eSRVCC Issue Troubleshooting Based on SEQ Platform Document Security

eSRVCC Issue Troubleshooting Based on SEQ Platform

1、Purpose:

1） Through this exercise to understand the signaling plane optimization

ideas；

2） Through this exercise to master the method of eSRVCC problem

troubleshooting (identification and finding root cause) by SEQ

platform.

2、Excise arrangement:

1） Teacher explains the excise：10Min

2） Finish all the questions in this excise and output the related analysis

results for each group:70Min(Including 10Min break)

3） Share the analysis results for each group:30Min

4） Teacher comments and explain the answer:10Min

3、Excise preparation:

1） VoLTE signaling plane optimization ideas（explained by teacher）

How to troubleshooting the issue of eSRVCC handover failure?

A)Filter the TOP N cell by the KPI(from U2000)

（Or filtering the TOP N cell from SEQ directly. and because the

different statistic between SEQ and U2000, the TOP N cell is different

from SEQ and U2000. We should find out the TOP N cells that are in the

U2000 and SEQ to analyze the TOPN cells.

B)From U2000 KPI, we should get TOP N cell’s Handover out KPI between

two different cells. We can check whether all the failure happened in

some cell handovers to some dedicated cells and the failure is in

preparation phase or in execution phase.

C)Check the SEQ record for the TOP N cells(checking the failure reason,

handover target cell, abnormal NE information and so on to identify the

failure reason).
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D)Check the neighbor cell configuration in eNodeB. If the demarcation

result is EPC or IMS side issue, we can think maybe the radio side is

no problem and to push the EPC or IMS to continue the troubleshooting.

E)Final solution(avoid the eSRVCC handover)

Check the TOP N cell’s these three counter: L.IntraFreHO.NoNRT,

L.InterFreHO.NoNRT, L.InterRATHO.NoNRT（for example,unpacking the

original performance in the eNodeB Brd log by FMA tool）.if the value

of these counters of TOP N cell are big, the meaning is the handover

happened with no neighbor cell too much times, we should optimize the

neighbor cell configuration. The normal handover priority is intra-

frequency handover is the highest and then the inter-frequency and the

inter-RAT(eSRVCC) is the lowest. Optimizing the the intra-frequency or

inter-frequency neighbor cell relationship can avoid some unnecessary

inter-RAT handover(eSRVCC) and then improve the eSRVCC handover success

rate indirectly. On the other hand, optimizing the LTE coverage can

also avoid some unnecessary eSRVCC handover(the eSRVCC happen rate

baseline for CMCC is not more than 5%).

2） eSRVCC failure classification

eSRVCC handover procedure can be divided two phases: handover preparation

phase and handover execution phase. The handover preparation phase is from

eNodeB sending measurement configuration to eNodeB sending handover command

to UE. The handover execution phase is from eNodeB sending handover command

to UE and UE received the handover command to UE complete to access the

GSM/UMTS handover target cell.

eSRVCC Handover preparation phase success rate(%)=times of eSRVCC handover

execution/times of eSRVCC handover attempt*100%

eSRVCC Handover execution phase success rate(%)=times of eSRVCC handover

success/times of eSRVCC handover execution*100%

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eSRVCC Handover success rate(%)=times of eSRVCC handover success/times of

eSRVCC handover attempt*100%

Reference only!

(SCC AS(Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server)

4、Excise
Taking some project eSRVCC failure case, practice based on the U2000 KPI

statistics TOP cell and SEQ record to identify the issue. And find out the root cause

by referring to the cell configuration, engineering parameter and other basic

information and finally gives optimization recommendations.

1、 Excise point 1：

Q1：Some Cell eSRVCC KPI from radio side U2000 is shown as following:

Finish following table answer based on above table data:

eSRVCC handover eSRVCC handover preparation eSRVCC handover execution

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success rate(%) phase success rate(%) phase success rate(%)

A：( ) A：( ) A：( )

Conclusion：Did eSRVCC handover failure happen in preparation phase or execution phase

for this cell?

A：

Q2：Handover KPI between two different cells from U2000:

From above table, what is the LAC and CI of the target cell that failed to
handover? Did the handover failure is preparation phase or execution phase?

A:

2、 Excise point 2:

The related SEQ record that eSRVCC handover failure is shown as following
file:

Tudicun4-2-SCD
HLS3HM 2PX-D3 SEQ Record（ eSRVCC HO Failure） .zip

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Q1：Where is the SEQ record abnormal point and what is the recorded
failure? Please give the screenshot to show it.

A:

Q2：what is the failure reason recorded in the SEQ?

A:

Q3：Please find out the handover target cell(LAC and CI).

A：

Q4：Please accord to following 4G eNodeB configuration, find out the 2G

target cell information(LAC,CI,NCC,BCC,BCCH) which is the eSRVCC handover
failure target cell.

GERAN External
and neighbor cell relationship configuration.xlsx

BCCH
LAC CI NCC BCC
Frequency

Q5：eSRVCC handover to 2G is about like this procedure: 4G eNodeB needs

configure 2G cell of MCC, MNC,LAC, BCCH,NCC and BCC as its external cell, and
in the external neighbor cell relationship it also needs configure the
MCC,MNC,LAC and CI. UE will measure the 2G cell to report BCCH frequency,
PLMN, MCC,MNC,BCC and NCC.4G eNodeB sends eSRVCC handover required to MME
according its own configuration of external cell and external neighbor cell
relationship with the LAC and CI.

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So we should check the 2G engineering parameter firstly. Please filter the

related 2G cell record from the following table according to the Q4.

GSM Engineering
Parameter.xlsx

A:

Q6：Please answer where is the issue according to the above filtering 2G

engineering parameter and how to optimize?

A：

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