A CASE STUDY OF LOW CSSR ACCOMPANIED BY HIGH RF FAIL PROBLEM STATEMENT: In TIRUPATI MARKET ( Surat 1 MSC) The CSSR

and RF fail rate were observed to be abysmally poor values during high call volume period. RESOLUTION STEPS: On inspection of Service Measurements for finding out the contributing factors for RF fail , nothing could be earmarked. All the conventional resources like Power, Packet pipe span, WC, RSSI rise were found within engineered values. That was as per expectation as the Block rate was not high . With this the RF environment was under doubt. Some extensive drive testing and coverage tuning was undertaken but could not yield any improvement. The mystery finally unfolded when we audited the LAPD SIGNALLING engineering ( between AP and BTS). It was found that the BTS which is MODCELL 4 having 4 FA was grown with 1 (64kbps wide) LAPD for each URC . In MODCELL 4 each URC is capable of taking upto 4 carries. When all the associated carrier signalling are imposed on a single URC the signalling load increases manifold and we need to increase the width of LAPD signalling between AP and BTS to 128 Kbps. It is recommended as per SCME ( Lucent DOC NO:401-610-009 Issue 27.0 sep 2004 Section 2-22 Modcell 4.0 (OneBTS) Engineering) that
Signaling Link Width
Each fully loaded carrier needs 2 DS0s per signaling link per URC. Each URC supports 1 active signaling link and 1 standby/alternate signaling link. Therefore, if a URC is configured to support 2 fully loaded carriers, the active and standby signaling links should be 2 DS0s each. When the Load Sharing Configuration is used, this requirement remains, since the URC can support at most 2 fully loaded carriers only 2 DS0s per signaling link are necessary. If more than one T1 is equipped, the primary and alternate signaling links should be configured on different spans. For existing LAPD based signaling link, each fully loaded 3G-1X carrier requires

1DS0 bandwidth to support the signaling traffic.

Ramifications of Under-Sizing Signaling Link Width.

If only 1DS0 is allocated for the signaling link when 2 fully loaded carriers are configured on the URC, the signaling link may get overloaded as the carrier loading increases. Signaling messages will be delayed over the backhaul. If the congestion is severe, the signaling messages may be dropped and the performance of all call signaling events (access, handoff) will be degraded.

This clarifies the resolution further. So in short if we have 2 or more carriers configured to an URC we need to assign 2 LAPDS . PROACTIVE MEASURES: With this resolution solving the problem , it was assumed that the problem will be universal to Multi carrier MOD CELL 4 deployed across the network . A sample audit was run on 10 MSCs and the results are tabulated below.
CELL NO(URC POPULATED RECOMMENDED MSC NO) PARAMETER VALUE VALUE 113(1) sl_width1 1 2 2(1) sl_width1 1 2 21(1) sl_width1 1 2 3(1) sl_width1 1 2 SURAT1 59(1) sl_width1 1 2 61(1) sl_width1 1 2 95(1) sl_width1 1 2 113(2) sl_width2 1 2 131(1) sl_width1 1 2 PATNA1 62(3) sl_width3 1 2 JAIPUR2 187(1) sl_width1 1 2 JAIPUR1 NIL JAIPUR3 NIL PATNA2 28(1) sl_width1 1 2 BHOPAL1 177(1) sl_width1 1 2 153(1) sl_width1 1 2 161(1) sl_width1 1 2 166(1) sl_width1 1 2 194(1) sl_width1 1 2 195(1) sl_width1 1 2 140(1) sl_width1 1 2 196(1) sl_width1 1 2

169(1) 122(1) 188(1) 189(1) 141(1) 178(1) 145(1) 191(1) 187(1) 144(1) 176(1) 174(1) 193(1) 179(1) 163(1) 158(1) 171(1) 180(1) BHOPAL2

sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 sl_width1 NIL

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

The existing RF AUDIT tool was modified to to take care of LAPD width audit and is attached alongwith . The CSSR and RF fail stats in the site before and after implementing the changes is attached herewith for your reference.