Mobilink ISB3G Project Report

Signaling Storm Analysis Data Analysis Period: 2016/1/6 23:00-2016/1/6 23:59

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Time Active User(including

RNCID Start time End time
Range(hour) RRC)Number

205 1 2016-04-19 23:00 2016-04-19 23:59 126153

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UE Brand Distribution

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UE OS Distribution

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Smart Phone Resource Utilization

UE Penetration PS RAB Att CS RAB Att SPU Load INT Load DPU Load CNBAP
RNCID UE Type
Number Rate Times Times Ratio Ratio Ratio Load Ratio

Feature
1 102445 81.21% 42385 93826 23.43% 25.93% 75.93% 20.87%
Phone

Smart
1 23246 18.43% 962164 29689 75.68% 73.28% 24.07% 78.09%
Phone

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Explosive Growth of Smartphone Devices &
Applications
2020
• Devices beyond
population
• Apps exceed billions
From thousands
to Billions
Entertainment
SNS
2011 From ‘peer-to-peer’
• Smart device Education
• ~ 350,000 apps Business
to ‘All-to-All’
& Finance
2000 From simple
• Feature phone
• ~1000 apps communication to
Digital Lifestyles

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Smartphone Fast Dormancy 3 Times more Signaling
How Fast Dormancy Causes Signaling Surge

Normal RRC Release Smartphone Fast Dormancy

Smart No data transmission Smart No data transmission

Phone Phone
20 6 seconds
…

…
90% seconds 90% Around
DCH IDLE DCH IDLE

When UE transfer from DCH to IDLE, 35 signaling message is interacted between UE and the
network.
Fast dormancy was introduced to save UE power yet makes signaling interaction more frequently.

‘Fast Dormancy’ difference is related to terminal type and the OS.

iPhone 6 sec Balck Berry 6 secs
HTC Android 8 sec HTC Windows no fast dormancy

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Heart Beat Increases Signaling
What is Heart Beat
Frequent “Heartbeat” When the application is in use,
Signaling
sometimes the user is doing nothing at
Common UE
Data
all. (For example, waiting for message
User Idle Status
coming when using MSN).

Smartphone  During the time described as above, UE

will send “Heart Beat” message to inform
the AP server that the application is still
Data Service Heartbeat Data Service
on.

The ‘Heart Beats’ of smart phones are actually caused by Services

No Service MSN Facebook Twitter
Every 50 seconds,
Every 10-15 minutes, heart
iPhone 5- 6s Every 55 - 60 seconds interaction with
beat with apple push server
twitter.com

HTC Android No heart beat 40-60s UE setting (in service client on terminal)

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EFD/R8 FD Cell_PCH Reduce 50-80% Signaling Msg
Normal Fast Dormancy EFD/R8 FD
Data service Heartbeat Data service Heartbeat
IDLE PCH DCH PCH

DCH FACH FACH

Idle<->DCH<->Idle Signaling PCH<->FACH<->DCH <->PCH PCH<->FACH<->PCH

Data
( 35 Signaling Message) Idle ( 18 Signaling Message) ( 6 Signaling Message)
PCH

Data Service Heartbeat Data Service Data Service Heartbeat Data Service

100% PS Signaling Message

100%
W/o smart procedure W/t smart procedure
80%
50%
60% 60% 60%
60%

40%
<20%
20% 10%
0%
Normal Smart Data Service Heartbeat

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 Cell_PCH

Feature work method Solution:

Normal User
4A/4B PS inactivity
timer expires
Trigger State Release PS
transmit based signaling
on data volume connection

R8 FD
Solution: R5-R7 UE with SCRI
R8 UE
With SCRI SCRI no
cause cause

Trigger State Release PS

transmit signaling
connection
EFD
Solution: R5-R7 &R8 UE with
SCRI , no cause
In white list Out of white
list

Trigger State Release PS

transmit signaling
connection

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UE Distribution of SCRI
Penetration Feature
RNCID SCRI UE Number
Rate Solution

2 No SCRI 5089 21.89% Cell_PCH

SCRI With
2 17202 74.00% R8 FD
Cause

SCRI Without
2 955 4.11% EFD
Cause

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Solution Benefit Forecast

Cell-PCH+R8 FD Cell-PCH+R8 FD+EFD

RNCID Benefit Type
Benefit Forecast Benefit Forecast

PS RAB Decrease
1 57.24% 57.3%
Ratio

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KPI Formula Modification- PCH Considered

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Solution Benefit Forecast

Cell-PCH+R8 FD Cell-PCH+R8 FD+EFD

RNCID Benefit Type
Benefit Forecast Benefit Forecast

PS RAB Decrease
2 63.92% 64.00%
Ratio

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