07 LR13.3 ORF Workshop 171148 - ANR Enhancements Up To 72 Visible X2 Support of March 2012 FGI Bits

LR13.
3 ORF Workshop
ANR ENHANCEMENTS: UP TO 72 VISIBLE X2 & SUPPORT OF MARCH 2012
FGI BITS
RICARDO COSTA MGR TIPS/ Network Engineering & Assurance/ Wireless Features
8th October 2013
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SCOPE/CONTENTS/PUBLICATION HISTORY
• This package describes 171148 – FDD ANR Enhancements: Up to 72 visible X2 & support of March 2012 FGI
bits functionalities that were descoped from LR13.1 (further detail of roadmap on hereafter slides), including
feature description and monitoring strategies.
Author:
• Ricardo Maldonado Costa
Publication History:
• V1: 8th October 2013
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AGENDA
1.Feature Overview
2.Upgrade Rules
3.Feature Activation Strategy
4.Performance Evaluation
5.Restrictions/Other Issues
6.Conclusions
7.Appendix
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FEATURE OVERVIEW

171148 – UP TO 72 VISIBLE X2 & SUPPORT FOR NEW FGI
FEATURE OVERVIEW
ANR Introduction:
• LTE ANR (stating for Automatic neighbor Relation) function allows the creation of neighbor relations and X2
links in an autonomous and automatic manner by the eNB, using UE measurements and information received
over X2 and S1 interfaces as input.
• The purpose of 171148 feature is to provide several enhancements to the existing FDD ANR functionality
based on feedback received from customers and field trials.
ANR – Self Organizing Network (SON) Goals:

• OPEX Level - Automatize operations & Reduce mistakes;
• Optimization Level - Decrease churn.
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FEATURE BENEFITS
This feature has the following areas of improvement:
171148 • Increase X2 links visible limit to 72;

ANR • Support of new FGI bits for inter-RAT ANR for UTRAN and differentiated FGI settings for ANR FDD/TDD.
Enhancements • Performance counters for potential NRs
Feature Value:
• This feature provides several enhancements to the ANR functionality that will increase the value and usability
of ANR for the customer.
- Increased number of visible X2
- No compatibility issue with UE implementing March’12 CR
- Counters for all neighbors to understand neighboring and ANR decisions.
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LTE SON ANR FEATURES ROADMAP
LA3:
• L108172: Intra - Freq ANR (commercial)
• L108258: Distributed PCI (eNB) LA6:
• L103176: Inter - Freq ANR (Commercial)
LA4:
• L108084: Inter - RAT ANR (commercial)
• L115546: Inter - Freq ANR (UE Test Only)
LR13.1: LR13.3:
FDD TDD TDD/FDD
159506 - ANR enhancements phase 3 174247 - ANR: No use of Dynamic NR when

169443 - ANR enhancements phase
Conservative Measurements are activated
FDD
174425 - Testing of inter-frequency ANR

171148 - Up to 72 Visible X2 and new FGIs
between different duplex modes
New FGIs Enhancement only available on FDD

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ENHANCEMENTS LIST – INCREASE LIMIT TO 72 VISIBLE X2 LINKS
• This feature provides the following enhancements to the ANR functionality from previous releases:
Up to 72 visible X2 Links
Support FGI bit 33 for inter-RAT ANR (UTRAN) & differentiated FGI settings for ANR FDD/TDD
Performance counters for potential NRs
• Up to 72 visible X2 Links:
- Rationale: It is much more convenient for operations personnel to be aware of established X2 links in
order to troubleshoot, rather than have some dynamic X2 links (meaning not stored in any database and
dynamically learnt from served cells received during X2 setup procedure) that are invisible (not visible on
SAM). Goal is to have all of them visible but for now limit imposed to 72. Scope: Intra-freq, Inter-freq
- This enhancement is activated by default during an upgrade.
• The current (until LR13.3) limit of 48 visible links needs to be increased to handle the increase in the number of
X2 Visible
MIM instances. Propose increasing to 72 foreseeing future growth and deployment configurations such as Metro cells.
Links
On top of that still possible to have additional 24 dynamic X2 Links.
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ENHANCEMENTS LIST – FGI BIT 33 FDD ONLY
• UTRAN ANR & ANR FDD/TDD FGI Support:

• Rationale: The new FGI bits introduced in TS36.331, March’12 release for R9 and R10 allow for more specific
and flexible indication of UE support of inter RAT ANR for the different RATs. It will also enable a dual mode
(FDD/TDD) UE if it supports different ANR capabilities for each mode to indicate the capabilities separately
for each mode.
• Scope: UTRAN for bit 33. ANR for other RATs (HRPD, 1xRTT, GERAN) are not required in this timeframe.
• The new FGI bits are defined in Annex.
- Prior to this version of the standard, one single bit (bit 19) was used by the UE to indicate support of ANR for one or more RATs.
- In the Mar’12 version additional bits 33-36 have been defined to indicate ANR support individually for each RAT. So with this enhancement,
if the UE sends Bit 33 then this bit shall be used instead of Bit 19 to determine UE support of inter-RAT UTRAN ANR.
• The enhancement will also enable a dual mode (FDD/TDD) UE to set FGI bits for ANR differently for
FDD/TDD.
- Differentiated settings apply only to bit 19 and bit 33 for UTRAN ANR (Only ANR for UTRAN FDD is supported in this
release, so bit 37 support for UTRAN TDD is not required).
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ENHANCEMENTS LIST – FGI BIT 33 FDD ONLY
• So ,with this enhancement, if featureGroupIndRel9Add-r9 exists:

- in the UE-EUTRA-Capability-v9a0-IEs when receiving the container for the UE capabilities (from S1AP INITIAL CONTEXT
SETUP REQUEST, or S1AP/X2AP HANDOVER REQUEST, or UECapabilityInformation),
- eNb UeCallP shall use featureGroupIndRel9Add-r9::bit33 to check whether UE supports inter-RAT UTRAN ANR,
- otherwise, featureGroupIndicators::bit19 is used to determine whether UE supports inter-RAT UTRAN ANR(i.e. current implementation).
• This enhancement apply for UTRAN FGI BIT#33 and differentiated FDD/TDD for UTRAN ANR (for this LR13.3
release only FDD supported) functions and has no feature flag to enable/disable it.
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ENHANCEMENTS LIST – PERFORMANCE COUNTERS
• Performance counters for potential NRs:
- In 171148, counters for potential intra-freq neighbor relation will be supported defined under
LtePotentialIntrafreqNeighboringCellRelation
- More detail about this counters can be found on chapter 4 ―Performance Evaluation‖.
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UPGRADE RULES

FIRST UPGRADE USING THE FEATURE
• As this feature/enhancements doesn’t have any related parameter no specific setting needs to be used,
therefore if ANR is activated so will be the these functionalities.
• To ensure the same level of functionality and performance after the upgrade than before (ISO-functionality)
the following setting should be used:
- ActivationService::lteIntraFrequencyAnrEnable = false;
- Enb::SelfOrganizationNetwork::AutomaticNeighborRelation::LteIntraFrequencyAnr::nRPriorityStatPeriod = unset;
- PerformanceManagement::enhancedAnrReported = false.
• Assumption is that ANR was previously deactivated. To ensure same level of functionality a flag should be set
to false to ensure the feature is not newly activated at upgrade.
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FEATURE ACTIVATION STRATEGY

ACTIVATION STRATEGY
• Pre-requisites for feature activations:
- Several eNB and/or several frequencies allowing for ANR functions to occur;
- Requirements on CN (version, features): N/A
- Requirements on eNB (version, features):

- At least latest version of LR13.1 with following features available and activated:
- 171148 - ANR Enhancements Up to 72 visible X2 support of March 2012 FGI bits
- 159506 - ANR enhancements phase 3
- L108172 - Full Support of Intra-LTE ANR and/or
- L108084: Inter - RAT ANR (commercial)
- Requirements on UE (release, capabilities,):

- N/A
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ACTIVATION STRATEGY
Activation Controls
Enhancement Activation Parameter
Up to 72 visible X2 links No
Support FGI (Feature Group Indicator) bit 33 for inter-RAT ANR for No.
UTRAN and differentiated FGI settings for ANR FDD/TDD 3GPP compliance enhancement.
Based on Feature LR13.1 159506 enhancement for NR replacement.
Need to activate this feature to get some value for pm counter for
potential NR. Need to set:
Performance counters for potential NRs • ActivationService::lteIntraFrequencyAnrEnabled = ―True‖;
• Enb::SelfOrganizationNetwork::AutomaticNeighborRelation::LteIn
traFrequencyAnr::nRPriorityStatPeriod = ―7‖;
• PerformanceManagement::enhancedAnrReported = ―True‖.
• Activated by DEFAULT!
Activation • Given that FRS159506 and FRS 171148 are a mix of different enhancements that do not all require activation control, it has been
Steps decided to have separate activation /configuration control for those that need them (e.g. for the case of the performance counters).
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4
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Correct Performance Evalution – Set-Up:
• LR13.3 define a new object class LtePotentialIntrafreqNeighboringCellRelation
- VS.MeasurementReportReceivedPerPotentialIntraFrequencyNeighbourRelation (12844)
Counter name Measurement report received per potential intra-frequency neighbour relation
Counter Id 12844
3GPP Name VS.MeasurementReportReceivedPerPotentialIntraFrequencyNeighbourRelation
Object Class Location LtePotentialIntrafreqNeighboringCellRelation
Family Mobility
Subfamily ANR
Meaning, Description This counter provides, for a potential intra-freq neighboring cell relation, the number of measurement report received.
This counter is triggered if a intra-frequency measurement report of ANR and/or mobility is received. The measurement
Triggering Event report used in the counts can be ANR and/or mobility report depending on configuration parameter NRPriCountMode
(described on Feature 159506).
Screening Criteria None.
Report Group EnhancedAnr
Notes Common
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
PM Counters:
Configuration eNodeB/Cells:
- Not significant but approach will be to have sufficient # of neighbors close between themselves.
- As feature activation parameters focus on ―Up to 72 visible X2 links‖ so some workaround in order to reach close to the
maximum available.
Activation Duration:
• At least 2 weeks;
Monitoring:
• Should focus as described on this chapter on the new and existing enhancement counters.
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RESTRICTIONS/OTHER ISSUES

RESTRICTIONS/OTHER ISSUES
Known AR:
• N/A
Restriction:
• FGI differently setting for the Dual Mode UE not yet tested.
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CONCLUSION

CONCLUSIONS
• Automatic Neighbor Relation enhancements clearly brings added value to a customer:
- As it solves main existing issues:
- Visibility up to 72 X2 links;
- Lack of support of newly defined FGI bits;
- implements new counters that will allow better analysis and monitoring of ANR functions.
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APPENDIX

NEW FGI BITS TABLE
If indicated "Yes" the feature shall be
Index of indicator (bit Definition (description of the supported
Notes implemented and successfully tested FDD/ TDD diff
number) functionality, if indicator set to one)
for this version of the specification
- can only be set to 1 if the UE has set
33 (leftmost bit) Inter-RAT ANR features for UTRAN FDD Yes
bit number 5 and bit number 22 to 1.

34 Inter-RAT ANR features for GERAN Yes

35 Inter-RAT ANR features for 1xRTT Yes

36 Inter-RAT ANR features for HRPD Yes

37 Inter-RAT ANR features for UTRAN TDD Yes
- EUTRA RRC_CONNECTED to UTRA
TDD CELL_DCH PS handover, if the UE - can only be set to 1 if the UE has set
38 Yes
supports both UTRAN FDD and UTRAN bit number 39 to 1
TDD
- UTRAN TDD measurements, reporting

and measurement reporting event B2 in E-
39 Yes
UTRA connected mode, if the UE supports
both UTRAN FDD and UTRAN TDD
- EUTRA RRC_CONNECTED to UTRA
- related to SR-VCC
TDD CELL_DCH CS handover, if the UE
40 - can only be set to 1 if the UE has set Yes
supports both UTRAN FDD and UTRAN
TDD bit number 38 to 1
Measurement reporting event: Event B1 –
Neighbour > threshold for UTRAN FDD, if Yes for FDD, unless UE has set bit
41 Yes
the UE supports UTRAN FDD and has set number 15 to 1
bit number 22 to 1
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ANR – Self Organizing Network (SON) Goals:

171148 • Increase X2 links visible limit to 72;

159506 - ANR enhancements phase 3 174247 - ANR: No use of Dynamic NR when

174425 - Testing of inter-frequency ANR

New FGIs Enhancement only available on FDD

• UTRAN ANR & ANR FDD/TDD FGI Support:

• So ,with this enhancement, if featureGroupIndRel9Add-r9 exists:

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- Requirements on eNB (version, features):

- Requirements on UE (release, capabilities,):

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- can only be set to 1 if the UE has set

- can only be set to 1 if the UE has set

- can only be set to 1 if the UE has set

- can only be set to 1 if the UE has set

- UTRAN TDD measurements, reporting

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