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When the cell system message is updated: When system messages change, the
UTRAN will trigger paging process in order to inform UE in the idle, CELL_PCH
or URA_PCH state to carry out the system message update, so that the UE can
read the updated system message.
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Paging type 1:
After calculating the paging time, the paging message will be transmitted at that
time
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Paging type 2:
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CN Pagings to Idle UE for RNC
Successful CN Pagings to Idle UE for RNC
UTRAN-Originated PAGING TYPE 1 Messages for RNC
Successful Responses to PAGING TYPE 1 Messages for RNC
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The measurement is triggered at point B as shown in the figure. When the RNC receives
a PAGING message from the CN, and if the paged UE is in idle mode, the RNC sends a
PAGING TYPE 1 message to the cell in the paged area. In this case, the RNC measures
this counter.
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The measurement is triggered at point C as shown in in the figure. The RNC measures
this counter when it receives a RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message from an UE
with one of the following causes: "Terminating Conversational Call", "Terminating
Streaming Call", "Terminating Interactive Call", "Terminating Background Call",
"Terminating High Priority Signaling", "Terminating Low Priority Signaling, "Terminating
cause unknown".
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The measurement is triggered at point A as shown in the figure. The RNC measures this
counter when it initiates and sends a PAGING TYPE 1 message to an UE in CELL_PCH
or URA_PCH state.
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The measurement is triggered at point B as shown in the figure. When the RNC receives
a CELL UPDATE message with the cause of "paging response", it measures this
counter.
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When the CPU occupation or the message packet occupation of a board sub-system
exceeds the threshold, the system will be switched into the flow control state, and the
flow control alarm will occur. When the system returns to normal operation state from the
flow control state, the flow control recovery alarm will occur. However, it is not absolute
that paging will be lost when flow control alarm occurs, because RNC owns different
flow control thresholds for different flow control objects (paging, serial port printing and
message tracing), as long as there is flow control, alarm will occur; but paging loss will
occur only when paging loss occurs.
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To know the paging failure occurred whether in the busy hour or non-busy hour.
If most of the paging failed in the busy hour, the operator should focus on the
paging congestion.
Place info required
To know the paging failure occurred in the same area or not. If most of the paging
failed in the same area, the failure could be caused by weak coverage.
UE type required
To check whether the failures are caused by the same UE type or not. If most of
the paging failure are caused by the same UE type, it could be caused by the UE
itself.
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There are several cases for the paging problems related to the above aspects in section
2.5.
Some background knowledge is introduced first in the following pages, e.g. DRX, NP,
and channel power allocation of PICH and PCH.
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In idle mode, the UE can monitor the paging in two modes: one is to decode SCCPCH
directly every 10ms, the other is to decode the PICH periodically. The second one is the
DRX, which is Discontinuous Reception Mechanism.
The paging period formula:
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The Page Indicator Channel (PICH) is a fixed rate (30kbps, SF=256) physical channel
used by the NodeB to inform a UE (or a group of UEs) that a paging information will
soon be transmitted on the PCH. Thus, the mobile only decodes the S-CCPCH when it
is informed to do so by the PICH. This enables to do other processing and to save the
mobiles battery.
The PICH carries Paging Indicators (PI), which are user specific and calculated by
higher layers. It is always associated with the S-CCPCH to which the PCH is mapped.
The frame structure of the PICH is illustrated above. It is 10 ms long, and always
contains 300 bits (SF=256). 288 of these bits are used to carry paging indicators, while
the remaining 12 are not formally part of the PICH and shall not be transmitted. That
part of the frame (last 12 bits) is reserved for possible future use.
In order not to waste radio resources, several PIs are multiplexed in time on the PICH.
Depending on the configuration of the cell, 18, 36, 72 or 144 paging indicators can be
multiplexed on one PICH radio frame. Thus, the number of bits reserved for each PI
depends of the number of PIs per radio frame. For example, if there is 72 PIs in one
radio frame, there will be 4 (288/72) consecutive bits for each PI. These bits are all
identical. If the PI in a certain frame is 1, it is an indication that the UE associated with
that PI should read the corresponding frame of the S-CCPCH.
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The Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (S-CCPCH) is used to carry the
FACH and PCH transport channels. Unlike the P-CCPCH, it is not broadcasted
continuously. It is only transmitted when there is a PCH or FACH information to transmit.
At the mobile side, the mobile only decodes the S-CCPCH when it expects a useful
message on the PCH or FACH.
A UE will expect a message on the PCH after indication from the PICH (page indicator
channel), and it will expect a message on the FACH after it has transmitted something
on the RACH.
The FACH and the PCH can be mapped on the same or on separate S-CCPCHs. If they
are mapped on the same S-CCPCH, TFCI bits have to be sent to support multiple
transport formats
The figure above shows the frame structure of the S-CCPCH. There are 18 different slot
formats determining the exact number of data, pilot and TFCI bits. The data bits
correspond to the PCH and/or FACH bits coming from the transport sub-layer. Pilot bit
are typically used when beamforming techniques are used.
The SF ranges from 4 to 256. The channelization code is assigned by the RRC layer as
is the scrambling code, and they are fixed during the communication. They are sent on
the BCCH so that every UE can decode the channel.
As said before, FACH can be used to carry user data. The difference with the dedicated
channel is that it cannot use fast power control, nor soft handover. The advantage is that
it is a fast access channel.
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Paging Occasion (CELL SFN) = {(IMSI mod K) mod (DRX cycle length div PBP)}
*PBP + n *DRX cycle length + Frame Offset
n =0, 1, 2and the requirement is the calculated CELL SFN must be below its
maximum value 4096
K is the number of SCCPCH which carries PCH, and the typical value is 1
The formula cloud be simplified as: SFN = IMSI mod (2^K) + n * (2^K)
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DRXCYCLELENCOEF
Recommended value: 6.
Set this parameter through ADD CNDOMAIN, query it through LST CNDOMAIN,
and modify it through MOD CNDOMAIN.
PICHMODE
Content: Indicating the number of PIs contained in each frame on the PICH.
Set this parameter through ADD PICH, query it through LST PICH.
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MACCPAGEREPEAT
Recommended value: 1.
MAXTXPOWER
Content: The sum of the maximum transmit power of all DL channels in a cell.
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Set this parameter through ADD CELLSETUP, query it through LST CELL and modify it through
MOD CELL
PCPICHPOWER
Content: This parameter should be set based on the actual environment and the downlink coverage
should be guaranteed firstly. If PCPICH transmit power is configured too great, the cell capacity will
be decreased, for power resources is occupied by common channel and the interference to traffic
channels is also increased.
Set this parameter through ADD PCPICH, query it through LST PCPICH and modify it through
MOD CELL
MAXFACHPOWER
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Content: The offset between the FACH transmit power and PCPICH transmit
power.
Set this parameter through ADD FACH, query it through LST FACH, and modify
it through MOD SCCPCH
PCHPOWER
Content: The offset between the PCH transmit power and PCPICH transmit
power.
Set this parameter through ADD PCH, query it through LST PCH, and modify it
through MOD SCCPCH
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PICHPOWEROFFSET
Value Range-10 to 5
Content: The offset between the PICH transmit power and PCPICH transmit
power.
Set this parameter through ADD CHPWROFFSET, query it through LST
CHPWROFFSET, and modify it through MOD PICHPWROFFSET
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If paging message is not delivered at the air interface at all, it is most likely that paging is
lost. Paging loss is a frequently-seen problem during paging process and it is the
emphasis of analysis in this document. Well detail the solution in the following pages.
The reason why paging has not been sent out is probably the transmission faults of IUB
interface or faults of other equipments, which can be seen through viewing the alarm
information.
Paging message has been delivered, but UE does not receive the message or receives
the wrong message. According to the specific subscriber complaints, if problems exist on
called UE only (prompt tone the subscriber you dialed is out of service), because the
reason is probably that the power allocation of PICH and PCH is too low or there are
problems with UE performance; if problems exist in calling and called UE, the reason is
probably that signal coverage dead zones exist in the area.
UE fails in responding after receiving paging messages. The problem is related to
access failure, for solutions, please refer to access problem optimization.
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In general, CN pages target UE in one paging area (location area or RA), which is
called intra-office paging. For CS domain service, CN identifies and pages UE with
location area. In protocols, location area is defined as the area where mobile terminals
can move freely without updating VLR. A location area may contain one or more cells.
For PS domain service, CN identifies and pages UE with routing area. RA is defined as
the area where mobile terminals can move freely without updating SGSN in a specified
operation mode. A RA may contain one or more cells. The relationship between location
area and RA is specified in GSM, namely, RA can be equal to location area in size, or
only the subset of a certain location area.
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In order to guarantee the paging success rate, CN will retransmission paging message
at the IU interface. CN paging retransmission times and interval can be configured.
Because paging is initiated specific to location area, paging retransmission will increase
paging traffic. Especially in case of public downlink channel congestion at the air
interface, paging traffic will double due to paging repeat, which will waste downlink
channel resources seriously. CN paging retransmission configuration should be in
accordance with UTRAN.
CN paging retransmission is the retransmission paging in case that UE has not
responded at the first time, which can increase paging success rate and connection rate.
But from data in GSM network, paging retransmission success rate is low, especially at
the second time or even more, which contributes a little to paging success rate and
connection rate. Experience data indicates that: Generally, the success rate of the first
paging is approaching to 86%, and the retransmission paging rate is 1.8%. Herein,
retransmission paging success is mainly the second paging success, while success rate
of the third paging is estimated less than 0.2% calculated by the decreasing pattern, and
the third paging (the second repeat) has little influence on paging success rate. The
paging mode of WCDMA is similar with that of GSM, from online statistics, frequent CN
paging contributes little to the paging success rate; contrarily, it increases the system
load.
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In order to reduce paging message flow at the Iu interface and increase the probability
that UE receives paging message, UTRAN can retransmit paging messages. UTRAN
paging retransmission configuration should be in accordance with CN paging
retransmission.
Paging is delivered at the fixed time (a paging cycle), and UTRAN paging interval is the
integer multiple of a paging cycle, one paging cycle in general. Therefore, we can adjust
the UTRAN paging repeat interval by adjusting DRC paging cycle coefficient k (means
adjust the paging cycle time, which hence affect the UTRAN paging repeat interval)
UTRAN paging repeat times should not set to too many; otherwise, by adding paging
repeats at Iu interface, the paging channel load at UU interface will increase rapidly. In
addition, UTRAN is realized on MACC layer, and MACC does not identify the specific
PRC message, MACC will go on repeating paging even if UE replies paging response
message. Too many UTRAN paging repeat times will cause the unnecessary system
overhead and message flow at UU interface.
It is reasonable for paging retransmission times to keep the current default configuration.
It is also reasonable to adjust paging retransmission times on RNC maintenance
console using MML command SET UDPUCFGDATA.
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Global paging should be avoided in CN. From experiences on GSM network, the wholenetwork paging of CN is the important cause of overload of location area with smaller
capacity; meanwhile, CN global paging contributes little to the improvement of
connection rate of long-distance incoming call.
CN global paging is useful only when UE location area is recorded as failure by NLR,
which hardly occurs, however, once it occurs, it means serious fault occurs; even more
CN global paging does not work.
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When UE is in IDLE and PCH state, UE will utilize the discontinuous reception
technology Discontinuous Reception (DRX) to reduce power overhead. According to
Protocol TS25.304, paging cycle length (DRX cycle length) = MAX (2KPBP). where, K
refers to DRX cycle length coefficient, PBP refers to Paging Block Periodicity which is
applied only in TDD mode, for FDD, PBP=1, so, DRX cycle length = 2K.
By default setting of Huawei, K is 6 in both CN-specific DRX cycle length coefficient and
UTRAN-specific DRX cycle length coefficient.
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Settings of DRX paging cycle coefficient K should be considered with the following
factors:
DRX paging cycle coefficient K determines the DRX cycle length, the larger the
value of K is, the longer the DRX cycle is. Meanwhile, UE power consumption will
be lower, however, the value of K makes UE paging cycle longer. Namely, UE
paging response time becomes longer. If K is set too small, paging cycle will
become smaller, and UE processing paging overhead and power consumption
will increase. In the protocol, the value is within the range of 2 ~12, the current
value of our company is 8, and the paging cycle is 2.56 seconds.
According to the current coding mode of PCH, a TTI can transmit only 240 bits, if
IMSI paging is utilized, only 3 UEs can be paged at the same paging moment; if
TMSI paging is utilized, only 5 can be paged at the same paging moment. And if
the number of UE paging at the same paging moment exceeds the processing
capacity of system, it will cause paging loss and call loss. If K is set too small, the
paging cycle will become shorter, the probability of the same calculated UE
paging moment will increase, consequently, the probability of paging loss will
increase.
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If the UTRAN retransmission time is 1, the DRX cycle of UTRAN shall be smaller
than half of the CN retransmission interval (1s) , namely, the value K at this time
should be set to 6 or 7 (0.64,1.28s), the setting to be 7 is considered with the
paging loss during lu/luB paging flow control; (Configuration recommended)
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Np value too small, the corresponding IMSI number in each group will be larger, it
means more users will be monitoring the same PI, means more UE will be called up to
read the PI increases, not good in saving UE power.
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IMSI ( International Mobile Subscriber Identity ) : A unique number associated with all
GSM and UMTS network mobile phone users. It is stored in the SIM inside the phone
and is sent by the phone to the network.
P-TMSI ( Packet Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity ) : Used as a shorter, more
private, mobile identifier. Identifies the system that assigned it, and not directly the MS.
Packet-TMSI is allocated by the SGSN and used for GPRS access only.
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Paging channels include PICH and PCH. Too low PICH power will lead to UE resolution
PI indication error. Resolution of PI value from 0 to 1 will cause false alarm and UE
power waste; resolution of P1 value from 1 to 0 will cause paging miss and loss. If
PCH power is too low, UE will fail in decoding the paging messages.
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Traffic statistics
Alarm
Check whether there is any RNC overload alarm in CN or whether there is any
flow control alarm in RNC
Subscriber complaint
Check mainly whether location area paging success rate and RA paging
success rate achieve the optimization goal 86% specified in advance
Dialing test
Test UE called success rate when traffic is at the peak and in the place where
subscriber complaint occurs. During dialing test, it is unnecessary to throughconnect UE, just listen to ring back tone and prompt tone
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