Important For Parameter 2G

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TELCEL GSM
DISCLAIMER
The contents of this document are
subject to revision, without notice due to
ongoing progress in methodology,
design and manufacturing.
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Contents
1
DOCUMENT SCOPE ..............................................................................................................................................4
TABLE DESCRIPTION..........................................................................................................................................5
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED PARAMETERS..........................................................................................6

3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
3.16
3.17
3.18
3.19
3.20
3.21
3.22
3.23
3.24
3.25
3.26
3.27
3.28
3.29
3.30
3.31
3.32
3.33
3.34
3.35
3.36
3.37
3.38
COMMON DATA ..................................................................................................................................................6

IDLE MODE BEHAVIOUR .....................................................................................................................................6
LOCATING ..........................................................................................................................................................7
GPRS/EGPRS IDLE MODE BEHAVIOUR ............................................................................................................9
GPRS/EGPRS CELL RESELECTION....................................................................................................................9
CHANNEL ADMINISTRATION...............................................................................................................................9
GPRS/EGPRS CHANNEL ADMINISTRATION ......................................................................................................9
DYNAMIC MS POWER CONTROL ......................................................................................................................10
GPRS/EGPRS DYNAMIC MS POWER CONTROL..............................................................................................10
DYNAMIC BTS POWER CONTROL ....................................................................................................................10
DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION ......................................................................................................................10
FREQUENCY HOPPING ......................................................................................................................................11
INTRA CELL HANDOVER ...................................................................................................................................11
ASSIGNMENT TO OTHER CELL ..........................................................................................................................11
OL/UL SUBCELLS & SUBCELL LOAD DISTRIBUTION .......................................................................................11
HIERARCHICAL CELL STRUCTURES ..................................................................................................................12
EXTENDED RANGE ...........................................................................................................................................12
DOUBLE BA LISTS ...........................................................................................................................................12
IDLE CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................12
CELL LOAD SHARING .......................................................................................................................................13
MULTI BAND OPERATION .................................................................................................................................13
DIFFERENTIAL CHANNEL ALLOCATION ............................................................................................................13
ENHANCED MULTI LEVEL PRECEDENCE AND PRE-EMPTION SERVICE ..............................................................13
ADAPTIVE CONFIGURATION OF LOGICAL CHANNELS .......................................................................................14
GSM UMTS CELL RESELECTION AND HANDOVER..........................................................................................14
GSM UMTS HANDOVER UTRAN CELL DATA ............................................................................................14
ADAPTIVE MULTI RATE (AMR) .......................................................................................................................14
GPRS LINK ADAPTATION ................................................................................................................................15
GPRS/EGPRS QUALITY OF SERVICE ...............................................................................................................16
INTERFERENCE REJECTION COMBINING ...........................................................................................................16
MULTI BAND CELL ...........................................................................................................................................16
ANTENNA HOPPING ..........................................................................................................................................16
SYNCHRONIZED RADIO NETWORKS ..................................................................................................................16
DYNAMIC FR/HR MODE ADAPTATION ............................................................................................................16
DUAL TRANSFER MODE (DTM) .......................................................................................................................16
FLEXIBLE ABIS (FLAB)....................................................................................................................................17
DBTSP AXEPARS PARAMETERS IN THE BSC ................................................................................................17
RAEPP BSC EXCHANGE PROPERTIES .............................................................................................................31
REVISION HISTORY...........................................................................................................................................35
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION............................................................................................................................40
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REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................................................82
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Document scope
The purpose of this document is to describe the recommended values
for each of the Radio parameters in the Telcel GSM Network. This
document revision applies for R11.
All parameters on Global level should be set to the standard values used
in the whole network, unless some arguments exist for a difference.
Due to continued progress in methodology, design and manufacturing, the
contents of the document are subject to revision without notice. Ericsson
assumes no legal responsibility for any error or damage resulting from the use
of this information.
REVISION RECORD
Date
Revision
Sections affected
Revised by
2005-09-12
R11A
R11 parameters, BSC

exchange properties &
AXEPARS parameters
included + new classification.
Kenneth Rydn
2004-07-19
Changed recommended
values for MS Power Control,
see chapter 4
Kenneth Rydn
2004-04-26
R10 parameters included
2003-12-18
Changed recommended
values for a few parameters,
see chapter 4 for more
information.
2003-10-22
R9.1 parameters included
2003-08-04
A3
Adding new parameters from

RAEPP. Radio related
2003-07-11
A2
Changes in the parameter

table and added some
subchapters, chapter 2 and
References
2003-07-11
A1
New column added to add

new classification
Ubaldo Zepeda
Florencio
2003-04-03
Complete review of
document to convert it to
Revision A
Kenneth Rydn
Kenneth Rydn &

Ubaldo Zepeda
Kenneth Rydn &
Ubaldo Zepeda
Kenneth Rydn &

Ubaldo Zepeda
Ubaldo Zepeda
Florencio
Ubaldo Zepeda
Florencio
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Table Description
Following is a description of the Parameter Table fields.
Type: Contains information regarding the classification of the different

parameters according to relevant network indicators such as:
Access, Algorithms, Configuration, Disconnection, Handover,
Interference, Multiband, Multislot Paging, Power, Registration,
Reselection, Statistics, Synchronisation, System Information, Traffic
GPRS/CSD, Traffic Handling.
Level: This field contains information if the parameter is Global or

Local, where Global means that the change of this parameter is
controlled by Telcel corporate and Local means that any Region
can control the changes on these parameters.
Feature: It shows the associated feature to the corresponding
parameter.
Cell/BSC/MSC: Field that shows the network element where the
parameter must be defined.
Parameter name: It indicates the parameter name or mnemonic.
Recommended parameter setting: It shows the recommended
value to set each parameter.
In the case of global parameters it is mandatory to view revised by
the Corporate.
For the Local parameters it is only a recommendation that can be
changed by each region according to their needs with solid arguments
for it.
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Summary of Recommended Parameters
3.1
Common Data
MSC / BSC /
Cell / Subcell /
Level CHGR NR TG Parameter name
Type
Algorithm
Configuration
Configuration
Configuration
Configuration
Paging
Paging
Power
Power
Access & HO
Access & Paging
Access & Paging
Access & Paging
Frequency hopping
Access
Power
Access
Configuration
Access
Access
Access
Access
Handover
Handover
Handover
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Local
BSC
Transceiver Group
Transceiver Group
Transceiver Group
Transceiver Group
MSC
MSC
Cell
Cell
Cell
Global
Local
Global
Global
Global
Global
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
CHGR
Global
Local
CHGR
CHGR
Local
Global
Local
Local
Local
Local
CHGR
CHGR
CHGR
NR
NR
NR
3.2
Paging
Paging
Paging
Paging
Paging
Paging
Paging
Paging
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ALG
ANT
ANTA
ANTB
RXD
SECPAGEPATH
TIMPAGINGM
BSPWRB
BSPWRT
BSIC
BCCHTYPE
AGBLK
MFRMS
FNOFFSET
ECSC
MSTXPWR
STATE
NUMREQBPC
SDCCH
TN
CBCH
TSC
CTYPE
RELATION
CS
Recommended parameter
setting
ALG2
See comments.
See comments.
See comments.
AB
2
9
45 (49 if TCC), 33 or less for micro cells
45 (49 if TCC), 33 or less for micro cells
Individual per cell
NCOMB
0 (must be set to 1 if CBCH=YES)
3
0
YES
30
ACTIVE
8 * no of TRUs in the non-BCCH CHGR
SYSDEF in the BCCH CHGR
Depends on the SDCCH traffic
0 up to x where x = number of SDCCH/8
NO
BCC (last digit of the BSIC)
Omitted unless external
Omitted, and single for external cells
YES if co-sited, NO otherwise
Idle Mode Behaviour

Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
PAGREP1LA
PAGREPGLOB
PAGTIMEFRST1LA
PAGTIMEFRSTGLOB
PAGTIMEREP1LA
PAGTIMEREPGLOB
LATAUSED
BTDM
3
0
4
4
7
7
0
120 or 240, see T3212 for more info.
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Access
Access
Reselection
Handover
Access
Access
Access
Reselection
Access
Access
Access
Access
Paging
Reselection
Reselection
Reselection
Global
Local
Global
Local
MSC
Cell
Cell
Cell
Global
Global
Global
Global
Local
Global
Local
Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
3.3
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
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GTDM
ACCMIN
CCHPWR
CRH
NCCPERM
SIMSG
MSGDIST
CB
CBQ
ACC
MAXRET
TX
ATT
T3212
CRO
TO
PT
6
102 or 104, some border cities use 110
30
8
All 0-7, Different at country borders
1=ON, 7 and 8=OFF
1=ON, 7 and 8=OFF
NO
HIGH
CLEAR
4 (2 in areas with RA problems, Ref. [7])
20
YES
20 if BTDM=120, 40 if BTDM=240
0
0
0
HNDRELCHINTRAM
HNDSDCCHM
HNDSDCCHTCHM
TIMHNDCMDINTRAM
TIMHNDGSINTRAM
HNDTGSOPINTRA
HNDSDCCHINTOM
HNDBEFOREBANSWM
HNDSDCCHINTI
EVALTYPE
TINIT
TALLOC
TURGEN
TAAVELEN
SSEVALSD
QEVALSD
SSEVALSI
QEVALSI
SSLENSD
QLENSD
SSLENSI
QLENSI
SSRAMPSD
SSRAMPSI
1
1
1
15
0
0
1
1
1
3
10
6
2
4
6
6
6
6
10
10
4
4
5
1
Locating
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
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Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Global
Global
Local
Global
Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Subcell
NR
Local
Local
NR
Cell
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
NR
NR
Global
Cell
Cell
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
Cell
Local
Handover
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BSPWR
MSRXMIN
BSRXMIN
MSRXSUFF
BSRXSUFF
BSTXPWR
KHYST
LHYST
TRHYST
KOFFSET
LOFFSET
TROFFSET
HIHYST
LOHYST
HYSTSEP
OFFSET
TALIM
PSSBQ
PSSTA
PTIMBQ
PTIMTA
BQOFFSET
BQOFFSETAFR
EXTPEN
QLIMDL
Local
QLIMUL
Cell
Local
Handover
Disconnection
Disconnection
Handover
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Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Handover
Processor load
Disconnection
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Cell
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Global
Global
Global
Global
BSC
BSC
Cell
Cell
QLIMULAFR
PSSHF
PTIMHF
IBHOSICH
IHOSICH
SCHO
CELLQ
Global
Global
Global
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
MAXTA
RLINKT
RLINKUP
HPBSTATE
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3
BSPWRB -2 (-4 if cell has > 2 TRUs)
96 for city cells, 99 for rural cells
150
0
109
BSPWRT -2 (-4 if cell has > 2 TRUs)
3
3
2
0
0
0
5
3
0
0
62 for non extended range cells
Up to 218 for extended range cells
15
63
5
30
3
3
ON
45 for the BCCH subcell
55 for the non-BCCH subcell
63
5
OFF
OFF
OFF
HIGH
63 for non extended range cells
Up to 219 for extended range cells
32
32
ACTIVE, see Ref. [13]
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GPRS Idle Mode
GPRS Idle Mode
GPRS Idle Mode
GPRS Idle Mode
GPRS Idle Mode
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GPRS/EGPRS Idle Mode Behaviour

Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
3.5
GPRS Cell
Reselection
GPRS Cell
Reselection
GPRS Cell
Reselection
GPRS Cell
Reselection
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Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
CBCHD
MAXSBLK
MAXSMSG
PRACHBLK
TRAFBLK
NO
2
7
2
0
GPRS/EGPRS Cell Reselection

Cell
Local
PHCSTHR
MAPPED
PLAYER
MAPPED
GPRSVALID
YES
PROFFSET
MAPPED
Cell
Local
NR
Local
NR
Local
3.6
Channel Administration
Channel Admin.
Global
Channel Admin.
Global
HSCSD
Global
Global
Global
Local
Global
Global
Local
HSCSD
HSCSD
Channel Admin.
Channel Admin.
HSCSD
Channel Admin.
3.7
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
MSC
CRT
MSC
MSC
BSC
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
CHGR
PSCVL
MSLOT
BSCMC
CMDR
CHAP
NECI
MC
SAS
1. FR-FR
2. DHR-DHRC
3. DFR-DFRC
1. FRV1
2. FRV1 FRV2 FRV3 HRV1 HRV2 HRV3
3. FRV1 FRV2 FRV3 HRV1 HRV2 HRV3
4
ON
144
8
1
ON
MULTI
GPRS/EGPRS Channel Administration

Global
Cell
GPRSSUP
Local
Global
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
FPDCH
MPDCH
PDCHALLOC
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
PDCHPREEMPT
PRIMPLIM
PSKONBCCH
Local
Cell
SCALLOC
YES
Depends on the GPRS traffic for the cell, see
Ref. [3] for extended range cells
NO
NOPREF
4 or 8 depending on GPRS importance
[meaning of values changed in R11]
8
DISABLED
BOTHUL if BCCH is in the OL sub-cell
BOTHOL if BCCH is in the UL sub-cell
9
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GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
GPRS Ch. Admin.
Local
Local
Local
Local
3.8
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
3.9
3.10
SPDCH
NUMREQCS3CS4BPC
NUMREQEGPRSBPC
TN7BCCH
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0
0
0
GPRS
Cell
Cell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
DMPSTATE
AMRPCSTATE
SSDESUL
SSDESULAFR
SSLENUL
LCOMPUL
QDESUL
QDESULAFR
QLENUL
QCOMPUL
REGINTUL
DTXFUL
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
98
98
3
40
30 or 40, see Ref. [12] for more info
40
3
55
1
5
Cell
GAMMA
16
Dynamic BTS Power Control

Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Global
Global
Global
3.11
Interference
Interference
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Global
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
Power Control
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Dynamic MS Power Control

Global
Global
Local
Local
Global
Global
Local
Local
Global
Global
Global
Global
Power Control
Cell
CHGR
CHGR
CHGR
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Cell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
DBPSTATE
AMRPCSTATE
SDCCHREG
SSDESDL
SSDESDLAFR
REGINTDL
SSLENDL
LCOMPDL
QDESDL
QDESDLAFR
QCOMPDL
QLENDL
BSPWRMIN
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
OFF
90
90
1
3
5
30
40
55
3
-20
Discontinuous Transmission
Global
Cell
DTXD
Global
Cell
DTXU
ON
2 = The MS must not use DTX
Region 9 use DTX on the uplink (2005-09-10)
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Frequency hopping
Frequency hopping
Frequency hopping
Frequency hopping
Frequency hopping
Frequency hopping
Local
Local
Global
Local
Global
Global
CHGR
CHGR
CHGR
CHGR
HOP
HSN
BCCD
MAIO
Transceiver Group FHOP
Transceiver Group COMB
Global
Global
Global
Global
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Global
QOFFSETDL
Global
QOFFSETDLAFR
Subcell
Global
Intra Cell Handover
QOFFSETUL
Subcell
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
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ON
Individual per site
YES
Depends on the frequency allocation
SY
HYB
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
Subcell
QOFFSETULAFR
SSOFFSETDL
SSOFFSETDLAFR
SSOFFSETUL
SSOFFSETULAFR
ON
7
10
2
0 BCCH subcell
10 non-BCCH subcell
0 BCCH subcell
10 non-BCCH subcell
-10 BCCH subcell
0 non-BCCH subcell
-10 BCCH subcell
0 non-BCCH subcell
0
0
-10
-10
Assignment to Other Cell

Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
3.15
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
IHO
TMAXIHO
TIHO
MAXIHO
Subcell
Intra Cell Handover
Ass. To Other Cell

Ass. To Other Cell
Ass. To Other Cell
Ass. To Other Cell
Ass. To Other Cell
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Intra Cell Handover

Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
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Frequency Hopping
3.13
Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
Intra Cell Handover
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BSC
BSC
Cell
NR
NR
ASSOC
IBHOASS
AW
CAND
AWOFFSET
ON
ON
ON
BOTH
3
OL/UL Subcells & Subcell Load Distribution

Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Global
Global
Cell
Cell
SCLD
SCLDLL
SCLDUL
LOL
LOLHYST
DTCB
DTCBHYST
ON
Individual per cell
Individual per cell
150
2
-63
2
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Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Global
Global
Local
Local
3.16
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Global
Global
Global
Local
Local
Global
Local
Local
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Local
Local
Local
Cell
Cell
Cell
Local
Cell
3.17
Local
NDIST
NNCELLS
TAOL
TAOLHYST
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10
3
61
0
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
Cell
Cell
HCSBAND
HCSBANDHYST
HCSBANDTHR
NHO
THO
LAYER
LAYER
LAYERTHR
LAYERHYST
PSSTEMP
PTIMTEMP
FASTMSREG
2
2
95
3
30
1 to 8
2 for macro cells, 1 for micro cells
80 for macro cells
Individual for micro cells
2
0
0
OFF
Cell
XRANGE
NO (YES if applicable, see Ref. [3])
Double BA Lists
Local
3.19
Interference
Interference
Interference
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Double BA Lists
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Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Extended Range
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Cell
MBCCHNO
Individual per cell
Idle Channel Measurements

Global
Global
Cell
Cell
ICMSTATE
INTAVE
Local
Local
Cell
LIMIT1
Interference
Cell
LIMIT2
Interference
Local
Cell
LIMIT3
Interference
Local
Cell
LIMIT4
ACTIVE
25
4 The value for LIMIT1 can be adjusted
depending on the uplink interference; region 9
for instance has done so.
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Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
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Local
Local
Local
Local
Local
BSC
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Local
Cell
LSSTATE
CLSSTATE
CLSACC
CLSLEVEL
CLSRAMP
RHYST
HOCLSACC
Global
BSC
MODE
Global
Global
BSC
BSC
GSYSTYPE
CSYSTYPE
Global
Global
Cell
MBCR
Transceiver Group BAND
Traffic Handling
3.22
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
Individual per cell
Individual per cell
8
100
ON
MULTI if more than 1 band is used

SINGLE if only GSM1900 is used
MIXED if more than 1 band is used,
GSM1900 is only GSM1900 is used
GSM1900
MBCR should be set to a value higher than 0
if more than 1 band is used. MBCR should be
set to 0 if only GSM1900 is used.
GSM1900
Differential Channel Allocation

Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
3.23
Traffic Handling
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Multi band Operation
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Cell Load Sharing
3.21
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
Priority Profile
Priority Profile
CAPLTCHSCH
CAPLTCHEMER
CAPLTCHMOVAL
CAPLSCHMOVAL
CAPLTCHMTVAL
CAPLSCHMTVAL
CAPLTCHMTOVERR
CAPLSCHMTOVERR
CAPLTCHMTPREF
CAPLSCHMTPREF
SMOASSIGN
SMTASSIGN
DCASTATE
EMERGPRL
STATSINT
INAC
PROBF
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
ON if DCA should be used, 0 otherwise
9
4
0
0
Enhanced Multi Level Precedence and Pre-emption Service

Global
MSC
EMLPP
A,B,0,1,2,3,4
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Traffic Handling
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
3.24
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
MSC
BSC
BSC
Cell
Cell
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Local
Global
Cell
Cell
Cell
ACSTATE
SLEVEL
STIME
Global
CHGR
EXCHGR
3.25
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
3.26
ON if the feature Adaptive Configuration of

Logical Channels should be used, OFF
otherwise
2, see Ref. [9] for more information.
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0 (no value appears in the RLACP command
when EXCHGR is set to 0)
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
UMFI
FDDQMIN
FDDQOFF
SPRIO
QSI
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
GSM UMTS Handover UTRAN Cell Data

Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
3.27
AMR
AMR
AMR
0
0
0
0
0
14
0
There are 14 levels, PRIOLEV 1-14.
28
5
25
GSM UMTS Cell Reselection and Handover

Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
UMTS
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Access
Access
Access
Access
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BOICI
BOIEXHI
PCI
PVI
PRIORITY
QAI
PRIOLEV
QASSTIME
QLENGTH
RESLIMIT
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
FDDARFCN
SCRCODE
UTRANID
MRSL
ISHOLEV
FDDMRR
QSC
QSCI
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR)

Global
Global
Global
BSC
BSC
BSC
AMRCSFR3HYST_0
AMRCSFR3HYST_1
AMRCSFR3HYST_2
2
3
3
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AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
AMR
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
3.28
GPRS
GPRS
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
BSC
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AMRCSFR3MODE_0
AMRCSFR3MODE_1
AMRCSFR3MODE_2
AMRCSFR3MODE_3
AMRCSFR3THR_0
AMRCSFR3THR_1
AMRCSFR3THR_2
AMRCSFR4HYST_0
AMRCSFR4HYST_1
AMRCSFR4HYST_2
AMRCSFR4MODE_0
AMRCSFR4MODE_1
AMRCSFR4MODE_2
AMRCSFR4MODE_3
AMRCSFR4THR_0
AMRCSFR4THR_1
AMRCSFR4THR_2
AMRCSHR3HYST_0
AMRCSHR3HYST_1
AMRCSHR3HYST_2
AMRCSHR3MODE_0
AMRCSHR3MODE_1
AMRCSHR3MODE_2
AMRCSHR3MODE_3
AMRCSHR3THR_0
AMRCSHR3THR_1
AMRCSHR3THR_2
AMRCSHR4HYST_0
AMRCSHR4HYST_1
AMRCSHR4HYST_2
AMRCSHR4MODE_0
AMRCSHR4MODE_1
AMRCSHR4MODE_2
AMRCSHR4MODE_3
AMRCSHR4THR_0
AMRCSHR4THR_1
AMRCSHR4THR_2
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 15 de 82
1
3
4
7
12
21
21
2
3
3
1
3
6
8
12
17
25
3
4
4
1
3
4
5
23
28
32
3
4
1
3
5
23
31
-
GPRS Link Adaptation

Global
Global
Cell
Cell
LA
CHCSDL
ON
CS4
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GPRS
3.30
3.31
BPDCHBR
EPDCHBR
GPDCHBR
STREAMSUP
Cell
IRC
Cell
FBOFFS
Global
CHGR
BAND
12
20
14
NO
ON
0
GSM1900, unless the cell uses another
frequency band than GSM1900
Antenna Hopping
Global
Transceiver Group AHOP
OFF
Synchronized Radio Networks

Global
Global
Global
3.34
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Global
3.33
Synchronization
Synchronization
Synchronization
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Multi Band Cell
3.32
Antenna Hopping
TEM/T-03:001087 Uen
Interference Rejection Combining

Global
Traffic Handling
Traffic Handling
Rev.
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GPRS/EGPRS Quality of Service

Global
Global
Global
Global
Interference
Doc.Id.
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Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Transceiver Group FSOFFSET

Transceiver Group SYNCSRC
Transceiver Group TFMODE
OFF
DEFAULT
SA
Dynamic FR/HR Mode Adaptation

Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
Global
3.35
Dual Transfer Mode Global
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
DHA
DMQB
DMQBAMR
DMQBNAMR
DMQG
DMQGAMR
DMQGNAMR
DMSUPP
DMTHAMR
DMTHNAMR
DTHAMR
DTHNAMR
ON
OFF
50
45
OFF
35
30
OFF
Individual per cell, capacity versus traffic load
Dual Transfer Mode (DTM)

Cell
ALLOCPREF
QUAL
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Flexible Abis
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MAXLAPDM
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 17 de 82
5
Flexible Abis (FLAB)

Global
3.37
FEATURE
Transceiver Group ABISALLOC
FIXED
DBTSP AXEPARS parameters in the BSC

NAME
Adaptive Configuration of
Logical Channels
ADAPTIVECONFIG
AMR FR
AMR
AMR FR
AMRFRMAXTRAFFIC
AMR HR
AMRHR
AMR HR
AMRHRMAXTRAFFIC
AMR FR Power Control
AMRPWRCTRL
Not related to radio features ANSICCSOWNSPCHG

Not related to radio features ANSITT1
Not related to radio features AUTODSC
RECOMMENDED SETTING & COMMENTS

1; ADAPTIVECONFIG=1 permits using the optional feature Adaptive
Configuration of Logical Channels. This feature describes how the
BSC will have the possibility of automatic reconfiguration of TCHs
into SDCCHs to handle peaks in the SDCCH traffic.
1; AMR=1 permits using the optional feature AMR FR. AMR is a new
speech codec type which adapts the speech codec rate and channel
coding according to radio environment. It can be used to improve
speech quality and increase radio network capacity.
16320; AMRFRMAXTRAFFIC defines the number of maximal
simultaneous ongoing Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) Full Rate (FR)
connections in the BSC.
0; AMRHR should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature AMR
HR is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and when
this feature will be used. AMRHR=1 permits using the optional feature
AMR HR. This feature introduces the possibility to use AMR on Half
Rate channels.
16320; AMRHRMAXTRAFFIC defines the number of maximal
simultaneous ongoing Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) Half Rate (HR)
connections in the BSC.
1; AMRPWRCTRL=1 permits using the optional feature AMR FR
Power Control. This feature improves the behaviour of both uplink
and downlink power control for AMR connections using FR speech
coding. The AMR FR speech coding is more robust and can perform
well on low C/I levels. The feature gives the possibility to down
regulate the power more for AMR FR connections than for other
connections, and consequently reduce the overall interference.
0; ANSICCSOWNSPCHG determines the availability of the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) Signalling System Number 7
(SS7) Own Signalling Point Change function.
3; ANSITT1 determines the ANSI Signalling System Number 7 (SS7)
global title Translation Type (TT) for the first address mapping case.
6; ANSITT2 determines the ANSI SS7 global title TT for the second
address mapping case.
5; ANSITT2 determines the ANSI SS7 global title TT for the third
4; ANSITT2 determines the ANSI SS7 global title TT for the fourth
0; AUTODSC activates or deactivates a spontaneous printout, which
gives Hardware (HW) information on detection of a HW change.
Value zero means the HW Inventory Autodiscovery function is
deactivated while value one means the HW Inventory Autodiscovery
function is activated.
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Frequency re-configuration
with minimum disturbance AUTOHFSEXPAND
BCCH in OL subcell
BCCHINOL
Maximum traffic in the BSC BSCMAXTRAFFIC
BSS Positioning
BSSPOSITIONING
Dynamic BTS Power

Control
BTSPWRCTRL
Not related to radio features CCDEFOCL
Event Reporting and

Disturbance Supervision
Rev.
R11A
CCSERDS
Not related to radio features CCSEXCHANGE
Not related to radio features CONGCTRLLOAS
Not related to radio features CONGCTRLMTPNAT

Not related to radio features CONGSTATUS0
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 18 de 82
1; AUTOHFSEXPAND=1 permits using the optional feature

Frequency re-configuration with minimum disturbance. This feature
gives operator the possibility to change frequencies including the
BCCH and remove or add transceivers in a frequency-hopping cell
without releasing any ongoing calls in the cell. The cell will be able to
offer service to new traffic except when the BCCH is reconfigured.
1; BCCHINOL=1 permits using the optional feature BCCH in OL
subcell. This feature makes it possible to configure the BCCH carrier
in the overlaid subcell. This gives higher capacity since a tighter
frequency reuse can be implemented for the BCCH carrier.
16384; BSCMAXTRAFFIC defines the number of maximal
simultaneous ongoing speech or data connections in the BSC. The
default value is equal to the maximal number of MS individuals and
indicates that this parameter will as default not limit the traffic of the
BSC.
0; BSSPOSITIONING should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature BSS Positioning is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
BSSPOSITIONING=1 permits using the optional feature BSS
Positioning. This feature makes it possible to use positioning. Two
positioning methods are supported:
- Cell Global Identity and Timing Advance.
- Assisted Global Positioning System
LMUs type A and B are supported.
1; BTSPWRCTRL=1 permits using the optional feature BTS Power
Control. This feature controls output power for a Base Transceiver
Station during a connection. By reducing unnecessarily strong radio
signals the interference in the radio network is reduced and the
number of connections with sufficient C/I is increased. It also
minimizes the transmit power used by BTS.
0; Default Own SCCP Congestion Level, determines the initial value
of the Own SCCP Congestion Level after a System Restart.
1; CCSERDS controls the availability of Event Reporting and
Disturbance Supervision function.
0 DISABLED (DEFAULT).
1 ENABLED.
0; CCSEXCHANGE determines the protocol type active in the
exchange with regard to CCS-7 signalling system. The value '0'
indicates that protocol behaviour of the exchange is ITU-T. The value
'1' indicates that protocol behaviour of the exchange is MPT. The
value '2' indicates that protocol behaviour of the exchange is TTC.
0; Loas Block Usage, determines the usage or not of block LOAS for
the Own SCCP Congestion level calculation. This AXE parameter is
only allowed to be set if SCCPNODALCONG parameter is also
available. Value '0' indicates that block LOAS will not be used and
value '1' indicates that block LOAS will be used.
0; CONGCTRLMTPNAT determines if it will be possible as a national
option to provide Message Transfer Part (MTP) with the importance
parameter, carried in bits A and B of the subservice field of the SIO.
These two bits make up the field Priority. Value '0' indicates MTP
National Option inactive, value '1' indicates MTP National Option
active. It must be active if MTP handles priorities.
1; CONGSTATUS0 controls setting of the congestion status in TFC
message for network 0.
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Not related to radio features CONGTIME

Not related to radio features CONNESTTIME
Not related to radio features COU

Not related to radio features CRP0
Not related to radio features DISCTHRESHOLD
Dual Transfer Mode
DTM
Dynamic FR/HR Mode

Adaptation
DYMA
Dynamic HR Allocation
DYNHRALLOC
Rev.
R11A
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 19 de 82

5; Congestion Time determines the time in seconds a signalling point
is marked "congested", once an MTP-STATUS indication "signalling
point congested" has been received. This parameter applies when
the SCCP Congestion Control optional function is not available in the
exchange.
2; Connection Establishment Timer defines the waiting time in
minutes for a Connection Confirm message.
22; COU indicates the number of consecutive control intervals during
which the Central Processor (CP) load will be kept above or below a
threshold so that the CP-Load Monitoring functionality issues a
notification for this load change. The values of COU represent
number of 5 seconds time intervals.
0; CRP0 specifies whether or not Circular Routing Prevention (CRP)
is available for network 0.
6; Discard Message Threshold, determines if a message, received in
Own SCCP Congestion state, will be discarded or returned if the
message return procedure applies during the execution of the
incoming traffic limitation procedure.
0; DTM should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature Dual
Transfer Mode is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1
if and when this feature will be used. DTM=1 permits using the
optional feature Dual Transfer Mode. This feature makes it possible
for an MS to have circuit switched and GPRS/EGPRS services
simultaneously.
1; DYMA=1 permits using the optional feature Dynamic FR/HR Mode
Adaptation. This feature dynamically changes the mode of the
speech channels between FR and HR as the traffic load changes in a
cell. The feature is controlled by operator changeable parameters.
The operator will be able to direct the traffic towards HR or FR as
desired, giving better flexibility to control the traffic resources. The
end-user will experience less congestion.
1; DYNHRALLOC=1 permits using the optional feature Dynamic HR
Allocation. This feature allocates dual rate mobiles to Full Rate or
Half Rate channels according to the existing traffic situation in the
cell. Half Rate traffic channels will be allocated when there is a risk
for congestion in a cell else Full Rate channels will be selected. A
threshold set by the operator decides when a dual rate mobile will
use Half Rate or Full Rate. The selection based upon the thresholds
will be done both at call setup and at handovers into the cell.
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Dynamic OL/UL Subcells
DYNOLULSC
Dynamic uplink downlink

resource handling
DYNULDL
Enhanced Cell Global

Identity
ECGI
Rev.
R11A
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Maximum allowed number

of EGPRS TS
EGPRSBPCLIMIT
Extended languages in
SMS cell broadcast
EXTLANG
Antenna Hopping
FEATAHOP
Real Time Event Data
FEATSCS
Synchronization of
RBS2000 using GPS
FEATSYNCHRNW
Handling of synchronization
reference for CMS40
FEATSYNCSRC
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 20 de 82
1; DYNOLULSC=1 permits using the optional feature Dynamic OL/UL

Subcells. This feature makes it possible to increase network capacity
and make it more robust against temporary concentration of calls at a
location. Monitoring the load in the underlaid subcell does this, and
only use overlaid subcell when the load is too high in the underlaid
subcell. By decreasing the usage of the overlaid subcell its
frequencies can be reused with a shorter distance.
1; DYNULDL=1 permits using the optional feature Dynamic uplink
downlink resource handling. This feature dynamically adjusts the
amount of reserved PDCHs for a TBF based on the dominant
payload direction.
0; ECGI should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Enhanced Cell Global Identity is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. ECGI=1 permits
using the optional feature Enhanced Cell Global Identity. This feature
improves the positioning method CGI (Cell Global Identity), included
in optional feature BSSPOSITIONING.
The recommended setting for EGPRSBPCLIMIT depends on the
BSC. EGPRSBPCLIMIT is the system limit for maximum allowed
number of EGPRS TS and is set to 350 in many BSCs, but several
BSCs have EGPRSBPCLIMIT set to a value above 400 (2005-09-05)
1; EXTLANG=1 gives the operator the possibility to extend the SMS
CELL BROADCAST message by choosing between additional
fourteen languages, e.g. Chinese and Thai.
0; FEATAHOP should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Antenna Hopping is currently not used, but this should be changed to
1 if and when this feature will be used. FEATAHOP=1 permits using
the optional feature Antenna Hopping. This feature improves down
link performance by introducing a mechanism of hopping between
antennas in addition to frequency hopping. This is useful in cells and
systems with limited bandwidth.
0; FEATSCS should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Real Time Event Data is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. FEATSCS=1
permits using the optional feature Real Time Event Data. This feature
allows the operator to subscribe for event notifications in order to
supervise the performance of the BSC. The event consumer R-PMO
is connected via a TCP/IP server interface.
0; FEATSYNCHRNW should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature Synchronization of RBS2000 using GPS is currently not used,
but this should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
FEATSYNCHRNW=1 permits using the optional feature
Synchronization of RBS2000 using GPS. This feature gives the
operator the possibility to configure a synchronized network using
GPS as synchronization reference for RBS2000. For TG configured
to use TG Sync 1:1 frequency re-use is possible for RBS comprising
same cell.
0; FEATSYNCSRC should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature Handling of synchronization reference for CMS40 is currently
not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will
be used. FEATSYNCSRC=1 permits using the optional feature
Handling of synchronization reference for CMS40. This feature gives
the operator the possibility to use the transport network as
synchronization reference for RBS2000. The built-in reference
oscillator is disabled and will not need to be calibrated.
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Flexible Abis
FLEXABIS
Four-Way Receiver
Diversity
FOURWAYRXDIV
TG synchronization
G01EXPNDWITHG12
TG synchronization
G12EXPNDWITHG12
Support for extended

GSM900 frequency band
G1GSMBAND
Size of the Gb interface
GBCAPACITY
GPRS Mobile Logging

General Packet Radio
Services (GPRS)
GMLOG
GPRS
GPRS coding scheme 3 & 4 GPRSCS3CS4
Extended Dynamic
Allocation
GPRSEDA
Ericsson Instant Talk
GPRSEIT
Rev.
R11A
Elabor:
Ing. Kenneth Rydn
Pagina 21 de 82
0; FLEXABIS should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature

Flexible Abis is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if
and when this feature will be used. FLEXABIS=1 permits using the
optional feature Flexible Abis. This feature gives the operator the
possibility to save Abis transmission resources to base station sites
with expected small amount of GPRS/EGPRS traffic.
0; FOURWAYRXDIV should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature Four-Way Receiver Diversity is currently not used, but this
should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
FOURWAYRXDIV=1 permits using the optional feature 4 Way
Receiver Diversity. This feature is used to increase the sensitivity
uplink in the BTS. It improves the sensitivity with at least 3 dB
compared to 2-ways receiver diversity, by combining the uplink signal
from four antennas.
1; G01EXPNDWITHG12=1 makes it possible to expand a TG in BTS
logical model G01, with TGs in BTS logical model G12. The TG in
BTS logical model G01 must be configured as Master.
1; G12EXPNDWITHG12=1 makes it possible to expand a TG in BTS
logical model G12, with additional TGs in BTS logical model G12.
0; G1GSMBAND=1 makes it possible to use the frequencies in the
G1-GSM 900 band in addition to the frequencies in the P-GSM 900
band in the network. It is possible to use the frequencies for both
dedicated channels and common channels. Telcel use GSM1900.
64; GBCAPACITY defines the maximum allowed size of the Gb
interface in steps of 64 kbps.
0;GMLOG should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature GPRS
Mobile Logging is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1
if and when this feature will be used. GMLOG=1 permits using the
optional feature GPRS Mobile Logging. This feature is a trouble
shooting and monitoring tool for GPRS/EGPRS handling in the BSC.
The OSS application GMLOG is connected via a TCP/IP interface.
1; GPRS=1 permits using the optional feature GPRS. This feature
makes it possible to send packet data over a GSM network.
1; GPRSCS3CS4=1 permits using GPRS coding scheme 3 & 4. The
result is increased data throughput to users.
0; GPRSEDA should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Extended Dynamic Allocation is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. GPRSEDA =1
permits using the optional feature Extended Dynamic Allocation. This
feature makes it possible to reserve more time slots in the uplink than
in downlink for GPRS mobiles supporting Extended Dynamic
Allocation.
0; GPRSEIT should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Ericsson Instant Talk is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. GPRSEIT =1
permits using the optional feature Ericsson Instant Talk. This feature
is a Voice-over-IP application that offers "push button" voice
communication between GPRS users in a one-to-one or one-to many
fashion.
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Scheduling
GPRSPULS
GPRS/EGPRS Quality of
Service and Scheduling
GPRSQOS
TEM/T-03:001087 Uen
Multilayer Hierarchical Cell

Structures
HCS
Multilayer Hierarchical Cell

Structures
HCSBAND
14.4 kbps
HDRATE
Not related to radio features HOPCNTR

Not related to radio features HOPCOUNTERCL
Not related to radio features HOPCOUNTERCO
Handover Power Boost
HPBOOST
Support for half rate

channels
HRC
High Speed Circuit

Switched Data (HSCSD)
HSCSD
Not related to radio features IARTIME
Not related to radio features IASTIME
Rev.
R11A
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0; GPRSPULS should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature

Persistent Uplink Scheduling is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. GPRSPULS =1
permits using the optional feature Persistent Uplink Scheduling. This
feature reduces the average packet data roundtrip time by
persistently scheduling MSs in delayed release of downlink TBF
mode or extended uplink TBF mode. A reduced roundtrip improves
the overall packet data throughput, especially for interactive
applications like e.g. WEB-surfing.
1; GPRSQOS=1 permits using the optional feature GPRS/EGPRS
Quality of Service and Scheduling. This feature makes it possible for
operators to differentiate between users. BSC assigns radio
resources depending on QoS profile received.
1; HCS=1 permits using the optional feature Multilayer Hierarchical
Cell Structures. This feature makes it possible to direct the traffic
towards the band and the cell layer preferred by the operator, for
instance indoor or GSM 1800 cells, where capacity is available.
Differentiation between cells is accomplished by assigning cells to
different layers. Restricted feature - maximum 3 layers and 1 band.
1; HCSBAND=1 permits using the optional feature Multilayer
Hierarchical Cell Structures. For a description of this feature, refer to
the HCS parameter. This parameter controls full feature i.e. 8 layers
and 8 bands.
1; HDRATE=1 permits using the optional feature 14.4 kbps. This
feature increases the data rate from the standard 9.6 kbps to 14.4
kbps for transparent data. The increase is slightly less for nontransparent data The high increase is achieved by having a higher
data rate per timeslot in all circuit switched data applications, both for
single and multi timeslot configurations.
15; HOPCNTR indicates the hop counter, used to determine the
maximum number of intermediate SCCP relay points.
15; Connectionless HopCounter defines the initial value for the Hop
Counter parameter in the XUDT and XUDTS messages
15; Connection-Oriented HopCounter defines the initial value for the
Hop Counter parameter in the originating Connection Request
messages. If value is 0, no HopCounter parameter will be included.
1; HPBOOST=1 permits using the optional feature HO Power Boost.
This feature is used to reduce the number of dropped connections
due to lost HO commands in micro-cell environments. Sending HO
commands with nominal (maximum) power does this.
1; HRC permits using the optional feature Support for half rate
channels. This feature makes the availability of Half Rate Channels
(speech version 1) optional in BSC.
1; HSCSD permits using the optional feature High Speed Circuit
Switched Data. HSCSD was introduced to support up to 48 kbps
(4x12 kbps) air interface rate and 38,4 kbps (4x9.6 kbps) air interface
user rate for an MS connection. With the feature 14.4 kbps a rate of
57,6 kbps (4x14.4 kbps) can be achieved. HSCSD connections use a
multislot combination of channels for data.
11; Receive Inactivity Control Timer defines the waiting time in
minutes to receive a message on an active connection section.
5; Send Inactivity Control Timer, determines the delay in minutes to
send an Inactivity Test message on a connection section when there
are no messages to send.
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Not related to radio features INCOTRAFFLIMIT
Increased SDCCH Capacity INCRSDCCHCAP
Not related to radio features ITUMPTNP1

Not related to radio features ITUMPTTT1
Not related to radio features L3LOADSHARE0
Flexible MAIO Management MAIOMANAGEMENT
Not related to radio features MAXMSGLENGTH
Not related to radio features MAXRELTRIALS
Not related to radio features MAXSTPXED0
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0; Incoming Traffic Limitation, determines if the availability of

Incoming Traffic Limitation Procedure. This AXE parameter is only
allowed to be set to available if SCCPNODALCONG parameter is
also available. Value '0' indicates that this procedure is not available
and value '1' indicates that this procedure is available.
0; INCRSDCCHCAP should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature Increased SDCCH Capacity is currently not used, but this
should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
INCRSDCCHCAP=1 permits using the optional feature Increased
SDCCH Capacity. This feature makes it possible for the operator to
define on average two SDCCH/8s (with or without CBCH) per TRX
(frequency). Without this feature the limit is on average one SDCCH/8
per TRX. The feature makes it possible to increase the signalling
capacity of the cell.
7; ITUMPTNP1 determines the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) or Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of China
(MPT) SS7 global title Numbering Plan (NP) for the first address
mapping case.
6; ITUMPTNP2 determines the ITU or MPT SS7 global title NP for the
second address mapping case.
third address mapping case.
fourth address mapping case.
0; ITUMPTTT1 determines the ITU or MPT SS7 global title TT for the
first address mapping case.
second address mapping case.
third address mapping case.
fourth address mapping case.
1; Controls the loadsharing of level 3 messages for network 0.
0 = Loadsharing enabled, 1 = Loadsharing disabled
1; MAIOMANAGEMENT=1 permits using the optional feature Flexible
MAIO Management. This feature makes it possible for the operator to
plan for minimal interference when synchronizing several TGs within
one site, allowing the operator to set MAIO values manually.
272; Connectionless Message Maximum Length determines the
maximum number of octets per message for SCCP connectionless
messages originated in the own node.
6; Maximum Number of Release Trials defines the maximum number
of release trials, that is, the Released message to be sent at a
connection release without receiving any answer for a Connection
Section.
10; MAXSTPXED0 indicates the maximum number of Signalling
Transfer Points (STP) that can be crossed for network 0 before the
Message Transfer Part (MTP) Routing Verification Test (MRVT) error
'Excessive Length Route' is detected.
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Mobile Cross Talk Control
MCCSUPPORTPARAM
Statistics based on
measurement results
MEASRESREC
MSC in Pool
MIP
MSC in Pool with MSC

Reselection and Alternative
Routing
MIPROUTE
Not related to radio features MSGRESABATE
Not related to radio features MSGRESONSET
Not related to radio features MSGRESXUDTDISCD
Dynamic MS Power Control MSPWRCTRL
Not related to radio features MTPACCNTORDER
ANSI High Speed Signalling

Link
ETSI High Speed Signalling
Link
MTPHSL
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10; MAXSTPXED1 indicates the maximum number of STPs that can

be crossed for network 1 before the MRVT error 'Excessive Length
Route' is detected.
Route' is detected.
Route' is detected.
1; MCCSUPPORTPARAM=1 permits using the optional feature
Mobile Cross Talk Control. This feature makes it possible to reduce
the acoustic echo generated from mobile phones. A specially
designed algorithm implemented in the transcoder is used.
1; MEASRESREC=1 permits using the optional feature Statistics
based on measurement results. This feature makes it possible to
record and output statistics based on measurement results received
on the Abis interface. The measurement results include both downlink
measurements performed by the mobiles and uplink measurements
done by the BTSs.
0; MIP should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature MSC in
Pool is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and
when this feature will be used. MIP=1 permits using the optional
feature MSC in Pool. This feature makes it possible to define a pool
of MSC nodes that are linked to a number of BSC/TRC nodes. When
more capacity is needed, additional MSC nodes can be added to the
pool.
0; MIPROUTE should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
MSC in Pool with MSC Reselection and Alternative Routing is
currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and when this
feature will be used. Requires that MIP is available. This feature
makes it possible to route traffic from an overloaded MSC in the pool
to other MSCs in the same pool.
30; MSGRESABATE determines the alarm abatement threshold
value for the message control and the message queue resources.
60; MSGRESONSET determines the alarm onset threshold value for
the message control and the message queue resources.
80; MSGRESXUDTDISCD determines the threshold level of the
message control and message queue resources in use before
Extended Unidata messages (XUDT) are discarded.
1; MSPWRCTRL=1 permits using the optional feature MS Power
Control. This feature controls the output power of a mobile station
during a connection. By reducing the MS output power, interference
to co-channel users is reduced and the number of connections with
sufficient good C/I is increased.
1; MTPACCNTORDER indicates whether MTP remuneration
accounting for a message is to be performed before or after MTP
policing. The value '0' indicates that remuneration accouting should
take place after MTP policing. The value '1' indicates that
remuneration accounting should take place before MTP policing.
1; MTPHSL controls the availability of ANSI/ETSI High Speed
Signalling Link function. There are two parameters named MTPHSL,
they are separated by SETNAME=CCSF for ETSI and
SETNAME=ANSICCSF for ANSI.
1 ENABLED.
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Not related to radio features MTPTYPE
Multi Band Cell
MULTIBANDCELL
Network Assisted Cell

Change
NACC
Support of Remote BSC
NODETYPECHANGE
Not related to radio features NOFPLEXPERLOAS
Not related to radio features OLPVALUE

Not related to radio features PATHANAABATE
Not related to radio features PATHANAONSET
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1; MTPRESTART specifies whether or not White Book Message

Transport Part (MTP) restart is available.
The value "0" specifies that MTP restart is not available.
The value "1" specifies that MTP restart is available.
0; MTPTYPE determines the type of MTP layer present in the own
node. Value '0' indicates White MTP; value '1' indicates Blue MTP.
0; MULTIBANDCELL should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature Multi Band Cell is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
MULTIBANDCELL=1 permits using the optional feature Multi Band
Cell. This feature controls the ability to assign more than one
frequency band to one cell. By using this feature the network is
further integrated. It increases the traffic capacity in the frequency
band where the BCCH is not defined, at the same time improving the
radio environment. One frequency band per subcell is possible to
define in a cell.
0; NACC should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Network Assisted Cell Change is currently not used, but this should
be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. NACC=1
permits using the optional feature Network Assisted Cell Change.
This feature allows the BSC to assist a GPRS/EGPRS MS with cell
reselection while in packet transfer mode. The feature significantly
reduces the service outage time for Intra BSC cell reselection. The
feature is valid for internal GSM cells.
1; NODETYPECHANGE =1 permits using the optional feature
Support of Remote BSC. This feature makes it possible to split a
BSC/TRC node into different physical nodes, which may be
geographically separated. Possible node types are BSC/TRC,
standalone BSC or standalone TRC.
200; NOFPLEXPERLOAS is used as a limit of the executed number
of PLEX lines at base level divided by 100 which when reached, a
capacity request is sent to the Processor Load Control function. The
selected values depend on the PLEX size of the average call of a
certain application that is considered as equivalent to the normal task
of block LOAS. The guiding value for the BSC application is 200 and
for the MSC and Wireline applications 500.
1; OLPVALUE indicates how often an MTP Routing Verification
Result (MRVR) can be sent. An MRVR message must always be sent
to the Originating Point Code (OPC) when a Message Signal Unit
(MSU) is discarded due to unknown destination.
The value '0' indicates overload protection.
The value '1' indicates no overload protection.
When overload protection is set an MRVR message is sent
immediately after receiving the request to send this message. When
no overload protection is set an MRVR message is sent at intervals.
60; PATHANAABATE determines the alarm abatement threshold
value for the search pattern analysis resource.
80; PATHANAONSET determines the alarm onset threshold value for
the search pattern analysis resource.
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Advanced Handling of Fast

Moving Mobiles
PFASTMSREG
GPRS Cell Reselection
PKTCELLPLAN
Call Queuing
PMSQ
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8; PERFORMANCETIME indicates the sum of the maximum time (in

seconds) for a node, it includes:
A) The time to take into account a received MRVT message and a
received MPT Routing Verification Acknowledge (MRVA) message.
B) The time to transfer an MRVT message and an MRVA message.
This parameter is used to calculate the guard time to wait for all
MRVA messages in response to the sent MRVT messages at each
node (timer T1).
1; PFASTMSREG permits using the optional feature Advanced
Handling of Fast Moving Mobiles. A fast moving mobile is identified
by counting the number of inter cell handovers during a certain time.
If the handover intensity exceeds a threshold value, the mobile will
not use the hierarchical cell structure when ranking cells in locating.
This means that fast moving mobiles will avoid micro cells.
0; PKTCELLPLAN should be set to 0 for now since a packet specific
cell plan is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and
when this option will be used. PKTCELLPLAN=1 permits using a
packet specific cell plan. This feature enables the operator to change
GPRS cell relations and some essential GPRS cell reselection
parameters. Operator is able to create a form of GPRS cell plan that
to some extent is separate from CS cell plan.
0; PMSQ should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature Call
Queuing is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if and
when this feature will be used. PSMQ=1 permits using the optional
feature Call Queuing. Call Queuing is a way to prioritize certain
connections at congestion situation. The advantage is that there are
no resources reserved for high-priority connections, which are not
used if there is no congestion for these connections. The capacity
thus will be higher for channel reservations.
3; This parameter controls two separate features:
EFFICIENT PRIORITY HANDLING
This feature makes it possible for the operator to offer high priority
service for the customer. High priority service is achieved by
increasing success rate at channel allocation by removing of low
priority calls.
FLEXIBLE PRIORITY HANDLING OF PDCH
This feature makes it possible for the operator to use alternative
strategies for the selection of on-demand PDCHs for PDCH preemption.
PREEMPTION can be assigned the following values:
0
Feature EFFICIENT PRIORITY HANDLING not available
Feature FLEXIBLE PRIORITY HANDLING OF PDCH not available
1
Feature EFFICIENT PRIORITY HANDLING available
Feature FLEXIBLE PRIORITY HANDLING OF PDCH not available
2
Feature EFFICIENT PRIORITY HANDLING not available
Feature FLEXIBLE PRIORITY HANDLING OF PDCH available
Efficient Priority Handling &

Flexible Priority Handling of
PDCH
PREEMPTION
3
Feature EFFICIENT PRIORITY HANDLING available
Feature FLEXIBLE PRIORITY HANDLING OF PDCH available
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Not related to radio features PROCOUTNAT
Not related to radio features PROHIBNI0

Not related to radio features Q704T1
GPRS Quality of Service

Streaming
QOSSTREAM
Frequency Allocation
Support (FAS)
RADIOINTREC
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Not related to radio features REASSEMBTM
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1; PROCOUTNAT controls the selection of local (LPO) or remote

(RPO) processor outage on remote processor outage.
0 = LPO on RPO, 1 = RPO on RPO
1; PROHIBNI0 indicates the MTP Routing Verification (MRV) test
allowed to be performed on network 0.
The value '0' indicates MRV test allowed.
The value '1' indicates MRV test prohibited.
When the parameter is set to allowed, an MRV test can be started for
this network, and when an MRVT message is received for this
network, the MRV test continues.
When the parameter is set to prohibited, no MRV test can be started
for this network, and when an MRVT message is received for this
network, the MRV test is stopped
800; Delay to avoid message mis-sequencing on changeover.
1600; Waiting for changeover acknowledgement.
800; Time controlled diversion-delay to avoid mis-sequencing on
changeback.
800; Waiting for changeback acknowledgement (first attempt).
800; Waiting for changeback acknowledgement (second attempt).
800; Delay to avoid message mis-sequencing on controlled rerouting.
800; Transfer prohibited inhibition timer (transient solution).
30; Waiting to repeat signalling route set test message.
1; Transfer restricted timer.
1200; Waiting for uninhibit acknowledgement.
800; Waiting for force uninhibit.
2000; Waiting for inhibition acknowledgment.
800; Delay to avoid oscillation of initial alignment failure and link
restart.
68; Timer at restarting MTP, waiting to receive all TRA messages.
180; Local inhibit test timer.
180; Remote inhibit test timer.
0; QOSSTREAM should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Streaming is currently not used, but this should be changed to 1 if
and when this feature will be used. QOSSTREAM=1 permits using
the optional feature Streaming. This feature provides support for
traffic class Streaming. It makes it possible to support streaming
applications when there is a competition for the radio resources.
1; RADIOINTREC=1 permits using the optional feature Frequency
Allocation Support (FAS). This feature provides a tool intended to
facilitate frequency planning. Interference measurements on the
uplink on a number of frequencies and cells within the network will be
recorded, processed and output to file for further processing.
15; Reassembly Time defines the waiting time to receive all
segments related to a reassembly process.
10; REASSEMBTM determines the duration of the reassembly timer.
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Not related to radio features RELTIME
Not related to radio features RMC
Remote OMT over IP
ROMTIP
Interfaces over Satellite
SATELLITSUPPORT
Not related to radio features SCCPACCNTORDER
Not related to radio features SCCPNODALCONG
Not related to radio features SCCPOCVTRSSN
Not related to radio features SCCPRSS
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0; REJECTBEHAVIOUR indicates whether a RESULT or ERROR

component with a non-assigned or unknown INVOKE identity
received is considered as malformed component discarding all the
following components, or as a protocol error discarding only the
affected component. Value '0' indicates that a component with a nonassigned or unknown INVOKE identity received must be considered
as malformed component and value '1' indicates that a component
with a non-assigned or unknown INVOKE identity received must be
considered as a protocol error.
10; Release Timer defines the waiting time for a Release Complete
message.
0; RMC specifies whether or not Remote Management Control (RMC)
is available.
The value "0" specifies that RMC is not available.
The value "1" specifies that RMC is available.
0; ROMTIP should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Remote OMT over IP is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. ROMTIP=1
permits using the optional feature Remote OMT over IP. This feature
allows maintenance of radio base stations in the RBS2000 family
from an OMC (Operation and Maintenance Centre) via a TCP/IP
network.
1; SATELLITSUPPORT=1 permits using the optional feature
Interfaces over Satellite. This feature will allow for longer delays than
specified in GSM and still maintain synchronization on the Abis
interface and will enable the operator utilize satellites for the
transmission between the BSC and RBS2000 and/or between the
BSC and the TRC.
1; SCCPACCNTORDER indicates whether remuneration accounting
for a message is to be performed before or after any other function
which may prevent the message being sent by SCCP (e.g. SCCP
policing).
The value '0' indicates that remuneration accounting should take
place after message sending confirmation.
The value '1' indicates that remuneration accounting should take
place before message sending confirmation.
0; SCCP Nodal Congestion, determines the availability of the Own
SCCP Congestion level calculation. This AXE parameter is only
allowed to be set to available if the feature SCCP Congestion Control
parameter is also available. However, this AXE parameter is only
allowed to be set to unavailable if both CONGCTRLLOAS and
INCOTRAFFLIMIT parameters are unavailable. Value '0' indicates
that SCCP Nodal Congestion is unavailable and value '1' indicates
that SCCP Nodal Congestion is available.
20; SCCPOCVTRSSN determines the local subsystem number used
during connection of the Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP)
overhead converter to the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) or International Telecommunication Union (ITU) SCCP, or
both.
0; SCCPRSS controls the activation or deactivation of Remote
Subsystem Supervision function. Value '0' indicates SCCP Remote
Subsystem Supervision function inactive, value '1' indicates SCCP
Remote Subsystem Supervision function active.
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Pools
SELFCONFIGPOOL
Not related to radio features SELHSL
Semi Dedicated PDCHs
SEMIPDCH
Not related to radio features SLTMSUPPRESS
Local SNOAM Event

Reporting
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Support for Spatial Triggers SPATRIG
Speech Quality Supervision SQSSUPPORT

Not related to radio features SSTITIME
Not related to radio features SSTMTIME
GSM-UMTS Cell
Reselection and Handover SUPCOEXUMTS
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0; SELFCONFIGPOOL should be set to 0 for now since the optional

feature Self Configuring Transcoder Pools is currently not used, but
this should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used.
SELFCONFIGPOOL =1 permits using the optional feature Self
Configuring Transcoder Pools. This feature allows one TRA Pool to
steal resources from an under-utilised pool, and is an automated
feature. BSC identifies the hardware in a pool that needs to be
reconfigured and made available to another pool. OSS is then
triggered to perform reconfiguration of hardware and the change in
configuration of the pools.
2; SELHSL specifies the type of High Speed Link (HSL) selected in
the node.
The value "0" specifies Q.2210.
The value "1" specifies Q.703 Annex A.
The value "2" specifies both Q.2210 and Q.703 Annex A.
0; SEMIPDCH should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Semi Dedicated PDCHs is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. SEMIPDCH =1
permits using the optional feature Semi Dedicated PDCHs. This
feature makes it possible to reserve channels for GPRS/EGPRS use
but only use the underlying HW when the channels are used for
traffic.
0; SLTMSUPPRESS controls the suppression of periodic SLTM
messages in ITU-T and MPT. 0 = SLTM sending suppressed, 1 =
SLTM sending allowed.
1; SNOAMLOCALPRT controls the availability of feature Local
SNOAM Event Reporting.
1 ENABLED.
0; SPATRIG should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature
Support for Spatial Triggers is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. SPATRIG =1
permits using the optional feature Support for Spatial Triggers. This
positioning feature enables push-based applications based on MS
location by adding Timing Advance information to a number of MS
originating messages to the MSC.
1; SQSSUPPORT=1 permits using the optional feature Speech
Quality Supervision. This feature allows the operator to get
information about the uplink subjective speech quality in the network
(as perceived by the end user). The speech quality is presented in
terms of the amount of traffic conforming to different speech quality
levels, ranging from "good" to "unsatisfactory".
8; Subsystem Status Test Initial Time Supervision defines the initial
time (in seconds) supervision for the subsystem status test timer.
600; Subsystem Status Test Maximum Time Supervision defines the
maximum time (in seconds) supervision for the subsystem status test
timer.
0; SUPCOEXUMTS should be set to 0 for now since the optional
feature GSM-UMTS Cell Reselection and Handover is currently not
used, but this should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be
used. SUPCOEXUMTS =1 permits using the optional feature GSMUMTS Cell Reselection and Handover. This feature makes it possible
to perform handover (circuit switched connections) and cell
reselection (packet connections) from GSM to UMTS and vice versa.
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Combining
SUPIRC
Positioning
TAPOSITIONING
Not related to radio features TFPNONEXDEST

Not related to radio features TFPROUTESEP
Not related to radio features TTE164
Not related to radio features TTE214
Not related to radio features UPUCAUSE0

Not related to radio features UPUSUPPRESS
Not related to radio features UPUTREATMENT
Uplink Time Difference of

Arrival
UTDOA
Extended Range Cell
XRANGECELL
Extended Range Cell,

Enhanced Version
XRANGESUBCELL
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1; SUPIRC =1 permits using the optional feature Interference

Rejection Combining. This feature is used to improve receiver
performance when interference is high. Without the BTS configured
for receiver diversity, this feature will not have any affect.
1; TAPOSITIONING =1 permits using the optional feature Positioning.
This feature allows positioning service offering positioning for all
mobiles in the GSM Network. Upon a network requested positioning,
the BSS provides positioning data, which is delivered to the SMLC
(MSC). The positioning data consists of Cell Identity and Timing
Advance.
0; TFPNONEXDEST controls the sending of a TFP message on
routing for a nonexistent destination in ITU-T and MPT. 0 = send
TFP, 1 = do not send TFP.
0;TFPROUTESEP controls the sending of a TFP message on routing
over an SEP in ITU and MPT. 0 = send TFP, 1 = do not send TFP.
10; Translation Type value for E.164 Numbering Plan used during GT
format conversion between ITU/ANSI protocols.
255; Translation Type value for E.214 Numbering Plan used during
GT format conversion between ITU/ANSI protocols.
0; UPUCAUSE0 controls the value of the UPU cause parameter for
network 0. 0 = Unknown, 1 = Unequipped remote user, 2 =
Inaccessible remote user.
network 1.
network 2.
network 3.
1; UPUSUPPRESS controls the suppression of the User Part
Unavailability function. 0 = UPU sending suppressed, 1 = UPU
sending allowed.
1; SCCP User Part Unavailable Treatment determines the sending of
Subsystem Status Test messages toward a remote SCCP after
reception of an MTP-STATUS indication with User Part Unavailable
reason to "Unequipped user". Value '0' indicates the Subsystem
Status Test message will not be sent and value '1' indicates the
Subsystem Status Test message will be sent.
0; UTDOA should be set to 0 for now since the optional feature Uplink
Time Difference of Arrival is currently not used, but this should be
changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. UTDOA=1 permits
using the optional feature Uplink Time Difference of Arrival. This
feature is a positioning method where an LMU catches the uplink
bursts sent between the MS and the BTS. This information is used to
make a location estimate for the MS.
1; XRANGECELL =1 permits using the optional feature Extended
Range Cell. This feature makes it possible to define cells as extended
range cells.
1; XRANGESUBCELL=1 permits using the optional feature Extended
Range Cell, Enhanced Version. This feature makes it possible to
define any underlaid subcell as an extended range cell and also to
define an overlaid subcell with normal range into an existing extended
range cell.
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1; XUDTALLOW determines the own node message process

capability, indicating if the own signalling point can process or not
XUDT/XUDTS and LUDT/LUDTS messages. Value '0' indicates
neither XUDT/XUDTS nor LUDT/LUDTS are allowed, value '1'
indicates both XUDT/XUDTS and LUDT/LUDTS are allowed.
RAEPP BSC Exchange Properties
FEATURE
NAME
RECOMMENDED SETTING & COMMENTS
GPRS MS Power Control

AMR
AMR
AMR
ALPHA
AMRFRSUPPORT
AMRHRSUPPORT
AMRSPEECHVERUSE
ATERFCSTEPUPLMT
ATERFCWINMAX
ATERFCWINMIN
BADQDL
BADQUL
6
2
2 if AMR HR is used, 0 if AMR HR is not used
0
40
12
1
50
50
BSCFSOFFSETLSW
Urgency Conditions
Urgency Conditions
Synchronized Radio
Networks
Synchronized Radio
Networks
BSCFSOFFSETMSW
BSCS_PER_MSC
BSCS_PER_MSC_POOL
BSSRELEASE
CALLDROPMSC
CHALLOC
GPRS Channel Admin.
CHCODING
CICCODING
Multi Band Operation
CLMRKMSG
Cell Load Sharing
CLSTIMEINTERVAL
GSM UMTS cell reselection COEXUMTS
GSM UMTS cell reselection COEXUMTSTINT
CONCBOARDALARM
CONCBOARDCEASE
CONCLINKALARM
CONCLINKCEASE
Differential Channel
Allocation
DCAHANDOVER
DEFAULTSYNCSRC
GPRS Connection Control DLDELAY
OL/UL Subcells
DTCBSC
GPRS Channel Admin.
DYNULDLACT
EBANDINCLUDED
GPRS Link Adaptation
EITHIGHCS
EITSCHEDFREQH
0
6
6
110
0
1
2
0
0
100
0
1000
70
60
70
60
1 if Differential Channel Allocation is used, 0 otherwise
65535
2200
0
0
0
2
100
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SAE=299
SAE=523
Locating
Multi Band Cell
Flexible Abis
GPRS Channel Admin.
GPRS Channel Admin.
GPRS Channel Admin.
DYMA
HSCSD
Configuration
SAE=298
SAE=522
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EITSCHEDFREQL
ESDELAY
EXTCELLNO
EXTHANDOVERNO
FASTASSIGN
FBCHALLOC
FCMAXNOPTGLG01
FCMAXNOPTGLG12
FCMAXNOPTGUG12
FLEX64KGPRS
GPRSEDAACT
GPRSNWMODE
GPRSPRIO
HALFRATESUPP
HSCSDUPGTIMER
INITTCH
INTCELLNO
INTHANDOVERNO
LINKCHECKTIME
Urgency Conditions
LOWSSDL
Urgency Conditions
LOWSSUL
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCACT
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCDEFAULTMCSDL
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCDEFAULTMCSUL
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCHIGHMCS
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCIR
EGPRS Link Quality control LQCUNACK
HSCSD
MAXCHDATARATE
MAXLOAD
MAXNOCHGRP
SDCCH
MAXNOSDCCHTRX
Multi Band Cell
MBCRAC
Mobile Crosstalk Control
MCCSUPPORT
Cell Data
MNCDIGITHAND
MSCREL
MSEITRESPTIME
MSQASSTIME
EMLPP
MSQHOPRIO
EMLPP
MSQUEUING
NACCACT
Locating
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360
750
Depends on the number of external cells. Should be set to the # of
external cells + e.g. 20%. Set to 512 in most BSCs.
Depends on the number of external neighbour relations (NR). Should
be set to the # of external NR + e.g. 20%. Setting varies in the BSCs.
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
2
15
0
5
2
Depends on the number of internal cells. Should be set to the # of
internal cells + e.g. 20%. Setting varies in the BSCs.
Depends on the number of internal neighbour relations (NR). Should
be set to the # of internal NR + e.g. 20%. Setting varies in the BSCs.
4
102, different setting is being used in Region 9 (2005-09-09)
108, different setting is being used in Region 9 (2005-09-09)
3
9
5
9
1
1
144
80
1024 for normal BSCs, 2048 for Mega BSCs
2
0
1
2
1
600
30
0
0
1 if Network Assisted Cell Change should be used, 0 otherwise
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NUMTRALOADS
ONDEMANDGPHDEV
ONDEMANDGPHDV64
PAGLIMIT
PCUEIT
PCUQOS
PHHSCSD
PHSTATE
PILTIMER
PILTIMERFLEX
PSCELLPLAN
PSETCHKPERIOD
PULSCHEDINT
QOSCONVPRIO
QOSMAPPING
QOSSTREAMPRIO
QOSTHP1
QOSTHP2
RECCAP
RECTIME
REGPOINTPROCLD
RPBUSMAXNOSEG
Subcell Load Distribution SCLDTIMEINT
SGSNREL
SPEECHVERUSED
Speech Quality Supervision SPEQINDCOLLECT
BTS Power Control
STEPLIMDL
GPRS Channel Admin.
TBFDLLIMIT
GPRS Channel Admin.
TBFULLIMIT
Configuration
TCHCAP1
Configuration
TCHCAP2
Configuration
TCHCAP3
Configuration
TCHCAPAA
Configuration
TCHCAPSEL
TEITPENDING
GPRS Connection Control TFILIMIT
THPMBRFACTOR
Locating
TIMER3105
TRACEMSGTYPE
TRADROPLEVEL
TRXTAUTOINITIME
TRXTAUTOTHRSHLD
TSLOOPTEST
TSTREAMPENDING
GPRS Channel Admin.
GPRS Channel Admin.
Paging
HSCSD
EMLPP
GPRS Channel Admin.
Flexible Abis
GPRS Channel Admin.
GPRS Connection Control
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3
30
5
0
0
1
1
0
5
50
0
5
0
1
2
1
3
2
10
0
80
175
100
1
0
1
0
2
2
65535
65535
65535
0
1
30
4
0
8
0
10
10
20
0
30
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TTALONG
TTANORMAL
GPRS Connection Control ULDELAY
BTS & MS Power Control UPDWNRATIO
GPRS Connection Control USFLIMIT
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50
15
10
1000
300
2
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Revision History
Rev E -> Rev11A: R11 parameters included, all BSC exchange properties included, all AXEPARS
parameters included, (E)GPRS QoS parameters updated + various changes
ABISALLOC
included in the parameter recommendation (R11 parameter)
ACCMIN
recommended value changed to include also 104 as acceptable setting
ALLOCPREF
AMRFRSUPPORT
recommended value changed from 0 to 2
AMRPCSTATE
recommended value changed from OFF to ON
AMRSPEECHVERUSE recommended value changed from 1 to 0
CBCHD
CRH
CRT
included in the parameter recommendation
CSYSTYPE
DMTHAMR
recommended value updated to reflect the setting used in the network
DMTHNAMR
DTHAMR
DTHNAMR
EITHIGHCS
EITSCHEDFREQH
EITSCHEDFREQL
FBCHALLOC
FLEX64KGPRS
FPDCH
recommended value changed from 1 to depends on the cell GPRS traffic
GPRSPRIO
GSYSTYPE
recommended value changed from GSM1900 to MIXED
HNDBEFOREBANSW removed from the parameter recommendation (does not exist in R11)
HNDBEFOREBANSWM included in the parameter recommendation (R11 parameter)
HNDRELCHINTRA
removed from the parameter recommendation (does not exist in R11)
HNDRELCHINTRAM
HNDSDCCHINTO
HNDSDCCHINTOM
HNDSDCCH
HNDSDCCHM
HNDSDCCHTCH
HNDSDCCHTCHM
HNDTCMDINTRA
HPBSTATE
recommended value changed to ON in accordance with Ref. [13]
IBHOSICH
recommended value changed from ON to OFF
IRC
recommended value changed from OFF to ON
LCOMPUL
LQCACT
LQCDEFAULTMCSUL recommended value changed from 5 to 3
MAXLAPDM
MAXNOSDCCHTRX
MAXSBLK
MAXSMSG
MFRMS
MPDCH
MSEITRESPTIME
ONDEMANDGPHDEV recommended value changed from 20 to 30
ONDEMANDGPHDV64 recommended value changed from 0 to 5

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PCUQOS
PDCHPREEMPT
PILTIMER
PILTIMERFLEX
PRACHBLK
PRIMPLIM
PRIOLEV
PSCVL
QASSTIME
QCOMPUL
QDESDLAFR
QDESULAFR
QLIMDLAFR
QLIMULAFR
QOSMAPPING
QOSTHP1
QOSTHP2
RLINKT
RLINKUP
SAS
SECPAGEPATH
SPDCH
SPEECHVERUSED
TEITPENDING
THPMBRFACTOR
TIMHNDCMDINTRAM
TIMHNDGSINTRAM
TRAFBLK
TSTREAMPENDING
TSTREAMSTART
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recommended value changed from 0 to 1 (OFF to ON)
recommended value changed to 4 or 8 [meaning of values changed R11]
recommended value changed from 55 to 50 / 60 (BCCH / non-BCCH)
recommended value changed from 55 to 50 / 60 (BCCH / non-BCCH)
recommended value changed from N/A to 3
recommended value changed from QUALITY to MULTI
Rev D -> Rev E: MS Power Control recommended setting changed & few other changes
AGBLK
DTXU
MAXTA
QDESUL
QDESULAFR
QLENUL
SCALLOC
SSDESUL
SSDESULAFR
SSLENUL
TALIM
recommended value changed from 0 to 1 for cells with CBCH=YES

recommended value updated in accordance with the setting in the network
recommended value now also includes extended range cells
recommended value changed from 0 to 30 or 40
recommended value changed from 20 to 30 or 40
recommended value changed from UL to BOTHOL or BOTHUL
recommended value now also includes extended range cells
Rev C -> Rev D: R10 parameters included
AHOP
AMRFRSUPPORT
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AMRPCSTATE
AMRSPEECHVERUSE
BAND
BCCD
BPDCHBR
BQOFFSETAFR
BSCFSOFFSETLSW
BSCFSOFFSETMSW
BTDM
CBCH
CCHPOS
CHAP
CONVSTREAMTHP
DHA
DLDELAY
DMQB
DMQBAMR
DMQBNAMR
DMQG
DMQGAMR
DMQGNAMR
DMSUPP
DMTHAMR
DMTHNAMR
DTHAMR
DTHNAMR
DTCB
DTCBHYST
DTCBSC
DYNULDLACT
EPDCHBR
ESDELAY
EXCHGR
FBOFFS
FSOFFSET
GPDCHBR
GPRSVALID
HYST
INIDES
INILEN
IRC
MBCRAC
MODE 1
MSQASSTIME
MSQHOPRIO
MSQUEUING
NACCACT
NDIST
NNCELLS
PDCHPREEMPT
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updated with the current setting
recommended value changed from YES to NO
recommended value changed to 8 only
In R10 there are two different parameters named MODE, one exists in R9.1 and one is new in R10.
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PLAYER
PMARG
PROFFSET
PSCELLPLAN
PSETCHKPERIOD
QDESDLAFR
QDESULAFR
QLEN
QLENGTH
QLENUL
QLIMDLAFR
QLIMULAFR
QOFFSETDLAFR
QOFFSETULAFR
QOSCONVPRIO
QOSMAPPING
QOSSTREAMPRIO
REGINT
REGINTUL
RESLIMIT
SAS
SCALLOC
SET
SSDES
SSDESDLAFR
SSDESUL
SSDESULAFR
SSLEN
SSLENUL
SSOFFSETDLAFR
SSOFFSETULAFR
STREAMSUP
T3212
TFILIMIT
THR
TLDTH
TSTREAMPENDING
TSTREAMSTART
ULDELAY
USFLIMIT
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updated to reflect the relation with BTDM
Rev B -> Rev C:
ACSTATE
ALG
MAIO
RLINKT
RLINKUP
TSC
changed from OFF to ON

recommended value removed due to change of frequency allocation
changed from 16 to 24
recommended value changed for OL sub-cell
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Rev A -> Rev B: R9.1 parameters included
AMRSUPPORT
BCCHINOL
BSRXMIN
CCHPOS
CHCSDL
COEXUMTSINT
CONVSTREAMTHP
DL
EVALTYPE
FDDARFCN
FDDMRR
HNDTGSOPINTRA
ISHOLEV
HYSTSEP
LA
LQCACT
LQCDEFAULTMCSDL
LQCDEFAULTMCSUL
LQCHIGHMCS
LQCIR
LQCUNACK
MAXRET
MRSL
MSRXMIN
NUMREQCS3CS4BPC
NUMREQEGPRSBPC
ONDEMANDGPHDV64
PCUQOS
PDCHALLOC
PILTIMER
PSKONBCCH
QOSTHP1
QOSTHP2
QSC
QSCI
SCRCODE
THPMBRFACTOR
TLDTH
TN
TN7BCCH
UL
UTRANID
XRANGECELL
XRANGESUBCELL
included in the parameter recommendation (R9.1 parameter)

recommended values divided for channel group 0 and channel group 1
removed from the parameter recommendation since it is not radio related
changed from 1 to 3
recommended value changed to 2 for areas with random access problems
changed from 104 to 96 (city cells) or 99 (rural cells)
changed from FIRST to NOPREF
recommended value changed to be more general
recommended value changed to 2 for extended range cells
removed from the parameter recommendation since it is not radio related
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Parameter Description
Note: The DBTSP AXEPARS parameters are not included in this chapter; they can be found in chapter 3.37.
ABISALLOC:
Comments: Kenneth Rydn, NCS:
Controls the way Abis paths are allocated to the TCHs capable of 64 kbps. The parameter is set per TG.
-The default value FIXED will be used until a test has been performed. [2005-04-29, QRYDKEN]
ACC:
Comments: Benny Lennartson, RN-NPOC:
Defines what access classes that are barred.
-ACC=CLEAR, means that there are no access classes are barred. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing ACC=CLEAR is that we dont want to bar any subscribers. [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
ACCMIN:
This information is sent in system information messages to the mobile.
-ACCMIN=102, means that if the mobile measures less than -102 rxlev from the cell it is camping on it will not try and do
call setup. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-Subscribers will not be disappointed with having a call setup and then drop directly, better with "No Network" in the
phone. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-ACCMIN=102, is used because of the mobiles in the network are PCS, 1900 class 1 & 2 and can only assure better
receiver than -102. For more information see, spec GSM 05.05, chapter 6.2. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-ACCMIN=104 is used in many cells in order for the subscribers to hang on to the Telcel network longer and to not
appear Emergency Calls Only in the display when the mobile is in limited service state on a cell from another Mexican
GSM operator. [2005-09-09, QRYDKEN]
ACSTATE:
ACSTATE=OFF. This is adaptive configuration of logical channels. This should only be used if there is a risk for
congestion on SDCCH. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
Comments: Kenneth Rydn, RN-NPOC:
-We have not tested the feature adaptive configuration of logical channels yet, until then ACSTATE will be set to off.
[2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
-The feature Adaptive Configuration of Logical Channels (ACLC) was tested together with BCCH in OL, see Ref. [9]. This
feature should be used in order to avoid SDCCH congestion, no matter if the BCCH is placed in the UL or OL sub-cell.
[2003-11-26, TIMKRYD]
AGBLK:
Comments: Masood Marofkhani, RN-NPOC:
AGBLK tells how many of the CCCH blocks that should be reserved for the Access Grant messages. AGBLK must not
be 0 if SI 7 and SI 8 have to be sent or if SMSCB is going to be used. The recommended value is 1 in order to be
prepared for SMSCB. [2002-06-10, TIMMASM]
-The reason for setting AGBLK=1 is that it is mandatory when CBCH=YES. [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
-Most regions have CBCH=NO and in this case it is better to set AGBLK=0. [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
AHOP:
Antenna Hopping State, used for the feature Antenna Hopping. Can be set to:
ON Antenna hopping state is hopping on all channels
OFF Antenna hopping state is non-hopping
ONXC0 Antenna hopping state is hopping on all channels except channels on the BCCH frequency/frequencies.
ALG:
ALG defines the type of ciphering algorithm. We are using ciphering algorithm A5/2, i.e. ALG should be set to ALG2. It is
very important to use the same setting for all BSCs, otherwise the inter-BSC HO may not work. [2003-12-12, TIMKRYD]
ALLOCPREF:
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ALLOCPREF is used as a preference at DTM channel allocation in some situations; whether the TCH (CS part) in a DTM
connection shall be allocated with maximum speech quality considerations or with packing considerations (to prefer a
TCH/HR).
-The default value QUAL will be used until a test has been performed. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
ALPHA:
ALPHA is used in the following formula for calculation of GPRS MS output power:
P = min(P max, GAMMA0 - GAMMA - ALPHA(C + 48)) .
The recommended ALPHA=6, is a moderate setting which means that GPRS MS output power is down regulated less
relative to the received SSrec where SSrec is received power at BTS.
AMRFRSUPPORT:
Adaptive Multi Rate Full Rate feature switch. It indicates if AMR full rate support is switched on and which codec set is
active in the BSC. If AMRFRSUPPORT is on, TCH/F SPV3 may be selected at channel allocation.
0 = OFF
1 = Full rate codec set 1
AMR FR codec set 2 is used in Telcels network; hence AMRFRSUPPORT should be set to 2. [QRYDKEN, 2005-05-02]
AMRHRSUPPORT:
Adaptive Multi Rate Half Rate feature switch. It indicates if AMR half rate support is switched on and which codec set is
active in the BSC. If AMRHRSUPPORT is on, TCH/H SPV3 may be selected at channel allocation.
0 = OFF
1 = Half rate codec set 1
AMRPCSTATE:
Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) power control state, ACTIVE or INACTIVE.
The feature Dynamic MS Power Control must be activated in the cell for the uplink AMR power control to work in the cell.
The feature Dynamic BTS Power Control must be activated in the cell for the downlink AMR power control to work in the
cell.
AMRSPEECHVERUSE:
AMRSPEECHVERUSE is used to decide if the used speech version for AMR shall be placed at the top in the list of
allowed speech version at handover.
0 = Do not place the used speech version for AMR at the top in the list of allowed speech versions.
1 = The used speech version for AMR shall be placed at the top of the list of allowed speech versions.
-Recommended value has been changed from 1 to 0 in order to avoid keeping AMR HR connections on AMR HR after
HO has been made into cells that may have sufficient capacity and AMR HR is not necessary. [QRYDKEN, 2005-08-22]
ANT:
-This should be defined by implementation.[TIMBLE, 2001-09-15]
ANTA:
ANTB:
ASSOC:
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-Assignment to better cell is important to have on since in a 1/1frequency reuse network it is important to be on the
strongest server in order not to be interfered and cause interference. [2001-09-24, TIMBLE]
-Assignment to worse cell should be allowed in the hysteresis area in order to decrease subscriber perceived congestion.
[2001-09-24, TIMBLE]
ATERFCSTEPUPLMT:
This exchange property sets up the new Window size in Handling of Ater Flow Control. Window size is increased by one
when the number of positive consecutive responses is equal to the value of the property.
ATERFCWINMAX:
This exchange property determines Maximum Window Size in Handling of Ater Flow Control.
ATERFCWINMIN:
This exchange property determines Minimum Window Size in Handling of Ater Flow Control.
ATT:
This is if the mobile should apply IMSI attach and detach.
- The recommended values is ATT=YES. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
- The reason for using IMSI attach and detach is for the system to know if the mobile should be paged or not. [2003-0328, TIMKRYD]
AW:
Assignment to worse should be turned on in the hysteresis area. Since there we allow the mobile to be connected to a
weaker cell we can do the same at call setup.
-The reason for choosing to use Assignment to worse cell is that it will help to decrease the subscriber perceived
congestion. [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
AWOFFSET:
AWOFFSET should be at least as much as KHYST and LHYST. For larger value than 3 consideration should be taken
to the interference situation along cell border, since the mobile will not be served by the best server.
-The reason for choosing 3 dB is that we cannot use too great values in this network with limited frequency spectrum and
hence high interference levels. [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
BADQDL:
-This parameter is only for STS statistics. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing BADQDL=50 is that we consider the quality on the downlink to be bad above RXQUAL 5.
[2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
BADQUL:
-This parameter is only for STS statistics. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing BADQDL=50 is that we consider the quality on the uplink to be bad above RXQUAL 5. [200303-28, TIMKRYD]
BAND:
Frequency band supported by the transmitter/receiver.
GSM800 = GSM 800 band.
BAOCI:
Barring of outgoing calls overriding indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The following values are available:
0 Barring not overridden
1 Barring overridden
BOICI:
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Barring of outgoing international calls overriding indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The following values are available:
BOIEXHI:
Barring of outgoing international calls except those to the home Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) country-overriding
indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The following values are available:
BCCD:
Defines if the channel group frequencies are allowed (YES) or not (NO) for Immediate Assignment. The current 1900
spectrum for Telcel is within the range, i.e. BCCD can be set to YES without any problems.
BCCHINOL:
-BCCHINOL is a database table parameter that enables the feature BCCH in Overlaid Sub-cells. BCCHINOL must be set
to 1 if the feature BCCH in Overlaid Sub-cells should be used. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
BCCHTYPE:
-BCCHTYPE should be set to NCOMB since the paging capacity is reduced to only one third with BCCHTYPE=COMB
compared to BCCHTYPE=NCOMB. The paging congestion must be monitored carefully if combined BCCH will be used.
[2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
BPDCHBR:
Defines the minimum estimated bitrate per B-PDCH in cell used for transfer of the traffic class Streaming.
BQOFFSET:
Recommended value from Engineering guideline is 3. [2002-01-22, TIMBLE].
BQOFFSETAFR:
Signal strength region for bad quality urgency handovers for AMR FR connections.
Note: BQOFFSETAFR is defined as a cell to cell relation and is a symmetrical parameter.
BSCFSOFFSETLSW:
BSC Frame Start Offset, least significant word. The BSC Frame Start Offset adjusts the frame start offset of transmitted
TDMA frames realtive the nominal position for all cells realized by the BSC.
BSCFSOFFSETMSW:
BSC Frame Start Offset, most significant word. The BSC Frame Start Offset adjusts the frame start offset of transmitted
TDMA frames realtive the nominal position for all cells realized by the BSC.
BSCMC:
Benny Lennartson, RN-NPOC:
Comments: BSCMC=ON, this allows multislot connections on the BSC. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
BSIC:
Comments: Masood Marofkhani, RN-NPOC
The parameter is individual for each cell.
BSPWR:
This parameter is used in locating as the BTS output power at the reference point on the BCCH frequency. The
parameter is used for path loss calculations.
-The reason for setting BSPWR=BSPWRB 2 dB is that you lose about 2 dB in the combiner. [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
-Cells with more than 2 TRUs normally have an extra 2 dB combiner loss, thats why BSPWR should be set another 2 dB
lower for cells with more than 2 TRUs. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
BSPWRB:
This parameter is defined by cell planning. BSPWRB=45, [TIMBLE, 2001-12-06]
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BSPWRMIN:
Minimum allowed output power for the BTS at the locating reference point, on the non-BCCH frequencies.
-BSPWRMIN = -20 is recommended value from guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
BSPWRT:
This parameter is defined by cell planning. BSPWRT=45, [TIMBLE, 2001-12-06]
BSRXMIN:
BSRXMIN is the required received signal strength on BTS. This requirement and signal strength requirement on
downlink, measured by MS (MSRXMIN) will decide if a cell fulfill minimum level condition and can be considered as a
possible handover candidate.
-BSRXMIN should be set to 150 according to Ref. [4]. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
BSRXSUFF:
BSRXSUFF is the required received signal strength on BTS for a cell to fulfill the sufficient level condition on uplink. The
cells that fulfill sufficient level condition on uplink and downlink (MSRXSUFF) are considered as L cell, which means that
cells will be ranked according to path loss criteria in locating.
Since we want to use only signal strength as ranking criteria in this network, so we have to make sure that there are no
cells that fulfill sufficient level condition. By setting MSRSUFF = 0, we can make sure that there are no cells fulfilling
sufficient level condition on downlink and thereby no L cells. The value of the parameter BSRXSUFF will not be
essential. In order to avoid warnings in consistency check, BSRXSUFF has to be at least as high as BSRXMIN.
Therefore BSRXSUFF = 109.
BSSRELEASE:
Base Station System (BSS) release version. BSSRELEASE indicates which BSS main release is used to indicate
possible IWDs in the negotiation between BSC and BTS. Examples for how to read the given value for the BSS release:
91 = BSS R9.1
100 = BSS R10
110 = BSS R11
BSTXPWR:
This parameter is used in locating as the BTS output power at the reference point on the non-BCCH frequencies. The
parameter is used for path loss calculations.
-The reason for setting BSTXPWR=BSPWRT 2 dB is that you lose about 2 dB in the combiner. [2003-03-28,
TIMKRYD]
-Cells with more than 2 TRUs normally have an extra 2 dB combiner loss, thats why BSTXPWR should be set another 2
dB lower for cells with more than 2 TRUs. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
BTDM:
BTDM is the base time duration of implicit detach of a mobile subscriber in the network. This parameter is set in the MSC
and is in units, minutes. It must be at least as much as T3212.
-We have T3212 set to one hour and therefore BTDM is set to 60 minutes. For more information about the paging
strategy, please see Ref. [1] [2003-03-28, TIMKRYD]
-BTDM has been changed to 120 or 240 minutes, the setting varies between the regions. [2004-03-22, TIMKRYD]
CALLDROPMSC:
Reporting of Dropped Call Reason to the Mobile Services Switching Centre (MSC). CALLDROPMSC indicates if the
reason for dropped call is to be reported to the MSC or not. If CALLDROPMSC is ON, the reason is sent to the MSC in
message CLEAR REQUEST.
CAND:
The parameter controls if a neighboring cell should be considered as a candidate at normal handover or at assignment to
worse or in the both cases.
-The reason for choosing CAND=BOTH is that we normally want all neighbor relations to work both for assignment and
in active mode. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CAPLTCHSCH:
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CAPLTCHSCH specifies if channel allocation priority level handling is to be considered at initial TCH and/or at SDCCH
assignment or not at all.
CAPLTCHEMER:
CAPLTCHEMER specifies a channel allocation priority level in the MSC in case of an emergency call.
CAPLTCHMOVAL:
CAPLTCHMOVAL specifies a channel allocation priority level to be used for mobile originated transactions when no
priority information has been received from HLR.
CAPLSCHMOVAL:
CAPLSCHMOVAL specifies a channel allocation priority level to be used for mobile originated transactions when no
CAPLTCHMTVAL:
CAPLTCHMTVAL specifies a channel allocation priority level to be used for mobile terminated calls when no priority
information has been received from HLR.
CAPLSCHMTVAL:
CAPLSCHMTVAL specifies a channel allocation priority level to be used for mobile terminated transactions when no
CAPLTCHMTOVERR:
CAPLTCHMTOVERR determines whether the channel allocation priority level received from HLR or an operator-defined
value is to be used for mobile terminated calls.
CAPLSCHMTOVERR:
CAPLSCHMTOVERR determines whether the channel allocation priority level received from HLR or an operator-defined
value is to be used for mobile terminated transactions.
CAPLTCHMTPREF:
CAPLTCHMTPREF specifies a channel allocation priority level for mobile terminated calls when the parameter
CAPLTCHMTOVERR is set to 1.
CAPLSCHMTPREF:
CAPLSCHMTPREF specifies a channel allocation priority level for mobile terminated transactions when the parameter
CAPLSCHMTOVERR is set to 1.
CB:
The CB parameter decides if the cell should be cell barred or not.
-The setting of the parameter depends on the cell status, if it is a test cell it should be barred, and if the cell is included in
the cellplan it should not be barred.
-The reason for barring test cells is that we dont want subscribers to use test cells before their quality has been verified.
[2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CBCH:
This parameters decide if Cell Broadcast should be used or not in a cell.
CBCH = YES will replace one of the SDCCH subchannels with CBCH.
-A CBCH can only be configured if the defined TN(s) contains TN 0, 1, 2 and/or 3. [2004-03-02, TIMKRYD]
-CBCH should be set to NO since SMS Cell Broadcast is not used. [2004-03-30, TIMKRYD]
CBCHD:
Defines if CBCH description, that is, PSI8 shall be transferred on the PBCCH or not.
-The default value NO will be used until a test has been performed. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
CBQ:
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-Cell bar qualify. This parameter together with CB, decides if the ms should camp on it or not.
-We should use CBQ=HIGH, because then the MS cannot access if the cell is barred. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
CCHPWR:
Comments: Benny Lennartson, RN-NPOC
CCHPWR is the maximum power an MS can when it access the system. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing CCHPWR=30 is that it is equal to the maximum output power from a class 1 GSM1900 mobile.
[2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CELLQ:
CELLQ defines whether the cell is suitable for RP load sharing.
-HIGH means that this is a cell where minor changes of radio transmission quality are accepted. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing CELLQ=HIGH is to protect having too high processor load. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CHALLOC:
This parameter determines if the BCCH should be used first, last or with no preference.
-In this network we use the BCCH-first principle in the beginning. Maybe if BCCH in OL subcell is used, then we could
change to BCCH last. [2002-02-01,TIMBLE]
-The reason for using BCCH first is that we want to transmit as little as possible on the non-BCCH frequencies in order to
reduce the interference. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CHAP:
-CHAP=8 will work fine with all possible combinations of BCCH in UL or OL and SDCCHs defined in the UL only, OL only
or in both subcells. It is strongly recommended to use CHAP=8 for ALL cells in the network since this setting is 100%
safe. Using CHAP=5 could give problems, for instance if SDCCHs are defined in the OL subcell and SCLD=ON.
CHCODING:
-Value 2 means that CS-1 and CS-2 coding schemes are supported. Core should be responsible for this parameter.
[2001-09-21,TIMBLE]
CHCSDL:
CHCSDL defines the initial coding scheme that will be used for the downlink and should be set to CS4. [2005-09-10,
QRYDKEN]
CHGR:
This parameter depends if the cell is a one or a two TRU cell. In two TRU cells there will be two channel groups, CHGR0
and CHGR 1. [2002-02-06, TIMBLE]
-We might use three channel groups later on in cells with more than two TRUs. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CHGRSTATE:
-Please notice that the name of the parameter in the BSC is STATE and is used for either cell or channel group. Cells
and channel groups need to be active in order to carry traffic. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CICCODING:
Circuit identification code coding method. CICCODING indicates how the BSC handles the Circuit Identification Code
(CIC) on the A-interface for T1 systems.
CLMRKMSG:
CLMRKMSG suppresses or delays the sending of frequency and power capability of a multiband MS from the BSC to the
MSC. The parameter can take the values between 0 and 3, where the different settings mean:
0: the sending is neither suppressed nor delayed
1: the sending is suppressed in all situations
2: the sending is delayed until an inter-BSC handover
3: CM3 sent at call set-up is not suppressed but CM3 sent at location updating is suppressed except when an inter -BSC
handover during location updating is performed. This is a BSC exchange property.
-As suggested in Multiband operation, use CLMRKMSG=0. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
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CLSACC:
CLSACC defines a percentage of idle TCHs, at or below which no handovers due to cell load sharing are accepted.
-These parameters have to be changed depending if the cell is high load cell, the cell that is offloading, or if it is a low
load cell, the cell that is receiving all the traffic. [2002-02-07,TIMBLE]
-The recommended value for CLSACC is also the default value. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CLSLEVEL:
CLSLEVEL defines a percentage of idle TCHs, at or below which the ranking recalculations are started. The parameter is
defined as a percentage of the total number of available TCHs in the cell. It is defined per cell.
-These parameters have to be changed depending if the cell is high load cell, the cell that is offloading, or if it is a low
load cell, the cell that is receiving all the traffic. [2002-02-07,TIMBLE]
-The recommended value for CLSLEVEL is also the default value. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CLSRAMP:
CLSRAMP is the parameter, which defines the time interval during which the hysteresis is ramped down from the full
hysteresis to the final value.
-CLSRAMP=8 is the recommended value from guideline. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
CLSSTATE:
Cell Load Sharing. That is sharing the traffic load between different cells.
-This will be inactive in as the recommended setting. If there is some congestion, then this could be turned on. [2002-0201, TIMBLE]
- CLSSTATE should be set to ACTIVE in order to decrease the TCH congestion. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
CLSTIMEINTERVAL:
CLSTIMEINTERVAL is a BSC exchange property. It defines the cycle time of the load monitoring. It is defined per BSC.
-The setting CLSTIMEINT=100, is the recommended value from guideline. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
CMDR:
This is the maximum channel data rate in the cell.
CMDR=144, means that we allow 14.4 kb/s in the cell. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
COEXUMTS:
BSC exchange property for support of co-existence of GSM and UMTS. Should be set to 0 since Telcel do not have
UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
COEXUMTSTINT:
Time interval between traffic load checking when there is co-existence of GSM and UMTS. The value of this parameter is
of no importance since Telcel do not have UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
COMB:
COMB specifies which combiner type that has been connected, a wide-band hybrid combiner (COMB = HYB) or a
narrow-band filter combiner (COMB = FLT).
It is defined per transceiver group.
-In this network this parameter should be HYB. [2002-02-19, TIMBLE]
CONCBOARDALARM:
Alarm limit for concentrator overload supervision. This exchange property indicates the alarm limit in percent for
concentrator overload supervision. The alarm limits must be at least 10% greater than the corresponding cease limits
given by exchange property CONCBOARDCEASE.
CONCBOARDCEASE:
Limit for ceasing of concentrator overload supervision alarm. This exchange property indicates the limit in percent for
ceasing of concentrator overload supervision alarm. The alarm limits given by the exchange property
CONCBOARDALARM must be at least 10% greater than the corresponding cease limits.
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CONCLINKALARM:
Alarm limit for concentrator link supervision. This exchange property indicates the alarm limit in percent for concentrator
link supervision. The alarm limits must be at least 10% greater than the corresponding cease limits given by exchange
property CONCLINKCEASE.
CONCLINKCEASE:
Limit for ceasing of concentrator link supervision alarm. This exchange property indicates the limit in percent for ceasing
of concentrator link supervision alarm. The alarm limits given by exchange property CONCLINKALARM must be at least
10% greater than the corresponding cease limits.
CRH:
CRH is used in order to avoid ping pong effect in cell reselection in cells along location area borders.
-The setting CRH=4 is the recommended value from guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
-The recommended value for CRH has been increased from 4 to 8 dB in order to limit the SDCCH traffic due to location
area update. [2005-09-01, QRYDKEN]
CRO:
Cell reselection offset.
-Should not be changed when optimizing. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
-Normally CRO is not changed since the MS should camp on the strongest cell. It can be changed in certain cases
though, like when HCS is used for instance. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
CRT:
CRT is used to specify the channel rate and type preference for each Radio Channel Requirement that can be received
from the MS. The parameter is set for the teleservices Telephony, Auxiliary telephony and Emergency call.
CS:
This parameter indicates if the neighbor is co-sited or not. CS is a neighbor relation parameter. This parameter affects
the OL/UL handover criteria.
-This should be set to CS=YES for cells that are co-sited. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
CSYSTYPE:
In single band cells CSYSTYPE specifies the system type for the cell. In multi band cells it specifies the frequency band
used for the BCCH. The parameter CSYSTYPE is mandatory if the global system type is MIXED. If the global system
type is other that MIXED, CSYSTYPE is optional and will be accepted only if the parameter value is set to the same as
the global system type. If CSYSTYPE is omitted, it will automatically be set to the value of the global system type.
CTYPE:
This is to define cell as internal or external in the BSC.
-CTYPE is different depending on if it is internal or external. [2002-02-01, TIMBLE]
DBPSTATE:
-DBPSTATE=ACTIVE, activates dynamic BTS power control.
-The reason for choosing to use dynamic BTS power control is that we want to reduce the interference in the network on
the downlink. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
DCAHANDOVER:
This parameter indicates if DCA should be applied at intra BSC inter cell handover. When ON, DCA is applied according
to the stored priority levels.
-DCA and DCAHANDOVER might be activated later on but for the time being it should be turned off. This is a BSC
exchange property. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
DCASTATE:
Activates or deactivates Differential Channel Allocation, DCA. This parameter is set on a BSC basis, but it is not a BSC
exchange property.
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-This feature will be activated later therefore the DCASTATE=OFF. [2002-02-06,TIMBLE]

DEFAULTSYNCSRC:
Synchronization source. DEFAULTSYNCSRC gives the default Timing Function synchronization source for the BTS.
65535 Synchronization source not controlled by the BSC, the setting will be made during BTS installation.
0 Synchronized from the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) transport network
1 Internal oscillator using external calibration
2 Selects internal oscillator using internal calibration
DHA:
DHA is used to turn the feature Dynamic Half Rate Allocation ON or OFF. The parameter is set per cell.
DLDELAY:
Defines the time to keep a downlink TBF alive after the last downlink RLC data block with real data is sent.
DMPSTATE:
The Dynamic MS power control state.
-MS Power Control should be activate, therefore DMPSTATE=ACTIVE. This is to reduce the interference in the network
on the uplink. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
DMQB:
Defines if the Dynamic Half Rate (HR) to Full Rate (FR) Mode Adaptation due to bad quality is active (ON) or inactive
(OFF).
DMQBAMR:
Channel quality threshold for Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) capable mobiles using a HR traffic channel. It determines when
a change from HR to FR is initiated for Dual Rate mobiles capable of AMR.
DMQBNAMR:
Channel quality threshold for mobiles not capable of AMR using a HR traffic channel. It determines when a change from
HR to FR is initiated for Dual Rate mobiles not capable of AMR.
DMQG:
Defines the if the Dynamic Full Rate (FR) to Half Rate (FR) Mode Adaptation quality evaluation is active (ON) or inactive
(OFF).
DMQGAMR:
Channel quality threshold for Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) capable mobiles using a FR traffic channel. It determines when
a change from FR to HR is allowed for Dual Rate mobiles capable of AMR.
DMQGNAMR:
Channel quality threshold for mobiles not capable of AMR using a FR traffic channel. It determines when a change from
FR to HR is allowed for Dual Rate mobiles not capable of AMR.
DMSUPP:
DMSUPP is the parameter controlling the activation of DYMA. It is set per cell.
DMTHAMR:
Dynamic FR to HR Mode Adaptation threshold for AMR capable mobile.
It indicates a percentage value of the number of deblocked FR traffic channels in the cell when Dynamic FR to HR Mode
Adaptation is enabled and the mobile supports AMR HR and when the number of idle FR traffic channels in the cell is
below the value Dynamic FR to HR Mode Adaptation will be initiated.
DMTHNAMR:
Dynamic FR to HR Mode Adaptation threshold for mobiles not capable of AMR.
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It indicates a percentage value of number of deblocked Full Rate traffic channels in the cell when Dynamic FR to HR
Mode Adaptation is enabled and the mobile does not support AMR HR and when the number of idle FR traffic channels
in the cell is below the value Dynamic FR to HR Mode Adaptation will be initiated.
DTCB:
Distance to cell border threshold. It defines the OL subcell coverage border in terms of the signal strength difference
between the active channel and the strongest neighbouring BCCHs.
DTCBHYST:
Hysteresis for the DTCB criterion during evaluations for the OL subcell coverage.
DTCBSC:
Defines if the DTCB criterion is taken into consideration during subcell changes (1) or not (0).
DTHAMR:
DTHAMR is the threshold parameter for AMR HR capable MS:s at channel allocation above which an AMR MS will be
allocated on a HR channel. The parameter expresses the ratio between idle and de-blocked TCH:s in percent and is set
per cell. This parameter replaces the R9.1 parameter CELLOAD for AMR mobiles.
DTHNAMR:
DTHNAMR is the threshold parameter for non AMR HR but DR capable MS:s at channel allocation above which a DR
capable MS will be allocated on a HR channel. The parameter expresses the ratio between idle and de-blocked TCH:s in
percent and is set per cell. This parameter replaces the R9.1 parameter CELLOAD for non-AMR mobiles.
DTXD:
DTXD is the downlink parameter and states whether discontinuous transmission is enabled or not in the cell.
-This feature should be activated, therefore the parameter setting should be DTXD=ON. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
-The reason for using DTX on the downlink is to reduce the interference in the network on the downlink. [2003-03-31,
TIMKRYD]
DTXFUL:
This parameter defines the number of measurement periods before the full set of measurements are used.
-This parameter is of minor impact. DTXUL=5, as default, should be used. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
DTXU:
DTXU is the Uplink parameter and states whether discontinuous transmission is enabled or not in the cell on the uplink.
-DTXU = 0 means that the MS may use DTX on the uplink.
-DTXU = 1 means that the MS shall use DTX on the uplink.
-DTXU = 2 means that the MS must not use DTX on the uplink.
-We use DTXU = 2 since it improves the SQI (Speech Quality Index). [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
DYNULDLACT:
Activates (1) and deactivates (0) the Dynamic downlink/uplink PDCH reservation.
ECSC:
Early classmark sending control
This parameter indicates if an MS in the cell is allowed to use early classmark sending. NO = Early sending is not
allowed. YES = Early sending is allowed. [2002-02-12,TIMBLE]
-We are using ECSC=YES so that the MS capability is known. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
EITHIGHCS:
EITHIGHCS defines the highest possible coding scheme that can be chosen when data is transferred over EIT TBF.
-The default value 2 will be used until a test has been performed. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
EITSCHEDFREQH:
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EITSCHEDFREQH is used to define the time between two consecutive USFs or RRBPs scheduled for an MS over EIT
Streaming TBF when the TBF is in inactive mode, e.g. no real data is sent or received. This scheduling frequency is used
when MSEITRESPTIME is running.
EITSCHEDFREQL:
EITSCHEDFREQL is used to define the time between two consecutive USFs or RRBPs scheduled for an MS over EIT
Streaming TBF when the TBF is in inactive mode, e.g. no real data is sent or received. This scheduling frequency is used
when TEITPENDING is still running but MSEITRESPTIME is already expired.
EMERGPRL:
Priority level for emergency calls.
-Emergency calls should have the highest priority; therefore EMERGPRL is set to 1. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
EMLPP:
Enhanced multi-level precedence and pre-emption level.
A Highest level
B Second-highest level
0 Third-highest level
1 Forth-highest level
2 Fifth-highest level
3 Sixth-highest level
4 Lowest level
EPDCHBR:
Defines the minimum estimated bitrate per E-PDCH in cell used for transfer of the traffic class Streaming.
EBANDINCLUDED:
It is a switch to include or exclude E-GSM band channels in the evaluation of GSM 900 cells.
-This is not applicable in this GSM 1900 network. [2002-02-12, TIMBLE]
ESDELAY:
Defines the time to keep an early set-up downlink TBF alive after it has been set-up.
EVALTYPE:
There are two algorithms available for basic ranking: Ericsson1 and Ericsson3. They are selected by setting parameter
EVALTYPE to 1 and 3 respectively.
-Recommended value for EVALTYPE is 3 but it has only been implemented in region 6 and 9. All other regions are still
th
using locating algorithm 1 (all BSCs were checked on September 24 2003). See Ref. [5] for more details about the test
when locating algorithm was changed in TOBSC1. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
EXCHGR:
Channel group(s) in which Adaptive Configuration of Logical Channels (ACLC) function is not allowed to add SDCCH/8.
0 or no value in the RLACP command means that ALCL is allowed to add SDCCH/8 in this channel group.
1 means that ACLC is not allowed to add SDCCH/8 in this channel group.
EXTPEN:
Parameter EXTPEN is used for external neighboring cells, and can be used to indicate whether the cause value can be
received and correctly interpreted by the BSC controlling that cell.
-This parameter should be set to ON. Only at external BSCs from other vendors, then this should be off. [2002-02-13,
TIMBLE]
-We are only using Ericsson BSCs, therefore EXTPEN should be set to ON. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
FASTASSIGN:
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FASTASSIGN specifies if Locating shall wait until reception of the first measurement results before sending the
requested candidate list. If the parameter FASTASSIGN is set to 1 the BSC will not wait for any measurement results
before it assigns a TCH. This will improve the call set-up time but also disable Assignment to Other Cell.
-Assignment to Other Cell is used in Telcels GSM network; hence FASTASSIGN should be set to 0. [2003-04-01,
TIMKRYD]
FASTMSREG:
Handling of fast-moving mobiles switch.
ON: Handling of fast-moving mobiles switched on. OFF: Handling of fast-moving mobiles switched off.
-The feature Handling of fast-moving mobiles is not used in Telcels GSM network since there is no area with many outdoor micro cells overlapping each other. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
FBCHALLOC:
FBCHALLOC makes possible to determine if channels on BCCH frequency band shall be selected first, last or if there is
no preference at channel allocation:
0 No selection preference.
1 Select channels in BCCH frequency, band/subband first
2 Select channels in BCCH frequency, band/subband last.
Note that FBCHALLOC does not influence the channel allocation for GPRS/EGPRS. FBCHALLOC is only influencing the
channel allocation within a subcell, i.e. it is set to define the prefered frequency band when a subcell contains both
GSM800 and GSM900.
FBOFFS:
Defines the difference in pathloss between the BCCH frequency band group and the non-BCCH frequency band group.
Positive values are used when the BCCH frequency band group is assumed to offer "better" coverage than the nonBCCH frequency band group.
FCMAXNOPTGLG01:
Maximum number of parallel Transceiver Group (TG) loads the operator allows at Function Change in logical model G01.
The default value defines that no limit is set by the exchange property regarding number of parallel TG loads involved in
a function change. Any other value within the value range indicates maximum number of parallel TG loads allowed at
Function Change in logical model G01.
FCMAXNOPTGLG12:
Maximum number of parallel Transceiver Group (TG) loads the operator allows at Function Change in logical model G12.
The default value defines that no limit is set by the exchange property regarding number of parallel TG loads involved in
a function change. Any other value within the value range indicates maximum number of parallel TG loads allowed at
FCMAXNOPTGUG12:
Maximum number of parallel TG upgrades the operator allows at Function Change in logical model G12. The default
value defines that no limit is set by the exchange property regarding number of parallel TG upgrades involved in a
function change. Any other value within the value range indicates maximum number of parallel TG upgrades allowed at
FDDARFCN:
Absolute RF channel number of an external UTRAN cell. This parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS.
[2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
FDDMRR:
FDDMRR defines how many measured neighboring UTRAN cells should be included in measurement reports. The
remaining positions in measurement reports will be used for reporting GSM cells according to the parameter MBCR. This
parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
FDDQMIN:
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Minimum FDD quality. FDDQMIN defines the minimum threshold for the "quality" measure Ec/No for cell reselection to
UTRAN cells.
0 -20 dB
1 -6 dB
2 -18 dB
3 -8 dB
4 -16 dB
5 -10 dB
6 -14 dB
7 -12 dB
FDDQOFF:
FDD quality offset. FDDQOFF defines the inter-system cell reselection offset to UTRAN cells.
0 -infinite, always select UTRAN FDD cell if acceptable
1 -28 dB
2 -24 dB
...
15 +28 dB.
FHOP:
FHOP selects which hopping method to be used, baseband hopping (FHOP = BB) or synthesizer hopping (FHOP = SY).
It is defined per transceiver group.
-In this network this parameter is to be SY. [2002-02-19, TIMBLE]
-The reason for choosing SY hopping is due to the limited frequency spectrum available. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
FLEX64KGPRS:
FLEX64KGPRS is used to indicate whether to allocate 64 kbps or 16 kbps Abis path for GPRS MSs.
FNOFFSET:
Frame Number Offset. Indicates the time difference from the FN generator in the BTS.
To prevent that all cells on a site send BCCH channels at the same time it is possible to define a deviation with respect to
the FN generator called FNOFFSET. By using FNOFFSET on a synchronized two or three sector site the time for
decoding BSIC can be reduced.
-A test to try different values than 0 for B- and C-sectors will be conducted in the near future. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
FPDCH:
-This command enables fixed GPRS channels in the cell. If the cell is active, but GPRS support is not activated for the
cell, TCHs will be allocated and activated as fixed PDCHs when GPRS support is activated.[2001-09-20, TIMBLE]
- Therefore we set the parameters as soon as possible. [2001-09-20, TIMBLE]
- We will use one dedicated GPRS channel in all cells, both 1 and 2 TRU cells. Then we will monitor the congestion on
CS. If CS is congested, we change to only on-demand in the cell. [2001-09-20, TIMBLE]
-The recommended value for FPDCH has been changed from 1 to depends on the cell GPRS traffic. The number of
FPDCHs needed for different cells varies and should therefore be dimensioned on a cell basis. [2005-09-01, QRYDKEN]
FSOFFSET:
Frame Start Offset states if the transmitted TDMA frames should be synchronized to the nominal position with a defined
offset or not synchronized to the nominal position.
OFF = No frame start offset relative the nominal position of transmitted TDMA frames
Other = A defined frame start offset of the transmitted TDMA frames relative to the BSC Frame Start Offset adjusted
nominal position
GAMMA:
Comments: Masood Marofkhani RN-NPOC:
The parameter Gamma is calculated according to the formula: GAMMA = gamma0-(1-ALPHA)Pmax-ALPHA*(Pbts +
SSdes + 48). As it can be seen from the formula, the value of GAMMA depends on which SStarget we want to use for
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the feature and SStarget defines the regulation area. So what value we want to use is dependent on the expected level
of interference and how much we want to down regulate.
MS power control for CS is based both on RXLEV and RXQUAL. This means that at a high received signal strength at
the BTS, the MS power will be down regulated.
If RXQUAL goes above a certain threshold, the degradation of the quality will be compensated by increasing the MS
power. This gives a protection against bad quality so that we can with a reasonable parameter setting achieve a stabile
behaviour of the feature. GPRS power control uses only RXLEV and no consideration is taken to RXQUAL or BLER.
This means that the setting for SStarget for GPRS should be much more conservative compared to MS power control for
CS since there is no quality compensation in-build in the algorithm. A reasonable initial value for this parameter should
be between 14 and 18 resulting in an SStarget between 70 and 80 dBm. The parameter needs however to be tuned
and optimized.
GPDCHBR:
Defines the minimum estimated bitrate per G-PDCH in cell used for transfer of the traffic class Streaming.
GPRSEDAACT:
GPRSEDAACT indicates whether a support for GPRS Extended Dynamic Allocation is allowed or not.
GPRSNWMODE:
-This parameter I would like GPRS core to be responsible for. [2001-09-21, TIMBLE]
-This parameter could have 4 possibilities. However we do not have the GS interface in the current GPRS network, so
we don to have the option of a master PDCH. Therefore the recommended value for GPRSNWMODE is 2. [2003-03-04,
TIMUZF]
GPRSPRIO:
Comments: Kenneth Rydn, RN-NPOC [2004-02-25, TIMKRYD]:
GPRSPRIO has been changed in R10 compared to R9.1. GPRSPRIO still consists of 6 bits, A (least significant) to F
(most significant) but the new thing in R10 is that bit D and E no longer has any importance. Bits A, B, C and F are used
to set how the allocated on-demand PDCH will be counted as idle (=0) or busy (=1) for the features mentioned below.
BIT A: Dynamic HR Allocation / HR Packing / Dynamic FR/HR Mode Adaptation
BIT B: Cell Load Sharing
BIT C: Subcell Load Distribution
BIT F: GSM-UMTS Handover
The recommended value for GPRSPRIO has been changed from 0 to 15 in order to give higher prioritization to GPRS
compared to voice since the introduction of PTT (Push To Talk) has increased the need of available timeslots for GPRS.
GPRSSUP:
Activates GPRS support in a cell. Should be set to ON in all cells that are supposed to support GPRS.
GPRSVALID:
Defines if the neighbor relation is valid for GPRS/EGPRS traffic for cells with defined PBCCH:
YES = GPRS/EGPRS cell reselections are allowed
NO = GPRS/EGPRS cell reselections are not allowed
GSYSTYPE:
Specifies the system type for the BSC. Defining the parameter CSYSTYPE is mandatory if the global system type is
MIXED.
-GSYSTYPE should be set to MIXED in order to be prepared for using GSM800 later on. [2005-09-02, QRYDKEN]
GTDM:
GTDM is the guard time for implicit detach. It is an MSC parameter.
-We recommend this to be set to 6 min. [2002-02-13, TIMBLE]
HALFRATESUPP:
The parameter is used to indicate if the BSC supports half rate channels. If the parameter value is changed, the channels
will only be affected if they are created or when they are re-configured at a restart.
0 = Half rate channels supported by the BSC. [2003-03-27, TIMKRYD]
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-We might have to use half rate in order to cope with some TCH congestion, therefore it is recommended to set
HALFRATESUPP=0. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
HCSBAND:
The parameter defines which HCS band each cell belongs to. This parameter will be useful for the future multi band
scenarios where different bands are available in the network. At the present, there is no need for defining more than one
band in the network.
HCSBANDHYST:
The parameter is used as a signal strength hysteresis for the HCSBAND threshold.
-HCSBANDHYST = 2 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
HCSBANDTHR:
Comments: Masood Marofkhani, RN-NPOC: The signal strength threshold prioritizes cells within a HCSBAND. The
default value for the parameter is 95.
HIHYST:
The parameter is only valid for Ericsson3 locating algorithm. In Ericsson3, there is a possibility to define 2 hysteresis
values, one for the cells with high SS and one for the cells with low SS. HIHYST is the hysteresis parameter applied for
cells with high SS. The default value is 5 dB.
HNDBEFOREBANSWM:
Handover before B-answer. The parameter indicates if an inter-MSC handover is allowed on traffic channels before
answer from B-subscriber.
0 Not allowed.
1 Handover allowed.
-The reason why we allow inter-MSC HO on TCH before answer from B-subscriber is that we want to make sure that we
are allowed to be on the best cell. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
HNDRELCHINTRAM:
Channel release in intra-MSC inter-BSC handover. HNDRELCHINTRAM defines the release of the original channel after
expiration of the timer TIMHNDCMDINTRAM for handover time supervision in intra-MSC inter-BSC handover.
0 The handover signaling is terminated and the call continue on the original channel.
1 The original channel is released.
The default value for the parameter is 1.
HNDSDCCHM:
Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover on signaling channels. HNDSDCCHM determines if intra-MSC inter-BSC handover is
allowed on signalling channels:
0 Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover is not allowed on signalling channels.
1 Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover is allowed on signalling channels.
-We are currently not using HO on SDCCH at all since SCHO is set to OFF, but HNDSDCCHM is still set to 1 as a
preparation if we decide to use SCHO=ON later on. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
HNDSDCCHINTI:
The parameter determines if incoming inter-MSC handover is allowed on signalling channels in non-anchor MSC. The
parameter is only valid if the inter-MSC handover dialogue has been established with MAP version 2 by the anchor MSC.
The default value for the parameter is 1.
-We are currently not using HO on SDCCH at all since SCHO is set to OFF, but HNDSDCCHINTI is still set to 1 as a
HNDSDCCHINTOM:
Outgoing inter-MSC handover on signalling channels in anchor MSC. HNDSDCCHINTOM determines if outgoing interMSC handover is allowed on signalling channels in anchor MSC. The parameter is only valid if the inter-MSC
handover dialogue is established with MAP version 2.
0 Outgoing inter-MSC handover is not allowed on signalling channels.
1 Outgoing inter-MSC handover is allowed on signalling channels.
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-We are currently not using HO on SDCCH at all since SCHO is set to OFF, but HNDSDCCHINTOM is still set to 1 as a
HNDSDCCHTCHM:
Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover from signalling to traffic channel. HNDSDCCHTCHM determines if intra-MSC inter-BSC
handover is allowed from signalling to traffic channel:
0 Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover is not allowed from signalling to traffic channel.
1 Intra-MSC inter-BSC handover is allowed from signalling to traffic channel.
-We are currently not using HO on SDCCH at all since SCHO is set to OFF, but HNDSDCCHTCH is still set to 1 as a
HNDTGSOPINTRA:
The parameter initiates time supervision of switching moment of the group switch (GS) in the MSC at intra-MSC interBSC handover.
The default value for the parameter is 80 seconds.
-We should use the Ericsson recommended value HNDTGSOPINTRA = 0. [2003-05-19, TIMKRYD]
HOCLSACC:
HOCLSACC is a switch to enable and disable incoming handover due to load sharing. This gives a possibility to have
one-way load sharing handover traffic in a specific cell. It is defined per cell. [2002-02-12, TIMBLE]
- HOCLSACC should be set to ON to accept incoming HO due to CLS. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
HOP:
HOP is the switch for turning frequency hopping on or off, defined per channel group. HOP defines whether all channels
except the broadcast channels hop (HOP = ON) or no channels at all hop (HOP = OFF).
-HOP should be set to ON for CHGR 1 on 2 TRU cells. [2002-02-13, TIMBLE]
-Please notice that the option of HOP=TCH does not longer exist in R10. [2004-03-02, TIMKRYD]
HPBSTATE:
Handover Power Boost State.
ACTIVE = Handover power boost active. INACTIVE = Handover power boost inactive.
If the feature Handover Power Boost is activated, the originating BTS and the MS are ordered to transmit with maximum
allowed power during the handover.
HSCSDUPGTIMER:
This is a BSC exchange property. HSCSDUPGTIMER (High Speed Circuit Switched Data Upgrade Timer) is used to set
the time interval for which the queue with multi-slot connections that are tried to be upgraded, are checked. The unit is
seconds.
-Here we will use the default value that is 5 seconds. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
HSN:
HSN is the hopping sequence number, defined per channel group. This parameter specifies which hopping sequence to
be used.
-This information is provided by cell planning together with the new frequency plan. [2002-02-12, TIMBLE]
HYST:
Hysteresis for changing the AMR codec mode:
0 = 0 dB
1 = 0.5 dB
2 = 1 dB
15 = 7.5 dB
HYSTSEP:
The parameter is used only in Ericsson3 locating and determines the border between high SS cells and low SS cells.
The default value is 90 dBm.
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-HYSTSEP was changed to 0 when locating algorithm was changed from 1 to 3; see Ref. [5] for more details. [2003-0924, TIMKRYD]
IBHOASS:
The parameter indicates if assignment to cells belonging to another BSC is allowed.
-IBHOASS = ON is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
IBHOSICH:
The parameter indicates if inter BSC handover on signaling channel is available.
-We are currently not using HO on SDCCH at all since SCHO=OFF. This means that it doesnt matter what IBHOSICH is
set to, but IBHOSICH should be set to ON in case we want to use SCHO=ON later on. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
ICMSTATE:
ICMSTATE = ACTIVE means that result of Idle Channel Measurement can be used both for statistical purpose and for
channel allocation.
-We want to use ICM for both channel activation and statistical purpose. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
IHO:
IHO = ON means that the feature Intra Cell Handover is allowed.
-IHO = ON is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
IHOSICH:
IHOSICH defines if intra-cell handover on signalling channel is allowed.
IHOSICH = OFF is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
INAC:
Percentage of deblocked channels that are inaccessible for the PRL at differential channel allocation.
-We are not using Differential Channel Allocation; hence it is of no importance what INAC is set to. It should be set to 0
for all cells though in case we want to use DCA later on. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
INITTCH:
INITTCH indicates the maximum number of TCHs to configure in channel group 0 during the initial configuration phase.
Initial configuration phase is made to set up signalling channels and a determined number of TCHs in channel group 0 in
all cells first and then expand the cells with more TCHs later.
INTAVE:
INTAVE defines the number of measurements that should be used in the calculation of the interference band for a
channel.
-Default is 6. [2001-09-20, TIMBLE]
-Recommended parameter value is 25, from the R8 UDs. [2001-10-04]
IRC:
Activates (ON) or deactivates (OFF) the feature Interference Rejection Combining (IRC).
ISHOLEV:
ISHOLEV defines the traffic load threshold of the serving GSM cell that needs to be exceeded in order to evaluate UMTS
measurements for handover. This parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
KHYST:
Signal strength hysteresis when evaluating K-cells. KHYST is the hysteresis for cell borders defined by the signal
strength criterion. It is defined as a cell to cell relation. i.e. in each cell it can be defined individually for each neighbor that
has been defined for that cell. KHYST is a symmetrical relation parameter, i.e. the same value applies for both directions
of the cell to cell relation. Note: KHYST is only valid for the Ericsson1 locating algorithm.
-KHYST = 3 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
KOFFSET:
Signal strength offset when evaluating K-cells. An offset value is a certain amount of dB by which the path loss
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or the signal strength can be adjusted in order to push the cell border towards or away from the serving BTS.
As the BSC does not accept negative parameters each offset parameter is implemented as two different parameters. For
instance, in the case of KOFFSET, the BSC parameters are called KOFFSETP (zero or positive value) and KOFFSETN
(negative value). The same goes for LOFFSET and TROFFSET.
Note: KOFFSET is only valid for the Ericsson1 locating algorithm.
-KOFFSET = 0 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LA:
LA activates and de-activates the feature GPRS Link Adaptation.
LATAUSED:
Defines the usage of LATA administration.
0 = LATA administration is not used.
1 = LATA administration is used. The parameter is optional and is only defined for Ericsson MSCs.
- LATA is not used, hence LATAUSED should be set to 0. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LAYER:
Cell layer, i.e. the priority of the cell.
-We are using layer 1 for micro cells and layer 2 for macro cells since we want to control the amount of traffic served by
the micro cells. This is handled by tuning the parameter LAYERTHR. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LAYERHYST:
Layer hysteresis.
The signal strength hysteresis is used for ranking cells in different layers within each HCSBAND.
-LAYERHYST = 2 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LAYERTHR:
-LAYERTHR is changed from 150 to 80 for macro (layer 2) cells in order to make it possible to use layer 3 cells if needed
later on. By changing LAYERTHR to the same value for all layer 2 cells we will not change the traffic behavior between
the layer 2 cells. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
LCOMPDL:
Path loss compensator factor for the downlink. When set to zero there is no power control towards SSDESDL.
-The parameters for BTS Power Control will be tuned in a test later on. For the time being the recommended value of 5
from the guideline is used. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LCOMPUL:
Path loss compensator factor for the uplink. When set to zero, no power control towards SSDESUL or SSDESULAFR is
performed.
LHYST:
Path loss hysteresis when evaluating L-cells.
-No cells are L-ranked since all cells have MSRXSUFF set to 0. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LIMIT1-4:
This parameter defines threshold limits for five different interference bands. The limits must be defined in ascending
order according to the following: LIMIT1 < LIMIT2 < LIMIT3 < LIMIT4.
-We are using slightly different values than the default values to make it easier to determine the severity of the uplink
interference. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LINKCHECKTIME:
Timer for stability check of links. This property specifies the time period until the Operation & Maintenance Link (OML) is
considered as stable. During this stability check time, the information frames are discarded. The time is given in seconds.
LOFFSET:
Path loss offset when evaluating L-cells. Note: LOFFSET is only valid for the Ericsson1 locating algorithm.
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-No cells are L-ranked since all cells have MSRXSUFF set to 0. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LOHYST:
The parameter is only valid for Ericsson3 locating algorithm. In Ericsson3, there is a possibility to define 2 hysteresis
values, one for the cells with high SS and one for the cells with low SS. LOHYST is the hysteresis parameter applied for
cells with low SS. The default value is 3 dB.
-We are currently not using locating algorithm 3 but LOHYST is set to 3 dB as a preparation in the event that we will
change to algorithm 3 later on. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
LOL:
LOL is the path loss threshold for the serving area of the OL subcell within a cell.
-LOL=150 means that all calls that have a path loss less that 150 will be allowed onto the OL subcell. Whether the
mobiles will go to the OL subcell or not depends if SCLD=ON or OFF and the traffic load in the UL subcell. [2002-02-12,
TIMBLE]
-We dont want to limit the maximum size of our overlaid subcells, therefore LOL is set to 150. The feature Dynamic
overlaid/underlaid subcells will distribute the traffic between the subcells. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
LOLHYST:
This is the hysteresis corresponding to LOL parameter.
-LOLHYST = 2 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
LOWSSDL:
Low signal strength limit for urgency condition, downlink. This parameter is used for statistical reasons only and does not
influence the locating process.
-LOWSSDL = -102 dBm which means that dropped calls below this level are considered to be dropped due to low SS on
the downlink (as long as TA urgency is not triggered). [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LOWSSUL:
Low signal strength limit for urgency condition, uplink. This parameter is used for statistical reasons only and does not
influence the locating process.
-LOWSSUL = -108 dBm which means that dropped calls below this level are considered to be dropped due to low SS on
the uplink (as long as TA urgency is not triggered). [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
LQCACT:
LQCACT controls the feature Link Quality Control in Enhanced GPRS.
0 OFF for both uplink and downlink
1 ON for downlink, OFF for uplink
2 OFF for downlink, ON for uplink
3 ON for both uplink and downlink
LQCDEFAULTMCSDL:
LQCDEFAULTMCSDL defines which MCS shall be used in the downlink when Link Quality Control is switched off.
GPRS expert Martin Skarve recommends to set LQCDEFAULTMCSDL = 5. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
LQCDEFAULTMCSUL:
LQCDEFAULTMCSUL defines which MCS shall be used in the uplink when Link Quality Control is switched off.
LQCHIGHMCS:
LQCHIGHMCS defines the maximum MCS that is supported. GPRS expert Martin Skarve recommends to set
LQCHIGHMCS = 9. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
LQCIR:
LQCIR specifies whether LQC is running in IR (1) or LA (0) mode, for Acknowledged Mode TBFs. It is recommended by
GPRS expert Martin Skarve to use LQCIR = 1. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
LQCUNACK:
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Used to shift the selection of MCS to a more robust one when Link Quality Control is running in LA mode and RLC
Unacknowledged Mode is used by the TBF. GPRS expert Martin Skarve recommends to use LQCUNACK=1. [2003-0924, TIMKRYD]
LSSTATE:
-LSSTATE is changed from OFF to ON in order to active Cell Load Sharing. The reason for activating Cell Load Sharing
is to decrease the TCH congestion. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
MAIO:
MAIO This parameter allows operators to specify a MAIO list of, up to 16 MAIO values, in the order of allocation, to a
channel group or specify the channel group to use default MAIO list (MAIO = DEFAULT). All defined MAIO must be
unique in the MAIO list. It is defined per channel group.
-The MAIO allocation should be the following:
Sector A, MAIO = 0.
Sector B, MAIO = 2.
Sector C, MAIO = 4.
This is the MAIO allocation need for FLP 1/1 with at least 6 hopping frequencies.[2002-02-19, TIMBLE]
-If there is more than two TRUs in a cell, the MAIO list needs to be changed for CHGR 1. [2002-02-19, TIMBLE]
The recommended value for MAIO has been removed since the frequency allocation varies between the regions and
cities after the new spectrum has been added. Some cities use 1/1 and others use 1/3. The values for MAIO should be
set differently depending whether 1/1 or 1/3 is used. Blocked or staggered TCHs also make a difference for MAIO. [200311-26, TIMKRYD]
MAXCHDATARATE:
This indicates the maximum channel data rate allowed in the BSC. The parameter is set per BSC.
-MAXCHDRATE=144, this means that 14.4 kb/s is allowed. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
MAXIHO:
Maximum number of consecutive intra-cell handovers.
-MAXIHO = 2 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
MAXLAPDM:
MAXLAPDM is used to control the maximum length of the GPRS signaling messages sent on the FACCH.
MAXLOAD:
Maximum Transceiver Handler (TRH) load. This exchange property indicates in percent the maximum allowed TRH load.
MAXNOSDCCHTRX:
MAXNOSDCCHTRX is an exchange property limiting the maximum number of SDCCH/8 per TRX. It can be set between
1 and 4. [2005-08-30, QRYDKEN]
MAXRET:
MAXRET defines maximum number of retransmissions an MS may do when accessing the system on RACH.
-MAXRET = 4 is the default value [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD].
-It is recommended to use MAXRET=2 in areas with high RA fail rate, see Ref. [7] [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
MAXSBLK:
Defines the maximum value that BS_PBCCH_BLKS is allowed to have, that is the maximum number of reserved radio
blocks to be used for the PBCCH.
MAXSMSG:
Defines maximum number of PSI messages that preferably shall be scheduled on one PBCCH block.
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MAXTA:
Maximum timing advance before an MS is considered lost. If the measured timing advance value for an access burst is
equal to or greater than MAXTA, then the connection set-up signalling is terminated by the system.
If the measured and averaged timing advance value for an ongoing call is equal or greater than MAXTA, the call is
released. Note: MAXTA should always be greater than the parameter TALIM. MAXTA is a hard limit compared to TALIM,
which is a soft limit.
-MAXTA = 63 is maximum value for non-extended range cells. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
-MAXTA can be set to values up to 219 for extended range cells, see Ref. [3] for more details. [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
MBCCHNO:
MBCCHNO is the list of BCCH carriers, given as Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Numbers (ARFCNs), of the
neighboring cells (and possibly serving cell) on which the MS shall measure. The parameter is set per cell and type of list
(idle or active).
-The initial strategy is to have all BCCH frequencies in the active BA-list. This is to prevent problems with having
neighbor defined, but missing frequencies. It
is only to simplify the optimization and minimize the number of faults that could happen in the network. [2002-03-19,
TIMBLE]
-When the cellplan and frequency plan is stable, it is recommended to minimize the number of neighbors in the active list
to only be the ones that are defined as neighbors. [2002-03-19, TIMBLE]
-We have only the neighbors BCCHs listed in the active list. All 24 frequencies are included in the idle list. [2003-03-31,
TIMKRYD]
MBCR:
Multi Band Cells Reported. Defines the number of neighbours from each frequency band that shall be reported in the
measurement report.
-We are not using multi band, hence MBCR = 0. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
MBCRAC:
Defines the way that GPRS/EGPRS MS frequency band capabilities are handled:
0 = MS frequency capability is considered when allocating channels for TBF transfers. If not available, only the BCCH
frequency band is available.
1 = All GPRS/EGPRS MSs are assumed to be capable of both frequency bands.
MC:
This parameter tells if the MS is allowed more than one FR TCH channel.
-This parameter should be set to ON. It should be possible to use HSCSD in the cells. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
MCCSUPPORT:
-MCCSUPPORT is included in the parameter recommendation and changed from 0 to 1 in order to support Mobile
Crosstalk Control on the transcoders. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
MFRMS:
Multiframes period. Defines period of transmission for PAGING REQUEST messages to the same paging subgroup.
Together with AGBLK and BCCHTYPE, MFRMS determines the number of paging groups.
-MFRMS = 6 is the default value. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
-Due to high paging load the recommended value for MFRMS has been changed to 3. [2005-05-10, QRYDKEN]
MISSNM:
Maximum number of consecutive missing measurements for a serving cell or neighbouring cell permitted before all old
measurements are considered invalid.
-MISSNM = 3 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
MNCDIGITHAND:
Indicates how the BSC handles MNC.
0: 2-digit MNC administered and sent, all cases.
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1: 3-digit MNC administered & sent on the A-interface & Gb-interface and 2-digit MNC is sent on the air-interface.
2: 3-digit MNC administered and sent, all cases.
-We are using MNCDIGITHAND = 2, i.e. 3-digit MNC. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
MODE: (parameter related to Multiband Operation)
The BSC band operation mode identifier.
MULTI: The BSC multiband operation mode is enabled.
SINGLE: The BSC multiband operation mode is disabled.
MODE: (parameter related to Adaptive Multi Rate):
Codec mode (the bit rate of the coded speech after the speech encoding).
Values for Half Rate:
1 = 4.75 Kbps 2 = 5.15 Kbps 3 = 5.90 Kbps 4 = 6.70 Kbps 5 = 7.40 Kbps
Values for Full rate:
1 = 4.75 Kbps 2 = 5.15 Kbps 3 = 5.90 Kbps 4 = 6.70 Kbps 5 = 7.40 Kbps 6 = 7.95 Kbps 7 = 10.2 Kbps 8 = 12.2 Kbps
MPDCH:
MPDCH decides whether or not a MPDCH shall be allocated. MPDCH can only be allocated if at least one FPDCH exists
and the network operation mode is either 1 or 3 (see GPRSNWMODE).
-The default value NO will be used until a test has been performed. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
MRSL:
MRSL defines the UTRAN cell quality criteria. This parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS. [2003-0924, TIMKRYD]
MSCREL:
MSCREL defines the value of the exchange property MSCR included in System Information Type 3 and Packet System
Information Type 1.
0 MSC Release 98 or older
1 MSC Release 99 onwards
MSEITRESPTIME:
MSEITRESPTIME is used to define the initial sub-period of TEITPENDING. During this time the probability for receiving
data over an EIT Streaming TBF is considered to be high, hence EITSCHEDFREQH is applied.
-MSEITRESPTIME is set to 600 ms in about half of the BSCs today, in the rest of the BSCs it is set to NULL. [2005-0902, QRYDKEN]
MSGDIST:
The parameter indicates which one of the system information messages will be distributed. The default parameter setting
is used in this network.
The default is that the system information message type 1 should be switched on and system information message types
7 and 8 should be switched off.
MSLOT:
MSLOT is used to indicate whether a given MSC supports multi-slot configurations and, if so, the maximum number of
traffic channels (mTCH) per call for this specific MSC.
-Can be set from 0 to 4, should be set to 4 in all MSCs.
-We want to use the maximum TS available for multi-slot configurations, therefore MSLOT=4. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
MSQASSTIME:
Indicates the maximum time a PC can stay in a queue if queued due to assignment. Note that if a queued PC is moved
to another cell, the timer will be restarted.
MSQHOPRIO:
Indicates if a PC using a traffic channel will get higher priority or not, due to handover, than queued PC requests in the
target cell:
0 No priority
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1 Handover prioritised
MSQUEUING:
Switches the Call Queuing feature on (=1) or off (=0).
MSRXMIN:
MSRXMIN is the required received signal strength on measured by MS. This requirement and signal strength
requirement on uplink (BSRXMIN) will decide if a cell fulfill minimum level condition and can be considered as a possible
handover candidate. MSRXMIN = 104 is related to the MS sensitivity.
-MSRXMIN should be set to 96 for city cells and to 99 for rural cells according to Ref. [4]. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
MSRXSUFF:
MSRXSUFF is the required received signal strength on downlink for a cell to fulfill the sufficient level condition on
downlink. The cells that fulfill sufficient level condition on downlink and uplink (BSRXSUFF) are considered as L cell,
which means that cells will be ranked according to path loss criteria in locating.
Since we want to use only signal strength as ranking criteria in this network, so we have to make sure that there are no
cells that fulfill sufficient level condition. By setting MSRSUFF = 0, we can make sure that there are no cells fulfilling
sufficient level condition on downlink and thereby no L cells.
MSTXPWR:
Maximum transmit power for MS on connection.
-We want to allow the MS to use its maximum power, hence MSTXPWR=30. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
NACCACT:
Activates (1) or deactivates (0) the feature Network Assist Cell Change (NACC).
NCCPERM:
Defines the allowed NCCs (Network Colour Code) on the BCCH carriers for which the MS is permitted to send
measurement reports.
-We use and permit all NCCs (0-7) except at border areas to other countries where the NCCs have to be planned and
agreed upon with the foreign GSM operators. [2003-04-01, TIMKRYD]
NDIST:
Distance to cell border additional threshold. When added to DTCB, it defines the OL subcell coverage border in terms of
the signal strength difference between the active channel and the strongest NNCELLS neighbouring BCCHs.
If NNCELLS is set to 1, NDIST is obsolete.
NECI:
-NECI is changed from 0 to 1 in order to allow the phase 2 MS to use the full set of establishment cause values. [200212-19, TIMKRYD]
NHO:
Number of handovers during THO that are allowed before an MS is considered as a fast moving mobile. If the number
exceeds or equals NHO, the MS attempts to go to the strongest higher layer cell at the next handover.
This will only be performed if the feature Handling of fastmoving mobiles is activated in the cell (FASTMSREG).
-We are not using the feature Handling of fast moving mobiles, hence the setting of NHO is of no importance. [2003-0401, TIMKRYD]
NNCELLS:
Number of strongest neighbouring BCCHs for the DTCB criterion. See the comments for NDIST.
NOOFPHYSINFOMSG:
- NOOFPHYSINFOMSG is changed from 35 to 18. By reducing the maximum number of repetitions of physical
information messages during the handover procedure, the quality of handovers will improve and less noticeable to the
user. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
NUMREQBPC:
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-The recommended value for NUMREQBPC was divided into two categories. NUMREQBPC should be set to SYSDEF
for the BCCH channel group. NUMREQBPC should be set to 8 times the number of TRUs in the non-BCCH channel
group (i.e. set NUMREQBPC to 8 for if there is one TRU defined in the non-BCCH channel group, 16 for 2 TRUs in the
non-BCCH channel group and so on). [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
NUMREQCS3CS4BPC:
NUMREQCS3CS4BPC defines the wanted number of BPCs in a channel group to be G-TCH.
-This parameter should be set to 0 according to tests performed by Telcel. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
NUMREQEGPRSBPC:
NUMREQCS3CS4BPC defines the wanted number of BPCs in a channel group to be E-TCH.
-This parameter should be set to 0 according to tests performed by Telcel. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
OFFSET:
Signal strength offset, only valid for Ericsson algorithm 3.
ONDEMANDGPHDEV:
ONDEMANDGPHDEV is used for setting the number of reserved GPH devices in an RPP that can be used for ondemand PDCH only. The default value for the parameter is 20.
-The recommended value for ONDEMANDGPHDEV has been increased from 20 to 30. [2005-09-08, QRYDKEN]
ONDEMANDGPHDV64:
This parameter sets the number of reserved GPH devices (64k) in an RPP that can be used for on-demand E-PDCH and
G-PDCH only.
PAGLIMIT:
The parameter defines the max number of paging orders the CP is allowed to send to the TRH per second.
(0 means no limitation) [2003-03-26, TIMKRYD]
PAGREP1LA:
-For the second page both CS and PS traffic. We, RN-NPOC, should be in control of this parameter. PAGREP1LA=3
means that second page is sent globally using the IMSI. [2003-03-25, TIMKRYD]
-For more information regarding paging strategy, please see Ref. [1] [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
PAGREPGLOB:
-Second page in global page. PAGREPGLOB=1, this means that there will be a second global page.
(0 means no second page at all) [2001-10-15, TIMBLE]
-We, optimization, should be responsible for this parameter. [2001-10-17, TIMBLE]
PAGTIMEFRST1LA:
PAGTIMEFRST1LA is the timer for time supervision for the page response of the first page. The default value (4
seconds) is used.
PAGTIMEFRSTGLOB:
This is the timer for time supervision for the first page, if it is global.
PAGTIMEREP1LA:
This is the timer for time supervision for the second page to LA. The default value (7 seconds) is used.
PAGTIMEREPGLOB:
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This is the timer for time supervision for the second page, if it is global. The default value (7 seconds) is used.
PCI:
Pre-emption capability indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The following values are available:
0 Allocation requests cannot pre-empt an existing connection.
1 Allocation requests can pre-empt an existing connection.
PCUEIT:
PCUEIT activates (=1) and deactivates (=0) the feature EIT Capacity.
PCUQOS:
PCUQOS activates and deactivates the feature GPRS/EGPRS Quality of Service.
-GPRS/EGPRS Quality of Service is active in Telcels GSM network. [2005-05-04, QRYDKEN]
PDCHALLOC:
-PDCHALLOC must not be set to FIRST when BCCH in OL is used. The recommended value for PDCHALLOC has
been changed from FIRST to NOPREF since this value can be used no matter if the BCCH is in the UL or the OL
subcell. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
PDCHPREEMPT:
Defines what kind of on-demand PDCHs are possible to pre-empt for the CS traffic:
0 No PDCHs protected
1 PDCHs used for DTM protected
2 PDCHS used for Streaming protected
3 PDCHs used for DTM and PDCHs used for Streaming protected
4 Essential PDCHs protected
5 Essential PDCHs and PDCHs used for DTM protected
6 Essential PDCHs and PDCHs used for Streaming protected
7 Essential PDCHs and PDCHs used for DTM and PDCHs used for Streaming protected
8 Busy PDCHs protected
-Notice that the values for PDCHPREEMPT have been changed in R11 compared to R10. PDCHPREEMPT is set on cell
level in R11. [2005-05-10, QRYDKEN]
PHCSTHR:
Hierarchical cell threshold for GPRS/EGPRS traffic for cells with defined PBCCH. It takes a positive value, which
represents the corresponding negative value in calculations.
The value MAPPED specifies that the threshold is mapped from CS parameters.
PHHSCSD:
(Pre-emption Handling High Speed Circuit Switched Data) is used to determine if a non-transparent HSCSD connection,
with more than one time slot, shall be searched for one downgraded if there is congestion at call attempt (=1), or not
(=0). The parameter is set per BSC and is an exchange property.
-This parameter should be set to 1 so that there is pre-emption to save GoS for CS traffic. [2002-02-07, TIMBLE]
PHSTATE:
Indicates if Pre-emption Handling is to be initiated or not. 0 = NO , 1 = YES
-We are not using Pre-emption Handling, hence PHSTATE = 0. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PILTIMER:
PDCH, the PDCH is de-allocated in the PSD and returned to the CSD. [2001-09-21,TIMBLE]
-PILTIMER should be set to 10 according to Ref. [6]. [2003-10-08, TIMKRYD]
-PILTIMER has been changed to 5 seconds in the whole network to speed up the return of timeslots from the packet
switched domain to the circuit switched domain. [2005-04-29, TIMKRYD]
PILTIMERFLEX:
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PILTIMERFLEX is used to set how long flexible channels will remain in the PIL.
PLAYER:
Hierarchical cell layer for GPRS/EGPRS traffic for cells with defined PBCCH.
The value MAPPED specifies that the cell layer is mapped from CS parameters.
PRACHBLK:
Defines the minimum number of reserved radio block periods for PRACH.
PRIMPLIM:
PRIMPLIM defines the maximum number of dedicated and semi-dedicated PDCHs allowed in the primary PSET.
PRIOLEV:
PRIOLEV determines the priority level. This parameter belongs to the feature Enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and
Pre-emption Service.
PRIORITY:
eMLPP priority. Set per eMLPP level. The element is ignored in BSS.
PROBF:
Probability of failure to allocate the last remaining accessible channel for the priority level when using DCA.
-We are not using Differential Channel Allocation, DCA. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PROFFSET:
GPRS/EGPRS cell reselection offset for cells with defined PBCCH. The value of this parameter is used in calculations of
the cell reselection offset, as follows. The value MAPPED specifies that the offset is mapped from CS parameters.
0 -52 dB
1 -48 dB
9 -16 dB
10 -12 dB
11 -10 dB
12 -8 dB
21 10 dB
22 12 dB
23 16 dB
24 20 dB
30 44 dB
31 48 dB
Note: Between -52 dB and -12 dB the step is 4 dB, between -12 dB and 12 dB the step is 2 dB and between 12 dB and
48 dB the step is 4dB.
PSCELLPLAN:
Activates (1) or deactivates (0) the feature Packet Specific Cell Plan.
-We should set PSCELLPLAN to 0 for now since we are not using a packet specific cell plan. [2005-09-08, QRYDKEN]
PSCVL:
Provided Speech Coder Version List.
The parameter is set for the teleservices Telephony, Auxiliary telephony, Emergency call and Alternate speech/facsimile.
PSETCHKPERIOD:
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Periodical check of GPRS dedicated channels. It sets how often a check will be performed to verify that the GPRS
dedicated channels are allocated on the best possible TCH group in the cell.
PSKONBCCH:
PSKONBCCH is used to disable the use of 8PSK on the BCCH carrier and should be set to DISABLED. [2003-09-24,
TIMKRYD]
PSSBQ:
Signal strength penalty when handover due to bad quality. This penalty is valid during PTIMBQ.
-PSSBQ is changed from 7 to 15 in order to ensure enough signal strength penalties in case of bad quality. [2002-12-19,
TIMKRYD]
PSSHF:
Signal strength penalty at handover failure. This penalty is valid during PTIMHF.
-PSSHF = 63 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PSSTA:
Signal strength penalty when handover due to too large timing advance. This penalty is valid during PTIMTA.
-PSSTA = 63 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PSSTEMP:
Signal strength penalty temporary offset when using the feature Handling of fast moving MS.
-We are not using the feature Handling of fast moving MS. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PT:
Defines duration for which TO is applied.
0 = 20 seconds, 1 = 40 seconds, 2 = 60 seconds, 3 = 80 seconds 30 = 620 seconds.
The value 31 indicates that the cell reselection offset is negative and that the temporary offset is ignored.
-PT = 0 is the default value and must be tuned on a cell by cell case if temporary offset is needed. [2003-04-02,
TIMKRYD]
PTIMBQ:
Penalty time when handover due to bad quality.
-PTIMBQ is changed from 15 to 5 in order to give the MS the ability to hand back to the original cell if it quickly improves
and is ranked as a valid handover candidate after the 5s penalty time. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
PTIMHF:
Penalty time at handover failure.
-PTIMHF = 5 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PTIMTA:
Penalty time when handover due to too large timing advance.
-PTIMTA = 30 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PTIMTEMP:
PTIMTEMP specifies the duration during which PSSTEMP is valid.
-We are not using the feature Handling of fast moving MS. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
PULSCHEDINT:
PULSCHEDINT is used to activate and deactivate the feature Persistent Uplink Scheduling. The parameter is a BSC
Exchange Property and set per BSC. The AXEPARS parameter GPRSPULS must be switched on (1) to be able to
activate the feature.
-PULSCHEDINT should be set to 0 for now since we are currently not using the feature Persistent Uplink Scheduling.
This should be changed to 1 if and when this feature will be used. [2005-09-08, QRYDKEN]
PVI:
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Pre-emption vulnerability indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The following values are available:
0 Connection cannot be pre-empted by another allocation request.
1 Connection can be pre-empted by another allocation request.
QAI:
Queuing allowed indicator. Set per eMLPP level. The element is ignored in BSS.
QASSTIME:
QASSTIME determines the maximum time it is allowed to do assignment for a priority connection. This parameter
belongs to the feature Enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption Service.
-We will use the default value 28 seconds until a test has been performed. [2005-09-08, QRYDKEN]
QCOMPDL:
Quality deviation compensation factor, downlink. When set to zero, no quality compensation is performed.
-QCOMPDL = 55 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QCOMPUL:
Quality deviation compensation factor, uplink. When set to zero, no quality compensation is performed.
QDESDL:
Desired quality on the downlink when using BTS power control.
-QDESDL = 30 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QDESDLAFR:
Desired quality, downlink for AMR FR connections.
-The recommended value has to be tuned when R10 is implemented.
QDESUL:
Desired quality on the uplink when using MS power control.
-QDESUL = 30 is the Ericsson recommended value for R10. [2004-07-05, TIMKRYD]
-QDESUL was set to 40 in CZBSC1 with good results; see Ref. [12] for more information. [2004-07-09, TIMKRYD]
QDESULAFR:
Desired quality, uplink for AMR FR connections.
-We are using the same setting for AMR FR connections as for non-AMR FR connections until AMR has been
implemented and tested. [2004-07-05, TIMKRYD]
QEVALSD:
Quality filter for speech/data. The filters for quality in down- and uplink in the serving cell are selected by QEVALSD for
the channel mode speech/data.
-QEVALSD = 6 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QEVALSI:
Quality filter for signalling only. The filters for quality in down- and uplink in the serving cell are selected by QEVALSI for
the channel mode signalling only.
-QEVALSI = 6 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QLENDL:
Length of the downlink quality filter when using BTS power control.
-QLENDL = 3 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QLENGTH:
Maximum queue length in a cell. It determines the maximum number of Priority Connections (PC) that can be inserted in
the queue.
QLENSD:
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Length of quality filter for speech/data.
-QLENSD = 10 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QLENSI:
Length of quality filter for signaling only.
-QLENSI = 4 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
QLENUL:
QLENUL is the length of the MS Power Control quality filter. We use the Ericsson recommended value of 3 SACCH
periods. [2004-07-05, TIMKRYD]
QLIMDL:
- Hopping on the OL subcell so QLIMDL=55. [2002-01-31,TIMBLE]
- The reason for setting QLIMDL=55 for OL and QLIMDL=45 for UL subcells is that we can tolerate higher RXQUAL
values when frequency hopping. The same goes for QLIMUL. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
QLIMDLAFR:
Downlink quality threshold for bad quality urgency handovers for AMR FR connections.
QLIMUL:
QLIMUL = 45 non-hopping frequency on the UL subcell, more sensible for disturbances.
- The reason for setting QLIMUL=55 for OL and QLIMUL=45 for UL subcells is that we can tolerate higher RXQUAL
values when frequency hopping. The same goes for QLIMDL. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
QLIMULAFR:
Uplink quality threshold for bad quality urgency handovers for AMR FR connections.
QOFFSETDL:
Offset for quality downlink used in Intra-cell HO. For AMR FR connections, QOFFSETDLAFR is used.
QOFFSETDLAFR:
Offset for quality downlink for AMR FR connections.
QOFFSETUL:
Offset for quality uplink used in Intra-cell HO. For AMR FR connections, QOFFSETULAFR is used.
QOFFSETULAFR:
Offset for quality uplink for AMR FR connections.
QOSCONVPRIO:
Defines how BSS handles a Conversational PFC in the Interactive class.
1 = Interactive THP1
QOSMAPPING:
Defines how the R97/98 Quality of Service is used:
0 = R97/98 Quality of Service disabled
1 = R97/98 Quality of Service enabled. Mapping activated, R97 Precedence Low, Medium, High are mapped to R99
traffic classes Background, Interactive THP3, Interactive THP2, respectively
2 = R97/98 Quality of Service enabled. Mapping activated, R97 Precedence Low, Medium, High are mapped to R99
traffic classes Interactive THP3, Interactive THP2, Interactive THP1, respectively
QOSTHP1:
QOSTHP1 determines the relative importance of the THP-1 users compared to the THP-3 users.
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QOSTHP2:
QOSTHP2 determines the relative importance of the THP-2 users compared to the THP-3 users.
QOSSTREAMPRIO:
Defines how BSS handles a Streaming PFC that BSS could not allocate Streaming resources for.
0 = Background
4 = Terminate the Streaming PFC
QSC:
QSC defines the GSM-UMTS handover quality search indicator [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD].
QSCI:
QSCI defines the control of UTRAN measurements after entering active mode, before reading the first QSC. This
parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
QSI:
GSM-UMTS cell reselection quality search indicator. QSI indicates the threshold to start UTRAN FDD measurements in
Idle mode and Stand-by and Ready states. When the parameter value is between 0&6, the UTRAN FDD measurements
are started when the serving cells signal strength is below the threshold. When the parameter value is between 8&14,
the UTRAN FDD measurements are started when the serving cells signal strength is above the threshold.
0 -98 dBm
1 -94 dBm
...
6 -74 dBm
7 always
8 -78 dBm
9 -74 dBm
...
14 -54 dBm
15 never
RECCAP:
RECCAP specifies the recovery capacity and is measured in percent. The recovery capacity is the guaranteed processor
capacity which radio network recovery can use after restarts.
RECTIME:
RECTIME sets the recovery time and is measured in minutes. The recovery time is the duration after restart when the
increased recovery capacity is allowed. If RECTIME=0 no change in recovery priority takes place.
REGINTUL:
Regulation interval, stationary, uplink.
MS power regulation is performed at intervals specified by REGINTUL. A new power order is issued only if the calculated
power level is different from the current MS power level.
REGINTDL:
Regulation interval, downlink.
Defines the minimum interval between power order commands when using BTS power control.
-REGINTDL = 1 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
REGPOINTPROCLD:
Regulation point for Start Load Control. This is a percentage load figure used to determine if a new loading of Base
Transceiver Station (BTS) software can be started.
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RELATION:
The parameter is only specified when the relation is one way cell -> cellr. This means that offset and hysteresis
parameters are only defined in one direction.
RELATION is always set to single for external cells, i.e. neighbouring cells that belong to another BSC.
-Neighbor relations should be defined in both directions. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
RESLIMIT:
Channel resource limit. It indicates the percentage of radio channel resources, that is, Traffic Channel Fullrate (TCH/F)
and Traffic Channel Halfrate (TCH/H) that are allocated to priority connections before starting to give available channels
to non priority connections.
RHYST:
-RHYST is changed from 75 to 100 in order to maximize the Cell Load Sharing area. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
RLINKT:
Radio Link time-out. The maximum value of the radio downlink counter. RLINKT is used by the MS to determine when to
disconnect the call upon repeated failure in decoding the SACCH. The disconnection criterion is the leaky bucket
criterion specified in GSM 05.08.
-RLINKT = 16 is the default value. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
-RLINKT has been changed from 16 to 24 in most BSCs with good results. For more information, please see Ref. [10].
[2003-11-26, TIMKRYD]
-The recommended value for RLINKT has been increased to 32 due to the fact that AMR FR is more robust than EFR
and more than half of the TCH traffic in Telcels GSM network is carried in AMR FR mode. [2005-08-31, QRYDKEN]
RLINKUP:
Radio link time-out. The maximum value of the radio link counter for the uplink.
RLINKUP is used by the BSC to determine when to disconnect the call upon repeated failure in decoding the SACCH.
The disconnection criterion is of the same type as the one specified for the MS in GSM 05.08, called the leaky bucket
criterion. A counter that is given the value RLINKUP is started in the BSC after the assignment of a dedicated channel.
Two units increase the counter if the SACCH data is successfully decoded, one unit decrease it if it cannot be
successfully decoded. If the counter reaches the value zero, then a call release is initiated.
-RLINKUP = 16 is the default value. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
-RLINKUP has been changed from 16 to 24 in most BSCs with good results. For more information, please see Ref. [10].
[2003-11-26, TIMKRYD]
-The recommended value for RLINKUP has been increased to 32 due to the fact that AMR FR is more robust than EFR
and more than half of the TCH traffic in Telcels GSM network is carried in AMR FR mode. [2005-08-31, QRYDKEN]
RPBUSMAXNOSEG:
Maximum number of file segments allowed at loading. The property has the range of 100 - 65535 segments, but the
number of segments permitted is also dependant on the capacity of the Regional Processor (RP) Bus on the physical
link. The default value is 175 segments, which equates to a Parallel RP Bus of 700 Kbps. The Serial RP Bus capacity is
2100 Kbps and this equates to 525 segments.
RXD:
Receiver Diversity.
Combination of receiver antennae to be used.
A Antenna A used only.
B Antenna B used only.
AB Receiver diversity employed using antenna A and B.
-We should use receiver diversity whenever possible. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SAS:
Single slot allocation strategy.
QUALITY
Quality consideration
MAIO
MAIO consideration
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MULTI
Multi slot consideration
SCALLOC:
This parameter restricts and prioritise GPRS/EGPRS traffic to a certain subcell:
UL = GPRS/EGPRS is restricted to the underlaid subcell.
OL = GPRS/EGPRS is restricted to the overlaid subcell.
BOTHUL = GPRS is allowed in both subcells and the underlaid subcell will be prioritised.
BOTHOL = GPRS is allowed in both subcells and the overlaid subcell will be prioritised.
SCHO:
SCHO is used to identify if handovers on SDCCH are allowed in the cell. The handover procedure is the same as for
handover on the TCH, i.e. the locating function prepares a ranking list and sends it to the handover function.
ON Handovers on SDCCH are allowed. This applies to both handovers from and to the cell.
OFF Handovers on SDCCH are not allowed. Handovers from as well as to the cell are inhibited.
-SHCO is changed from ON to OFF in order to improve the HO performance. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
SCLD:
SCLD is used to activate subcell load distribution in a cell. It is set per cell.
-The reason for using subcell load distribution is that we want the mobiles with the least path loss (i.e. closest to the site)
to use the OL subcell. The mobiles with the highest path loss (i.e. furthest away from the site) should use the UL subcell.
[2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
SCLDLL:
-Subcell load distribution should be used so that mobiles are moved up to the OL subcell when the traffic gets close to
full in the UL subcell. The reason for using SCLD, and not let CHAP 5 do the congestion move to OL subcell, is so that
the mobiles with low path loss will move first to the OL subcell. This reduces the interference for the mobiles on the
BCCH layer in the OL subcell. [2001-09-24, TIMBLE]
-Considering GPRS dedicated PDCHs there is no need to use SCLD to protect it from CS traffic, because the PDCHs
will be seen as busy in the SCLD calculations. But in order to move the mobiles, with the lowest path loss to the OL
subcell, SCLD should be used. [2001-09-24, TIMBLE]
SCLDTIMEINT:
SCLDTIMEINT defines the cycle time of the subcell load monitoring. It is set per BSC and can only be set in multiples of
100 ms.
-We use the minimum setting of SCLDTIMEINT = 100 ms in order to have a quick SCLD behavior. [2003-03-31,
TIMKRYD]
SCLDUL:
-Subcell load distribution should be used so that mobiles are moved up to the OL subcell when the traffic gets close full
in the UL subcell. The reason for using
SCLD, and not let CHAP 5 do the congestion move to OL subcell, is so that the mobiles with low path loss will move first
to the OL subcell. This reduces the interference for the mobiles on the BCCH layer in the OL subcell. [2001-09-24,
TIMBLE]
-Considering GPRS dedicated PDCHs there is no need to use SCLD to protect it from CS traffic, because the PDCHs
will be seen as busy in the SCLD calculations. But in order to move the mobiles, with the lowest path loss to the OL
subcell, SCLD should be used. [2001-09-24, TIMBLE]
SCRCODE:
SCRCODE defines the scrambling code of an external UTRAN cell. This parameter does not apply since Telcel do not
have UMTS. [2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
SDCCH:
Required number of SDCCH/8. Call set up, location updating and SMS are using the SDCCH channel.
-We should use 1 timeslot of SDCCH/8 per cell. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SDCCHREG:
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SDCCH power control switch. Identifies if BTS power control on SDCCH is allowed on non-BCCH frequencies.
-Our SDCCHs are defined on the BCCH frequency (UL subcell) where BTS power control is not allowed, hence
SDCCHREG = OFF. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SECPAGEPATH:
-We, optimization should be responsible for this. We recommend this parameter to be SECPAGEPATH=2, Paging via
the A-interface since the Gs-interface is not available. We should monitor the value. [2001-10-15, TIMBLE]
SET:
Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) codec set changed by the operator.
FR3 = Full Rate codec set 3
FR4 = Full Rate codec set 4
HR3 = Half Rate codec set 3
HR4 = Half Rate codec set 4
SGSNREL:
Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) release. This property defines the value of the parameter SGSNR included in
System Information Type 13 and Packet System Information Type 1.
0 SGSN Release 98 or older
1 SGSN Release 99 onwards
SIMSG:
System Information BCCH Message.
When the cell is connected to BTS equipment that supports GSM phase 2 system information, it is possible to turn on or
off the distribution of System Information Messages 1, 7, and 8.
SIMSG is the pointer which specifies the System Information Message to be turned on or off by the parameter
MSGDIST. MSGDIST must be specified for each one of the System Information Messages.
- We are using the default setting that the system information message type 1 should be switched on and system
information message types 7 and 8 should be switched off. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SLEVEL:
Level of remaining SDCCH subchannels when an attempt to increase the number of SDCCH/8 by reconfiguring a TCH to
an SDCCH/8 will take place if using the feature Adaptive configuration of logical channels.
-The value for SLEVEL can be set from 0 to 2 or to CONG. It is recommended to use SLEVEL = 2 in order for the system
to have time to reconfigure a timeslot from TCH to SDCCH/8. [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
SMOASSIGN:
SMOASSIGN determines whether the message ASSIGNMENT REQUEST is to be sent from the MSC to the BSC at
mobile originated SMS. The parameter is only valid if the function SMS Mobile Originated, Point to Point, in MSC/VLR
is in the application system of the exchange.
SMTASSIGN:
SMTASSIGN determines whether the message ASSIGNMENT REQUEST is to be sent from the MSC to the BSC at
mobile terminated SMS. The parameter is only valid if the function SMS Mobile Terminated, Point to Point, in MSC/VLR
is in the application system of the exchange.
SPDCH:
Optional preference parameter for the number of semi-dedicated PDCHs.
-The default value 0 will be used until a test has been performed. The recommended value for SPDCH will most likely be
increased while FPDCH will be decreased. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
SPEECHVERUSED:
-Ericsson recommended from ASQ, is 1. [2002-03-19, TIMBLE]
-Recommended value has been changed from 1 to 0 in order to avoid keeping HR connections on HR after HO has been
made into cells that may have sufficient capacity and HR is not necessary. [QRYDKEN, 2005-08-22]
SPEQINDCOLLECT:
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-This parameter should be set to active to enable the collection of SQI statistics. [2001-11-01, TIMBLE]
-This parameter should be set to active in all BSCs. This is a BSC exchange property. [2002-02-12,TIMBLE]
SPRIO:
Search priority. Indicates if 3G cells may be searched when BSIC decoding is required.
NO = Multi-RAT MS may not use the search frames required for BSIC decoding, for UTRAN FDD measurements.
YES = Multi-RAT MS may use up to 25 search frames per 13 seconds without considering the need for BSIC decoding in
these frames.
SSDESDL:
Defines the target value for the desired signal strength downlink as measured by the MS in different parts of the power
control interval. SSDESDL takes a positive value that represents the corresponding negative value in the calculations.
-SSDESDL = 90 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSDESDLAFR:
For AMR FR connections define the target value for the desired signal strength downlink as measured by the MS in
different parts of the power control interval. SSDESDLAFR takes a positive value that represents the corresponding
negative value in calculations.
SSDESUL:
Defines the target value for the desired signal strength uplink as measured by the BTS in different parts of the power
control interval. SSDESUL takes a positive value that represents the corresponding negative value in calculations.
For AMR FR connections, SSDESULAFR is used.
-SSDESUL=98 is a good starting point for MS power control but even more aggressive setting could possibly be used.
SSDESULAFR:
For AMR FR connections defines the target value for the desired signal strength uplink as measured by the BTS in
different parts of the power control interval. SSDESULAFR takes a positive value that represents the corresponding
negative value in calculations.
SSEVALSD:
Signal strength filter for speech/data. The filters for down- and uplink signal strength in serving cell and downlink signal
strength from neighbouring cells are selected by SSEVALSD for the channel mode speech/data.
-SSEVALSD = 6 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSEVALSI:
Signal strength filter for signalling only. The filters for down- and uplink signal strength in serving cell and
downlink signal strength from neighbouring cells are selected by SSEVALSI for the channel mode signalling only.
-SSEVALSI = 6 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSLENDL:
Length of downlink signal strength filter for the BTS power control.
-SSLENDL = 3 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSLENUL:
Length of stationary signal strength filter for the MS power control.
SSLENSD:
This is SACCH periods, not seconds. [2002-01-31, TIMBLE]
SSLENSD = 10 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
SSLENSI:
SSLENSI is the length of signal strength filter for signaling only. Default value is 4.
SSLENSI = 4 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
SSOFFSETDL:
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Offset for signal strength downlink at intra cell handover.
-SSOFFSETDL = 0 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSOFFSETDLAFR:
Offset for signal strength downlink for AMR FR connections.
SSOFFSETUL:
Offset for signal strength uplink at intra cell handover.
-SSOFFSETUL = -10 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSOFFSETULAFR:
Offset for signal strength uplink for AMR FR connections.
SSRAMPSD:
Ramping length of signal strength filter for speech/data.
-SSRAMSD = 5 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
SSRAMPSI:
Ramping length of signal strength filter for signaling only.
-SSRAMSI = 1 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
STATE:
Cell or Channel Group state:
ACTIVE The cell or channel group is active.
HALTED The cell or channel group is halted.
STATSINT:
Differential channel allocation statistics collection time interval.
By means of this recording function, it is possible to monitor dropped connections, connection establishments, allocation
attempts and allocation failures due to Differential Channel allocation per priority level.
-We are not using DCA, hence the setting of STATSINT is of no importance. STATSINT = 4 means that this statistics is
collected every hour (in case that DCA is used). [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
STEPLIMDL:
STEPLIMDL is a switch that makes it possible to limit the down regulation for BTS PC to 2 dB per SACCH period.
STIME:
Minimum time interval before an SDCCH/8 configured by Adaptive Configuration of Logical Channels is reconfigured
back to a TCH when SDCCH demands are low.
-We are not using the feature Adaptive Configuration of Logical Channels so the setting of STIME is of no importance.
[2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
STREAMSUP:
Activates and deactivates the feature QoS Streaming on cell level.
SYNCSRC:
Timing function synchronisation source in the BSC. This parameter is only valid for base stations of the RBS 2000 series.
INTI Synchronisation taken from internally calibrated, internal oscillator reference.
INTE Synchronisation taken from externally calibrated, internal oscillator reference.
PCM Synchronisation taken from transport network reference.
DEFAULT Synchronisation taken from source determined by BTS capabilities.
T3212:
Defines the time-out value that controls the location updating procedure, i.e. when notifying the availability of the MS to
the network. (GSM 04.08, section 10.5.2.11).
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-T3212 and BTDM are set to 2 or 4 hours depending on region, GTDM is set to 6 minutes. For more information about
paging strategy, please see Ref. [1]. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
TAAVELEN:
Timing advance average length. Number of values in the averaging of timing advance. For the evaluation of timing
advance the algorithm uses a sliding window, the length of which is determined by TAAVELEN. TAAVELEN determines
the total number of values to be used in the moving average.
-TAAVELEN = 4 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-02, TIMKRYD]
TALIM:
-TALIM is changed from 61 to 62 in order to maximize the distance from the cell before timing advance urgency HO is
triggered. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
-Maximum value for TALIM is 62 for non-extended range cells. Maximum value for TALIM is 218 for extended range
cells. Notice that TALIM always have to be less than MAXTA. [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
TALLOC:
-TALLOC is changed from 2 to 6 in order to decrease the number of unnecessary consecutive channel assignment
attempts at congestion. [2002-12-19, TIMKRYD]
TAOL:
TAOL is the timing advance threshold for the serving area of the OL subcell within a cell. This parameter is set per OL
subcell.
-TAOL set to 61 means that mobiles with less TA than 61 in timing advance will be allowed to OL subcell. [2002-02-12,
TIMBLE]
-We dont want to limit the maximum size of our overlaid subcells, therefore TAOL is set to 61. The feature Dynamic
overlaid/underlaid subcells will distribute the traffic between the subcells. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
TAOLHYST:
TAOLHYST is the corresponding hysteresis for the TAOL parameter.
-TAOL = 0 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-03-31, TIMKRYD]
TBFDLLIMIT:
-The parameters TBFDLLIMIT and TBFULLIMIT are preference parameters for the number of TBF in the downlink and
uplink direction respectively. The parameters shall be set according to the wanted number of TBF per PDCH before new
on-demand PDCH shall be allocated from the CSD. [2001-09-21, TIMBLE]
-The value, TBFDLLIMIT=2,TBFULLIMIT=2 are recommended by the guideline. [2001-09-21, TIMBLE]
-This value could however be changed to 1 during test. [2001-10-15, TIMBLE]
TBFULLIMIT:
-The parameters TBFDLLIMIT and TBFULLIMIT are preference parameters for the number of TBF in the downlink and
uplink direction respectively. The parameters shall be set according to the wanted number of TBF per PDCH before new
on-demand PDCH shall be allocated from the CSD. [2001-09-21, TIMBLE]
-The value, TBFDLLIMIT=2,TBFULLIMIT=2 are recommended by the guideline. [2001-09-21, TIMBLE]
-The values could however change to 1 during tests in the network. [2001-10-15, TIMBLE]
TCHCAP1:
TCHCAP1 gives the selected TCH capability the highest weighting during TG configuration. TCH capabilities that are not
selected by means of TCHCAP1, TCHCAP2, or TCHCAP3 command are given a default weight.
TCHCAP2:
TCHCAP2 gives the selected TCH capability the second highest weighting during TG configuration.
TCHCAP3:
TCHCAP3 gives the selected TCH capability the third highest weighting during TG configuration.
TCHCAPAA:
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TCHCAPAA assigns a special weight to the presence of additional assignment when determining the TCH capability of
equipment during TG configuration.
TCHCAPSEL:
TCHCAPSEL activates or deactivates TCH capability selection.
TEITPENDING:
TEITPENDING is used to define the maximum time that a EIT Streaming TBF reservation should be kept between two
consecutive PDUs of Streaming data received from SGSN or MS.
TFILIMIT:
Defines the minimum number of TFIs that have to be available for the TBF keep alive mechanism. If less TFIs are
available TBFs will be released unless they carry real data.
TFMODE:
Timing Function Synchronisation Mode. Mode of the timing function in the TG.
M: Master. Synchronised from the synchronisation source and distributed to other TFs.
S: Slave. Synchronised from other TFs.
SA: Standalone. Synchronised from synchronisation source.
-We are using TFMODE = SA. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
THO:
Time interval for measuring the number of handovers allowed (NHO) before an MS is considered as fast moving. This
will only be performed if the feature Handling of fastmoving mobiles is activated in the cell (FASTMSREG).
-We are not using the feature Handling of fastmoving mobiles, hence the setting of THO is of no importance. [2003-0403, TIMKRYD]
THPMBRFACTOR:
THPMBRFACTOR defines to what extent the MBR is taken into account of scheduling of the Interactive users.
THR:
Threshold for changing the codec mode:
0 = 0 dB
1 = 0.5 dB
2 = 1 dB
63 = 31.5 dB
TIHO:
Intra cell handover inhibition timer.
-TIHO = 10 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TIMER3105:
TIMER3105 indicates the time between repetition of physical information messages during the handover procedure
(T3105, see GSM 04.08, section 3.4.4).
-We are using Ericsson recommendation TIMER3105 = 8, default value is 6. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TIMHNDCMDINTRAM:
Time supervision in intra-MSC inter-BSC handover. TIMHNDCMDINTRAM describes the time between the HANDOVER
COMMAND and HANDOVER COMPLETE messages in intra-MSC inter-BSC handover (according to 3GPP TS 23.009).
TIMHNDGSINTRAM:
TIMHNDGSINTRAM is a time supervision of the switching moment of the group switch (GS) in the MSC at intra-MSC
inter-BSC handover. The timer is started at sending of the HANDOVER COMMAND message. The path in the GS will be
changed at the first occurrence of one of the following events:
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Timer expiry
Reception of HANDOVER DETECTED from target BSC
Reception of HANDOVER COMPLETE from target BSC

If TIMHNDGSINTRAM = 0, there is no time supervision, which means that the path in the GS is changed at reception of
the HANDOVER DETECTED or HANDOVER COMPLETE messages. The parameter is only valid and can only be
changed if the time supervision is used to define the operation point of the GS.
-The Ericsson recommended value 0 should be used for TIMHNDGSINTRAM. [2005-05-02, QRYDKEN]
TIMPAGINGM:
-We, optimization, should be responsible for this parameter. This is how GPRS mobiles should be paged via the SGSN
node. [2001-10-15, TIMBLE]
-We are using TIMPAGINGM = 9 seconds which is the default value. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TINIT:
Minimum time before handover is allowed on an initial call or after handover. The locating comparison is performed every
SACCH period (480 ms), except for certain periods for which the maximum lengths are specified by the parameters:
TINIT, TALLOC and TURGEN. They apply to different situations. The locating process is suspended during a time
specified by TINIT.
-TINIT = 10 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TMAXIHO:
Timer for handover counter.
The handover counter is 0 initially. When an intra-cell handover occurs, the counter is incremented by 1 and a timer is
started. If another intra cell handover occurs before the timer has expired, the counter is incremented again by 1 and the
timer is restarted. If the timer expires, the counter is set to 1. The process continues until the counter reaches its
maximum value specified by MAXIHO. In that case the counter is set to 0 and further intra-cell handover attempts are
inhibited during a time interval determined by TIHO. This timer will not start before TINIT has elapsed. TMAXIHO defines
the time interval for the above-mentioned timer.
-TMAXIHO = 7 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TN:
-TN must be set to 2, 4 or 6 for extended range cells if SDCCH > 0, see Ref. [3] for more information. [2003-10-22,
TIMKRYD]
-TN defines where the SDCCH(s) are allocated. Notice that the significance of TN has been changed in R10 compared
to R9.1. [2004-07-19, TIMKRYD]
TN7BCCH:
TN7BCCH indicates if Timeslot Number 7 on the BCCH frequency can be configured with TCHs supporting EGPRS and
GPRS, or GPRS only. TN7BCCH should be set to GPRS since Telcel are currently not using EDGE. [2003-09-24,
TIMKRYD]
TO:
Temporary Offset.
Defines a negative offset applied to CRO.
0 = 0 dB, 1 = 10 dB, 2 = 20 dB 6 = 60 dB, 7 = infinite.
-TO = 0 is the default value and must be tuned on a cell-by-cell case if temporary offset is needed. [2003-04-02,
TIMKRYD]
TRACEMSGTYPE:
TRACEMSGTYPE selects the trace message type at Cell Traffic Recording. At inter BSC handover it indicates which
message that will be sent to the MSC and the new BSC to start Cell Traffic Recording.
TRADROPLEVEL:
TRADROPLEVEL enables the operator to use or remove automatically from traffic the transcoder devices with a high
rate of dropped calls. If the rate is higher than or equal to the specified threshold value, an alarm is raised. If the alarm is
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issued, the transcoder devices can either still be used for traffic or automatically removed from traffic. The check is
performed every 5 minutes. The property value, when it is greater than 0, is given in percent.
0 No alarm is raised, independently on the percentage of the dropped calls rate. Transcoder devices with high drop rate
are used for the traffic.
10-60 Alarm is issued when 10 - 60 percent of the calls are dropped. Transcoder devices with high drop rate are still
used for traffic.
110-160 Alarm is issued when 10 - 60 percent of the calls are dropped. Transcoder devices with high drop rate are
automatically removed from traffic.
TRAFBLK:
Defines the value of BS_PAG_BLKS_RES, that is the number of blocks within a multiframe where neither paging nor
PSI messages shall appear.
TRHYST:
Signal strength hysteresis for a K- and L-cell border segment. TRHYST is only valid for the Ericsson1 locating algorithm.
-We are not using L-ranking, hence the setting of TRHYST is of no importance. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TROFFSET:
Signal strength offset for a K- and L-cell border segment. Note: TROFFSET is only valid for the Ericsson1 locating
algorithm.
-We are not using L-ranking, hence the setting of TROFFSET is of no importance. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TRXTAUTOINITIME:
TRXTAUTOINITIME defines the interval in minutes for initiation of automatic supervision.
TRXTAUTOTHRSHLD:
Initiate transceiver test. TRXTAUTOTHRSHLD indicates the threshold value in percent for when the transceiver test will
be initiated at automatic supervision.
TSC:
Training Sequence Code. The Training Sequence Code can only be changed for channel groups 1 to 15.
It is possible to have different TSCs in different channel groups. It is not possible to directly change TSC for channel
group 0. Instead it gets the same value as the BCC part of the cells BSIC.
-The recommended value according to Ref. [11] is to use the BCC part of the BSIC for both sub-cells. [2003-12-18,
TIMKRYD]
-In R11 it is possible to set TSC per channel group and not only per sub-cell. [2005-05-10, QRYDKEN]
TSLOOPTEST:
TSLOOPTEST indicates if an automatic loop test will be carried out. If this exchange property is equal to 0 then an
automatic loop test will be enabled.
TSTREAMPENDING:
Defines the maximum time Streaming resources are kept reserved if no Streaming data arrives from SGSN after the last
streaming data was transmitted to the MS.
TSTREAMSTART:
Defines the maximum time Streaming resources are kept reserved if no data arrives from SGSN after the initial GBR
negotiation between BSS and SGSN is finalized.
TTALONG:
TTALONG determines the value in deciseconds of Tta when it is long Abis signalling delay.
TTANORMAL:
TTANORMAL determines the value in deciseconds of Tta when it is normal Abis signalling delay.
TURGEN:
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Minimum time between allocation attempts at an urgency condition and when the first allocation attempt has failed. In the
case an urgency handover attempt fails due to congestion, the locating process will proceed and even a handover
candidate list will be prepared. However the candidate list will not be transferred to the handover function during the time
specified by the parameter TURGEN, unless the candidate list contains a better cell.
-TURGEN = 2 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
TX:
The parameter TX defines the number of slots that the MS may spread its retransmission in. Each
slot is 4.615 ms and TX = 20 gives 109 slots, see table below. This means more or less 0.5 seconds.
S for GSM phase 2
MS
Non combined
TX
CCCH
combined
CCCH/SDCCH
3,8,14,50
55
41
4,9,16
5,10,20
76
109
52
58
6,11,25
7,12,32
163
217
86
115
UL:
This is not a radio parameter. The command is used to set downlink line level adjustments relative to a default value.
These values are set per TRC (Transcoder Rate Controller) or a combined BSC/TRC (Base Station
Controller/TRC). For more information on this parameter, see command RRLLC.
ULDELAY:
Defines the time to keep an uplink TBF in Extended UL TBF mode alive after the last uplink RLC data block is received.
UMFI:
UTRAN Measurement Frequency Information for cell reselection in GSM Idle Mode and GPRS/EGPRS Ready and
Standby states.
UPDWNRATIO:
Ratio between up and down power regulation for BTS and MS power control.
-UPDWNRATIO = 300 is the recommended value from the guideline. [2003-04-03, TIMKRYD]
USFLIMIT:
Defines the minimum number of USFs that have to be available for Extended UL TBF mode. If less USFs are available
TBFs will be released unless they carry real data.
UTRANID:
UTRANID is the identity of an external UTRAN cell. This parameter does not apply since Telcel do not have UMTS.
[2003-09-24, TIMKRYD]
XRANGE:
Extended range cell.
If the cell is an extended range cell, traffic at a distance of greater than 35 km between the MS and the BTS can be
supported.
See Ref. [3] for more details about the extended range trial. [2003-09-22, TIMKRYD]
XRANGECELL:
XRANGECELL is a database table parameter that enables the feature Extended Range. XRANGECELL must be set to 1
if the feature Extended Range should be used. See Ref. [3] for more information. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
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XRANGESUBCELL:
XRANGESUBCELL is a database table parameter that enables the features Extended Range together with OL/UL Subcells. XRANGESUBCELL must be set to 1 if these two features should be used together. See Ref. [3] for more
information. [2003-10-22, TIMKRYD]
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References
1.
Paging strategy for Telcel GSM, TEM/T-03:001086 Uen, Kenneth Rydn
2.
Toluca half rate test document, TEM/T-03:001088 Uen, David Levin
3.
Evaluation Report Extended Range, TEM/T-03:003931 Uen, Kenneth Rydn
4.
Evaluation Report MSRXMIN AGBSC1&CNBSC1, TEM/T-03:002827 Uen, Kenneth Rydn&Tiago Teles
5.
Evaluation Report EVALTYPE=3 in TOBSC1, TEM/T-03:002498 Uen, Kenneth Rydn
6.
Evaluation report for PILTIMER parameter in R9, TEM/T-03:004252 Uen, Sergio Guzmn
7.
Evaluation Report for MAXRET=2 in PABSC1, TEM/T-03:004500 Uen, Kenneth Rydn
8.
Evaluation Report for BCCH on overlaid trial in region 9, TEM/T-03:004575 Uen, Carl Greyling
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Evaluation Report for ACLC with BCCH in OL, TEM/T-03:004959 Uen, Kenneth Rydn
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DOCUMENT SCOPE ..............................................................................................................................................4

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED PARAMETERS..........................................................................................6

COMMON DATA ..................................................................................................................................................6

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R11 parameters, BSC

R10 parameters included

R9.1 parameters included

Adding new parameters from

Changes in the parameter

New column added to add

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Type: Contains information regarding the classification of the different

Level: This field contains information if the parameter is Global or

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Summary of Recommended Parameters

Idle Mode Behaviour

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GPRS/EGPRS Idle Mode Behaviour

GPRS/EGPRS Cell Reselection

GPRS/EGPRS Channel Administration

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GPRS Ch. Admin.

Dynamic BTS Power Control

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GPRS/EGPRS Dynamic MS Power Control

Dynamic MS Power Control

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Assignment to Other Cell

Intra Cell Handover

Ass. To Other Cell

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Intra Cell Handover

Intra Cell Handover

Intra Cell Handover

OL/UL Subcells & Subcell Load Distribution

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NO (YES if applicable, see Ref. [3])

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Hierarchical Cell Structures

Individual per cell

Idle Channel Measurements

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MULTI if more than 1 band is used

Differential Channel Allocation

Multi band Operation

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Cell Load Sharing

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ON if the feature Adaptive Configuration of

GSM UMTS Handover UTRAN Cell Data