LATE

ASSIGNMENT
TRIAL
Upper Optimization
Etisalat Misr
July 2010
 Contents

ØIntroduction

ØDifferent TCH assignment approaches

ØEarly Vs Late assignment procedures
ØTrial implementation phases
ØPhase 1 trial results
ØPhase 1 & 2 trial impact on Ater resources
ØANNEX
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 Introduction

ØT h e p re se n ta tio n h ig h lig h ts th e d iffe re n t a ssig n m e n t

a p p ro a ch e s a s w e ll a s th e tria l re su lts fo r th e tria ld o n e

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 Different TCH assignment
approaches
Ø 3 different TCH assignment approaches are
available which are:
Ø Very Early Assignment: The network makes an
immediate assignment to the TCH+FACCH in
the initial RR establishment and performs
the entire transaction on the FACCH. The
SDCCH is not used.
Ø Early Assignment: The network assigns the
TCH+FACCH after sending CC Call
Proceeding and completes call setup on the
FACCH
Ø Late assignment:
Ø MOC: The network does not assign the
TCH+FACCH until alerting to the
terminating party has started.
Ø MTC: The network does not assign the
TCH+FACCH until Connect message is sent
(User answers the phone)
Ø

Ø The above 3 strategies are cell-level core

 Different TCH assignment
approaches
Ø Currently Early assignment is being used in
Etisalat Network although it is very clear that
the Late assignment can save a lot of
resources on the:
Ø Radio
Ø Abis
Ø Ater
Ø BSC
Ø TC
Ø MSC
Ø MGW
Ø
Ø Also great Enhancement in KPIs (CDR, voice
quality and blocking) is expected due to
reduction in RFLoad
Ø

Ø In the next slides complete Late assignment

procedures as well as comparison with the
 Early Vs Late assignment
procedures
Ø Early assignment in MOC side
Ø During call setup, a TCH is assigned before the
terminating side is alerted
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 Early Vs Late assignment
procedures
Ø Late assignment in MOC side
Ø During call setup, a TCH is assigned after the terminating
side is alerted
Ø As we can see just 1 difference between the early and
late assignment exists which is the Assignment
command comes after the alerting in the late
assignment procedure which makes no big difference
in resource saving

Assignment
command
Delay
 Early Vs Late assignment
procedures
Ø Early assignment in MTC side
Ø During call setup, the MSC assigns the TCH+FACCH just
after the call confirmed message is sent
 Early Vs Late assignment
procedures
Ø Late assignment in MTC side
Ø During call setup, the MSC does not assign the
TCH+FACCH until Connect message is sent via the
terminating MS (User answers the phone)
Ø The power of late assignment is clear in MTC scenario as
all the ringing time is carried over SDCCH and user is
assigned a TCH only after he picks up his phone

Assignment
command
Delay
Trial implementation phases
Ø Trial was implemented on phases as follow
Ø Phase0, On June 24th , Late assignment was
implemented on 3 cells in Upper region where
one of these cells serve one of our colleagues in
Luxor in order to test the impact on End-User
perception. No Impact was observed for more
than 1 month
Ø Phase1, On July 5th , Late assignment was enabled
on a cluster of 10 sites on SBH14 BSC whose
KPIs are presented later in this presentation
(Batch 1)
Ø Phase2, On July 6th , Late assignment was enabled
on another cluster of 30 sites on SBH14 BSC
(Batch 2)
Ø As expected, SD drop rate increased due to
increase of SDCCH mean holding time and so on
July 8th SDCCH HO was enabled on Batch 1 sites
which reduced the SD Drop rate
 Phase 1 trial results
Ø By comparing the SD & TCH seizures for MTC, we can see
great reduction in TCH seizures (more than 60%
reduction)
Ø This reduction represents the eliminated missed calls TCH
seizures
Ø As in late assignment, the TCH seizures decreased due to
the reduction in MTC TCH seizures, it is totally incorrect to
benchmark the call drop rate using the successful TCH
seizures so in the rest of the slides benchmarking using
the successful SD seizures for MTC & MOC will be used
instead of Successful TCH seizures in the rest of the
presentation
Ø M isse d C a lls
 Phase 1 trial results
Ø All MTC alerting traffic shifted from TCH to SDCCH/8 freeing
up a lot of resources
Ø TCH traffic volume reduction reached up to 13% on some
days compared to the same day in the previous week
regardless the increase in the overall traffic which can be
witnessed from the graph
 Phase 1 trial results
Ø Clear improvement in SDCCH + TCH CDR
Ø Please note that:
Ø SDCCH drops include all drops for all services (MTC, MOC, location
update,…etc)
Ø Call setup indication MOC&MTC is used instead of successful TCH
seizures
Ø The increase in CDR in days July 6th to July 10th is due to external
interference
E xte rn a lin te rfe re n c
 Phase 1 trial results
Ø SDCCH and TCH Congestion enhanced after action except for
the days with HW problem

H W Pro b le m
Phase 1&2 trial impact on Ater
resources
Late assignment was implemented on total of 40 sites (Out
Ø
of 91 on BSC)
Ø Clear reduction on Ater utilization can be noticed
 ANNEX
Ø TCH drop Number (Radio Only) ='TCH total
drop'-'CM333:Call Drops due to Abis Terrestrial Link Failure
(Traffic Channel)'-'CM334:Call Drops due to Equipment
Failure (Traffic Channel)'-'CM335:Call Drops due to Forced
Handover (Traffic Channel)'
Ø SD Drop number (Radio only) ='CM30:Call Drops on
SDCCH'-'M303:Call Drops due to Abis Terrestrial Link
Failure (SDCCH)'-'M304:Call Drops Due to Equipment
Failure (SDCCH)'-'M305:Call Drops due to Forced Handover
(SDCCH)'
Ø SD&TCH Drop Number (Radio Only) ='TCH drop Number
(Radio Only)'+'SD Drop number (Radio only)'
Ø SD Congestion Rate ='K3001:Failed SDCCH Seizures due to
Busy SDCCH' /'K3000:SDCCH Seizure Requests‘
Ø TCH Assign congestion ='K3011A:Failed TCH Seizures due
to Busy TCH (Traffic Channel)'/'Call Setup indication (MTC
& MOC calls only)‘
Ø

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 ANNEX
Ø Call Setup indication (MTC Non SMS) ='A3030C:Call Setup
Indications (MTC) (SDCCH)'-'A3340B:Downlink Point-to-
Point Short Messages on SDCCH'
Ø Call Setup indication (MTC & MOC calls only) ='A3030A:Call
Setup Indications (MOC Non SMS) (SDCCH)'+'Call Setup
indication (MTC Non SMS)‘
Ø SD&TCH drop rate (Radio only) = ('TCH drop Number
(Radio Only)'+'SD Drop number (Radio only)')/'Call Setup
indication (MTC & MOC calls only)'
 Thank
You

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