TCH assign failure congestion

Problem detection:
TCH assign. Congestion max. > 2 % (Critical , action needed)
TCH Load BH (Erlang / capacity ) > 90 % (forecast)
Investigation:

Check for hardware availability by

comparing:
RTCH_nb (TCRRN) with
RTCH_available_avg (TCAVAN)

Any TRXs
down or not
carrying
traffic?

Report to BSS support

team

Yes

NO

Check through thematic map

TCH load BH on cell neighbors.
HO Inc congestion on neighbors.

NO

Any neighbor
site(s) down
not carrying
traffic?

Yes

Check better condition parameters for each

couple.
Check High HO Inc execution failure on

All neighbors
are loaded
(> 80%) + High
Inc HO
congestion

Yes

NO

Check with RNP if

planned coverage
overlap with
neighbors is sufficient
for smooth HO flow.

NO

Request for upgrades,

Calculate # of combiners needed and check with

RNP if there will be no coverage problem if
additional combiner is used
Request for Densification sites RNP

Densification sites needed

Yes

neighbors, if yes follow same investigation in

call drop HO sheet.
Check through drive test (RMS) coverage for
serving loaded cell vs. neighbor free cell.
Antenna optimization needed?
Hardware check needed?

Traffic sharing
Enable FDR on serving cell
Enable Traffic HO for each couple and adjust
relevant parameters according to drive test
analysis. (or leave default values according to # of
TRX)
Enable Fast traffic HO, but monitor HO/call
rate and call drop HO specially for cells with
many inter BSC adjacencies

SDCCH drop rate

Problem detection:
High SDCCH drop rate > 0.5 %
Investigation:

BSS drop >

40% of total
drops

Radio drops
> 40% of
total drops

NO

HO drops >
40% of total
drops

NO

Yes

Yes

Yes

Check for Extreme queueing Situation

i.e.:
RTCH_assign_queued_rate >50%?
T11 is set to values higher than
default ( > 6 seconds) ?
High SD duration average (> 5 s)

Check TRX carrying SD

TS for alarms
Check TCU handling TRX

High TCH
call drop HO

Yes

Same
investigation
should be
followed

with SD TS for alarms

Reset TCU

Extreme
queueing
?
Check if TRX carrying SD is

problematic , if Yes move SD TS to

another good TRX
Check value of cell_reselect_hyst, see if

it was set previously to high values (> 6db)

(to reduce # of LU, but can increase SD
Drop)
LU procedure leads to higher duration

on SD (4s). Apply # LU reduction

procedure in SDCCH Congestion sheet

NO

NO

High TCH
drop radio

NO

Yes

Reduce queuing
Solve TCH blocking prob.
(refer to TCH congestion
solving sheet)
Reduce T11 value (TCH

congestion should be monitored)

Enable SD HO

Yes
Call drop radio investigation
should be followed

Reduce averaging window

Reduce HO margin (optional)

Disable SDCCH HO,

but with careful monitor of

SD drop radio
Move SDCCH TS to

another TRX preferably

handled by different TCU

SDCCH assign failure congestion

Problem detection:
SDCCH assign. congestion > 0.5 %
SDCCH Load BH (Erlang / capacity ) > 90 %
Investigation:

NO

SDCCH capacity is not

optimized.

High
signaling
load? > 4

Yes

Check SDCCH traffic model

for split of services

Recalculate SD/TCH time slots

needed using traffic model to
reach optimum situation.

Check the value of

BTS_Q_LENGTH:
for values > default
2 TRX 4 TRX 6 TRX
4
6
10
Check % RTCH requests queued:
high percentage (> 40%) can lead
to SDCCH resources blocking for
T11 period of time.

High % LU (> 50%)

Action:
Check HO flow to study if cell needs to
be downtilted to reduce overlap with
neighbors in different LAC

Increase cell_reslect_hyst on LAC

border cells to reduce # of LU (monitor of
SDCCH drop radio is necessary)

Check with architecture the possibility

to re-design LAC plan to minimize as
much as possible LU

Check value of T3101 and see if it is set

to default value

Increase SD capacity if possible:

Consider TCU load
Consider TCH blocking

Signaling load = SDCCH requests / TCH requests

High % other services:

a) IMSI attach
b) IMSI detach
c) SMS
d) Supplementary
services
Action:
1-Increase SD capacity if
possible:
Consider TCU load
Consider TCH blocking
2- Make sure all neighbor
relations are defined handover
and reselection
3- Use the parameter
cell_reselect_offset to increase
neighbors re-selection.
4- Densification site Request
for RNP study.

Call drop radio

Problem detection:
1. High call drop rate on the cell > 1 %.
2. % Radio drops > 40% of total dropped calls on the cell.
Investigation:
No

Yes

Isolated
cell

NO

Densification
sites are needed

Yes

Hardware
Problem

Check HO
causes

No

Check adjacencies for

Report to
BSS team

Yes

High %
UL level

missing relations
Check if No HO if

High %
DL level

NO

NO

possible due to
1. congestion on
neighbors
2. High rate of outgoing
HO failures (follow HO
drop investigation)

Yes

HO per call
rate (>10%)

NO
High % DL quality
Check Frequency
plan
Check drive test
for overshooting
problem

High %UL interference

& quality
Check for antenna,
feeder or connections prob.
Check external interferer
(idle interference)
UL level threshold

HO per call rate = number of outgoing Handovers success / TCH seizures

Yes

*Check for coverage

problems (holes)
*Check missing
neighbors

Check for
unbalanced
path loss
(RMS)

Call drop HO
Problem detection:
1. High call drop rate on the cell > 1 %.
2. % HO drops > 30% of total dropped calls on the cell.
Investigation:

No

High HO out
execution failure
rate? >40 %

Yes

Identify critical pair of

cells, (with Out HO
drop > 5 %) using
Type 26 (on demand
counter)

NO

Good % of better
condition (>40%)

NO

*Check better conditions

parameters.
*Check for severe
interference on serving cell
* Check for coverage
continuity

Yes

High
% ROC?

Yes

NO

Check DL Qual / UL Qual on both

serving & target cell to locate

interference problem.
Check DL Lev /UL Lev on both
serving & target cell for coverage
problem

Majority of
failure is
Inter BSC?

Yes

Check for

Check for BCCH/BSIC

BCCH/BSIC duplication
in cell adjacencies

duplication in cell
adjacencies

Check for database

For neighbors in different

inconsistency between
OMC-R and BSC

OMC-R , check if relation is

defined correctly (external
cells)

Check DL Qual / UL Qual

Check for synchronization

on target cell to locate

interference problem.
Check DL Lev /UL Lev on
target cell for coverage problem

Check neighbor plan for

problems
unnecessary (Far) neighbor
declarations.