Eastern G900 Re-farming Acceptance

Report

Executive Summary
Project result

Privanet and DATAX smoothly completed refarming PoC in the

nominated zone, Puchong

Project details

BA list rotation was peformed during data collection to ensure accurate

reflection of RF environment

Several BCCH/TCH bands splits were analysed and DATAX

recomendation (15BCCH 32TCH) was chosen (with Digi approval)
for implementation
Implementation
scripts were prepared automatically by DATAX CM

(Configuration Management) solution and smoothly implemented in the

network with no conflicts.
Improvement of:
Retention of: 2G KPIs
Slight deggaration of: (if any)

KPI results

Actions for
improvement

Only very few actions were planned to address local issues, not all of them were
executed due to lack of time. The results achieved were mainly to the frequency plan.

Conclusions

Privanet & DATAX created a setup which can be easily scalled to deliver refarming in
entire Digis network, delivering excellent results.

Loh to update

Agenda
01 Introduction
02 Refarming Implementation
03 KPIs results
04 Post Optimisation Activities
05 Justification
06 Lessons learnt
07 Conclusion and Recommendation

01 Introduction

Project information
Project type

AFP, Spectrum Refarming

Cluster info

Puchong, 22 sites, 66 cells, 1800MHz band

Buffer info

Cells up to 2nd trier of the Nbours from the retune cluster (see the map on the next
slide)

Goals

Scope

New Freqency
Distribution

5MHz Spectrum reduction on 1800

band
KPI retention (or improvement)
Neighbours optimisation
Frequency Planning (BCCH and TCH layers)
Antenna downtilt and parameters tuning (interference optimisation)
shall be performed as necessary post refarming implementation to
further improve the network KPI

DATAX recommendation for band split: 15 BCCH, 32 TCH

Ashraf to update

Retune Area
Scope:
buffer zone

66 cells in retune zone

287 cells in buffer zone

retune zone

Kaloyan to update, pls add border informatio

Re-farming Methodology Diagram

82
1

81
2

Pre:

870

BCCH

TCH

BCCH

838

Post:

885

870

TCH

Number of Channels Pre

Number of Channels Post
Reduction

885

BCCH

BCCH

TCH

24
15
37.5%

48
32
33.3%

Kaloyan to update to G900

02 Refarming Implementation

Frequency Plan Pre AFP Optimisation

NB optimization: NB Delete and Add, no major inter-band or intra-band missing
relations found.

TRX cut completed no degradation observed.

Cell shaping completed. 10 out of 18 cells - Overshooting and/or generating high
overlapping.

Kaloyan/Milen to update with

methodology of TRX dimensioning ,
NBR/cell shaping criteria

Frequency Plan Interference

affected Traffic

Performance of 900Mhz network is expected to maintain after refarming.

Kaloyan/Milen to update, use pre and

post. Try adding barchart to see if its
more presentable

Frequency Plan - Channel sets

assignment to Address Interference
from Thailand
Kaloyan/Milen
to update
afford based on
RRU scan to
give better AFP
In the 30 km area Extended band have been assigned
On the sites with #TRS > 5 primary band has been added as TCH, in case RSSI< -98 dBm
Cells within 30-60 km have been identified and will be under optimization actions in case of degradation

Frequency Plan Further TRX Cut on

Worst Cell

Further 21 TRX need to be cut to solve the impact on worst cells.

Kaloyan/Milen to update

Refarming Implementation
1. MMR collection

01.06 06.06 Slight delay caused by BA list rotation discussion,

resulting in 4 (instead of 5) working days of data
collection.
Baseband hopping retained
Band split with 15 BCCH channels and 32 TCH channels
chosen as best balanced for retune zone

2. Frequency
planning strategy

10th of June 2016

3. Frequency plan
implementation

Implementation was executed in 2 phases:

4. Results

I Neighbour relation deletion

II Frequency and BSIC plan implementation with NB relation
addition
Scripts prepared using DATAX CM software no issues during
implementation
KPI retention or improvement
(Hourly KPIs monitoring in the post-implementation phase)

Kaloyan/Milen to update

03 KPIs Results

OSS KPI Summary

Item

KPI Description

PRE (Baseline)
25th - 29th May 2016

Post 16th - 20th June

2016

Delta

Remark

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

2G Voice Call Set up Success Rate

2G TCH Drop
2G Handover Success Rate
2G TCH Availability
2G Voice Traffic
2G Downlink RxQual Distribution
2G Uplink RxQual Distribution
3G CS Call Setup Success Rate
3G CS Drop Call Rate
3G Voice Traffic

96.52%
0.61%
98.97%
98.71%
108608
2.53%
2.27%
99.74%
0.35%
135690.84

96.62%
0.67%
98.92%
98.75%
99916
2.69%
2.49%
99.55%
0.46%
128127.18

0.10%
0.06%
-0.05%
0.04%
-8692.00
0.16%
0.22%
-0.19%
0.11%
-7563.66

Improved
Increased
Reduced
Improved
Reduced (8%)
Increased
Increased
Reduced
Increased
Reduced

11

3G to GSM Hard Handover Success Rate

96.41%

96.48%

0.07%

Remains

99.31%

99.32%

0.01%

Remains

99.75%
91038.55
99.41%
0.03%
16918142.55
1613753.03
96.97%
0.47%
244299

99.64%
85941.04
99.92%
0.03%
19807653.53
1814297.76
96.96%
0.55%
228043

-0.11%
-5097.51
0.51%
0.00%
2889510.98
200544.73
-0.01%
0.08%
-16256

Reduced
Reduced (5.6%)
Improved
Remains
Improved
Improved
Remains
Increased
Reduced

12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

PS UMTS to GPRS cell reselection

success rate
3G Site Availability
3G Voice Traffic(Best Cell)
LTE Data Setup Success Rate
LTE Data DCR
LTE DL Data Volume
LTE UL Data Volume
Blended Voice CSSR
Blended Voice DCR
Combined 2G+3G Voice Traffic

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update

Netmax KPIs

Ashraf/Nazreen to update

2G KPI Trending

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update to graphs from
performance template

3G KPI Trending

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update to graphs from
performance template

LTE KPI Trending

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update to graphs from
performance template

Netmax Geolocation Plot

Ashraf/Nazreen to update

Netmax Distribution Plot

Ashraf/Nazreen to update

04 Post Optimisation Activities

DCR Trending and Optimisation

Summary

Praveen to Summarise opti

DCR Parameters and Feature

Praveen to update

DCR Thai Border Frequency Retune

more than 30km
Thai Border Retuned Cells DCR
1.5
1
0.5
0

80
60
40
20
0

Sum of GO_TCH Drop Numerator

Average of TCH Drop %

Thai Border Retuned Cells DCR Traffic

20
15
10
5
0

Total

Milen/Kaloyan to
update AFP afford

HOSR Trending and Optimisation

Summary

Praveen to update

Other KPI Trending and Optimisation

Summary

Praveen/Suren/Andrew to update

05 Justification

DCR

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update

Traffic Trending

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update

Any other KPIs

Suren/Andrew/Shashank/Kamal to
update

06 Lesson Learnt

Better Consistency Checking

Concern

Inconsistent on external neighbour found in eastern region after

refarming

Impact

The inconsistency has affected IRAT HOSR%

Slightly degraded 3G DCR in specific area where G900 is dominant

External neighbours were partially imported from tools

Consistency check was not thorough where Inconsistency on

external neighbour that is not updated by the script was unnoticed.

Inconsistency were corrected on 11th Oct. Check from latest network

dump shows healthy. Another con-check performed on 12 th Oct
showed external neighbour definition were fine.
Necessary correction on data server was done on 12 th Oct. Test found
no missing external neighbour after correction
Consistency check against network dump after refarming instead of
output script

Root Cause

Action and
Prevention

07 Conclusion and Recommendation

Conclusions & Recommendations

Successful factors of the country-wide refarming project:

Good and fast AFP solution

Skilled and experienced engineers

Process automation
to

To produce high quality results

To allow quick verification of several what-if scenarios before
plan implementation
To scale the calculation from small cluster to big cluster while
maintaining excellent quality results.
To operate the AFP tool
To conduct post-AFP fine-tuning

Avoid human mistakes

Be able to to scale the process from several sites to several
thusands of sites with the same human resources
Guarantees replicability of the process and quality of the
results

Privanet & DATAX demonstrated very efficient setup consisting from skilled engineers and good AFP
solution.
Due to high level of automation, the setup will guarantee nation-wide refarming project at Digi.

Loh to update

Thank You

Punch List

KPI, if any

Appendix

CR Tracker

Ashraf/Zaim to update

DT Results

Kamal to slot in if KPIs are good