Antenna Guideline

Keep standard azimuth 40/160/280

Electrical tilt is the preferred tilting type, mechanical tilt should be avoided if possible.
More than 8 degree need justification, Less than 2 degree tilt need justification
To avoid unnecessary antenna adjustments, tilting shall be done in 2 degree steps for normal antennas
0, 2, 4, 6, 8 degree
As high gain antennas are more critical for tilting for them 1 degree steps could be apply

Overshooting Guideline
OSS TA measurements are used for identification of general overshooting cases as the granularity is
550m only, DT confirmation is a must before physical adjustment
<90% of samples in TA 0&1 for inner areas indicates possible overshooting
Case by case studies are needed to identify overshooting cases considering site to site distance and RF
real environment
Scan interferer by halting serving cell and confirming BCCH BSIC LAC CELLID to judge the overshooting
cell if needed
Regular DT results will be used to locate overshooting cases in the field


Summary Common RF issues
Capacity Guideline
Maximum TRX configuration for GSM 4 TRX and for DCS 8 TRX
DCS is the main traffic layer and target is to bring as much traffic to DCS as possible. 3G share around
10% of voice traffic
30% of HR can be accepted in cells with maximum configuration. More than 30% HR can only be a
temporary solution to avoid blocking in the network
Traffic sharing between the layer and to neighbor cells without major impacts to coverage or
performance has higher priority than new sites Also need to check 3G colo sites to share traffic
Planning 4 static PDCH for each cell (30% of TCH shall be defined as dynamic TCH/PDCH) for initial
configuration, adjustment to traffic demand shall be apply based on traffic measurements

Uplink Interference Guideline
Identification of Uplink Interferences by Idle Channel Measurements of the TRX
Measurements in Idle Band 3-5 >10% of samples indicates serious interference of the cell
CDMA interference solution is installing filter, Inter modulation solution need to check hardware

Link Imbalance Guideline
Link imbalance between uplink and downlink case can be identified from the TRX measurements
Downlink issue if 30% of samples in Level 1&2
Uplink issue if 30% of samples in Level 10&11
Such link imbalance issues need hardware check

Summary Common RF issues
Correct setup of tool, test method, test time and test route are essential for reliable & comparable drive test
results, all the setting should keep the same

Weak Coverage
Weak coverage can only be judged from idle mode Rx_Lev measurements.
Need to confirm if the cell had HW issues and confirm if coverage gap exist long time or short time
For weak coverage near the site, need to check the real environment and antenna configuration
(site audit report or sites audit)
New site can be proposed in weak coverage area far away from current sites

Bad Quality
Bad RxQual values are 5, 6 and 7, if such values appear for a longer time period the network
quality is bad and need improvements
BQ issues need to confirm no weak coverage problem first
Need check BQ on BCCH or TCH and the serving cell and NB signal level
Interferences on DCS TCH can only take place if the same sector from different sites are covering
the same area (3*1 reuse pattern)
Interference must be located and the interference signal from non serving cells need to be
reduced by physical adjustment or increase signal level of serving cell
Summary DT Issues
Handover Issue
All handover issues need to check the algorithm parameter setting first
Handover failure issue, need to check and improve the RF quality when handover happen. And need to
check the target cell condition, like capacity or interference or HW issues.
No handover issue, MS cannot handover to a suitable cell as algorithm defined, there is the need to
check the reason like blocking of target cell, missing handover relation, bad quality and uplink problems
of target cell
Ping-Pong handover, usually happened in no dominant server areas as identified during DT. There is
the need to get a dominant server by improving coverage from one main cell and reduce signal of other
cells. Or need to check HW issue like partial cross feeder.
Summary DT Issues