MTN SA - 3G

Radio TX Impact & Plans:

Sites <3E1 & 2nd Carrier Activations
21 Sept 2011
Agenda- Low E1 site Impact
1. Existing sites with one E1 capacity- Site Example
o Impact on Accessibility
o Impact on Retainability
o Impact on Throughput
o TX background
2. New sites being integrated into the network with one E1
capacity- Cluster Example
o Cluster - Northriding
o Data Revenue Impact
o Performance Impact of the cluster
3. Impact of Single Carrier Sites
4. General Ericsson HSPA Health Analysis Feedback
o Summary of Findings
o 1xE1 affect on peak user throughput rate
5. Way forward
• “Opening” up of the radio Initiative
• Targeted Hit list (Report)
• Status Quo and Execution
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1. Existing sites with one E1 capacity
Impact on Accessibility Example:3309

Voice

Voice severely effected by

capacity limitation

Data Data CSSR

Data growth is very steep
Data also severely effected by
capacity limitation
Data Attempts

Not aligned to impact of

Smartphones.
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Need minimum E1 of 3 per site
1. Existing sites with one E1 capacity
Impact on Retainability Example:3309

Even the drop call rate is

degraded due to limited
resources
Voice

One E1 capacity is defined at 4200 Cps (ATM cells/sec)

 This limit is reached daily
Impact is seen across all RABS
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1. Existing sites with one E1 capacity
Impact on Throughput Example: 3567

30% of Data re-transmitted

due to Buffer overload Ridgeway Gardens S/Centre U3567
Site is working over RANO with 1E1

Top 5 Worst Performing sites

Summed HS Peak HS Summed HS Last

Current Today's
SITEID REGION Frame Loss Frame loss Frames SITENAME PLANNER Month's
Rank Rank
on Iub on Iub Received Rank
Ridgeway
THOBELA
3567 JSS 2,619,487 2,619,487 12,563,562 Gardens 1 1 1
FRANS
S/Centre
Lombardy West ANDRE
3026 SAS 2,133,295 2,133,295 41,239,686 2 4 2
Telkom CLOETE
Gardens VIVEK
1352 STH 457,063 457,063 34,520,332 3 2 30
Buildings ALEXANDER
490 KRU 1,820,581 1,820,581 9,568,458 Toekomsrus SIMON 4 5 4
Police Stn MAKGOPA
Allen Glen High SIMON
3900 KRU 1,179,157 1,179,157 15,694,473 5 7 8
School MAKGOPA

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 1. Existing sites with one E1 capacity
Transmission history Example:3309

NodeB Link Information

Opex “Saving” Initiative U3309 Submit
Example:
STATUS SERVICE_LEVEL ALLOCATION TYPE
Planned 99.50% New Site Build Self Provisioned
C ompleted 99.50% 3G Telkom
Cancelled 99.50% HSDPA Telkom
Cancelled 99.50% HSDPA Telkom
Cancelled 99.50% HSDPA Telkom
Cancelled 99.50% HSDPA Telkom

One Telkom E1 currently active

4x Telkom E1s were cancelled
Awaiting Self provision E1 as a replacement for several months

GAU Overall impact/

Example:

Hsframe lost
Impact of TX on Radio with regards to PS CSSR
Impact of TX on Radio on Radio Capability
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on 40%)
2. New sites being integrated with 1E1
Cluster impact (1)

Cluster – U5499, U0500, U4336, U3323

New Site – U6678 (Became operational : 20th June 2011)

One bad site can pull down the

performance of the whole Area
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2. New sites being integrated with 1E1

CSSR_PS_INT

and User
Throughput
Drop in CSSR PS
AVG(THRPUT_USER_DL_HS)
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Cluster impact (3)
Expected
Cluster Revenue

New site activated

Estimated
Revenue Loss

New Site
Contribution

Need minimum E1 of 3 per site to

reduce
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 3. Impact of Single Carrier sites in Multicarrier areas
A “casualty” of low E1 sites

ISSUE
• Ericsson only
allows either
GSM or IFHO
preferred for CM
• Additionally
Examples of Mobility is
Dropped Call
limited on the
“Risk” areas
second carrier
(number of NR in
system is limited)
ACTION:
1. MORE 2 CARRIER SITES
2. Short term Bias: Activation of
Voice calls that enter multirab state will go up to DCH load sharing to force
second Carrier then could be susceptible to drops Multi Rab onto first carrier
GUIDELINE: NOT OK for Single Carrier to be This is being done by Ericsson as
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surrounded by Multicarrier. part of HS upgrade Project
4. Ericsson HSPA Capacity Analysis
Summary and Actions
Ericsson Health Check of MTN SA
Action:
HSPA network
All sites with 2x Carriers are getting
HSPA on both. Only available in W10B.
Project planned to be driven by E///
HS upgrade team as need HW
Action:
New EUL parameters are being
implemented after extensive trails.
Rollout already started on 2 nodes.
Ericsson does have a EUL
limitations. Improved in future SW
releases with features (W11 & W12)
Action:
1.No more 1x E1 sites to be
integrated.
2. Current sites should have a plan in
place to be upgraded
Action:
Handset alignment with Marketing
Results based on 3x RNCs

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4.Ericsson HSPA Capacity Analysis
Summary- TX findings
Iub limited capacity is a major limiting factor for user peak rates

80% of 1E1 cells are

within 1.6-1.8mbps
range
=Throttling

10 Mbps Throttling
on Core??()/ TX
=Throttling

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 5. Way forward:
“Opening up the radio”- Initiatives tied to Basic Mbps model

Step 2
Step 1

Step 1 Step 2 Note: RBS Stats behind-Not able to see full

impact on throughput etc.
Up to 25% gain!
Motivation:
1. Open up Radio to gain
capacity at NO COST
2. Make Bottlenecks more
Step 1: Increasing UL & DL CE license to match available hardware (RBRNC2 and NLRNC1) visible to ensure better
Step 2: Aligning parameters to new LKF model (RBRNC2 and NLRNC1)
Step 3: Increasing UL & DL CE, aligned parameters to new LKF model (GERNC1)
priority/ focus
3. Reduce RNC Processor Load
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 Backup: New License Model and Node B Configuration
Why and Disadvantages

Why
•Reduce NW Bottlenecks- Highlighting the areas that’s really limiting the throughput (TX)
•Get more traffic onto HSPA - more efficient than R99
• Take congestion UP to other resources due to HSPA user limitation (reduce these bottlenecks)
•Simplify Site Configuration / Discrepancies

DL Codes / DL
Power Congestion
• Increased R99 users causing
• Increased R99 users
congestion on ATM resources
consumes more DL Codes/ DL
• More users on FACH and (Class A and B)
Power
R99 RABs • R99 less efficient than HSPA
• User throughput degrades ATM Congestion
HSDPA / EUL User on Class A/B
Admission Failures

Disadvantages
•HSDPA/EUL throughput limited by Iub
•No HW reserve capacity due to UL/DL CE LKF matched with HW
•Mitigation- SMS notification when UL/DL CE reaches 85%
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 5. Way forward:
Prioritized Focus/ OPERATIONAL LIST (1)

Iub Congestion Report Created to Highlight

•Iub limiting HSDPA/EUL throughput
•ATM congesting
•Technology and E1 count

Impact Mitigation:
1. May result in Increased EUL/HSDPA meaning more HW upgrades (but immediate return on investment)
•EUL users requires RAX board additions (Planning have in stock)
•HSDPA users requires HS-TXB boards
•Process: HQ is issuing Requests a week after activating new license model/s

2. Notification on Resource Utilisation

•Implementing SMS/E-mail notification once UL/DL CE reaches 85%
•Engineers will use this as indication to order new RAX/HS-TXB boards

http://facts/facts/report/Planning/Planner+Reports/GAU/Transport/ATM_Congestion_Layered
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5. Way forward:
Prioritized Focus/ OPERATIONAL LIST (2)
• Transmission can also use RADIO reports to prioritize TX requirements/ lists:
• HDSPA Limiting Ratio (Each 15min interval is between 0 and 100, reports sums all
ratio’s for period of interest and sorts by this to give the worst performing list)
• HS_Frame Lost (as above but this is only for IP)

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5. Way forward:
Prioritized Focus/ OPERATIONAL LIST (3)

PROPOSAL: Transmission can also use RADIO reports to prioritize TX

requirements/ lists:
REPORT as per previous Page
http://facts/facts/report/Planning/Planner+Reports/GAU/Transport/ATM_Congestion_Layered
Aggregation of 3G Site KPI’s Per DXX (Transmission Nodes)
•Indicates congesting backhaul
•Combines KPI’s from sites serving off a DXX (Example DXX DCR and CSSR)

http://facts.mtn.co.za/facts/secure/report/Planning/3G/3G_DXX_Status

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5. Way forward:
Going Forward

 RADIO OPTIMISATION
Continue rollout of “opening up the radio”
FNI nodes for HS activation on 1st carrier combined with DCH Load sharing then
network rollout
HS LIMITING RATIO REPORT to be used as priority List by ALL once “radio opened up”
RADIO PLANNING:
Radio Planning will focus on activating 2nd carrier on all 2011 HSPA+ selected sites
with available Tx, plan is complete as many by end Q4.
 HSPA activations on C1 & C2 layers further increasing the dependency on TX, also in
prep for MC activations (42Mbps capability)
 Budget required to top up on equipment i.e. BB cards, ETMFX11 cards, RU/FU kits
and cabling Kickoff work on Top 1000 sites (which should have
been on 21Mbps). Note sites will require physical 18
rework when 21mbps is implemented (more budget)
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