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Possible Optimisation Processes

 Overshooting Cells\ Pilot Overshooting  Pilot Pollution  Poor Coverage Levels (Poor Dominance)  Interfering Coverage  Pilot Surprise  Missing Neighbours

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Overshooting Cells\ Pilot Overshooting

 Overshooting refers to excess coverage levels\range of a cell, i.e.
 Cell pilot power is detected far (how far?) from its origin  Cell pilot power is detected beyond first\second tier neighbouring sites

 Overshooting Cells can be detected by the following logic

 For every measurement point, calculate the distance (to all detected cell) 
and the average distance Report on those cells which are above or X times the average distance

 Further enhancements can be made by considering

 Different distance criteria based on site density\area type, e.g.
 mean distance < 1km overshooting cells three times the average distance  mean distance > 1km overshooting cells two times the average distance

 Only consider measurement points having three or more detected cells  A cell has to appear at least X number of times to be considered as over
overshooting

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Overshooting Cells- RNC TBRNC10 Cluster 327

Scrambling Code 307 84 46 91 260 17 47 # detected MS-1 53 48 31 29 22 19 11 Scrambling Code 307 84 46 91 260 17 47 # detectedMS-3 8 21 1 1 13 10 4

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Overshooting SC 307 (Appeared 57 times)

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Overshooting SC 84 (Appeared only 20 times)

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Overshooting SC 86 (Appeared only 4 times)

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Overshooting SC 260 (Appeared only 22 times)

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Overshooting SC 260 (does not make sense)

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Pilot Pollution
 Pilot pollution can defined as the regions where the number of
detected cells are greater than the Active Set (AS )size and also above the AS activation Ec/Io threshold

 Pilot polluters can be detected by the following logic  Only consider those measurement points where the number of
detected cells > 3

 Further filter the measurement points where all cells are detected

above an Ec/Io threshold of X dB (-12) and not below Y dB (e.g. 10) of that of the best cell pilot pollution information, i.e. the first three cells belong to active set and rest pilot polluters

 Measurement points extracted by the above criteria contain the

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