Key Performance Indicators

This Documents discuss important KPIs, their calculation description of counters that are used in
calculation.
All These KPIs are the measure of subscribers perceived quality and system performance.
Following KPI categories we need to monitor


Accessibility Retainability Integrity Availability Mobility
KPIS: Summary
Accessibility
Initial E-RAB Establishment Success Rate
Added E-RAB Establishment Success Rate
RRC Failure Rate
Paging Discard Rate
Random Access Success Rate
CUL Use Distribution
Accessibility Failure Rate Due to CUL
Retainability
E-RAB Drop Rate
ENB E-RAB Drop Rate
MME E-RAB Drops Rate
E-RAB Drops per Second
E-RAB Minutes per Drop
Availability
Cell Auto Locked
Cell Manually Locked
Cell Availability
Congestion
Session Time
Mobility
EUTRAN Mobility
%age of UEs Leaving LTE Network
Integrity
Traffic Volume
Throughput DL
Throughput UL
Latency
Packet Loss
Connected Users
Accessibility E-RAB establishment
Accessibility for EUTRAN is a measure of the ability of a user to obtain an E-RAB.
Initial E-RAB establishment process can be divided into the following phases:
RRC Connection Establishment
S1 Signaling Connection Establishment
Initial E-RAB Establishment or E-RAB Addition
Added E-RAB Establishment Success Rate measure the success rate of subsequently added
E-RABs

Initial E-RAB Establishment Success Rate [%]


=
pmRrcConnEstabSucc
*
pmRrcConnEstabSucc
*
pmErabEstabSuccInit
*
100
(pmRrcConnEstabAtt -pmRrcConnEstabAttReatt ) pmS1SigConnEstabAtt pmErabEstabAttInit

Added E-RAB Establishment Success Rate [%]


=
pmErabEstabSuccAdded
*
100
PmErabEstabAttAdded

Accessibility E-RAB establishment
Initial E-RAB Establishment Success Rate [%]
Added E-RAB Establishment Success Rate [%]
Accessibility E-RAB establishment
RRC setup is part of E-RAB establishment process and its failure gives an important
measurement index about call
RRC Failure Rate [%]

= (1 - pmRrcConnEstabSucc ) * 100

pmRrcConnEstabAtt

Counter Summary Description
pmRrcConnEstabAtt Total number of RRC Connection Request attempts per cell
pmRrcConnEstabSucc Total number of successful RRC Connection Establishment per cell
pmRrcConnEstabAttReatt Total number of RRC Connection Request attempts that are considers as re-attempts
pmS1SigConnEstabAtt This measurement provides the number of S1 Signaling connection establishment
attempts for any establishment cause per cell.
pmS1SigConnEstabSucc Total number of successful S1 signaling connection establishment per cell.
pmErabEstabAttInit Total number of initial E-RAB Establishment attempts per cell. Initial E-RABs are all
E-RABs present in Initial Context Setup Request.
pmErabEstabSuccInit Total number of successful initial E-RAB Establishments per cell.
pmErabEstabAttAdded Total number of added E-RAB Establishment attempts per cell.
pmErabEstabSuccAdded
Total number of successfully added E-RABs per cell.
Accessibility Paging
Paging is used by the network to communicate with UE in idle mode. UE monitors the Physical Downlink Control
Channel (PDCCH) at regular intervals, to check for the presence of a Paging message

Paging Discard Rate [%]

= ( pmPagDiscarded ) * 100

pmPagreceived

Counter Summary Description
pmPagDiscarded Tracks the number of Paging messages from core network that are not distributed
to cells within the RBS due to congestion on the Paging channels
pmPagReceived Tracks the total number of Paging messages received from the core network.
Counter increments when a correct and complete message is received from an
MME.
Business Object Report Busy Hour
Accessibility Random Access
Main purpose of Random Access is to allow user equipment to obtain new or renewed access to the network and to
obtain uplink synchronization. It is mostly performed during initial access to the network from RRC_IDLE state and
handover between the cells.
Random Access Rate [%]

= ( pmRaSuccCbra ) * 100

pmRaAttCbra

Counter Summary Description

pmRaSuccCbra Number of successfully detected Random Access messages from Contention Based RA.
pmRaAttCbra Number of detected contention-based random access preambles. The counter is
incremented whenever a CBRA preamble is detected in the cell..
Business Object Report Busy Hour
Accessibility Connected User License
According to 3GPP definition a Connected User (CU) in LTE is one that is in RRC_CONNECTED state.
Maximum number of Connected Users allowed in the eNodeB can be viewed with licenseCapacityConnectedUsers
ready only parameter which reflects the Connected User License (CUL) capacity value in the eNodeB.
CUL Use Distribution

= pmLicConnectedUsersDistr

Accessibility Failure Rate due to CUL

= ( pmRrcConnEstabFailLic ) * 100

pmRrcConnEstabAtt

Accessibility failure rate due to CUL can be found as:.
Accessibility Connected User License
CUL Use Distribution
Accessibility Failure Rate due to CUL
Accessibility Connected User License
Counter Summary Description
pmLicConnectedUserLicense Licensed value for connected users. Value reflects capacity value in license key
file.
pmLicConnectedUsersDistr PDF counter that shows utilization for number of connected users in RBS
pmRrcConnEstabAtt Total number of RRC Connection Request attempts per cell.
pmRrcConnEstabFaiLic Total number of failed RRC Connection Establishments due to lack of connected
users license
Retainability Drop Rate
Retainability is defined as the ability of a user to retain the E-RAB once connected.
Abnormal E-RAB Release Rate in drops per second can be calculated as below
ERAB Drop Rate [%]


=
(pmErabRelAbnormalEnbAct+pmErabRelMmeAct)
*
100
(pmErabEstabSuccInit + PmErabEstabSuccAdded)

ENB: ERAB Drop Rate [%]
MME: ERAB Drop Rate [%]


=
(pmErabRelAbnormalEnbAct)
*
100
(pmErabEstabSuccInit + PmErabEstabSuccAdded)



=
(pmErabRelMmeAct)
*
100
(pmErabEstabSuccInit + PmErabEstabSuccAdded)

Retainability Drop Rate
Retainability is defined as the ability of a user to retain the E-RAB once connected.
Abnormal E-RAB Release Rate in drops per second can be calculated as below
ERAB Drop Rate [%]
ENB: ERAB Drop Rate [%]
MME: ERAB Drop Rate [%]
Integrity Throughput
Statistical Definition of DL and UL Throughput