Initiation

Switches (on/off)

SCHO SDCCH handover

ASSOC - assignment to other cell

IHO intra-cell handovers

IHOSICH - Intra-cell handover on signalling channel

IBHOASS - Inter BSC handover during assignment

IBHOSICH - Inter BSC handover on signalling channel

FASTMSREG fast moving MS

COEXUMTS switch for IRAT (on/off, BSC)

SBHOACTIVE is handover with usage of Service Indicator

allowed

Timers

TINIT inhibits handovers, until it expires

TURGEN inhibits handovers, until it expires, when in urgency

Measurements

RXLEV - signal strength measurement reports as integer values from

0 to 63, corresponds to signal strength of -110 dBm to -47 dBm.
ENHANCED MEASUREMENT REPORT - element SCALE is an offset
which might add +10 dB to the downlink signal strength resulting in
-100 dBm to -37 dBm.
RXQUAL - integer value between 0 and 7, where 0 corresponds to
good quality (low BER) and 7 to bad quality (high BER)
With EMR MEAN_BEP have a higher granularity, integer value
between 0 and 31. The locating algorithm transforms these values
to a 0 to 76 scale.
MISSNM maximum number of missing reports, missing
measurement reports are replaced by a linear interpolation

Compensations

BSTXPWR - BSPWR

BSPWR output power for BCCH

BSTXPWR output power for other frequencies

BSTXPWR PWR_USED

PWR_USED power used when PC active

BSTXPWR(UL) BSTXPWR (OL)

when UL/OL structure

Filters

SSEVALSI filter choice SDCCH

SSEVALSD filter choice TCH

SSLENSI and SSLENSD filter length for filters [6-9]

[1-5] General FIR Filters

straight average filters, with different windows

(SACCH periods):2, 6 10, 14, 18

[6] Recursive Straight Average Filter

As FIR, except for better computational efficiency

(minimal load on the BSC)

Filters (2)

[7]Recursive Exponential Filter

recursive filter with filter coefficient dependent on

SACCH periods

rxlev = rxlev + (1-)(ss(t))

[8] Recursive 1st. Order Butterworth Filter

[9] Median Filter

rxlev = rxlev + (1-)(ss(t)+ss(t-1))/2

median value from the set last n measurements

Straight forward average filter for TA

Minimum access requirements

Minimum Signal Strength Condition

MSRXMIN threshold for downlink signal strength

BSRXMIN threshold for an estimated uplink signal

strength

Penalties

handover failure - cell to which the handover failed,

is punished

bad quality urgency handover cell which was

abandoned is punished

excessive timing advance urgency handover cell

which was abandoned, and co-sited ones, are
punished

Location ranking

EVALTYPE 1 or 3

Ericsson 1

MSRXSUFF and BSRXSUFF thresholds - sufficient signal levels

(to divide cells in K- and L- cells)

transition hysteresis TRHYST and a transition offset

TROFFSET - in cell-to-cell relation

Signal strength evaluation (K-criterion)

Path loss evaluation (L-criterion)

offset KOFFSET and hysteresis KHYST

offset LOFFSET and a hysteresis LHYST

Ericsson 3

HYSTSEP when signal strength for serving cell is high or low

OFFSET + LOHYST or HIHYST

High level impacting features

Fast return to WCDMA after call release

Fast return to LTE after call release

NC2 after LTE

RATPRIO for cell

HPRIO, HPRIOTHR, LPRIOTHR hysteresis and

thresholds for prioritised RATs

Decisions (priority)

Urgency - timing advance

Intra-cell for BQ

Urgency - bad quality

RAT priority

HCS

OL/UL + Multiband

Basic ranking

Urgency Timing Advance

Limits

TALIM for normal cell

TALIMXOL for extended cell (XRANGE =YES)

MAXTA (to qualify)

Penalty

value PSSTA, duration PTIMTA

Intra-cell

FQSS is the quality vs. signal strength function

SSOFFSETUL, SSOFFSETDL - are signal strength offset

parameters

QOFFSETUL, QOFFSETDL - are quality offset

parameters

For AMR FR

SSOFFSETULAFR, SSOFFSETDLAFR

QOFFSETULAFR, QOFFSETDLAFR

TINIT inhibits handovers

TMAXIHO time when HO is considered consecutive

MAXIHO maximum number of consecutive HO

TIHO time when IC-HOs are inibited

Urgency bad quality

Quality limits

QLIMUL, QLIMDL non-AMR

QLIMULAFR, QLIMDLAFR AMR FR

It is not allowed to HO to worse cell

BQOFFSET, BQOFFSETAFR applied to HYST, LHYST,

KHYST

compared with ranking difference (rank(n)-rank(s))

Penalty

Penalty value PSSBQ, duration PTIMBQ

Assignment to other cell

ASSOC - on or off

AW - assignment to a worse cell (on/off).

IBHOASS assignment to other cell, inter-BSC

(on/off)
AWOFFSET - candidates for Assignment to Worse
Cell must be stronger than current cell decreased
by this offset
CAND possible candidate:

AWN - not at normal handover.

NHN - to better cell and at normal handover

BOTH - at normal handover

High level impacting features

Fast return to WCDMA after call release

Fast return to LTE after call release

NC2 after LTE

RATPRIO for cell

HPRIO, HPRIOTHR, LPRIOTHR hysteresis and

thresholds for prioritised RATs

HCS

BSC

LAYER , PLAYER

HCSBAND - defines the priority for group of layers

Cell

LAYERTHR, PHCSTHR - signal strength threshold to rank cells in

different layers

LAYERHYST - hysteresis

HCSBANDTHR - signal strength threshold for HCS band criterion

MAXCELLSINLAYER, MAXDBDEVINLAYER - number of cells of

same layer prioritized by HCS, and max deviation from best one

Load

HCSTRAFDISSTATE - activate HCS traffic distribution

HCSCHAVAILTIMER - time for checking of idle TCHs

HCSOUT, HCSIN limits for idle TCH to HO out or in

Fast moving

FASTMSREG on/off
THO - minimum time that an MS shall remain on a
higher layer cell
NHO number of inter-cell handovers within THO to
consider MS fast moving

OL/UL structure

LOL - path loss threshold (OL)

TAOL - timing advance threshold (OL)

LOHYST, TAOLHYST hysteresis for TA and PL

DTCBSC Distance to Cell Border switch (on/of)

DTCBSCDTCB - distance (OL)

DTCBHYST - hysteresis for distance

NDIST additional threshold if neighbour should be

on the BA list
NNCELLS - number of non-cosited neighbouring cells
that must be within NDIST from DTCB + DTCBHYST
of OL subcell to trigger a DTCB evaluation

OL/UL structure

LOL - path loss threshold (OL)

TAOL - timing advance threshold (OL)

LOHYST, TAOLHYST hysteresis for TA and PL

DTCBSC Distance to Cell Border switch (on/of)

DTCBSCDTCB - distance (OL)

DTCBHYST - hysteresis for distance

NDIST additional threshold if neighbour should be

on the BA list
NNCELLS - number of non-cosited neighbouring cells
that must be within NDIST from DTCB + DTCBHYST
of OL subcell to trigger a DTCB evaluation

OL/UL Load Distribution

SCLD on/off switch

SCLDTIMEINT - cycle time of the subcell load
monitoring
SCLDLUL, SCLDLOL - percentage of idle full rate
capable TCHs in the UL/OL subcell to attempt load
out, or accept load in
SCLDSC - preferred subcell.

MultiBand Cells

OL/UL as prerequisite
FBCHALLOC - prioritise different frequency
bands/subbands in respect to BSSH
FBOFFS - difference in pathloss between the BCCH
frequency band group and the non-BCCH frequency
band group.
SCALLOC - restrict GPRS to OL/UL or set
preferences
PDCHALLOC - non-hopping TCHs on BCCH
frequency shall be selected as first choice

Cell Load Sharing

GPRSPRIO on-demand PDCHs shall be treated as

idle or busy

CLSLEVEL - percentage of idle TCHs to HO out

CLSACC - percentage of idle TCHs for HO in

HOCLSACC - incoming handover due to load

sharing (on/off)

RHYST - final hysteresis reduction

CLSRAMP - interval for hysteresis to be ramped

CLSTIMEINTERVAL- cycle time of the load

monitoring.

GSM-WCDMA

COEXUMTS switch for IRAT (on/off, BSC)

SBHOACTIVE is handover with usage of Service
Indicator allowed
COEXUMTSLSH allows rejection of incoming
handovers from UTRAN due to load in GSM
COEXUMTSTINT interval for load checking
QSI, QSC, QSCI strategy for measurements in
idle/active
FDDQMIN - minimum quality of UTRAN cell
FDDQOFF - offset between signal quality of UTRAN
and GSM cells

GSM-WCDMA HO

FDDMRR - # of measured neighbouring UTRAN cell

in measurement reports
ISHOLEV - traffic load threshold of the serving GSM
cell to evaluate UMTS measurements
MAXISHO - defines the maximum number of
allowed handovers to trigger to UTRAN per second
MRSL - defines a minimum threshold for the
"quality" measure Ec/No for handovers to UTRAN.
SPRIO - indicates if 3G cells may be searched when
BSIC decoding is required