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Drive Test and Optimization Tutorial - II

This document discusses drive test field problems and troubleshooting. It describes various issues that can be encountered at the site and radio levels during drive testing including cross-sector interference in 2G and 3G sites, hopping channel variation, carrier-to-interference ratio problems, azimuth shifts, missing neighbor relations, weak coverage, misconfigurations causing poor Ec/No, call drops due to no coverage, interference, low Ec/Io, pilot pollution, wrong neighbors, and blocked calls due to missing or incorrect neighbor definitions. It provides recommendations for addressing each problem such as increasing antenna tilt, power, height, azimuth adjustments, adding new sites or sectors, reconfiguring neighbors, and conducting neighbor audits.

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Drive Test and Optimization Tutorial - II

This document discusses drive test field problems and troubleshooting. It describes various issues that can be encountered at the site and radio levels during drive testing including cross-sector interference in 2G and 3G sites, hopping channel variation, carrier-to-interference ratio problems, azimuth shifts, missing neighbor relations, weak coverage, misconfigurations causing poor Ec/No, call drops due to no coverage, interference, low Ec/Io, pilot pollution, wrong neighbors, and blocked calls due to missing or incorrect neighbor definitions. It provides recommendations for addressing each problem such as increasing antenna tilt, power, height, azimuth adjustments, adding new sites or sectors, reconfiguring neighbors, and conducting neighbor audits.

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Drive Test Tutorial

Part II

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Drive Test Required Tools

Drive Test Measured Radio KPIs and Activities

Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting

Drive Test Optimization and Trails

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Site Issues

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Site level Issues:

• Cross Sector in 2G site.


• Variation on Hopping channel.
• Carrier -over - Interference ratio.
• Cross Sector in 3G site.
• Shift in Azimuth.
• Missing Relations in 3G.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Cross Sector in 2G site :

This is a cross sector between 2 and 4.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Variation on Hopping channel :

Variation in hopping Channel due to hardware


problem (DTRU).

The variation on hopping channel must not increase


than 10 dB.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Carrier -over - Interference ratio :

Bad C/I due to interference ,there are two types

o Co-channel interference (Interference


between same frequencies).

o Adjacent interference (Interference


between two different frequencies).

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Cross Sector in 3G site :

This is a cross sector between 1 and 2

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Shift in Azimuth :

There is shift in sector 2 azimuth

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Missing Relations in 3G :

SC: Scrambling Code in idle mode

AS: Active Set in dedicated mode

MN: Monitored Neighbor can make soft Hand Over


to this SC

DN: Detected Neighbor can not make soft Hand Over


to this SC

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Radio Issues

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Radio level Issues:

• Weak Coverage in 3G.


• Bad Ec/No due to miss configuration.
• Bad Ec/No due to weak coverage.
• Dropped call due to No coverage .
• Dropped call due to ul interference.
• Dropped call due to Bad Ec/Io.
• Dropped call due to Pilot pollution.
• Dropped call due to Wrong Neighbor.
• Blocked call due to missing neighbor definition.
• Blocked call due to Wrong Neighbor.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Weak Coverage in 3G :

Recommendations :

o Mechanical or Electrical up tilt.


o Increase RRU power.
o Re-height antenna sector.
o Re-azimuth.
o Add New Site or Sector.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Bad Ec/No due to miss configuration:

Recommendations :

o Re-plan the neighbors

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Bad Ec/No due to weak coverage:

Recommendations :

o Same solution to enhance the coverage

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to No coverage :

Recommendations :

o Add New Site

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to ul interference:

Recommendations :

o Avoid establish the call on interfered


frequency.
o Try Interference mitigation action.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Bad Ec/Io :

Recommendations :

o Mechanical or Electrical up tilt to offload voice


traffic to NBrs.
o Increase RRU power.
o Re-height antenna sector.
o Re-azimuth.
o Add New Site or Sector.
o Change CPICH Power to decrease the congestion.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Pilot pollution:

Recommendations :

o Add the down-tilt of 31301.


o Or add 31301 to 31472 neighbor list.

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Dropped call due to Wrong Neighbor:

The same SC ((Site947-2-305, Site20-2-305) caused the


dropped calls

Recommendations :

o Re-plan the neighbors

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Blocked call due to missing neighbor definition:

In the above figure, no neighbor definition


between site 66 site police4 and site 31A, so
the MS can’t do soft handover to site31A even
this site’s signal is strong.

Recommendations :

o Neighbor Audit

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Blocked call due to Wrong Neighbor:

Wrong Neighbor List resulted that better radio


link can not be added to active set, and it
caused bad CPICH RSCP and bad CPICH EcNo.

Recommendations :

o Improve RSCP or EcNo

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Drive Test Field Problems and Troubleshooting:-
Example:

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Thanks

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