Preparation

• Make HW inventory and current power levels (see input from Wim)
• Resulted in: many cells have incorrect MaxDLPowerCapability. This need to be corrected
before license additions, also for SON sites.
• Many cells have Txdiversity and MIMO Transmission Scheme set. What is the impact?
• Make plan for MaximumTransmissionPower and CPICH power changes
• Determine license impact and check if license are available to enable 43 dBm
maximumTransmissionPower
• Make overview which licenses are needed for Pilot and Network wide implementation
• License implementation (pilot, rest)
• A direct link between network power settings and Atoll should be made (VF
internal scope)
• Atoll should use the actual cell based CPICH values
• Can be done independent of network power adaptation
• Network to be leading, in order to support SON initiated changes

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Expected impact on quality and KPIs
• CPICH power increase trial conducted in 2011 showed in general positive results.
• Improvements:
• DL CPICH RSCP improved due to the higher CPICH power setting
• The DL CPICH Ec/No improved due to the reduction of own cell interference.
• Positive impact is seen in a retainability improvement and an increase in 3G traffic (both
voice and packet).
• Different P-CPICHpower settings can be used (within limits), without having a negative
impact on performance.
• Points of attention:
• P-CPICH power increase trial shows only one negative impact, a decrease in the average user
throughput. (16% in trial)
• RRC admission blocking shows a shift to power based blocking. During the trial only a local
impact on accessibility was seen due to this. One cell was changed back to old CPICH settings
because of this