What is a typical NodeB sensitivity level?

What is a typical UE sensitivity level?

What is a typical NodeB maximum output power?

What is UE maximum transmit power in your link budget?

What is a typical antenna gain?

What is a typical maximum path loss?

What is difference between dBi and dBd?

What is difference between dBi and dBd?

What is 0dBm?

How does TMA work?

What are the pros and cons (advantages and disadvantages) of TMA?

What is typical TMA gain?

Why TMA are installed at the top near the antenna and not the bottom near the NodeB?

What is UMTS chip rate?

What is processing gain?

What are the processing gains for CS and PS services?

How to calculate maximum number of users on a cell?

What is Eb/No?

What are the Eb/No targets in your design?

Why is Eb/No requirement lower for PS than for CS?

What is Ec/Io?

Sometimes we say Ec/Io and sometimes we say Ec/No, are they different?

What is RSCP?

What is SIR?

What is the loading factor in your design?

Give a simple definition of pole capacity?

What is typical pole capacity for CS-12.2, PS-64, PS-128 and PS-384? How many types of
handovers are there in UMTS?

What is soft handover and softer handover?

How does soft/softer handover work?

Why is there “soft handover gain”?

Brief describe the advantages and disadvantages of soft handover?

What are fast fading and slow fading?

What are fast fading margin and slow fading margin?

What is a typical soft handover gain in your link budget?

What is the percentage in time a UE is expected to be in soft or softer handover?

What is a typical EiRP?

How much power usually a NodeB is allocated to control channels?

What is a typical CPICH power?

How much is your HSDPA (max) link power?

Consider downlink only, what are the major components in calculating maximum path
loss, starting from NodeB?

What is maximum path-loss?

Simple link budget: with a 30dBm CPICH and a -100dBm

Suppose I have a maximum path-loss of 130dBm, what is the new path-loss if a 5dB body
loss is added?

What is channelization code?

How many channelization codes are available?

Are channelization codes mutually orthogonal?  If so, why is “Orthogonality Factor”

required in the link budget?

What is scrambling code?  How many scrambling codes there are?

What is scrambling “code group”?

Do you divide scrambling code groups into subgroups?  Please give an example.

Which service usually needs higher power, CS or PS?

What is Eb/No requirement for HSDPA?

What is “noise rise”?  What does a higher noise rise mean in terms of network loading?

What is “pilot pollution”?

What is a typical handover window size in your network?

What is “soft handover” and “softer handover”?

During a handover, if one cell sends a power down request and two cells send a power up
request, shall the UE power up or power down?

Suppose we are designing a CS network and a PS network, is there a major difference in

the design consideration?

What is the active set size on your network?

How many fingers does a UE rake receiver have?

What is “compressed mode”?

Describe the power control schemes in UMTS?

What is the frequency of power control (how fast is power control)?

Briefly describe why open loop power control is needed and how it works?

What is power control “headroom”?

When in 3-way soft handover, if a UE receives power down request from one cell and
power up request from the other 2 cells, should the UE power up or down and why?

Suppose two UE are served by the same cell, the UE with weaker link (poor RF condition)
uses more “capacity”, why does this mean?

Under what circumstances can a NodeB reach its capacity?  What are the capacity
limitations?

What is “cell breathing” and why?

Is UMTS an uplink-limited or downlink-limited system?

What is the impact of higher data rate on coverage?

What is OCNS?

What are the interfaces between each UTRAN component?

Briefly describe the UE to UTRAN protocol stack (air interface layers).

Briefly describe UMTS air interface channel types and their functions.

Give some examples of Physical, Transport and Logical channels.

What are the RRC operation modes?
What are the RRC states?

What are transparent mode, acknowledged mode and unacknowledged mode?

Which layer(s) perform ciphering function?

What is OVSF?

How many OVSF code spaces are available?

Can code space limit the cell capacity?

Can a user have OVSF code as “1111”?

What are the symbol rates (bits per symbol) for BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK and 16QAM?

Briefly describe UMTS frame structure.

What is cell selection criterion?

Briefly describe Capacity Management and its functions:

What are the major 4 KPIs in propagation model tuning and typical acceptable values?

What is the minimum number of bins required for a certain propagation model?

How many scrambling codes are there?

How many scrambling code groups are there for downlink?

Can we assign same scrambling codes to sister sectors (sectors on same site)?

Are scrambling codes orthogonal? Can we assign scrambling codes 1, 2 and 3 to sister
sectors?

In IS-95 we have a PN reuse factor (PN step size) and therefore cannot use all 512 PN
codes, why isn’t it necessary for UMTS scrambling codes?

What are coverage thresholds in your UMTS design and why?

What is the Ec/Io target in your design?

What is “Monte Carlo simulation”?

What is the key difference between a static analysis and a Monte Carlo simulation?

What should be run first (what information should be ready and loaded) before running a
Monte Carlo simulation?

How many snap shots and iteration do you usually have when running Monte Carlo
simulation?

What are the design KPI’s?

What plots do you usually check after running Monte Carlo for trouble spots?

What are the typical reasons of failure in Monte Carlo simulation?

What does “traffic spread” mean?

Do you use live traffic or even-load traffic in your design?

What are the optimization tools you use?

Are System Information Blocks (SIB) transmitted all the time?

How does UE camp (synchronize) to a NodeB?

What could be the cause of soft handover failure?

What are the three sets in handover?

What are the major differences between GSM and UMTS handover decision?

What are the events 1a, 1b, 1c, etc.?

What are event 2a-2d and 3a-3d?

What may happen when there’s a missing neighbor or an incorrect neighbor?

What can we try to improve when access failure is high?

What are the conditions you typically set to trigger IRAT handover?

What are the typical KPIs you use to measure a network and what criteria?

What is the typical UE transmit power?

What is the typical event sequence of IRAT Handover from 3G to 2G

What are the possible causes for an IRAT Failure?  
What is Paging Success Ratio? What is the typical PSR that you have seen in a UMTS
network?
What are the possible causes for a lower PSR?

What are the possible causes for a Drop Call on a UMTS network?

A UE is served by 2 or 3 SC in AS. It is identifying a SC from 3rd tier, Stronger and meets

the criteria for Event1a or Event1c. But SHO did not happen because of missing neighbor
relations? How do you optimize this issue?  

A UE is served by 2 SC in AS, a SC is coming in to Monitored Set and Event1a is

triggered.  But UE is not receiving Active Set Update from NodeB and the call drops. What
could be possible causes for this drop?
What is Hard Handover in UMTS? When will it happen?  
What is the typical Call Setup Time for a 3G UE to 3G UE Call? What are the possible RF
related causes for a delayed CST in this type of call?
What is Soft Handover Overhead? What is the typical value in UMTS network?
What will happen to the Soft Handover Overhead when you apply OCNS on the network?
And Why?

What are the possible causes for an Access Failure in UMTS?        

(FOR ERICSSON EXPERIENCED) What is RTWP? What is the significance of it?        

(FOR ERICSSON EXPERIENCED) What is the System Reference Point at which all the
Power Levels are measured in Ericsson NodeB?        
What are the typical values for ‘reportingrange1a’ and ‘reportingrange1b’?        

What will be the impact when you change ‘reportingrange1a’ from 3 to 4 dB and
‘timetotrigger1a’ 100 to 320 ms, without changing any other parameters?     
What is Admission Control?

What is Congestion Control?       

What is the maximum number of Channelization Codes that can be allocated for HS, as
per 3GPP standard?

 What is ‘Code Multiplexing’ in HSDPA?

In Ericsson System, how is the Power allocated for HSDPA>

  What are Events that can trigger the HSDPA Cell Change?
How is typically the Call Setup Time of a CSV call calculated in UMTS using L3 messages?

What is pre-synchronized handover?

Brief describe the advantages and disadvantages of soft handover?

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