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GSM BSS Network Performance PS KPI (Downlink TBF Establishment Success Rate)
Optimization Manual
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Contents
1 Basic Principle..............................................................................................................................7
1.1 Counter Definition...........................................................................................................................................7
1.1.1 Definition in the Case of No MS Response.......................................................................................7
1.1.2 Definition in the Case of No Available Resources............................................................................7
1.1.3 Definition in the Case of No MS Response or No Available Resources.......................................8
1.2 Theory...............................................................................................................................................................8
2 Signaling Procedure....................................................................................................................9
2.1 Number of Successful Downlink TBF Establishments..............................................................................9
2.1.1 Description..............................................................................................................................................9
2.1.2 Measurement Point...............................................................................................................................9
2.2 Number of Failed Downlink TBF Establishments.....................................................................................10
2.2.1 Description............................................................................................................................................10
2.2.2 Measurement Point..............................................................................................................................11
2.3 Number of Downlink TBF Establishment Attempts..................................................................................11
2.3.1 Description............................................................................................................................................11
2.3.2 Measurement Point..............................................................................................................................11
4 Cases.............................................................................................................................................26
4.1 Case 1: Low Success Rate of Downlink TBF Establishment Due to Incorrect Frequency-Hopping
Parameter Settings in Czech Republic............................................................................................................26
4.2 Case 2: Low Success Rate of Downlink TBF Establishment Due to No Responses from MSs After
the PCU Is Upgraded.........................................................................................................................................29
5 Problem Feedback.......................................................................................................................31
Figures
Figure 3-1 Uplink and downlink TBF establishment procedure on the CCCH....................................14
Figure 4-1 Analysis of the frame error rate of the G-Abis interface is normal.....................................27
1 Basic Principle
1.2 Theory
The downlink TBF establishment success rate shows the downlink access
performance and is an important counter for assessing the network. When the
downlink TBF fails to be established, the network side continues to trigger the
establishment of the downlink TBF in a short time because the network side has
some data blocks that are not delivered. Therefore, the downlink TBF establishment
success rate is slightly low in this case, but customer experience is not affected.
2 Signaling Procedure
MS Network
POLLING(RRBP)
MS Network
MS Network
IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT
(On CCCH)
MS Network
The procedure for establishing the downlink TBF on the CCCH is as follows:
5. The RR entity at the network side initiates the downlink TBF establishment by
using the downlink packet assignment procedure. The downlink packet
assignment procedure is triggered by a request from upper layers to transfer a
LLC PDU. Before transferring an LLC PDU, the network side determines
whether the MS is in the Ready state. If the MS is in the Ready state, the
network side transfers an LLC PDU to the BSS. When receiving the LLC PDU,
the BSS delivers an IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT message. If the MS is in the
Standby state, the network side sends a paging message to the BSS. The
network side sends the LLC PDU only after receiving a paging response from
the BSS. The request from upper layers contains the priority, including the RLC
mode, DRX parameter (optional), QoS script file of the IMSI (optional), and MS
radio access capability associated with the packet transfer (optional). For such a
request, the network side determines whether the MS is in packet idle mode or
packet transfer mode. If the MS is in packet idle mode, the network side initiates
the downlink packet assignment procedure on the CCCH. If the MS is in packet
transfer mode, the network side initiates the downlink packet assignment
procedure on the PACCH.
6. The network side selects an encoding scheme and applies for radio resources
according to the resource occupation in the accessed cell for establishing the
downlink TBF. After the application is approved, the network side assigns radio
resources to the downlink TBF and counts the times the downlink TBF is started
at the network side and at the MS side.
7. The network side delivers an IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT message. If the MS is
in DRX mode, the network side delivers the message in the PCH channel. If the
MS is in Non-DRX mode, the network side delivers the message in the AGCH
channel.
8. When the MS receives the IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT message, radio
resources are assigned. After receiving the frame number indicated by the TBF
Starting Time (optional), the MS accesses the assigned channel, starts to listen
on the RLC radio block of the downlink TBF, and starts timer T3190.
9. If the network side has the TA value of the MS, the network side directly trasfers
the TA value to the MS by sending a Packet Power Control/Timing Advance
message after the Starting Time of the downlink TBF is reached. If the network
side does not have the TA value, the network side obtains the TA value by
Figure 11.1 Uplink and downlink TBF establishment procedure on the CCCH
MS BTS PCU
LLC PDU
IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT
CCCH
This section taske the uplink and downlink TBF establishment on the CCCH as an
example to describe the optimization ideas about identifying the signaling and cells
where problems occur throughout the signaling procedure. In the downlink TBF
establishment procedure, you can identify problematic singaling and cells as follow:
Checking whether transmission problems occur in the Abis links.
Checking whether the IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT and PACKET POLLING
REQUEST messages are properly sent to the BTS.
Checking whether the IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT and PACKET POLLING
REQUEST messages are sent to MSs according to the air interface quality.
Checking whether MSs respond to POLLING messages by sending Packet
Control Acknowledgement messages.
Start
No
Check whether the status of Check the transmission
the Abis link is normal
Yes
Check whether the
CCCH is overloaded
Check whether assignment No
messages are sent normally
Check whether channels
are available
Yes
Check whether the
downlink air interface
No quality is poor
Check whether the downlink
air interface is normal
Perform the CQT test
Yes
Yes
End
KPI Cell-Level
Frame error rate of G-Abis Measurement -> Performance measurement of
the G-Abis BSC packet assignment ->
interface Number of Received Normal TRAU Frames
Number of Received Out-of-Synchronization TRAU
Frames
Number of Received Check Error TRAU Frames
Number of Sent Valid TRAU Frames
Number of Sent Empty TRAU Frames
Cause Cell-Level
Overloaded CCCH Call Measurement -> Flow control measurement ->
PACKET CCCH LOAD IND Messages Sent on Abis Interface
MSG ABIS OVERLOAD (CCCH OVERLOAD) Messages
Sent on Abis Interface
MSG DEL IND Messages Sent on Abis Interface
Cause Cell-Level
Insufficient Packet Switch Channel Measurement -> PDCH Resource
resources Capability Measurement ->
Number of TCH to PDTCH Conversion Attempts
Number of Successful TCH to PDTCH Conversions
Number of Reclaimed Dynamic PDCHs
Number of Reclaimed Busy Dynamic PDCHs
KPI Cell-Level
Downlink air Packet Switch Call Measurement ->
interface quality Measurement of numbers of 8PSK_MEAN_BEP variants
Measurement of numbers of GMSK_MEAN_BEP variants
Indirect encoding: Information used by MSs is obtained from the PSI 2 and PSI or from the SI
13 and the previous assignment messages. Therefore, you need to check whether the values
of the frequency-hopping parameters in the system messages or assignment messages are
consistnet with data configurations according to MA_NUMBER.
MA_NUMBER = 0–13 shall be used to reference a GPRS mobile allocation received in a
PSI2 message;
MA_NUMBER = 14 shall be used to reference a GPRS mobile allocation received in a SI13
or PSI13 message;
MA_NUMBER = 15 shall be used to reference a GPRS mobile allocation received in a
previous assignment message using the direct encoding.
Direct encoding 1: MSs use the frequency-hopping index information specified by the GPRS
Mobile Allocation parameter in system messages.
Direct encoding 2: MSs use the frequency-hopping information such as MAIO, HSN, Length of
MA Frequency List contents, and MA Frequency List contents specified in assignment
messages.
4 Cases
Troubleshooting
3. The frame error rate of the G-Abis interface is normal.
According to the formula for calculating the frame error rate of the G-Abis
interface, the frame error rate was normal and stable on and near November 4.
Formula: Frame error rate of the G-Abis interface = (Number of Received
Check Error TRAU Frames + Number of Received Out-of-Synchronization
TRAU Frames)/(Number of Sent Valid TRAU Frames + Number of Sent
Empty TRAU Frames)
Figure 3.1 Analysis of the frame error rate of the G-Abis interface is normal
The MSs did not respond to the downlink assignment messages because of incorrect
frequency-hopping information.
Solution
Frequency-hopping is disabled to prevent this fault. This defect will be rectified in
later versions.
The difference between C04 and C05 is as follows: The numbers of times that the
PCU resends the IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT message are different. As a result,
during the establishment of the downlink TBF, traffic statistics about no response
from the MS are different.
Solution
Increase the values of innner software parameters Retry Times of Downlink TBF
Establishment and Retry Times of Downlink TBF Polling.
5 Problem Feedback
5. Traffic counters
Function Type Measurement Type
DSP Measurement DSP CPU Performance Measurement
Abis interface TRAU link measurement
measurement
PTRAU Measurement
PS Call Measurement of packet assignment capability per BSC
Measurement
Uplink GPRS TBF establishment and release capability
measurement
Uplink EGPRS TBF establishment and release capability
measurement
PDCH resource capability measurement
Performance measurement of PDCH extremes
Downlink GPRS TBF establishment and release capability
measurement
Downlink EGPRS TBF establishment and release capability
measurement
PS Channel Cell radio channel capability measurement
Measurement
PDCH resource capability measurement