TNDROP

TFNDROP
TFNDROPSUB
THNDROP
THNDROPSUB
TFNCEDROP

TASSALL & TCASSALL

CMSESTAB
CNDROP
CCONGS
ccongssub
CNRELCONG
CLUNDROP
CLUDISSS
CLUDISTA
CLUDISQA
TFTRALACC
CELTCHF.TFNSCAN
THTRALACC
THNSCAN

TFTRALSUB & THTRALSUB

NECELLREL.HOVERSUC
NLLREL.HOVERSUC
NLLREL.HOVERCNT
NELLREL.HOVERCNT
NILASS.HOSUCBCL
NILASS.HOSUCWCL
NELASS.HOSUCBCL
NELASS.HOSUCWCL
CCALLS
CMSESTAB
TDWNACC
TDWNSCAN
ERCS_BSS_ITSIB1
ERCS_BSS_ITSIB2
ERCS_BSS_ITSIB3
ERCS_BSS_ITSIB4
ERCS_BSS_ITSIB5
ITFUSIB1
ITFUSIB2
ITFUSIB3
ITFUSIB4
ITFUSIB5
ITFOSIB1
ITFOSIB2
ITFOSIB3
ITFOSIB4
ITFOSIB5
DMASR
TBFSR
EDGE_Throughput_TS
GPRS_Throughput_TS
MCS_Coding_Scheme_Utiliz
ation
Total_Payload_MB
Hard_Blocking
FAILDLTBFEST
DLTBFEST
DLBGEGDATA
ULBGEGDATA

DLBGGDATA
ULBGGDATA
ERCS_BSS_Total_Payload
ERCS_BSS_Total_Payload_D
L

ERCS_BSS_SUMIHOSUCC
ERCS_BSS_SUMEIHOSUCC
ERCS_BSS_SUMIHOATT
ERCS_BSS_SUMEIHOATT

RAACCFA
CNROCNT
PDRAC
CDISSS
CDISSSSUB
CDISQA
CDISQASUB
CDISTA
TAVAACC
TAVASCAN
TNUCHCNT
THV3TRALACC
TFV3TRALACC
TFV3NSCAN
THV3NSCAN
ERCS_BSS_TDISSBL
ERCS_BSS_TDISSDL
ERCS_BSS_TDISSUL
ERCS_BSS_TDISQABL
ERCS_BSS_TDISQADL
ERCS_BSS_TDISQAUL
ERCS_BSS_TDISTA
ERCS_BSS_TSUDLOS

TFNDROP+TFNDROPSUB+THNDROP+THNDROPSUB
The total number of dropped full-rate TCH in underlaid subcell. The counter is also available for halfrate and for overlaid subcells, for example THNDROPSUB

The total number of dropped full rate TCH connections in underlaid subcell that occur when a
subscriber to subscriber connection has already been established. The counter is incremented when
a connection is dropped after any of the three messages 44.018 ASSIGNMENT COMPLETE, 44.018
HANDOVER COMPLETE, 44.018 CHANNEL MODE MODIFY ACKNOWLEDGE and before one of the
DTAP messages 24.008 RELEASE or 24.008 DISCONNECT is received by the BSC.

The assignment success rate covers both change from SDCCH to TCH or changed channel mode on TCH from
signalling to speech.
It should be noted that during the assignment procedure there may be several attempts to allocate a channel in
different cells, but the attempts counter in this formula (TASSALL) will only be incremented once, if an attempt
succeeds or if all attempts have failed.
A low TCH assignment success rate would normally be due to TCH congestion. The KPI shows the subscriber
perceived TCH availability at call setup and is impacted by parameter settings for example for the assignment
time-out (TASSREQ) and assignment to worse or better cell (for example AWOFFSET). The systems are
dimensioned to have a certain TCH GoS, so the KPI must be compared to the TCH GoS the system was planned
for. Please, observe that congestion at handover is not included in this KPI, or any other KPI, as there is no way
to determine the subscriber impact due to a handover that could not be executed due to congestion. As a
second level measurement the channel availability in the cells should be monitored in terms if congestion time,
this is though not a KPI as it does not directly translate into a subscriber impact (with features like OL/UL
subcells, Hierarchical Cell Structures, assignment to worse cell and dynamic mode adaptation subscriber impact
due to lack of channels is prevented).

When there is VAMOS traffic using TSC from set 2, STS counters related to MS connection establishments on
SDCCH, for example CMSESTAB, will decrease, and STS counters related to MS connection establishments on
The total number of dropped SDCCH channels in a cell.
Congestion counter for underlaid subcell. Stepped each time an allocation attempt fails due to SDCCH congestion. Also availa
The counter for overlaid subcell is CCONGSSUB.

Number of released connection on SDCCH due to TCH and transcoder congestion in underlaid and overlaid subcell. The cou
The total number of dropped SDCCH channels during location area update in a cell. The counter CLUNDROP is incremented f
Dropped SDCCH connection during location area update at low signal strength on down or uplink in underlaid subcell that i
Dropped SDCCH connection during location area update at excessive Timing Advance (TA). CLUDISTA works as CDISTA, but is
Dropped SDCCH connection during location area update at bad quality down or uplink per cell in underlaid subcell that is w
Traffic level accumulator for full-rate TCH. The corresponding counter for half-rate is THTRALACC
Cell tch fr-Number of accumulations of traffic level counter for full-rate TCH. The corresponding counter for half-rate is THNSC
Traffic level accumulator for full-rate TCH. The corresponding counter for half-rate is THTRALACC
Number of accumulations of traffic level counter for full-rate TCH. The corresponding counter for half-rate is THNSCAN
The value can be calculated for the whole BSC by adding all cells together. The traffic can also be calculated for
cells and subcells. In the subcell case there is a specific counter for overlaid subcell TCH traffic, THTRALSUB and
TFTRALSUB (half- and full-rate respectively). The values for underlaid cell can be obtained by subtracting the
value of the overlaid from THTRALACC or TFTRALACC respectively. A similar formula can be used for SDCCH
traffic using the counters CTRALACC and CNSCAN in the object types CLSDCCH (underlaid + overlaid) and

Channel allocation attempt counter (on SDCCH).

Successful MS channel establishments on SDCCH

The counter is stepped every tenth second if there are no TCHs in IDLE or BUSY state in the cell and the cell state is ACTIVE
The counter is stepped every tenth second when the cell state is ACTIVE

Accumulated number of idle TCH/F in the underlaid subcell in interference band 1. The corresponding counter for half-rate an

FOR OVERLAID

The total number of attempts to establish a downlink TBF that resulted in a failure due to lack of resources. Lack of resources
The total number of attempts to establish a downlink TBF

Accumulated total LLC data received on the downlink in GPRS mode transfers for QoS class Background.
Units: kbit

The object types RANDOMACC, RNDACCEXT and CELLGPRS contain the counters for Random Access (RA) reasons
and performance. The number of successful and failed random accesses are registered and information about
the distribution of the reasons for random access is also available. A failed random access burst does not
necessarily lead to a call setup failure, as the MS sends many RA bursts each time it tries to connect to the
network. A high number of RA failures might be caused by bad BSIC planning or interference. Number of Failed
Number of Accepted Random Accesses. This counter is also incremented for TRXT connections.
The counter value is incremented when a 44.058 CHANNEL REQUIRED containing 44.018 CHANNEL
REQUEST with establishment cause "One Phase Packet Access" or "Single Block Packet Access" is

Dropped SDCCH connection at low signal strength on down or uplink in underlaid subcell that is below
LOWSSDL and/or LOWSSUL. There is also a counter for overlaid subcell, CDISSSSUB
Dropped SDCCH connection at bad quality down or uplink per cell in underlaid subcell that is worse than
BADQDL and/or BADQUL. There is also a counter for overlaid subcell, CDISQASUB.

Dropped SDCCH connection at excessive Timing Advance (TA).

Available Basic Physical Channels (BPCs) for traffic channels accumulator. Also available for overlaid subcell, TA

Number of accumulations of available BPCs for traffic channels counter. Also available for overlaid subcell, TAVASCANSUB
The channel availability is very difficult to measure despite counters such as TAVAACC, number of available TCHs. This is due t
TRALACC- TRAFFIC LEVEL ACCUMULATOR , THV3-TCH HALF RATE SPEECH VERSION 1/3
TFV3-TCH Full RATE SPEECH VERSION 1/2/3
accumulations of traffic level counter. Tfv3-TCH use for Speech Version 3 FR

congestion. Also available for overlaid subcells, CCONGSSUB.

overlaid subcell. The counters are stepped when a 48.008 CLEAR COMMAND message with cause "No radio resource available" is received
NDROP is incremented for abnormal terminations that occur during location area update.
underlaid subcell that is below LOWSSDL and/or LOWSSUL. There is also a counter for overlaid subcell, CLUDSSSUB. CLUDISSS and CLUDIS
works as CDISTA, but is only incremented for drops during location area update.
derlaid subcell that is worse than BADQDL and/or BADQUL. There is also a counter for overlaid subcell, CLUDISQASUB. CLUDISQA and CLU

er for half-rate is THNSCAN

rate is THNSCAN

e cell state is ACTIVE

counter for half-rate and overlaid subcell is ITHOSIB1.Shown below is the percentage of idle channels in interference band 1 out of the to

urces. Lack of resources could mean: no PDCH allocated on which the TBF could be reserved; no TFIs available (that is maximum allowed n

r overlaid subcell, TAVAACCSUB.

bcell, TAVASCANSUB
lable TCHs. This is due to the fact that TNUCHCNT, number of defined TCHs, depends on whether the number is system defined or operat

dio resource available" is received. CNDROP is stepped at the same time. The counters are not incremented if 48.008 CLEAR REQUEST ha

CLUDSSSUB. CLUDISSS and CLUDISSSSUB works as CDISSS and CDISSSSUB respectively, but are only incremented for drops during location

CLUDISQASUB. CLUDISQA and CLUDISQASUB works as CDISQA and CDISQASUB respectively, but are only incremented for drops during loc

interference band 1 out of the total idle channels. The same measure can be calculated for interference band 2 to 5. As a help expression

ilable (that is maximum allowed number of TBF reserved on all allocated PDCH); the PDCH was preempted before it could be reserved; so

umber is system defined or operator defined

nted if 48.008 CLEAR REQUEST has been sent previously. The subset for overlaid subcells is CNRELCONGSUB. The two counters are located

emented for drops during location area update.

y incremented for drops during location area update.

e band 2 to 5. As a help expression, the total number of idle full-rate TCH in underlaid subcell is calculated first.

ted before it could be reserved; some other channel fault that prevented the reservation; congestion in MAC (that is no frame number co

SUB. The two counters are located in CLSDCCH and CLSDCCHO respectively.Note: There is an exception when the counters are increment

MAC (that is no frame number could be returned); congestion in the CP prevented the request being processed

when the counters are incremented despite that 48.008 CLEAR REQUEST is sent. Namely, when a GSM Priority Connection, queued by th

Priority Connection, queued by the MS Queuing function, is removed from the queue because of time-out of the assignment queuing tim

ut of the assignment queuing timer (T11).

Formulas that include handovers have considered handovers both to BSC internal and external
neighbors. If data is only collected from one BSC it is not possible to obtain the incoming
For formulas handling handovers user defined summation counter have been used. The
summation counters are not part of the BSC STS counters, but should created on cell level in a
The STS object types that contain counters for BSC internal cell relations are NCELLREL and
NICELASS, and for BSC external cell relations NECELLREL and NECELASS.
The following formulas show how the summation counters are calculated as a sum
over all internal or external cell relations:

Note:
For External Cells (that is cells belonging to different BSCs, for example "BSC1" and "BSC2")
the Object Type NECELLREL only shows outgoing HO (STS data from a BSC only report
counters for that particular BSC). Hence, in order to have a proper Summation, one must
combine the NECELLREL Object Types from "BSC1" and "BSC2", respectively, in a postATT= HOVERCNT
SUCC=HOVERSUC
REV=HORTTOCH
LOST=HOVERCNT-HOVERSUC-HORTTOCH
ABSUCC=HOSUCBCL
AWSUCC=HOSUCWCL
The following summation counters are used for every cell in the BSC as the sum over all internal
SUMOHOSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Handovers (Outgoing Handover)
SUMOHOSUCC = NCELLREL.HOVERSUC
SUMOABSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Assignment Handovers to Better Cell (Outgoing Handover)
SUMOABSUCC = NICELASS.HOSUCBCL
SUMOAWSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Assignment Handovers to Worse Cell (Outgoing Handover)
SUMOAWSUCC = NICELASS.HOSUCWCL
SUMIHOSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Handovers (Incoming Handover)
SUMIHOSUCC = NCELLREL.HOVERSUC
SUMIABSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Assignment Handovers to Better Cell (Incoming Handover)
SUMIABSUCC = NICELASS.HOSUCBCL
SUMIAWSUCC Sum of Successful Internal Assignment Handovers to Worse Cell (Incoming Handover)
SUMIAWSUCC = NICELASS.HOSUCWCL
SUMEIHOSUCC Sum of Successful External Handovers (Incoming Handover)
SUMEIHOSUCC = NECELLREL.HOVERSUC
SUMEIABSUCC Sum of Successful External Assignment Handovers to Better Cell (Incoming Handover)
SUMEIABSUCC = NECELASS.HOSUCBCL
SUMEIAWSUCC Sum of Successful External Assignment Handovers to Worse Cell (Incoming Handover)
SUMEIAWSUCC = NECELASS.HOSUCWCL
SUMEOHOSUCC Sum of Successful External Handovers (Outgoing Handover)
SUMEOHOSUCC = NECELLREL.HOVERSUC
SUMEOABSUCC Sum of Successful External Assignment Handovers to Better Cell (Outgoing Handover)
SUMEOABSUCC = NECELASS.HOSUCBCL
SUMEOAWSUCC Sum of Successful External Assignment Handovers to Worse Cell (Outgoing Handover)
SUMEOAWSUCC = NECELASS.HOSUCWCL
SUMOHOATT Sum of Internal Handover Attempts (Outgoing Handover)

SUMOHOATT = NCELLREL.HOVERCNT
SUMEOHOATT Sum of External handover Attempts (Outgoing Handover)
SUMEOHOATT = NECELLREL.HOVERCNT
SUMOHOLOST Sum of MS Lost Internal Handovers (Outgoing Handover)
SUMOHOLOST = NCELLREL.HOVERCNT - NCELLREL.HORTTOCH - NCELLREL.HOVERSUC
SUMEOHOLOST Sum of MS Lost External Handovers (Outgoing Handover)
SUMEOHOLOST = NECELLREL.HOVERCNT - NECELLREL.HORTTOCH - NECELLREL.HOVERSUC
For GSM to UTRAN handovers similar summation counters are created on cell level, all counters are located
SUMHOVERCNTUTRAN Sum of the counter HOVERCNTUTRAN over all GSM to UTRAN cell relations (outgoin
SUMHOVERCNTUTRAN = NUCELLREL.HOVERCNTUTRAN
SUMHOVERSUCUTRAN Sum of the counter HOVERSUCUTRAN over all GSM to UTRAN cell relations (outgoin
SUMHOVERSUCUTRAN = NUCELLREL.HOVERSUCUTRAN
SUMHOLOSTUTRAN Sum of HOVERCNTUTRAN - HOVERSUCUTRAN - HORTTOCHUTRAN over all GSM to UTR
SUMHOLOSTUTRAN = NUCELLREL.HOVERCNTUTRAN - NUCELLREL.HORTTOCHUTRAN - NUCELLREL.HOVER

um over all internal or external cell relations:

oing Handover)

oing Handover)

ing Handover)

ming Handover)

ming Handover)

oming Handover)

going Handover)

tgoing Handover)

counters are located in the object type NUCELLREL:

ell relations (outgoing handover)

cell relations (outgoing handover)

N over all GSM to UTRAN cell relations (outgoing handover)

- NUCELLREL.HOVERSUCUTRAN

Cell Availability
Formulae

Equation 1

Cell BCCH Availability (TAVAACC does step if there is available TCHs) [%]

Equation 2

Cell TCH Availability (TAVAACC does not step when TCH is not available) [%]

Description

These formulas shows the percentage of time when BCCH ( Equation 1) or TCH ( Equation 2) was unavaila

Note:
If these metrics are compared to formulas which includes TAVAACC, please remember that TAVAACC step

tion 2) was unavailable when the cell is active.

er that TAVAACC steps when BCCH is not available but there are available TCHs. If no TCH is available TAVAACC does not

available TAVAACC does not step.