UU_HandoffOK Event in Actix

- By : Gustav Hoffmann / Krishna Kumar - Date : 30/05/2012

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Summary
This aims to explain the UU_HandoffOK event in Actix w.r.t

ActiveSetUpdates and Soft Handover (SHO).. In 3G the UE can be in Soft Handover (SHO) state with maximum 3 SC coming from 3 different cells this state is called Soft Handover (SHO). SHO is achieved by adding, removing or replacing cells following the network defined criteria set in the RNC. These events are 1a (cell addition) ,1b (cell removal), and 1c (cell replacement). This handoff is event triggered, event 1a, 1b & 1c and these are reported immediately when they appear The handover-related event: Handoff OK is incremented when the following messages occur:
ActiveSetUpdate message (Uu_RRC_MsgType == ActiveSetUpdate) ActiveSetUpdateComplete message (Uu_RRC_MsgType == ActiveSetUpdateComplete)

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event

From the pic you can see e.g.
1(175) 15.5% up to 4(6) 0.5% etc. This means in case of 1(175) 15.5% that there were 175 events of Uu_HandoffOK event = 1, which means that 175 Activesetupdate completes occurred during the drive. This could be additions, removals or replacements (1a,1b,1c). For 4(6) 0.5% this means that there were 6 samples where Uu_handoverOk event = 4. This means that at 1 binned sample we have 4 handovers occurring 6 times, so in total 4x6 = 24 handovers occurred but 6 of them had 4 handovers occurring in 1 binned sample e.g. 1000ms timebinning . If you change the binning then the binned samples also change and then the distribution of events in the legend changes. See below.

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event Time binning (1000ms)

Here we have 447 Handover events. 1*175 + 2*97 + 3*18 + 4*6 = 447

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event Location binning (15mx15m)

Here we still have 447 Handover events. 1*227 + 2*59 +3*17 + 4*2 + 5*1 + 6*1 + 9*1 + 23*1 = 447

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event L3 message

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event L3 message - addition

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event L3 message - Removal

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Actix Uu_HandoffOK event L3 message - replacement

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