SIEMENS 17a - RC - New Features of BR 9

GERAN 2006 Workshop
BR 9.0 − Radio Commander Feature Overview

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS
Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 3 Communications

BR9.0 Workshop – RC – New Features of BR9.0
BR9.0 Feature Highlights
Architectural
 World market release for common platform RC BR9.0/UMR6.0
 RC overload protection
 Support of eBSC
Call Processing
 DTM support (second step)

 SMLC database generation
Performance
 Larger number of supported network elements

 Faster software download

BR9.0 Feature Highlights
Reliability
 N+1 redundancy for RC
 LAN card redundancy
Usability
 Time handling
 Easy navigation to BSS cell data
PM/Tracing
 Various important counter and trace possibilities added
Security
 Implementation of IPsec
 Support of ssh, sftp
Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21218
Common platform for RC (GSM + UMTS)
Description
 Operation and maintenance of UMTS and GSM radio
equipment on a single RC installation
 Architectural preparation already in UMR4/BR8 done NMC
 Pilot and world market release in UMR6/BR9
Benefits RC
 Reduced investment in OAM installations

 Less efforts for operation complex networks
BSC RNC
(1 center for all)
 Less maintenance efforts for OAM systems TRAU BTS NB
(e.g. updates only for one system …)
GERAN UTRAN

SF 21218
Common platform for RC (GSM + UMTS)
Description
RC
Example of common FM:

 Additional flag to indicate GSM/UMTS
BSC RNC
 Supports filter/sort
TRAU BTS NB
GERAN UTRAN
Benefits
With same concepts,

one OMP, one window:
 OPEX + CAPEX savings

SF 21261
RC overload handling
Description
In case of irregular network load
RC reacts in a controlled way
 Permanent monitoring of NE event rates based on RC Self-Monitoring
Overload
Notifications
preconfigured thresholds (aging in buffers)
 Radio Commander monitors also internal resources
(e.g. amount of virtual memory, stack size, file size, RC E
v en
number of file descriptors etc.) Ev
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 Information of operators about irregular “overload on
ion
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situations” and when normal operation is back al g
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 Increase system stability by preventing processes
from exceeding upper limits
RC Processes RC Event Queues

Benefits
 Increased availability by graceful degradation in case of overload
 Possibility for operator to fix problems before outaging will occur
RC performance improvements for BR9
Description
 Significant extension of number of managed NEs:

 30.000 TRXs (compared to 21.000 in BR8)
 up to 40.000 TRX with decreased performance
 up to 84 BSCs (now including new eBSC)
 higher PM data volume possible
RC
Benefits
 Managing larger amount of NEs BSC 1 ... BSC 84

by a single O&M system
 less HW/SW investment necessary TRX TRX
TRX 1 TRX...
2
39000 40000
 lower administrative efforts

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliability
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21269
Enhancements of RC N-interfaces (Q3)
Description
 Support 3GPP Release 6
 new functions:
 Partial alarm alignment (related to a subTree)
 Notification to NMC in case of necessary CM alignment
 Partial CM alignment (related to a subTree)
 additional attribute to describe sub-networks,
useful when using more then one MCC (Mobile Country Code)
Benefits
 Increased performance for alarm - and CM alignment
 more efficient operation on network management level by the newest
features of 3GPP

SF 20651
Corba Northbound Interface
Description Corba-based Interface V2, 3GPP R6

 Extension of Corba V1 by PM and NRM IRPs
 Upgrade existing IRPs to 3GPP R6 version
 Supported IRPs
 Performance Management IRP (3GPP-compliant XML file format)
 Transport Signaling NRM IRP
 Inventory Management (3GPP-compliant XML file format)
 Flexible Upgrade strategy
 <N-2> backward compatibility
 Each Commander supports two Corba NBI versions in parallel
(concurrent use of V1 and V2)
Benefits  3GPP Standard Interface allows better integration into mOSS

 Target to have one interface across the FCAPs (FM, PM, CM)
 Common Interface strategy with other commanders e.g. Switch
Commander & @Commander

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21260
Introduction of IPsec (CERT requirement)
Citrix-Terminal
Description
IPSec traffic ICA /SSL
 Secure communication within RC by encryption of
traffic
 between OMP and OMT/OMT Server
(X-Terminals could be also covered project specific) OMT OMP OMT-S
 OTS-link is also included
 Encryption / encapsulation of plain text protocols
(e.g. telnet) transmitted via IP
 IPSec as 3GPP recommendation
BSC TRAU
 Administration via pre-shared key
 Necessary SW already included in base package
(SunWcry package) BTS BTS BTS
Benefits
 Protection of RC by encryption of data transfer
SF 21260
SSH for all Unix-based network elements in RAN
Description
 Communication from external Service PC
to Unix devices of RC and OTS (OMP,
OMT, any workstation) can be secured by
ssh and sftp
 Entire SW Suite of OpenSSH supported
(e.g. ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-keysign,
ssh-keyscan, ssh-keygen, sftp-server)
 SW activation possible without reboot
 Traditional protocols
(e.g. telnet, rlogin, ftp) still available
Benefits
 Secure communication over unprotected (e.g. outsourced) network
 Easy installation, less downtime due to integration in standard load of RC

SF 21260
Security at LMT – Access protection at network elements
Description
 Authentication at Network Element on „per user base“

 Password-protected accounts at Network Elements
 Deployment of feature optional BSC
 Blocking of LMT Users supported for BSC, TRAU, BTS

LMT
BTS
BTS
Benefits
 Improved security for NE access from LMT

 Allows for an integrated company wide user administration

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21264
N+1 redundancy
Description
 Periodical backup of active RC configuration data
by redundant RC via script based procedure
 Easy activation of redundant RC in case of Standby OMP OMP Standby
failure of an active RC activation in
case of outage
Precondition
Daily config data updates
 Investment in ONE additional RC Server
 Optional feature "n+1 redundancy" Live OMPs OMP OMP OMP
Benefits
 Redundant RC can take over the network control of the former active RC,
i.e. Configuration Management, Fault Management, etc.
(depending on no. of connected NEs, OMP HW, start-up appr. 30 min + alignment of NEs)
 Geographic redundancy possible
(benefit compared to classical cluster solutions having distance limitations
due to shared disk (e.g. appr. 30 m for SCSI connected disks))
LAN Card Redundancy for RC
Description
 Redundancy of NE LAN connections on RC
RC Server
 Automatic switch over between LAN cards
 Usage of IP multi-pathing Feature of Solaris 10
 Failover without stop of RC operations
 Available for redundant and non-redundant
X LAN
Card 1
LAN
Card 2
RC configurations
 Alarming in case of failure via SMC X
(additionally: forwarding via SMC to RC)
DCN
Benefits
 High availability for IP based O-link on RC

Network Elements

Agenda
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Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
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SF 21263
Cross Copy for Core Redundancy in BTSE
Description
 Copy of BTSE configuration data between
redundant HW instances
 Automatic alignment of data
 Manual switchover - and thus service outage -
in order to configure the redundant COBA is
no longer necessary
Benefits
 OPEX saving due reduced efforts for commissioning,
configuration changes and software upgrades
 No longer necessary to execute HW configuration commands twice

SF 21265
Script logging enhancements
Description Single Command
 Not only single commands BUT also the

meta-command “run xyz.sh” is logged in
RC
command history / logfile
 Command history is extended to 1000 entries Command Log
Command History
Meta-Command (Script)
Benefits
 Improved identification of commands / error analysis
TIME WORK STATION COMMAND
23-apr-2004-16:23 OMT 1 Create DJC:BSS:1/BTSM:2/BTS:2/ADJC:12
23-apr-2004-16:24 OMT 2 Run daily_save.sh
23-apr-2004-16:27 OMT 1 Get BSC:BSS:#/BSC:0
23-apr-2004-16:30 OMT 2 Delete BTS:BSS:1/BTSM:2/BTS:2

SF 21270
Implementation of DBAEM/CONVFILE-tool in the LMT GUI
Description
 CONVFILE: offline tool to convert BSS
configuration DB from older to newer release DBAEM
 DBAEM: offline tool to convert configuration data GUI

in human readable ASCII format
LMT ASCII
 before BR9: invocation of CONVFILE and DBAEM
via (DOS-like) command line IF OLD DB
 New functionality: GUI
GUI for Windows platform + integration into LMT

CONVFILE
Benefits
 Enhanced usability by deployment of Windows-like GUI
 More efficient and less error-prone work

SF 21271
SW Management improvements
Description
 Functional Areas covered:

 Improvements of SW download
 BTS restore via LMT GUI
 BSC log file upload RC Complete SW
package
 Transmitting of compressed files

 No transfer of existing modules
Only necessary parts /
 Omitting delete phase in NE (option) compressed
Benefits
BSS LMT
 Speeding up SW download
 Faster transfer of log files to LMT / RC BSC log file /
compressed

SF 21266
Easy Navigation and Access to BSS Cell Data
Description GUI Sample for New Navigation:

List Opening via BSS Sum (Multiple) Selection
 In addition to the generic panel view
a list of all cells is provided

 Fast access to cell data
based on CGI or SN in RC GUI
 Open the corresponding
BTS panel directly
 See the most important attributes
of the BTS at a glance
 Set filter criteria and
see the requested subset of BTS’s
Benefits
 Direct and quick overview
of all the BTS cells CONCEPTUAL EXAMPLE ONLY,
 Quicker overview FINAL IMPLEMENTATION MAY VARY IN DETAILS
about the mostly used attributes

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliability
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21262
General time handling
Description
 Flexible Time Format according to national specifics for RC, OTS and BSS
 Consistent time zone handling by consequent usage of UTC offset
to local time in files and DB records
 RC support of ntp server and client
 Automatic DST switch providing unambiguous time information
Benefits
 Managing of NEs / RC in different time zones in a clear and simple way
 Consistent denomination of time at GUI, database and files
 Adaptation of time display to national specifics
(EU (Continental + UK) / USA / ISO8601 / Japan)

SF 21262
System time handling – Daylight saving switch
Description
 Automatic DST switch for RC, OTS
 Automatic DST switch of BSS by time alignment triggered from RC
 BSC propagates modified time to BTS and TRAU
 Unambiguous time stamps during DST switch
 RC and OTS need not to be restarted after DST switch
Benefits
 Support of DST
 Data integrity during DST switch

SF 21262
System time handling – General usage of L10n format
Description
An operator will understand time stamps
 General introduction of RFC 3339 time format* intuitively and according to the national
on RC interfaces (Q3, CORBA,…) conventions. No need to guess about date
and MMI (GUI and CLI) stamps like 02/03/04. (March 2nd 2004?
February 3rd 2004? March 4th 2002?)
 Harmonized time format in the whole system
 Usage of time offsets instead of alphanumeric SQL
OTS
labeling, even in GUI MMI
Benefits CORBA/Q3/FTP
 One standardized time format SQL
MMI
in the whole system RC
 Usability improvements in MMI

Q3/FTP
(e.g. copy&paste)
 Unambiguous time format (incl. Daylight saving
BTS BSC TRAU
and time zones), for both interfaces and users
*YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±oo:oo

SF 21262
System time handling – Support of multiple time zones
Description
00
8:
5 -0
:2
 Two or more time zones are possible in one RAN TI
M E:
15
T
SE RC2
 RC serves as logical time server for all NEs within RC1 0

:0
the supervised RAN 17
:2
5-
06
M E:
TI
 NEs do always have the same offset as RC SE
T
 LMT can handle „foreign“ timestamps from NEs

02:25 PM 03:25 PM 04:25 PM 05:25 PM
PST MST CST EST
(UTC-09:00) (UTC-08:00) (UTC-07:00) (UTC-06:00)
Benefits
 Customers in countries with different time zones
can be provided with a time-consistent RAN

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21268
Performance Management Enhancements
Description
New/enhanced PM counter for
 User Data Throughput on LLC Layer
 Supervision of Call Releases due to Low Radio Link Quality
 Enhancements of GPRS/EDGE oriented PM counters
 Supervision of Packet Control Unit (PCU) Load
 Supervision of Flexible Abis Allocation
 Frame Erasure Rates in History Data Of Dropped Calls
 Supervision of Dual Transfer Mode
 Supervision of LAPD Congestions
 Supervision of SAIC (Single Antenna Interferer Cancellation) Traffic
Benefits
Efficient supervision of GERAN performance

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21268
Trace Management Enhancements
Description
 Additional Information have been added to trace files
 “frequency band” and
 “maximum output power of the BTS”
 Dual Transfer Mode
 CS related messages of DTM calls are traced as usual CS calls
 PS services Cell and the IMSI tracing is planned for further releases
Benefits
 The trace file generated at the NE will now contain additional information
for the frequency band and max. output power,
which can be used by the RNA tool (OTS) to evaluate the path loss and path
balance.
 Enhancement of existing IMSI / Cell Trace Functionality (DTM related)

Agenda
Highlights
Architecture
Interfaces
Security
Reliabilty
Usability
Time
Counters
Tracing
LCS

SF 21263
Configurable LCS timer in BSC
Description
Configurable BSC timer
 response timer for the supervision of Lb interface (between BSC and SMLC)
is now configurable
 supports usage of all available position algorithms
(CI/TA, ECITA, UTDOA, AGPS)
Benefits
Easy adaptation for different requirements on LCS in the world market

SF 21263
SMLC database generation support in a multi-vendor network
Description
 Tool for SMLC database generation in multi-vendor environments.
 Non-complex SMLC DB generation either in Siemens or on multi-vendor environment
 Tool machine for GSM/UMTS overall Internet interaction for SMLC DB generation
 Upload/download operator prepared cell, antenna and O&M data
 Radio data originating either from Siemens BSC current database
or planning data from external tooling
 Based on the network configuration Database Generation Tool
calculates the SMLC on-line database.
 SMLC can be sold in a multi-vendor network and serves other vendors sub-network
Location Service.
Benefits
 Facilitate the task of SMLC database generation in a multi-vendor environment
 Offer a cost efficient solution provide a SMLC Stand-Alone database generation tool
 Flexible solution to reduce the dependencies to other existing tools

Thank you
for your attention

Agenda
Backup

New Sales Features in BR9.0
20651 O Itf-N CORBA V2

21260 B Security Extensions
21261 B Radio Commander Overload Handling
21262 B Date and Time Handling
21263 B Configuration Management Enhancements
21264 O n+1 Redundancy
21265 B Script Logging in RC History
21266 O Extended Operability Enhancements
21267 O Trace Management Enhancements
21268 B Performance Management Enhancements
21269 O Enhancements of RC N-interfaces
21270 B LMT Extensions
21271 B SWM Extensions
21272 B Fault Management Extensions

Extended Sales Feature Descriptions in BR9.0
21403 Fault Management

21404 Log Management
21405 Security Management
21408 SW Management
21409 Configuration Management
21410 Performance Management
21420 Extended Operability
21462 Cell Traffic Recording and IMSI Tracing
21218 Common Platform
20819 Q3 North Interface (RC NMC) for NMC

New performance counters (1)
Counter Name
User Data Throughput on LLC Layer Gb Interface
Benefits
Additional counters on LLC layer for comparing radio quality
upon various user behavior and different radio transmission rate
Counter Name
Counter for unsuccessful channel release and disconnect
Benefits
Provisioning of additional counters which give information about call release
due to low link quality.
Input can be used by the operator to optimize network behavior (e.g. Radio Link Timer)
keeping connections as long as possible alive

Counter Name
BR9 Enhancements of GPRS/EDGE PM counters
Benefits
New / improved PM counters for GPRS/EDGE for better evaluation
especially per traffic class (e.g. new counters, split of existing counters due to traffic class,
adding additional causes to existing measurements, etc.)
Counter Name
Supervision of PCU/PPXU
Benefits
New counters to evaluate the PCU utilization in terms of
activated PDT (packet data terminals) at the PCU.

Counter Name
PM for flexible Abis
Benefits
Additional PM counters for feature "Flexible Abis allocation strategy",
giving information about KPIs
to see e.g. reasons for Abis congestions / failed TCH connections
Counter Name
FER (frame erasure rate) in History Data Of Dropped Calls
Benefits
Enhancement of feature History Data Of Dropped Calls with additional values
for the FER, in order to have more criteria to evaluate the quality on the air interface
and to estimate the speech quality.

Counter Name
PM for LAPD Congestions
Benefits
Additional PM counters for the supervision of the transmit queue
for I-Frame messages (LAPD) on the BTSE and BSC
in order to detect LAPD congestions.
Counter Name
Supervision of DTM requests
Benefits
 Attempts, success and failure rate of DTM
 GTTP (GPRS Transparent Transport Procedure) throughput UL/DL per cell
 number of unsuccessful terminated TBF (temporary block flow, UL/DL)

Counter Name
Measurements for SAIC (Single Antenna Interferer Cancellation) Traffic
Benefits
 Counters to monitor the improvements reached by introduction of SAIC handsets
 Track penetration and distribution of SAIC mobiles and traffic
 E.g. number of (SAIC / non-SAIC) requests, DL/UL frames by SAIC / non-SAIC MS, TCH
assignments, total number of dropped calls, mean BTS power for SAIC / non-SAIC MS


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GERAN 2006 Workshop

BR 9.0 − Radio Commander Feature Overview

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 3 Communications

 DTM support (second step)

 Larger number of supported network elements

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 4 Communications

 Various important counter and trace possibilities added

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 6 Communications

 Pilot and world market release in UMR6/BR9

 Reduced investment in OAM installations

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 7 Communications

Example of common FM:

With same concepts,

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 8 Communications

RC Processes RC Event Queues

 Significant extension of number of managed NEs:

 Managing larger amount of NEs BSC 1 ... BSC 84

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 10 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 11 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 12 Communications

Description Corba-based Interface V2, 3GPP R6

Benefits  3GPP Standard Interface allows better integration into mOSS

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 13 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 14 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 16 Communications

 Authentication at Network Element on „per user base“

 Blocking of LMT Users supported for BSC, TRAU, BTS

 Improved security for NE access from LMT

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 17 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 18 Communications

 High availability for IP based O-link on RC

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 20 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 21 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 22 Communications

Description Single Command

 Not only single commands BUT also the

TIME WORK STATION COMMAND

23-apr-2004-16:23 OMT 1 Create DJC:BSS:1/BTSM:2/BTS:2/ADJC:12

23-apr-2004-16:24 OMT 2 Run daily_save.sh

23-apr-2004-16:27 OMT 1 Get BSC:BSS:#/BSC:0

23-apr-2004-16:30 OMT 2 Delete BTS:BSS:1/BTSM:2/BTS:2

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 23 Communications

 DBAEM: offline tool to convert configuration data GUI

 New functionality: GUI

GUI for Windows platform + integration into LMT

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 24 Communications

 Functional Areas covered:

 Transmitting of compressed files

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 25 Communications

Description GUI Sample for New Navigation:

a list of all cells is provided

 Quicker overview FINAL IMPLEMENTATION MAY VARY IN DETAILS

about the mostly used attributes

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 27 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 28 Communications

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 29 Communications

 One standardized time format SQL

 Usability improvements in MMI

Com MN APAC TS MR3/4 August 2006 Page 30 Communications

 RC serves as logical time server for all NEs within RC1 0