Ultima Mentor

Engineers Daily Operation

Automatic Diagnostic, Resolution and Optimization Voice & HSPA
Gur Lavie, Director Product Marketing

IMPORTANT NOTE

This is NOT a MENTOR product presentation

For a detailed explanation of the Mentor Product architecture and components, please see the relevant PRODUCT presentation ALL the features which are described in this presentation are part of the standard package ALL of Mentor capabilities are based on data automatically collected from the network. MENTOR does NOT USE predictions and drive tests data MENTOR is a Multi-Vendor tool supporting all relevant vendors

Engineering Activities (1)

With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

Coverage Holes Areas with poor network quality Pilot polluters Pilot dominance problems Low downlink and uplink throughput Over-shooter (killer sectors)

Cross-feeders/swap cells *version 7.2

Resolve all of the above with

Power, Parameters & Tilt Automatic Optimizations

Engineering Activities (2)

With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

Redundant Neighbors (increasing noise levels, and scan time) Missing Neighbors, wrong neighbor priority (the cause of drops) Scrambling Code Conflicts Problems in IRAT configurations

Resolve all of the above with

Neighbor List & Scrambling Code Automatic Optimizations

Engineering Activities (3)

With Mentor You can automatically Identify and resolve

VIP customers high drop rate Specific IMSI/IMEI trouble Ticket Equipment Types problems (uplink/downlink) Roamers coverage and quality Analyze each drop location, cause, events

Resolve all of the above with

All Automatic Optimization Features

Examples of Mentor Usage by Engineers

Problem Identification

Coverage, Quality, Capacity, Throughput Voice & HS Data service Individual subscribers problems

Automatic Problem Resolution

OneClick Neighbor List plan and provisioning IRAT automatic planning Automatic resolving of SC conflicts Automatic Tilt changes recommendations CQI, RAB and other parameters optimization

Analyze KPIs in GIS and Table

Quality, Capacity, Throughput & Backhaule KPIs

KPI Layer Example

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How do I Know I am improving the network

Analyze the network from statistical perspective

Includes

Message statistics

EcIo/RSCP distribution Pilot Dominance Traffic load Power distribution Soft HO factor

Cells statistics

Engineers Usage of GeoMaps

Analysis of Quality, Coverage, Throughput

RAB based analysis APN filtering Automatic Threshold analysis HSPA Downlink/Uplink HSPA Throughput/Volume

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Types of GeoMaps in Mentor

Traffic

Minutes of use Erlang Users Best server RSCP,EcIo Soft/softer HO factor Pilot pollution,Pilot dominance Uplink/Downlink Throughput/volume UeTx power

Performance

Drop map, IRAT, mobile drop Arc Maps

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Where do I need to improve coverage/quality/throughput ?

Show the coverage quality for top dropping cells

Define a regular Ec/Io map Define Ec/Io as the map Set filtering parameter to KPI and condition to top%

Show the problematic coverage quality areas for top dropping cells

Define a regular Ec/Io map Define Ec/Io as the map Set filtering parameter to KPI and condition to top% AND filtering MAP for Ec/Io bottom 5%

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Identifying Problems with GeoMaps

Use Layer->Show Combined Selection Set on Map to see which cells are selected for the specified condition Use the threshold slider to dynamically modify thresholds

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Automatically Fixing Neighbor List Problems

Visualizing Neighbor Lists

Changing Priorities Adding and removing Neighbors

Unique Neighbor List Quality Indicator

Automatic Provisioning Script to implement changes

Neighbor List Before

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Neighbor List After

Case B - Neighbor List Optimization

Surrounding Before After optimization optimization cluster, needs further improvements
Handover rate change indicates the potential to improve the current Neighbor list.

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IRAT analysis and optimization

Pinpoint IRAT events location

Identify 3G and 2G serving and receiving cells Automatically fix the IRAT Neighbor List

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Automatic Resolving Scrambling Code Conflicts

Existing sites co-SC solution user initiated as recommended by the Neighbor List reports New sites Scrambling Code planning Neighbor List planning Redraw Global SC solution SC carving (For Femtocells etc)

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Improving Coverage/Quality/Throughput by Antenna Parameter changes

Power, Tilt, Azimuth & Beam Width Optimization Wizard

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Optimization Sample

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Example of Antenna Parameter Optimization

EcIo Crossing threshold

Resulting changes after optimization

Optimization Automatically Executed in the server

10.0 9.0 8.0

[% of messages]

7.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 Ec/Io [dB] - Before Ec/Io [dB] - After

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Best Server EcIo [dB]

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Case C Quality Improvement with Mentor

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Case C Capacity Improvement with Mentor

Power Efficiency increase

25 %

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Analyzing and optimizing DATA Services

APN (Access Point Names) analysis in Mentor

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Case A Improving HSDPA User Throughput BH (Kbps)

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Case A Improving HSDPA Cell Throughput BH (Kbps)

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Individual Subscribers Analysis

xxx330182037504 xxx330213260708 xxx330214227492 xxx330117989235 xxx330206751371 xxx330206725429

Subscribers drops correlated with EcIo, RSCP & KPIs

Subscribers Problems

Top droppers classifications

Trouble shooting Individual Subscriber Problem

Roamers analysis
Top Voice dropping IMSIs Roamers Top HS dropping IMSIs Roamers

Count of Drops
125663 29 13 7 5 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Country
United States of America Canada United Kingdom Mexico France Cyprus Brazil Spain Austria Singapore Netherlands Australia Argentine Republic Norway Sweden Italy Kuwait Germany

Count of drops
123657 234 59 49 10 7 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Country
United States of America United Kingdom Canada France Italy Belgium Belgium Hong Kong (PRC) Mexico Sweden Indonesia Germany Spain Japan

1 1 1 1

Switzerland South Africa New Zealand Spain

Summary

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Summary - Mentor Workflow Building Blocks

Neighbors Parameters Antenna Parameters Optimization Objectives Customer Analysis Analysis

NL Optim.

SC Optim.

OverShooting

Mech. Tilt

Quality

Data

2G-3G Inconsist.

IRAT Optim.

RAB Power

CQI Optim.

Power Optim.

Electrical Tilt

Coverage

Capacity

CEM

GeoMaps

KPIs

Sample Workflow:

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Product Differentiators

RNC/MSC based licensing: no per-seat limitations Distributed-Centralized automatic data collection and modeling Most Accurate Geo-positioning engine, including moving, stationary, in-building and outdoor subscribers Automatic Neighbor List and SC optimization

Automatically generated full cluster plan not just tables of data CO-SC problem identification and automatic resolution IRAT optimization Advanced parameter usage: overshooting sectors, symmetry/reciprocity enforcement, locking and more

Automatic power, tilt, and parameter optimization Advance data processing

GPEH, UETR, CTR, RBS Encapsulated RF knowledge instead of overwhelming engineers with more data
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SmartCluster optimization

Thank You
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