Codec = amrHrBadSpeechFramesCodec475 + amrHrBadSpeechFramesCodec59 + amrHrBadSpeechFramesCodec67

AMR HR Valid Speech Frames Codec = amrHrValidSpeechFramesCodec475 + amrHrValidSpeechFramesCodec59 + amrHrValidSpeechFramesCodec67

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3.2.3 POWER CONTROL EFFICIENCY

The percentage of the time that the cell is emitting at the full power is a good indicator to evaluate the efficiency of the power control.. The higher the value, the worst the power control efficiency.
AMR %Time Full Power FR DL = downlinkPowerCtrlMaxTchAmrFrMoy amrFrTchConnectionDurationMoy uplinkPowerCtrlMaxTchAmrFrMoy amrFrTchConnectionDurationMoy downlinkPowerCtrlMaxTchAmrHrMoy amrHrTchConnectionDurationMoy uplinkPowerCtrlMaxTchAmrHrMoy amrHrTchConnectionDurationMoy

AMR %Time Full Power FR UL =

AMR %Time Full Power HR DL =

AMR %Time Full Power HR UL =

3.3.

L1M PERFORMANCES
For the L1M performances monitoring, as it is quite difficult to sort AMR phases from non-AMR phases, it is recommended to evaluate the radio quality, the level,and the C/I by and large.

3.3.1 RADIO QUALITY

An estimate of the radio quality of the network can be done with counters concerning cell average quality for both UL & DL paths (L1M measurement reports). Results are to be divided vy 10000 to get BER, then RxQual has to be calculated from the BER as described in GSM Rec 05.08 This metric can also be used to sort out the worst quality cells on the network. We first need to compute the number of measurement report (SDCCH, TCH EFR, TCH AMR FR, TCH AMR HR)

Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH =

connectionDurationSdcchMoy * sdcchAllocated 470

connectionDurationTchMoy * TCH Allocation FR 480 amrFrTchConnectionDurationTchMoy * TCH Allocation AMR FR + 480 amrHrTchConnectionDurationTchMoy * TCH Allocation AMR HR + 480
Nb Measurement Reports TCH UL =
TCH Allocation FR = tchFrAllocatedOverflowAllocation + tchFrAllocatedTchAllocation + tchFrAllocatedPrimoAllocation - amrFrTchAllocated
TCH Allocation AMR FR = amrFrTchAllocated

TCH Allocation AMR HR = tchHrAllocated

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DOWNLINK RADIO QUALITY

RxQual DL = rxQualDownLink + RxQualDownlinkAmrFr + RxQualDownlinkAmrHr Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH + Nb Measurement Reports TCH DL

UPLINK RADIO QUALITY

rxQualUpLink + RxQualUplinkAmrFr + RxQualUplinkAmrHr Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH + Nb Measurement Reports TCH UL

RxQual UL =

3.3.2 RADIO LEVEL

A metric estimating the level on the network can be done with counters concerning cell average level for both UL & DL paths (L1M measurement reports). Results are provided in dB [0 63]. This metric can also be used to sort out the worst level cells on the network.

DOWNLINK RADIO LEVEL

RxLev DL =

rxLevDownLink + RxLevDownlinkAmrFr + RxLevDownlinkAmrHr Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH + Nb Measurement Reports TCH DL

UPLINK RADIO LEVEL

RxLev UL =
C/I UPLINK

rxLevUpLink + RxLevUplinkAmrFr + RxLevUplinkAmrHr Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH + Nb Measurement Reports TCH UL

We can monitor the uplink C/I according to the following metrics. Results are provided in dB.

C/I UL =

2*CIUplinkFr + CIUplinkAmrFr + CIUplinkAmrHr 2*(Nb Measurement Reports SDCCH + Nb Measurement Reports TCH UL)

Note: a factor of 2 is introduced because the AMR C/I counter values are given in dB.

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ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

ABBREVIATIONS
ACS AMR BFI BFI KO C/I CMC CMI CMR DCU2 EFR Erl FER FR FR AMR HR HR AMR ICM L1m OMU PWCI RATSCCH RFU SBC SNR TCB TRAU TMG TMU VAD VAF Adaptive multirate Codec mode Set Adaptative Multi-Rate Bad Frame Indicator Bad Frame Indicator KO Carrier over Interferer Codec Mode Command Codec Mode Indication Codec Mode Request Data Channel Unit 2 Enhanced Full Rate vocoder Erlang Frame Erasure rate Full Rate Full Rate AMR Half Rate Half Rate AMR Initial Codec Mode Layer one Management Operation and Maintenance Unit Potential Worst C/I Robust AMR Traffic Synchronized Control Channel Reserved for Future Used Single Board Computer Signal to Noise ratio TransCoder Board Transcoding and Rate Adaptor Unit Traffic ManaGement Traffic Management Unit Voice Activity Detection Voice Activity Factor

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4.2.

DEFINITIONS
Busy Hour: in a day, it represents the hour for which network load reaches its maximum value. Blocking rate: Allocation failure ratio due to a lack of resources in the cell and a lack of free entries in the queue (for TCH).

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