R99 Only

R99 Only

This refers to a pure WCDMA network with R99 services only. This section will look at the methods to improve the RF properties and R99 performance of the network. A separate sub-section at the end of this section will discuss other tuning considerations introduced by the new P6 RAN features.

Under the initial tuning process flow, once the preparations are done, data collection by means of drive testing and traffic recording (UETR) will take place. Refer to Section ‎2.2 for detailed description of data collection based on drive tests and traffic recording. Analysis of the data will be carried out after data collection; changes will be proposed for implementation and verified with separate round of drive test / analysis. This repetition of data collection and analysis will be done till the tuning objective is achieved.

The analysis section can be categorized into the following areas;

RF analysis

· SC plan verification

· Coverage

· Pilot pollution

· Neighbour cell list




Service Performance analysis

· Accessibility

· Retainability

· Integrity



Under RF analysis, the main areas which are being looked at are coverage, pilot pollution and neighbour relations. RF analysis is often performed based on scanner data. Service impact problems like blocked calls, dropped calls and low throughput are analyzed using UE events (Service Performance).