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Chapter 1 Measurement Points of Handover Chapter 2 Handover Data Process Chapter 3 Analysis of Handover Problem
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Handover decision
Channel Activation Channel Activation ACK Handover Command (Old FACCH) Handover Access (New FACCH) Handover Complete (New FACCH) RF Channel Release Handover Performed
Successful internal inter cell H.O Internal inter cell H.O
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Inter cell radio handover success rate =(Successful incoming internal inter cell handovers + Successful outgoing internal inter cell handovers) / (Incoming internal inter cell handovers + Outgoing internal inter cell handovers )
Internal inter cell handover success rate =(Successful incoming internal inter cell handovers + Successful outgoing internal inter cell handovers) / (Attempted incoming internal inter cell handovers + Attempted outgoing internal inter cell handovers)
Inter cell radio handover success rate >= Internal inter cell handover
success rate
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Handover Request Channel ACT Channel ACT ACK Handover Request ACK Handover Command Handover Access Handover Detect Handover Complete
Successful incoming inter BSC H.O
Handover Complete
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MSC-B
VLR-B
BSC-B
MS
HO-Required
HO-Command
HO-Request-ACK
HO-Access
Some intermediate steps are omitted
HO-Complete
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=(Successful incoming inter BSC inter cell handovers + Successful outgoing inter BSC inter cell handovers) / (Attempted incoming inter BSC inter cell handovers + Attempted outgoing inter BSC inter cell handovers )
Incoming BSC handover Success rate
Chapter 1 Measurement Points of Handover Chapter 2 Handover Data Process Chapter 3 Analysis of Handover Problem Chapter 4 Handover Cases
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Preprocessed MR3
BSC2
MS MR2
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MS on system message 5.
MS reports measurement report to BSS. It includes the BCCH ,
BSIC and signal level of the adjacent cells and serving cells.
When the measurement report is preprocessed, BSC
determines the CGI of all adjacent cells through BCCH frequency and BSIC .
BSC executes handover judgment flow such as basic cell
ranking . Once a proper target cell is found, the handover request message which includes the target cell CGI will be sent to MPU of BSC , and then MPU will confirm the module ID of the cell based on the CGI.
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statistics of "outgoing inter cell handover request". At the same time BSC send the channel active to the BTS.
If the target cell triggered by BSC is an external cell, the CGI of the target
the cell is found, MSC will confirm which BSC is belonged to, and send the handover request message to this BSC.
If there is no CGI of the target cell , MSC will check Adjacent MSC Table"
and find the target MSC, then send the handover request message to that MSC.
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Chapter 1 Measurement Points of Handover Chapter 2 Searching Process of Handover Data Chapter 3 Analysis of Handover Problem Chapter 4 Handover Cases
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Types Possible Results No handover Cause call drop Handover failure Affect the conversation quality, and call drop. Frequent handover Affect the conversation quality and increase load of the system
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Measurement of BSC overall performance Measurement of inter cell handover performance Measurement of outgoing/incoming inter cell handover performance Measurement of performance of undefined adjacent cell
View alarm
Interference
Transmission
BSC hardware Data Configuration A interface Target cell congestion Cooperation with equipment of other manufacturers
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Types
No H.O
H.O failure
Frequent H.O
BSC hardware
Data configuration A interface Target cell congestion H.O between equipment of different manufactures
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Coverage: Poor coverage: forest, complicated topography, building direction and indoor coverage
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Non-adjacent cell
Adjacent cell N1
Service cell
Non-adjacent cell Adjacent Cell N2 Non-adjacent cell Isolated island resulting from over shooting Adjacent Cell N3
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BTS hardware
Clock failure
Internal communication cable
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Clock board: the faulty clock board causes clock inconsistency between base stations.
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Data configuration
Unsuitable setting of handover hysteresis and handover priority.
Unsuitable setting of P, N value of statistic time Unsuitable frequency and adjacency relation configured in BA1/BA2 table
CGI, BCCH and BSIC in "External Cell Description Table" are different from those in the opposite BSC.
The DPC of BSC in MSC "LAI and GCI Table" is incorrect.
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A interface problem Basically, the insufficient link resource results in the abnormal handover, as well as abnormal communication. Circuit pool numbers are different ,causing the handover failure.
The target cell is congested, which causes the handover failure. Then the target cell should be expanded or reduce its traffic .
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The signaling at A interface, E interface of the opposite equipment are not matched to our equipment and can not be recognized or supported, which causes the handover failure, such as voice version, handover number, TUP circuit, addressing mode (CGI or LAI).
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Handover Case 1
Fault Description
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Handover Case 1
Analysis:
Register the traffic statistics and analyze whether the low handover success rate is due to the failure of handover from all cells to this cell or from some few cells. If handover fails from some few cells to this cell, check the handover data and see whether there is co-channel and co-BSIC problem. If handover fails from all other cells to this cell, check the data of this cell. If data cause is ruled out, check the hardware carefully. Check the alarm or perform drive test to locate uplink fault or downlink fault. Check step by step and find out the cause.
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Handover Case 1
Solution:
Register the incoming inter cell handover measurement function and find that the
successful rate of handover from all other cells to this cell is low, although it is not always 0 percent. Based on careful data checking, the data of this cell is correct.
Perform drive test and find that the downlink signal is normal but almost all
handovers to this cell are failure. Near the BTS, the handover is successful occasionally. Perhaps the problem is with the uplink signal.
Check the uplink channel, antenna, CDU, they are no problem. Change the TRX ,
everything is normal.
Conclusion:
The symptom is that the uplink and downlink at UM interface are unbalanced so
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Handover Case 2
Fault Description:
After LAPD software upgrade of a dual-band network on 19th September, it was found that some cells in module 4 under 1800 network are seriously congested (4050), and overall handover
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Handover Case 2
Analysis:
Check whether it is attributed to LAPD software upgrade. Analyze traffic statistics and the main causes of the failure to locate the problem.
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Handover Case 2
Solution:
Check whether it is attributed to LAPD software upgrade.
After the upgrade, not all cells under module 4 are congested and the handover indices of some cells are not low. Upgrade isnt the cause.
Analyze traffic statistics:
Congested cells are mostly at site A and site B. Their traffics are lower than before the upgrade. It is a pseudo congestion. The cells where handover success rate is low are mostly at site A, B, C, D and E , the main cause of the failure is timer timeout.
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Handover Cases 2
Solution:
Check alarm: At 19:31 of 18th September, the clock system
alarms of site A and site B occurred. It is found that 13M clock isnt synchronous. The clock problem result in low handover success rate of the two sites. Such impact spread to the adjacent cells of these two cells and even affected the whole network.
Analyze handover data and traffic statistics: All cells where
handover success rate is low are adjacent to A and B except A and B themselves.
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Handover Cases 2
Solution:
Reset site A and site B, the clock system is recovered, and the handover success rate inter/intra BSC goes up to 93. The problem is solved.
Conclusion:
The problem in clock system will result in low handover success rate. Pay attention to the alarm console and the excursion of the clock system.
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Handover Cases 3
Fault Description:
Huawei BSC and another manufacturers BSC (S vender) are connected to the same MSC. After cutover, MS can not handover from S BSC to Huawei BSC but opposite is normal.
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Handover Cases 3
Analysis:
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Handover Cases 3
Solution:
Trace interface message. After receiving HO-REQUEST
message, Huawei BSC returns HO-FAILURE message immediately. In normal conditions Huawei BSC should return
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Handover Cases 3
Handover failure
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Handover Cases 3
HO-REQUEST
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Handover Cases 3
Solution
HO-FALUER: The cause of the failure is invalid message
content
HO-REQUEST: The difference is basically the Address
Indicator in comparison with the normal handover request message. HUAWEI BSC does not recognize case 41. The system thinks that Address Indicator must be 0x43. Inform the owner of network, modify the relation parameter, and this problem is solved.
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Handover Cases 3
Conclusion:
In cooperation with equipment of other manufacturers, faults can be located by analyzing the signaling.
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Handover Cases 4
Fault Description:
Huawei MSC cooperate with MSC of N (vender). The
communication is normal. The Huawei intra BSC handover and incoming BSC handover are normal, but outgoing BSC handover success rate is about 25%. The handover from the N BSC to Huawei BSC is successful, but opposite is failure sometimes.
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Handover Cases 4
Analysis:
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Handover Cases 4
Solution:
Check data: There is no fault in BSC and MSC of the two
venders.
Check alarm: BTS maintenance console, No.7 link and A
signaling meter. It is found that after receiving HO-Number, Huawei MSC never sends IAI (Initial Address Information).
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Handover Cases 4
Solution:
Check HO-Number message from the opposite and find
that the handover code format is 130********(only a number of mobile telephone, no any prefix). But this mobile
Handover Cases 4
Conclusion:
Problems can be located quickly and accurately if you are familiar with the signaling flow of handovers.
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Handover Cases 5
Fault Description:
In the independent MSC networking of a dual band network, Huawei 1800 network cooperate with 900 network of vender A . After cutover, the successful rate of handover from M1800 to M900 is low (about 60 ), while the handover from M900 to M1800 are normal and the handover data are correct.
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Handover Cases 5
Analysis 1: Trace the signalings at A interface and E interface.
Normal signaling is as follow:
MS
BSC-HW
MSC-HW
MSC-B
VLR-B
BSC-B
MS
HO-REQUIRED
MAP_Prepare_HO
MAP_Allocate_HO_NUM MAP_Send_HO_Report
MAP_Send_HO_Report_ACK
HO-REQUEST
MAP_Prepare_HO_ACK
IAI
HO-REQUEST-ACK
HO-Command
ACM
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Handover Cases 5
Analysis 2: Abnormally signaling is as follow:
MS BSC-HW MSC-HW
MSC-B
VLR-B
BSC-B
MS
HO-REQUIRED
MAP_Prepare_HO MAP_Abort
HO-REJECT
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Handover Cases 5
Solution:
Analyze the Prepare-HO message sent from Huawei MSC
to the opposite. The voice version is full-rate version 1, 2 and half-rate version 1. It is a PHASE 2+ version. However
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Handover Cases 5
Conclusion:
There are often many problems in coordination between the equipment of different manufacturers. However, problems can be located accurately by tracing signaling.
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Handover Cases 6
Fault Description:
A GSM network, where one MSC is attached with two BSC, is all
configured with Huawei equipment. When the two BSC are cutover, the successful rate of handover from BSC1 to BSC2 is 0, but opposite is normal. Intra BSC handover of BSC1 and BSC2 are normal.
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Handover Cases 6
Analysis:
Register outgoing inter-cell handover measurement
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Handover Cases 6
Solution:
Check all data of inter-BSC handover: external cell description
sends "HO-REQUIRED", BSC2 has not received "HOREQUEST" message, but opposite is normal.
The path of data search: MSC goes to "LAI and GCI Table"
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Handover Cases 6
Solution:
The HO-REQUEST message, which should have been sent
to BSC2, is sent to BSC1. It is DPC error. After correction, the problem is solved.
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Handover Cases 6
Conclusion:
For the data of inter-BSC handover, besides checking whether CGI at MSC side is consistent with that of opposite and BSC, check whether the DPC is correct. MSC look up target DPC
based on the CGI of the target cell. When the DPC is incorrect,
"HO-REQUEST" will be sent to wrong BSC.
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Handover Cases 7
Fault Description:
A dual band network is a mixed networking of Huawei BSC (M1800) and vender N BSC (M900), attached to MSC of vender S. After the cutover, the successful rate of Huawei incoming BSC handover is always 8892, while outgoing BSC and intra-BSC handovers are normal (above 92). Furthermore, the cells with low successful
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Handover Cases 7
Analysis:
Since the handover success rate is not very low and the low ratio is not in some few cells, data problem is excluded. Perhaps it is due to some interference at the radio interface coverage hole. So, trace the signaling.
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Handover Cases 7
Solution:
Perform forced handover with a test mobile between
several cells where handover success rate is low. The forced handovers are all successful. Data problem is
excluded.
The interference band of cells is ideal, call drop and
congestion rate are normal. It is unlikely that the coverage and interference at the radio interface causes the problem.
Trace A interface signaling and compare the failure
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Handover Cases 7
A interface signaling analysis of inter-BSC handover in MSC:
Failure signaling:
Success signaling:
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Handover Cases 7
Solution:
The comparison result is that Huawei BTS has not detected
any MS access information (No HO DETECT signaling occurs). It shows that there is problem when the MS is accessing M1800 cells.
Reconfirm that there is no problem with the handover data,
failures are attributed to the same cause. In addition, the problem is the same: there are several handover requests in a call duration but all requests fail.
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Handover Cases 7
Solution:
Analyze other similarities of the failed message, to find that
the first 6 digits of IMEI numbers of these MS are all 449684. It shows that the handover problem is related to the MS.
Find the MS owners with the IMSI numbers and find that all
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Conclusion: MS problem will also causes handover failure.
In this case the handover success rate is not very low, therefore
IMEI numbers are the same. Then it is found that the problem is on F MS.
The coverage of M900 is very good, F MS is always under M900 in idle
status. Therefore in a call, TCH assignment seldom fail, which will not result in high congestion rate. But in handover, problem is very likely to happen.
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