 Accessibility

 Application services (PS data services (FTP, HTTP, etc.))

 Service accessibility in %
 Completed session ratio in %

 LTE E2E network service (Control plane)

 Attach success rate in %
 Service request (EPS) success rate in %

Immediate Dependencies:
 RRC portion
How do we plan to deal with the RRC setup failures?
a) due to no response from the UE
b) RRC Rejections

 E-RAB portion

ERAB Success Rate:

c) Measures to counter most common failures in, Radio Induced ERAB Setup Failures like N310
consecutive out-of-sync events and T310 expiry, Maximum RLC retransmission count
exceeded, RLC mode issue.
d) Measures to counter most common failures in MME Induced ERAB Setup Failures, like radio
interface failures.

Call Setup Success Rate:

e) How to access CSSR details for any selected cell in a given eNB.
f) How to identify parameters such as failure reason which provides causes for low success
rate.
 Retainability

Immediate Dependencies:
 Abnormal UE context release
 Abnormal E context release

 LTE E2E network service

 Service request (EPS) drop rate in %

Call Drop Rate:

1. Mitigation for following:

g) Poor signal quality in the UL and DL due to poor coverage or path imbalance, faulty RRU
RF issues, limited TX power
h) As the UE’s RSRP approaches –110 dBm or its SINR approaches –5 dB, the UE may not have
sufficient signal strength to maintain the session, which can result in call drop
Interference in DL and UL
 i) Handover failure in target eNodeB
j) No handover command is sent or random access (RA) failure takes place at handover
k) Handover timer expiry
l) Admission reject due to lack of licenses
m) Release due to EUTRAN generated reason
n) RLC failure, DRB, RLC, failure SRB
o) Load balancing tracking area update (TAU) required
p) RRC reconfiguration timeout, RRC reestablishment reject due to parameter misconfiguration
S1 reset due to S1 link issues

How do we plan to work on Radio Induced Drops

- If DL RLC Retransmissions: to improve radio conditions which is usually done with physical
optimization, Increasing RLC retransmission threshold to a higher value will help in reducing this
issue. What would be that value and unit?
- If Handover Execution Failure:
- Drop Due to No Response:

MME Induced Drops

- Uplink RLC Retransmission Issue: Increasing the uplink RLC retransmission threshold can help
reduce such failures. What should be that value?
- N310 PDCCH Decoding Failures: Such issues can be reduced by increasing the N310 & T310
value. Do we have records of these? What are the standard values (best performance) for N310
and T310?
- Handover Drop Due To MME: Since the issue is related to handover failure, the specific
neighbors should be identified and actions should be taken to resolve the issue with them.
What are the suggested actions?

 Integrity

 LTE E2E network service (Control plane)

 Attach time in ms, AttachTime [ms] = (“t” attach complete)– (“t” attach request)
 Service request (EPS) time in ms
 LTE E2E network service (User plane)
 Roundtrip time (RTT) in ms

Immediate Dependencies:
 DL/UL throughput
 Packet loss
 Latency

q) Are we planning to monitor packet loss and latency times in parallel to find out if there’s any
correlation between slow latency times, and loss of data?
r) What can be the impacts on the specific services or scenarios considering packet loss and
low latency?
 s) What is the minimum threshold for packet loss and latency?

 Mobility

 LTE E2E network service (Control plane)

Handover procedure time in ms
Handover success rate in %

 LTE E2E network service (User plane)

Service interrupt time (HO) in ms

Immediate Dependencies:
 Preparation failure rate
 Execution failure rate

How are we planning to evaluate the performance of E-UTRAN mobility, which is critical to the customer
experience?

 Availability

Immediate Dependencies:
 Partial cell
 Sleeping cell

E-UTRAN Cell Availability is calculated as,

For SLA, what minimum availability will be ensured?

 Utilization (do not include)

Immediate Dependencies:
 Licenses
 System load
 Processor load
 Physical resources

 Application services (PS data services (FTP, HTTP, etc.))

 Single-user throughput in Mbps

 LTE E2E network service (User plane)

 Single-user throughput in Mbps
  Radio bearer services (User plane)
 Single-user throughput in Mbps
 Cell throughput in Mbps
Additional questions

1. How are we going to Identify and analyze poor coverage areas, obstructions or a need for new
sites including small cells?
2. What are the benchmarks are how are we planning to Validate it and maintain
Core/Access/Device system functionality by reporting the most pertinent Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) and Key Quality Indicators (KQIs)?
3. What can be the throughout, latency, capacity for available deployment options? Strand mount,
attach, SMB and ROE(Venues)?
4. For Coverage and QoS – what are the Flexible regulations to cover non-traditional cell sites e.g.
rural, underground car parks?
5. What is the Data Rate: does that match with standard performance requirements as mentioned
below?
–Instantaneous downlink peak data p rate of 100Mbit/s in a 20MHz
downlink spectrum (i.e. 5 bit/s/Hz)
–Instantaneous uplink peak data rate of 50Mbit/s in a 20MHz uplink
spectrum (i.e. 2.5 bit/s/Hz)
• Cell range
– 5 km ‐ optimal size
– 30km sizes with reasonable performance
– up to 100 km cell sizes supported with acceptable performance
• Cell capacity
– up to 200 active users per cell (5 MHz) (i.e., 200 active data clients)

6. How are we going to identifying network chains that impact end-user response times?
7. End user experience
a) Ability to make and maintain calls – what is the call initiation rate, what is the call drop rate?
b) Time it takes for a phone to start ringing – what is the call setup time?
c) Speech quality during call- what is the mean opinion score (MOS)
d) Mouth-to-ear delay or latency variation during a call – what is the Mouth-to-ear delay (s),
Latency, Jitter

Any plans to overcome below challenges or to ensure service delivery and QoE for customers:
1. Variations in vendor equipment and different OSS/BSS applications makes it difficult to
achieve E2E performance visibility for customers
2. Complexities in network functionality makes it difficult to isolate performance events
thus putting service at risk
3. Exponential increase in UEs, connections and high data volumes traversing the network
makes scalability of the monitoring system problematic
4. Speed of reporting in large scale networks is low and this slows troubleshooting

SAS Availability:
 1. Do we have a valid grant from SAS for LTE APs to remain in the transmitting
state?
2. Do we plan to maintain a counter to record the percentage of time for which
SAS is available to track LTE AP service availability during SAS outages?

EPC:

Taking into consideration the below mentioned key technical challenges faced during deploymenets:

3. An all-IP network is new, e.g. new interfaces and protocols,

4. Need for E2E IP performance and latencies measurements,
5. Importance of QoE/QoS measurements per subscriber and per application,
6. New network elements with new functionalities, i.e. RLC/RRC messages are not
available beyond eNB.
7. Need for interoperability testing including multiple technologies (2G/3G/LTE),
handovers and applications.

Performance monitoring should provide the ability to:

8. Monitor the experience of individual users,

9. Monitor the performance and the QoS parameters on a per application basis
(Skype, youtube…) and on per-class of application basis (P2P, internet video…).

Will the EPC Monitoring be able to perform:

10. E2E performance monitoring,

11. Performance distribution monitoring,
12. Performance anomaly pinpointing

performance monitoring system should be able to measure a wide set of metrics including:

13. Network metrics (this is a “must have” requirement),

14. Application metrics for a wide number of applications (this is a “must have”
requirement). Applications include high value applications such as telephony,
15. SMS...; and, dominant applications such as video, social networks, potentially
M2M...,
16. Quality metrics along with QoE estimation particularly for audio/video
applications (this is an “important to have” requirement).
8. What is the possibility of using passive non-intrusive techniques to monitor SON (Self Organized
Networks)
9. To gain valuable insights on the delivered user experience are we planning to obtain more user
centric measures(Application experience monitoring)
10. What are the necessary set of self configuration and self optimisation mechanisms already
available when initial deployment starts?
11. Are we planning on passive monitoring in order to be able to:
i) measure the impact of the SON functions on the network; and,
 ii) test and validate the behaviour of the SON functionalities especially in a multi-vendor
environment.
12. What are the possible SON(Self Organized Networks) monitoring challenges