IMSI Analysis

Claro Brazil Workshop

April 5th, 2013
Dalia Guzman
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IMSI Use Case

A VIP user has experienced a voice drop, and you have been
requested to analyse the event, in order to provide a
solution...

What to do?

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IMSI Details & Filter for analysis

The details below are related to the voice drop. Create a filter for accordingly
for your analysis:

When

02/04/2013 @ around 11.00 AM

Use Time Period filter for April 2nd, from midnight to midnight. Please beware that in the
filter you have to use month/day/year, e.g. April 2nd is 04/02/2013.

What

CS Drop

Where

Since we are filtering by IMSI, there is no need to filter by region, as IMSI

normally would act on a very closed area.

However, a good practice is to choose the Geographic Area filter optionUse Bounding
Box.

Who

IMSI 724053908407878

Use Subscriber filter for above IMSI

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IMSI Individual Call Segments

We can use this analysis to find all calls that have been done by that user we want to check. It gives us some
information, like start reason, completion, cell, etc.
TASK Please run the analysis, and once you have the output table, please identify relevant information (IMSI,
drop call, sector it was connected to, the type of service, and the reason for disconnection).

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IMSI Individual Call Legs with RF Conditions

We can use this analysis to find all calls that have been done by that user we want to check. It gives us some
information as previous analysis, and also RSCP, EcIo, UE Tx power for that specific call segment.
TASK Please run the analysis, and once you have the output table, please identify relevant information
(IMSI, drop call, sector it was connected to, the type of service, and the reason for disconnection, RSCP and
Ec/Io of the specific call segment).

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IMSI Subscriber Comparison

We can use this analysis to compare the behaviour / KPIs of different IMSIs (or show the KPIs of just one), in a
period of time.
TASK Please run the analysis, and once you have the output table, identify the main KPIs for this
subscriber. Is his Drop Rate too high? What about number of drops, during the filtered period, is it a high
number of drops?

This is a good analysis also to study the performance of (a) specific subscriber(s), for greater periods of time. For
example, how was the general performance of this subscriber during last month?
You may also know which are the offender cells by running the analysis on next page
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IMSI Drop Locations

Inside the points folder, we can find the drop locations analysis. With this we can plot all locations for a specific IMSI for
the drops. Once we located the drops in the map, using the spider tool we can drilldown each call
TASK You may use this analysis as well to find out if there are other subscribers experiencing drops in the
area (same map boundings of ~1 km around the drop and apply a new filter with it, removing the subscriber
and extending the Time Period for 20 days, for example). Is this an area with lots of drops? Or is this a single
event? What to do in each case?

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IMSI Drop Locations / Call Spider

In the first tab of the spider, we can see all
properties of the call: IMSI, IMEI, start time,
service, etc.

TASK Please run the Drop Locations

analysis in the Map, and once you have the
output, click on the spider option at the top
of the map to open Call Spider.
Once open, identify in the Properties tab, the
IMSI, Segment Start Time, Duration, Call
Start Cell and Call End Cell, Service, ARFCN
and Combined codes.
What was the reason of the drop?
What other interesting information do you
have in this table?

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IMSI Drop Locations / Call Spider

In the third tab of the spider, we can see the layer 3 analysis. In the first part, we can choose different charts to give us
information of the call, like EcIo, RSCP, troughput, events, etc.
We may be able to choose displaying the whole call or the first or last 15 seconds.

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IMSI Drop Locations / Call Spider

In the third tab of the spider, we can see the layer 3 analysis. In the first part, we can choose different charts to give us
information of the call, like EcIo, RSCP, troughput, events, etc. At the right side we can choose more options to show in
the chart, in this example we are showing not only the cells in active set, but also the other PSC that were measured.

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IMSI Drop Locations / Call Spider

In the third tab of the spider, we can see the layer 3 analysis. In the second part, we find the layer 3 signaling of the call.
Each message could have more information, if we click the view icon.
TASK With Call Spider open, go to layer 3 messages and identify where the drop message is. Once you identify
it, click on the first column (View) button, and this will open the complete drop message.
What valuable information do you have there? What was the cell the user was connected to before dropping?
What was the Ec/No, RSCP , and type of service before the drop occurred? What was the reason for the drop?

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IMSI Drop Locations / Call Spider

Example of an open Layer 3

message, showing more
details on the event

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Template suggestion
We have created a Template for IMSI analysis, containing the above referred analysis.
The template can be found in Data Explorer > Global > Templates (UMTS) > ClaroBR > IMSI Analysis
Once you open the template, you will be prompted to include the three variables below, for analysis scope:
>> Time Period Enter period of analysis
>> Service Group Type of service (for example, voice, data, etc) for the drop
>> Subscriber Enter the IMSI object of analysis

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