1.

TCH Blocking
a. If the utilization of a cell is low and its still having blocking check for hardware issue.
b. For high utilized cell, tune FRL (Lower limit for half rate trigger) & FRU (upper limit to full rate
trigger).
c. Enable Direct Retry in the cell. (Directed Retry is a procedure used when there is

congestion in the network in the call set-up phase and the mobile station (MS) is
assigned to a traffic channel in a cell other than the serving cell.)
d. Enable Traffic based handovers.
e. If still there is blocking add TRXs.

2. SD blocking
a. Increase SDCCH timeslots by monitoring trend of SDCCH blocks vs SDCCH attempts—SD
dimensioning
b. Increase the Value of HYS at LAC boundary cells
c. Implement Dynamic SDCCH feature
d. Implement increased SDCCH capacity feature
e. Perform physical optimization at LAC boundary cells

3. TCH drop
a. Find out at which level you are getting more drops. Radio, Transcoder, Abis, RF old etc.
b. Check your BCCH and TCH plan if you find it need to be tune then run AFP (Automatic Freq plan)
and implement new Freq plan.
c. Check neighbor count for each cell. Add or remove adjacencies where required.
d. Check some important BTS parameters like RLT(Value range: 4~64, the step size is 4
recommended-24), ARLT and AHRLT(recommended-36) etc.
e. Also check AMR full and half rate codecs and its thresolds used in each cell.
f. Check for any inconsistencies in parameters like diversity Used (RDIV),DTX used (DTX),MS min
and max transmit power(PMIN & PMAX),BTS min and max transmit power(PMIN &
PMAX),rxLevAccessMin (RXP), Antenna Hopping(AHOP), etc.
g. Improve RX DL Quality.

how to improve DL Quality.

i. Improve BCCH and TCH plan

ii. Diversity, Antenna Hopping also improve DL Rx Qual
iii. DL DTX also help to improve DL Qual
 iv. Neighbor plan must be checked for any discrepancies or addition/deletion required
v. You can also increase timer T3103 in BSC. Make sure it should be less than T10 atlease
by 2 sec.
vi. Also check if there are lot of Intracell HO failures. Then check for Hardware issues or
inracell HO thresholds.
vii. Try to change PBGT, Qual and Level Margin and see any effect.
viii. Check if MSC controlled HO's are getting failed.
ix. Remove Co-BCCH,BSIC combination in neighbor.
x. Remove hardware alarms
xi. Reduce half rate traffic wherever possible. Tune FRL ( Lower limit for half rate trigger)
FRU (upper limit to full rate trigger) for Non-AMR calls and AFRL ( Lower limit for half
rate trigger) AFRU (upper limit to full rate trigger) for AMR calls considering utilization.
Also check this thresold value at BSC level also.
xii. Remove all hardware related BTS alarms like Channel failure rate,TRX faulty etc. and
also rectify path loss issues.
xiii. Reduce overshooting by giving tilt to antenna of cells which are taking calls from very
long distance.

h. Change RLT to 28, ARLT to 44

i. Try reducing the value of RXP
j. Change QMRG parameter to 3—check for degradation in DL quality as well
k. Physically optimize if its a cell specific issue
l. Check for end to end SYNC BTS,BSC & MSS,MGW

4. HOSR
a. Check for the neighbours which are causing degradation in HFR
b. Delete the neighbour if its unwanted
c. Check for hardware issue in the target cell
d. Change the value of SL to -90 and QMRG to 3(check for degradation in DL quality as well)

5. SD drop
a. Lock the timeslot which is having high SD drop(in case of channel failure alarm starting with 02)
b. Change T200S(BCF level) to 1000
c. Change RXP to -102
6. Paging Success Rate
a. In case of high paging load, perform LAC splitting
b. Change AT (Repaging attempts)=2, INT(Repaging interval)=500 ms

7. Hopping

There are 2 types of frequency hopping, Base Band Hopping (BBH) and Synthesized Frequency Hopping (SFH)

a. Base Band Hopping (BBH)

 i. In this type of hopping, only frequencies used by the TRXs can be allocated to the FHS
(Frequency Hopping Sequence).The BCCH supporting Time Slot cannot hop. TS 0 of the
BCCH TRX is always transmitting on the BCCH frequency. Other timeslots can use other
frequencies unless the BCCH frequency is transmitted by any other TRX at the same
time.
ii. The major advantage of the BBH is the time TS 1 to TS 7 of the BCCH frequency
containing TRX is allowed to perform hopping. But Frequency Hopping performs best
with at least 4 hopping frequencies. So cells need at least 4 TRXs and it is the
disadvantage of this system.

b. Synthesized Frequency Hopping (SFH)

i. In SFH each frame unit is connected to one carrier unit. Hopping is performed by
changing the carrier unit by changing a synthesizer. As the communication is not
hopping between the carrier units but the carrier unit frequency itself is hopping. So
many frequencies can be used as hopping frequencies. In SFH, TRX returns in every time
slot to a different frequency. Thus the TCH remains on the same TRX but the frequencies
of that TCH hops.