Thursday, May 13, 2010

Probable Reasons of SDCCH Congestion


---Low Availability


Action: Check SDCCH Availability. Check if the channels are manual, control or automatic blocked.






---Increasing Traffic Demand
The high traffic could be related to an occasional event or due to a long term growth.


Action: Check if short term traffic growth. Make trend comparisons. Check if combined SDCCH is used. Check SDCCH dimensioning.






---Bad use of Adaptive configuration of Logical Channels


By using the Adaptive configuration of logical channels feature, the basic SDCCH configuration in a cell will be under-dimensioned. If this feature is not used correctly, it will cause SDCCH congestion.


Action: Check if ACSTATE is on. Check parameters related to Adaptive configuration of logical channels




---Long Mean Holding Time


If the mean holding time is long, this generates a higher traffic load.


Action: Check SDCCH Mean Holding Time






---Too Frequent Periodic Registration


Action: Check Random Access Distribution. Check the timer T3212 in the BSC and the parameters






---BTDM and GTDM in the MSC


Solution: Decrease the periodic registration.






---Location Area Border Cell


If the cell is situated on a misplaced Location Area border, this means that unnecessary many normal LUs are performed.


Action: Check site position and location area border. Check Location Update Performance. Check parameter CRH etc.




---Extensive SMS Usage


Extensive SMS usage increases the SDCCH traffic and could cause congestion if badly dimensioned SDCCH channels.


Action: Check SMS activity.






---Cell Broadcast Used


Action: Check if Cell Broadcast is active. .If active, check if it is used by the operator.






---IMSI Attach/Detach in Use.


An introduction of IMSI attach/detach will increase the traffic on SDCCH. However, the benefits are that the paging success rate will increase. The recommendation is to use Attach/Detach.




---Cell Software File Congestion


Action: Check SAE setting. High Ratio of Random Accesses


Action: Check Random Access performance

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