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Cell Radius Limited by Prach Parameters Issue Analysis

 Budi Prasetyo    Planning    22:03

1 Description
During the drive test in a project, find some place with not too bad coverage (RSRP=-106 dBm) but
the UE cannot random access successfully.

2 Analysis
2.1 Random Access Failure
This snapshot show that the UE RSRP is about -105 dBm, and UE send Random Access Request(MSG1) for many times but
do not receive the response from the network. This cause the random access failure. In this case we notice that the UE
location is about 10.2 km from the site Sparta (and other surrounding sites)

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2.1 Prach Parameters Analysis

The cell access radius is determined by the Prach Parameter (Ncs). This parameter name in OMM is “Ncs Used to Generate
Prach Preamble(Ncs)”and its short name is ncs. Here is the relationship between ncs and the cell radius. Currently the the
whole network ncs configuration is 10, that is 9.8 km for the access radius. So this random access
failure case is caused by the Prach configuration. 

# of root  
# of root
sequence sequence  
needed per needed per  
High Speed Ncs Cell Radius cell Not High Speed Cell Radius (km) cell
 
Ncs configuration (≥120km/h)  
(km) Num_u Ncs (<120km/h) Num_u
  
0 15 1.08 2 0 118.93 64
 
1 18 1.51 2 13 0.79 1
2 22 2.08 2 15 1.08 2
3 26 2.65 2 18 1.51 2
4 32 3.51 3 22 2.08 2
5 38 4.37 3 26 2.65 2 

6 46 5.51 4 32 3.51 3
7 55 6.8 5 38 4.37 3
8 68 8.66 6 46 5.51 4
9 82 10.66 7 59 7.37 5

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10 100 13.23 8 76 9.8 6

11 128 17.23 11 93 12.23 8
12 158 21.52 13 119 15.95 10
13 202 27.81 16 167 22.82 13
14 237 32.82 22 279 38.84 22
15 - - - 419 58.86 32

 Solution
 

3 Optimization Suggestion
 

3.1 Ncs optimization

 
.According to the DTC network, ncs=12 (corresponding cell radius is 15.95 km) is more reasonable.
So we suggest optimizing the ncs from 10 to 12.

3.2 Other Prach parameters re-planning

According to table Table 1 ncs configuration, when ncs is changed, the number of root sequence needed per cell will
change. That means the root sequence parameters need optimization too. The corresponding parameters in OMM are
“Logical Root Sequence Start Number Used to Generate Prach Preamble” with short name rootSequenceIndex and
“Transmission time configuration of random access preamble” with short name Prach Configuration Index. It is necessary to
re-plan the rootSequenceIndex for each cell.

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