Nokia Eden-NET: Revolutionizing Self

Organizing Networks (SON)

 EDEN NET Overview

 Network Architecture
 Benefits
 List & Details of Key EDEN Net Modules

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Nokia Eden- Need for SON
• New user devices and evolving network usage has dramatically increased
user demand for mobile network data capacity.
• Radio frequency spectrum represents the fundamental resource on which
wireless networks are built. Clear spectrum suitable for broadband mobile
wireless support is becoming increasingly scarce, creating the need for
spectrum sharing solutions.
• Traditional model of increasing network capacity by simply adding cells leads
to diminishing returns on additional capital investment, creating new network
management challenges without additional automation of network
management processes.
• Future wireless networks managing billions upon billions of data-hungry,
mobile-connected devices will require additional levels of automation such as
Self Organizing Networks (SON)

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 Nokia Eden-NET Vision
To deliver the industry leading, 5G enabling
multivendor SON Radio Optimization solution
through the extensible Nokia Eden-NET platform

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Eden-NET - Network Architecture
Diagram
Network Planning Tool

2G/3G
Packet Switched Internet
Core Network Alarms MGR Planning Location Server
Parameters
IuPS Gr S3 SGi

S6a S11 S5
KPI/KQI Data UE Position Data

RNC HSS MME S-GW P-GW Eden-NET

Iub S1-c S1-u Itf-N RAN EMS Antenna Control
Multi-Node Radio Resource Controller
MNNRC Antenna NMS
Interface
ITF-EN

Node Node eNodeB eNodeB 3G OSS 4G OSS

B B
eNodeB Embedded Agents

Eden-NET supports 2G, 3G, and 4G

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Eden-NET Centralized SON Server OSS
Interfaces
Configuration Management (CM) Another Vendor
• CM data retrieved and pushed over OSS
CORBA interface CM PM Events

CORBA

FTP

FTP
ltf-N interface
Performance Monitoring (PM) data
• PM data retrieved via FTP, CORBA CM Data PM Data Event Data
or via direct data base access for Vendor-specific drivers
NetAct
• Other vendor example - PM data Network Eden-NET
retrieved via FTP for Ericsson OSS- LTE, WCDMA, GSM Vendor-specific drivers
RC CM Data PM Data Event Data

Database /
Direct to
CORBA

CORBA
FTP/

FTP
Event Data ltf-N interface

• NOKIA Megamon data retrieved via

FTP
• Other vendor example - Ericsson
GPEH data retrieved via FTP
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Other supported interfaces: CM PM Events
Direct to Database, SOAP and XML
NOKIA NetAct OSS
Vendor-specific software drivers are
needed to integrate new system

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Eden-NET External Interfaces and Data Format(OSSii & Non-OSSii)

OSS
RAN CM PM FM Event*
Version
OSS RC Non-OSSii: 2G: ASN.1 files 2G/3G/4G: 2G: Raw Event Data
Rel 13B 2G: CNAI commands 3G/4G: XML Files 3GPP Alarm IRP Release Export (REDE) file
Rel 14 A/B 3G/4G: bcgtool.sh 99 (TS 32.111) interface (binary)
Ericsson Rel 15 A/B Cell reset via AMOS - Topology via BasicCM 3G: GPEH event data
Rel 16 A 4G: GPEH trace data

See Non-OSSii: Non-OSSii: 2G/3G/4G: 3GPP Rel6 2G/3G/4G: Event data

Compatibility 2G/3G/4G: CLI and Web services with 2G/3G/4G: XML Files CORBA FM NBI, from Megamon/
Nokia matrix RAML format data Megaplexer
Non-OSSii: SNMP

U2000 4G: CORBA Bulk CM NBI with 3GPP xml 2G/3G/4G: 3GPP XML 2G/3G/4G: 2G: GSM Signaling Trace
Rel 13 format data Files 3GPP CORBA Release 6 3G: UMTS Signaling
(SRAN 8) FM NBI Trace
Huawei Rel 14 Non-OSSii: Non-OSSii: 4G: LTE Signaling Trace
(SRAN 9) 2G/3G: Parameter Push/Pull Using MML 2G/3G/4G:CSV files
Rel 15 and Bulk daily CM file export
(SRAN 10)
LR 14.2 Non-OSSii: Non-OSSii: Non-OSSii: Non-OSSii:
LR 14.3 2G: ACIE interface with ASN.1 format 2G: Binary PM files 2G/3G/4G: 3GPP Rel6 3G: CTg, CTn files
3G: Bulk parameter push/pull using WICL 3G/4G: XML Files CORBA FM NBI, retrieved via SCP
Alcatel Lucent XML data 4G: Cell Trace
4G: Bulk Parameter push/pull using SOAP
with XML format data
NetNumen Rel 2G / 3G / 4G : MML interface with 3GPP 2G/3G/4G: CSV 2G/3G/4G : SNMP V2c / 2G/3G: UniPOS NDS full
12.15 XML format data V3 based FM NBI signaling tracing NBI
ZTE (LR14, UR 15) (binary format)
Non-OSSii
2G/3G/4G: XML Files
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* Only Ericsson GPEH Event Data is currently used in Eden-NET 16, Nokia plans to introduce other vendor Event data in the near future.
NetAct Optimizer evolution to Nokia Eden-NET

• Nokia Eden-NET is the future SON product

• Nokia Eden-NET supports all the network elements
supported by Optimizer
• Nokia Eden-NET has capabilities equivalent to
NetAct Optimizer (WCDMA / LTE) and broad
availability of other SON modules
• NetAct Optimizer (WCDMA / LTE) features will be
ramped-down, NetAct Optimizer 16.8 being the last
release.
• Releases until FDD-LTE16A / TD-LTE16A /
WCDMA16 will be supported till end of life of
NetAct 16 release. Releases FDD-LTE17, TD-
LTE17 and WCDMA 17 will be available only in
Nokia Eden-NET
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Eden-NET benefits compared to NetAct Optimizer

NetAct Optimizer Nokia Eden-NET

Managing the network operations through Managing the network operations through rapid
Open loop process automation process

• Multiple Tools Required • One tool for end to end process

• Domain Expertise needed • No manual intervention needed once
• Human Intervention needed configured
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Eden-NET

product releases 2015 2016 release information

07/15 First Eden-NET release is Eden-NET 15
taken as-is based on modules reaching
Eden-NET 15 GA on C5 date. Eden-NET 15 with 4 SPs
(SP1-SP4)
3/16
2/16 4/16 Upgrade path planned from Eden-NET 15
Eden-NET 16 SP4 to Eden-NET 16. C3 milestone only
16 for major releases

10/16
9/16 11/16 Eden-NET 17 will serve as the next major
release following a one major release per
Eden-NET 17 year + service packs. C3 milestone only for
17 major releases

ready for offering (C3) limited availability (CP) general availability (C5) Service packs with feature
enhancements

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SON 2020—Strategic Roadmap

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Benefits of SON

With SON, network operators can see key

improvements their networks.
SON automation can lead to: SON Network
• Reduced network management
costs:
• Faster Network Expansions
• Day to day activities automation
• Reduce energy usage
Benefits of using SON
• Improved network performance Expensive Manual Automatic High Low
Slow Fast
• Better Network Management visibility
• Improves Tracking of the Network Cheap

• The Operation teams become more

efficient Network Network Daily Energy
Management Expansion activities usage
• Improved end user experience
• Increased user on-demand data rates Efficient
More
Efficient Okay Awesome High Low
• Reduced call drops and access failures Good Excellent
• Increases in customer retention and
reduced churn
Network Operation User Customer
Performance Team Experience Churn
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 Nokia Eden-NET
Proven at Scale Across Diverse Deployments. 1+ Million of 2G/3G/4G Cells
100+M Subscribers
100’s of operator engineers
“With the Eden–NET solution we
15+ SON Modules
have seen significant
improvements in our network.”
Grant Castle, T-Mobile US VP
February 2015

Typical Improvements
15% Reduction in DCR and PS Drop Rate
20% Improvements to HO Success Rate
33% Drop in RRC Connection Rejects
10% Drop in Access Failure Rates
15% Reduction in Leakage
5% Improvement in Voice Erlangs
5% Crossed Feeders
10% over/under shooting cells
75% Reduction in HOPP
50% Reduction in HOW and HOE
1000’s of parameters checked & enforced
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 KEY EDEN-NET SON MODULES

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Nokia Eden-NET® SON Modules

SON Module 2G 3G 4G SON Module 2G 3G 4G

Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) ✔ ✔ ✔ Automated Site Creation (ASC) N/A Q3 ‘16 Q2 ’16

Reuse Code Optimization (RCO) N/A ✔ ✔ Special Event Optimization Q2’16 Q2’16 Q2’16
Coverage & Capacity Optimization (CCO) N/A ✔ ✔
Green Networks ‘16 ‘17 Q2‘16
Mobility Load Balancing (MLB) N/A ✔ ✔
Uplink Noise Optimization N/A Q2‘16 N/A
Crossed Antenna Detection ✔ ✔ ✔
RACH Parameter Optimization N/A ‘17 ✔
GSM Frequency Optimization ✔ N/A N/A
eICIC Optimization N/A N/A Q4‘16
Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) N/A ‘18 ✔
WCDMA Handover Parameter Optimization N/A ‘16 N/A
Automatic Performance Reports ✔ ✔ ✔
Hotspot Identification N/A ‘17 ‘17
Real-Time Alerts ✔ ✔ ✔

Parameter Consistency Enforcement (PCE) ✔ ✔ ✔ Geo Enhanced MLB N/A ‘17 ‘17

Automatic Parameter Optimization (APO) ✔ ✔ ✔ Geo-Enhanced CCO N/A ‘16 ‘16

Sleeping Cell Resolution Q2’16 ✔ ✔ VoLTE Optimization N/A N/A ‘16

Cell Outage Compensation N/A ✔ ✔ Data Correlation N/A ‘18 ‘18

Alarm based Outage Resolution Q2 ‘16 Q2 ‘16 Q2 ‘16 Tracking Area Optimization N/A N/A ’17

Carrier Aggregation Configuration N/A N/A Q2‘16 MIMO Optimization N/A N/A ‘18

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Automated Neighbor Relations Optimization (ANR)
• Nokia Eden-NET
Overview:
• In modern mobile networks, different technologies operate simultaneously. These networks are also formed
by a blend of macro-cells and small cells. Traditional methods, which typically use RF planning tools’ coverage
predictions, and drive-test measurements to define and optimize the neighbor cell relations, now become
extremely complex, expensive, and time-consuming.
• The Eden-NET SON solution solves this issue with its Automatic Neighbor Relations (or ANR) comprehensive
SON module. This ANR module automatically configures the neighbor cell relations for 2G, 3G, and 4G.
• The ANR module in Eden-NET serves four main functions: detecting missing cell neighbor relations; adding
neighbor relations; replacing neighbor relations; and removing or trimming neighbor relations
• Module : LTE_ANR_Blacklisting, LTE_Frequency_Rules, ANR_NeighborListAudit, ANR_2G, ANR_3G,
LTE_ANR_Cleanup, ANR_4G_IRAT, ANRChangesReport, LMSEnforcement
• Supported vendors and technologies:
• Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei (GSM, WCDMA, LTE)
• ALU (WCDMA, LTE)

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 Automated Neighbor Relations Optimization (ANR)
Nokia Eden-NET
Network challenge Value drivers (in typical networks)
• Higher handover success rate, fewer dropped-calls, and
• Dropped calls
lower operational and capital expenses
• Low network throughput
• Addressing change in a multi-layer network
• Volatile radio environment KPI improvements
• Constantly evolving traffic patterns • >15% Decreased call drop rate
• Improved throughput
Solution
• ANR optimizes neighbor cell list assignments
• Detects and adds missing neighbors
• Ranks neighbor list
• Removes non-optimal neighbors
• Effects LTE
• Successful handovers → minimal amount of dropped
calls
• Optimal intra-cell, inter-cell and inter-system handovers LTE
between multi-vendor and multi-technology layers
• Maximize throughput with optimal handovers
• Adapt to constant changes in the radio environment
WCDMA GSM
and traffic patterns

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 Reuse Code Optimization
Nokia Eden-NET Value driver
• Brings several major performance gains such as fewer
handover failures and fewer dropped calls
Network challenge
• Reuse code collisions based dropped calls in the KPI Improvements
network
• Decreased call drop rate
• Handover success rate

Solution
• Detects reuse code collisions/confusions up to four
neighbor hops from each other.
• Optimally assigns new codes to cells to eliminate all
detected collisions/confusions.
• Configurable for restricted reuse code ranges.
• Configurable to maintain common co-sector reuse
codes when implementing retunes.
• Major performance gains experienced once sub-
optimal reuse code plans are corrected

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 Capacity and Coverage Optimization (CCO)
Nokia Eden-NET Value driver
• Identification of over-shooting and under-shooting cells to
Network challenge achieve performance gains
• Optimal network settings are not possible to be KPI Improvements
reached only by planning
• 30% Call drop rates (improved voice quality and
• Manual optimization requires huge effort in constantly accessibility)
changing multilayer network • 13% Handover success rate
• Bad behaving cells, such as overshooters, are hard to • Average throughput (capacity and spectral efficiency)
find manually and they have impacts on wider area
• Balancing between capacity and coverage

Solution
• CCO scans multiple radio access technologies and
multiple radio access network vendors to detect
coverage gaps, interference and overshooters
• CCO optimizes the coverage via advanced antenna
and cell power adjustments

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 Mobility Load Balancing (MLB)
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Network challenge Value driver
• 90% reduced manual operational efforts during cell
• Part of the cells may be occasionally overloaded,
congestion
causing access failures and dropped calls
• Maintaining network quality in case of peak load without
• Ensuring network quality would require building extra need of extra capacity -> CAPEX savings
capacity

Solution KPI Improvements

• MLB optimization triggers a redistribution of traffic from • 12% Speech drop rate
the overloaded cells to lightly loaded neighbor cells • 16% Speech Setup success rate
• Traffic Volumes
• Results in
• Channel utilization
• Evenly loaded network • Traffic Latency
• Reduced voice and data dropped calls • Average per-user throughput
• Improved voice and data accessibility

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 Crossed Antenna Detection
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Value driver
• Fast and accurate detection of the problem. Time
Network challenge savings from solving strange optimization results Better
• Crossed antenna feeders in the network user experience by improved network reliability
• Unexpected results in network functionality and
management operations
KPI Improvements (for affected cell)
Solution • 53% Improvement of Intra HO attempts
• Detects swapped transmit antennas for 2G, 3G and • 21% Improvement of Inter RAT HO attempts
4G. • 33% Improvement of throughput
• Reports antenna feeder issues with confidence
scores.
• Analyzes neighbor lists, geometry of cells, HO counts,
neighbor info across frequency layers.

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 GSM Frequency Optimization
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Value driver
• 90% reduction in manual operational efforts in in BSIC-
Network challenge BCCH collision analysis & correction
Increase in network quality with reduced interference in
• Re-farming of GSM frequency bands for LTE without the network
degradation in network quality • More frequency band available for LTE network
• Effective allocation of frequency bands to reduce
interference in GSM network
BSC

Serving
BTS
Solution f2
• Accurate allocation of GSM frequencies with reduced f1
f3
number of bands to ensure best performance after
frequency re-farming with best-in-class algorithms f8
• Support different operator strategies and hopping
modes f4 f7
f3
f5

f6
f2

f1

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 Parameter Consistency Enforcement (PCE)
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Value drivers
• Ensure the right parameter settings in the network
Network challenge providing optimal overall network performance
• Unpredictable network behavior caused by • Operational efficiencies through the automatic audit of the
inconsistency of network parameters parameter settings
• Error prone network changes
KPI Improvements
Solution • PCE improves KPIs and retains the achieved KPI level
• PCE audits, enforces and reports radio access
network configuration for SON
• Generates report of
• non-compliant parameters
• automatically enforced parameters
• Executable against any network scope: from a single
cell to region level

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 Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO)
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Network challenge
• Different types of handover failures affect on user
experience
• Inefficient use of network resources due to
unnecessary or missed handovers
• Tracking and optimizing the performance of each
neighbor relation in heterogeneous network
deployments
Solution
Value drivers
• Reduced operational efforts
• Reduction of dropped calls to maximize call minutes
KPI Improvements
• 30% Handover ping pong
• 10% Handover to wrong cell
• 6% Intra frequency HO success rate
• 3% early handovers

• MRO optimizes HO parameters to improve the

mobility quality i.e. handover success rate between
LTE cells
Late
• Late handovers
Wrong
• Early handovers
• Handovers to a wrong cell (sub-optimal)
• Ping pong handovers Source
Early
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 Real-Time Alerts
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Value driver
• Reduced response times to network issues, improved
Network challenge network reliability and a reduction in dropped calls,
• How to find the degrading performance in the network access failures

Solution
• Eden-NET monitors in real-time a more limited set of
KPIs than the Automatic Performance Reports
module
• Generates alarms and sends an email to the
responsible RF engineer if the KPIs exceed pre-
defined or learned thresholds.

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 Automatic Performance Reports
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Value driver
• Reduction in manual operational efforts in finding the
Network challenge poor performing network resources
• How to find the worst performing cells in the network

Solution
• Eden-NET processes and analyzes continuously
large volumes of performance data across each of
the 2G, 3G, and 4G cell e.g.
• Accessibility KPIs
• Retainability KPI’s
• Throughput KPI’s.
• Identifies the poorest performing cells
• Sends reports to RF Engineers

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 Automatic Parameter Optimization
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Value driver
• 90% OPEX reduction in customized configuration for
Network challenge new radio network features
• Faster rollout of new radio network features with optimal
• How to find optimal combination of parameters to configuration
reach desired KPI values

KPI Improvements
Solution • Decreased call drop rate
 Automatic Parameter Optimization finds optimal • Handover success rate
configurations by evaluating different parameter • Average throughput
sets against performance metrics for multi vendor
2G, 3G and 4G networks.
 Supports rollback to the initial values, if needed
 Supports permanent pushing of optimal
configuration into the
 WCDMA uplink noise optimization included

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 Sleeping Cell Resolution
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Value driver
• Total Efforts saved in resetting sleeping cells 90%
Network challenge • Reduced outages to maximize traffic
• How to detect and resolve sleeping or • Network reliability
underperforming cells fast in the network
• How to distinguish between abnormality and low traffic KPI Improvements
• Call drop rates (improved voice and data quality and
accessibility)
Solution • Average throughput
• Sleeping cell resolution runs in closed loop over all
the selected cells
• Detects true sleeping cells among underutilized cells
(Voice Only, Data Only, Voice and Data)
• Resets cell / site automatically
• Monitors resets performed in order to find repeated
issues

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Cell Outage Compensation
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Value driver
Network challenge • 90% reduction of manual efforts in detecting and
• How to maintain coverage and capacity in case of a compensating coverage gaps
cell outage (when not recovered by Cell Outage • Ensure coverage
Resolution)

Solution
KPI Improvements
• Examines the neighboring replacement cell(s)
• Decreased call drop rate
• KPIs to determine if a coverage gap has been • Handover success rate
caused as a result of the cell outage • Average throughput
• which target cells’ parameters can be adjusted
without congestion when picking up the traffic
• Compensates by adjusting the electrical antenna tilt
or transmission power to extend the coverage area
• Monitors the replacement cells to detect congestion
and reverts the operation if needed

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 Alarm Based Outage Resolution
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Network challenge Value driver

• Network elements alarms are reported to the
EMS/NMS systems requiring actions to resolve or
mitigate the problem.
• As the size of operators networks grow, it takes more
and more time to handle each alarm
• Saving of significant amount of time for the level 1 and 2
technicians in network operations centers
• Network reliability and performance

Solution
• Eden-NET periodically monitors alarms related to
outages
• Alarm based Outage Resolution module performs
recovery operations on site, cell or unit level
automatically
• Configurable behavior for specified alarms

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 Carrier Aggregation Configuration
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Network challenge Value driver

• How to utilize fragmented spectrum efficiently • Automatic and optimized cell selection to avoid any
tedious manual planning and setting of cell combinations
• How to achieve higher throughput per user
which are used in LTE mobility scenarios
• How to reduce manual effort needed for configuring
Carrier Aggregation in LTE

Solution
• Determines and configures the overlapping cell pairs
for Carrier Aggregation
• Sets the needed parameter values for both Primary
Cell and Secondary Cell
• Provisions and checks consistency in Configurator
and eNB

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 Automated Site Creation
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Network challenge Value drivers
• Efficiency of network with project management, timing
• Minimizing wasted effort and site visits (OPEX)
of work force management and tool dependencies
• Increased speed of network rollout
• Minimizing manual planning, avoiding errors and extra
site visits

Solution
• Automated Site Creation (LTE, WCDMA) orchestrates the
Nokia base station rollout by
• Configuration preparation (minimizes planning)
• Base station autoconfiguration
• Initial optimization
• Verification and follow-up

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 Special Event Optimization
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Value driver
• 90% reduction in manual operational efforts in preparing
Network challenge the network for special event
• How to be prepared to mass events
KPI Improvements
• achieve maximum revenue
• Decreased call drop rate
• avoid congestion
• Improved throughput
• ensure good network quality • Handover success rate

Solution
• Special Events module applies the operator’s
strategy to accommodate temporary capacity
imbalances in the network
• Supports Planned events (Schedule-based)
• Rollback of network parameters post special
events

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 Energy Savings Management (Green Networks)
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Network challenge Value driver

• How to save energy in case of underutilized network • Effective utilization of energy saving features
during low traffic periods • Meeting energy savings reduction goals
• 90% OPEX savings in finding the overlapping network
capacity and optimal power groups
Solution
• Dynamically manages the controlled shutdown and
start up of network resources (units, layers, cells) in
power groups created automatically based on
operator’s threshold
• Triggers on preset schedules and KPI’s (time and load
based energy savings)

low load high load

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 RACH Parameter Optimization
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Value driver
• 90% reduction in manual operational efforts in identifying
Network challenge and resolving conflicts in RACH
• Faster rollout of new radio network features with optimal
• How to allocate initial RACH (Random Access configuration
Channel) parameters
• Find conflicts or inconsistencies in the 4G network
faster in changing radio conditions KPI Improvements
• Handover success rate

Solution
• Ensures that the PRACH configurations of an LTE
cell are unique within its neighborhood.
• Optimizes PRACH Allocations
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• Supports time, frequency and code separation

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PRA
Cell under

configuration

(3GPP compliant).
• Works together with D-SON capacity and power
optimizations.

eNB which belongs to the cell

under configuration

eNB outside PRACH reuse Cells considered as neighbor cells for PRACH planning
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Cells not considered as neighbor cells for PRACH planning
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