2019/7/8

Traffic Analysis
 Content

• KPI introduction
• Traffic item introduction
• Outline of analysis
 Where
• KPIs per cell and KPIs per BSC can be viewed
and analyzed on the M2000.
• KPIs can be exported from the M2000
as .csv, .xls, .html, or .txt files.
• The performance data is saved at
\\aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd\bsc6000\data\mtndata\pf
m\rslt.
\\OMC\BSC\BAM\appsvr\stats\data
• In the path, aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd indicates the IP address of the GBAM/GOMU server.

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 KPI（key performance indicator）
• Immediate Assignment Success Rate = Call Setup
Indications (Circuit Service)/Channel Requests
(Circuit Service) x 100%
• Experience value: 90% 95% 99%

• SDCCH Congestion Rate (All Channels Busy) = Failed SDCCH Seizures due to Busy
SDCCH/SDCCH Seizure Requests x 100%
• Experience value: 1% 0.5% 0.1%

• Call Drop Rate on SDCCH = Call Drops on SDCCH/Successful SDCCH Seizures x 100%
• Experience value: 3% 1% 0.5%

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 KPI（key performance indicator）
• TCH Congestion Rate (All Channels Busy) = (Failed TCH Seizures due to Busy TCH
(Signaling Channel) + TCH Seizure Requests (Signaling Channel) + Failed TCH
Seizures due to Busy TCH per BSC (Traffic Channel) + Failed TCH Seizures in TCH
Handovers due to Busy TCH perBSC (Traffic Channel))/(TCH Seizure Requests
(Signaling Channel) + TCH Seizure Requests in TCH Handovers (Traffic Channel)) X
100%
• Experience value: 1.5% 1% 0.5%

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 KPI（key performance indicator）
• TCH Call Drop Rate (Including Handover) = Call Drops on TCH/(Successful TCH Seizures
(Signaling Channel) + Successful TCH Seizures (Traffic Channel) + Successful TCH Seizures in
TCH Handovers (Traffic Channel)) x 100%
• Experience value: 2% 1% 0.5%

• TCH Call Drop Rate (Excluding Handover) = Call Drops on TCH in Stable State (Traffic
Channel)/Successful TCH Seizures (Traffic Channel)) x 100%
• Experience value: 2% 1% 0.5%

• Traffic Call Drop Rate = 60 x Traffic Volume on TCH/Call Drops on TCH

• Experience value: 60min 100min 150min

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 KPI（key performance indicator）
• BSS Call Establishment Success Rate = ((Immediate Assignment Success Rate x
Assignment Success Rate) x (1 – SDCCH Call Drop Rate)) x 100%

• Experience value: 90% 95% 98%

• Call Complete Success Rate = (1 - SDCCH Congestion Rate) x (1 - SDCCH Call Drop
Rate) x (1 - TCH Congestion Rate) x (1 – TCH Call Drop Rate) x 100%

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 KPI（key performance indicator）
• Handover Success Rate = (Successful Internal Intra-Cell Handovers per BSC + Successful
Internal Incoming Cell Handovers per BSC + Successful External Incoming Cell Handovers
per BSC + Successful External Outgoing Cell Handovers per BSC)/(Intra-Cell Handover
Requests + Internal Incoming Cell Handover Requests per BSC + External Incoming Cell
Handover Requests per BSC + External Outgoing Cell Handover Requests per BSC) x 100%
• Radio Handover Success Rate = (Successful Internal Intra-Cell Handovers per BSC +
Successful Internal Incoming Cell Handovers per BSC + Successful External Incoming Cell
Handovers per BSC + Successful External Outgoing Cell Handovers per BSC)/(Intra-Cell
Handover Commands + Incoming Internal Inter-Cell Handover Responses per Cell +
Incoming External Inter-Cell Handover Responses + Outgoing External Inter-Cell Handover
Commands) x 100%
• Experience value: 90% 95% 98%

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 Worst cell
• TCH traffic per channel is higher than 0.1 Erl

• TCH Call Drop Rate of higher than 3%

or
TCH Congestion Rate higher than 5%

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 Summary
• Accessibility
– Immediate assignment success rate
– Congestion rate
• TCH
• SDCCH
• Retainability
– Call drop rate
• TCH
• SDCCH
• Mobility
– Handover success rate
• Intra-cell/internal cell per BSC/external cell per BSC
• Incoming/outgoing
• Handover/radio handover

• Resource utilization
– Traffic volume
• TCH
• SDCCH
– Channel availability
• TCH
• SDCCH

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 BSC Traffic Statistics Measurements
• BSC Measurement  MSC Measurement
• SCCP Measurement  CBC Measurement
• MTP3 Measurement  PCU Measurement
• LAPD Measurement  Paging Measurement
• System Load  Call Measurement
Measurement
MR Measurement
• BTSM Management 

Channel Measurement
• Resources Measurement 

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 BSC Measurement

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 SCCP/MTP3/ LAPD Measurement
• SCCP Measurement refers to the measurement of SCCP original signaling points
(OSPs)

• MTP3 Measurement
• Message Transfer Part Level 3 (MTP3) Measurement is used to measure the
MTP3 link.

 LAPD Measurement is used to measure the basic

signaling process and the traffic volume on the Abis
and Pb interfaces

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 System Load Measurement
• CPU usage of the BSC boards and the GBAM.

• If the CPU usage reaches 80% occasionally does not necessarily mean that the BSC

is faulty.

• If the CPU usage is high for a long time, exceed the buffer ability. The BSC will

abandon new service requests.

• After a board or the GBAM runs for 30 seconds, the BSC measures the CPU usage

every second and accumulate.

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 BTSM/Resources/MSC/CBC/PCU Measurement

• BTSM Measurement - Base Transceiver Station Management (BTSM)

measurement is used to measure the state of the BTS, cell, and TRX, and link
communication state between the BSC and the BTS.
• Resources Measurement is used to measure the state of circuits on the A
interface, Pb interface, and Ater interface, and the TC resources.
• MSC Measurement is used to measure the number of MSC resets and the
number of messages that the BSC receives from the MSC.
• Cell Broadcast Center (CBC) measurement refers to the measurement of the
reception of cell broadcast data and the response of the BSC to the data.
• PCU Measurement is used to measure the number of messages that the BSC
receives from the PCU.

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 Paging Measurement
• Paging Measurement refers to the measurement of the number of pagings on
the A interface and Abis interface.

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 Call
Measureme
nt

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 MR Measurement

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 Channel Measurement

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 BSC Traffic Statistics Item (summary)
• BSC Measurement  MSC Measurement
• SCCP Measurement  CBC Measurement
• MTP3 Measurement  PCU Measurement
• LAPD Measurement  Paging Measurement
• System Load  Call Measurement
Measurement
MR Measurement
• BTSM Management 

Channel Measurement
• Resources Measurement 

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 Common principle
• Systematical logic
– From whole system to specific cell
• Integrality
– Observe the change trend of the items for more
than one week and the changing trend of each day.
• Relativity
– Relationship between various kinds of traffic
statistics items

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 Basic solution
• Preparation
– At least one week traffic data
– Engineer parameter and geographic display of
distribution of sites
• Step
– BSC measurement-----worst KPI
– KPI measurement per cell------worst cell
– Check reason ------sub-item in Call measurement
and MR measurement

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 Traffic items checklist
• TCH Call drop
– Alarm
– MR measurement
• Interference Band Measurement per TRX
• Radio Link Failure Measurement → TA / signal level /
quality
• Uplink-and-downlink Balance
• Receive level
• Receive quality
– Call measurement
• Call drop Analyzed Measurement per cell → cause
• Handover

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 Traffic items checklist
• TCH congestion
– Alarm
– Call Measurement
• Traffic Volume on TCH per cell
– Traffic adjustment
» Idle mode → CRO
» Dedicated mode → Handover
– Expansion (Switch on HR or ADD more TRXs)
• Frequently handover → Ratio between call set up and handover
– MR Measurement
• Interference band
• Receive level
• Receive quality
• Power Control → Distance between MS and BTS (Overshooting)
→ Number of MRs Based on TA

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 Traffic items checklist
• SDCCH congestion
• Call setup
• IMSI attach/ detach
• Location area updating
• SMS
• FAX
– Immediate Assignment Measurement per cell
• Channel requests
– MOC
– MTC
– Location update
– SMS

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 Traffic items checklist
• Handover
– Common parameter / Clock
– Intra Handover/ Inter Handover
– Incoming Handover / Outgoing Handover
– Check the cell parameter
• CGI
• BCCH
• BSIC

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MS BTS BSC MSC (1) ~ (8) refer to the random access
procedure and immediate assignment
procedure. In the two procedures, BSS
allocates signaling channels to MS.
Between (10) ~ (11), there may exist an
authentication procedure, ciphering mode
setting procedure and classmark interrogation
procedure (updating procedure).
(14) ~ (22) refer to the TCH assignment
procedure. In this procedure, BSS allocates
the resources such as TCHs, A interface
circuit, etc. to MS.
(30) ~ (40) refer to the release procedure.
The procedure is a release procedure in which
the calling MS first hangs up. The logical
channels on Um interface are released prior

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to the physical channels.