When analyzing a 2G network, engineers tend to focus on voice call related issues, such as call quality, call

failures and RF conditions. Engineers emphasize the importance of enhancing voice call performance
mainly by optimizing coverage or attempting to identify the root cause of voice call failures due to adjacency
definition, power control or handover parameter. With the deployment of 3G networks, engineers must also
take notice of network performance data including maintaining balance between throughput, capacity and
radio quality, and also IRAT (Inter Radio Access Technology Handover), in order to ensure a seamless
transition between 2G and 3G networks.

Following are the key attributes followed by Top Telecom Vendors like Ericsson, Huawei & NSN for 2G &
3G KPI Improvement by parameter optimization.
TCH Blocking

If the utilization of a cell is low and its still having blocking check for hardware issue

For high utilized cell, try changing FRL FRU Parameters in the cell

Enable Direct Retry in the cell

Enable Traffic based handovers

If still there is blocking add TRXs if configuration is less than 4 in case of ultra/flexi and 6 in case
of MR

SD blocking

Increase SDCCH timeslots by monitoring trend of SDCCH blocks vs SDCCH attemptsSD

dimensioning

Increase the Value of HYS at LAC boundary cells

Implement Dynamic SDCCH feature

Implement increased SDCCH capacity feature

Perform physical optimization at LAC boundary cells

TCH drop

Check for frequency hit

Change RLT to 28, ARLT to 44

Try reducing the value of RXP

Change QMRG parameter to 3check for degradation in DL quality as well

Check for hardware issue

Check for MO, MS,HSN

Physically optimize if its a cell specific issue

Check for end to end SYNC BTS,BSC & MSS,MGW

HOSR

Check for the neighbours which are causing degradation in HFR

Delete the neighbour if its unwanted

Check for hardware issue in the target cell

Change the value of SL to -90 and QMRG to 3(check for degradation in DL quality as well)

TASR

Check for the 7745 channel failure alarm. Lock the faulty TRXs/timeslots

Change TRP parameter to 1 and BFG to 2

Follow steps mentioned in TCH blocking KPI if TASR is degraded due to TCH blocking

SD drop

Lock the timeslot which is having high SD drop(in case of channel failure alarm starting with 02)

Change T200S(BCF level) to 1000

Change RXP to -102

Paging Success Rate

In case of high paging load, perform LAC splitting

Change AT (Repaging attempts)=2, INT(Repaging interval)=500 ms