Nokia Mini Macro (All Variants):

S1 Induced Cell Deactivation Timer

Jun 11, 2017

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 Overview
• High # of S1 failures were observed on surrounding sites when Nokia MM eNBs experiences backhaul instability or total
connectivity loss.
• Loss of backhaul connectivity is seen more often on sites with Microwave and UE-Relay backhaul.
• Parameter “s1inducedcelldeactdelay“ set to 900 secs (15min) and allows MM to continue transmitting during BH outage

• Currently, the parameter is set to 900 secs - i.e. cells will be disabled only after 900 secs after the backhaul loss.
• During the 900 secs UE served by the degraded cell (eNB that lost connectivity) may be trapped in the eNB without the possibility to
receive any service.
• During Attach: UE can still attempt to camp onto degraded cell but will cause S1 failure.
• During Handover: UE from neighbor sites can still see PCI from degraded cell, and any attempt for handover to degraded cell will result in
S1/X2 failures. (Big service interruption!).
• Reducing the timer is recommended to quickly shutdown the cell to avoid possible service degradation and improve S1 failures.
• Necessary to have shorter delay/ interruption in user service.
• Parameter
Belowname: S1 induced cellof
is the description deactivation time
the parameter that needs to be updated:
Parameter Abbreviated
s1InducedCellDeactDelayTime
name:
If for an eNB cell all configured PLMN IDs are unavailable on S1 interface for the duration given by "s1InducedCellDeactDelayTime", the eNB cell is
Full description:
deactivated.
Managed object class: LNBTS
Type: Decimal
Default value: 900
Range:
Minimum value: 1
Maximum value: 1800

• Recommendation:
• Change s1inducedcelldeactdelay time from 900 secs to 1 sec, to minimize change of UE latching onto a cell that cannot send/receive data

• Approved MOP Link:

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NOTE: Changes are required on Nokia MM (all variants).

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Scenarios:
• UEs Attached to the Degraded Cell:
• These UEs will not be able to receive any service due to Loss of Backhaul connectivity.
Meaning the Uu Link is active, however, S1- MME is down because of which no further
communication is possible. All ongoing data session will be interrupted until eNB receives
backhaul connectivity.
S6a

MME
Other N/w
LTE-Uu
S1-U
S5
Elements
UE eNB S-GW

• New UEs Attach request to Degraded Cell:

• These UEs might be able to do RACH process because eNB is functional,
• However initial UE message won’t reach to the MME will cause S1 failures.

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• Incoming HO from other cells (source eNB) to Degraded Cell (Target eNB)
• If source eNB is not updated about X2 link down on X2AP (Link updates regularly updated
by SCTP for any updates, or triggered based on any new updates like PCI changes, TAC
changes etc.). Incoming HO attempt to target eNB will fail due to no response from Target
cell within reloc prep phase, and HO will abort.

U Source eNB Target eNB MME

U Source eNB Target eNB
E E
Measurement
report. Measurement report.

Handover Decision Handover Decision

HO required.
HO
preparation HO prep
X2AP HO request. phase.
HO request

X2AP HO prep failure

or no response S1 Prep Phase/ No response No response
after S1-MME down (backhaul (unreachable)
X2 failure after backhaul down. connectivity down.

• Once neighboring eNB (source) is updated about X2 link down, no X2 attempts will happen
after the measurement report. Further, HO attempts will be S1 HO.
• As S1-MME link is down, no response will be received from target (degraded eNB), and the
HO will fail.

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Logs snapshot after S1 deactivation is expired.
• From the logs, it’s visible that S1 deactivation delay timer is
working.
• For the test case: S1 deactivation was set to 5 sec, t310 like
Defence timer on eNB side is = 2s note:
• (TMSI during attach, and from the MME logs are same)
• BH was forced down, (S1 link down) @ 14:17:48 -> logs. Took
approx. 2 secs for the VLAN to shut down completely.
• After 5 secs, MME shows eNB connectivity is degraded / lost.
That’s when DL sync is lost, that’s when defense timer
starts, and after 2 secs if no recovery, UE is released.
• Call is released @ 17:47:57, and UE goes in complete all
band scan mode.

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Almost ~70% reduction in S1 HO attempts/failures.

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• Very minimal impact after timer was changed to 1s.
• S1 Induced deact. timer (cell deactivation timer) parameter

• Nokia S1 HO Attempts reduced significantly as well -

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• Significant S1 HO Success% improvement was seen after the

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changed to 5 secs on 02/28 market wide and was changed to 1

• Overall S1 HO prep failure reduced from ~150k to ~35k.

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approximately ~80% improvement in S1 attempts/ failures
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• Agoop Impact: No significant (Improvement/ Degradation) impact on Agoop performance

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