3-day instructor-led training with case studies

The goal of “UMTS Benchmarking and Performance Excellence” is to present details and up-to-date information on the UMTS standard. The participants will become familiar with the features of the UMTS standard and why and how it evolved. The participants will learn about practical performance and deployment issues specific to the UMTS. They will have a first hand interaction with the KPIs and cluster and network optimization and benchmarking.

As UMTS-FDD proliferates worldwide, there’s growing demand for a good, strong course on the design and optimization of UMTS networks. We created this course to respond to that need.

In this course, you will build on your existing knowledge of the UMTS network architecture and operation by learning how to benchmark and optimize a radio network based on the FDD mode of UMTS. We will learn both the user and network equipment protocols. We will cover in detail the connection of the FDD RAN to the 3G core and IP networks. We will also study in depth the dimensioning and optimization of radio network parameters. All in all, the course will help you design UMTS-FDD networks that provide optimum performance for broadband wireless services while also being cost effective.

The participants will gain a detailed end-to-end knowledge of the UMTS technology, its benefits and potential pitfalls.

A basic knowledge of GSM/CDMA and UMTS, IP and data communication technology will be required.

For Technicians, engineers and managers responsible for planning, design, optimization, and operation of UMTS networks and indoor design services.

• How is Network Quality defined?
• How the subscriber is satisfied with the overall service
• QoS classes
• Conversational
• Streaming
• Interactive
• Background

• UMTS - hierarchy of bearers
• Radio Access Bearer (RAB), Radio Bearer and Iu Bearer
• Mapping of UMTS Bearer Services into RAB Services

• Famous Protocols – RANAP, RNSAP, NBAP, RRC, RLC, MAC
• UMTS Call flow – End to End Successful Call
• Layer 3 signaling
• RRC Protocol Functions
• RRC States
• Layer 3 Procedures
• System Information Blocks (BCH)
• Measurement Procedures
• RRC Connection Establishment
• Radio Bearer Setup
• Active Set Update
• Radio Bearer Reconfiguration
• Transport Channel Reconfiguration
• Physical Channel Reconfiguration
• RRC Connection Release
• Example Voice Call Flow (MOC)
• Example PS R99 Call Flow
• Example HSDPA Call Flow
• Example IRAT Handover (PS)
• CS IRAT Handover (Core Perspective)
• Example HSDPA/FACH Iur Handover
• Some Abnormal Cases

• Optimization Overview
• Optimization process flow
• Pre-launch network optimization
• Drive Test based Optimization Process
• Cluster & Network Acceptance KPIs
• RF Cluster Optimization Process Flow – Drive test Data
• Cluster identification process
• General Measurement Collection Guidelines
• Drive route creation
• Types of measurements
• Commonly used measurement tools
• Basic Drive Test Equipment Setup
• Cluster Unloaded and Loaded drive test cases
• Market Optimization Configurations
• Cluster acceptance process
• RF Optimization Process Flow – Drive test Data

• RF Coverage Check : Delta Plot
• Coverage Check : RSCP verification
• RF Coverage Check : RSCP scan for SC
• Verification of swapped feeders or other issues
• Ec/Io Verification
• Pilot Pollution Analysis
• UL Coverage Verification
• Data Analysis flow
• Analysis - Neighbor List Verification
• Combined Neighbor Lists
• Neighbor List Combination for Intra-frequency HOs
• Soft Handover Optimization
• Voice call analysis
• Network problems
• RF Planning problems
• Tool Problems
• Other issues

• Why do we need statistics?
• General Tuning Process
• Monitoring the Network Performance
• Where can Information about the Network Quality be collected?
• How is Network Quality defined?
• Key (performance) indicators describing the radio network performance
• Results of the Performance monitoring (statistics)
• Performance Analysis (statistics, field measurement and recordings)
• Performance Optimization Process
• Performance Statistics,
• Performance Recordings for RAN - UETR, CTR
• General Performance Event Handling (GPEH)
• User interface of RANOS PM Administration and data collection functionality

• Peg counter (PEG)
• Accumulator counter (ACC)
• Scan counter (SCAN)
• PDF measurements (PDF)
• Discrete distributed measurements (DDM)
• Calculated statistics counters

• Traffic volume
• Paging
• RRC connection set-up and release
• RAB establishment and release
• Admission
• Congestion
• Handover statistics
• Channel quality
• Soft/softer handover
• Capacity management
• Code control
• Cell updating
• Inter-RAT handover
• Inter-RAT cell change
• Compressed mode

• Power control
• Power distribution per SF and cell
• BER distribution on UL DPCCH per cell
• BER distribution on UL DPDCH per cell
• SIR distribution on UL DPCCH per cell
• Out-of-synch time distribution per cell
• Transmit carrier power distribution per cell
• pmPositiveMessages (AICH, PEG)
• RACH channels
• Hardware statistics
• Time evolution of UL RL consumption in RBS
• UL RL set-up success rate per SF
• Time evolution of DL RL consumption in RBS
• DL RL set-up success rate per SF
• DL RL addition failures per SF