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Ericsson BSS
Introduction for
Optimization
and Planning
Mohammad Rasoul Tanhatalab 2013
m_r_tanha@yahoo.com
+989155132368
Contents
Introduction
Type of BTS
Connect to BTS
Connect to BSS
Alex
Frequency Hopping
Multi Band (Common BCCH)
Cell Load Sharing (CLS)
Channel Administration
Hierarchical Cell Structure
AMR
BTS and MS Power Control
Idle Mode Behavior
Some Important Commands
Introduction
This presentation is designed to provide an introduction to
the planning, optimization and implementation processes
in 2G Ericsson networks.
However, this file tries to explain and mention the most
important things that a RF engineer needs to know for
Network Optimization along with some examples.
As a matter of fact, this topic is prepared for engineer that
has good knowledge about GSM and optimization but
he/she are not familiar with Ericsson BSS networks.
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TYPE OF BTS
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Types of RBS
RBS 6000
series
RBS 6101
RBS 6201
RBS 6301
RBS 6601
RBS 6102
RBS 6202
.
RBS 2000
Series
RBS 2111
RBS 2216
RBS 2308
RBS 2116
RBS 2206
RBS 2202
RBS 2106
RBS 3000
Series
RBS 3216
RBS 3116
RBS 3206
RBS 3106
DU (Digital Unit)
The DU has the following functions:
Timing function
Loadable software (from Flash Card)
Radio interface
Transmission handling
External synchronization
Tower Mounted Amplifier Control Module
(TMA-CM) (only for DUG 10 01)
Type of DU
The DUG 10 01 uses the architecture from RBS
2000
The DUG 20 01 uses the same architecture as
the other radio standards in RBS 6000
(WCDMA and LTE)
RU (Radio Unit)
The RUS has the following functions:
Transceiving Receiving Processing (TRP)
Uplink and downlink filtering
Power Amplifier (PA) functions Up to four carriers
downlink and uplink with 2-RX diversity (valid for RUS 01)
Up to eight carriers downlink and uplink with 2-RX
diversity (valid for RUS 02)
The RUG has the following functions:
Timing reference function by Local Timing Unit (LTU)
Transmitter Combining
UC/HC connector supervision
Output Power Supervision function
DC/DC function
Tower Mounted Amplifier Control Module (TMA-CM)
Power
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Number of
RUs per
Sector
RBB11_1A
2 RBB11_1A
RBB11_1A + RBB32_3B
2
4
RBB32_3A
2 RBB32_3A
RBB43_4A
Maximum Total
Number of
Carriers
DBB
12
12
24
24
48
12
36
24
48
36
48
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24
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DBB10_01
DBB10_02
2 DBB10_01
2 DBB10_01
DBB10_01 + 3 DBB10_44
DBB10_44
3 DBB10_44
2 DBB10_44
4 DBB10_44
3 DBB10_44
4 DBB10_44
DBB10_45
2 DBB10_45
3 DBB10_45
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Multi-standard Configurations
A multi-standard RBS supports installation of nodes
of different radio access systems in the same
cabinet. In a multi-standard RBS, the support
system is shared between the nodes in the cabinet.
Each radio access system node is managed
separately using its own radio standard tools, but
only the primary node controls and supervises the
support system. Multi-standard configurations can
be either single mode or mixed mode
configurations.
Single Mode
Mixed Mode
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Single Mode
Single mode allows an RBS to be configured
with different radio access systems within the
same cabinet.
Single mode allows the following combination
of radio access systems:
GSM and WCDMA
GSM and LTE
WCDMA and LTE
LTE and CDMA
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Mixed Mode
Mixed mode allows nodes of different radio
standards within a cabinet to share radio and
antenna resources.
Mixed mode allows the following combination
of radio access systems:
GSM and WCDMA
GSM and LTE
WCDMA and LTE
LTE and CDMA
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in a star configuration or in a
cascade configuration
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CONNECT TO
BTS
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OMT Task
Monitoring
the cabinets
Internal Alarms in the
troubleshooting process,
performing
(Installation
operations
Data
IDB
Base)
Defining
the
External
Alarms and Antenna Related
Auxiliary Equipment
(ARAE)
Monitor the hardware and
configuration status of the
RUs in the cabinet
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CONNECT TO BSS
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WinFIOL
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WinFIOL Setting
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ALEX
(ACTIVE LIBRARY EXPLORER)
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BSS
Structure Connections and Commands
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Figure below shows the different names of the PCM link devices
in the three types of BSS implementation.
RALT3 / RBLT3 64 kbit/s device on T1, connected to SONET network, 1-board ET155
RALT96 / RBLT96 64 kbit/s device on T1, connected to 24/96 channel ET (PDH)
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MO (Manage Objected)
MO
FORMAT
TG
Transceiver Group
RXOTG-tg
CF
Central Functions
RXOCF-tg
IS
Interface Switch
RXOIS-tg
CON
Concentrator
RXOCON-tg
DP
Digital Path
RXODP-tg-ldp
TF
Timing Function
RXOTF-tg
MCTR
Multi Carrier
Transceiver
Transceiver Carrier
RXOMCTR-tg-lmctr
TX
Transmitter
RXOTX-tg-ltrxc
RX
Receiver
RXORX-tg-ltrxc
TS
Time Slot
RXOTS-tg-ltrxc-lts
TRXC
RXOTRX-tg-ltrxc
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<RXTCP:MOTY=RXOTG;
MO
RXOTG-1 CellIDA1
CELL
CHGR
MO
CELL
RXOTG-6
CellID D
CellIDB1
CellIDC1
CellIDA1
CellIDB1
CellID E
CellIDC1
CellID F
CellID D
RXOTG-2
CellIDA2
CHGR
CellIDB2
CellIDC2
CellID E
CellIDA2
CellID F
CellIDB2
CellIDC2
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RXMFP:MOTY=RXOCF;
RXMFP:MO=RXOCF- ;
RU RUREVISION
RUSERIALNO
R15B
TU89465713
RUPOSITION
RULOGICALID
CABI 2106I
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MO
RXOTG-1
RSITE
COMB
FHOP
CellID1G A
HYB
BB
SWVERREPL
SWVERDLD
B0702R025E
MODEL
G12
SWVERACT
B0702R025E
TMODE
TDM
POOL
TGFID
H'0001-A783 NORMAL
SIGDEL
FLEXIBLE
BSSWANTED PACKALG
1010
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FREQUENCY HOPPING
AND
MAIO MANAGEMENT
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Achievements
More uniform speech quality
A more dependable and predictable radio
environment
Increased capacity (tighter frequency re-use enabled)
Capabilities
Up to 128 frequencies can be assigned per cell
Note: maximum of 32 frequencies per Channel
Group (CHGR)
Frequencies can be reused (except the BCCH frequency)
in other CHGRs within the cell
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Hopping Modes
Baseband hopping (FHOP = BB)
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Baseband Hopping
+ A narrow-band filter combiner
can be used. To this combiner it is
possible to connect up to 6 TRXs
without more than 3dB combiner
loss.
- It is impossible to hop on more
frequencies than there are TX:s.
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Synthesizer Hopping
+ It is possible to hop on more
frequencies than there are
transmitters.
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MAIO Management
The MAIO Management feature provides
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MAIO Algorithm
At frequency hopping MAIO values are used (together with
the HSN and the current FN) to point out the frequencies to
be used from the HFS at an instant in time.
Cyclic hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+FN) modulo (number of frequencies in
HFS)
Random hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+random value) modulo (number of
frequencies in HFS)
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Example
Cyclic hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+FN) modulo (number
of frequencies in HFS)
Random hopping
"pointer" = (MAIO+random value)
modulo (number of frequencies in HFS)
For instance, in Cyclic hopping, 3 TRX:s
in a cell, nine frequencies in the HFS.
The
current FN is 1. The first TRX use
frequency number:
(FN+MAIO) mod (# of frequencies in
HFS) = (1+0) mod 9 = 1 (which will
relate the pointer to the second
frequency in the HFS .
The next time FN=2 and the
pointers will be shifted downwards one
step.
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CELL
CellID
CHGR HSN HOP
MAIO
OFF
DEFAULT
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ON
BCCD
YES
YES
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SDCCH: Number
of SDCCH
channel
CBCH: cell
broadcast
channel
RLCFP:CELL=CellID;
CELL
CellID
CHGR SCTYPE SDCCH SDCCHAC TN CBCH HSN HOP DCHNO
0
1
0
1
NO
0
OFF 114
2
3
4
1
1
0
2
NO
50
ON 64
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CHGR: channel
group
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All the frequencies in the non-BCCH frequency band can be more efficiently
reused
There is one more timeslot available for traffic in the non-BCCH frequency
band
The number of defined cells and neighbor relations in a BSC of a multi band
cell network is reduced
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Common BCCH
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With Subcell Load Distribution activated, the OL subcell is only used when
the traffic in the UL subcell increases beyond a certain limit. Secondly, the
mobiles closest to the site are moved to the OL subcell, which means that
power control are more effective for the OL subcell and less interference is
spread.
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Commands
RLOLC:CELL=cell,LOL=lol,LOLHYST=lolhyst,TAO
L=taol,TAOLHYST=taolhyst, DTCBN=dtcbn,
DTCBHYST=dtcbhyst;
The following command is an attempt to distribute traffic connections
from the underlaid subcell to the overlaid subcell
RLLLC:CELL=cell,SCLD=on/off,SCLDLUL=scldlul,
SCLDLOL=scldlol, SCLDSC=UL;
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CELL LOAD
SHARING
(CLS)
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(HOCLSACC=ON)
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CLS Parameters
Clsacc : Cell Load Sharing level above which a
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Command
<RLLCP:CELL=ALL;
CELL CLSSTATE
CellID1 INACTIVE
20
40
OFF
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CellID2 INACTIVE
20
40
ON
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CellID3 INACTIVE
20
40
OFF
75
RLLCC:CELL=HLM2,HOCLSACC=ON;
RLLCC:CELL=HLM3,HOCLSACC=ON;
RLLCI:CELL=HLM1&HLM2&HLM3;
RLLSI;
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CHANNEL ADMINISTRATION
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The capability
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Channel Administration
There are three main situations in which a set of
channels is allocated:
Immediate assignment when a connection is to be
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Selection Type
The following data is needed to select a suitable channel:
Traffic Case
Preferred Subcell
Channel Mode
Speech/data or signaling
Channel Service
A list of channel type and speech versions/data rates in order of
preference
Multislot Data
Number of channels requested etc.
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RT1.2 OL/TCH/HR
RT2.1 UL/TCH/FR
RT2.2 UL/TCH/HR
RT3 OL/SDCCH
RT4 UL/SDCCH
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CHAPs
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CHAP 5
and
CHAP 6
CHAP 5: This profile provides a channel allocation strategy similar to the
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RLHPC:CELL=cell, CHAP=3;
RLHPP:CELL=cell;
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HCS Discription
The HCS feature provides the possibility and
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RLLHP:CELL=cellID;
CELL
CellID
HCSIN
0
75
10
OFF
HCSOUT
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Technical Description
The layer threshold decides if the cell should be prioritized over stronger cells
of the same HCS band.
The band threshold decides if the cell should be prioritized over stronger cells
from other HCS bands
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AMR
(ADAPTIVE MULTI RATE)
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Why AMR?
Improve speech quality at low C/I
The robust FR channel that provides high
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codec for both half rate and full rate channels. By adapting
the codec rate to the radio conditions the speech quality is
enhanced. At low C/I, a large amount of channel coding is
applied and less speech coding. When the C/I increases the
speech coding is increased and the channel coding is
decreased.
Both the BTS (uplink ) and the MS (downlink) continuously
measures the radio quality (C/I) and based on these
measurements the codec rate is changed. AMR requires
support in all network nodes, i.e. MSC, BSC, BTS and MS
and AMR is only supported in cells where all TRUs are AMR
capable.
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Concepts
Speech Version
Channel Rate
Full Rate (22,8 kbps gross bit rate on air interface)
Half Rate (11,4 kbps gross bit rate)
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RLSLP:CELL=MA0734F
CELL
SCTYPE
MA0734F
ACTIVE
YES
CHTYPE
BCCH
SDCCH
TCH
TCH
TCH
TCH
TCH
TCH
CBCH
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CELL
CellID
AMRPCSTATE
INACTIVE
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DYNAMIC HR ALLOCATION
AND
DYNAMIC HR/FR
ADAPTATION
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CELL
CellID
DHA
ON
RLDHC:CELL=CellID, DHA=ON,DTHAMR=35,DTHNAMR=20;
DTHAMR
Dynamic HR Allocation threshold for Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) capable
mobiles Indicates a percentage value of number of de-blocked full rate Traffic
Channels (TCHs) in the cell when Dynamic HR Allocation is enabled and the
mobile supports AMR HR. When the number of idle full rate TCHs in the cell is
above or equal to the value, FR TCHs will have precedence over HR TCHs. When
the number of idle FR TCHs in the cell is below to the value, HR TCHs will have
precedence over FR TCHs.
DTHNAMR
Dynamic HR Allocation threshold for non Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) capable
mobiles performs as DTHAMR for mobile that not support AMR
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Power Control
Power Control Capabilities are:
Interference
Battery Backup Power Consumption
Receiver Saturation
Quality and Signal Strength Impact
Power Control
TCH
YES
BCCH
NO
SDCCH
YES
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Dynamic BTS
and MS Power
Controls
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Regulation interval uplink is 10 SACCH periods. A new power order is issued only if the
calculated power level is different from the current MS power level.
Number of measurement periods before full measurement periods are used, uplink is 16.
The full set of measurements is performed on each TDMA frame in a basic physical
channel. The subset of measurements is performed on those TDMA frames in the basic
physical where transmission is guaranteed. The power control algorithm uses the subset
if either DTX is used on a TCH or during a time period after the call has just been
established on a TCH.
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RLSSC:CELL=cell,ACCMIN=accmin,CCHPWR=cchpwr,CRH=crh,DTXU=dtxu,RLINKT=rlinkt;
CCHPWR: Control channel power This parameter changes the maximum Transceiver Power
Level (TXPWR) in dBm an MS may use when accessing on a Control Channel (CCH).
CHR: Cell reselect hysteresis This parameter changes the Received Signal Level (RXLEV)
hysteresis in dB for required cell reselection over location area border.
DTXU: Uplink DTX indicator. 0 The MSs may use Uplink DTX, 1 The MSs use uplink DTX and
2 The MSs do not use uplink DTX.
RLINKT: Radio link time-out on DL for non AMR This parameter changes the time before an
MS disconnects a call due to failure in decoding Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH)
messages
for
non
Adaptive
Multi
Rate
(AMR).
The
parameter
is
given
as
number
of
SACCH
periods
(480ms).
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RLAPP:CELL=CellID;
CELL
AMRPCSTATE
CellID
ACTIVE
SCTYPE
SSDESDLAFR SSDESULAFR
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SSDESDLAHR
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SSDESULAHR
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QDESDLAFR
QDESULAFR
40
QDESDLAHR
40
QDESULAHR
30
30
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downlink.
QDESULAFR= Desired quality for the codec type
AMR FR, uplink.
The rest of parameters are defined for HR as
above.
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Cell Priority
CBQ
CB
CELL SELECTION
CELL RE-SELECTION
HIGH
NO
NORMAL
NORMAL
HIGH
YES
BARRED
BARRED
LOW
NO
LOW
NORMAL
LOW
YES
LOW
NORMAL
When a cell is barred it will not be camped on by an MS in idle mode but an active (i.e. an
MS in dedicated mode) can perform handover to it.
Cells can have three levels of priority; barred, normal and low. Suitable cells that are of low
priority are only camped on if there are no other suitable cells of normal priority. The
priority of a cell is controlled by the Cell Bar Qualify parameter CBQ (only valid for mobiles
supporting GSM phase 2), in conjunction with the Cell Bar Access parameter , CB. It is
probably better to set CBQ to HIGH to speed up cell selection for phase 2 MSs since CBQ
makes no difference at cell reselection.
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C1 Criteria
C1>0
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C2 Criterion
C2 = C1 + CRO TO * H (PT - T)
if PT <> 31
C2 = C1 CRO
if PT = 31
H(x) = 0 if x < 0
H(x) = 1 if x 0
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Related Commands
RLSBP:CELL=cellID;
CELL
cellID
CB
MAXRET
TX
ATT
NO
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YES
ACC
CLEAR
HIGH
PT
ECSC
YES
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SOME IMPORTANT
COMMANDS
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For Print
RLDEP:Cell=CellID;
CELL
CGI
CellID
432-11-LAC-CI
TYPE
INT
BCCHTYPE
NCOMB
XRANGE CSYSTYPE
NO
GSM900
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Resetting of one TG
RXBLI:MO=RXOTG-10,SUBORD,FORCE;
RXESE:MO=RXOTG-10,SUBORD;
RXESI:MO=RXOTG-10,SUBORD;
RXBLE:MO=RXOTG-10,SUBORD;
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HandOver Definition
Internal
RLNRC:CELL=CellIDB,CELLR=CellIDA,CS=NO,AWOFFSET=10;
RLMFC:CELL=CellIDB,MBCCHNO=CellIDA_bcch,MRNIC;
RLMFC:CELL=CellIDA,MBCCHNO=CellIDB_bcch,MRNIC;
External
RLDEI:CELL=CellIDC,CSYSTYPE=GSM900, EXT;
RLDEC:CELL=CellIDC,CGI=432-11-LAC-CI,BSIC=bsic,BCCHNO=cellIDC_bcch;
RLLOC:CELL=CellIDC,BSPWR=47,
BSRXMIN=120,BSRXSUFF=0,MSRXMIN=102,MSRXSUFF=0,SCHO=OFF,MISSNM=3,AW=OFF,BSTXPWR=35
,EXTPEN=OFF;
RLCPC:CELL=CellIDC,MSTXPWR=33;
RLLHC:CELL=CellIDC,LAYER=6,LAYERTHR=75,LAYERHYST=2,PSSTEMP=10,PTIMTEMP=5,FASTMSRE
G=ON;
RLNRI:CELL=CellIDA,CELLR=CellIDC,SINGLE;
RLMFC:CELL=CellIDA,MBCCHNO=cellIDC_bcch,MRNIC;
P.S. The some parameters are different for 900 and 1800 bands , check these in ALEX and the External part
must be implement in two BSC
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CELL
CellID1
CellID2
CellID3
CellID4
CellID5
CellID6
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RLCCC:CELL=cell,CHGR=chgr,SDCCH=sdcch,CBCH=cbch,TN=tn;
This command changes SDCCH/8 configuration data in a channel group.
RLSTP:CELL=cell;
The command will initiate the printout CELL STATUS for the internal cell
RLLDC:CELL=cell,MAXTA=maxta,RLINKUP=rlinkup;
This command is used to handle locating disconnect data in a cell
RLLUC:CELL=cell,QLIMUL=qlimul,QLIMDL=qlimd,,QLIMULAFR=qlimulafr,
QLIMDLAFR=qlimdlafr, TALIM=talim,CELLQ=cellq;
By this command the Timing advance limit for handover and cell quality are
defined per cell
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to initiate printing of
managed object
configuration data for one
or more managed object
instances.
The answer printout
indicates how each
managed object specified
in the MO parameter is
configured.
Examples
RXCDP:MO=RXETG-0&&-3;
RXCDP:MO=RXETS-2-3-0&&-7;
RXCDP:MO=RXORX-4-0;
RXCDP:MO=RXETX-3-15;
RXCDP:MO=RXOTX-3-15;
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RLGSP : cell=CellID;
CELL
CellID
ENABLED
ON
CS2
UL
NO
RXAPP : mo=rxotg-95;
MO
RXOTG-95
DEV
DCP APUSAGE APSTATE
64K TEI
RBLT2-1
1
UNDEF
IDLE
NO
..
RRBLT2-6
6 MPLEX16
IDLE
NO
RBLT2-31
31 UNCONC SPEECH/DATA YES
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References
Mohammad Rasoul Tanhatalab, Root Cause Analysis and New Practical Schemes for
Improving of SDCCH Accessing in Cellular Networks, IEEE ICICES 2013
RBS 6000 INFORMATION TO PRESENTERS, Commercial in confidence , 25/221 09 FGB 101 558 Uen, Rev C , 2012-06-28 .
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