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Huawei RNP Work Flow Abstract: RNP is a significant job serving to the whole project flow. All the RNP members, especially the RNP team leader should consider all the aspects of the network and provide the idea and suggestion during the RF managers decision making. At the beginning of planning or launching, strategy and schedule should be considered and detail discussions are held with the customer so that the work done can meet the customer expectation. Teamwork is a way to complete the RNP related work. The team members should understand and know their roles during the work. All the work can be done based on the working flow and corresponding templates provided. It is suggested to make use of the provided template and make some changes accordingly. HUAWEI RNP WORK FLOW is issued in order to standardize and make the RNP work smoother. In addition, the RNP flow can give a general idea to the new joint engineer and improve the team operation flow.
HUAWEI RNP WORK FLOW consists of slides and the corresponding description. It includes the following processes. Main Process Pre-Planning Network Planning Sub Process Network Pre-Planning RF Survey Planning Concept Practical Planning Cutover / Launch Optimization Cutover / Launch DT Optimization KPI Optimization Networking Monitoring Acceptance Technical Support Network Acceptance
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0. Overall Process
RNE-RPO000
Document Name: RPO Master Plan Document No: RNE-RPO000 Reference: \RPO000 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
100 PrePlanning
401 DT Optimization 402 KPI Optimization 403 Network Monitoring 404 Technical Support
Documents
From pre-planning to network acceptance, radio network planning and optimization process includes 5 parts. Planning process includes RF Survey, Planning Concept and Practical Planning; while optimization process includes Drive Test optimization, KPI optimization, Network Monitoring and Technical Support.
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1. Pre-Planning
RNE-RPO100
Document Name: Pre-Planning Process Document No: RNE-RPO100 Reference: \RPO000\RPO100 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
Pre-Planning Process
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
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DP
Need Site Survey?
005 DP
Need Model Tuning?
003 DP
Customer Provide Site List ?
RF Engineer
DP Need Simulation?
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Simulation
DP
Plan based on map?
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Pre-Planning Proposal
Requirement Analysis RF engineer analyzes the requirement from the customers. The task could be dimensioning and simulation, current network evaluation or electromagnetic background measurement. Network Dimensioning Network dimensioning is the most general activity in pre-planning phase. Network dimension could be designed by 3 ways. It may come directly from the customer, or from the designing on map. When there is current network available, the current network analysis or new site survey will possibly be committed. Simulation Simulation with some planning tools is very helpful for the network dimensioning. It provides a way to check the accuracy of the planning. During the simulation, the propagation model has to be chosen. It may be chosen by adopting the model of similar terrain that we have, or getting from model tuning (CW test). Network Evaluation Evaluate the whole network performance. For the wireless part, the evaluation is normally made by drive test and KPI analysis.
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Electromagnetic Background Test In order to avoid the possible interference after network implementation, electromagnetic background test is committed to make sure the frequency source is clear and usable. Pre-planning Report Combine all the activities done to a report, and get approval from customers.
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2. Network Planning
RNE-RPO200
Document Name: Network Planning Process Document No: RNE-RPO200 Reference: \RPO000\RPO200 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
001 PrePlanning
002 RF Survey
Following pre-planning, network planning phase includes three main activities, such as RF Survey, Planning Concept, and Practical Planning.
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2.1. RF Survey
RNE-RPO201
Document Name: RF Survey Document No: RNE-RPO201 Reference: \RPO000\RPO200\RPO201 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei Effective Date: Version:
RF Survey
Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
Customer
003 RF Survey
RF Engineer
Team Leader
003 RF Survey
Documents
Site Database
RF Survey Discussion The customer will pass the job request to the team leader OR Huawei will propose the site survey plan to customer. The job requests have to be issued by the customer 2-3 days before the actual site survey date. The content have to include the site name, coordinate, coordinate projection type and time plan to finish all the site survey. The team leader have to consider also the method that the customer want the site survey to be perform since some of the site survey will be done together with the site acquisition that will slow down the whole site survey progress. In addition, the customer may like to send some engineers to join the site survey RF Survey Preparation The template of RF Survey Preparation Check List can be used to perform the site survey and customization is performed when required. The engineer has to make sure that the Site Survey Kit is ready with digital camera, GPS and compass before the site survey is started. The digital map has to be ready so that the site survey can be performed smoother and easier. The site survey schedule can be completed with the help of team leader and then obtain the approval from the team leader. RF Survey The RF survey is performed in this stage either with engineer from customer or done by Huawei engineer. For more detailed about the site survey method, please refer to the RF Survey Guideline document. The information obtained from the site survey is filled into the On-Site RF Survey Report (XXX Site).
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Huawei RNP Work Flow RF Survey Report After finished the site survey, RF engineer should fill the information obtained from the site survey into the RF Survey Report which is perhaps detailed as possible as we can including the photos around the site location etc, under the request from customer. And after finished all sites survey, RF engineer will fill the site information into the RF Survey Summary. Engineering parameter Through the site survey, RF Engineer obtains the information of each site, so the Site Database needs to be refreshed exactly. Its very important to be refreshed uniquely and real time for it is used through the whole project (including optimization).
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Document Name: Network Planning Concept Document No: RNE-RPO202 Reference: \RPO000\RPO200\RPO202 001 Cell Name Cell ID
RNE-RPO202
Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
Team Leader/Customer
002 Freq./PN Planning 003 Coverage / Capacity Highlights 004 Parameter Planning Consideration 005 RNO Acceptance Criteria and Method 006 Practical Planning
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Network Planning Concept RNP Default Parameter Setting Dual-band Parameter Setting
Cell Name/Cell ID The cell naming method, Cell ID, CGI and NCC are obtained from the customer. The customer may provide the cell naming method or the engineer may propose the cell naming method to the customer and get the approval from the customer. Frequency/PN Planning The team leader is responsible to obtain the information includes the total spectrum available, starting and ending of the ARFCN from the customer. Then, the team leader is responsible to determine the frequency reuse pattern and the frequency hopping method that going to implemented in the project. This may include the total number of channels dedicated for BCCH and total number of channels for TCH. In addition, the TCH reuse pattern such as 1X3 or 1X1 reuse pattern is also determined in this stage. The team leader may call for meeting to discuss this issue internally to find out the most suitable frequency plan that suit the frequency available and then send the final frequency plan for customer approval. For CDMA and WCDMA planning, there is a general guideline for the PN/SN planning. Coverage/Capacity Highlights In some projects that have high coverage requirements, the site designs have to be determined to ensure the customer satisfaction. In this stage, the team leader has to get the proper input either from customer or marketing department. The consideration may include the implementation of dual CDU solution, type of combiner used, type of high gain antenna and type of feeder used. This consideration is mainly for dual band network. The engineers have to consider how to absorb and control the dual-band network traffic. The parameters such as the value of CRO, type of HO ( Layer HO or PBGT HO ), HO thresholds, other vendors parameters studies and proposal to change other vendor parameters have to be considered so that the traffic can be distributed more evenly.
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Parameter Planning Consideration In this stage, the default parameters such as the types of handover that are going to be activated, CRO setting for traffic sharing, various types of thresholds, for more detailed about the parameters using, please refer to the RNP Default Parameter setting, (including Dual-band parameter setting) document, have to be determined and then sent to customer for notification and approval. The default parameters in this stage are not meant to generate the complete BSC data but more towards letting the customer knows the general picture of the whole network. All the issues above are combined and a formal report Network Planning Concept has to be delivered to customer when the design concept is finalized. This planning concept will be used both for Huawei engineer and the customer to communicate with regional teams if there are. This process also ensures the customer knows well the planning concept and make the near future work can be performed smoother. RNP Acceptance Criteria and Method In this stage, the KPI definition and KPI target have to be set with the input from customer due to different way of defining the measurement parameters. Huawei engineer may propose the measurement method if there are no specified requirements given by the customer. And then outputs the RNO Acceptance Criteria document. But the KPI targets have to be discussed carefully due to the KPI targets are affecting the future workload. The RNO Acceptance Criteria document is sent to customer for approval when it is finalized with the co-operation from Huawei marketing.
Practical Planning The team leader distributes the planning work to RNP engineer. The engineer does the practical planning such as Frequency/PN planning, Neighbor planning with the Network Planning Concept.
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Practical Planning
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
Customer
004 Proposal Approval 002 001 Planning Concept Freq./PN Planning 003 Neighbor Planning 007 On-site Check 005 RNP Data Config. Table
Data Config. Center
RNO Engineer
Ducument s
BSS Engineer
The planning concepts are obtained from the previous stage and will be the conceptual input in this stage. Frequency/PN and NBR Planning After the required manpower is obtained, the work is distributed to the engineers to finish the frequency and NBR planning. The inputs such as Sites coordinate and the azimuths can be obtained from the site survey Available spectrum and ARFCN, planning concept, hopping method and digital maps can be obtain based on the input from the site survey stage. After all the designs are done, tools to check on the single way neighbor, co-channel and adjacent channel is used to verify the work results produced. The changes are made accordingly and recorded in the Planning Evaluation Record. This document will be the proof for the verification work done and will sent to Headquarter for recording purpose. Proposal Approval The approvals, Network Planning Proposal and RNP proposal Approval Report, have to be obtained from the team leader and the team leader is responsible to send the work to customer for approval. At this stage, the complete cells parameters and cells properties are configured and filled into the RNP Data Configuration Table. The cells parameters such as HO type, thresholds, frequencies, neighbors and other parameters are obtained from the documents that planned internally and approved by the customer. The RNP Cell Data Configuration will be use to generate the database for all the cells that are going to put on service. After the data is verified, the data that in the RNP Data Configuration Table is sent to the Data Configuration Center to generate the BSC data (Database) for the network. And after generating the DBF, the Data Configuration Center will send it to the local RNO engineer and the local BSS engineer. 12/22/2011 Confidential Information of Huawei. No Spreading without Permission Page11, Total21
ON-Site Check According to the RNP Default Parameter setting (possibly including Dual-Band parameter setting) document, the BSC data has to be checked and changes have to be made accordingly due to some default values are different with what required when generating the BSC data. It is STRONGLY recommended to check all the data again by RNO and BSS Engineer after all the changes else there maybe problems when doing the optimization that causes by data configuration.
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3. Cutover / Launch
RNE-RPO300
Document Name: Cut-Over/Launch Process Document No: RNE-RPO300 Reference: \RPO000\RPO300 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
Cut-Over/Launch Process
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
OK? DP N Y
007 Monitoring
DP Installation?
DP Hardware?
DP Feeder/ Antenna?
Documen ts
Site Installation
In this stage, BSS engineer is responsibility for the quality of the site installation. It will affect the network running quality. The customer should prepare the conditions of site installation before installed. Site Commissioning After the sites installed and running, the BSS engineer must do the commissioning test one by one basing on the BTS Commissioning Test Checklist (for RNO). During the test, the BSS engineer must pay attention to the installed quality of BTS hardware, antenna and so on. If there is something wrong in it, it should be corrected and adjusted fast. Installation Adjustment If there is something wrong in installation, it must be adjusted at once. Hardware Adjustment If there is something wrong in Hardware, it must be changed or adjusted at once Antenna Adjustment If there is something wrong in Antenna installation, it must be adjusted at once. Cutover / Launch In this stage, the team leader is responsible for determining the launch plan with the PM and customer. It is suggested to launch the sites per batch basis. The customer input at this time is important also. The site launch on batch basis will reduce the number of times for cutover and this can make all other RNP work can be managed
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4. Network Optimization
RNE-RPO400
Document Name: Network Optimization Process Document No: RNE-RPO400 Reference: \RPO000\RPO400 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
Cutover/Launch (BSC Cutover or Site Launch) During implementation period, Huawei will begin optimization only when a certain number of continuous sites are put on service (for example, 90% of the continuous sites are put on service). For the specified optimization project where there is no site launch at all, the first step is to collect and check site database (engineering parameter table). DT Optimization / KPI Optimization DT optimization and KPI optimization are committed at the same time. According to the plan of project, self-check should be involved to make clear whether the network quality achieve acceptance criterion after X weeks optimization. If acceptance criterion has been achieved and the acceptance time has not arrived, the project moves to Network Monitoring process. Otherwise, analyze the failure reason. If it is because of network optimization, enhance the optimization devotion. If it is because of other reasons, transfer the problem to local or remote Technical Support until the criteria are met, or just present the explanation. In the end, the RPO project moves into network acceptance process. Network Monitoring / Technical Support If acceptance can not be done according to the plan because of the reasons other than network optimization, it is necessary to co-ordinate project team, local office and company support team to stress on tracking and settling the network problem. So the support what we said here includes optimization team, R&D team and marketing team, not only optimization technical support team. Network Acceptance According to network acceptance criterion and method, confirm the optimization result with customers.
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3.1 DT optimization
RNE-RPO401
Document Name: DT Optimization Document No: RNE-RPO401 Reference: \RPO000\RPO400\RPO401 Prepared by: RNP, Huawei Approved by: RNP, Huawei
DT Optimization
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
004 Result Confirmation 005 Antenna Adjustment 006 Parameter Adjustment 007
DP Complete?
Team Leader
DP Y
RF Engineer
001 DT Preparation
OK?
Docume nts
DT Preparation Checklist
Site Database
DT Preparation Before DT optimization, the engineer is required to work out the drive test plan such as test purpose, which route to go, test method, duration to finish the plan, test car, test equipment and etc. DT Preparation Checklist is helpful to do self-check. Drive Test Either the engineer or the sub-contractor performs the drive test. The obtained result will be analysis by the engineer and 2 reports (Drive Test Analysis Report and Drive Test Report) are generated and sent to team leader for approval. The appropriate reasons have to given if the continuous 10 samples collected have low signal or bad quality. The team leader then passes the report to the customer for approval and in the same time show the new launch network performance to the customer. Please refer to the Optimization and FAT Test Standard for more information about the Drive Test method. The drive test analysis can be done based on the urgency of the network situation. If a lot of problems found during drive test, the data have to be sent back ASAP and then correct the problems accordingly. DT Data Analysis When analyzing the drive test data, we have to record the time, position, phenomenon where there is network problem, specify the reasons and propose possible solutions. DT Data analysis table is applied to every time of drive test. After DT analysis, estimate whether the result can meet the target requirement. If the result meets the target, confirm the work with team leader. Result confirmation Finish the DT optimization according to DT Data analysis table and DT optimization Bi-weekly report.
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KPI Optimization
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
Customer
Team Leader
Documents
RF Engineer
RPO Project Report Change Request N/W Optimization Bi-weekly Report Parameter Adjustment Record Problem Investigation Report
Traffic Statistic Data In optimization phase, obtain the traffic statistics from OMC every day. Normally the statistics is of previous day. Network Monitoring According to the statistics data, find out the abnormal site or cell, for example, no traffic, no handoff, call drop, etc. The abnormal cell is normally caused by the hardware failure. All these cells are analyzed by the BSC/RNP engineer and they will start the work to correct it then. The RF engineer also can initiate the BSC engineer to solve the hardware related issues when some problems about the hardware are found in the system. Problem analysis / Terms of Solution / Discussion / Solution Implement During optimization, worst cells are listed out based on the KPI items, and they may be named as problem cell here. The problem cells are analyzed and the proper changes are proposed to the customer. The proposal may include how to solve current network problems such as add/relocate TRX, parameters changes and etc. The main purpose is to improve the total performance of the network. All the more complex solution can also be documented and sent to RNP support department. At the same time, the product suggestion can also be given to improve network capability and the efficiency of the work. After the problem cells proposal and the change request are ready, the discussion with customer is held and the parameters changes are done after the meeting. It is suggested that the meeting should be held earlier so that the parameters changes can be perform in the same date after the meeting with the customer. The second suggestion is try to keep the records of the parameters changes so that the same parameters values wont be performed again and again.
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Network Monitoring
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
006 Approval
RF or Maintenance Engineer
RF or TS Engineer
DP Need Supported
005 Report
Documents
Customer complaint / Traffic statistic data During network monitoring phase, maintenance engineer is keen on customer complaints and traffic statistics. Daily monitoring According to the customer complaints and statistics data, find out the abnormal site or cell, for example, no traffic, no handoff, call drop, etc. The abnormal cell is normally caused by the hardware failure. All these cells are analyzed by the BSC/RNP engineer and they will start the work to correct it then. Problem solving / Report If there is some problem found during monitoring, on-site engineer solves the network problem. During this phase, it is possible to ask for assistance from local office or headquarter.
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Technical Support
Effective Date: Version: Dec. 2003 Version 2.0
OK
Documents
Problem identification & description When the on-site engineer ask for technical support from specific regions or headquarter, he may fill the Problem Feedback Form and send to regional / headquarter technical supporter or upload the problem through Huawei CRMS (Customer Request Management System), and the technical supporter will response those requests. Regional technical support There are several regional technical support platforms in AP, CIS, MENA, SA, etc. When the technical support experts there get the support request, they will deal with problem directly or through CRMS system, and try to solve the problem with on-site engineer finally. Technical support of HQ If some problems cant be solved at regional technical support platform, they will flow to headquarter technical support center. Then the technical support experts there will continue to deal with them. Headquarter technical support team includes experts from R&D, BSS and RNP. Solution implement / Result confirming With the assistance from regional or headquarter technical support team, the on-site engineer discuss the solution with customers and then implement it. If the problem has been solved, notify H&Q technical support to close the problem. For typical problem or important problem, problem investigation report should be generated to customers.
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Customer
003 Acceptance Discussion 003 Acceptance Discussion 001 Traffic Statistic Data 002 DT Data 004 Acceptance Report
RF Engineer
Team Leader
Documents
In the process of Planning Concept, the KPI have been defined and agreed with the customer. The formal document RNP Acceptance Criteria and Method has to be produced and signed both by the marketing department and the project manager. This document normally is done after the contract is secured. After the optimization for some time and all the KPI values have passed the target value as defined in the KPI document, the FAT can be initiated and Network Optimization Report is prepared and sent to the customer to end the project. The FAT criteria have to be considered in the report that may include the drive test result and the breakdown of the KPI targets. Then the report is sent to the team leader for approval and then for customer approval. Complete optimization After getting the approval of the optimization, all optimization items finish. Backup the BSC data in the network, and pigeonhole all project documents to company server according to RNP Document Guideline.
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