CE Upgrade Guideline and

Troubleshooting Case

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Introduction

Uplink CE Dimensioning Downlink CE Dimensioning

Percentage of CE Percentage
CE Mean Num Total CE CE Consum Mean Num of Total CE of CE
Consumptio of Service Consumptio Consumption ption for Service RBs Consumpti Consumptio
Radio n for Each RBs (Radio n for Each for Each Each (Radio on for Each n for Each
Bearer Bearer Bearers) Bearer Bearer Bearer Bearers) Bearer Bearer
AMR12.2k 1 401.19 401.19 4.74% 1 401.19 401.19 16.65%
CS64k 3 3.56 10.67 0.13% 2 3.56 7.11 0.30%
PS8k 1 11.35 11.35 0.13% 1 27.61 27.61 1.15%
PS16k 1 12.50 12.50 0.15% 1 12.38 12.38 0.51%
PS32k 1.5 32.39 48.59 0.57% 1 18.22 18.22 0.76%
PS64k 3 2031.37 6094.12 71.98% 2 196.84 393.68 16.34%
PS128k 5 143.08 715.38 8.45% 4 131.62 526.47 21.85%
PS144k 5 0.31 1.56 0.02% 4 0.00 0.00 0.00%
PS256k 10 1.22 12.24 0.14% 8 0.00 0.00 0.00%
PS384k 10 115.88 1158.78 13.69% 8 71.33 570.60 23.68%
HSDPA 0 0.00 0.00 0.00% 1 452.50 452.50 18.78%
Grand
Total N/A N/A 8466.37 100.00% N/A N/A 2409.77 100.00%

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WBBP Board Specification
Board Number of Cells Number of UL Number of DL Number of Number of Number of
CEs CEs HSDPA Codesa HSDPA UEs HSUPA UEs

WBBPa 3 128 256 3x15 96 60

WBBPb1 3 64 64 3x15 64 64
WBBPb2 3 128 128 3x15 128 96
WBBPb3 6 256 256 6x15 144 96
WBBPb4 6 384 384 6x15 144 96
WBBPd1 6 64 64 6x15 128 96
192 192
WBBPd2 6 256 256 6x15 144 144
384 384
WBBPd3 6 256 256 6x15 144 96
WBBPf1 6 64 128 6x15 144 144
192 256
WBBPf2 6 256 384 6x15 192 192
WBBPf3 6 256 384 6x15 256 256
384 512
WBBPf4 6 512 768 6x15 384 384
a: The number of HSDPA codes supported by the WBBPd1 is 6x15, in which 6 is the number of cells and 15 is the
number of HSDPA codes supported by each cell.
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 Upgrade Procedure

Follow recommendation configuration for after Upgrade CE, this required to utilizing CE resource and
avoid unbalance load

Local cell WBBP board Type of Board Suggestion

>6 Any Any Make Two UL group
6 >2 Diffirent type Make Two UL group
6 >2 Same type One group

Related to UPEU board specification, number of WBBP board and type need to follow the
configuration below
UPEUa UPEUc
Configuratio WBBPf WBBPf
ns WBBPb WBBPd WBBPb WBBPd
6*WBBP 6
6*WBBP 4 2 4 2
5*WBBP 3 2 2 3
4*WBBP 1 3 4
1
4*WBBP 4 3
1 1
3*WBBP 2 2
2 2
3*WBBP 1 1
3 3
3*WBBP
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Downgrade activity

100928_Ciawi_-_Cikeruh_-_Jatinangor_MBTS (Downgrade on
Jan 26, 2016 )
Impact : CE Congestion due to imbalance CE capacity between
WBBP group 0&1
Solution : make 1 group

Before Downgrade After downgrade Solution

Local Cell Scale Cell UL Baseband Equipment ID
Cell ID Local Cell Type Indication ID UL Baseband Equipment ID WBBP Slot BBPTC WBBP Slot BBPTC Proposed
315
1 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 05 0 0
315
2 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 06 0 0
315 Connect to WBBP Slot 128 & Connect to WBBP Slot
3 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 07 0 2&3 384 0 128 0
374
4 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 52 1 0
374
5 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 53 1 0
374 Connect to WBBP Slot 128 & Connect to WBBP Slot
6 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 54 1 0&1 384 3&4 128 & 384 0

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Downgrade Activity

101922_Adiyaksa_Sukapura_MBTS (Downgrade on Jan 28, 2016 )

Impact : CE Congestion due to imbalance CE capacity between
WBBP group 0&1
Solution : make 1 group

Before Downgrade After downgrade Solution

Local Cell Scale Cell UL Baseband Equipment ID UL Baseband Equipment ID
Cell ID Local Cell Type Indication ID Before WBBP Slot BBPTC WBBP Slot BBPTC After
346
1 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 46 0 0
346
2 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 47 0 0
346 Connect to WBBP Slot 128 & Connect to WBBP Slot
3 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 48 0 2&3 384 1 128 0
375
4 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 72 1 0
375
5 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 73 1 0
375 Connect to WBBP Slot 128 & Connect to WBBP Slot
6 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 74 1 0&1 384 3&4 128 & 384 0

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Upgrade activity

104640_PAOMAN_UTARA_3G (Downgrade on Jan 27, 2016 )

Impact : CE Congestion due to imbalance CE capacity between
WBBP group 0&1
Solution : make 1 group

Before Upgrade After Upgrade Solution

Local Cell Cell Scale UL Baseband Equipment UL Baseband Equipment ID
ID Local Cell Type Indication Cell ID ID Before WBBP Slot BBPTC WBBP Slot BBPTC After
1 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 35433 0 0
2 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 35434 0 0
Connect to WBBP Slot Connect to WBBP Slot 2
3 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 35435 0 3 384 &3 384 & 384 0
4 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 30734 1 0
5 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 30735 1 0
Connect to WBBP Slot
6 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 30736 1 1 384 Connect to WBBP Slot 1 384 0

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Upgrade activity for Add Sector

102299_CIKANCUNG_3G (Upgrade CE for add Sector not consider

reconfigure BB Group)
Impact : RRC Rejection RL Failure & UL CE Congestion due to
imbalance board load
Solution : Exchange group assignment in LOCELL

Before Add Sector After Add Sector Solution

Local Cell Scale UL Baseband Equipment ID UL Baseband Equipment ID UL Baseband Equipment ID
Cell ID Local Cell Type Indication Cell ID Before WBBP Slot BBPTC after WBBP Slot BBPTC Proposed
1 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 32639 0 0 1
2 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 32640 0 0 1
3 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 32641 0 0 1
4 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 37590 0 0 1
5 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 37591 0 Connect to WBBP Slot 0 Connect to WBBP 1
6 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 37592 0 3 384 0 Slot 3 Rack 0 384 1
7 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 31190 1 Connect to 0
WBBP Slot 3
10 NORMAL_CELL Macro Cell 31193 1 Rack 0 512 0

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