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Radio Connection Performance Measurements (RCPM) M1016, M1017, M1018, M1024 - M1027
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Measurements on radio connection level

M 1016 OLPC & DL Radio Link Power M 1017 RLC AM M 1018 UEQ Pre-aggregated RCPM measurements M1024-M1027

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Introduction

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Radio Connection Performance Measurements

This feature provides basic handling of the Radio Connection
performance Measurements (RCPM).

(RCPM)

The RCPM includes the RCPM RLC, UEQ and OLPC measurements. RCPM measures quality of radio connection and throughput between UE
and RNC for both Uplink and Downlink connections.

RCPM can be used for monitoring, reporting and optimisation purpose RCPM measurement area is optional. RCPM measurements M1016M1018 are under same option.

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Radio Connection Performance Measurement

RCPM consists of three measurement types that can be separately activated

M1017 RCPM RLC Radio Link Control Measurements

Performance of Downlink radio connections using AM RLC M1016 RCPM OLPC Outer loop Power Control Measurements Performance of Uplink radio connections DCH-specific BLER, BER and
Eb/No Performance of downlink Radio Link transmission power

M1018 RCPM UEQ UE Quality Measurements

Performance of Downlink radio connections using UM or TM RLC DL
BLER

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M1016 Outer Loop Power Control and Radio Link Measurements

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RCPM M1016
RCPM OLPC measurement provides information on

uplink radio connection quality and on downlink radio link power. It is based on information available for the OLPC and NBAP entities of the RNC. The RL transmission power calculation can be used for network optimisation purpose The measurement is carried out in the serving RNC (SRNC).

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RCPM M1016
- Uplink radio connection quality DCH-specific Eb/No, BER and BLER values are derived from OLPC algorithm Number of received transport blocks with CRC OK/NOK Number of times that the connection quality is estimated to be bad, ideal or too good. RNC UL Outer Loop PC
UL Outer Loop PC

Radio connection quality counters get their data from this entity.

DCH#i quality info, based on

the best cell

MDC for DCH #i

measurement data for DCH#i

BTS 1
UL Fast Closed Loop PC

BTS 2
UL Fast Closed Loop PC

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RCPM M1016
- Downlink Radio Link power Radio link transmission power values is obtained from the dedicated measurement report message received from the BTS. The measurement result is associated with the service (RAB) and transport channel (DCH) carried on the radio link The average, variance and outage percentage of the transmission power is calculated for different traffic classes, bit rates and error targets. The Tx power of one radio link is obtained from 3GPP NBAP; Dedicated measurement report/Nokia NBAP; Radio link measurement report messages sent by UE

Supported Connection types by RCPM:

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RCPM M1016 Counters supported

(example results from NTN)

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AMR 12.2kbps call DL radio link power analysis

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PS 64 kbps DL radio link power analysis

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M1017 Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control Measurements

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Measurement M1017 RCPM RLC

M1017 Measurements inside RNC

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Protocol Layer in 3GPP

Measurement provides information about RLC performance Supported for Acknowledge Mode (AM) traffic

User Plane data is measured

Control Plane User Plane

M1017 Measurements

Radio Interface protocol architecture (Service Access Points marked by circles)

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source: 3GPP TS 25301-440

Measurements M1017 in NSN RNC

DL RLC SDU transfer from PDCP to RLC PDCP Buffer Occupancy DL RLC transmission buffer occupancy DL RLC discards due to max. re-transmissions/time DL RLC PDU transfer from RLC to MAC incl. retrans. DL RLC PDU transfer success

UL RLC PDU transfer from MAC to RLC UL RLC SDU transfer from RLC to RLC

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Measurements M1017 in NSN RNC

Net Throughput
Net Throughput (without re-transmissions) for INTERACTIVE or BACKGROUND class traffic using DCH.

Rel99 DCH:
RNC_611a all R99 NRT DCHs

M1017C15 RLC_AM_PDU_DL_NET_TP M1017C29 RLC_AM_DL_MEAS_TIME

Period_duration seconds

HSDPA:
RNC_613a

M1017C15 RLC_AM_PDU_DL_NET_TP M1017C29 RLC_AM_DL_MEAS_TIME

all NRT HS- DCSHs

Period_duration seconds

The formula is the same as above but the reporting system can make a difference between HS-DSCH and R99 DCH NRT throughput

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RLC throughput for DCH and HS-DSCH

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dwObj2 RealIntervalStartTime

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RLC Retransmission Distribution

When the RLC AM connection is modified or released
The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE without retransmissions. : M1017C44 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_0 The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE with one retransmission: M1017C45 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_1 The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE with two retransmission: M1017C46 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_2 The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE with three retransmission: M1017C47 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_3 The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE with four retransmission: M1017C48 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_4 The number of downlink RLC AM PDUs which have been successfully delivered to the UE with five or more retransmission: M1017C49 RLC_RETRANS_DISTR_CLASS_5

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RLC retransmission distribution [%]

100% 99% 98% 97% Data 96% 95% 94% 93% 92% 91% 90%
64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295 64000 384000 4294967295

Sum of c49 Sum of c48 Sum of c47 Sum of c46 Sum of c45 Sum of c44

28-Apr

29-Apr

30-Apr

01-May 02-May 03-May 04-May 05-May 06-May 07-May 08-May 09-May 10-May 11-May RealIntervalStartTime dwObj3

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M1018 Unacknowledged Mode / Transparent Mode Radio Link Control Measurements

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UE Quality Measurements (UEQ)

Provides information about downlink radio connections quality For RLC Unacknowledged (UM) and Transparent Mode (TM) CS Voice CS Transparent (H.324m video call UDI) CS non- Transparent Data (Streaming) PS RT Data (Streaming) Measurement Quantity is downlink BLER Measurement object is WCEL and Connection Type The recommended maximum number of cells to be measured per RNC is 600 (OMS load stays in acceptable range)

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UE Quality Measurements
3GPP TS25.331 defines Reporting Event 5A for DL DCH quality reporting

3GPP: Event triggered if DL Quality is below predefined threshold

Obtained average BLER value is only the average of the reported BLER values, those who
exceeded the threshold, not the real experienced average BLER value of the measured connection type. The threshold based measurement does not even directly give the ratio between experienced BLERs under and over the threshold Implementation in Nokia RAN is modified Reporting Event 5A to cover the full picture: RNC commands UE to set-up downlink BLER measurement when UM/TM connection is in CELL_DCH Periodical reporting from UE; low frequency (default reporting interval = 16000 ms)
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UE Quality Measurements
Procedure
Measurement activation in RNC OMS RNC commands UE to set-up downlink BLER measurement Periodical reporting from UE
Measurement activation in RNC OMS

Amount of Reporting = Infinity Transfer Mode = UM RLC Measured Quantity = TrCH for BLER reporting DL TrCH Identity

RRC: Measurement Control

RRC: Measurement Report

RRC: Measurement Report

RNC: UE QualityRepInterv
Range : 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 64 sec Default: 16 sec
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RRC: Measurement Report

UE Quality Measurements
Value mapping as defined in TS25.133
Reported value BLER_LOG _00 BLER_LOG _01 BLER_LOG _02 BLER_LOG _03 BLER_LOG _61 BLER_LOG _62 BLER_LOG _63 Measured quantity value Transport channel BLER = 0 - < Log10(Transport channel BLER) < -4.03 -4.03 Log10(Transport channel BLER) < -3.965 -3.965 Log10(Transport channel BLER) < -3.9 -0.195 Log10(Transport channel BLER) < -0.13 -0.13 Log10(Transport channel BLER) < -0.065 -0.065 Log10(Transport channel BLER) 0 Unit -

UE reports up to N Quality values; depending on number N of established DCHs

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UE Quality Measurements
RNC calculates DL BLER counters
NueQual

AveBLER

BLER
i 1 i

NueQual

AveBLER: average BLER value for the measured object type calculated from BLER values reported by UEs NueQual: Total number of received quality reports from UEs SquarSumBLER: Sum of squared BLER values . Calculated as:

SquarSumBLER

NueQual

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SumBLER i

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UE Quality Measurements
Counters
M1018C0 Average BLER from Quality Measurements The average block error rate for the downlink radio connection, measured by using the UE Quality Measurement. Received Quality reports from UEs The number of received quality reports from UEs. Sum of squared UEQ BLER values Sum of squared BLER values.

M1018C1

M1018C2

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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC (optional feature RAN 1188)

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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC

Motivation: the current method for collecting radio connection related counters is not capable of collecting the counters for all RNCs simultaneously the reason behind this is related to the measured object level of the measurements the measured object contains many details that are useful in dimensioning and optimization but are not needed in basic measuring. Functional description this feature introduces two new measurements that can be used for pre-aggregating the measurement objects to a level that ensures counter availability for all RNCs simultaneously allows the operator to use the radio connection related data to a full extent also for basic network measuring. Two new measurements besides the current Radio Connection Performance measurements: 1. Counters per Service Type, that is, RAB/RB type, direction and bitrate on the RNC level 2. Counters per Traffic Type, that is, RAB Type on Cell level. new measurements can be operated for all RNCs simultaneously and the old measurements can be operated as before but with restrictions the new measurements provide an alternative way of collecting the currently available counters.
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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC: Implementation

Measurements on RNC level M1025 RCPM OLPC RNC M1027 RCPM RLC RNC
(The following object levels are filtered out compared to the raw RCPM measurements: WBTS/WCEL+MCC/MNC, RB DL/UL bitrate, SDU error ratio) Measurements on Cell level M1024 RCPM OLPC WCEL M1026 RCPM RLC WCEL (The following object levels are filtered out compared to the raw RCPM measurements: traffic handling priority, RAB DL/UL max. bitrate, RB DL/UL bitrate, SDU error ratio)

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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC: Implementation

Example of Counters (M1024, M1025)
M1024C0 AVERAGE UL EB/NO FOR WCEL M1024C1 UL AVERAGE EB/NO DENOMINATOR FOR WCEL M1024C2 UL SUM OF SQUARED EB/NO VALUES FOR WCEL M1024C3 UL NUMBER OF RECEIVED EB/NO REPORTS FOR WCEL M1024C4 UPLINK CRC OK BLOCKS FOR WCEL M1024C5 UPLINK CRC NOK BLOCKS FOR WCEL
M1024C6 SUM OF SQUARED BLER VALUES FOR WCEL

M1024C7 UL NUMBER OF RECEIVED BLER REPORTS FOR WCEL

M1025C0 AVERAGE UL EB/NO FOR RNC M1025C1 UL AVERAGE EB/NO DENOMINATOR FOR RNC M1025C2 UL SUM OF SQUARED EB/NO VALUES FOR RNC M1025C3 UL NUMBER OF RECEIVED EB/NO REPORTS FOR RNC M1025C4 UPLINK CRC OK BLOCKS FOR RNC M1025C5 UPLINK CRC NOK BLOCKS FOR RNC
M1025C6 SUM OF SQUARED BLER VALUES FOR RNC M1025C7 UL NUMBER OF RECEIVED BLER REPORTS FOR RNC

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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC: Implementation

Example of Counters (M1026, M1027)
M1026C0 AVERAGE AM RLC TRANSMISSION BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR WCEL M1026C1 AVERAGE PDCP BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR WCEL M1026C2 SUM OF SQUARED AM RLC BUFFER OCCUPANCY VALUES FOR WCEL M1026C3 SUM OF SQUARED PDCP BUFFER OCCUPANCY VALUES FOR WCEL M1026C4 REPORTS FOR AVERAGE DL BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR WCEL M1026C5 DL PDU ERROR RATIO IN AM RLC FOR WCEL
M1026C6 AM RLC PDUS TRANSMITTED IN DOWNLINK FOR WCEL M1026C7 SUM OF SQUARED DL PDU ERROR RATIO FOR WCEL

M1027C0 AVERAGE AM RLC TRANSMISSION BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR RNC M1027C1 AVERAGE PDCP BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR RNC M1027C2 SUM OF SQUARED AM RLC BUFFER OCCUPANCY VALUES FOR RNC M1027C3 SUM OF SQUARED PDCP BUFFER OCCUPANCY VALUES FOR RNC M1027C4 REPORTS FOR AVERAGE DL BUFFER OCCUPANCY FOR RNC M1027C5 DL PDU ERROR RATIO IN AM RLC FOR RNC
M1027C6 AM RLC PDUS TRANSMITTED IN DOWNLINK FOR RNC

M1027C7 SUM OF SQUARED DL PDU ERROR RATIO FOR RNC

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Pre-aggregation of RCPM data in RNC: Interdependencies between features

The feature licenses for basic (raw) RCPM and pre-aggregated RCPM

measurements needs to be activated The existing raw RCPM measurements for M1016 and M1017 and their contents are not changed and can be operated as before, but with restrictions to a maximum cell count of 600 cells. M1018 can still be used for all cells If raw RCPM measurements and pre-aggregated RCPM measurements shall be activated simultaneously, they can be measured only for "active set filter" parameter equal to all connections (active set size >=1). If pre-aggregated RCPM measurements on cell level are started from NetAct, the measurements are activated always for all cells controlled by the selected RNCs. Eventually existing different configurations for pre-aggregated RCPM measurements made by RNC Element Manager are overwritten by the NetAct configuration

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