All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 Alex Anokye RF Engineering Group, Murray Hill, NJ Documents from NPE/TIS/CEC Documents from Devesh Patel and Mattijs Visser June 23, 2010 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 2 Structure of this talk Primary goal of this talk is Knowledge sharing experience from LTE Trials
Start with Some Key RF Performance Impacting Parameters With Real examples from Orange & BostonTrials. Lessons learned from a technology trial help refine RF optimization procedure
Share Analysis of Handoff Failures Test performed in MH, New Jersey
Follow with Data Analysis of RRC Layer 3 message Flow with eDAT Helps RF Engineers how to troubleshoot RF issues
End with Open Issues and Proposed Resolutions from Phase 4 Trial Helps to understand product functionality as we migrate to FSA and Deployments All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 3 RF Parameter Optimization All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 4 Introduction Presentation discusses key LTE RF performance impacting parameters Detailed description on 52 parameters Ranges of these parameters are provided in the following excel sheet Key in the sense likely to have the biggest impact on end-user performance and capacity
Many of these parameters are categorized as fixed parameters Fixed means not typically customized from cell to cell or as part of RF optimization process Some exceptions such as settings optimized for a stadium cell / special events or specific to certain hardware platform These are algorithmic parameters - settings optimized based on simulations and lab studies Some amount of fine tuning in field, usually as part of focused performance studies in a commercial system after a critical mass of traffic available All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 5 LTE Key Parameters Downlink dlSinrThresholdBetweenCLMimoTwoLayersAndOneLayer: 10.0 dB dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv: 10.0 dB dlSinrThresholdBetweenCLMimoAndTxDiv: 10.0 dB
Uplink initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHSemiStaticUsers: 4.0 dB initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers: 4.0 dB
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 6 Switching point lies around CQI = 10-11 i.e. computed SINR ~ 15dB if dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv = 15dB dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv = Signal to Noise ratio threshold for switching between OL Mimo mode and TxDiv mode It does not have anything to do with the RS-SNR shown in LLDM or Agilent NiXT tool, but is related to the SINR calculated as below If computed SINR > dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv + 1dB, then eNB will switch to DL OL Mimo mode (as long as filtered value for the UE reported rank > 1.6). It switches back to TxDiv if SINR < dlSinrThresholdBetweenOLMimoAndTxDiv All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 7 Threshold for MIMO switching
Background At higher SINR, lower Tx antenna correlation regimes, MIMO allows for higher data rates compared to Tx diversity Benefit from rank of 2 (i.e., 2 parallel data streams possible) Vice-versa for low SINR levels Parameter Impact / Tradeoffs Impacts DL MCS/throughput Higher switching threshold values will reduce DL data rate otherwise achievable in the higher SINR regime Single stream used instead of 2 even if Tx ant correlation is low Lower values could allow MIMO too soon -> increases the likelihood that HARQ Retrx/BLER will be higher than achievable with Tx diversity -> lower MCS -> lower DL data rate/throughput at the UE All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 8 CL MIMO 2-UE Limited Mobility for Different MIMO SINR Thresholds UE Avg. DL SINR [dB] Avg. Total L1 Tput [Mbps] TTI Utilizat ion [%] RB Utilizat ion per TTI Aggreg ate RB Utilizati on MCS TB0 MCS TB0 TX1 MCS TB0 TX2 MCS TB1 Avg MCS Total BLER [%] CW0 BLER CW0 TX1 BLER CW0 TX2 BLER CW1 BLER Rank Avg. Tx RX Corr TX Corr CQI Rank1 CQI Rank2 CW0 CQI Rank2 CW1 Ext-MIMOsinrThr 0 dB 8.2 6.4 79.9 58.4 46.7 12.4 11.8 13.2 11.8 12.2 11.4 10.7 10.0 12.0 13.0 1.45 1.39 0.4 0.3 9.2 9.4 8.4 Int- MIMOsinrThr 0 dB 8.4 6.4 79.1 58.2 46.0 11.9 11.5 12.6 12.2 12.0 11.3 10.9 10.2 11.8 12.2 1.51 1.44 0.4 0.4 9.0 8.8 8.7 12.8 158.9 116.6 92.6 UE Avg. DL SINR [dB] Avg. Total L1 Tput [Mbps] TTI Utilizat ion [%] RB Utilizat ion per TTI Aggreg ate RB Utilizati on MCS TB0 MCS TB0 TX1 MCS TB0 TX2 MCS TB1 Avg MCS Total BLER [%] CW0 BLER CW0 TX1 BLER CW0 TX2 BLER CW1 BLER Rank Avg. Tx RX Corr TX Corr CQI Rank1 CQI Rank2 CW0 CQI Rank2 CW1 Ext-MIMOsinrThr 10 dB 8.6 6.7 79.3 58.8 46.6 13.6 13.4 14.0 12.1 13.2 11.1 10.5 9.7 12.1 12.7 1.42 1.33 0.4 0.4 9.4 9.4 8.4 Int-MIMOsinrThr 10 dB 8.7 6.8 78.7 58.6 46.2 13.2 13.2 13.1 13.6 13.3 11.1 10.6 9.6 12.6 12.7 1.50 1.34 0.4 0.4 9.3 8.7 8.7 13.5 158.0 117.5 92.8 UE Avg. DL SINR [dB] Avg. Total L1 Tput [Mbps] TTI Utilizat ion [%] RB Utilizat ion per TTI Aggreg ate RB Utilizati on MCS TB0 MCS TB0 TX1 MCS TB0 TX2 MCS TB1 Avg MCS Total BLER [%] CW0 BLER CW0 TX1 BLER CW0 TX2 BLER CW1 BLER Rank Avg. Tx RX Corr TX Corr CQI Rank1 CQI Rank2 CW0 CQI Rank2 CW1 EXT-MIMOsinrThr 15 dB 7.0 5.4 79.3 54.5 43.2 14.4 14.4 14.2 17.1 14.5 11.1 10.8 10.1 31.8 19.1 1.14 1.03 0.5 0.6 9.5 8.3 9.0 INT-MIMOsinrThr 15 dB 8.6 6.5 86.8 54.1 46.9 14.5 14.2 17.2 17.2 14.8 10.4 9.8 9.1 14.8 14.7 1.53 1.12 0.4 0.4 9.1 8.7 8.8 11.9 166.1 108.5 90.1 UE Avg. DL SINR [dB] Avg. Total L1 Tput [Mbps] TTI Utilizat ion [%] RB Utilizat ion per TTI [%] Aggreg ate RB Utilizati on MCS TB0 MCS TB0 TX1 MCS TB0 TX2 MCS TB1 Avg MCS Total BLER [%] CW0 BLER CW0 TX1 BLER CW0 TX2 BLER CW1 BLER Rank Avg. Tx RX Corr TX Corr CQI Rank1 CQI Rank2 CW0 CQI Rank2 CW1 Int- MIMOsinrThr 0 dB 8.4 6.4 79.1 58.2 46.0 11.9 11.5 12.6 12.2 12.0 11.3 10.9 10.2 11.8 12.2 1.51 1.44 0.4 0.4 9.0 8.8 8.7 Int-MIMOsinrThr 10 dB 8.7 6.8 78.7 58.6 46.2 13.2 13.2 13.1 13.6 13.3 11.1 10.6 9.6 12.6 12.7 1.50 1.34 0.4 0.4 9.3 8.7 8.7 Int-MIMOsinrThr 15 dB 8.6 6.5 86.8 54.1 46.9 14.5 14.2 17.2 17.2 14.8 10.4 9.8 9.1 14.8 14.7 1.53 1.12 0.4 0.4 9.1 8.7 8.8 Analyzing UEs with internal antenna only for a more fair comparison Highest avg. throughput achieved with 10 dB MIMO SINR threshold All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 9 initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers
Problem: max UL throughput in the field is lower than expected for BE
When trying to reach the max theoretical UL throughput in the field in static tests, it is essential to get close to the ideal condition as possible: The mobile should be located close to the site, within the main beam of the antenna. The RSSI should be around -40dBm and the SNR around 25dB for each of the 2 antennas. It is worth to play around separately with each of the antennas until we reach the desired values on each one [this is also recommended in DL throughput issues as well] The other elements that could impact on the throughput [UL and DL] are the MTU settings in the drive-test computer (it is recommended to use TCP Optimizer) and the FTP server configuration. All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 10 initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers configures the initial UL SIR target for non semi-static users. Closed-loop power control allows the eNodeB to send power control commands to the UE. The UE will consequently increase or decrease its transmission power to reach a defined SIR target for the received UE signal at the eNodeB.
UE Tx power increase to reach SIR target at eNodeB All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 11 initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers The higher the parameter, the higher the transmission of the mobile on the PUSCH channel (for non semi-static users) And consequently the higher the received signal quality at the eNodeB. Higher MCS used on the UL => higher throughputs As single UE test is performed in the field, this parameter can be changed from 10 to 18dB to experience max UL throughput. Up to 16Mbps were reached instead of the previous 12Mbps. In multi-UE environment, too high value for this parameter may generate more UL interference and eventually lower total throughput on the UL. In case of multi-UE, it is recommended to use the default value of 10dB. Note: If the total transmission on the mobile is already at its max, i.e. 23dBm, then the UL throughput is already limited for another reason (most probably pathloss).
Conclusion: initialSIRtargetValueForPUSCHnonSemiStaticUsers value was changed from 10 to 18 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 12 Attachment procedure
Problem: UE can not attach to the network, even if located close to the site (Cachan).
Suspicion: qRxLevMin parameter 3-sector site installed on 2 poles No attach possible from this position (RSRP = -102dBm) 30 135 270 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 13 Attachment procedure: qRxLevMin qRxLevMin configures the minimum required Rx level in the cell for the mobile to be allowed to attach to the network. Default DLU value: -50, i.e. -100dBm (2*IE). From drive test data, most locations at cell edge, the signal is between -100dBm and -110dBm, with still reasonable good performance. The value was changed to -55, i.e. -110dBm. The distance range where the UE can attach was increased by a factor of 1.75 Note: -110dBm per Resource Element for the RS (Reference Signal) corresponds to -90dBm for the total RS power. A slightly lower value of qRxLevMin is still possible, but it is not recommended to go lower as reasonable good quality when attaching to the network is required.
Note: Please do the distinction between qRxLevMin and qRxLevMinIntraFreqNeighbour.
qRxLevMinIntraFreqNeighbour is set by default to -70, i.e. -140dBm, and is used in HO procedures to configure the minimum required Rx level in the target cell for the mobile to be allowed to handover to that target cell.
Conclusion: qRxLevMin value was changed from -50to -55 (i.e. -110dBm). All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 14 RxLevMin & RxLevMinOffset (to favor a particular cell) All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 15 Handover optimization
Problem: a lot of ping pongs and call drops in the handover areas.
Suspicion: The following HO parameters were suspected to be the reason: 1- hysteresis 2- TimeToTrigger 3- filterCoefficientRSRP
The tuning steps were done on the parameters with the same order mentioned above All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 16 Handover optimization Handover hysteresis: measurement difference between a source cell and a target cell to trigger a measurement report (from UE to eNodeB). Time-to-trigger: time during which specific criteria for the event needs to be met in order to trigger a measurement report (from UE to eNodeB).
The trigger metric can be RSRP and/or RSRQ.
Handover between cells 54 and 55 -110.00 -105.00 -100.00 -95.00 -90.00 -85.00 -80.00 -75.00 -70.00 -65.00 -60.00 R S R P
( d B m ) RSRP (cell 55) RSRP (cell 54) RSRP Handover hysteresis = 5 dB timeToTrigger All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 17 Handover optimization: RSRP measurement report All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 18 Handover optimization: RSRQ measurement report All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 19 Handover Optimization: timeToTrigger Parameter timeToTrigger configures the time-to-trigger for the HO. The higher its value, the less ping pongs will be seen in the field. Current default value was 20ms. No performance enhancements were seen in the field. Was discovered that changing this parameter will not have any effect unless the new value is above 200ms The reason being that the UE informs the upper layer of any new filtered RSRP every 200ms.
Conclusion: timeToTrigger value was not changed in the field
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 20 Handover Optimization: filterCoefficientRSRP Parameter filterCoefficientRSRP is used to filter and average the RSRP measurements at the UE level at a sample of 200ms. The higher this value, the less ping pongs and less HO rate but increases filter time content and therefore increase HO delay The current default value is 4. It was tuned to a value of 11 for smoother handovers (i.e. filterCoefficientRSRP = fc11). Also, less ping pongs effect was seen in the field. RSRP(n) = (1 1/2 (k/4) ) x RSRP(n-1) + (1/2 (k/4) ) x M(n) Where k = filterCoefficientRSRP M(n) the latest measurement All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 21 Handover Optimization: filterCoefficientRSRP Effect of filterCoefficient k on RSRP -120 -110 -100 -90 -80 -70 -60 R S R P
( d B m ) RSRP Measurements Filtered RSRP (k=4) Filtered RSRP (k=11) Conclusion: filterCoefficientRSRP value was changed from fc4 to fc11 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 22
Intra-Frequency DL Measurements : sIntrasearch / sMeasure Two parameters are used to trigger measurements of the neighbouring cells:
1) sIntrasearch, in idle mode: intra-frequency measurements are triggered when the signal value in the serving cell fulfills the below formula: RSRP serving cell qRxLevMin (in dBm) sIntrasearch (indB)
2) sMeasure, in connected mode: measurements are triggered when the signal value in the serving cell is lower than sMeasure. This parameter is set by default to more_than_minus44, i.e. -43dBm. Meaning that measurements are always performed in connected mode. All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 23 Paging 1/2 It can happen that the mobile receives a lot of paging messages.
This does not necessarily imply UL problems.
The first thing to look at is the TMSI (Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity) value in the paging message and compare it to the TMSI of the mobile we are using (see LLDM NAS ATTACH request).
If both TMSI are matching, then and only then, there might be some UL problems due to UL messages from the mobile not being received by the eNodeB.
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 24 Paging 2/2 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 25 Reselection parameters : qHyst / tReselectionEUTRAN SIB3 Cell reselection is used for mobility in idle mode.
HysteresisCellReselection should theoretically be set to a value at least equal to the handover hysteresis as cell reselection in idle mode is not as important as handover in connected mode. tReselectionEUTRAN configures the time during which specific criteria for the event needs to be met in order to trigger a cell reselection. Its default value is 2s. The idle mode was only quickly tested in mobility, and therefore idle mode mobility parameters were not optimized. But qHyst could be fine tuned. HysteresisCellReselection = qHyst + qOffsetCell qHyst is set by default to 4dB. qOffsetCell is set by default to 3dB for all cells (this parameter, although present in LA1.0, will start to be used in LA1.1). All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 26 Reselection parameters : qHyst / tReselectionEUTRAN Cell reselection between cells 32 and 31 -130.00 -125.00 -120.00 -115.00 -110.00 -105.00 -100.00 -95.00 -90.00 R S R P
( d B m ) RSRP (cell 32) RSRP (cell 31) qRxLevMin = -110 dBm Start of the other-cells measurements with sIntrasearch = 10 dB Reselection hysteresis = 7 dB tReselectionEUTRAN = 2 s All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 27 Handover Hysteresis Background: cellIndividualOffset cellIndividualOffset can be used to fine tune the handover hysteresis on a cell-to-cell basis.
Handover can be made more difficult from cell1 to cell2 by decreasing the cellIndividualOffset of the cell2, or sooner by increasing the value.
The effect would be to decrease number of ping pongs between 2 cells after having already tuned the parameter hysteresis -, or to have an earlier HO before loosing the source cell.
In the next slide, moving from cell 34 to 33, the call is dropped all the time. In the opposite direction, more than 50% dropped call. By setting cellIndividualOffset to dB2 in both direction, the dropped call disappeared as the HO is happening sooner and without any ping-pong. All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 28 Handover Hysteresis Background: cellIndividualOffset Drop call + Reselection on 33 Building doing shadowing All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 29 cellIndividualOffset setting in WiPS Analysis of Handoff Failures at 50% OCNS Loading Murray-Hill Blockhouse Drive test run with G13 DE hardware All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 31 G13 DE run w/ 50% loading 11 failures 5 on the target cell right after HO Typically displayed as T304 expiry on the LLDM Radio Problem Cause screen 6 (4+2) on the source cell itself before MR could be sent out (incl. 2 w/o MR) Typically displayed as SRMax on the LLDM Radio Problem Cause screen Counted as HO failures as MR should have been sent The HO failure rate can be calculated in various ways:
HO Failure Rate 1: (5+6)/(94+2) = 11.5%
HO Failure Rate 2: (5+4)/94 = 9.8%
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 32 Failure 1: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire Sudden / Momentary drop in RSRP on 83 causing UE to send MR to a weak Cell ID 82 SINR drops right after HO to weak cell. RSSI strong. Call drops because UE can not acquire target cell All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 33 Failure 1: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire - Timeline 09:39:56.740 Cell 83: RSRP -67 dBm 09:39:56.750 SINR: 15.65 dB 09:39:56.910 SINR: 15.74 dB 09:39:56.940 Cell 83: RSRP -65 dBm 09:39:57.070 SINR: 14.75 dB 09:39:57.140 Cell 83: RSRP -150 dBm Sudden Drop in RSRP of 83 09:39:57.180 RRC MeasurementReport: (83, RSRP=38) ; (82, RSRP=42) 09:39:57.210 RRC Conn Reconfig Handover Command to weak cell 82 09:39:57.240 SINR: -52 dB 09:39:57.240 Cell 82: RSRP -150 dBm; Cell 83: RSRP -150 dBm 09:39:57.250 RRC Reconfig Complete: Handover Confirm 09:39:57.310 Cell 83: RSRP -65 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -150 dBm 83 strong again 09:39:57.240 SINR: -8.79 dB : 09:39:58.840 SINR: -17.45 dB : 09:39:59.210 Radio Problem Cause (T304 Expiry) - Call drops 42 = ~ -98 dBm RSRP Momentary plunge in 83s RSRP -> causes HO to weak cell 82 -> leads to the drop call What could cause UE to lose 83 momentarily ? All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 34 Failure 2: HO Failure On Source - SRMax MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point the call drops; strong RSSI Last DL and UL grant before the dropped call MR not ready by then All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 35 Failure 2: HO Failure On Source - SRMax - Timeline 09:46:56.590 Cell 81: RSRP -66 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -77 dBm 09:46:56.630 SINR 4.24 : 09:46:58.400 Cell 81: RSRP -70 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -69 dBm 09:46:58.470 SINR -0.80 09:46:58.600 Cell 81: RSRP -70 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -68 dBm 09:46:58.630 SINR 0.92 09:46:58.790 SINR -7.6 09:46:58.800 Cell 81: RSRP -70 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -70 dBm 09:46:58.950 SINR 4.42 09:46:59.000 Cell 81: RSRP -68 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -67 dBm 09:46:59.110 SINR 3.45 09:46:59.190 Cell 81: RSRP -73 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -66 dBm 09:46:59.270 SINR -3.82 09:46:59.390 Cell 81: RSRP -71 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -67 dBm 09:46:59.430 SINR -10.50 09:46:59.590 SINR -7.08 09:46:59.600 Cell 81: RSRP -71 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -71 dBm 09:46:59.750 SINR -4.60 09:46:59.790 Cell 81: RSRP -76 dBm; Cell 82: RSRP -66 dBm 09:46:59.830 RRC MeasurementReport: (81, RSRP=69) ; (82, RSRP=72) Too late to send MR? 09:46:59.910 SINR -44.56 09:46:59.920 Radio Problem Cause (SRMax) MR should be sent out around here before SINR degrades too much? All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 36 Failure 3: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire Sudden / Momentary drop in RSRP on 82 causing UE to send MR to a weak Cell ID 81 SINR drops right after HO to weak cell. RSSI strong. Call drops because UE can not acquire target cell All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 37 Failure 4: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire Sudden / Momentary drop in RSRP on 83 causing UE to send MR to a weak Cell ID 82 SINR drops right after HO to weak cell. RSSI strong. Call drops because UE can not acquire target cell All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 38 Failure 5: HO Failure On Source - SRMax MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point the call drops; strong RSSI Last DL and UL grant before the dropped call MR not ready by then Both source and Target RSRPs drop to -150dBm momentarily just around the time of HO All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 39 Failure 6: HO Failure On Source - SRMax
MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point there are no Grants decoded leading to drop call; strong RSSI Last DL and UL grant before the dropped call MR not ready by then All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 40 Failure 7: HO Failure On Source - SRMax MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point there are no Grants decoded leading to drop call; strong RSSI Last DL and UL grant before the dropped call No MR sent All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 41 Failure 8: HO Failure On Source - SRMax MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point there are no Grants decoded leading to drop call; strong RSSI Last DL and UL grant before the dropped call No MR sent All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 42 Failure 9: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire SINR drops right after HO to weak cell. RSSI strong. Call drops because UE can not acquire target cell Sudden / Momentary drop in RSRP on 112 causing UE to send MR to a weak Cell ID 111 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 43 Failure 10: HO Failure On Target - T304 Expire SINR drops right after HO to weak cell. RSSI strong. Call drops because UE can not acquire target cell Sudden / Momentary drop in RSRP on 112 causing UE to send MR to a weak Cell ID 113 All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 44 Failure 11: HO Failure On Source - SRMax Last UL grant before the dropped call MR not ready by then MR could not be sent out in time before DL SINR degrades to a point there are no Grants decoded leading to drop call; strong RSSI First MR due to momentary / sudden drop in RSRP of 113. Results in HO to 112. Next when 113 becomes strong again, UE attempts to send MR to another weak pilot 82. The MR never gets sent out. All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 45 Layer 3 Analysis Using eDAT All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 46 Call Flow 1/2
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All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 48 Successful Handover Call
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All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 51 Open Issues The following Issues were observed during Phase 4 trial Admission Control UL Fairness HO Performance Throughputs drop Stuck IMSI issue
Admission Control o Ensures that enough radio resources are available to support the dedicated bearer throughput requirements before a new user is allowed to establish connection to the same sector o This capability was not fully functional in the eNB build delivered to the trial hence it was not demonstrated o The feature is planned for validation as part of the LE2.0 release
UL Link Budget UE: USB detach, crashes seen under certain Scenarios
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 52 Open Issues UL Fairness It was observed that with 2 to 4 active UEs, the PRB allocations between users were not quite fair We observe that this fairness issue is not seen with higher number of users under variable radio conditions such as with mobility The main reason for this behavior was identified as the non-flat nature of SRS SINR profile that causes some skew in the priority metric computations of the scheduler, which in turn are used by the PRB allocation algorithm. Additional distortion of the SRS signal from fading that may bias the priority metric evaluated at eNB in field environments UL scheduler has very limited choices for the PRB allocation, hence any bias in the scheduler metrics will result in a noticeable skew in PRB allocation and impact fairness. With larger number of users, PRB allocations are less restrictive and biases in the metrics are not apparent.
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 53 Open Issues HO Performance High Handover Failure Rate under 100% loading PDCCH Performance at low SINR PDCCH has errors or UE could not decode under marginal conditions Signal quality on serving sector degrade noticeably as there is delay in detecting and reporting the candidates UE measurement performance at low SINR RF Coverage Issues Implementation of Aggregation Level 8 has been identified as key enhancement for PDCCH performance. This is plan for LE2.0 Further enhancement to PDCCH Power Control introduced in LA1.1 will be made available in LE2.0 Further UE enhancements will also be required to improve performance.
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 54 Open Issues Throughput Drops Bi-directional TCP traffic & Fairness with Bi-directional FTP DL scheduler fairness and throughput with TCP traffic impacted by bi-directional traffic TCP Acks and bearer data flowing in the UL direction potentially was causing the server to throttle down on the bearer data going in the DL direction Test executed with UDP traffic to evaluate the fairness aspect and RB utilization is quite uniform indicating good fairness Flow that suffers throughput degradation with bi-directional TCP can be improved to the same level as if it is by itself through the TCP window size change
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 55 Open Issues Stuck IMSI Some error conditions causes the call status between the UE, MME and SGW to be out of sync leading to call processing failures. eNB and MME could have released the UE context, but the SGW is still in a state where it has an active context for the same UE UE tries to attach again, SGW would reject it due to an existing session. Work around was to CLEAR the UE IMSI before UE could attach again Mismatch in status between network elements is currently under test and is planned for LE2.0
Uplink Link Budget Uplink MCS and PRB would gracefully reduce to the minimum supported value before the link breaks resulting in a call drop UL MCS did not reach the minimum before the uplink performance degraded and the call ultimately dropped. This reduced the achievable range The issue remains under investigation
UE USB detach, crashes seen under certain scenarios
All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 2006 56 RSRP & RSRQ Measurement Report Mapping
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