The present document specifies end-to-end Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the 5G network and network slicing.
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
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References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
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For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
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For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
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TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2] Void.
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ITU-T Recommendation E.800: "Definitions of terms related to quality of service".
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TS 24.501: " Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for 5G System (5GS); Stage 3".
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TS 38.331: "NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification".
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TS 28.552: "Management and orchestration; 5G performance measurements".
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TS 23.501: " System Architecture for the 5G System; Stage 2".
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ETSI ES 203 228 V1.2.1 (2017-04): "Environmental Engineering (EE); Assessment of mobile network energy efficiency".
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TS 28.310: "Management and orchestration; Energy efficiency of 5G".
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ETSI 202 336-12 V1.2.1 (2019-02): "Environmental Engineering (EE); Monitoring and control interface for infrastructure equipment (power, cooling and building environment systems used in telecommunication networks); Part 12: ICT equipment power, energy and environmental parameters monitoring information model".
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ETSI GS NFV-IFA 027 V4.0.2 (2020-11): "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 4; Management and Orchestration; Performance Measurements Specification".
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TS 22.261: "Service requirements for the 5G system".
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TS 38.214: "NR; Physical layer procedures for data".
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TS 38.321: "NR; Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification".
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TS 38.473: "NG-RAN; F1 Application Protocol (F1AP)".
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TS 28.318: "Management and Orchestration; Network and Service Operations for Energy Utilities (NSOEU)".
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TS 28.313: "Management and orchestration; Self-Organizing Networks (SON) for 5G networks".
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in
TR 21.905.
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in
TR 21.905.
EE
Energy Efficiency
J
Joule
kbit
kilobit (1000 bits)
RTT
Round Trip Time
The following KPI categories are included in the present document:
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Accessibility (see the definition in [3]).
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Integrity (see the definition in [3]).
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Utilization.
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Retainability (see the definition in [3]).
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Mobility.
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Energy Efficiency.
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Reliability (See the definition in [13]).
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For future update of the document it will also include:
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Availability.
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Name (Mandatory): This field shall contain the name of the KPI.
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Description (Mandatory): This field shall contain the description of the KPI.
Within this field it should describe if the KPI is focusing on network or user view. This filed should also describe the logical KPI formula to derive the KPI. For example, a success rate KPI's logical formula is the number of successful events divided by all events. This field should also show the KPI unit (e.g., kbit/s, millisecond) and the KPI type (e.g., mean, ratio).
c)
Formula definition (Optional):
This field should contain the KPI formula using the 3GPP defined measurement names.
This field can be used only when the measurement(s) needed for the KPI formula are defined in 3GPP TS for performance measurements (
TS 28.552). This field shall clarify how the aggregation shall be done, for the KPI object level(s) defined in d).
d)
KPI Object (Mandatory)
This field shall contain the DN of the object instance where the KPI is applicable, including the object where the measurement is made. The DN identifies one object instance of the following IOC:
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NetworkSliceSubnet
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SubNetwork
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NetworkSlice
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NRCellDU
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NRCellCU
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Remark (Optional):
This field is for additional information required for the KPI definition,
e.g. the definition of a call in UTRAN.