CONECEL
OBJECTIVE
Test Antenna Hopping in the field and validate gains in terms of major KPIs.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES :
04th April 2008 Initial OSS statistics taken
05th April 2008 Pre drive test of the BSC & PR file implementation in BSC. 08th April 2008 Feature Activated on a test basis only in 4 sites. 11th April 2008 Feature Activated on all the sites of the BSC.
Feature Overview :
Antenna Hopping is a downlink performance enhancement feature designed to improve link performance where frequency hopping is not in use or not effective due to high correlation between frequencies. In a typical sector where you have the BCCH and hopping layer, the BCCH layer has no downlink diversity since it is only one frequency transmitting over a single antenna. This makes it more susceptible to noise, interference and fading. The hopping layer however has the advantage that it is hopping from one frequency to another creating phase diversity where it combats long term fading and frequency related interference. This feature enables the TRXs in an RF hopping BTS to transmit with all the TX antennas in the BTS. With AH the improvement is more substantial on the nonhopping layer because we bring it to almost equal link performance with the hopping layer. This translates to gain on the non-hopping layer that will improve existing coverage and RSSI levels. This feature would also be very beneficial in interference-limited areas.
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4. The Antenna Hopping also helps to avoid the interference and frequency selective fading. 5. No hardware changes required in BTS for implementing the feature. 6. Minimum two TRX to be present in the cell for working of this feature.
Activating Antenna Hopping : Lock the BTS so that the Antenna Hopping for UltraSite BTS parameter can be modified (EQS). ZEQS:BTS=1:L; Activate the Antenna Hopping in the BCS (WOA). ZWOA:2,809,A; Activate the Antenna Hopping in the BTS (EQE). ZEQE:BTS=1:AHOP=Y;
SD > 25%
dlq_2 is seen degraded after the implementation as Conecel only counts good samples till q4. As expected, a major q4 samples converted to q5 samples due to the effect of hopping. We have calculated dlq_2 taking q5 as a good sample & that shows not much impact.( Described later) Field drive test also ensures no markable quality degradations.
Soc Classification level 10 Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
dcr
5.00%
10.00% efl
15.00%
20.00%
This BSC trend shows a less drop call at higher EFL as it is covering a small town. A lot of cells are outskirt/rural having less traffic & high drop call
Each dot is representing a cell, DCR with respect to the EFL of the cell.
The improvement over DCR is observed throughout. At the highest EFL, the improvement is the highest i.e. around 30%.
Soc Classification level 11 Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
sdr_2
5.00%
10.00% efl
15.00%
20.00%
At a higher frequency load, SDCCH drop improvement is as much as more than 30%.
Soc Classification level 12 Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
hfr_68
0.6
5.00%
10.00%
efl
15.00%
20.00%
Drop due to handover is also improved marginally. A lot of cells with low EFL have more improvements than the high EFL cells.
fer
97 96 95 94 0.00%
5.00%
10.00% efl
15.00%
20.00%
As expected no major changes in uplink FER observed because this feature is downlink enhancement oriented.
dlq_2
5.00%
The calculated dlq_2 ( Considering q5 as good sample) has no significant changes as we already seen in previous slide. This indicates only q4 samples are converted into q5 samples. It is recommended for hopping enabled network to consider q5 as a good sample because of the gain over interference due to hopping. Soc Classification level
15 Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
( PRE )
( POST )
The Cumulative good SQI Samples are more than the Pre drive test.
Soc Classification level 21 Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
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