7 Steps to know iManager M2000, PRS and NetEco

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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.1: iManager overview
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Network Optimizer & Analyzer

Nastar

Performance Management

PRS

Network Management
Site IP Network

M2000

Site Management

NetEco

SingleRAN
User/Service/Terminal

CN

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Planning
Traffic Map to identify hotspot Terminal Analysis to introduce new feature
and support terminal business plan

Build

CME to provide seamless data prepare Remote Antenna Management to manage

antenna and do troubleshooting remotely

Maintenance
PRS to monitor the performance efficiently NetEco to reduce site visit E2E Trace to improve trouble shooting iSStar to make maintenance intelligently CME to adjust network safely and efficiently
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Optimization

RF optimization to provide High Efficiency in

Routine Network Optimization

User Perception Management to improve

user experience and reduce the churn

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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.2: Performance report system: PRS
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Manually, Low Efficiency Generating Reports

Waste much time and manpower. Meanwhile mistake happens due to manually calculation.

Mass Data, Isolated Analysis

Hard to do correlated analysis among mass data in order to locate the problem.

Manage Network Performance

Troubleshooting Monitoring

Un-visualized, No Trend
Difficult to have a visualized view of the network performance status and to sense the changing trend.

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Counter
C1 C2 C3 C4

KPI
KPI1 KPI2 . . . KPIn

Report

Excel Template
Email

Busy Hour Rule

R1 R2 . . . Rn Customizing Report

. . . Cn
Customizing KPI Customizing Busy Hour Rule

. . . Customizing Excel template

. . .

SMS Web Browser

FTP

Generating Reports on schedule Distributing Reports Automatically

Construct report express: customize KPI and report flexibly, generate and distribute reports automatically. Bulk copy optimization experience: solidify optimization experience in the customized reports, which are applied in the similar scenarios.

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GIS Display and Rendering

Display geographic locations of sites and cells on maps clearly. Geographic rendering of performance results according to customized KPI thresholds.

KPI Dashboard
Directly monitor the network status through the dashboard and the range of the status is preset. Analyze the network problems through the correlated theme reports.

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KPI Benchmarking
Compare KPI with benchmark calculated on the basis of the historical values. Compare the network quality after the relocation and that before the relocation. Fix Benchmark
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1

Traffic Trend Prediction

Predict the traffic trend based on the historical traffic data and mathematical algorithm. Provide the reference for network tuning and holiday assurance.

Floating Benchmark
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Benchmarking Value

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Fans Park
Media Centre Grouping

Freeway
. . . . . . . . . . . .

Stadium

Cell

Scenario

Aggregation

PS Throughput

Stadium

Busy Hour

Report

Busy Hour

Time

Drilling

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With PRS
PRS calculates all the KPIs and busy-hour data quickly and generates the reports and charts automatically.
The efficiency of generating performance reports improved obviously.

Suffering
Large mount of daily/weekly/monthly reports for 5 circles including 7000+ sites.
3
3 2 1 0 Before After

Unit: per person/day

0.5 0.5

2 experts and 3 engineers were

busy for calculating KPIs and generating reports day and day.

Daily Reports

Weekly Reports

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With PRS
Quickly gain top 300 high call drop ratio cells of the whole network in about 1 minute.
Get detailed call drop status of Trx level accurately.

Suffering
Huge GSM network in Hangzhou with 100+ BSCs, 17,000+ cells and 5 M2000s. Manually searching data in excel file for troubleshooting always costs several hours time. Unit: minutes
60
1 Before After

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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.3: Wireless configuration solution: CM express
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Automation
Planning System of Huawei

Seamless import
iManager M2000 (CME) Data preparing phase

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Base station detecting Software upgrade Configuration download Monitor and validation Generating the commissioning report

NodeB

Transmission & Wireless data template

BTS

Commissioning phase

Template

Wizard

Centralization

Remote batch

Lets be more fast!

Depress skill requirement Reduce the site-visiting time

Deploy 100 NodeBs in one week

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BTS Creation - Negotiated Data Import Import CME

Transmission data Device data Radio data

Download to network after validation check

Old site
BSC/RNC New site
Step1: Prepare the negotiated data including transmission, device and radio data Step2: Import it to CME for validation, and after that, generate MML script to active
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Automation and High Efficiency

>1,800,000 parameters need to be set

Swapped the whole network of E/// and NSN

Swapped site > 9000

New deployment: 1.2mins/BTS

RAT

Configuration objects >200/BTS

Parameters

Total parameters need to be set

>18,000,000

Efficiency improved: 8.3 times Save 88% deployment time

GSM

>2,000/BTS

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One workspace for GUL multi-mode system

Plan Area
GSM&UMTS &LTE

Efficient configuration mechanism

Copy

Network consistency check

GSM&UMTS &LTE
Current Area

Plan Area Consistency & validity check

Common resources consistency check Inter-RAT Neighboring Cell check Configuration fallback if necessary

Synchronize Network Element

Multi-Area configuration
No effect on current network Data consistency check Guarantee the correctness

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Simple Migration Wizard

Step by step Adjust neighboring cells automatically

Automatic Neighboring Cell Configuration

GSM UMTS

RNC1

NodeB1

UMTS 2 NodeB/Hour 60 NodeBs/Hour Efficiency improved 30 times

Manual
GCell A UCell 1

Automatic
UCell 1 GCell A UCell 2

2 RNC2

NodeB2 New connection

UCell 2

GCell A

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Migration: 1min/NodeB Efficiency improved: 30times Save 96% migration time

I know the tool called CME which provided by Huawei. I think we need it because I believe it would help a lot for our BTS re-homing due to our regular operating service change. -- Supervisor of O&M dept.

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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.4: Antenna management and troubleshooting
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During deployment, optimization and maintenance, antennas might be adjusted by needs

Tilt / azimuth adjustment

Fault detection

Site visiting

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Save CAPEX & OPEX

Pure software, no additional HW required In-band transmission Remote management, reduce site visit

Web access iManager M2000

RNC

NodeB

Remote software upgrade

Power/RET/TMA/ SASU configuration

Fault diagnosis & Alarm monitor

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Challenges and Needs

Inefficiency and high cost for antenna adjustment because of site visiting Extra CCU and transmission resources needed Catherine's management system to manage the

FT Orange

Efficiency improved by 80%

Huawei Solution

Built in CCU, reuse existing transmission resources for remote centralized antenna management.

Customer Benefits

Compare with site commissioning, efficiency improved by

Cost decreased by 95%

80%,cost decreased by 95%.

No extra hardware like CCU for Catherines system.

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Traditional detection way

Now: Detect remotely from M2000

No Site visiting No Additional apparatus

Detect 70% hidden Antenna problems:

Connect inversely Omitted connection Mismatched radiation pattern Intermediation Interference

Support schedule detection report Support generate antenna alarm

Site visiting

RRU

RRU

RRU

Improve efficiency by 60%

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Antenna fault is a major reason of network problems

Potential problems are hard to located Antenna problem is very common

TraditionalManual fault detection

Huawei solutions 15889 cells worldwide Antenna fault detectorRemote scanned574 cells with antenna faults detecting found

90%

client
CMCC antenna health checking Project

M2000

BSC

BTS

accuracy rate

Efficiency improved 23 times

Miss-Connection checking
cross connected Weak receiving signal VSW R

Interference detecting
Intermodulation interference

Frequency scanning

CDMA interference

Locate antenna fault of a site

after

Analysis and fault location

faulty site identification

5mins

Speed improved by 24 times

120mins
time(min)

Fault Report and Fix Suggestions Deal with Problems and verification
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0 50 100 150

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7 Steps to Know iManagerStep.5: Fast troubleshooting: E2E tracing
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1. Extra device (Probe) is required for signal collection

2. Separate tracing of RAN and Core is low efficient

3. Manually tracing log analysis is exhausting task

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Powerful functions
GSM / UMTS / LTE support GU CS / SAE / IMS / NGN support Subscriber / Network Interface oriented

Easily operation
E2E tracing in one task Signal browser / statistics in GUI

FARS make Troubleshooting from hours to minutes

High performance
No extra device/probe required High efficiency troubleshooting

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Drive Test

FARS
15 minutes

4 hours

GSM Tracing for A, Um, Abis, Gb interfaces WCDMA Tracing for Iu, Iur, Iub, UU interfaces LTE Tracing for S1, X2, UU interfaces User Tracing based on MSISDN/IMSI/IMEI/TMSI Quality trend chart and Call drop statistics Flowchart of event messages and signaling Traced Message Playback

Efficiency improve over 90

Multi-subscriber and multi-BSC/RNC parallel tracing

E2E Tracing Task

Signal Statistic analysis

Powerful GUI flow/trend chart

Problem identified!

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7 Steps to Know iManager Step.6: Site manager: NetEco
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Typical Operator OPEX

Site visit cost is high

Typical operator power consumption power consumption on site
Air conditioner 46% 3% 51%

BSS/UTRAN

Auxiliary equipment

Site consumes the most power for operator

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Wireless site
AC/DC power

Base station

D.G

Battery

Solar PanelWind turbine

Grid power

Operator

NetEco

All-in-one controller

Smoke

Water

Infrared

Sensor

Device sensor

Temperature & humidity sensor

Battery Replace notification Remote charge/discharge

D.G Environment Fuel location detection Temperature alarm Replacement notification Smoke, Water, Fire alarm

Power system Run time monitoring Malfunction detection

Remote management to reduce site visit

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BS and power system interaction

Smart TRX activation BS Environment Energy

NetEco

BS power saving policy activation based on power system status

Power consumption analysis

Power generating analysis

Guide to work out power saving policies

Guide to optimize the power system

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Deployed

Plan to deploy

NetEco has been deployed in Chile, South Africa, Kampuchea, China.

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Challenges of China Mobile

On site monitoring solar-wind hybrid equipment cost too much workload Manual power generation statistics for TCO analysis and power system optimization is not convenient

Huawei Solution

Provide NetEco to manage site power system

NetEco

Benefits

Real time site monitoring to ensure on going power provision Easy to do TCO analysis based on remote data collection Assist to work out solar PV and wind turbine expansion plan to meet traffic growth in the coming years

June, 2010 the first NetEco was deployed in China Mobile Site info: one solar system and 2 wind turbines without electric supply

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7 Steps to Know iManager Step.7: Intelligent O&M: iSStar
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Check data Create office data Add neighboring cell data Adjust network clocks Check devices

Optimize signaling links

Collect status statistics Add and delete circuits

The routine O&M is complicated.

1.

Certain operations must be performed manually and repeatedly, which causes low work efficiency.

~#%*?+

2.

Mal-operations may result in network problems

MSC BTS BSC

UMG

PDSN

CN

CG

SGSN

HLR Router

Lanswitch

GBSS
NodeB RNC S-CSCF MGCF

IP device
UTRAN IMSBGCF
WASN

Wimax

BTS

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Experiences
Experience 1 Experience 2 Experience 3 ,

Programs
Intelligent Maintenance Platform
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3

Let network do it self!

Integrate MML
Run Edit Debug Schedule

Mobile Number

120 Mins

6 Mins

Develop programs by yourself Customize Service Flows Batch and Automate the

take example for China Mobile

Up to 20 times efficiency improved

Maintenance Process

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Based on Python Language

Need not compile rich variable numeric types

operators
condition check / loop

built-in functions
abundant library functions

Tool Bar Project Display Area Edit Area

Information Output Area

Integrate the MML Command

MML command can be use directly in the program

Efficient Programming, Easy to Learn

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Abundant Library Functions

HSL built-in functions NE operation functions MML message parsing functions Alarm message parsing functions Database operation functions Time functions Information input/output functions

Output Result Interface Output transaction messages MML messages Customized Functions

Report Output
Excel/Html format

Functions used for obtaining error information

FTP operation functions

Report operation functions

File directory operation functions

Use Library Functions to build

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Automatic script
Monitor the performance of network

1
The dream of Detect the traffic changes automate our daily works came true!

Execute adjustment commands

Data collection and analysis Policy of adjustment MML commands generated and executed

Decide to adjust TCH rate or not Compare with benchmark

Query the PM data from database

30mins

85% 24% 4%

after
4.0 3.8

16 mins

10%

Half rate TCH is enabled to access more subscribers in busy hour The adjustment between TCH/F and TCH/H need to be repeated often, to ensure the user experience

iSStar

duration

manual work

TCH/H

ave MOS

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Greece

Using MML to convert message & alarm notifications into reports, provide network with OSS reference information

GBSC half rate adjustment Soft-Switch load sharing Core Network Health Check Deploy to guarantee QoS during Olympic Games T-MSC Server & MGW routine inspection Enquire configuration data & convert into reports Poland Compile script to acquire NE data & manage information

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