Behaviour

Problem

Description

Call set-up failure

Poor coverage area

If problem is poor coverage, this means

poor RSCP (<-95 dBm) thus also the EcNo
derades very rapidly (< -12 dB) when the
coverage border is reached.

Poor dominance area.

No main server in the area, too many

cells with weak CPICH level.

Call drop

Call set-up failure

Call drop

Call set-up failure

CPICH EcNo is usually very bad even

the RSCP is good e.q. RSCP 80-90
dBm but EcNo about 10 dB

Pilot Pollution

Call drop

Dropped call/SHO failure Missing neighbour

Bad CPICH Ec/Io (<-12 dB) level

although CPICH RSCP level is
good. High site in the neighbourhood
may cause interference.

A good usable neighbour is present

within cells coverage area, can cause
DL interference if it is not in the active
set.

Swapped sectors in WBTS.

Call set-up Failure

High PrxTotal due to UL

External interference

The PrxTotal level is significantly

higher than expected in no/low load
conditions.

conditions.

Call drop

Call set-up failure

High PrxToatal due to wrong The PrxTotal level is significantly

MHA settings
higher than expected in no/low load
conditions.

Call drop

Call set-up failure

Call drop
Cell set-up failure

Long call set-up time

MHA settings should be checked, see

more in reference [7]

High Prxtotal due to

Installation problems

The PrxTotal level is significantly

higher than expected in no/low load
conditions.

Bad RRC connection set-up

success rate due to slow Ue
cell reselection

RRC connection set-up complete

message not heard by BTS.

Long time interval for sync

between RNC and BTS
before connection

The value of Parameter N312 is too

high: maximum number of in sync
indications received from L1 during
the establishment of a physical
channel

the establishment of a physical

channel

Dropped call

SHO to wrong cell will cause Overshooting cell come temporarily

drop call.
into active set and forces a suitable
serving cell to be dropped out. Later
RSCP suddenly drops in the wrong
cell and causes a dropped call
because there is no neighbour
defined.

Dropped call

Cell suffering from UL

interference = DL (CPICH)
coverage much bigger than
UL coverage

As the UE Tx power is not enough for

target cell synchronisation, the SHO
fails which will cause call drop later.

Dropped call

DL CPICH coverage <>

Cell with lower CPICH power than the

surrounding is having too good UL
performance, as this cells UL cannot
be used efficiently due to SHO is
decided upon DL (CPICH Ec/No).

Dropped call

Round the corner effect

The call drops due to too rapid CPICH

coverage degradation for Cell A, and
therefore there is not enough time for
SHO.

Dropped call/SHO failure Too many neighbours

In SHO area the number of combined

neighbouring cells become more than
31.HO list is created using RNC
algorithm in the final stage some of
the neighbours will randomly be
removed.

Possible solutions
Check Antenna line installation (antenna
position and quality, cable length and
quality).

Check that CPICH powers are balanced

between the studied cells.

Check presence of shadowing obstacles.

Add a site to the area.

Use buildings and other environmental
structures to isolate cell(s) coverage.

Down tilt antennas to make cells

dominant and limit effects of interfering
cell(s).

Check antenna bearing.

Add a site.
Find interfering cell from Scanner
results.
Adjust antenna bearing and down tilt or
lower the antenna height (too much tilt
will break the dominance).

Add interfering cell to the neighbour of

the serving cell.
Check scanner data and look for
missing neighbours.

Check the cabling in antenna line.

Try to figure the possible area/direction
of the interference by checking PrxTotal
level on neighbouring cells.

Alternatively use spectrum analyser &

directive antenna to locate interferer.

Inform operator/regulator about the

found conditions.
Check if auto tuning range is large
enough (20 dB).
In case of MHA is used in BTS check
MHA and cables loss parameters,
otherwise PrxTotal value will be too
high.

(If MHA parameter is set to ON, Cable

loss parameter is used, Cable loss =
Real MHA gain = Feeder loss
parameter)
Check the antenna installation as the
last alternative in high PrxNoise case.

Set parameters so that reselection

process will start earlier:

Qqualmin, Sintrasearch and Qhyst2 as

per latest recommendation [8]
Use smaller value N312 (2,
recommendation is 4).
Use Actix for checking the call set-up
delay (L3 messages).

Use call set-up time optimisation

feature Dynamic setting of
ActivationTimeOffset (possible in
RAN1.5.2 ED2) enables 200 to 500ms
reduction for set up delay.

Pan away overshooting cell if it is too

close to the serving cell, otherwise
apply down tilting as well.

Use cell individual offset (negative

value) parameter to balance the DL and
UL coverage.

Check traffic direction of in-car UEs to

decide which cell requires offsets.
Use cell individual offset (positive value)
parameter to balance the DL and UL
coverage.

Note: Cell individual offsets are not

taken into account when calculating the
added cell Tx power.
Use cell individual offset (positive value)
parameter to balance the DL and UL
coverage.

Note: Cell individual offsets are not

taken into account when calculating the
added cell Tx power.

Delete unnecessary neighbours.

Improve dominance.