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

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.

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

Good knowledge of GSM network performance, 3G fundamentals.

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

• 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

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