Hi 2G experts,
For 2g interference, I remember it was not a straight forward judgment to decide if there is high interference or not, as far as I recall the band4 and 5 proportion has to be more than 30% of the total bands 1-5 (or something like this).
Can someone please provide guidance on how to find all interfered cells on a network level?
And after that, I want to have two columns in my final sheet.
“Column A:2G cell name”, “Column B:interference level in dBm” if possible rather than only boolean i.e. “Column B: interferred/non interferred”.
Yea, it should be.
In ericsson we used to set these parameters par cell, they are called LIMx, to define the ranges of ICMBANDs, and as u said they r from 1 to 5, 5 is ver bad, 4 bad, and so on untill 1 is good, but this depends on the ranges you define per cell.
What about the logic of proportionality?
I mean there can be small spikes in band 4 and 5 but is too small compared to what’s reported under band 1,2,3.
Do you consider this factor as well to trigger the alarm?
You can, in general we see the proportions over the scan period.
And then you can set your alarming thresholds.
But one thing to consider here.
This can show an issue that can be related to External interference or something coming from your radio installation “feeder, triplexer, connector, antenna”.
So it is tricky.
Yes and great point, I got it but I actually just want to know if there is interference or not regardless of the cause i.e it’s due to HW or external source.
So at the end, can I assign a value for the interference in dBm? Just like rtwp and ul intereference in 4g/5g? For each cell as I mentioned I need to put the value of interference.
I know it’s a strange request maybe, but I want an interference database for each cell for all technologies but 2G is different, that’s why I asked.
This means the cells is recording most of the time high ICMBANDS.
ICMBAND delimited by LIMIT4, in our case 22, menas the level of interference is greater than -110 + 22 which is -88 dBm.
Now there is another step of check, from OSS measurements.
To the left is the cell cofigured frequencies.
We can see high inteference on channel 1017 EPGSM.
To the right the measured frequencies which are not configured on the cell.
I could not show them all.
But the level of interference is high on all EPGSM bands.
Channels above 1000.