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Content for
TR 32.838
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References
3
Definitions and abbreviations
4
Quality and quantity of alarms
5
Automatic software management
6
Energy saving
7
Self Organizing Networks (SON)
8
Performance Management (PM) enhancements
9
Enhancement of Trace functionality
10
eNodeB Plug & Play - Self commissioning
11
OSS Standard Itf-N
12
OSS tool support for optimization and operation
13
Automatic inventory
14
Conclusion
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Change History
2
References
p. 6
3
Definitions and abbreviations
p. 11
3.1
Definitions
p. 11
3.2
Abbreviations
p. 11
4
Quality and quantity of alarms
p. 12
4.1
Overall alarming concept
p. 12
4.2
Alarm quantity
p. 12
4.2.1
General
p. 12
4.2.2
Alarm correlation
p. 13
4.2.3
Number of alarms
p. 13
4.3
Alarm quality
p. 14
4.3.1
Focus on customer and service impact
p. 14
4.3.2
Prioritization of alarms
p. 14
4.3.3
Alarm maintenance manuals
p. 15
4.3.4
Alarm text
p. 15
4.4
Interfaces
p. 15
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Automatic software management
p. 16
5.1
Short term recommendations
p. 16
5.1.1
Network Element (NE) health-check
p. 16
5.1.2
Automated software download
p. 16
5.1.3
One-click NE software activation
p. 17
5.1.4
Automatic rollback
p. 17
5.2
Long term recommendations
p. 18
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Energy saving
p. 19
6.1
Recommendations on NE / X2 interface
p. 19
6.2
OSS/EMS recommendations
p. 21
6.3
Change Requests (CRs) related to energy saving work items
p. 28
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Self Organizing Networks (SON)
p. 30
7.1
OAM Support for SON
p. 30
7.2
Generic optimization
p. 34
7.3
Automatic Neighbour Relation (ANR)
p. 40
7.4
Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT)
p. 45
7.5
Handover (HO) optimization
p. 47
7.6
Load Balancing (LB)
p. 52
7.7
Cell Outage Compensation (COC)
p. 57
7.8
Common Channel Optimization
p. 61
7.9
Interactions between Home and Macro BTS
p. 63
7.10
SON in CN
p. 68
7.11
QoS optimization
p. 69
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Performance Management (PM) enhancements
p. 72
8.1
Free configurable measurement and delivery periods
p. 72
8.2
Efficient data transfer mechanism
p. 72
8.3
Enhance Management System (EMS) internal post-processing
p. 72
8.4
Automated counter or counter group administration
p. 73
8.5
Automated performance data quality management
p. 73
8.6
Function for simple threshold based on counters and KPIs
p. 73
8.7
Function for simple KPI calculation based on counters
p. 74
8.8
Automatic identification of network problems and error correction
p. 74
8.9
Standardization of Performance Management (PM)
p. 74
8.10
Real time behaviour of Performance Management (PM)
p. 75
8.11
UE-based measurements
p. 75
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Enhancement of Trace functionality
p. 76
9.1
Trace on Uu, S1 and X2 interfaces
p. 76
9.2
Support for trouble-shooting, optimization, network wide monitoring and trouble detection and customer specific trouble shooting
p. 76
9.3
UE support for transparent collection and reporting of measurements / events
p. 76
9.4
Interface to external 3rd party systems
p. 77
9.5
Capture and store real-time data across technologies
p. 77
9.6
Successful and unsuccessful calls
p. 77
9.7
High number of users / events
p. 78
9.8
Set call identifying parameter values
p. 78
10
eNodeB Plug & Play - Self commissioning
p. 79
11
OSS Standard Itf-N
p. 84
12
OSS tool support for optimization and operation
p. 89
13
Automatic inventory
p. 89
14
Conclusion
p. 91
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Change History
p. 92