2G Network QoS and Performance Analysis

Duration and Training Format

5-day instructor-led training

Course Objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to: Develop their understanding of what GSM is and what it can do, including the motivation for its development, its early history, and its present capabilities. Help the engineering team in QoS planning, optimization and performance management for the wireless data network. Have a better knowhow of the parameters involved and KPI metrics; Develop their appreciation of how GSM and related technologies can be used to deliver value to customers, including an exploration of what is meant by "quality of service" and a discussion of the network technology, management systems and business processes required to deliver customer value; Explore the linkages between technological capabilities of GSM and the marketing and pricing decisions that are an essential part of delivering quality to customers

Course Overview
The goal of mastering GSM QoS training is to present details and up-to-date information on the GSM standard. Students will become familiar on how to improve QoS and manage performance of the GSM radio network. The participants will learn about practical performance and deployment issues specific to the GSM standard. This course gives the proper knowledge on the QoS as well as the physical method of QoS that is used for Standard Drive Test. Different Statistical methods, such as Accessibility, Availability, Maintainability and Quality are derived in this course. At the end of the training, the QoS performance reporting and optimization is focussed.

Key Benefit
Delegates will be trained on state-of-the art knowledge regarding 3G Quality of service, performance, regulatory knowledge areas, benchmarking and parameter optimization.

Pre Requisites
Some knowledge of Telecom fundamentals

Who Should Attend?

Technical Managers, Network performance and quality of service teams, Regulatory and enforcements engineers, Development Engineers, Radio Network Engineers, Anyone who needs to know about GSM and how it works.

Course Outline
1. Fundamentals of QoS Introduction: What is QoS? Why do we need QoS? QoS Challenges What has been achieved so far in QoS? Monitoring the Network Performance Where can Information about the Network Quality be collected? How is Network Quality defined? What are the different ways to measure QoS Physical Method Statistical Method Numerical/Empirical Calculations using counters 2. Physical Method - QoS measurements using Drive Tests Drive Test Introduction and Purposes Audit, Benchmarking, Network Performance Continuous Call Short Call Tems vs. BSC stats Tems Vs Abis Tems Post Processing RxLev RxQual Serving Cell MS Transmit Power Layer 3 Messages (System Info type 2, 6 etc) Case study Neighbor, Missing How to detect them with TEMS and others Asymmetric HO & resurgence Neighbor Deletion Neighbor list maintenance Swapped Sector How to detect them with TEMS and others Co- BSIC and Co-BCCH adjacent cell Co-channel vs. Adjacent channel interference Ways of detecting co-channel interference How to detect them with TEMS and others Cell Coverage Optimization How to improve it with TEMS and others 5. QoS Optimization Optimization Overview Optimization process flow Pre-launch network optimization Drive Test based Optimization Process Cluster & Network Acceptance KPIs RF Cluster Optimization Process Flow Drive test Data D. Quality Presentation Cause of failure How to improve 4. Numerical/Empirical Method measurements using Counters How to compute KPIs from Counters Peg counter (PEG) Accumulator counter (ACC) Scan counter (SCAN) PDF measurements (PDF) Discrete distributed measurements (DDM) Calculated statistics counters QoS A. Accessibility (SDCCH, TCH, HO etc.) Presentation Cause of failure How to improve B. Availability (SDDCH, network failure etc.) Presentation Cause of failure How to improve C. Maintainability (dropped calls, early failure, etc.) Presentation Cause of failure How to improve 3. Statistical Method - QoS measurements using Statistics Introduction to Statistics Benefits of counters against Drive Tests ITU_T_E800 and ETR classification

Cluster identification process General Measurement Collection Guidelines Drive route creation Types of measurements Commonly used measurement tools Basic Drive Test Equipment Setup Cluster Unloaded and Loaded drive test cases Market Optimization Configurations Cluster acceptance process RF Optimization Process Flow Drive test Data 6. QoS Performance Reporting RF Coverage Check : Delta Plot Coverage Check : RxLev verification RF Coverage Check : Rxlev scan per BCCH Verification of swapped feeders or other issues RxQual Verification UL Coverage Verification Data Analysis flow Analysis - Neighbor List Verification Handover Performance Voice call analysis Network problems RF Planning problems Tool Problems Other issues