AriesoGEO User LTE - Exercises (ARI0013x-06)

ariesoGEO User LTE - Exercises

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Contents

Platfo rm Arc hi hitect tectur ure e and Operatio n ..... ......... ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ .... 1-1 Platform Architecture and Operation ................................................................ ................................................................ 1-2

Networ k Topo lo logy gy and System Pre-Checks ...... .......... ........ ........ ........ ........ .... 2-1 Network Topology and System Pre-Checks ................................................... ..................................................... .. 2-2

RF Anal yses Netw Networ or k and Cell - LTE........... ...................... ...................... ................ ..... 3-1 Network RF Performance .......................................................... ................................................................................. ....................... 3-2 Cell Footprint Analysis .............................................................. ...................................................................................... ........................ 3-3

Call and Conn ect ectio io n Analy An alysi si s - LTE ........... ...................... ...................... ................. ...... 4-1 Connection Analysis ......................................................................................... ......................................................................................... 4-2 VoLTE Usage...................................................... Usage.................................................................................................... ..............................................4-2 Identifying and Investigating Underperforming Underperf orming Subscribers ............................ 4-3 Caller Analysis: VIP .......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... 4-3 4.4.1 VIP Analysis: ........................................................ ........................................................................................... ................................... 4-3

Anal An alys ysii ng Data Per fo r man ce - LTE .................................... ...................... .................. .... 5-1 Analysing Data Performance ..................................................... ............................................................................ ....................... 5-2

Gri d Calcu lat lator or - LTE ........... ...................... ...................... ...................... ...................... ................... ........ 6-1 Grid Calculator .................................................... ................................................................................................. ............................................. 6-2

Creati ng Repor ts and Exp Expor or ts .......... ..................... ...................... ...................... ................ ..... 7-1 Creating Reports and Exports ............................................................. .......................................................................... ............. 7-2

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Platform Architecture and Operation

Platform Arc Archit hite ectu cture re and and Ope pera rati tion on

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Platfor latform m Archit Arch ite ectu cture re and Operation Operation Here we will run through the operations discussed during the slides with the introductory example of identifying RNC boundaries and Scrambling Codes on 2 maps.

Step 1 Run Start > Accessories > Remote Desktop on your PC and enter IP address of the ariesoGEO Application Server

Step 2 Run ariesoGEO Which Analyses categories are available from the Data Explorer?

Step 3 Drag a Map Control onto the Canvas and navigate to a cluster of interest. Are all your base sites visible?

Step 4 Expand Data Explorer > Network Themes and drag Tracking Area onto the Map Control. Are the boundaries boundaries correctly displayed? displayed?

Step 5 Hover the curser over a sector. What cell information can you read off?

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Step 6 Drag a second Map Control onto the Canvas

Step 7 Drag the white square (Bounding Box) identifying the geographic boundary from the first Map Control to the second. Has the second Map taken on the same Geographic bounds to the first?

Step 8 Go to Data Explorer > Network Themes and drag the PCI analysis onto the Map Control. Are the cell colours colours now linked to the PCI values?

Step 9 Select the Network Search button and type in a cell name. Can ariesoGEO locate the cell in the centre of the map for you?

Step 10 Hover your cursor over the Presentation Canvas Filter icon. What variable is being used as the inherited Time Period?

Step 11 From the Map Control, create a Polygon

Step 12 Rename the Polygon to your name and Save it in your Local folder

Step 13 Add your Polygon Polygon to the Filter menu for the Canvas Control. Control. Is your Polygon now displayed displayed in the Geographic Area of the Filter?

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Network Topology Topology and System Pre-Checks

Netw twork ork Topo opolo logy gy and System PrePreChecks

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Network Topology and System Pre-Checks

Netw Ne twork ork Topo opolo logy gy and Syst yste em Pre-C Pre-Checks In this session, we will investigate the network information and run some analyses to check system data.

Step 1 In a new Canvas, open a new Map control and zoom-in to an area of interest. When was the Network layer loaded last time? How many sites and sectors are loaded in total?

Step 2 Add a new Table Table control and drag a Network Network > Active Network Network Cells analysis analysis onto it.

Step 3 On the Map control, mouse hover a sector to show cell details. Compare this table with the Active Network Cells table: Which table has additional cell information? What extra information is provided?

Step 4 Add a new Table Table Control and drag an Administrative Administrative > Data Loading > Loading Summary Daily analysis onto it. Filter this analysis to the last 5 days (if available) Do all time periods listed above have data available?

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RF Analyses Network and Cell - LTE

RF Analyses Analy ses Netw Networ ork k and Cell - LTE

Network RF Performance .......................................................... ................................................................................. ....................... 3-2 Cell Footprint Analysis .............................................................. ...................................................................................... ........................ 3-3

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RF Analyses Network and Cell - LT LTE E

Netw Ne twor ork k RF Perfor erformance mance We will practise looking for the RFI KPI’s within the confines of your Map Control. What does this icon represent

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Step 1 From the Canvas Menu, un-tick Enable Running of Analyses

Step 2 Right-click the Filter menu on the Canvas and set the Time Period to yesterday. (or appropriate date)

Step 3 Within the Filter menu, select just j ust one carrier (ARFCN).

Step 4 Open up Data Explorer > Analyses (LTE) > RF and drag the Best Cell onto your Map Control.

Step 5 In the Canvas Tab, Use the tick box to Restrict to Map Area and re-enable Running of Analyses.

Step 6 Select the RSRQ Map view What are the highest and lowest values of RSRQ in the area?

Step 7 Repeat the above for RSRP. What are the highest and lowest RSRP values in the area?

Step 8 Use the Raster Analysis at point to f ind specific values on the map.

Step 9 Right click on the coloured disc and open the Colour Scheme Editor. Rename the Colour label for the strongest RSCP to “High”.

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RF Analyses Network and Cell - LTE

Step 10 Drag the coloured disc from Colour Scheme Editor and drop in onto the Analysis. Has the legend updated?

Step 11 Un-tick the RSRP analysis and select Best Cell. Does the selected area have good dominance?

Which cells show poor dominance?

Step 12 Run the Best Cell By MOU. Does this improve the visual Dominance?

Step 13 Drag a Chart Control onto your Canvas

Step 16 From the RF Folder drag the Binned Mean RSRP CDF onto the chart. How can we tell that the RF Histogram needs a Chart?

Step 17 What values of RSRP is being reported as 90% or better for your network?

Cell Footp ootprint rint Ana Analysi lysis s This session will introduce individual cell analysis and investigate CQI and Measurements per Cell.

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Step 2 Navigate in Data Explorer to Analyses (LTE) > RF. Drag Best Cell Footprints onto the Map Control and filter for the chosen cell. What analysis does the Best Cell Footprints produce?

Step 3 With the ruler, measure the range of where the cell is appearing strongly.

Step 4 What is the range of RSRQ values for the filtered Cell?

Step 5 Drag a new Table Control onto the Canvas. Navigate to Data Explorer > Analyses (LTE)>RF>CQI (LTE)>RF>CQI and drag drag the CQI by Cell onto onto the Table. Table. Note: This analysis will run for the filtered area and all cells. Drag the Filter for the Best Cell Footprint to the table filter to analyse the specific cell. What was the value CQI most used by t he specific cell?

Step 6 Navigate to RF>Measurements and apply the Measurements by Cell to a table. Filter for the Cell used in Steps 1-5. What are the average values of RSRP and RSRQ?

Step 7 Un-tick all the analyses that are open on the Map Control. Enable the PCI Collisions Collisions feature. Zoom into the Map Control to a suitable level. Do any cells have potential PCI collisions?

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Call and Connection Analysis - LTE

Call and Con onnecti nection on An Ana aly lysi sis s - LTE LTE

Connection Analysis ......................................................................................... ......................................................................................... 4-2 VoLTE Usage...................................................... Usage.................................................................................................... ..............................................4-2 Identifying and Investigating Underperforming Underperf orming Subscribers ............................ 4-3 Caller Analysis: VIP .......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... 4-3 4.4.1 VIP Analysis: ........................................................ ........................................................................................... ................................... 4-3

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Call and Connection Analysis - LT LTE E

Connection Ana Analysis lysis The connections established by users can be investigated in the folder LTE>Connections.

Step 1 Run the Connections analysis. CAUTION, this can take a long time to run so make sure that the filter setting are for a small geographical geographical area and short time period (last 24 hours). What was the highest DL Ack Volume?

Step 2 To investigate geographical areas of high connections then apply LTE> Call Table> Call Table Data KPIs. Identify an area of high Downlink Usage. What was the highest DL volume?

VoLTE VoL TE Usage Usage Step 1 To investigate the usage of VoLTE filter the Call Data KPIs by a QCI of 1 and re-run the analysis. What is the maximum volume of data used for VoLTE?

Step 2 To find the Minutes of Use of VoLTE traffic then run VoLTE Traffic Volume in the folder f older LTE>VoLTE. TE>VoLTE. What was the highest minutes of VoLTE usage?

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Identifying Identif ying and Inve nvestig stiga ating Underpe nderperform rforming ing Subscribers Step 1 Run the Worst N Subscribers drops analysis located in the folder LTE>Subscriber and Cell. What was the highest number of drops?

Step 2 Copy the IMSI of the subscriber.

Step 3 Run a Locations analysis from the LTE>Points folder and filter for the copied IMSI and End Category of Drop.

Step 4 Zoom to the area of t he drops and using the Call Spider select a Drop

Step 5 What was the last message seen on the layer 3 drilldown?

Step 6 Run the Count of Drops by Reason and filter for the IMSI. What was the highest Drop reason?

Call Ca ller er Analysis Analys is:: VIP VIP In this session, we will monitor the performance of VIPs.

4.4.1 VIP Analysis: Step 1 Open a new Canvas and filter by any available VIP lists.

Step 2 Using VIP folder analyses, VIP Locations, apply the analysis to a map. Filter it for a VIP and end reason of Drop

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Step 3 Choose a drop and analyse it. What were the signal levels before the drop?

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Analysing Data Performance - LTE LTE

An A n al aly y s i n g Dat Data a Perf Per f o r m an anc c e - LTE L TE

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Analysing Data Performance - LTE

An al aly y s i n g Dat Data a Perfo Perf o r m an anc ce In this session we will analyse some Data Performance statistics.

Step 1 Open up a Map Control and zoom so you see a small number of cells.

Step 2 Define the boundaries of the Map Control as the analysis area.

Step 3 Using the Canvas Filter to select the Time to a 1 hour period of your choice.

Step 4 Navigate in Data Explorer to LTE>Data>Data KPIs and drag onto the Map Control. What map analyses does this show you?

Identify a hotspot Downlink Volume area. What was the t he maximum Downlink Throughput?

Step 5 Open a Chart Control.

Step 6 Run the Data Against Time in the chart

Step 7 Select the DL Volume. At what time was peak usage?

Step 8 Select the Avg DL Throughput. At what time was the peak throughput and what is the value at that time?

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Grid Calculator - LT LTE E

Gri rid d Calc Calcul ulator ator - LTE

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Grid Ca Calcu lculator lator In this session we will make use of Grid Calculator to locate hotspot traffic areas with RF coverage issues.

Step 1 Input analyses: choose an area of your interest. Set the Canvas Filter to a specific LTE carrier, an appropriate Map Bounds and duration time to one day (due to processing time constraints).

Step 2 Drag-and-drop Best Cell and Data KPIs onto a Map. Let all analysis run and check if the results are valid.

Step 3 Mouse hover on the Analysis DL Volume and note the max value.

Step 4 Run Grid Calculator and define map boundaries in the Area Mask by dragand-dropping Map Bounds icon to the Area Mask field

Step 5 Drag-and-drop previously ran DL Volume and Best Cell's RSRQ from the Map Layers to Source Grids area.

Step 6 Input the following formula in Expression field: (DLVolume_kb>= Thres1) AND (BestCell_sRSRQ<=Thres2) Replacing Thres1 and Thres2 by Thres2 by appropriate values.

Step 7 Provide a name in the Output Grid Name, e.g. “High Data & Poor Quality”, to the analysis. Click the GO button to create the output grid.

Step 8 Analysing the Output Output Grid: drag-and-drop drag-and-drop the Output Grid entry entry to the Map Control. Configure the new layer Colour Scheme in order to show only bins with value 1 (TRUE). What does this Output Grid analysis map is telling t elling you?

Step 9 Make the necessary changes to replace the RSRQ criteria of the expression by RSRP values of re-run the grid calculator. Plot the new output grid analysis on the Map Control What does this new Output Grid analysis map is telling you? 6-2


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Step 10 The grid calculator can be used to show where there are areas that are high usage and have poor quality or power. Enter the expression:(DLVolume_kb>= Thres1) AND ((BestCell_sRSRQ<=Thres2) OR (BestCell_sRSRQ<=Thres3) Replacing Thres1, Thres2 and Thres3 by Thres3 by appropriate values.

Step 11 Drop the new grid calculator results onto a map.

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Creating Reports and Exports

Crea reati ting ng Repor Reports ts and Expo Export rts s

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Crea Cre ati ting ng Repor Reports ts and Exports Export s In this session we will create a Template and a Report. What are the 2 ways of sharing an ariesoGEO Analysis with a colleague?

Step 1 Open up a Map Control and create an analysis that comprises of two or three analysis of your choice. Perform the analysis for an appropriate time period and filter for just one carrier of your choice.

Step 2 Limit the bounds of the map to a polygon of your creation.

Step 3 From File menu, Save As a Template. Ensure that the template does not prompt for any variables.

Step 4 Close the Document and open up the Template. Has the analysis been recreated?

Step 5 Click on Publish to the Web and define a report name.

Step 6 Now minimise ariesoGEO within the Remote Desktop application.

Step 7 Use Internet Explorer and type in http://localhost/geoweb http://localhost/geoweb to the t he URL.

Step 8 Navigate to your report. See what changes you can make within the window.

Step 9 From ariesoGEO, click on Scheduled Report and set a task for your Template to be published to a folder on a daily basis. Who will have access to the Reports when they are created?

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After opening a Report, Report, can we modify modify the Filter and perform perform the Analyses again?

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