Call Drop

Enhancement
Trial [T305&
T308]
Feb-2017

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 Agenda

1 Timers values and description

2 Trial Result

3 Summary

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 Timer values and description

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Timers description

During a Mobile terminated call, if A party disconnects (hangs up after finishing

conversation), MSC sends a DISCONNECT message to the B party and initiates a
supervision timer T305 waiting for RELEASE message from the mobile.
If not received, T305 expires.
MSC then sends RELEASE to B party and initiates a timer T308 waiting for RELEASE
COMPLETE message. If not received, T308 expires.
This is repeated once again.
If no response is received from the mobile yet, MSC initiates a CLEAR command, releasing
the resources.
As a default values of T305 and T308 are set to 30 seconds in the network.
With the previous setting, BSC will send a CLEAR REQUEST to MSC within this time period,
which will be a drop call, mostly due to T200 timer expiry.
If this Timers are changed to values below T200+ this scenario will not be counted as
Drop call

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It is to be emphasized that the above drop is not subscriber impacting since it is mainly
occurring by very bad coverage areas(Garage,Elevators, etc.) in the B party side.

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Timer Flow T305 + 2*T308 < (N200+1)*T200 Proposed setting

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 T200 Timers description

Relation to T200 Expiry: T305 + 2*T308 < (N200+1)*T200 to mask Unneeded

Drops

When the BTS transmits a DL layer-2 frame on the air the BTS starts the timer T200 and waits for
the acknowledgement frame from the MS. If the acknowledgement from the MS is not received
within time T200 the transmission of the layer 2 frame is repeated and T200 timer restarted.
The total number of repetitions is restricted to N200, a fixed value specified by GSM which
depends on the control channel types.

If T200 expires after the last layer 2 frame repetition the BTS sends an ERROR INDICATION with
causes "T200 expired N200+1 times (followed by a RELEASE INDICATION) message to the BSC,
which releases the associated resources.

When BSC receives Clear CMD message from MSC, BSC will start T3109, and after this time,

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Network will ignore the ERROR INDICATION message from BTS. So if the MSC can send CLEAR
COMMAND before T200 expiry, by changing T305 and T308, then the drops which are not
subscriber perceived but triggered due to T200 expiry will be ignored.

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 T200 & N200 Value

Name Value Remarks Value in seconds

T200 for SACCH/T 312 Hard coded on value within range according to Reference [5]; unit=TDMA frame.
8.64
N200 for SACCH/T 5 Hard coded according to Reference [5]; unit=times

T200 for FACCH/F 30 Hard coded on value within range according to Reference [5]; unit=TDMA frame.
4.85

N200 for FACCH/F 34 Hard coded according to Reference [5]; unit=times

T200 for FACCH/H 43 Hard coded on value within range according to Reference [5]; unit=TDMA frame.
5.95

N200 for FACCH/H 29 Hard coded according to Reference [5]; unit=times

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From above T200 settings , Core Timers 2 &1 secs is the optimum values that can achieve
improvement

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 Trial Result

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 Timers Value Trials In Makkah Pool
Default MSC Timer
MSC T305 T308
Makkah Pool 30 Seconds 30 Seconds

MSC Timer Tuned values results and dates

Tune Date MSCPOOL_ID T305 T308 Impact

14-Feb MSCPOOL_MAKKAH 2 1 Improved by 16.7%

3-Feb MSCPOOL_MAKKAH 8 3 no Improvement

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15-Mar MSCPOOL_MAKKAH 3 3 no Improvement

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Makkah TCH Drop Comparison 1st ,2nd & 3rd

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Core Timers Tuning to 4 seconds resulted in an improvement while 16 & 9 seconds resulted in no
improvement.
19th March CDR is high impacted by BSIC plan change MDT
Percentage of bad quality drops are minor (around 5% of total drops in Makkah) which indicate a
very good quality in Makkah under decent coverage conditions.

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Cell Improvement Distribution after Change

5<>10

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7% of the cells TNDROP improved by >= 10 drops after changing core Timers to 4 secs.
Most of the improvement is on the range of 0-5 drops on cell level.
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 Summary

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Summary

Market research shows that some operator changed the Core Timer to T305( 2 secs) & T308 (1 secs) as
this the only value that can bring improvement.

Operator Best Practice

India Nigeria Sudan Egypt

Percentage of bad quality drops are minor (around 5% of total drops in Makkah) which indicate a very
good quality in Makkah under decent coverage conditions.

its clear that 1st tune to (4 sec) is the only setting that can fulfill the equation T305 + 2*T308 <

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(N200+1)*T200

Old Values New Values

MSCPOOL_ID
T305 T308 T305 T308

MSCPOOL_MAKKAH 30 30 2 1

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 To Better Communicate

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