iManager SONMaster Solution

Content

1 Huawei SONMaster Solution

2 Boost Huawei Network Globally

3 Paves the Road to Agile Operation

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Hybrid Structure Make SON Faster and More Accurate

SONMaster

C-SON C-SON
(Centralized-SON)
• Large scope & Long Term Data
• Global Optimum
U2000 • Long Reaction cycle (Hour/Min Level)

H-SON
(Hybrid-SON) Trace Server: D-SON
Data Collection • Small scope & Short Term Data
• Local Optimum
• Short Reaction cycle (Second Level)

H-SON
• Get Both Advantage of C-SON & D-
D-SON
BTS/ BTS/
(Distributed-SON) SON
NodeB/ BTS/ BTS/ NodeB/
eNodeB NodeB/ NodeB/ eNodeB
eNodeB eNodeB

SON Assistant SON Assistant Note：H-SON is a Structure design, it is not a feature

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SingleSON: Intelligent Solution to Handle LTE Challenge

Service Oriented SON

VoLTE Service Experience Assurance
Opt

MEH
Scenario Oriented SON
Motorway
MBB TM
Opt
Network Performance Assurance

ANR PSC PCI ES

Network Oriented SON
O&M Efficiency Improvement
MLB CCO IPO IIM CODC

MEH: Massive Event Handling MBB TM: MBB Traffic Migration ES: Energy Saving

PSC:
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IPO: Initial Parameter TECHNOLOGIES
Organizing CO., LTD. Intelligent Management
IIM: UL Interference
 Network Scenarios Services

ANR: Save Massive Repetition Manual Work

Complexity Bring Huge Manual Work ANR Optimize Neighbor Relation

L1800 L1800 Fast ANR Add Missing Neighbor Cells

120
L 800 L 800 100
100
U 2100 F 3 U 2100 F 3 80
U 2100 F 2 U 2100 F 2 60
U 2100 F 1 U 2100 F 1
40
U 900 U 900 20
20
2 0 0 0
0
G 900 G 900 10 20 30 40 50 60

Carriers on Carriers on Missing Neighbor Cell Optimization Trend

Sector A Sector B

20 Man-hour without SON <= 1 Man-hour with SON

For 10K Cells one round
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 PSC Conflict Opt. : 1 Click Troubleshooting

1 Click for PSC Opt. Case: PSC Conflict Opt.

• Automatic Detection • Automatic Fix Common: CM data, Only checked 3 conflicts,

which conflict should be fixed?

PSC=31 PSC=33
PSC=30 PSC=30 2 km
PSC=32
A, 98 call drop
PSC=32
PSC=31 PSC=31

S, F1, PSC 99

Detect and Fix PSC Conflict By Automatic CHR Analyzing C, 0 call drop
B, 0 call drop

Huawei: CHR, Check conflict + Evaluate impact,

1 click , 1 man, 0.1 hour for 1 problem only A need be fixed.

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 Network Scenarios Services

PCI Optimization: One Click to Reduce Interference

Detect PCI Conflict by Fix PCI Conflict by
SONMaster allocating new PCI
 UE Measurement(D-SON)
 Topology (C-SON)

PCI Collision Inter-system PCI Confusion

Cell A Cell B
Cell A Cell B PCI=1 PCI=1
PCI=1 PCI=1
UMTS Cell C

Intra-system PCI Confusion MOD 3 PCI Collision

Cell A Cell C Cell B Cell A Cell A

PCI=1 PCI=2 PCI=1 PCI=1 PCI=4

UE Measurement Based PCIs fast, Topology based PCI is more accurate

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 Network Scenarios Services
MLB : Maximum Resource Utilization

Load Balancing between high/low band Hybrid MLB bring more benefit

Congestion Threshold
Without MLB
Band A Load
High Band
Band B Load

Congestion Threshold
C-SON MLB
Band A Load

Band B Load
Low Band
D-SON MLB
Congestion Threshold
Hybrid MLB Band A Load

Band B Load

• D-SON：Adjust Handover Parameter

• C-SON：Adjust Idle model Reselection Parameter • LTE idle model MLB dedicate for long term unbalancing
• LTE MLB(D-SON) is effective to handle burst issue.

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 Network Scenarios Services
Coverage and Capacity Optimization

Monitoring Analyze Optimization Evaluation

Monitoring Problem Analyze Problem Plan

Optimization
Optimization Evaluation

Coverage Issues Coverage issue classification RET Optimization

• Antenna downtilt
• SON
Antenna azimuth
Over
Shooting
Weak
Interference
Coverage

Capacity Issues Capacity issue classification KPI Evaluation

P&F Optimization

Parameters SONMaster
RAN Feature

Neighbor Cell KPI worse

Tidal effect Roll Back
Long term overload Pilot power
Special event

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 Network Scenarios Services

Hybrid Energy Saving: 5%-10% Energy Saving

D-SON Way Hybrid SON Inspire the Saving Value

Analysis Long Time (e.g. 1 month) Loading Power Consumption per Day per Site

User kwh
8 Num. 31
7 30
6 29 5% - 10%
5 28
Time 0:00 - 6:00
4 27
Trigger Threshold User Num. < 3
3 26
Uniform Policy Setting Manually
2 25
1 24
Shut Down 0 23
22
NO SON Only D SON H SON

“22:00 - 7:00, User Num < 3” is 10,000 sites, 1 year, saving:

Is every cell’s setting suitable? Suitable setting for example cell 3kwh*$0.13/kwh*10,000*365=$1,423,500

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 Network Scenarios Services

CODC: Maintain User Experience After Cell Outage

1 Outage Detection 2 Cell Recovery(D-SON)

Action
• Cell Recovery
Fail • Move UE to Other Cell
Succeed
4 Roll Back 3 RET Compensation(C-SON)

Fast RF Adjust
(<15 min)
Engineer Repair
Typically,
Recover outage
cell 60% area

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 Network Scenarios Services

MBB Traffic Migration – Keep User Reside in High RAT to Get Better Experience
Workflow
SONMaster • Inter-operation parameters optimization including 2D/2F
Coordination and reselection threshold
• If needed, CCO will be triggered to do coverage
MBB Traffic optimization to accelerate traffic migration
CCO
Migration

Benefit
• Accelerate traffic migration to higher RAT (UMTS to LTE)
Measurement & Reselection Enhance 4G Shrink 4G Neighbor
threshold opt Cell coverage Cell Coverage • Keep network KPIs stable and improve user experience

  LTE        LTE

  UMTS UMTS

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Handling Dynamic Environment on Motorway

Challenges of Motorway Scenarios Scenarios Recognition Coverage Tidal Mgt.

Road Recognition
Idle Time
High Speed User Recognition
Uptown better
3 coverage
1

Proactive Adjustment Motorway

2
ANR, Antenna Angle..

AI Rush Hour
1 Weak coverage caused by long inter-
Uptown
site distance.
High speed users need dedicated Traffic Prediction
2 ML on historical data, user behavior
policy(Handover, Neighbor Relation…)
Balance network resource between high Motorway better
3 speed users and common users. coverage

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 Network Scenarios Services

Whole Cycle Auto-Opt to Eliminate Congestion in Massive Event

Pre Procedure Adaptive Optimization Action Roll Back
1 Before Event(C-SON)
2 During Event(C-SON/D-SON)
3 After Event(C-SON/D-SON)

 Pre Load Balancing  Real Time Monitoring CPU(30s), PM(5  Configuration Roll Rack(C-SON/D-SON)
 Camping Strategy Setting min)  Generate Event Report(C-SON)
Congestion  Real Time Optimization
70 •D-SON: Auto Parameter Optimization to
increase cell capacity
•C-SON: RF/Power Fast Opt(<10 min),
60
Load Balancing
D-SON
50
C-SON
40

30

Neighbor Congestion Neighbor

20
cell A cell cell B

10
Time

0
8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30
Without SON With SON
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 Network Scenarios Services

Automatic Optimization for High Definition Service Experience

Lower PLR, Better Experience
MOS 1 KPI Oriented SON solving appearance issues
5 4.15 weak coverage / interference / capacity
4.08 3.84
4 3.7
3.02
3 2.51
2.04
2
1
0
0% 0.10% 0.50% 1% 3% 5% 10% PLR

SONMaster Detect Grid With Low PLR

2 Service Oriented Analysis excavate deeper roots
Factor 1 0.75 Parameter Opti.
Factor 2 0.65
Factor 3 0.1 Feature Opti.
Factor 4 0.08
Correlation Ratio with PLR
∙∙∙
0

PLR (1%, 100%)

PLR (0.5%, 1%) > 40 RAN factors Related
PLR (0%, 0.5%) with VoLTE MOS
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 Feature Package Enable Efficient RAN Solution Deployment

Multi-Sector and U900 Enable Package Traditional Way

Long Period, Low Efficiency, Much Artificial

CH
R
MR

Data NR/PCI Drive Test Artificial On Site

Collection Planning Analysis Adjust

IPO ANR PCI

Automatic Way
MLB CCO Fast Converge, High Efficiency, Auto Close Loop
IIM

Issue
Identify

Monitoring Analysis & Opt.

Policy
6 sector U900 configuration
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 Content

1 Huawei SONMaster Solution

2 Boost Huawei Network Globally

3 Paves the Road to Agile Operation

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Huawei SingleSON Footprint Globally

SONMaster Manage

2,000,000
Cells

50+
Commercial Networks

70+
Trial Networks

Until 2017Q1

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Unleash LTE Network Traffic by Load Balancing
Case：Inter-Band Load Balancing, Unleash 20%+ Traffic
200
On-line user（UL）
150
Round1 Round2
100

50

Test 0

Area
1800M 800M

Cell Throughput（kbps）
8000 800

6000 600
• Test Area：Palermo, Italy 4000 400

• Band：LTE 800M/1800M/2600M 2000 200

• Camping Strategy（High band is easy to congest） 0 0

2600M = High priority

1800M = Medium priority
800M = Low Priority
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Guarantee Turkey Super football League in Ankara
In the same football field of Ankara, different date

Dec. 18th 2016 18:30~21:30 Jan 16th 2017 18:30~21:30

OSMANLISPOR VS GALATASARAYSPOR OSMANLISPOR VS BESIKTAS

Without SON With SON

CS/PS traffic↗, meanwhile RAB Estab Success Rate↗, Call Drop Rate →

Kbps Erl
280.00 80.00 100.00% 0.75% 0.16%
99.50% 0.70% 0.15%
260.00
60.00 0.65% 0.14%
99.00%
240.00 0.60% 0.13%
40.00 98.50% 0.55% 0.12%
220.00 98.00% 0.50% 0.11%
200.00 20.00 97.50% 0.45% 0.10%

PS Traffic CS Traffic CS RAB Estab Rate PS RAB Estab Rate PS Drop Rate CS Drop Rate

CS Traffic increase 17% PS RAB Estab SuccRate increase 1.06%

CS RAB Estab SuccRate increase 0.38% PS&CS Call Drop keep stable
PS Traffic increase 5.8%
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Enable 6 Sector Solution Faster Delivery in Thailand

Voice Call Drop Rate

Voice CDR With SON Voice CDR Without SON
4.00%
Start SON
3.00%

2.00%

1.00%

0.00%

2k 6-Sector sites, new 6k cells, 192k NR, 6k LB Setting… In 1 day, DCR approach baseline (by Fast ANR)
Traditional way : complete in 2~4 weeks In 1 week, DCR reach baseline(by ANR, PSC…)

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Enable KPI Attain Baseline in U900 Deployment Phase

U900 Installed and Power On SON Works 7 days KPI Attain Baseline
PS DCR(%) CS DCR(%)

1.4 0.3

1.2
0.25

1
0.2

0.8
0.15
0.6

0.1
0.4

0.05
0.2

0 0

• 28.7%
1 Cluster 7 Days CS DCR From 0.150% To 0.107% ,
162 cells) Optimization • PS DCR From 0.734% To 0.509%, 30.6%
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 Content

1 Huawei SONMaster Solution

2 Boost Huawei Network Globally

3 Paves the Road to Agile Operation

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 PRS & SONMaster will Evolve to mAOS in 2018

Network Centric Operation Agile Operation for Service

Open API

SONMaster PRS Optimization Evaluation Provisioning

Intelligent Network Engine MBB Online Evaluation NG SON NG PRS

Data Analysis
U2000
MBB Network Management System
mAOS

U2020

RAN 5G Air
GSM UMTS LTE Small Cell Legacy Network New Service CloudRAN New Air
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Added Value of Evolving to mAOS

Unified Software Release Easy Operation and Maintenance

PRS
R16.x/R17.x
One Portal One System
mAOS
V300R018C10

SONMaster
R16.x/R17.x

Service Close Loop

Now 2018 Q2

• Maximally hardware reuse

• Features inherited One-Time Upgrade Resource Sharing
• Smooth upgrade

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