Introduction Questions:

Summarize your LTE work experience with Highlights of what you have done, Challenges you
have faced and What you did to overcome them?
What is your Daily work profile, Most Common Activities you do
Summarize your roles and responsibilities

Nokia tools:
What is reporting suite?
IN BTS Manager can you change the parameters?
Ans- Yes
XML Creation?

Noka LTE Experience:

Which release you worked on? Which enobe B version? Version of Nokia LTE release?
What all are Nokia LTE releases?
Few Alarms seen in Nokia?
External Alarms
1 . D O O R O P E N
2. HIGH TEMPERATURE
3. DG FAILS TO START
4. DG FAILS TO STOP
5 LOW FUEL LEVEL
6.FIRE OR SMOKE
7. LOW LUBRICATION OIL PRESSURE
8 . L O A D O N D G
9. AC FAILS TO START(AC-1/AC-2)
10. RECTIFIER MODULE PAIR FAILS
11.LOW BATTERY VOLTAGE
12.SITE ON DG
13.AC -1 FAILS
14.AC-2 FAILS
15.DG RUNNING WITHOUT LOAD

For 12 alarm connection ,we need 37 pin D connector in which 24 pins will be
used.
For each alarm , we require one pair E1 cable having two wire
Termination of these cable is done on DDF i.e from BTS to DDF and from alarm
sensor to DDF.

INTERNAL ALARMS
TGC FAULT No active TGC application exists in the Transceiver Group.
PERMANENT FAULT A managed object is classified as being permanently faulty when fault
situations have occurred, and have been cleared, a certain number of times within a certain
period of time. Manual intervention is required to bring such equipment back into operation.
LOCAL MODE The BTS equipment is in Local Mode or the BTS equipment has changed from
Local to Remote Mode and a fault exists in the communication link between the BSC and the
BTS. Communication between the BSC and the BTS is not possible.
LMT INTERVENTION Local maintenance activities are being performed in the BTS.
LOOP TEST FAILED Test of the traffic carrying capabilities of the TS has failed.
BTS INTERNAL There is a fault internal to the BTS.
 MAINS FAILURE There is a fault in the power supply to the BTS or one or more items of
equipment within the BTS. Battery backup (where available) is in use. Escalation may occur if
corrective action is not taken.
BTS EXTERNAL There is a fault external to the BTS.
OML FAULT There is a fault in the communications link between the BSC and BTS.
ABIS PATH UNAVAIL No transmission device exists between the BSC and BTS.
CON QUEUE CONGESTION At least one of the LAPD Concentrator concentration outlet queues
has reached an unacceptable filling level.
TS SYNC FAULT Synchronization lost on uplink or downlink TRA or PCU channels.
FORLOPP RELEASE A fault has occurred within the BSC software leading to a Forlopp release.
Automatic recovery procedures are taking place. Report to your Ericsson Support Office.
Alternatively, this alarm is issued as an advisory following a command ordered Forlopp release
of a TG. In either case, the alarm is automatically ceased following successful recovery.
OPERATOR CONDITION A condition has arisen due to operator intervention

Few Hardware/Modules names seen in Nokia?

KPIs, Counters, Parameters:

What KPIs are you looking at?

Major Issues in LTE KPIs?

Name Few Counters for Retainability?

Name Few Parameters for Retainability Improvement?

If you observe Call drop in Cell? What do you go about troubleshooting that?
Name Few Nokia Counter Names For Drop Calls?
In Worst Cell Optimization, If find cell with high drop rate, what counters you see? What
recommendations you give?

High Accessibility problem? Which counters you see?

Name Few Accessibility Nokia counters?
Which parameters recommendation you give?
What are the parameters in Accessibility?
What is the formula of Accessibility?

In HOSR what KPIs do you look at?

How do you rectify HOSR ?

Which are Cluster acceptance KPIs?

What is Delta Preamble(Check??) Message 3 ?

What is SINR?

What is Periodic and non Periodic CQI? How it is done?

 What is LNCell? LNHO? LNADJ?
LNADJ? Ideal and dedicated mode?

Power Headroom?
What is Power head Room report?
How to increase Power Head Room?

Features:
Name Few Nokia LTE features?

What is ANR Feature? Explain the functionality of ANR? ANR Optimization?

Power Control for LTE, Uplink and Downlink

How does it work(Open loop and closed loop) in LTE?

Voice Calls/Solutions:
How VOLTE Call gets established? What is the call flow ?

How have you supported Voice Calls? How do you handle Voice Calls in LTE Network?

In Voice solutions? How handling users? Using IMS or CSFB?

IN CSFB Call, what happens to PS Call?
Parameter name through which activated handover to 3G?
IN CSFB what are service based handovers?
What is Difference to Fast return to LTE vs Normal return to LTE?
What is the Procedure of Location?
What is Threshex high?

Layering:
There are 3 carriers in Samsung LTE? How you define in Idle and Dedicates mode?
What is the value of Parameters? Inter frequency? Intra frequency ?
Which thresholds you define?

How do you do layer management? What is the strategy?

MIMO:
What is MIMO? What is 2X2 MIMO?

How it is used? In Which two cases are used?

When RRI 1/RRI 2 reporting then what UE does?

Throughput:
Throughout calculation with and without MIMO
In 20 MHz what is the max throughput you will get?
What is the maximum throughput one gets in field?

LTE interworking concepts

 How it happens with other technologies ?

LTE Planning:
Have you done PCI planning, with which tool?
What is RSI/PCI/RACH planning??
Mod Concept? Mod 3 Mod6 Mod 30 Clash
How to do ERACH planning?
PCI planning?
How detect overshooting?
How detect RACH failure?
How detect PCI pollution?

Other Questions:

What are different Network events names

Why such events occur?
What to do when such event occur?

What are different timers? Names?

How you do Load Balancing?

What do you look at in load balancing?

What TX mode using in network? TM 2, TM3?

Idle mode mobility from 3G to LTE?

What are layers in LTE protocol stack?

Does HARQ work on Transport layer?

How RSRP is calculated when UE is receiving signal?