LTE Counters and KPI

 ACADEMY

Course Number  

RA4133-70A

Course Title

LTE Counters and KPI [RL70/RL45]

Course Duration

3 Days

Brief Description Target Group

Radio performance engineers Network Engineering and Optimization personnel

Learning Target

The participant is able to: explain the Nokia LTE counter and KPI architecture decide suitable settings for measurement administration analyse the root cause of LTE call performance problems in signalling flows analyse LTE capacity bottlenecks and mobility problems In detail the participant is able to: OSS aspects Explain the principles of measurement activation, with available and applicable settings Describe the measurements supported in Nokia E-UTRAN and give a general counter overview Describe the performance measurement architecture KPI architecture differentiate Field versus RAN measurements and KPI’s e.g. coverage, access, retainability, mobility, service quality Give a general counter overview on M8xxxx Discuss the different counter areas available for LTE Capacity areas and cell resource measurements describe the different capacity areas in E-UTRAN explain outer and inner loop link quality control and the corresponding measurements analyze measurements regarding link adaptation, the selection of MCSs and adaptive transmission bandwidth explain the counters and KPIs related to packet scheduling, MIMO and power control explain the counters and KPI’s for throughput and cell   

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availability Paging and RRC Connection explain idle and connected states within LTE Describe the counters and related KPI’s defined for the DRX features Describe the counters and related KPI’s defined for the TTI Bundling feature (FDD) describe the phases, counters and related KPI’s defined for the RRC connection setup procedure. RAB and NAS counters describe the LTE bearer concept (E-RAB, EPS bearer, S1 and S5/S8 bearer) explain in detail the signaling for bearer setup and the corresponding counters Discuss possibilities for investigations by using existing counters list release counters and explain their meaning Identify Counters for QCI Mobility measurements in connected mode Differentiate HO types and Mobility events in LTE. describe the intra and inter eNodeB Handover phases and related KPI's Describe Inter-eNB Inter-Frequency Load Balancing explain inter-frequency / inter-RAT redirection Describe HO via X2,S1 interface. Describe Performance matters relating to CSFB. Describe Performance matters relating to SRVCC. Describe the inclusion of the HeNB support.  

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Prerequisite

RA4100: LTE Architecture TM5115: LTE and SAE Fundamentals TM5117: LTE Air Interface RA4120 : LTE Radio Planning RA4121: LTE Parameters

Contents

OSS aspects KPI architecture Capacity areas and cell resource measurements Paging and RRC Connection RAB and NAS counters Mobility measurements in connected mode

Course Type

THY=Theoretical course

Skill Level

EXP expert