WCDMA CSSR Optimization Tips

In this paper I would like to share how to improve Call set up Success Rate in WCDMA system.

In WCDMA CSSR is split per services such as: CSSR CS(Voice services), CSSR PS(Data services), CSSR
Video(Video services) but the idea is same when we would like to improve Call set up success rate.

Here are some tips how to improve CSSR in WCDMA:

- Make sure no Blocking resources: Code,Power,CE,IUB

As we know in 3G WCDMA there are some resources like Code,Power,CE(Channel Element) and
IUB. You have to make sure no blocking resources first to improve your CSSR. If you found some
blocking based on your counter then you have to optimize. Here are some suggestion step to
optimize blocking resources:

1. Code Blocking Optimization step:

1st action step: Physical Audit (involving TP analysis) : Make sure no overlap/overshooting
coverage

2nd Action: Modify DLHOCECODERESVSF to lower SF (e.g from SF32 to SF 64)

3rd Action: Reduce HSPDSCHMINCODENUM (e.g from 5 to 4)

4th Action: Reduce HSSCCHCODENUM (e.g from 4 to 3)

2. Power Blocking Optimization Step:

- UL- Power Blocking

1st Action: Physical Audit (involving TP analysis)

2nd Action: Increase ULTOTALEQUSERNUM (e.g from 160 to 180)

3rd Action: Turn-off NBMULCACALGOSELSWITCH (set to ALGORITHM_OFF)

- DL- Power Blocking/DL - Power High Util

1st action: Physical Audit (involving TP analysis)

2nd Action: Activate 40W, maintain existing PCPICH setting

Step activate 40W in Huawei System:

- Block board with script: BLK BRD:CN=1,SRN=4,SN=x;

- Remove Locell for 2nd carrier in nodeb with script : RMV LOCELL:LOCELL=x;

- Add Locell on 2nd carrier with script:

ADD
LOCELL:LOCELL=x,STN=x,SECN=x,SECT=LOCAL_SECTOR,ULGROUPNO=0,DLGROUPNO=0,TTW=FALS
E,CN1=1,SRN1=4,SN1=x,ANT1N=ANTB,ULFREQ=9638,DLFREQ=10588,MXPWR=460,HISPM=FALSE,
RMTCM=FALSE,VAM=FALSE;

- Modify Power to 40 W for 1st carrier with script: MOD

LOCELL:LOCELL=x,SECT=LOCAL_SECTOR,MXPWR=460;

- Unblock Board with script: UBL BRD:CN=1,SRN=4,SN=x;

- Modify MAXTXPOWER in RNC level for F1 dan F2 with script: MOD

UCELL:CELLID=x,MAXTXPOWER=460;

- Check site Up or not with script: DSP UCELL:DSPT=BYNODEB,NODEBNAME="x";

3rd Action: Modify DL CAC parameters set to higher value. Parameters involved :
DLCONVAMRTHD, DLCONVNONAMRTHD, DLOTHERTHD, DLHOTHD, DLCELLTOTALTHD

3. CE Blocking Optimization Step:

1st action: Verify CE license and CE board capability. Commands involved : DSP LICENSE, DSP
BBPTC(Huawei LMT)

2nd Action: Physical Audit (involving TP analysis)

3rd Action: CE license and/or board upgrade

4th action: Modify LDR threshold. Sets involved : UCELLLDM, UCELLLDR

4. IUB Blocking Optimization Step:

1st Action: Verify Iub BW setting in Node-B and in RNC. Sets involved : IPPATH, IPLOGICPORT

2nd Action: Physical Audit (involving TP analysis)

3rd Action: Iub BW upgrade

4th action: Modify FTI to reduce Active Factor. Sets involved : TRMFACTOR, ADJMAP, ADJNODE

- Make Sure no Hardware Issue:

Hardware issue or wrong installation can be impacted to low CSSR such as WRFU problem or bad
connector installation. You have to make sure no such hardware problem to make your CSSR
good.

- Make Sure no Overshooting Coverage

As stated on resources optimization, you need to make sure no overshooting or coverage overlap
to make your CSSR is good and no handle unnecessary traffic and make nodeB handle traffic
heavily.

- Activate EFD(Enhanced Fast Dormancy) Feature

When fast dormancy, enhanced fast dormancy, or standard fast dormancy is applied, the UE can
request the RNC to release the PS signaling connection if no more PS data is being transmitted.
Upon receiving such a request, the RNC can either release the signaling connection and put the UE
into idle mode, or maintain the signaling connection and put the UE through Cell_FACH to
CELL/URA_PCH state to reduce battery consumption. The descriptions about fast dormancy,
enhanced fast dormancy, and standard fast dormancy are as follows:

- With fast dormancy, after receiving a Signaling Connection Release Indication (SCRI) message
from a UE, the RNC releases the UE RRC connection regardless of whether the message contains
the cause value "UE Requested PS Data session end."

- With enhanced fast dormancy, UEs send SCRI messages that do not contain the cause value "UE

Requested PS Data session end" to the RNC. After receiving such an SCRI message, the RNC moves

the UE through Cell_FACH to CELL/URA_PCH state.

- Standard fast dormancy is applicable to fast dormancy UEs that comply with 3GPP Release 8 (R8
for short). With standard fast dormancy, UEs send SCRI messages that contain the cause value "UE

Requested PS Data session end" to the RNC. After receiving such an SCRI message, the RNC moves

the UE through Cell_FACH to CELL/URA_PCH state. Standard fast dormancy is valid only when
theRNC has enabled the timer T323 in system information block type 1 (SIB1). You can refer to the
document on your vendor to activate EFD feature.

- Adjust CPICH Power Setting

You can adjust CPICH Power setting to reduce coverage and improve your CSSR Ex:
Change PCPICHPOWER from 330 to 300.

- Adjust Parameter QQUQALMIN

You can adjust QQUALMIN to improve CSSR and avoid congestion on blocking resources especially
during event with potential to increasing traffic. Example: Change Qqualmin from -18 to -15 to avoid
congestion.

TBF Drop Improvement tips in Huawei GSM

TBF drop is KPI(Key Performances Indicator) which is related to 2G data call GPRS/EDGE in GSM
Network. TBF drop indicate how often your services disconnected when you in GPRS or EDGE data
Services. There are some tips how to improve TBF drop rate in GSM Huawei. You can follow below
steps to improve TBF Drop Rate in GSM Huawei.
- Make sure no Hardware problem especially related TRX module. You need to fix Hardware issue
first if you found hardware problem
- Make sure no Interference. You have to do re-tune or change frequency that suspected Frequency
Interference to improve TBF drop rate
- Make sure No overshooting Cells. You can adjust Antenna Tilt/Down tilt for overshooting cells to
improve TBF drop rate and avoid access traffic in low RX level thus can improve TBF drop call.
- Reduce Dynamic PDCH(MAXPDCHRATE) and add static PDTCH to avoid preemption channel by
voice services especially for cells with high Voice traffic.
-Shifting Static PDCH from TRX non BCCH to TRX BCCH and make priority setting by set TRX layering
priority which can be set by OPTL value in GTRXDEV object.With this strategy data services will be
concentrated in TRX BCCH with full power(no power control) thus can improve TBF drop rate and
getting better than data services in TRX non BCCH.
- Increase timer T3168 and T3192
T3168 is used to set the maximum duration for the MS to wait for the uplink assignment message.
After the MS originates the uplink TBF setup request by sending the packet resource request or the
channel request in the packet uplink acknowledge message, the timer T3168 is started to wait for
the packet uplink assignment message on the network side. If the MS receives the packet uplink
assignment message before T3168 expires, T3168 is reset. Otherwise, the MS originates the packet
access request for four times. Then the MS regards this as the TBF setup failure.
T3192: Duration of releasing the TBF after the MS receives the last data block. When the MS receives
the RLC data block containing the flag identifying the last data block and confirms that all the RLC
data blocks in the TBF are received, the MS sends the packet downlink acknowledge message
containing the last flag acknowledgement and the timer T3192 is started. If the timer T3192 expires,
the MS releases the TBF related resources and starts monitoring the paging channel. During TBF
releasing, if the MS is the half duplex mode and receives the packet uplink assignment, the MS
responds this command. During TBF releasing, if the MS is the half duplex mode and receives no
packet uplink assignment message, the MS enters the packet idle mode. If the MS is in the dual
transmission mode, the MS enters the special mode.
- Increase timer N3101,Ex: from 30 to 90
Detail description of N3101:
Maximum value of the N3101 counter. In the dynamic uplink allocation mode, the network side
enables multiple MSs to share the same uplink channel through the USF value in the downlink data
block. After the network side allocates the USF to the uplink TBF (the uplink TBF is set up
successfully), N3101 is started. The network side waits for the RLC uplink data block sent by the MS.
If the RLC uplink data block sent by the MS is valid, N3101 is reset. Otherwise, the value of N3101 is
increased on the network side. When this counter is overflowed, the current uplink TBF is released
abnormally.
- Increase timer N3103 and N3105
Detail description of N3103 and N3105
N3103: Maximum value of the N3101 counter. When the uplink transmission ends, if the network
side receives the last RLC data block, the network side sends an FAI=1 uplink
packet acknowledged/unacknowledged message and starts N3103. If the packet control
acknowledgement message is not received in the specified time, N3103 is increased on the network
side and the uplink packet acknowledged/unacknowledged message is retransmitted. When this
counter is overflowed, the timer T3169 is started. After this timer expires, the current TBF is released
abnormally.
N3105: Maximum value of the N3105 counter. After the downlink TBF is set up successfully, the
N3105 is started on the network side. After the downlink RLC data block is added with the RRBP
domain on the network side, the valid packet acknowledged message responded by the MS is
received in the uplink RLC data block in the RRBP domain. In this case, N3105 is reset. Otherwise,
the value of N3105 is increased and the downlink data block of the RRBP is retransmitted. When
N3105 is overflowed, T3195 is started. After the timer T3195 expires, the current TBF is released
abnormally.
- Change LQC(Link Quality Control Mode) from IR to LA
LQC Detail description:
It is applicable to the radio transmission environment to improve the link quality. Link adaptation
(LA) indicates adjusting the coding mode of the channel dynamically according to the transmission
quality of the link. The link transmission quality is measured by the 8PSK MEAN BEP and 8PSK CV
BEP in the Packet EGPRS Downlink Ack/Nack message sent by the MS. The network side determines
the coding mode for data transmission according to the radio measurement report sent by the MS.
The cell with the good transmission quality on the air interface is set to the LA mode. Increment
redundancy (IR) mode requires the network side retransmit the data block with different punching
codes and the MS store the historical error information. The data block is retransmitted through
cooperated error correction function. With the IR mode, the transmission quality on the air interface
of the cell can be improved. However, the MS must support this IR mode. The cell with the
dissatisfied transmission quality on the air interface is set to the LR mode.