Section 5 - CS Signalling Flow Diagrams

Call Setup Failure Analysis Process

Start

A
Report & Finish Check system message
No

RSCP > -102dBm Best servers Ec/No > -12dB

No Yes AICH(ACK) received? Yes Yes

Best servers

No

Coverage Optimisation Missing Neighbour ?

Yes No

No

Neighbourlist Optimisation

Dominance Optimisation

Message sent? UL coverage & RACH param. Opt (changing serving cell)
Yes

RACH failure

Report & Finish (Check failure cause)

No No RRC setup reject received? Yes

(FACH) RRC Connection Setup received? Yes

(Reason of problem: L1 sync fail) Report & Finish

Report & Finish

No (DCH) RRC Connection setup Completed sent from UE? Yes

AC optimisation (check Noise Rise

Iub Conjestion NBAP ALCAP

(Check failure cause)

No

Radio Bearer setup failureReceived? Ye Problem Core

Report & Finish

Iub Conjestion

Check AC

Call Setup Failure Analysis- Block B UE

Preamble/RACH Acquisition Indicator/AICH RRC: RRC Connection Request/PRACH
NBAP: RADIO LINK SETUP REQUEST NBAP: RADIO LINK SETUP RESPONSE

WBTS

RNC

RRC: RRC CONNECTION SETUP/FACH L1 Synchronisation

NBAP: SYNCHRONISATION INDICATOR

RRC: RRC CONNECTION SETUP COMPLETE/DCH UE in CELL_DCH state

RACH Process
Downlink Not detected BS
UEtxPowerMaxPRACH PowerRampStepPRACHpreamble

L1 ACK / AICH

Uplink MS PreamblePreamble
1 2

Message part
PowerOffsetLastPreamblePRACHmessage

PRACH_preamble_retrans # PRACH preambles transmitted during one PRACH cycle without receiving AICH response

RACH_tx_Max # preamble power ramping cycles that can be done before RACH transmission failure is reported

Initial preample power: Ptx = CPICHtransmissionPower-RSCP(CPICH) +RSSI(BS) + PRACHRequiredReceivedCI

AICH power setting

AICH is carrying the Acquisition Indicators (AI) to reply to RACH preambles. All together 16 AI can be multiplexed on one access slot in AICH.

The parameter to be optimized:

the transmission power of AICH is relative to CPICH.

Range: [-22 5] dB, step 1dB, default -8 dB

Related parameters: PRACH parameters including RACH_preamble_retrans, if AI power is too low for UE to decode, it keeps sending preambles until the RACH_preamble_retrans is exceeded.

Total DL Common Channel Power

Service Type CPICH P-SCH S-SCH PCCPCH SCCPCH PICH AICH Total Default Power 33 dBm 30 dBm 30 dBm 28 dBm 33 dBm 25 dBm 25 dBm Minimum Activity 100 % 10 % 10 % 90 % 25 % 96 % 0% Minimum Average Power 33 dBm 20 dBm 20 dBm 27.5 dBm 27 dBm 24.8 dBm 35.5 dBm 3.5 W Maximum Activity 100 % 10 % 10 % 90 % 115 %* 96 % 80 % Maximum Average Power 33 dBm 20 dBm 20 dBm 27.5 dBm 33.6 dBm 24.8 dBm 25 dBm 37.5 dBm 5.6 W

Call Setup Failure Analysis Process

Start RSCP > -102dBm Best servers Ec/No > -12dB
No Yes AICH(ACK) received? Yes (FACH) RRC Connection Setup received? Yes No Yes

Best servers

No

Coverage Optimisation Missing Neighbour ?

Yes No

Report & Finish Check system message

No

No

Neighbourlist Optimisation Report & Finish

No

Dominance Optimisation

Message sent? UL coverage & RACH param. Opt (changing serving cell)
Yes

RACH failure

(Check failure cause)

RRC setup reject received?

(Reason of problem: L1 sync fail) Report & Finish

Report & Finish

No (DCH) RRC Connection setup Completed sent from UE? Yes

(check

AC optimisation
Noise Rise Iub Conjestion NBAP ALCAP

Yes

(Check failure cause)

No

Radio Bearer setup failureReceived? Ye

Report & Finish

Problem s Core Check AC Iub Conjestion

Call Setup Failure Analysis- Block C UE Node B RNC MSC / VLR MGW
RRC 1. RACH: CCCH: RRC CONNECTION REQUEST <TM> RRC

NBAP

2. RADIO LINK SETUP REQUEST

NBAP

Start RX 3. RADIO LINK SETUP RESPONSE

NBAP

NBAP

ALCAP

4. ESTABLISH REQUEST (AAL2)

ALCAP

ALCAP

5. ESTABLISH CONFIRM (AAL2)

ALCAP

(Check failure cause)

No No RRC setup reject received?

Report & Finish

DCH-FP

6. DOWNLINK SYNCHRONISATION

DCH-FP

DCH-FP

7. UPLINK SYNCHRONISATION

DCH-FP

Start TX

(check Noise Rise

8. FACH: CCCH: RRC CONNECTION SETUP <UM> RRC RRC 9. INSYNCH IND

AC optimisation
Iub Conjestion NBAP ALCAP

Yes

L1

L1

NBAP

10. RADIO LINK RESTORE INDICATION

Report & Finish

NBAP RRC

11. DCCH: RRC CONNECTION SETUP COMPLETE <AM> RRC

Power and Interference

power
max planned power
Interference

max planned Interference

max planned load

max planned load

load

load

Admission Control (AC) Will only allow UE access if the planned Maximum interference and Maximum planned power is NOT existed

L1 Syn Fail
UE Node B RNC MSC / VLR MGW
RRC 1. RACH: CCCH: RRC CONNECTION REQUEST <TM> RRC

NBAP

2. RADIO LINK SETUP REQUEST

NBAP

Start RX 3. RADIO LINK SETUP RESPONSE

NBAP

NBAP

ALCAP

4. ESTABLISH REQUEST (AAL2)

ALCAP

ALCAP

5. ESTABLISH CONFIRM (AAL2)

ALCAP

DCH-FP

6. DOWNLINK SYNCHRONISATION

DCH-FP

DCH-FP

7. UPLINK SYNCHRONISATION

DCH-FP

Start TX

8. FACH: CCCH: RRC CONNECTION SETUP <UM> RRC RRC

Yes No (DCH) RRC Connection setup Completed sent from UE?

L1

9. INSYNCH IND

L1

Report & Finish (Reason of problem: L1 sync fail)

10. RADIO LINK RESTORE INDICATION NBAP

NBAP

Yes

11. DCCH: RRC CONNECTION SETUP COMPLETE <AM> RRC RRC

Layer 1 Synchronisation failure- Check power of DPCCH

Once the Node B has relayed the RRC Connection Setup

message it starts to transmit the downlink DPCCH on the radio link which has been configured by the NBAP: Radio Link Setup Request message

Transmit power has been computed by AC and sent in the

NBAP: Radio Link Setup Request message

The UE uses the information within the RRC Connection Setup

message to determine which scrambling and channelisation codes to search for. The RRC Connection Setup message also provides timing information so the UE has some knowledge of when to expect the start of the downlink frame and slot structure

Layer 1 Synchronisation failure- Check power of DPCCH

Once UE has identified the precise timing of the downlink DPCCH it
evaluates the quality over the first 40 ms. If the UE judges the quality to be greater than Qin it sends an CPHY-Sync-IND primitive to higher layers

After the first 40 ms have been judged the UE evaluates the DPCCH quality
every 10 ms but based upon the previous 40 ms of DPCCH frames (sliding window)

Layer 3 of the UE uses timer T312 (6s) and counter threshold N312 (1) to
determine whether or not the L1 synchronisation has succeeded. Both T312 and N312 were broadcast to the UE in SIB 1

T312 was started when UE initiated the establishment of the DPCH i.e. when
the RRC Connection Request message was sent

Layer 3 of the UE must count N312 CPHY-Sync-IND primitives before T312

expires to consider the DPCH as established. If T312 expires then the UE considers the DPCH establishment attempt as a failure

Radio Bearer setup failure "Received?

UE Node B RNC MSC / VLR MGW
29. BINDING ID, SPEECH CODEC TYPE, B PARTY ROUTE 30. RAB ASSIGNMENT REQUEST RANAP ALCAP 32. ESTABLISH CONFIRM ( AAL2 ) ALCAP 33. RADIO LINK RECONFIG PREPARE NBAP 34. RADIO LINK RECONFIG READY NBAP 35. ESTABLISH REQUEST (AAL2) ALCAP 36. ESTABLISH CONFIRM (AAL2) ALCAP NBAP RRC 37. RADIO LINK RECONFIG COMMIT ALCAP NBAP RRC RANAP RRC 40. DCCH: RADIO BEARER SETUP COMPLETE <AM> RRC 39. RAB ASSIGNMENT RESPONSE RANAP ISUP 41. IAM ALCAP NBAP NBAP ALCAP RANAP 31. ESTABLISH REQUEST ( AAL2 ) ALCAP

38. DCCH: RADIO BEARER SETUP <AM>

RRC

RRC RRC

Problem Core Check AC Iub Congestion

42. ACM ISUP RANAP RRC 46. DT [ CONNECT ] RANAP RRC RRC RANAP 50. DT [ CONNECT ACK ] RANAP RANAP 48. OPEN CONNECTION 43. DT [ ALERTING ] RANAP 45. ANS ISUP

44. DCCH: DLDT [ ALERTING ] <AM>

47. DCCH: DLDT [ CONNECT ] <AM>

49. DCCH: ULDT [ CONNECT ACK ] <AM>

Admission Control (AC) Summary

Iu Handover Control Active
state mobility control

RAB setup/modify/release request

Admission Control
RB information Load
information

Packet Scheduler Radio resource

scheduling

Active set
information

RAB admission decision Load change estimation Producing L2 parameters Producing TFS DL power allocation

Resource information Resource

request

Target BLER, B ER and SIR

Power Control

UL Outer loop power control

Load
information

Load change
information

Resource Manager Transport resource allocation Radio resource information Code allocation

Load Control Producing of load

information