T200 and N200

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T200 and N200

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Symptom................................................................................................................................... 2
Analysis .................................................................................................................................... 3
Conclusion and Suggestion....................................................................................................... 5

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T200 and N200

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1 Symptom

T200 :
T200 timers are used to avoid deadlock during data transfer on the data link
layer.
On the LAPDm layer, every time a message is sent, the opposite end is
requested to acknowledge the reception. If this message is lost for unknown
reasons, it will occur that both ends keep waiting, leading to system deadlock.
Therefore, a timer should be started when the sender sends a message. If the
timer times out, the sender will regard that the receiver has not received the
message and will resend the message.

N200
The maximum resend times are determined by N200.
Different timer values should be set for different LAPDm channels such as
SDCCH, FACCH and SACCH. This is because these channels have different
transmission rate.

Command: SET GCELLCCTMR / LST GCELLCCTMR

Use LAPDm N200

Range: Yes, No

Description: Determines whether BSC delivers LAPDm N200 parameters to BTS. If it

configured as Yes, then LPADm N200 parameters will be delivered to BTS, otherwise
not.

Command: SET GCELLCCTMR / LST GCELLCCTMR

For Huawei the LAPDm N200 is set it to No thats mean we switch off N200, but after checking
the N200 on Siemens side I found that they had a fixed value and match 3GPP standardized
as below:

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T200 and N200

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2 Analysis
On 19/7/2011 a trial test was done on cluster 5 set the value as before to be:

Parameter ID

Parameter Name

Meaning

Value

System parameter in the LAPD protocol. The value of this parameter

N200

N200

specifies the maximum number of times when a frame is retransmitted.

Whether the RNC sends the LAPDm N200 parameter to the BTS.
If this parameter is set to YES, the BSC sends the LAPDm N200 parameter.
If this parameter is set to NO, the RNC does not send the LAPDm N200
N200PARASWITCH

Use LAPDm N200

parameter.

ON

Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame.
For the function of N200 and the effect of the parameter, see the description
N200ESTAB

N200 of Establish

of "T200 SDCCH".

Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame during the multi-frame release.
For the function of N200 and the effect of the parameter, see the description
N200REL

N200 of Release

of "T200 SDCCH".

Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame on the SACCH.
For the function of N200 and the effect of the parameter, see the description
N200SACCH

N200 of SACCH

of "T200 SDCCH".

Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame on the SDCCH.
For the function of N200 and the effect of the parameter, see the description
N200SDCCH

N200 of SDCCH

of "T200 SDCCH".

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Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame on the FACCH (a half-rate channel).

N200FHALF

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N200 of FACCH/Half

For the function of N200 and the effect of the parameter, see the description

Rate

of "T200 SDCCH".

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T200 and N200

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Error control is performed on the I frame sent over the LAPDm layer
between the BTS and MS. If the MS detects errors in an I frame, the BTS
should resend the I frame. This parameter indicates the maximum number
of retransmissions of the I frame on the FACCH (a full-rate channel).

N200FFULL

N200 of FACCH/Full

For the function of N200 and the effect of the param eter, see the description

Rate

of "T200 SDCCH".

After applying these values , the cells on this cluster were monotire for one week and you can
find below the statistic for top Ncells before and after

On general view the total number of call drops due to (T200 expired)
decrease after activate N200

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3 Conclusion and Suggestion

Need to follow the old configuration for N200 and set the values for the previous parameters
On all Huawei BSCs

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