3G Benchmarking and Optimisation
Course Duration  
5-day instructor-led training, 0900-1700

Course Instructor		  
The course instructor has more than 7 years of experience in WCDMA radio network planning and optimisation from major mobile network operators. He has planned/designed and optimized the initial phase of the commercial Orange UK 3G network. Also, he has been actively involved in consulting mobile network operators on wireless technologies regarding HSDPA/HSUPA deployment, WiMAX, Flash-OFDM, WCDMA- TDD, WiBro and Mobile TV.

He offers on-demand courses on wireless technologies specializing on the planning/optimization as well as the techno-economic/strategic aspects of them.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
  • Describe the fundamentals of performance measurement
  • Collect and present statistical data of these measurements
  • Know what the measurement limitations are and how tolerances provide valuable information for validation and evaluation.
  • Know how performance measurement is captured and analyzed using software
  • Know which parameters are key to optimize to increase 3G performance

Course Overview		  
An in-depth and practical training course that explains how to identify, measure and optimize the main problems of today’s UMTS live networks. It provides a solid background for daily 3G work activities covering a wide range of benchmarking and performance measurements that help to troubleshoot and optimize the 3G networks.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and measurements (i.e. throughput measurements,success/failure analysis, handover analysis etc…) that are not described in the 3GPP documentation but derived through practical experience will be discussed.

Key Benefits 		 
Delegates will be trained on state-of-the art knowledge regarding 3G benchmarking and
parameter optimization.

Pre-Requisites for Participants
Good knowledge of GSM network performance, 3G fundamentals.

Who Should Attend?
  • Technical Managers
  • Development Engineers
  • Radio Network Engineers
  • Anyone who needs to know about UMTS, how it works and how it is deployed.

Course Outline
Introduction to 3G benchmarking
  • Introduction to 3G performance measurement
    • KPIs
    • Basic method to capture and filter performance related data in 3G
    • Definitions of performance parameters of 3G
    • Basics of PS Call Analysis in 3G
  • Performance based on protocol analysis
    • Protocol decoding
    • Diversity combining and filtering
    • State transition analysis
  • Aggregation Levels/Dimensioning
    • SGSN, MSC SRNC, DRNC, CRNC, Node B, Cell Dimensioning, Call/Connection Dimension, UE Dimensions, Radio Bearer Dimenions
  • Benchmarking data calculations
    • Sampling
    • Bins
    • The 95th percentile
    • Distribution functions

Key 3G performance parameters
  • BLER Measurements
    • Uplink
    • Downlink
  • Radio related parameters
    • Radio Link Quality Parameters and Flow Control in Iub Frame Protocol (FP)
    • NBAP Common Measurements
    • NBAP Dedicated Measurements
    • RRC Measurements and UE Measurement Abilities
  • Throughput Measurements
  • Transport Channel Usage Ratio
  • Primary and Secondary Traffic
  • Active Set Size Distribution
  • Handover Analysis
  • State Transitions and Channel Type Switching
  • Call Establish Success and Failure Rates
  • Call Drop Rates
  • Cell Matrices

Optimisation of 3G parameters
  • Optimisation of 3G air interface parameters
  • Optimisation of 3G core network parameters