RLF RCA &

Improvement Trial
(HO Behavior Modification)

By
Amit Kumar Misra Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
HANDOVER OVERVIEW

• The Intra-LTE Handover feature is based on measurements and coverage triggers evaluated by the user equipment. The user
equipment measurements are reported to the serving RBS which makes the ultimate decision on inter-cell handover.

• Two types of measurements are used in the handover evaluation process:

RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power) which represents the mean measured power per reference symbol
RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality) which provides an indication of the reference signal quality
• The Intra-LTE handover can be set to trigger on the RSRP value or the RSRQ value and the measurement reports sent by the user
equipment contain either or both of these values.

• In Inter & Intra LTE Technology we have 5 kinds of Events reported for Handover.
 EVENT_A1: Serving cell becomes better than absolute threshold.
 EVENT_A2: Serving cell becomes worse than absolute threshold.
 EVENT_A3:Neighbor Cell becomes amount of better than the serving.
 EVENT_A4: Neighbor cell becomes better than absolute threshold.
 EVENT_A5: Serving cell becomes worse than absolute threshold1 & Neighbor cell becomes better than absolute threshold2.

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RJIL STRATEGY

• Connected mode strategy is to focus more on mobility management & offer optimal coverage & quality to a user based on existing
radio conditions.

• Optimizing the HO Performance:

Reduce data interruption time.
Improve Ue battery life.
Keeping Ue on frequency with optimum radio condition, without causing load
imbalance.
Improving retainibility by allowing Ue to camp on to a cell / frequency with better
radio condition within optimal time.

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RJIL STRATEGY CONTD…

• Current deployed Strategy in Network is observed to be uniformly set for both inter-frequency & Intra Frequency LTE cells.
• The difference in coverage for TDD & FDD is not taken into account in this.
• The mode of Inter-frequency HO is set to be from A3 Event, after triggering of A2. A5 & A4 Events are currently not used as a part
of Inter-Frequency HO.

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RJIL STRATEGY CONTD…

• The deployed A3 Event behavior can be fine-tuned further based on user behavior & cell radius, to have an optimal cell
performance based on existing radio conditions.
A3 Event Overview:
• This event is used to trigger handover when an offset between the serving cell and a
neighbor cell is me. i.e. Neighbor becomes offset better than serving
• The criteria basically consists of 3 major components –
 Hysteresis: Used to add an additional delay to received level of
neighbor cell.
 Offset: Used to encounter the deviation in radio signal of serving cell.
 CellIndividualOffset (CIO): Relation specific offset set to encounter
varying radio condition & user behavior.
• With Hysteresis & Offset being set at cell level modifying these values can modify
behavior of complete cell.
• To achieve optimal cell performance , CIO can be fine-tuned to modify user behavior
at cell edge for relations showing poor statistics.
• HO can be triggered earlier/ Later by increasing/decreasing the value of CIO
parameter.

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SUMMARY

• A check was carried out on poor performing sites ( Average RLF Failures >10) to identify the most impacting cause.
• It was found that RLF failures account for more that 80% of drops, followed by ArqMaxRetransmission.
• Hence to identify the underlying cause for these failures, drilldown was carried out to identify the root cause associated
with it.

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RLF RCA Proposal

Key Excerpts in above chart.

• A correlation was carried out with available MRO data & radio link failures to have an idea on the user behavior , for concluding on best possible solution.
• Above flowchart indicates the various MRO data type found in PM with respective proposed solution to rectify RLF issue. ( Different Scenarios are detailed
in coming slides).
• While having an Root cause identification, weights were also added to identified cause type to make sure that relative impact is minimum. ( Explained
in Coming slides).
• Ping Pong HO has been further divided to identify the behavior associated with resulting ping pong.

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RLF RCA Proposal ( Algorithm to Identify Root Cause)

Root Cause Scenario Criteria

Scenario Wrong Cell Coverage Hole Ping Pong Too Early Too Late
Ping Pong Behavior Correlation
Ping Pong Coverage Hole ( C ) Too Early (TE) Too Late (TL)
Wrong Cell   > > -20 > >
Coverage Hole ( C )   C+TE >20 C + TL >20
Coverage Hole >   > -20 > >
Too Early (TE) C+TE >20 TE < TL & TE >20  
Too Early > > > -20   >
Too Late (TL) C + TL >20   TL<TE & TL >20
Too Late > > > -20 >  
Ping Pong >+20 >+20   >+20 >+20

Root Cause Scenario:

For Impacted cell root cause identification, probability mentioned in above table is considered.
• EX: For a cell to be in a WrongCell category, the percentile impact of wrong cell should be greater than remaining other categories.
• An extra offset of 20% is provided for categories like WorstCell, Coverage Hole, Too Early & Too Late. Since Ping Pong is an
instantaneous behavior & can result in high MR being reported. Also criteria apart from ping pong can also lead to a scenario for
cells to be in a Ping Pong mode.
Ping Pong Behavior Correlation:
• For cells impacted with Ping Pong, further correlation was done to identify if the behavior is occurring due to an already existing
scenario. This helps in enabling a solution on resolving the ping pong behavior.
Different scenarios arising from above algorithm is explained in coming slides 

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RLF RCA Proposal

Scenario Cause Solution

Ue is suspected to be in area with intermittent fluctuating coverage in-

between source & target cells. Hence, resulting in repeated HO. Need to add
an additional Offset to generate sufficient reduction in level negating the ADD Negative CIO in Source  Target: For Relations
Ping Pong fallback. having this problem need to have an Negative CIO in
Target --> Source, in order to delay the HO.

Ue is found to trigger/attempt an HO earlier than desired level . Hence need

Too Early to delay the HO to ensure that Ue attempts at requisite reduction in level.

Add Neighbor
WrongCell Ue attempting at a cell having poor level compared to another existing cell.

ADD Positive CIO in Source  Target: For Relations having

HO from Ue is delayed a lot despite neighbor cell having better level. Need to this problem need to have an positive offset to ensure
Too Late tigger HO early for successful camping prior to HO Failure proper HO, prior to level degradation.
Ping Pong with Too Late Ue having high Ping Pong in area along with cause Too Late HO.

UE is found to be in an area having poor radio coverage resulting in overall

Coverage Hole degradation
Ping Pong with Poor coverage UE is found to be having an Ping Pong affect in area of poor coverage Poor Coverage Solution

Ue is found to be in an area of poor coverage with least feasible neighbors, resulting

Ping Pong with Poor Coverage & Too Early in Ping Pong & Too early behaviour

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Solution Proposal

• The solution as provided earlier can be divided into majorly 2 categories.

 Offset modification to shift trigger point.
 Poor coverage solution.

• 1) Offset modification
• As described earlier CIO for a particular existing relation can be fine-tuned to shift triggering points & make sure that UE camps on
to a better cell , once the serving cell performance goes down.

Solution Types:

• The CIO can be added as an +ve or –ve Offset based on the scenario.
1)Apply negative CIO for relation AB. This induces additional offset in neighbor cell, hence delaying the HO process. This reduces
the overall Ping-Pong effect by increasing the gap between calculated perceived level of source & neighbor cell.
2)Apply positive CIO to relations A  B. This will bring the triggering point a bit early hence allowing the user to be camped on
neighbor cell prior to further degradation in radio condition.

Ex: For scenarios like early HO & ping pong, -ve CIO delays the triggering point, hence reducing unwanted attempts. Whereas in case
of late HO, a +ve offset allows the HO to happen in the right time, by mitigating the unwanted delay.

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Solution Proposal

Offset determination:
Ideally an 4dB offset makes sure that the Ue can avoid ping pong behavior that can result in poor KPI performance. But this may not be the
same for all the cases.
To have an approx. identification of relevant offset. A process can be used for existing bidirectional relations.

A general behavior between neighbor relations is considered to have an approx. identification in this process. It can be safely assumed that
ping pong is a behavior between two relations. Hence as a consequence the impact is supposed to be mutual on both the involved cells.
To use this behavior at a further extent the Average , max & min A3 measurements are taken for both relations to & fro.

( A --> B) ( A --> B) ( A --> B) ( B --> A) ( B --> A) ( B --> A) Total Total

HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT Ping Ping
cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev Pong(A- Pong( B-
A-->B B-->A entA3Avg entA3Min entA3Max entA3Avg entA3Min entA3Max Avg Delta Min Delta Max delta B) A)
776,5 --> 1431,5 1431,5 --> 776,5 -100.71 -117.41 -77.23 -100.18 -117.43 -76.45 -0.52 0.02 -0.79 6553 5074
463,5 --> 463,3 463,3 --> 463,5 -97.43 -111.92 -77.87 -96.40 -112.17 -76.00 -1.04 0.24 -1.87 1341 387
463,3 --> 776,5 776,5 --> 463,3 -99.20 -118.52 -78.37 -99.94 -119.31 -78.77 0.74 0.79 0.40 1148 526
776,5 --> 463,5 463,5 --> 776,5 -95.29 -114.68 -73.82 -96.19 -114.78 -75.78 0.89 0.10 1.96 691 2646
776,0 --> 776,2 776,2 --> 776,0 -104.13 -117.10 -85.60 -104.98 -117.24 -87.24 0.85 0.14 1.64 591 1940

It can be seen in above example that that the delta of avg –min & max levels for these relations is almost
nearing to zero, which indicates towards a similar pattern in triggering point.

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Solution Proposal

( A --> B) ( A --> B) ( A --> B) ( B --> A) ( B --> A) ( B --> A) Total Total

HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT HoTriggeringT Ping Ping
cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev cell_RSRP_Ev Pong(A- Pong( B-
A-->B B-->A entA3Avg entA3Min entA3Max entA3Avg entA3Min entA3Max Avg Delta Min Delta Max delta B) A)
463,3 --> 1431,5 1431,5 --> 463,3 -100.07 -120.96 -82.11 -105.67 -129.00 -84.21 5.59 8.04 2.09 2 2
1978,4 --> 1978,3 -->
1978,3 1978,4 -117.66 -130.00 -103.60 -118.27 -127.50 -107.83 0.60 -2.50 4.23 2 2
463,5 --> 776,5 776,5 --> 463,5 -101.55 -119.95 -80.42 -110.50 -135.46 -79.23 8.96 15.51 -1.19 2 2
1674,4 --> 1674,3 -->
1674,3 1674,4 -108.97 -140.00 -70.00 -93.56 -106.00 -58.50 -15.41 -34.00 -11.50 1 1
463,2 --> 463,1 463,1 --> 463,2 -117.62 -130.75 -89.00 -120.29 -138.16 -90.53 2.68 7.41 1.53 1 1
776,2 --> 463,1 463,1 --> 776,2 -112.48 -124.33 -90.67 -117.91 -137.50 -90.64 5.43 13.17 -0.02 1 0

• Similar observation when done at a low or no ping pong cell provided delta on a higher side.
As a conclusion on both scenarios, it gives an indication that the ping pong effect is basically due to lack of difference in triggering
points.
Now the question is to identify an offset , so that we can mitigate the ping pong effect , without shifting the radius too much.
 To start on a safer note the delta found between the two relations suffering from ping pong behavior can be increased to 3
dB using the CIO parameter. (i.e 0 0+3 , 1 1+2).
 This can be fine-tuned later based on further observation on arising scenarios.

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Solution Proposal

2)Poor coverage solution:

Below mentioned procedures can be applied for cells affected from poor coverage based on the scenario. Ideally power control
or physical modification should be used as a last resort for fine-tuning. Since these two changes can impact the traffic pattern
of source as well as all existing neighbor cells.
1)Implement Multilayer Strategy ( Note:1 layer has better performance over other)
2)High Offset for cells overshooting/ serving in hilly terrain.
3)Modify Power Control Behavior.
4)Modify Physical Settings.

Implement Multilayer Strategy:

This strategy can be applied in cells in which 1 layer is found to have better performance compared to other.

• Scenario 1: High RLF failures observed in cell A (TDD) due to poor radio conditions. Co- Located FDD Cell found to be
having comparatively better performance.
Solution:
1) Reduce the A2Threshold to trigger the A2 event measurement a bit earlier. ( Optional: Need to be used only if the inter-frequency
relation has few or no IFHO attempts despite being in poor radio condition )
2)Apply positive CIO to relations A(TDD)  B(FDD). This will bring the triggering point a bit early hence allowing the user to be
camped on neighbor cell prior to further degradation in radio condition.

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Solution Proposal

• Scenario 2: High RLF failures observed in cell A (FDD) due to poor radio conditions. Co- Located TDD Cell found to be having comparatively
better performance, with existence of TDD in neighbor Cells
Solution:
Since FDD over here has a better footprint compared to TDD over here. It is quite unlikely to have an co-located TDD cell to have a better coverage. Hence, it is advisable to
have a relationship with TDD of neighbor cells.
1) Reduce the A2Threshold to trigger the A2 event measurement a bit earlier. ( Optional: Need to be used only if the inter-frequency relation has few or no IFHO attempts
despite being in poor radio condition )
2)Apply positive CIO to relations A(FDD)  B(TDD). This will bring the triggering point a bit early hence allowing the user to be camped on neighbor cell prior to further
degradation in radio condition.

High Offset for cells overshooting/ serving in hilly terrain.

Scenario : Both TDD & FDD in a co-located sector found to have high radio link failures.
Solution:
Since both the cell in this sector are having failures in poor radio conditions. It is quite likely that the sector is either overshooting or facing towards an open terrain. In case of
overshooting it is advised to increase the tilt as an preliminary solution. But in some cases increasing tilt might not be an feasible option. i.e. Cell covering a highway in a hilly
terrain.
1) Reduce the A2Threshold to trigger the A2 event measurement a bit earlier. ( Optional: Need to be used only if the inter-frequency relation has few or no IFHO attempts
despite being in poor radio condition )
2) Apply positive CIO to relations A  B. This will bring the triggering point a bit early hence allowing the user to be camped on neighbor cell prior to further degradation in
radio condition.
3) Apply negative CIO to relation B  A. This will mitigate the Ping-Pong effect that can arise due to A being at a better level.

The additional 3rd step is used to make sure that the HO is limited to 1 st & 2nd Tier neighbors. Hence reducing the chances of failures that can arise from call dragging in an
overshooting cell ( eg: PCI collision/confusion with a far existing neighbor )

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Solution Proposal

Modify Power Control Behavior:

This solution is recommended for cells having high number of Ue’s serving from cell edge & resulting in high RLF.
The Idea behind UL power control modification is to make the modification in Fractional power control (α) component to enable the
Ue to radiate at high Tx power a bit early compared to current existing scenario.
This section is to be tested on a separate trial prior to be considered as an appropriate solution.

Modify Physical Settings

1)Antenna Azimuth change
This solution is to be used in case the antenna is supposed to be facing in a direction different from prime clutter
location. This solution is to be implemented with proper case analysis & coordination with planning team. As this
can impact overall network planning in this area including neighbor sites.

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Solution Proposal

2)Antenna Tilt Modification:

This solution is recommended to be used as last resort only if the cell is supposed to be an overshooting cell ,
impacting existing neighbor cells. As this can impact overall network planning in this area including neighbor
sites.

Please find attached Tilt modification guide to have further insight on modification techniques & procedures.

Antenna Tilt
Modification Guide

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 RLF Trial
Root Cause Scenario
Ping Pong Ping Pong Suspected Issue with
Cell Name Ping Pong
Coverage Ping Pong with Poor with Poor with Poor Too Early Too Late WrongCell Total Hours High Priority
Hole coverage Coverage & Coverage && in 15 days
Too Early Too Late
KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_463-cNum5 508 0 508 Ping Pong

KL-WB-REM-04-A,ENB_1083-cNum5 373 4 5 1 383 Coverage Hole

KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_463-cNum3 428 428 Ping Pong
KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_463-cNum2 395 395 Ping Pong
KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_463-cNum0 354 3 5 7 1 1 371 Ping Pong
KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_776-cNum5 185 185 Ping Pong
KL-KL-REM-01-A,ENB_776-cNum2 162 0 162 Ping Pong

• A group of cells having high RLF were considered for root cause analysis based on earlier explained algorithm.
• It can be seen that after having a drilldown the scenario’s associated with above mentioned cases was mostly based on Ping Pong behavior &
poor coverage.
• So necessary analysis was done based on identified scenario to find an appropriate solution.

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ENB-463 Analysis

• Consistent call drops observed in this ENB for cell 0,2 (TDD) & 3,5 (FDD), mostly due to RLF failures & MaxArqTransmission.
• On further drilldown under High RLF observed in this cell has RLF majorly due to consistent ping pong behavior.
• Cell Availability was found to be rather consistent with no major impact.

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 ENB -463 Solution
Source --> Target Target --> Source Delta
Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong
Relation EventA3Avg EventA3Min EventA3MaxMroRlfCnt HO EventA3Avg EventA3Min EventA3Max MroRlfCnt HO EventA3Avg EventA3Min EventA3Max MroRlfCnt HO Solution
-99.0837 -117.352 -76.4444 2004 1990 -99.3034 -116.92 -77.88 493 483 0.219696 -0.43185 1.435556 1511 1507
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,5=>776,5 Add CIO of 3dB
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,5=>1304,5 -103.187 -116.87 -89.5217 1076 1076 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Add CIO of 3dB
-98.0267 -113.958 -78.5833 914 818 -97.334 -112.146 -79.75 321 265 -0.69271 -1.8125 1.166667 593 553
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,5=>463,3 Add CIO of 3dB
-100.93 -120.078 -78.8824 804 795 -100.751 -119.633 -79.5306 363 360 -0.17919 -0.44578 0.648259 441 435
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,3=>776,5 Add CIO of 3dB
-107.352 -119.738 -95.6667 511 506 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,2=>474,0 Add CIO of 3dB
-100.619 -122.245 -81.2653 432 431 -98.6298 -118.604 -80.0377 166 163 -1.98917 -3.64112 -1.22757 266 268
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,3=>1431,5 Add CIO of 2dB
-105.894 -122.813 -81.6667 419 410 -104.303 -119.214 -82.2381 222 183 -1.59063 -3.59821 0.571429 197 227
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,2=>776,2 Add CIO of 2dB
-105.696 -124.813 -88.375 370 370 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,5=>474,3 Add CIO of 3dB
-108.254 -121.171 -97 307 304 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,2=>777,1 Add CIO of 3dB
-97.334 -112.146 -79.75 321 265 -98.0267 -113.958 -78.5833 914 818 0.692708 1.8125 -1.16667 -593 -553
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,3=>463,5 Add CIO of 3dB
-105.551 -123.257 -91.9143 218 218 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,3=>1304,5 Add CIO of 3dB
-109.155 -122.676 -96.3824 218 212 -109.216 -121.579 -93.4211 93 51 0.060495 -1.09752 -2.9613 125 161
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,2=>1431,2 Add CIO of 3dB
-109.965 -128 -92.9487 149 146 -109.457 -127.216 -94.1351 101 88 -0.5081 -0.78378 1.186417 48 58
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,0=>1431,2 Add CIO of 3dB
-111.345 -127.828 -98.0345 121 119 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,0=>474,0 Add CIO of 3dB
-115.068 -134.654 -93.7308 112 109 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,3=>474,3 Add CIO of 3dB
-109.269 -123.647 -92.5 94 89 -108.915 -125 -90.9697 77 75 -0.35366 1.352941 -1.5303 17 14
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,0=>776,2 Add CIO of 2dB
-114.473 -133.467 -100.133 55 52 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
KL-KL-REM-01-A,463,0=>777,1 Add CIO of 3dB

• For affected cells of ENB 463 further drilldown was carried out with A3 measurements to identify the behavior associated with Pin Pong.
• It can be seen that the delta for Average , Min & Max is quite correlated on both sides for these relations.
• Hence as a solution for our existing scenario , a positive CIO is recommended to be added on these relations to avoid the ping pong behavior.
• Certain relations were found to have missing measurements from target to source. Hence for these it is recommend to add a default positive CIO of 3 dB.
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ENB – 776 Analysis

• Consistent call drops observed in this ENB for cell 2 (TDD) & 5 (FDD), mostly due to RLF failures & MaxArqTransmission.
• On further drilldown under High RLF observed in this cell has RLF majorly due to consistent ping pong behavior.
• Cell Availability was found to be rather consistent with no major impact.

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ENB -776 Solution
Source --> Target Target --> Source Delta
Ping
EventA3A EventA3 EventA3 Pong EventA3A EventA3 EventA3M Ping Pong EventA3 EventA3 EventA3 Ping Pong
Relation vg Min Max MroRlfCnt HO vg Min ax MroRlfCnt HO Avg Min Max MroRlfCnt HO Solution

KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,5=>1431,5 -101.304 -117.585 -76.4151 4146 4121 -99.9697 -117.76 -75.7867 6342 6306 -1.33442 0.175094 -0.62843 -2196 -2185Add CIO of 3dB

KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,2=>776,0 -109.063 -124.889 -89.5556 1151 1144 -107.705 -123.811 -88.7838 224 222 -1.35802 -1.07808 -0.77177 927 922Add CIO of 2dB

KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,2=>1431,2 -104.063 -121.479 -83.8125 698 678 -101.822 -119.746 -82.2687 809 769 -2.24098 -1.7329 -1.54384 -111 -91Add CIO of 2dB
CIO already
KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,5=>463,5 -99.3034 -116.92 -77.88 493 483 -99.0837 -117.352 -76.4444 2004 1990 -0.2197 0.431852 -1.43556 -1511 -1507 added for 463
CIO already
KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,5=>463,3 -100.751 -119.633 -79.5306 363 360 -100.93 -120.078 -78.8824 804 795 0.179192 0.445778 -0.64826 -441 -435 added for 463

KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,2=>1306,0 -115.432 -131 -98 340 340NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Add CIO of 3dB

CIO already
KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,2=>463,2 -104.303 -119.214 -82.2381 222 183 -105.894 -122.813 -81.6667 419 410 1.590625 3.598214 -0.57143 -197 -227 added for 463

KL-KL-REM-01-A,776,2=>474,0 -111.985 -126.811 -98.3243 163 142NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Add CIO of 3dB

• For affected cells of ENB 776 further drilldown was carried out with A3 measurements to identify the behavior associated with Pin Pong.
• It can be seen that the delta for Average , Min & Max is quite correlated on both sides for these relations.
• Hence as a solution for our existing scenario , a positive CIO is recommended to be added on these relations to avoid the ping pong behavior.
• Certain relations were found to have missing measurements from target to source. Hence for these it is recommend to add a default positive CIO of 3 dB.
• For relations existing with ENB-463 no modification are done as CIO is also applied in ENB – 463.

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ENB- 1083 Analysis

• Consistent call drops observed in this cell mostly due to RLF failures & MaxArqTransmission.
• On further drilldown under High RLF observed in this cell has RLF majorly due to poor coverage , consistently.
• Cell Availability was found to be rather consistent with no major impact.
• Also the drops were found to be limited to 1 band , with the other colocated band functioning with adequate performance.

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ENB- 1083 Solution

• Further investigation was carried out to identify the root cause behind poor coverage.
• It was found that this site is a standalone site with no proper neighbors within feasible
distance.
• TA Samples also indicated the same , which was quite in sync with the TA found in CSL
for RLF. Most of the failures are within 5-6 Km from cell & from band 3, which
indicates the user to be far away from site & is being served by FDD ( FDD having
better coverage compared to TDD).
• As a solution, since it is a standalone site modification of HO Strategy & physical
settings is not feasible.

We can modify Fractional Path Loss (α) compensation component from 80% to 100% to
enable the Ue to radiate at high Tx power a bit early compared to current existing
scenario. This will safeguard some calls from failing too early.

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 THANK YOU

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